1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Dean Braxton expressed to us that when he looked at the Lord 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,320 and he took in the greatness and the beauty 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,360 and the glory and the love, 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,360 and he's processing that in his mind for just that moment 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,880 and he looks again and he's more so. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,580 So you have this idea of when we exalt him, 7 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:26,200 we're seeing him grow right before our eyes. 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:27,520 Wow. 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,680 And when we exalt him, we're empowering him 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,160 to make us grow. 11 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,160 God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his spirit 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,760 on all humanity. 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,400 Welcome to Global Outpouring, 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,140 where we contend for that promise outpouring, 15 00:00:51,140 --> 00:00:53,320 we equip for that outpouring 16 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,680 so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 17 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:57,880 I'm Philip Bus. 18 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:58,880 And I'm Sharon Bus. 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,400 Thank you so much for joining us today. 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,200 I believe this is going to be a life-changing podcast 21 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:05,040 for you. 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,360 It certainly has been for me as I've studied this. 23 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,320 We want to talk about the principle 24 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,440 that what you exalt, you empower. 25 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,740 We're so glad that you've joined us today. 26 00:01:20,740 --> 00:01:22,200 Thank you so much. 27 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,280 We would love to hear from you. 28 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,280 You can send us an email at feedback at globaloutpouring.org 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,280 or you can go to our website, 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00:02:07,320 because that's how we can stay in touch with you. 44 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:12,080 If other forms of communication don't work for some reason, 45 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,200 it could happen, it could happen, 46 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,100 then this is a really good way for us 47 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:18,440 to be able to stay in touch with you. 48 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,440 I also want to mention, we are so excited 49 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,200 about something that is coming up in 2025. 50 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,500 We are working on getting all the details in place 51 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:30,340 for convention 2025. 52 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:34,280 It's going to be our 50th annual event. 53 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,240 We haven't always called it convention or world convention. 54 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,760 We had some years of having a tent meeting instead, 55 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,820 camp meeting, but every year we were gathering. 56 00:02:44,820 --> 00:02:48,160 And so this is going to be our 50th gathering. 57 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,760 It's going to be over Memorial Day weekend 58 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,280 starting on Wednesday night, May 21st, 59 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,920 and we're going through Saturday night, the 24th. 60 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:59,980 It's going to be an amazing time. 61 00:02:59,980 --> 00:03:03,760 We will be in St. Louis at the St. Louis Airport, 62 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,960 Marriott Hotel right across from the airport. 63 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,680 It's just, you get on the shuttle and you're there in- 64 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:11,520 Minutes. 65 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,800 Minutes, like three minutes, five minutes. 66 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,400 I suppose it depends on traffic, 67 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,040 but it's really just across the highway. 68 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,400 So, I mean, you can see the airport from the hotel, 69 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,040 you can see the hotel from the airport. 70 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,880 It couldn't be more convenient. 71 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,420 So we want to encourage you. 72 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:32,340 This is our heart that this be kind of like a family camp, 73 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:34,700 that you can come with your family. 74 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:39,360 We will have nursery and we will have not just childcare, 75 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,360 we will have child ministry. 76 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,260 So your children are going to be ministered to 77 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:46,640 regardless of their age, 78 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,560 whether they're newborn right up into the youth. 79 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,080 We've got something special for them that they will, 80 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,980 that they will be able to be built up in their spirit, 81 00:03:55,980 --> 00:03:59,160 be built up in their walk with God, 82 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,060 and have a real experience with Jesus personally, 83 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:04,480 get to know the Holy Spirit personally. 84 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,820 And we even teach the children how to minister. 85 00:04:07,820 --> 00:04:11,920 It's going to be a glory time for every member of the family. 86 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,120 And whether you have small children 87 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,640 or whether you have grandchildren, 88 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,760 whoever it is that is important in your life, 89 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,240 why don't you make this an opportunity 90 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,080 to grow in God as a family? 91 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,360 This is a marvelous time. 92 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,800 We're really excited about it. 93 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,400 We hope that you'll join us. 94 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,320 So we'll have more information on our website soon. 95 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,400 It's not there yet. 96 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,080 This is going to be a blessing for you 97 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,640 and for everyone that attends. 98 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,040 Now, Philip and I just got back from a glorious, 99 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,640 glorious road trip, ministry trip. 100 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,160 We were in St. Louis and Bloomington, Illinois 101 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,120 at Pastor Tony Kemp's Supernatural Conference. 102 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,280 And we went up into Wisconsin. 103 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:54,000 Then we went to Chicago. 104 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,520 Then we went to Niagara Falls, ministered there. 105 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,120 We've ministering all along the way. 106 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,440 God opened supernatural doors to us 107 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,680 that we did not expect when we left home. 108 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,160 Yeah, it was just amazing. 109 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,480 It was amazing. 110 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,160 And God has just, 111 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,820 I believe that there were lives that were changed. 112 00:05:10,820 --> 00:05:15,640 That's our whole desire as we are doing things for the Lord, 113 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,880 that people's lives are changed, 114 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,080 that we grow, that we get empowered, 115 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,720 that we get equipped so that we can participate 116 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,440 in what God has for us. 117 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:26,360 So we went from Niagara Falls 118 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,600 to the Cleveland Akron branch of our ministry. 119 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,760 Then we went up into Michigan 120 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,600 and had a glorious meeting there in Detroit 121 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,520 and visited some of my family members in Michigan. 122 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,400 And then we went to Indianapolis, 123 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,960 met with some of our members there 124 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,560 and some new folks that we hadn't ministered to before. 125 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,580 And then we came home. 126 00:05:46,580 --> 00:05:49,200 So, wow, it was a whirlwind trip. 127 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,340 We were gone for almost four weeks. 128 00:05:51,340 --> 00:05:54,480 And by the way, if you want to invite us to come 129 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:55,760 to wherever you live, 130 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,580 we are certainly open to praying about that. 131 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:01,800 Let us know if we can be a blessing to you. 132 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,700 We're ready to do whatever God has for us to do. 133 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,200 So today, we're going to be talking 134 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,040 about what you exalt, you empower. 135 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,520 So while we were at Pastor Tony Kemp's 136 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,400 Supernatural Conference, 137 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,480 Ira Milligan was ministering. 138 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,440 And someday I want to have him on our podcast. 139 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:21,280 We'll interview him. 140 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:26,280 He is like a wealth, a deep, deep, deep well, 141 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,240 full of treasures from the scripture, full of treasures. 142 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,240 He's walked in a revelatory kind of walk with God, 143 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,040 digging things out of the word. 144 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,400 And I really, really enjoy him. 145 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,320 But he said a couple of things that went into me. 146 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Now I've wanted to walk very softly 147 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,520 about wanting to be a voice rather than an echo. 148 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,060 So I always want to be a voice and not an echo. 149 00:06:54,060 --> 00:06:56,840 And you'll find me quoting people all the time 150 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:59,720 because I hear people say things 151 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,640 that go into me and make a difference. 152 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,160 I don't want to just repeat what somebody else has said 153 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,760 because it's really cool. 154 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,760 I want it to be that I have taken it in and digested it 155 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,440 and made it my own, made it part of me. 156 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,040 Like the word becomes flesh, okay? 157 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,160 That we apply the word. 158 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,740 And then out of meditation on that 159 00:07:24,740 --> 00:07:27,640 or meditation on what God is saying, 160 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,480 sometimes these things just kind of weave in. 161 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,340 Well, I meditated quite a lot on those things 162 00:07:33,340 --> 00:07:34,420 that Ira Milligan said. 163 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:37,080 There were two things that were particularly moving. 164 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,680 Impacting. Impacting, yes. 165 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,360 That's exactly the word. 166 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,160 And I took note of the fact that he went 167 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,720 to Hebrews chapter seven and verse seven. 168 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,120 And he used this scripture that says, 169 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:52,640 I'm reading out of King James, 170 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,320 and without all contradiction, 171 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,240 that means you can't refute this. 172 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,040 The less is blessed of the better. 173 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,920 And out of that, he said, what you exalt, you empower. 174 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,240 In other words, as we lower ourselves 175 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,400 and empower something higher, 176 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,520 whatever that higher thing is that we're empowering 177 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,680 is going to affect our lives. 178 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,520 Now it's out of the story of Melchizedek 179 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:26,000 that Abram on his way back from the battle with the kings 180 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,560 where he was rescuing his nephew Lot, 181 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,440 the story is told in Genesis 14, 182 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,880 but it's also kind of retold here in Hebrews seven. 183 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,080 But he talks about this Bible person called Melchizedek. 184 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,360 Now I began to study about Melchizedek 185 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,560 and I've heard lots of sermons about Melchizedek. 186 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:44,680 Yeah, we sure have. 187 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,020 Yeah, it's kind of a popular subject. 188 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,160 So what the Lord gave me was not 189 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,120 what I've heard other people say, 190 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,400 not to say that I've got any great thing, 191 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,200 but it made a difference for me, okay? 192 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,680 It was something that impacted my life 193 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:03,080 and I trust it will impact yours. 194 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,960 And that is where in Hebrews seven, 195 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,580 it's talking about Melchizedek being by interpretation, 196 00:09:10,580 --> 00:09:13,240 this is chapter seven, verse two, 197 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,800 first by being interpretation king of righteousness 198 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,400 and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 199 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,040 And it goes on to say without father, without mother, 200 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,480 without descent or pedigree, 201 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,120 having neither beginning of days nor end of life, 202 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,200 but made like unto the son of God, 203 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,520 abides a priest continually. 204 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,780 Now you hear people talking about Melchizedek 205 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:40,960 and I just want to make a couple of comments 206 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,980 that there are various schools of thought 207 00:09:43,980 --> 00:09:46,320 about who Melchizedek was. 208 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,080 And one of them is, and this comes out of Judaism, 209 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,020 that Melchizedek was actually Shem 210 00:09:53,020 --> 00:09:57,120 and that Abram went to learn from Shem 211 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,280 and spent time in his school and that sort of thing. 212 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,520 Well, they didn't read the book of Hebrews. 213 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,280 So while that is a lovely theory, 214 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,160 I don't think it could possibly hold water 215 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:14,000 because the book of Hebrews says that he is without father, 216 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,800 without mother, without pedigree, 217 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,840 neither having beginning of days nor end of life. 218 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,160 Well, we know Shem. 219 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,040 It sounds like somebody supernatural. 220 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,240 I'm pretty sure that, 221 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,360 I'm pretty sure you've got that right, Philip, 222 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,880 because obviously we know who Shem's father was 223 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,800 and we know that he had Mrs. Noah as his mother. 224 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,080 And if you look in the book of Jasher, 225 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:42,080 it says that Mrs. Noah was actually Enoch's daughter. 226 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,680 That's quite fascinating. 227 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:44,920 Yeah, it's very fascinating. 228 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,040 So it's, you know, we know that it's a very clean line, 229 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,280 clean lineage. 230 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,800 Anyway, we don't wanna take that bunny trail for very long. 231 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,760 So I have to say he's probably not Shem. 232 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,720 And then there are others who only looking in, 233 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,560 well, I don't know how they're even reading it, 234 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,420 but they say that he was just a Canaanite king 235 00:11:05,420 --> 00:11:08,760 and that who he called the most high God 236 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,880 wasn't necessarily the same most high God 237 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:11,920 because he was a Canaanite, 238 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,780 so he must've been worshiping somebody else. 239 00:11:13,780 --> 00:11:17,160 Well, that couldn't be possible either 240 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,040 because of this description that is in the book of Hebrews. 241 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,920 So I think, Philip, you have it right. 242 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,080 I really believe for what it's worth. 243 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,640 Here's my two cents worth. 244 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:28,760 This is not a doctrine, 245 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,080 but this is a subject of my meditations before the Lord 246 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,200 that because God had a plan for Jerusalem, 247 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,620 he sent somebody supernatural to be king over it, 248 00:11:42,820 --> 00:11:46,660 to keep it as a holy place, 249 00:11:46,660 --> 00:11:48,000 to start it as a holy place. 250 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,480 Obviously we know the Jebusites moved there, 251 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,420 took it over and they were Canaanites, 252 00:11:53,420 --> 00:11:55,640 but that's what the devil often does 253 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,920 with something that God starts as something holy. 254 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,480 He'll send somebody unholy in to try and- 255 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:02,480 Try to defile it. 256 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Defile it, yeah. 257 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,800 I mean, if you look at the city of Los Angeles, 258 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,320 for instance, Los Angeles, it was named for the angels. 259 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,840 It's a place of the angels. 260 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,880 And we know that God moved in mighty ways there at times, 261 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:19,840 but Hollywood sprung up there and it's unholy. 262 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,840 It's really unholy wood and lots of other very bad things. 263 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,880 So if you see something bad going on in a place, 264 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:34,700 you need to look for what God intended for that place to be 265 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:37,700 and get a vision for how to pray for that place 266 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:40,360 to loose it from the darkness and bring the light. 267 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,860 That's another bunny trail we won't go on. 268 00:12:42,860 --> 00:12:45,800 But the thing that came to me as I was studying this, 269 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,180 when you see the interpretation 270 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:50,440 that the writer of Hebrews gives, 271 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,240 that he is the king of righteousness and the king of peace 272 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,600 because Salem means peace. 273 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,440 Well, it's true that Salem is the root word for shalom, 274 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:05,440 which means peace, but it comes from the verb shalem. 275 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:11,440 And when I dug around a little deeper in Genesis 14, 276 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,520 where it says that he was the king of Salem, 277 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,240 in Hebrew it's pronounced shalem. 278 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,080 So he's the king of shalem. 279 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:24,080 And shalem means whole, perfect. 280 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,360 It means a full and just number and measure, 281 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,300 like as in a just weight. 282 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:33,080 I'm reading from Gezanias that I found 283 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,300 in the Blue Letter Bible app. 284 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:37,600 It's also the word that is used 285 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,040 to refer to a complete army. 286 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,320 And I love this, this is really interesting. 287 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,840 Stones that have been untouched or unviolated by iron. 288 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:50,360 In other words, if you think back 289 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,960 to how God gave instructions for the temple to be built, 290 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,240 they were not to be touched by iron. 291 00:13:58,180 --> 00:14:02,360 They were to be shaped just by stone. 292 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,600 So stone sharpening stone, okay? 293 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,640 In fact, I think they used sapphires. 294 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,080 I've heard that they use sapphires for polishing 295 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,280 to make the stone smooth, 296 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,440 but they were not to be touched with iron. 297 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,480 Wow. 298 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,520 And they're whole stones, in other words. 299 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,480 Now also the name Melchizedek, Melki. 300 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,320 Melki. 301 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,360 Melki means my king. 302 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,680 My king, okay. 303 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,960 So it's not just king of righteousness. 304 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,280 The tzedek part is righteousness, 305 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,480 but it's really my king of righteousness. 306 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,680 So it becomes personal. 307 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:44,160 And here is this supernatural person laying a foundation 308 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,920 for the city that would become the city of the great king. 309 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,660 And Melchizedek was a pretty great king. 310 00:14:50,660 --> 00:14:51,820 He really was. 311 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:53,840 But it's for God's city. 312 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:54,680 It's his city. 313 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,680 And we know that there is a new Jerusalem that's coming. 314 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,640 So this idea of it being the place of wholeness, 315 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:08,180 my king of righteousness dwells in a place of wholeness 316 00:15:08,180 --> 00:15:11,240 and perfection and completeness. 317 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:15,200 And so when we invite him to come into us, 318 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,780 guess what he does? 319 00:15:16,780 --> 00:15:18,020 Brings righteousness. 320 00:15:18,020 --> 00:15:21,160 Yeah, he brings his righteousness and he brings wholeness. 321 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,780 Everything, like if you remember what we talked about 322 00:15:23,780 --> 00:15:27,360 a couple of episodes ago about if nobody's perfect, 323 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,680 why does God command it? 324 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,080 We covered some of this idea about being whole 325 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,960 and being complete and being sound 326 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,600 and being all of the things that God does in us 327 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,040 when he's at work in our lives. 328 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,680 So this idea of Jesus coming into us, 329 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,000 the Holy Spirit coming into us when we welcome him in, 330 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,320 when we make him Lord, 331 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,280 in other words, when we exalt him 332 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,200 into that place of lordship. 333 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,680 And what does lordship mean? 334 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,480 It means you make him your master. 335 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,080 You make him your master, yes. 336 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,960 So when we make him master, 337 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,160 we are coming into that place of subservience 338 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,160 where we submit to him 339 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,060 and we let him make the decisions 340 00:16:11,060 --> 00:16:13,560 and we let him lead us and guide us 341 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,720 instead of us trying to always do it our own way. 342 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,080 That's the worldly way. 343 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,280 The world teaches you do your own thing. 344 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,480 Why do we always try to do it our own way? 345 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,200 I think that's- 346 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,360 Sometimes turning to God is the last thing. 347 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,200 Yeah, yeah. 348 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,520 It happens in situations where it's life and death. 349 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,080 Yeah, and sometimes I think God allows us 350 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,000 to get into those life and death situations 351 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,680 so that we'll finally surrender. 352 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,880 Yeah, it would have been easier 353 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,880 if we would have surrendered a lot earlier though. 354 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,760 Exactly, exactly. 355 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,720 And that's why we have to learn to walk that way 356 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,320 where he gets to be first all the time. 357 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,040 Some of the best experience is watching people 358 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,360 walk through theirs in similar situations 359 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,360 that you might be in and get a more tuned ear. 360 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Very true, very true. 361 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,280 And we can learn from each other 362 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,840 so we don't have to go through those things. 363 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,680 I think that's why God put so many of the details 364 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,840 in the Bible of the stories 365 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,680 that the Bible characters went through 366 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,480 that he doesn't cover up their mistakes. 367 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,600 Yeah, that's true. 368 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,880 Everything is there, warts and all. 369 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:25,720 Warts. 370 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:26,560 Warts. 371 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,840 All the stuff that they did is all there. 372 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,480 And then you see how God redeems it. 373 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,840 And you also see how there's consequences. 374 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,280 But the point is that there's the consequence 375 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:47,600 of exalting something, the consequence is whatever we exalt, 376 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,840 we empower to do something back to us. 377 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,280 So if we're exalting our circumstances, 378 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,360 whatever our circumstances might be, 379 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:59,880 whether our circumstances are financial issues, 380 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,880 poverty or great need or whether it's sickness 381 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,320 or disease or some kind of breaking, 382 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,160 some kind of trauma that we've been through, 383 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,320 if we're busy exalting that, 384 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,880 we're actually empowering that 385 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:17,760 to continue working in our lives. 386 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,760 So if we exalt that, 387 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,960 it's just gonna keep feeding it like waves. 388 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,200 When we exalt the Lord, when we praise him, 389 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,480 we worship him, the worship goes up, 390 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,240 the praise goes up and his blessings come down. 391 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:35,080 Yes. 392 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:40,080 His empowering comes down to us and changes us 393 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:41,880 and gives us what we need. 394 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,400 He is Jehovah Jireh or Yehovah Yireh. 395 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,240 He is the one who sees everything that we're gonna need 396 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,440 and he sees to it. 397 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,600 Yeah, the more we empower him, 398 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,400 the more we will be closer to him. 399 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,600 Right, and the more we exalt him, 400 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,320 we're empowering him to do something back in our lives. 401 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,000 So the other thing that Ira Milligan did 402 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,960 at this conference was he took two glasses. 403 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,840 One was empty and one had water in it 404 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,720 and he stood them side by side. 405 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,640 He held them up side by side. 406 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:18,320 And he said, as long as this empty one is the same height, 407 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:19,920 they were side by side, 408 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,960 as long as it's in the same position side by side 409 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,880 with the glass that has something in it, 410 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,440 the empty one will never get anything from the full one. 411 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,040 It's when the empty one lowers itself, okay? 412 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,680 You cannot pour from one to another 413 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,080 when they're side by side. 414 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,640 One of them has to go up and one of them has to go down. 415 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,800 So what you exalt, you empower to pour into you. 416 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,240 Yeah, that's so good. 417 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,120 So what an illustration that was. 418 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:50,680 Yeah, the power of your words. 419 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,520 Yeah, so when we exalt the Lord our God 420 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,720 and when we worship him, 421 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,280 we're empowering him to pour back into us. 422 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,240 And isn't that what this whole podcast is about? 423 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,760 The empowerment of the outpouring. 424 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,120 We wanna see the fullness of the outpouring 425 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,840 of the Holy Spirit on all flesh. 426 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,320 So as we exalt our Father, 427 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,760 as we exalt him as the Lord our God, 428 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,080 as we exalt him, as we worship him, 429 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,480 we are empowering him to pour out. 430 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,960 And it's like he spoke to me 431 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,880 when we got this name global outpouring, 432 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,360 he said, don't ask me for the outpouring, 433 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:33,800 ask me for my heart for the outpouring. 434 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,560 So as we're exalting his heart, 435 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,720 his heart is all about his love. 436 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,040 He is love. 437 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,840 He is the very source of love. 438 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,360 He's the essence of love. 439 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,880 Love doesn't exist except that it comes from him. 440 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,000 Yeah. 441 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,080 Now that's the agape kind of love. 442 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,840 That other kind can come from elsewhere. 443 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,520 But the true love of, the love of God, 444 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,040 that perfect love that casts out fear comes from him. 445 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,560 So we have to exalt him. 446 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,000 So this idea of exalting him, 447 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:09,000 we see it in Psalm 99 from the Amplified Classic. 448 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,880 Starting with verse one, 449 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,360 the Lord or Yehovah reigns, 450 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,360 let the peoples tremble with reverential fear. 451 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,400 He sits enthroned above the cherubim, 452 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,960 let the earth quake. 453 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,120 Now that picture of he sits enthroned above the cherubim 454 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:29,120 is both in heaven and on earth in the Ark of the Covenant, 455 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:30,880 because the cherubim are right there 456 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,000 on the top of the Ark of the Covenant. 457 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,720 And he sits enthroned there. 458 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,920 The Lord is great in Zion. 459 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,320 He is high above all the peoples. 460 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,960 Let them confess and praise your great name, 461 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,040 awesome and reverence inspiring. 462 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,320 It is holy and holy is he. 463 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,040 The strength of the King who loves righteousness, 464 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,000 there he is, there he is, Melchizedek. 465 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,280 Jesus is after the order of Melchizedek. 466 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,480 The strength of the King who loves righteousness and equity, 467 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,000 you establish in uprightness. 468 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,960 You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob or Israel. 469 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:10,520 Extol the Lord our God and worship at his footstool. 470 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,960 Holy is he. 471 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,400 So in the King James, it says, exalt the Lord our God 472 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,360 and worship at his footstool. 473 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:21,920 So one of the places where you see a description 474 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,920 of the footstool of God is in 1 Chronicles 28 and verse 2. 475 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,320 It says, then David the King stood up upon his feet 476 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,320 and said, hear me my brethren and my people. 477 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,680 As for me, I had in my heart to build a house of rest 478 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,520 for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. 479 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,760 Yehovah and for the footstool of our God. 480 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,440 And had made ready for the building. 481 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,120 And he goes on to talk about how Solomon his son 482 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:51,440 is going to do this. 483 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,360 But the footstool of God is actually 484 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:56,120 the Ark of the Covenant. 485 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,720 And you see that with the, it's like his presence comes down 486 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,040 upon the Ark of the Covenant. 487 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,480 So it's as though that's where his feet go. 488 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,480 He's occupying that place above the Ark of the Covenant. 489 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,080 So you see that as his footstool. 490 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:17,080 So exalting him, this word exalt 491 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,280 is from the Hebrew word room 492 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,440 and from the outline of biblical usage 493 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,160 from the Blue Letter Bible app or blueletterbible.com. 494 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:33,160 This comes in the polel stem formation of this verb. 495 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,000 I won't try to take time explaining what that means, 496 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,520 but it's a formation of the verb. 497 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,520 So when you're looking at what a word means in the Hebrew, 498 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,480 if it says polel, those are the meanings. 499 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,440 So the polel version of this word means to raise 500 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,440 or rear children, to raise as in children, 501 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,200 to cause to grow up, to lift up, 502 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,760 to raise, to exalt, to exalt or extol. 503 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,760 So exalting the Lord, remember how we've said before 504 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,680 that Dean Braxton expressed to us 505 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,040 that when he looked at the Lord 506 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,480 and he took in the greatness and the beauty 507 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,560 and the glory and the love 508 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,560 and he's processing that in his mind for just that moment 509 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,000 and he looks again and he's more so. 510 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,000 So you have this idea of when we exalt him, 511 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,000 we're seeing him grow right before our eyes. 512 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,400 And when we exalt him, we're empowering him 513 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:42,960 to make us grow. 514 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,760 We're made in his image. 515 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,880 So we're in that place of exalting him 516 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,880 and it's part of relationship that as we exalt him, 517 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,720 he's doing something in us. 518 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,360 So we also have Psalm 34 and verse three 519 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:03,120 that says, oh, magnify the Lord with me 520 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,280 or magnify Yehovah with me 521 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,080 and let us exalt his name together. 522 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,600 So it's the same word exalt 523 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,280 where you're causing his name to grow. 524 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,560 And remember what Yehovah means, it means he who was, 525 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,480 he who is and he who always will be what he is. 526 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,480 He never changes in the essence of who he is, 527 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,840 he just grows, he just becomes more so. 528 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,840 So when we exalt him, we're causing that growing 529 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,400 in our eyesight before him. 530 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,200 The more we exalt him, the more we see his greatness 531 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,480 and the more we see his greatness, the more we magnify him. 532 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,480 So this word magnify comes from the Hebrew word gadal 533 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,360 and we get the word gadol from that, which means great. 534 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:02,200 And like you see in the Hebrew that like the high priest, 535 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,200 the Hebrew expression is Kohen Hagadol. 536 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,760 So a Kohen is a priest, 537 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,440 but the high priest is Kohen Hagadol. 538 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,840 So he's the great priest, 539 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,360 he's the exalted priest so to speak, 540 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:20,080 he's the big guy. 541 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:20,920 He's the big shot. 542 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,240 He's the big shot. 543 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,600 So this word magnify also means to cause to grow 544 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,600 or to make great or powerful or to magnify. 545 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,600 So I remember years ago, Philip and I are worship leaders 546 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,600 and we were singing a song about magnify the Lord. 547 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,640 And as we're singing, I'm meditating on 548 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,360 what does that look like? 549 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,120 What does that mean to magnify him? 550 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:50,920 And the thought came to me, 551 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,720 it's like all of a sudden in that moment, 552 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,600 I got a picture in my mind of a magnifying glass. 553 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,800 And then the question came in my spirit, 554 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,120 well, what is significant about that magnifying glass 555 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,360 that enables it to magnify? 556 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,840 And what I got was it's transparent. 557 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,720 So when we have allowed the Holy Spirit to be working in us 558 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,080 to make us transparent before him. 559 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,080 When the light lights us up. 560 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,320 Yeah, what lights us up. 561 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,960 And when we're honest, people will say, 562 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,800 you're so transparent. 563 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,640 You tell things about yourself 564 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,880 that you're not hiding anything. 565 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,160 You're being transparent. 566 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,320 And I think it's when we, 567 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,760 another way to say that would be to humble yourself. 568 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,160 In humbling yourself, you're magnifying him. 569 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,680 Yeah, and he will exalt you in due time. 570 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,520 Exactly. 571 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,680 And there was a song out of the 80s probably. 572 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,440 Remember that, humbly yourself in the side was around. 573 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,280 Oh yeah. 574 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,960 And he will lift you up higher and higher. 575 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,240 Oh yeah, I remember that one. 576 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,080 Yeah. 577 00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,080 So. And that's true. 578 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,160 It's very true. 579 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,000 It's very true. 580 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,880 So as I was meditating on that, 581 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,200 getting ready to record this podcast, 582 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,400 as I was meditating on that, 583 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,440 I saw something else that I'd never seen before. 584 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,440 And another aspect of a magnifying glass is its shape. 585 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,440 Its shape is convex. 586 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,160 Now, when I was a kid, 587 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,200 I knew I had to learn the words convex and concave. 588 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,720 And they're opposite each other, but which one is which? 589 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,800 So concave means it's shaped like a cave 590 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,440 and it turns inward. 591 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,200 So that a lens that is concave turns inward on both sides. 592 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,160 Yeah. 593 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,360 And a convex lens turns outward. 594 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,200 Yeah. 595 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,360 It's like a bubble in the middle. 596 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,600 Yeah, it's like a bubble. 597 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,080 So I looked it up in the free dictionary.com 598 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,520 and it says rising or swelling 599 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,720 into a spherical or rounded form 600 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,960 that I'm talking about convex. 601 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,880 Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form. 602 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,400 And it says regularly protuberant. 603 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,560 Well, I didn't even bother looking that one up, 604 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,440 but I think it means sticking out, right? 605 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,080 Or bulging, okay? 606 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,080 So it's bulging in the middle, but it's in a regularity. 607 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,480 It's not like a house of mirrors 608 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,160 that has all of this distortion. 609 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,720 It's a purely smooth, rounded surface. 610 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,800 And when you look through it, 611 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,120 it magnifies the thing you're looking at. 612 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,040 Yeah. 613 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,120 So when we magnify the Lord, 614 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,560 we are making him look bigger to ourselves. 615 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,840 Ooh, I like that. 616 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:36,680 Okay. 617 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920 And we're giving him the place that's due him 618 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,040 because he is greater than what we can understand. 619 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,880 He's greater than what we perceive. 620 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,600 He's more so. 621 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,040 He's always more so. 622 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,480 But if you are looking at yourself, 623 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,160 you know, the enemy of our souls, 624 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,960 the accuser of the brethren, 625 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,640 is always trying to magnify our faults. 626 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,840 Boy, that's for sure. 627 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,680 Yeah. 628 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,960 Just reminds us about them. 629 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:03,800 Yeah. 630 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,600 And I'm reminded of what Dean Braxton says 631 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,840 about how Lucifer fell to begin with was, 632 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,480 okay, so back up. 633 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,440 In heaven, you communicate thought to thought. 634 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,960 And the part that we don't know, 635 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,920 we didn't know until Dean told this truth, 636 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,160 was that you have to ask for permission to give a thought. 637 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,720 The person you wanna give it to grants permission 638 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,120 for you to give it, okay? 639 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,480 So what Lucifer started doing was putting thoughts in 640 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,320 without permission. 641 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,200 And that is still his MO. 642 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,680 That is still how he operates. 643 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,840 He's putting thoughts in our heads 644 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,960 that we've given him no permission to give. 645 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,200 And he never gives up. 646 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,360 He doesn't seem to, 647 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,640 but I think we have authority to stop him. 648 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,160 We just have to stay on top. 649 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,520 Yeah, we have to just keep saying, no, no, 650 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,040 that's not who I am. 651 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,680 The real me is my spirit. 652 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,280 And my spirit is one with the Holy Spirit. 653 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,080 And he's perfect. 654 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,040 He sees us as perfect. 655 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,280 When we've asked Jesus into our lives, 656 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,240 even if he hasn't worked out all the knots 657 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,240 and warts and things like that, 658 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,600 we're in process. 659 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:17,520 We're in process. 660 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,160 The whole Christian walk is a process, 661 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,520 but we're in process. 662 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,720 And our father sees the finished work through Jesus. 663 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,560 Thank God. 664 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,160 He sees us as finished. 665 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,160 So we mustn't give any place to that accuser 666 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,760 when he's accusing us to ourselves, 667 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,840 or when he's accusing others to us, 668 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,120 or when he's accusing God to us, he does that too. 669 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,280 The accuser, the brethren is cast down 670 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,760 by the power of the blood of Jesus. 671 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,000 And we have to keep applying the blood of Jesus 672 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,920 to keep our minds heavenward. 673 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,160 And Isaiah 55, God says, 674 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,680 my thoughts are not your thoughts, 675 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,040 neither are your ways my ways. 676 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,520 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 677 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,280 so are my ways higher than your ways 678 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,880 and my thoughts than your thoughts. 679 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,400 So our father is challenging us to keep looking at him 680 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,720 to learn his ways and learn his thoughts, 681 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,240 so that we renew our minds with his thinking. 682 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,280 That's the goal. 683 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,720 That's where we're supposed to be going. 684 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,720 But if we're looking at ourselves through a concave lens, 685 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,240 and we're seeing our faults, and we're seeing our failures, 686 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240 if you look at something through a concave lens, 687 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,520 it shrinks it. 688 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,400 And so we're actually magnifying our weaknesses 689 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,960 and making ourselves smaller in our own eyes. 690 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,680 So when we magnify our father, 691 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,520 one of the things that Dean says, 692 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,800 and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, 693 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,520 is that although he didn't say it this way, 694 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:01,920 these are my words, 695 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,680 although you see our father in the shape of, 696 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,040 like our shape, with a head and arms and legs and so on, 697 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:14,440 he said that he's like a sphere, like a bubble, 698 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:15,520 and that we are too. 699 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,760 So what I'm imagining, 700 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,800 and I'll have to get with him about this 701 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,480 to make sure I've got this right, 702 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,400 but what I'm imagining is that it's kind of like 703 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,800 the circular or spherical glow 704 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,520 that is around a candle flame. 705 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,360 Okay, yeah. 706 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,680 If you ever look at a candle kind of in the darkness, 707 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,160 you'll see this circular flame, 708 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,240 so, or the circular glow around it. 709 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,400 And I think maybe that's kind of what this is like. 710 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,400 We'll have to ask him on the next podcast 711 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,640 that we do with him, which I hope will be soon. 712 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,840 So what I'm seeing is this idea of being spherical, 713 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,160 like this convex lens that we're using 714 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,400 as we're meditating on him, as we're exalting him, 715 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,200 as we magnify him. 716 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,680 He is the one that sets us into that place of wholeness, 717 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,960 because he is my King of righteousness, right? 718 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,120 Melchizedek, my King of righteousness, 719 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,760 dwelling in that place of wholeness and perfection. 720 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,920 He is in that process of doing that for us. 721 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,200 And the Melchizedek from Genesis 14 722 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:28,200 was placed there in that place as like a placeholder 723 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,920 to protect what God was going to do 724 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,280 on that mountain of Moriah. 725 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,520 Because the southern slope is what is the city of David, 726 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,560 and the upper slope is the place 727 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400 where the Temple Mount was. 728 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,560 And if you look beyond that, 729 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,800 what used to be the northern slope was quarried away 730 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,040 to be the place where they quarried the rock 731 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,560 for the Solomon's Temple. 732 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,120 And beyond that is the place of Golgotha. 733 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:05,160 So the same place where Abraham was ready to sacrifice Isaac 734 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,760 and God counted it as though he actually did it. 735 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,080 He was enacting on earth something 736 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,680 that God was going to do himself. 737 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,880 But he needed a human being who was willing to do it 738 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,560 on earth as it is in heaven, 739 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,600 because Jesus was sacrificed 740 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,520 from before the foundation of the earth. 741 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,760 So we have this beautiful thing that comes 742 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,040 from our Father as we exalt him together. 743 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:40,040 Now, Philip, would you be so kind as to read Psalm 34 744 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:42,960 from the Passion Translation? 745 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,400 Let's read verses one through 14. 746 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,320 Lord, I'm bursting with joy over what you've done for me. 747 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,240 My lips are full of perpetual praise. 748 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,600 I'm boasting of you and all your works. 749 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960 So let all who are discouraged take heart. 750 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,760 Let me just give you that in the- 751 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,600 King James. 752 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,080 King James, verse two. 753 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,400 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. 754 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,840 The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 755 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,400 So what does it say in the Passion for that? 756 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,960 I'm boasting of you and all your works. 757 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,920 So let all who are discouraged take heart. 758 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,360 Yeah, so humble or discouraged, it works for both. 759 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,200 Yeah. 760 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:26,960 But I think we need to make sure that we see both. 761 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:27,800 Go ahead. 762 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:28,840 Okay. 763 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:29,880 Join me, everyone. 764 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,360 Let's praise the Lord together. 765 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,520 Let's make him famous. 766 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,080 Let's make his name glorious to all. 767 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:36,920 Yes. 768 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,240 Listen to my testimony. 769 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:41,680 I cried to God in my distress and he answered me. 770 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,880 He freed me from all my fears. 771 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,720 Yes. 772 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:45,560 Yes. 773 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,520 Gaze upon him, join your life with his and joy will come. 774 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,480 Your faces will glisten with glory. 775 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,320 You'll never wear that shame face again. 776 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,400 When I had nothing, desperate and defeated, 777 00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,960 I cried out to the Lord and he heard me, 778 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:03,560 bringing his miracle deliverance when I needed it most. 779 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,680 The angel of the Lord stooped down to listen as I prayed, 780 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,440 encircling me and powering me 781 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,640 and showing me how to escape. 782 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,160 He will do this for everyone who fears God. 783 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,400 Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God. 784 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,920 Experience for yourself the joyous mercies he gives 785 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,240 to all who turn to hide themselves in him. 786 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,160 Worship in awe and wonder all you who've been made holy 787 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,520 for all who fear him will feast with plenty. 788 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,600 Even the strong and the wealthy grow weak and hungry, 789 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,560 but those who passionately pursue the Lord 790 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,960 will never lack any good thing. 791 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,560 Come children of God and listen to me. 792 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,400 I'll share the lesson I've learned of fear in the Lord. 793 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,680 Do you want to live a long good life, 794 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,360 enjoying the beauty that fills each day? 795 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,920 Then never speak a lie or allow wicked words 796 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,280 to come from your mouth. 797 00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,120 Amen. 798 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,480 Keep turning your back on every sin 799 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,360 and make peace your life motto. 800 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,200 Practice being at peace with everyone. 801 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,360 Amen. 802 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,400 Amen. 803 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,240 So as we watch what comes out of our mouth, 804 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:14,800 what are we exalting? 805 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,480 What are we empowering? 806 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,760 Are we exalting and empowering evil? 807 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,000 Are we speaking so much about the agenda of the darkness 808 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,280 that we're empowering it? 809 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,560 Uh-oh, we better not. 810 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,880 We better be speaking about our Father's agenda. 811 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,760 What does he have planned? 812 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,960 Because he's got some great things planned 813 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,760 that are awesome and glorious. 814 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,760 Instead of exalting what is being done in darkness, 815 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,440 what is being planned in darkness, 816 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:44,560 just because they're planning it 817 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,160 doesn't mean they can pull it off. 818 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,120 Yeah, that's right. 819 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,560 So if we exalt Yehovah our God, 820 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,560 as we exalt Jesus and what he finished on Calvary, 821 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,160 he finished it. 822 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,720 He said, it is finished. 823 00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:00,720 It is complete, it is whole. 824 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,120 He is our King of righteousness. 825 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,640 My King of righteousness did the work in Salem, 826 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,760 for Salem, for Shalem, for wholeness, for perfection, 827 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,760 to make me into a picture of him in the earth 828 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,840 glistening with his glory. 829 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:19,680 Yes. 830 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,560 Glistening with his glory. 831 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,720 So we exalt him together. 832 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:24,560 Yes, thank you Father. 833 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,440 Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, 834 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,880 we ask you to cause each listener 835 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,360 to receive your presence right now. 836 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,600 That they will be like that Ark of the Covenant 837 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,600 where you put your feet down, 838 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,120 where you make your seat, 839 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:45,320 where you make your town of Shalem, 840 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,160 that place of wholeness, 841 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,240 that place of perfection, 842 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,840 that place where there's nothing missing, nothing broken. 843 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,800 Everything has been restored. 844 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,800 Everything is like a rock that hasn't been cut with iron. 845 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,720 Lord, we're asking you to cause each one 846 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:05,640 to see themselves as whole in you 847 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,160 because you fill up all the places where we're deficient. 848 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,320 And we thank you for that. 849 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,480 We empower you Lord, by our exaltation of you. 850 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,960 In Jesus' name. 851 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:15,800 Amen. 852 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:16,640 Amen. 853 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:17,480 Amen. 854 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,320 Amen. 855 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,160 Amen. 856 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:20,000 Amen. 857 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:20,840 Amen. 858 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,680 Amen. 859 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,520 Amen. 860 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:23,360 Amen. 861 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:24,200 Amen. 862 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,040 Please visit rate and review this podcast 863 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,520 on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. 864 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,800 Your review helps the podcasting platform 865 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,000 suggest this podcast to other listeners 866 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,600 who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. 867 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,360 Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org 868 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