WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 There's a capacity of what you can be filled 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:05.919 with. And then how much can you carry? How much 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.119 can you carry? How much can you carry? So can 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.240 you carry more responsibility? You want more 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:13.039 responsibility? You want something bigger and 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.919 better? How are you handling the responsibility 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:22.500 you have now? God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:25.960 out his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.000 Outpouring, where we contend for that promise 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.640 outpouring. We equip for that outpouring so that 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:34.619 we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip 00:00:34.619 --> 00:00:37.340 Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast 00:00:37.340 --> 00:00:41.820 today. We were so blown away in the last episode 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:46.079 by Pastor Tony. We called it a bombshell. We 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.659 were really resonating with what he was talking 00:00:49.659 --> 00:00:53.259 about. So this episode, we want to talk about... 00:00:53.450 --> 00:00:57.390 our reactions and how God is dealing with us 00:00:57.390 --> 00:01:01.530 with regard to the capacity code, like how are 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:07.430 we going to increase our capacity? Thanks so 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:09.549 much for joining us today. We're so glad that 00:01:09.549 --> 00:01:11.670 you're with us. Before we get started, we want 00:01:11.670 --> 00:01:13.689 to encourage you, if you haven't already done 00:01:13.689 --> 00:01:17.739 so, to go to our website and subscribe to our 00:01:17.739 --> 00:01:21.159 mailing list, because that is how we can stay 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.180 in touch with you. 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All 00:02:37.189 --> 00:02:39.770 of the information is available on our website 00:02:39.770 --> 00:02:43.030 under the events tab about the convention. And 00:02:43.030 --> 00:02:45.169 there's also a school of translation you might 00:02:45.169 --> 00:02:47.150 be interested in coming to right here at our 00:02:47.150 --> 00:02:49.409 headquarters. Tune in to what we've got on our 00:02:49.409 --> 00:02:54.189 website, globaloutpouring .net. So, Pastor Tony 00:02:54.189 --> 00:02:58.099 blew us away. And when we were recording, we 00:02:58.099 --> 00:03:00.919 couldn't take notes. So we went back to take 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:06.599 notes. And he's got so much material. So we printed 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:11.159 the transcript. And we've marked it up. And we 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.240 want to talk about some of these things that 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:17.000 zinged us about, okay, the Holy Spirit's putting 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.000 his finger on some things. And what I love, too, 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:23.530 is that... I could tell that the Holy Spirit 00:03:23.530 --> 00:03:26.030 had already been doing some things in my life, 00:03:26.050 --> 00:03:28.050 putting his finger on some things, and I was 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:29.870 already starting to make some adjustments, so 00:03:29.870 --> 00:03:33.210 that was encouraging. That felt good to really 00:03:33.210 --> 00:03:35.629 say amen to things he was saying, and then other 00:03:35.629 --> 00:03:40.389 things were ouch. Ouch, hallelujah. Yeah. So 00:03:40.389 --> 00:03:44.009 what was his opening statement that caught us? 00:03:44.250 --> 00:03:49.000 Because we've been feeling stuck. Yeah. Your 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.379 life is not stuck because the Lord has said no 00:03:51.379 --> 00:03:54.319 to your prayer. Your life is stuck because you 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.539 cannot yet carry what you're asking for right 00:03:56.539 --> 00:04:00.199 now. So there are opportunities. There are resources. 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:04.300 There are blessings hovering over you. But they're 00:04:04.300 --> 00:04:07.139 not waiting for your prayers to get louder. They're 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:09.960 waiting for your capacity to get stronger. That's 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.680 it. So the Father is not testing people's desires. 00:04:13.939 --> 00:04:17.040 What the Father is looking at is your personal 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.839 infrastructure, church infrastructure, your ministry 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.459 infrastructure, business infrastructure. So it's 00:04:25.459 --> 00:04:28.000 all about infrastructure. Infrastructure. So 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.959 it's all about all of the stuff that you need 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:36.029 to be successful, right? You know, this reminds 00:04:36.029 --> 00:04:39.089 me a bit. I work construction for a while. Yeah. 00:04:39.209 --> 00:04:42.089 And we put in the walls. I mean, the foundation 00:04:42.089 --> 00:04:45.189 was laid. We came in, we put in the walls. And 00:04:45.189 --> 00:04:47.329 there's so much infrastructure that goes into 00:04:47.329 --> 00:04:50.670 big buildings. Yes. You never know it because 00:04:50.670 --> 00:04:53.230 all you see, you walk in and you see paintings 00:04:53.230 --> 00:04:56.329 on the wall and building looks nice. But you 00:04:56.329 --> 00:04:59.069 have no idea what it looks like underneath your 00:04:59.069 --> 00:05:03.389 feet and to hold everything that was put on top 00:05:03.389 --> 00:05:06.939 of it and put in it. That's infrastructure. So 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:11.220 the Lord is looking at our structure. He's looking 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:16.160 at how can we handle things? Can you handle what 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.879 you're asking for? Can you handle it emotionally? 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.860 Can you handle it spiritually? Most importantly, 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.240 can you handle it structurally? Are you built 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.939 strong enough to do this or are you weak, right? 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.139 So the internal architecture. The systems and 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:38.199 the boundaries, they have to be able to sustain 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:42.620 the blessings that you're asking for. So it's 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:44.980 really important that we get a blueprint from 00:05:44.980 --> 00:05:48.540 the Lord about how to build our internal structure. 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:51.720 Because what you cannot manage, the Father cannot 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.420 multiply. And sometimes you have to go back to 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:56.699 the drawing board. Yeah, that's true. How many 00:05:56.699 --> 00:05:59.660 times have we? Had to do that. Yeah. So what 00:05:59.660 --> 00:06:02.540 you cannot sustain, the Lord Jesus will not provide. 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:07.620 It's not punishment. It's protection. Increase 00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:09.959 without infrastructure is not a blessing because 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.079 if it's given to you too early and you're not 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.180 ready for it, you will sabotage yourself. Sometimes 00:06:15.180 --> 00:06:18.720 people want increase in results without a willingness 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:25.040 to increase in responsibility. Yeah. And sometimes 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.569 people want a blessing. without the added burden 00:06:28.569 --> 00:06:31.350 that the blessing is going to bring. Some people 00:06:31.350 --> 00:06:34.110 want to have added gifting without the growth 00:06:34.110 --> 00:06:37.290 required to steward it properly. So when your 00:06:37.290 --> 00:06:40.990 prayer is not answered, you question the goodness 00:06:40.990 --> 00:06:45.629 of God, or do you examine your capacity? When 00:06:45.629 --> 00:06:48.350 you're praying for increase, Jesus looks at your 00:06:48.350 --> 00:06:51.470 financial discipline. He sees how you handle 00:06:51.470 --> 00:06:54.139 pressure. He looks at your emotional regulation 00:06:54.139 --> 00:07:02.540 under stress. You know, he looks at your boundary 00:07:02.540 --> 00:07:05.139 management. He looks at your time stewardship. 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.319 He looks at your relationship patterns. So based 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:14.879 on what he observes, he calculates exactly how 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:19.410 much you can carry without breaking. That reminds 00:07:19.410 --> 00:07:22.449 me a lot when we had our big ice storm back in 00:07:22.449 --> 00:07:27.449 2009. Yeah. And when it was raining, you could 00:07:27.449 --> 00:07:30.329 hear trees falling over. You could hear freezing 00:07:30.329 --> 00:07:32.170 rain. You could hear the limbs breaking off. 00:07:32.430 --> 00:07:34.829 And then when the rain would stop, everything 00:07:34.829 --> 00:07:38.069 would slow down. And then if it would start raining 00:07:38.069 --> 00:07:41.329 and freezing again, you would hear things breaking. 00:07:41.709 --> 00:07:44.189 And it's just like it took everything to the 00:07:44.189 --> 00:07:47.720 max. of what it could handle. And when it went 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.759 over what it can handle, it broke. And, you know, 00:07:50.819 --> 00:07:53.720 God is so good that he, you know, he won't give 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.439 us more. It says he will not tempt us beyond 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.279 being tempted. I think if we look at that. It's 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.699 1 Corinthians 10, 13. There's no temptation taken 00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:06.040 you, but such as is common to man. But God is 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.220 faithful who will not. suffer you to be tempted 00:08:09.220 --> 00:08:12.920 above that you are able. But will with the temptation 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.240 make a way of escape that you may be able to 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.860 bear it. So you won't give you more than you 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:21.800 can bear with him. That's a tremendous scripture 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.139 to hang on to. Absolutely. Especially when things 00:08:24.139 --> 00:08:26.519 are not going the way you want it to. It's true. 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.519 It's true. So he's looking at our spiritual capacity, 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:33.820 our emotional capacity, our mental energy, our 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:38.320 emotional energy, physical energy. So You stop 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.360 praying for the Father to give you more and you 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.899 start praying for him to build your capacity. 00:08:44.620 --> 00:08:47.639 That's where we need to focus instead of, I want 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:51.820 to get out there and do it now. It's about what 00:08:51.820 --> 00:08:57.500 do I need to let you deal with in me so that 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:00.899 I can handle being out there doing something 00:09:00.899 --> 00:09:03.879 that's more so. Right. Does that make sense? 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.940 Yeah. So he withholds it for our protection. 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.980 He doesn't want us to crash and burn. Right. 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:12.960 Yeah. So he says there's three laws. The first 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:18.159 law is the law of vessels. And so it's like the 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.110 blessing takes the shape of the container. And 00:09:22.110 --> 00:09:25.190 he talks about this, the widow woman that was 00:09:25.190 --> 00:09:28.610 told to pour out the oil, borrow lots of vessels. 00:09:28.850 --> 00:09:30.889 Yeah, and borrow not a few. Right. That's what 00:09:30.889 --> 00:09:33.830 it says in the King James. And then pour. Pour, 00:09:33.929 --> 00:09:36.350 yeah. And because that's all she had was just 00:09:36.350 --> 00:09:39.330 a little bit of oil. Yeah. And so she borrowed 00:09:39.330 --> 00:09:42.110 all the vessels from the neighbors and poured 00:09:42.110 --> 00:09:45.710 the oil. It just kept coming and coming, filled 00:09:45.710 --> 00:09:48.509 them all up. And she asked for another one. Another 00:09:48.509 --> 00:09:51.769 one. And it says that there's no more and the 00:09:51.769 --> 00:09:55.610 oil stayed, is what it said. But if she had more 00:09:55.610 --> 00:09:59.350 vessels, it would have kept filling up. Right. 00:09:59.450 --> 00:10:03.409 And so we always keep our vessel open so we can 00:10:03.409 --> 00:10:06.049 always get more. Oh, that's good. Because we 00:10:06.049 --> 00:10:09.049 can't. We can't get too much of God. You can 00:10:09.049 --> 00:10:11.769 get too much of a lot of other things, but you 00:10:11.769 --> 00:10:14.289 cannot get too much of the presence of God. I 00:10:14.289 --> 00:10:16.730 mean, it will overwhelm you, which is what we 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:20.169 want anyway. But the thing is, don't stop because 00:10:20.169 --> 00:10:23.129 you feel, I've got all I need for right now. 00:10:23.529 --> 00:10:25.710 No, you have to keep going, because if you're 00:10:25.710 --> 00:10:28.649 not going forward or not going up, you might 00:10:28.649 --> 00:10:32.000 be going down. And I love what Pastor Tony said 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:36.480 as the punchline on this. The blessing that this 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:40.340 woman had, the blessing she received, matched 00:10:40.340 --> 00:10:45.899 exactly the capacity she prepared. So it's the 00:10:45.899 --> 00:10:50.720 preparation that determines the capacity. And 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.179 so as we're preparing, that's the big thing. 00:10:54.259 --> 00:10:59.350 It's opening up this capacity, okay? So the second 00:10:59.350 --> 00:11:03.149 law is the law of weight, and it has to do with 00:11:03.149 --> 00:11:07.470 your capacity to hold up the weight. So there's 00:11:07.470 --> 00:11:11.529 a capacity of what you can be filled with, and 00:11:11.529 --> 00:11:14.049 then how much can you carry? How much can you 00:11:14.049 --> 00:11:17.370 carry? How much can you carry? So can you carry 00:11:17.370 --> 00:11:19.669 more responsibility? You want more responsibility? 00:11:19.809 --> 00:11:21.610 You want something bigger and better? How are 00:11:21.610 --> 00:11:23.590 you handling the responsibility you have now? 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.440 Right? Wow. Yeah. So the father's going to evaluate 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.940 your readiness for increase, not your desire 00:11:29.940 --> 00:11:33.200 for it. Because he doesn't want you to fail. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.620 He wants you to succeed. And, you know, it's 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:40.059 kind of like in school, you have these opportunities 00:11:40.059 --> 00:11:43.539 to learn something and then take a test. Yeah. 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:48.159 And you find out from the test how well you learned 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:54.039 the thing that you were studying. Right? in a 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.019 class that is important for you to pass. If you 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:00.200 don't pass it and you have to have it, you get 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:04.399 the opportunity to take it again. So, you know, 00:12:04.419 --> 00:12:07.899 God wants you to learn the stuff you're supposed 00:12:07.899 --> 00:12:12.820 to learn. Learn this capacity. Learn this weightiness. 00:12:13.139 --> 00:12:17.860 The glory is weighty. You want the glory? How 00:12:17.860 --> 00:12:20.399 are you handling the responsibilities you have 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.879 now? How am I handling the responsibilities I 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.519 have? What's on your plate. Right. Everything 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.039 that's on your plate. And how do you respond 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.019 to the circumstances that require you to stretch 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:34.879 beyond your comfort zone? What do you know about 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.879 stretching? Yeah, that brings up a story. And 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:41.019 I've probably told it before, but it bears repeating. 00:12:41.019 --> 00:12:43.399 It bears repeating because it's so good. We had 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.080 a word of the Lord that was given in our devotions 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.360 one time many years ago, many, many years ago. 00:12:49.899 --> 00:12:53.000 And the word of the Lord was, I'm calling you 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:57.679 to stretch. And so in my spirit, I went, yes. 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.440 I'm going to stretch. I will do this. Yes, I'm 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.120 going to stretch. I received this word. I received 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:10.539 this encouragement to stretch. So the workload 00:13:10.539 --> 00:13:15.480 was heavy and the responsibilities were heavy. 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:19.179 And so I just, I kept that word in my spirit. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.039 I'm going to stretch. So I kept going, kept doing 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:25.220 the right thing. And then we, I think it was 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:28.970 probably when we had like a six week road trip. 00:13:29.490 --> 00:13:32.830 That was intense. That was intense, but we did 00:13:32.830 --> 00:13:35.269 it. Yeah, we did it every year. And we did it 00:13:35.269 --> 00:13:38.190 every year. And then we came home and we printed 00:13:38.190 --> 00:13:41.409 the next book that Sister Gwen wrote. And reprinted 00:13:41.409 --> 00:13:44.350 a few of the others that need to be reprinted. 00:13:44.389 --> 00:13:48.019 And then there was... Convention. And then right 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:50.139 after convention, we went to the booksellers 00:13:50.139 --> 00:13:52.440 convention and there was no anointing really 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.460 to help you with that one. And you're exhausted 00:13:55.460 --> 00:13:58.639 from convention. But somehow I had it in my head 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.759 that once we got to the month of August, that 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:06.080 the pressure would let up. Right. And, you know, 00:14:06.100 --> 00:14:08.539 I'm stretching, I'm stretching. But, you know, 00:14:08.539 --> 00:14:11.279 in August, maybe we can kind of take it easy 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.019 a little bit. But we didn't. And the pressure 00:14:14.019 --> 00:14:16.659 was there. And the pressure was heavy. And it 00:14:16.659 --> 00:14:18.879 was getting more and more. And I went to Sister 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:22.559 Gwen one day and I said, I don't think I can 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.519 stretch anymore. And she put her finger out at 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:29.580 me and she said, you can stretch limitlessly 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:33.700 if you keep your spirit right. And it went into 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:37.139 me like an arrow. And it gave me this revelation 00:14:37.139 --> 00:14:43.500 that, yeah, I can stretch limitlessly. if I'll 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:46.120 keep my spirit right. And of course, keeping 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.720 your spirit right is about staying tuned to the 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.320 Holy Spirit, walking in the spirit and not in 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.200 the flesh. It's huge. When the Lord spoke to 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.960 me when I was 18, he said, I want you, I want 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.659 you 100 % and I want you right now. And from 00:15:02.659 --> 00:15:06.639 time to time through the years, it's been a long 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:11.929 time since I was 18, coming up on 50 years. That 00:15:11.929 --> 00:15:16.149 sounds awfully old. 68 doesn't sound old, but 00:15:16.149 --> 00:15:20.610 50 years history sounds old. But through those 00:15:20.610 --> 00:15:26.750 years, it's like the Lord reminded me of, I want 00:15:26.750 --> 00:15:31.070 you 100 % and I want you right now. And it's 00:15:31.070 --> 00:15:35.809 kind of like, oh, I guess the 100 % that I gave 00:15:35.809 --> 00:15:40.149 when I was 18 is not the 100 % you're demanding 00:15:40.149 --> 00:15:43.779 right now. that you're calling for. And that's 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:47.980 where our capacity grows. When we realize that, 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:52.500 okay, the weight is getting heavier, it requires 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:56.580 a new dedication. It requires a new experience 00:15:56.580 --> 00:16:00.669 of the grace of God. It's his grace that enables 00:16:00.669 --> 00:16:03.850 us to do these things. It's his grace that gives 00:16:03.850 --> 00:16:08.210 us what we need to be able to say yes. So you 00:16:08.210 --> 00:16:11.309 just have to get under the grace spout. And when 00:16:11.309 --> 00:16:14.669 you're really in love with Jesus, it's easier 00:16:14.669 --> 00:16:18.330 to say yes. That is the truth, Philip. You've 00:16:18.330 --> 00:16:21.129 got it. It's absolutely the truth. And I've been 00:16:21.129 --> 00:16:24.570 meditating on this idea of loving the Lord your 00:16:24.570 --> 00:16:26.389 God with all your heart, with all your soul, 00:16:26.490 --> 00:16:28.330 with all your mind, with all your strength. And 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:31.409 especially I've been meditating on loving him 00:16:31.409 --> 00:16:38.029 with all my mind. That's difficult. Yeah, but 00:16:38.029 --> 00:16:40.730 it's something that he's not going to ask us 00:16:40.730 --> 00:16:42.950 to do something that is impossible. Yeah, that's 00:16:42.950 --> 00:16:46.610 right. But it's only possible. If we soak in 00:16:46.610 --> 00:16:50.669 His love, if we recognize we can love Him because 00:16:50.669 --> 00:16:54.830 He first loved us, and that increases our capacity. 00:16:55.049 --> 00:16:59.389 When we increase our reception of His love, it 00:16:59.389 --> 00:17:03.990 increases our capacity to love Him back. Amen. 00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:08.829 Amen. So, back to stretching beyond your comfort 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:13.349 zone. Yeah. And thanks to God gives us, too. 00:17:14.269 --> 00:17:16.509 Like, you know, financially or, you know, things 00:17:16.509 --> 00:17:19.210 we seek after. And, you know, it's just like 00:17:19.210 --> 00:17:22.970 a person who cannot manage a thousand cannot 00:17:22.970 --> 00:17:25.609 be trusted with a hundred thousand dollar opportunity. 00:17:25.730 --> 00:17:28.609 It's true. You know, getting back into integrity, 00:17:28.829 --> 00:17:31.829 you know. Oh, yeah. And the person who collapses 00:17:31.829 --> 00:17:35.410 under a current relationship demand may not be 00:17:35.410 --> 00:17:38.150 ready for marriage. It's true. You know, when 00:17:38.150 --> 00:17:43.119 you have the engagement. Some may only after 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.440 a month get engaged, maybe after six months. 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:50.920 And Sharon and I, we got engaged. It was in February 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.640 under the influence of the Holy Spirit. That's 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:56.859 another story. A love story. We got married in 00:17:56.859 --> 00:18:00.220 July. And it was a God thing, how he orchestrated 00:18:00.220 --> 00:18:03.740 everything. But it's just like you don't know 00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:06.079 how the other person operates until you're married 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:11.089 to them. True. You think you know them, but pressures 00:18:11.089 --> 00:18:14.990 happen. Things will happen. And so it's just 00:18:14.990 --> 00:18:18.029 like sometimes it's maybe like iron, rubbing 00:18:18.029 --> 00:18:20.710 iron a little bit. Iron sharpening iron. Yeah, 00:18:20.809 --> 00:18:24.289 iron sharpening iron. And when you work these 00:18:24.289 --> 00:18:27.750 things out, and that's what happens when God 00:18:27.750 --> 00:18:30.950 gives us these circumstances. He gives us things 00:18:30.950 --> 00:18:33.509 to overcome. Right. Because he won't give beyond 00:18:33.509 --> 00:18:35.789 what we're tempted. We already told you the scripture 00:18:35.789 --> 00:18:39.700 that. but things that will happen that are going 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:42.259 to cause you to stretch. Right. And the more 00:18:42.259 --> 00:18:46.480 responsibility you're given, the more, you know, 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.039 you have to be able to stretch things. And it's 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.240 just like, you know, I've never asked for promotion 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:54.880 ever. You know, that was not my nature. I wasn't 00:18:54.880 --> 00:19:00.019 a person that would just be forward. Except when 00:19:00.019 --> 00:19:01.759 you were playing clarinet and you wanted to be 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:03.900 first chair. Yeah, and I wanted to be first chair, 00:19:03.980 --> 00:19:07.099 you know, wear that armband as a section leader, 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.019 you know. Then you were competitive. Then I was 00:19:11.019 --> 00:19:13.720 just competitive, you know. But you just got 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:16.240 to do it all for Jesus. Right. But that's how 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.160 you grow. So then I'm on the board of directors, 00:19:19.299 --> 00:19:21.519 you know, the Ministry of Global Outpouring. 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.519 And you didn't ask for it. I didn't ask for it. 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:28.069 And then secretary. And now vice president. I 00:19:28.069 --> 00:19:30.789 did not ask for that, but it happened. And it 00:19:30.789 --> 00:19:33.529 was something I had to step into. But when you 00:19:33.529 --> 00:19:36.130 have to step into something, God gives you the 00:19:36.130 --> 00:19:39.589 grace to step into it. And he gives you the confidence. 00:19:40.130 --> 00:19:43.009 He doesn't show you everything at one time. On 00:19:43.009 --> 00:19:46.170 this walk of life that I have been on for these 00:19:46.170 --> 00:19:50.210 44 years myself as a believer, if God showed 00:19:50.210 --> 00:19:53.349 me what things were going to be like up ahead, 00:19:53.589 --> 00:19:56.069 I don't think I could have handled it. So he 00:19:56.069 --> 00:19:59.150 only gives us so much at a time that we step 00:19:59.150 --> 00:20:01.930 into. And sometimes it's like that, the story, 00:20:01.990 --> 00:20:04.890 or you see the picture with the footprints, why 00:20:04.890 --> 00:20:07.329 there's only one set of footprints. That's where 00:20:07.329 --> 00:20:09.789 I carry you. And that's where he carries you 00:20:09.789 --> 00:20:12.849 through things until, okay, you can walk on your 00:20:12.849 --> 00:20:15.569 own through this one. Then sometimes he has to 00:20:15.569 --> 00:20:19.190 carry you again a little bit more. It's true. 00:20:19.390 --> 00:20:22.390 So it's responsibilities that he gives us for 00:20:22.390 --> 00:20:25.920 our... areas of influence and everything that 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.599 he has for us, but we don't want to overstep 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:33.240 our boundaries. Yeah. So when we were meditating 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.180 on this idea of this law of weight, Pastor Tony 00:20:37.180 --> 00:20:41.359 used the example of the talents that the master 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.420 of the house gave five to this one and three 00:20:44.420 --> 00:20:46.960 to that one and one to another one according 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:51.670 to their abilities. The first two doubled theirs 00:20:51.670 --> 00:20:55.230 and the other guy had buried his. And then there's 00:20:55.230 --> 00:20:59.369 another story in Luke 19 where the householder 00:20:59.369 --> 00:21:04.269 has 10 portions of money. Okay. And he gives 00:21:04.269 --> 00:21:09.970 10 servants each one. And one of them gets 10 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:14.829 back. And the master, the Lord says, so you've 00:21:14.829 --> 00:21:17.930 been faithful with this little. Yeah. I'm going 00:21:17.930 --> 00:21:20.410 to give you 10 cities. You know, he's coming 00:21:20.410 --> 00:21:22.609 to his kingdom. I'm going to give you 10 cities. 00:21:23.170 --> 00:21:26.849 And the next one says, well, I got five. And 00:21:26.849 --> 00:21:29.170 he says, well, I'm going to give you five cities. 00:21:29.430 --> 00:21:31.470 And then there's the guy that just, you know, 00:21:31.490 --> 00:21:33.529 put it in a handkerchief. Here's what you gave 00:21:33.529 --> 00:21:37.730 me. I didn't lose it. But he didn't do anything 00:21:37.730 --> 00:21:41.970 with it. God is trying to get us to bear the 00:21:41.970 --> 00:21:45.309 weight of what we have, become responsible for 00:21:45.309 --> 00:21:48.910 what we have so that he can give us more responsibility. 00:21:48.910 --> 00:21:50.930 He can give us those things that we're asking 00:21:50.930 --> 00:21:53.829 for, for the outpouring. We want to see the outpouring. 00:21:53.930 --> 00:21:56.549 So what happens if a mentor gives someone... 00:21:57.449 --> 00:21:59.910 before they're actually ready. Oh, yeah. You 00:21:59.910 --> 00:22:01.490 know, we talked about this a little earlier, 00:22:01.589 --> 00:22:03.769 like if you're a famous singer or something, 00:22:03.869 --> 00:22:05.430 you get saved and you're right on the worship 00:22:05.430 --> 00:22:07.630 team. You know, it doesn't work because it's 00:22:07.630 --> 00:22:11.690 building integrity. And I remember the facilitator 00:22:11.690 --> 00:22:17.190 was Al Warner in Niagara Falls, the facilitator 00:22:17.190 --> 00:22:19.529 of a pastor's table that we were attending. And, 00:22:19.529 --> 00:22:22.750 you know, he says, I didn't pray for my kids 00:22:22.750 --> 00:22:26.450 to have anointing. Because I saw some... Because 00:22:26.450 --> 00:22:28.369 he saw a lot of people that had it, but they 00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:32.109 had no integrity. They ended up in jail because 00:22:32.109 --> 00:22:35.269 they had no integrity. Wow. So he said, I'm not 00:22:35.269 --> 00:22:39.910 asking for anointing for my kids. You don't want 00:22:39.910 --> 00:22:44.009 to put a novice into the pulpit. Exactly. Even 00:22:44.009 --> 00:22:46.470 when you think you're ready. And I remember when 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:51.829 our founder passed away in 2013 in January. We 00:22:51.829 --> 00:22:53.829 didn't feel like we were ready to take over. 00:22:54.009 --> 00:22:58.529 I mean, a year before our convention, she publicly 00:22:58.529 --> 00:23:03.609 handed the ball to us. But were we ready when 00:23:03.609 --> 00:23:06.869 that actually happened? It's just like it's a 00:23:06.869 --> 00:23:09.589 shock because it happened suddenly when it happened. 00:23:09.609 --> 00:23:13.009 And all of a sudden, I'm the vice president and 00:23:13.009 --> 00:23:15.990 Sharon's the president. And that's not something 00:23:15.990 --> 00:23:18.950 we asked for right away. We didn't ask for it 00:23:18.950 --> 00:23:22.450 at all. We weren't ready. 13 years ago is what 00:23:22.450 --> 00:23:26.190 it is now. But we are a lot better prepared now 00:23:26.190 --> 00:23:29.710 than what we were then. True. And we just had 00:23:29.710 --> 00:23:33.309 a unique experience on our last trip. We stopped 00:23:33.309 --> 00:23:37.069 at Sweetwater, the big music, the Amazon of the 00:23:37.069 --> 00:23:40.450 music industry. They've got a warehouse the size 00:23:40.450 --> 00:23:44.829 of five football fields. They have over 600 salespeople. 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.400 And you go through a training, intense training 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.240 for, I forget how many. Thirteen weeks. Thirteen 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:54.259 weeks of intense training. So when you take the 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:56.339 phone to take an order, you're going to be prepared. 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.220 Not like some other music stores, they'll train 00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:02.660 you for a couple days or a week and all of a 00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:04.539 sudden you're there. But you're not going to 00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:07.240 be able to answer questions. So it's a time of 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:09.480 training you have to go for to be the responsibility. 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:13.119 So you will have the integrity of training that 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.720 the company wants you to have. So if you take 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.140 a short survey after here, you want five stars. 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.259 Yeah, exactly. You want to be the best, but they're 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:22.920 not going to release you until you're ready. 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:25.240 And that's the way it should be in the kingdom 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:28.599 of God. God will not release us into a position 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.059 if we're not ready. And I remember in Pastor 00:24:31.059 --> 00:24:34.079 Jeff John's church in Lafayette, Indiana, he 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:36.319 gave a testimony. Someone came, I want to sing. 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:39.000 So the first thing he did was start to clean 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:42.099 toilets. Yep. You know, start doing this, start 00:24:42.099 --> 00:24:47.299 doing this with a good heart. And after a season 00:24:47.299 --> 00:24:50.339 of time, when he felt they were ready, they had 00:24:50.339 --> 00:24:52.960 him come and be part of the worship team and 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:54.920 said, and there was anointing on it because they 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:57.799 learned to be a servant. And that's what God 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:00.539 wants us to do in training is to be a servant 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:03.720 so we can receive what he has us to receive. 00:25:04.059 --> 00:25:06.660 And it'll be one step on the ladder of the ladder 00:25:06.660 --> 00:25:11.329 of spiritual success. To get to the next rung 00:25:11.329 --> 00:25:13.730 on the ladder and not hit a plateau. We're going 00:25:13.730 --> 00:25:17.190 into realms. Realms. Into new realms of expansion. 00:25:17.589 --> 00:25:19.549 It's like the rung of the ladder will take you 00:25:19.549 --> 00:25:22.549 to realms. Oh, that's good. I like that. I had 00:25:22.549 --> 00:25:24.589 to think of that one through a little bit. That's 00:25:24.589 --> 00:25:27.329 good. That's good. So the third law that Pastor 00:25:27.329 --> 00:25:30.619 Tony brought was the law of expansion. And he 00:25:30.619 --> 00:25:33.019 says, the Father increases provision, everything 00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:36.140 you need, only to the degree that you expand 00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:40.079 your own identity, your discipline, and your 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:45.180 boundaries. In other words, provision follows 00:25:45.180 --> 00:25:49.890 preparation. Prayer empowers you through the 00:25:49.890 --> 00:25:51.890 Holy Spirit and assists you with your preparation. 00:25:52.170 --> 00:25:54.869 It is when you pray according to the Word of 00:25:54.869 --> 00:25:57.269 God and you receive the wisdom of the Holy Spirit 00:25:57.269 --> 00:25:59.769 that you can come to understand that increase 00:25:59.769 --> 00:26:04.650 does not follow good intentions. Increase follows 00:26:04.650 --> 00:26:07.970 Holy Spirit, God -given infrastructures that 00:26:07.970 --> 00:26:10.569 you have allowed to be built into your life. 00:26:11.190 --> 00:26:13.890 So it's God that's building the infrastructures. 00:26:14.029 --> 00:26:16.720 I'm remembering a... I think it was this morning 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:20.660 when we were having our prayer for Israel. One 00:26:20.660 --> 00:26:24.400 of the ladies brought Deuteronomy 33, 27. And 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:29.140 I felt like this fits right here. The eternal 00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:33.500 God is your refuge or dwelling place or habitation. 00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:38.820 And underneath are the everlasting arms. His 00:26:38.820 --> 00:26:42.180 everlasting arms are underneath us as we dwell 00:26:42.180 --> 00:26:45.579 in him, as we live in him. The secret place of 00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:49.240 the Most High from Psalm 91. It's living in him 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:52.660 that provides all of that provision. And then 00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:56.440 it goes on to say, he drives out the enemy before 00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.869 you, giving the command, destroy him. So he wants 00:26:59.869 --> 00:27:02.650 to work with us. He wants to help us develop 00:27:02.650 --> 00:27:05.950 this expansion and this ability to carry the 00:27:05.950 --> 00:27:09.670 weight and the vessel, expanding our vessels 00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:13.829 so that he gets the glory as we give him the 00:27:13.829 --> 00:27:16.410 glory. When we still want a little bit of that 00:27:16.410 --> 00:27:19.410 glory for ourselves, it's not going to give him 00:27:19.410 --> 00:27:21.670 glory. And that's where if you're working in 00:27:21.670 --> 00:27:25.069 a ministry or a church, you stay within your 00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:28.519 boundaries. Right. the more you press into God 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.980 and the anointing in your life, you will realize 00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:34.240 you can bloom where you're planted. You'll know 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.920 your boundaries and overstep into somebody else's 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.539 territory, because then you get contention. And 00:27:41.539 --> 00:27:44.539 of course, there's nothing more the devil likes 00:27:44.539 --> 00:27:48.859 to do than bring contention into a work of God, 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.000 something that's going on. And if enough contention 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.420 gets in and enough of this happens, Things that 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:57.920 you can end up going into a church split or something. 00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:01.259 But if everybody keeps their focus on Jesus, 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.940 that they keep their boundaries of what the Lord 00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:07.160 has put them in, trained to be keeping your boundaries, 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.279 that will bring you into further promotion. It's 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:13.700 true. Spiritual promotion. So we all need more 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:16.140 capacity, right? Capacity. That's what this is 00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:19.500 all about. So now he's talking about identity. 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:25.200 And this was a zinger for me. So identity expansion 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.079 means you see yourself according to the word 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:33.680 of God. Now, we've heard this, but I don't think 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.019 we've completely gotten it. I haven't. And one 00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:39.460 thing Pastor Tony says is he's still working 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:42.859 on it and it takes time. And if a bishop says 00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:46.119 he's still working on it. So identity expansion 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.279 means you see yourself according to the word 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.259 of God. And this part's very important as well. 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:54.339 And as a person who is already operating in the 00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:57.640 level that you're seeking. So a person asking 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:02.660 for wealth while identifying as broke will sabotage 00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:06.019 every opportunity for increase. Isn't that clear? 00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:09.180 That is so clear. The person requesting respect 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:13.599 while identifying as a victim will unconsciously 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:18.140 maintain patterns that invite disrespect. The 00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:21.940 person wanting promotion. Here we go. This is 00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:25.420 me. The person want. It's not that I want promotion. 00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:28.759 It's just that I want to expand into the things 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.279 that God has for me. OK, that's that's my heart. 00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:35.049 That's my heart. That's my mindset. But while 00:29:35.049 --> 00:29:39.089 identifying as inadequate, we'll find ways to 00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:42.450 prove that their inadequacy is a fact, even though 00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:46.650 it may not necessarily be true. So think about 00:29:46.650 --> 00:29:50.009 it this way. Sometimes we're striving to be humble. 00:29:51.569 --> 00:29:56.670 And in our humility, we might identify ourselves 00:29:56.670 --> 00:30:02.009 as less than what God says we are. And so I guess 00:30:02.009 --> 00:30:05.700 that would be false humility, wouldn't it? So 00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:10.059 he says your perceived identity is your internal 00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:14.000 thermostat. It will not allow your external results 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:18.519 to exceed your internal personal concept for 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.099 long. So discipline expansion means building 00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:24.380 systems that can operate at the level you want 00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:27.039 to reach. The person wanting financial abundance 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:29.569 must first. build discipline around their current 00:30:29.569 --> 00:30:31.930 income, right? The person wanting relational 00:30:31.930 --> 00:30:35.569 harmony must first build discipline around emotional 00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:41.069 regulation. And that's critical for all of our 00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:45.849 relationships, right? So we have to build discipline 00:30:45.849 --> 00:30:49.029 around current responsibilities. And the discipline 00:30:49.029 --> 00:30:53.069 is the result of following Jesus. This is all 00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:56.950 about working with him, cooperating with him. 00:30:57.009 --> 00:31:01.089 This is where it's coming home to us. It's good 00:31:01.089 --> 00:31:03.329 to preach about it, but God wants to take us 00:31:03.329 --> 00:31:08.200 to the next realm, to the next expansion. So 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.160 discipline means to say no to the self -life 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.559 and yes to the life of Jesus by the Holy Spirit. 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:21.740 Right? Yeah. In Acts chapter 20, verse 32, Paul 00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:25.180 says, I commend you to God and to the word of 00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:28.660 his grace, which is able to build you up and 00:31:28.660 --> 00:31:31.960 make you strong and enable you to receive your 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:35.000 inheritance among those that the Lord has made 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.799 holy. So the word of God builds my personal capacity. 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.200 And then Jeremiah says, your words were found 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.380 and I did eat them. So I remember our former 00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:50.740 vice president, our late vice president, I should 00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:54.140 say, Colonel Jim Shaw, before Sister Gwen would 00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:56.700 marry him, she said, you have to read through 00:31:56.700 --> 00:32:00.099 the whole Bible. You know, he loved the Lord, 00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:06.299 but he was still a lot in his worldly mindset 00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:09.519 that he had learned in the world. He was a military 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.339 man, right? So he's busy trying to read the Word 00:32:13.339 --> 00:32:16.880 so he can marry this woman. And so he made up 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.160 his mind, I'm not going to eat until I read the 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.440 Word, thinking that it'll help him get a good 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.640 start in the morning. Well, sometimes he didn't 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:28.400 even eat until suppertime because he hadn't gotten 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.339 the Word in because he was still developing discipline, 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:34.400 right? And then he was pretty good discipline. 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.039 It was good discipline himself to do that. Yeah. 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.579 Yeah. It's just that he still had to discipline 00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:43.839 regarding time. So anyway, he told the story 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.799 about how he was in Pakistan at one point and 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.839 he was out in a little field. He just thought 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.000 it was a nice place to sit and read the Bible, 00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:56.180 right? Because it was time to read the Bible. 00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:58.720 Well, he fell asleep, but there were some goats 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:03.160 in that field. And when he woke up, he found 00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.079 that a little goat had taken a couple of bites 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:11.099 out of his Bible. And he showed us that one of 00:33:11.099 --> 00:33:14.259 the places that this little goat had a bite was 00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:18.180 in Jeremiah with this scripture, I found thy 00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:22.319 words and did eat them. It wasn't a Waco that's 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:26.039 sleepiest. No, it wasn't. But you could see in 00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:30.539 his Bible the little teeth marks, and the part 00:33:30.539 --> 00:33:33.819 of the page was missing. So the point is that 00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:38.579 as we eat the Word of God, as we digest it, It 00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:43.079 becomes part of us. It becomes a part of who 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:47.319 we are. Regular food, ordinary food, you eat 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.000 it, you get energy. You eat it, your body can 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.680 rebuild cells that have gotten tired and died. 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:55.460 It enables you to increase your health if you're 00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:57.619 eating the right kind of food. And so eating 00:33:57.619 --> 00:34:01.779 the Word of God is going to build us spiritually. 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.960 It's going to give us what we need, and it's 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.650 going to fill us with joy. Yeah. So eating the 00:34:09.650 --> 00:34:14.130 Word, reading the Word, studying the Word, getting 00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:16.289 revelation from the Holy Spirit. You know, the 00:34:16.289 --> 00:34:18.389 Holy Spirit was the one who inspired it in the 00:34:18.389 --> 00:34:21.250 first place. And when you read the Word and say, 00:34:21.309 --> 00:34:24.030 Holy Spirit, give me something I've never seen 00:34:24.030 --> 00:34:27.829 before. That's beautiful. He'll give you something 00:34:27.829 --> 00:34:30.760 you've never seen before. And sometimes you don't 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.960 even have to ask. He'll just all of a sudden. 00:34:33.059 --> 00:34:35.519 And I've read the same scriptures over and over 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.699 and over again. And I keep getting new things 00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:42.889 because he's limitless. And his word is limitless 00:34:42.889 --> 00:34:45.130 and his spirit is limitless. So he's expanding 00:34:45.130 --> 00:34:49.030 our capacity as we read the word. And praying 00:34:49.030 --> 00:34:53.530 in tongues is huge because 1 Corinthians 14 says 00:34:53.530 --> 00:34:56.090 that he who speaks in a tongue is edifying himself. 00:34:56.309 --> 00:34:58.730 So you're building up yourself on your most holy 00:34:58.730 --> 00:35:01.679 faith. It says that in the book of Jude. Building 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.420 yourself up in your spirit realm, it'll expand 00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:10.400 you as you continue to pray in tongues. It's 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.820 just huge. And then Jesus said, every servant 00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:18.219 is not greater than his master. But the idea 00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:22.760 is that we pursue becoming like the master. So 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.079 the more we spend time with him, the more we're 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.280 spending time in his word, the more we're spending 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.900 time in... letting his spirit flow through us 00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:34.900 in prayer, the more we're becoming like him. 00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:38.420 And that's the goal. He wants all of us to be 00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:44.280 like him. Hallelujah. Amen. So the Holy Spirit 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:49.019 is trying to help us do self -assessment, okay? 00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:52.019 Identity expansion is the result of following 00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:54.280 Jesus and you become like the one you follow. 00:35:54.579 --> 00:35:57.360 So when you exercise the discipline of Jesus 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.780 at your current level, It's now proof of your 00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:04.079 readiness to reach the next level in Jesus. So 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.400 that's what I want. I don't even want to call 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.400 it levels. I want to call it expansions. I want 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.099 to call it getting into new realms. So it's about 00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:20.159 getting into a place where we're letting the 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:24.139 Holy Spirit work with us in discipline. The person 00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:27.260 who cannot protect their time cannot be given 00:36:27.260 --> 00:36:30.300 more time. Right. Well, yeah. The person who 00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:32.599 cannot protect their energy will not be given 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:36.179 more demanding responsibilities. These three 00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:41.139 expansions happen in order. OK, number one, identity 00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:45.460 creates the framework. And number two, discipline 00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:48.780 builds the structure. And number three, boundaries 00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:52.559 protect the investment. Yeah. And when all three 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:56.460 expansions are complete, vision flows supernaturally. 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:59.440 Not because the father just suddenly decides 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.400 to bless you, but because you've become the kind 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.500 of son or daughter that the blessings will now 00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:08.920 gravitate towards. Wow. Isn't that beautiful? 00:37:09.219 --> 00:37:12.519 It is. The blessings will come to you. I'm seeing 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.599 it kind of like a vacuum. Okay. When you've got 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:18.360 this capacity increase, something's going to 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:21.780 flood in to fill it. Yeah. It's like Deuteronomy 00:37:21.780 --> 00:37:27.199 28, isn't it? All the blessings will overtake 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.000 you. Right. And that's what we want. Right. We 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.860 want the blessings. And it's a promise from God. 00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:36.920 Right. The blessings will overtake you if. Yes. 00:37:37.179 --> 00:37:40.539 There's an if there. There is an if. If you are 00:37:40.539 --> 00:37:43.760 in a place to receive it. Amen. And if you're 00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:45.900 ready to receive it, if you've got the space 00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:49.320 for what he wants to give you. Yeah. Because, 00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:51.219 you know, Jesus will not give you something you're 00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:53.400 not ready for. It's true. Because at the end 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.880 of the day, he does not want you to be crushed 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.179 or condemned by it. Amen. He gives you what you 00:37:59.179 --> 00:38:02.320 can handle so you can be commended by God. You 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.480 know, I think a good example here is people that 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:09.199 have won the, like the Irish sweepstakes or something 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:12.579 like that. The lottery. I mean, big, big amount. 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.599 And all of a sudden they get all this money. 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:18.840 And the stories we've heard, how many of them 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:23.340 end up broke because they did not know how to 00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:26.820 handle it. They could not handle wealth. So even 00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:31.079 it's like a worldly thing, it's a spiritual thing 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.860 too. God doesn't want to give you something that's 00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:37.039 going to really mess you up. Say you get a big, 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:41.159 maybe you win $60 ,000, so you go out and you 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:46.079 buy a $55 ,000 car. Yep, spent it all. By the 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.099 time you pay all the taxes and then you have 00:38:48.099 --> 00:38:50.960 insurance and then all of a sudden your insurance 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:54.679 rate goes up. Like I was at the insurance company 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:57.619 today asking them about certain cars. And he 00:38:57.619 --> 00:39:00.659 said, if you have an electric, a hybrid. says 00:39:00.659 --> 00:39:03.900 your insurance just goes up immensely. Even a 00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:06.340 little tiny car, they'll say, this little hybrid, 00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:09.079 why is the insurance so much? Because the parts 00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.840 are so much more expensive. Right. So it's like 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:14.739 things you inquire before you buy. True. And 00:39:14.739 --> 00:39:17.469 so all of a sudden you get... get a big wad of 00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:20.250 money or something. But if you don't manage it 00:39:20.250 --> 00:39:23.969 right, you don't research, you know, learn to 00:39:23.969 --> 00:39:28.250 abstain from spending it all. You know, that's 00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:30.269 the principle God wants to give you. He doesn't 00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:32.449 want to do something that's going to hurt you 00:39:32.449 --> 00:39:34.449 in the long run. Right. Well, you'll bite off 00:39:34.449 --> 00:39:37.030 something you can't chew. Even at the moment, 00:39:37.070 --> 00:39:39.110 it looks like you got the big enough knife and 00:39:39.110 --> 00:39:41.690 fork to make it happen. Right. You know, and 00:39:41.690 --> 00:39:45.289 it ends up hurting you. It's true. So one of 00:39:45.289 --> 00:39:47.429 the things that's so important that I resonated 00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:51.630 with is you have to set boundaries around your 00:39:51.630 --> 00:39:56.489 own reactions. And I find that I have an issue 00:39:56.489 --> 00:40:01.250 with, as Papa Jim used to say, or Colonel Jim. 00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:05.519 the perversity of inanimate objects. When something 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:07.840 goes wrong on the computer, when something goes 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:09.579 wrong with this, when something goes wrong with 00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:11.780 that, when it doesn't act the way I think it 00:40:11.780 --> 00:40:14.340 should act, I'm finding that the Holy Spirit 00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:17.260 is putting his finger on my reactions because 00:40:17.260 --> 00:40:21.219 I'm finding myself reacting to an inanimate object. 00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:27.199 I mean, it's not that they're animate, but, you 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.699 know. They can be perverse. And I don't mean 00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:34.519 that sexually. I mean that they just don't work 00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.980 the way you expect them to. You know, you have 00:40:37.980 --> 00:40:39.820 to you have to figure out how to talk to a computer. 00:40:39.900 --> 00:40:43.619 Right. But the challenge is emotional regulation. 00:40:44.779 --> 00:40:47.519 That is so important in ministry. I remember 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.739 someone, I asked, how is so -and -so pastor doing? 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.360 He says, well, it depends what day of the week 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.219 it is. Oh, wow. And I've been with this pastor 00:40:57.219 --> 00:40:59.699 before in his early years before he was a pastor, 00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:03.460 and I can understand that too, you know? Yeah. 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.539 I'll give you a good example of one of the... 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:11.519 Amazing miracle man was Jack Cole back when in 00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:15.400 the 50s and the 50s. And he had an amazing, credible 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.400 healings in that. But he had a personality that 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:21.280 was rough. Yeah. And he was warned by different 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.360 people says you need, you know, in order for 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.659 you to continue, you need to learn to not be 00:41:27.659 --> 00:41:31.239 rough. Yeah. Regulate your emotions. And don't 00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:33.519 treat people badly. Don't treat people badly. 00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.940 Yeah. But he didn't change. And he died very 00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:39.800 young. Yes, he did. His ministry did not last. 00:41:40.099 --> 00:41:43.579 And that's sad. So there has to be, like our 00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:46.619 beloved Papa Dorn would say, you know, be nice 00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:49.239 to Jesus. Right. Be nice to the Jesus in each 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.380 other. Right. You know, and even you get someone 00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:53.460 that kind of rubs you the wrong way in ministry, 00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:57.340 you know, it's just okay. Just learn to iron 00:41:57.340 --> 00:42:00.000 sharpen, sharpening iron a little bit. But, you 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.619 know, get your rough edges off and just take 00:42:02.619 --> 00:42:05.360 it as a learning progress from the Lord because 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.539 the Lord may have your work. you know, with someone 00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:11.960 else that is like that, and he's preparing you 00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:14.159 for maybe your next position of what you have 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.539 to do, learning to live or work with difficult 00:42:17.539 --> 00:42:20.179 people. It's true. If you can work with them 00:42:20.179 --> 00:42:23.119 with the love of Jesus, it will be better for 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.199 you, and you will go a step higher of a rung 00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:29.619 of a ladder in the success of glory. Yes, and 00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:32.599 really, I think you could take 1 Corinthians 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:39.809 13 as a rule book, as a guide for how God wants 00:42:39.809 --> 00:42:43.769 us to react to people, how God wants us to think. 00:42:43.969 --> 00:42:47.369 Because it's all about us allowing him to cultivate 00:42:47.369 --> 00:42:51.369 his love in us. And like I said, it's about receiving 00:42:51.369 --> 00:42:57.190 his love so that you can also give it. So what 00:42:57.190 --> 00:43:00.010 we're talking about is making some big changes, 00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:03.489 but how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a 00:43:03.489 --> 00:43:07.489 time. Exactly. So Pastor Tony kind of helps us 00:43:07.489 --> 00:43:11.010 out with some ideas here. He says the first thing 00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:15.050 you have to do is create a boundary and choose 00:43:15.050 --> 00:43:20.630 one area where you currently have no limits and 00:43:20.630 --> 00:43:23.610 establish a clean boundary. Might be a time boundary, 00:43:23.849 --> 00:43:27.769 a money boundary, an energy boundary. And I remember 00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:30.130 when Don and Catherine, when our daughter was 00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:33.070 young, they gave us some really good advice. 00:43:33.449 --> 00:43:37.369 And they said, choose your battles. Don't try 00:43:37.369 --> 00:43:41.289 and fix everything all at once. You know, children 00:43:41.289 --> 00:43:43.909 are children and they're delicate and they need 00:43:43.909 --> 00:43:46.630 to be handled carefully and lovingly. So you 00:43:46.630 --> 00:43:49.380 choose one thing you're going to work on. Maybe 00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:54.840 two. But focus on one thing and deal with that 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:56.960 until you have success and then find something 00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:01.639 else. So choose one area and set a boundary. 00:44:01.900 --> 00:44:05.219 And he says the boundary must be specific. It 00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:08.420 must be measurable. It must be non -negotiable, 00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:11.860 except under extreme, extraordinary circumstances 00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:16.679 like an emergency. He gives it examples. I will 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:19.000 not spend more than this amount on entertainment 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.360 each month. It's a measurable boundary. It's 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.099 a non -negotiable. So once you've set a boundary, 00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:27.679 you're going to keep it, right? You're going 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.340 to choose to keep it because you want expansion, 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.860 right? And he made a statement that my capacity 00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:40.420 increases when my chaos decreases. So that's 00:44:40.420 --> 00:44:43.219 number two. You're going to eliminate one area 00:44:43.219 --> 00:44:46.360 of chaos. Yeah. And so I remember when I first 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.260 got saved. So it's a total change of everything. 00:44:49.460 --> 00:44:52.860 And sometimes you have to leave friends behind. 00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:56.599 You cannot go back to the bar with them or something 00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:59.780 like that. You know, you keep friends at a distance 00:44:59.780 --> 00:45:02.539 to witness to them, but you cannot partake of 00:45:02.539 --> 00:45:05.000 the lifestyle you were. Because I remember when 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.920 I mentioned some of this before, when I got saved, 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.679 I took all my records that I had, you know, a 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.179 lot of records worth a lot of money today. And, 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.480 you know, my Led Zeppelin and, you know, my this, 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:18.699 my that, all that, took them out of their jackets, 00:45:18.739 --> 00:45:21.760 only been played one time, no scratches, put 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.760 on a cassette, never played a record again. took 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:27.679 each one out, bent it over and stomped on it, 00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:30.440 make it unplayable, threw it into the dumpster. 00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.300 And I told my best friend what I did, you know, 00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:37.539 later on at the bowling alley where I bowled 00:45:37.539 --> 00:45:39.599 and hung out. And he says, why didn't you give 00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:42.880 them to me? And out of my mouth came. I don't 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.019 want to be responsible for your damnation. I 00:45:46.019 --> 00:45:48.880 never would have said that to my best friend, 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:51.099 but that's what came out of my mouth because 00:45:51.099 --> 00:45:54.679 I would not want to stuff I had that was demonic 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:58.699 and that give to him, you know, get rid of it. 00:45:58.739 --> 00:46:01.019 And so, you know, the Lord will deal with you 00:46:01.019 --> 00:46:04.199 to increase capacity, get rid of the things that 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.320 are causing chaos. Right. And so one of the things 00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:11.280 that he said that struck home for me. was I will 00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.539 clean up my personal environment. Clutter is 00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:19.340 attracted to me. And the Holy Spirit was already 00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:22.099 dealing with me. And I've done some of the clutter 00:46:22.099 --> 00:46:24.840 cleanup before I even heard Pastor Tony. But 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.619 he says that it has to be a permanent thing, 00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.960 that we don't just clean up temporarily and then 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.909 let it... fall back into clutter again. We've 00:46:35.909 --> 00:46:40.409 got to have the discipline that enables us to 00:46:40.409 --> 00:46:44.349 be able to handle more things that God wants 00:46:44.349 --> 00:46:46.289 to give us. Yeah, it's like building a system, 00:46:46.429 --> 00:46:49.449 you know, that works for you. Right, that's number 00:46:49.449 --> 00:46:53.110 three. And Oral Roberts, I remember reading his 00:46:53.110 --> 00:46:55.889 testimony, I think it was his lunch hour a certain 00:46:55.889 --> 00:46:59.570 time, you did not disturb the man. I mean, he 00:46:59.570 --> 00:47:02.090 turned the phones off. He says, you do not bother 00:47:02.090 --> 00:47:05.769 me. quiet time in the middle of the day. I mean, 00:47:05.809 --> 00:47:07.510 he probably had his quiet time in the morning 00:47:07.510 --> 00:47:11.130 too. But like Smith Wigglesworth, he would read 00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:13.849 his Bible or scripture like every 15 minutes 00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:15.469 or so. I think it was 20. Or 20 minutes. But 00:47:15.469 --> 00:47:19.070 still. I mean, I'm at 20, you know, pull out 00:47:19.070 --> 00:47:21.750 a little New Testament or something and read 00:47:21.750 --> 00:47:25.190 scripture. I mean, and I just really get convicted, 00:47:25.250 --> 00:47:27.110 you know, how much scripture that I read in the 00:47:27.110 --> 00:47:30.849 morning. But at night, I discipline myself to 00:47:30.849 --> 00:47:33.889 do the Psalms. You know, I'll do five Psalms. 00:47:34.110 --> 00:47:36.329 I'll put it on speaker, you know, while I'm brushing 00:47:36.329 --> 00:47:38.889 my teeth and getting ready for bed. You know, 00:47:38.909 --> 00:47:40.869 like first of the month, you know, it'll be. 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:45.059 Psalm 1, and then I'll go to Psalm 31, Psalm 00:47:45.059 --> 00:47:50.559 61, Psalm 91, Psalm 121, and do that for every 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.619 psalm. You get through the whole book of psalms 00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:55.019 in a month, and then I just repeat it all over 00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:57.260 again. It's true. Just getting more scripture 00:47:57.260 --> 00:47:59.920 in, and it really works because, you know, thy 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.960 word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.380 my path. Of course, it takes a while to get through 00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:08.360 Psalm 119. Yes, it does. It does. But you're 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.420 building a system. And it's a system. A system 00:48:12.420 --> 00:48:16.940 will replace willpower. When you develop that 00:48:16.940 --> 00:48:20.360 it's non -negotiable, I'm going to do this. I'm 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:25.079 going to do this. It's a fact of life. This is 00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:27.940 what I'm going to do. So you can build a learning 00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:31.079 system. You can build all kinds of systems. Find 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:34.679 the system that works for you. Like I've said, 00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:39.929 I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe. So I've put myself 00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:44.289 into a class where we're learning Hebrew, where 00:48:44.289 --> 00:48:46.949 we're learning biblical Hebrew. So I had a little 00:48:46.949 --> 00:48:49.969 bit of learning before, but now I'm getting where 00:48:49.969 --> 00:48:54.650 I can read the Hebrew of a verse. So when I'm 00:48:54.650 --> 00:48:57.650 doing my studying every day, I'm making it a 00:48:57.650 --> 00:48:59.730 system that I'm going to actually read through 00:48:59.730 --> 00:49:02.789 that in Hebrew, and I'm still learning what it 00:49:02.789 --> 00:49:06.269 means. But it's a system. It's something that 00:49:06.269 --> 00:49:09.289 I'm doing that is non -negotiable. And when I 00:49:09.289 --> 00:49:12.349 have a system, I don't have to rely on motivation 00:49:12.349 --> 00:49:15.309 because I've found that there are times when 00:49:15.309 --> 00:49:18.369 I just don't have the motivation. Pastor Tony 00:49:18.369 --> 00:49:22.789 said that and I agree. So I have to rely on structure 00:49:22.789 --> 00:49:26.210 and I have to measure my progress over time. 00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:30.190 Okay, so the next thing is measurement. Number 00:49:30.190 --> 00:49:33.369 four, measure the system consistently and constantly 00:49:33.369 --> 00:49:37.429 and faithfully. And then what gets measured gets 00:49:37.429 --> 00:49:44.219 managed. So number five is I will accept responsibility 00:49:44.219 --> 00:49:52.739 without complaining. It's so easy to complain. 00:49:53.219 --> 00:49:57.800 Yes. Like the phone rings and there's nobody 00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:01.320 to answer the phone. I'm going to choose to answer 00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.019 the phone without complaining. And it gets to 00:50:06.019 --> 00:50:09.840 be fun sometimes. to talk to people. But, I mean, 00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:13.139 it's a responsibility. I'm accepting it. I'm 00:50:13.139 --> 00:50:15.059 accepting it. I'm not going to make excuses. 00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:18.460 I'm going to take ownership of this. Yeah, and 00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:21.519 it's practicing delayed gratification. That's 00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:23.880 number six. Intentionally, a number six. It's 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:27.260 like you see something you want, you know, and 00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:29.760 it's a management thing. You know, if you get 00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:31.920 a lot of money or something and all of a sudden 00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:34.659 you're spending it, but... I will deliberately 00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:37.679 wait before getting it, not because I can't afford 00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:41.320 it, but because I'm training myself. Even though 00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:43.860 I desire it, I prefer it, but I'm going to say 00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:48.119 no to it just to practice the D -line. So that's 00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:50.800 really good. You got the money. I just got all 00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.559 this money. I'm going to splurge shopping. Go 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.500 to the big city. I remember a worker we had, 00:50:58.659 --> 00:51:01.900 someone not part of our staff, came down. Working 00:51:01.900 --> 00:51:04.099 on, got something, you know, got paid, says, 00:51:04.219 --> 00:51:06.679 all right, going to Branson. You know, it's going 00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:09.559 to spend all this money in Branson. And a lot 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:12.179 of alcoholics, they'll get their paycheck and 00:51:12.179 --> 00:51:15.199 they'll gamble it away within like a day or two. 00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:18.179 You know, you can't give a person like that a 00:51:18.179 --> 00:51:20.539 responsibility of a lot of money because they'll 00:51:20.539 --> 00:51:23.340 just blow it. So it's training. It's just really 00:51:23.340 --> 00:51:25.760 God training because these are kingdom principles. 00:51:26.019 --> 00:51:28.469 Right. Because it's all about kingdom. And delayed 00:51:28.469 --> 00:51:31.429 ratification is dying to self. Yeah. You want 00:51:31.429 --> 00:51:34.010 the thing. But I'm going to say no. Yeah. And 00:51:34.010 --> 00:51:36.769 it builds this strength in you. You know, it 00:51:36.769 --> 00:51:38.789 builds a strength in you not doing because once 00:51:38.789 --> 00:51:41.670 you overcome that, it's all overcoming. Keep 00:51:41.670 --> 00:51:44.789 overcoming and it just gets easier. Yes. And 00:51:44.789 --> 00:51:49.670 number seven is do one action daily that my future 00:51:49.670 --> 00:51:53.190 can inherit. I want to inherit this future. I 00:51:53.190 --> 00:51:55.710 want to inherit this thing. So I'm going to do 00:51:55.710 --> 00:51:58.900 one thing every day. that's going to help me 00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:02.579 in my future. And I guess really doing that thing 00:52:02.579 --> 00:52:05.599 about studying the Hebrew, that's going to help 00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.579 me every day. Every day I'm going to do this. 00:52:08.820 --> 00:52:11.159 It's going to help me grow. It's going to help 00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:14.050 me understand more every day. Before long, I'm 00:52:14.050 --> 00:52:17.929 going to learn the grammar and the spellings 00:52:17.929 --> 00:52:21.030 and all of these things. So it's a structure. 00:52:21.070 --> 00:52:24.369 And I'm going to do that one thing every day 00:52:24.369 --> 00:52:28.610 that's going to help me inherit the kingdom of 00:52:28.610 --> 00:52:32.190 God. It's going to help me inherit this new place 00:52:32.190 --> 00:52:36.949 in him that I really want to go to. So Pastor 00:52:36.949 --> 00:52:39.590 Tony finished up with, there's three objections 00:52:39.590 --> 00:52:43.800 that we might have. One objection is, I'm already 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.880 ready. Your readiness is not measured by desire. 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:49.139 It's measured by demonstrated capacity under 00:52:49.139 --> 00:52:51.579 current conditions. So if you can't handle what 00:52:51.579 --> 00:52:53.300 you have, you're not ready for more. You're really 00:52:53.300 --> 00:52:57.019 not. You might think you are. Objection number 00:52:57.019 --> 00:53:00.780 two is, once I have more, I'll be more disciplined. 00:53:02.019 --> 00:53:04.820 Doesn't work. Objection number three is, I'm 00:53:04.820 --> 00:53:10.900 overwhelmed. Guilty. Guilty as charged. You know, 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:13.340 when you're overwhelmed, you're just kind of 00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:16.239 saying, I can't do this. I don't know how I'm 00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.219 going to do this. I'm overwhelmed. And this logic 00:53:20.219 --> 00:53:22.579 ensures that your current limitations become 00:53:22.579 --> 00:53:25.860 permanent. We have to let go of this overwhelmed 00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:29.920 feeling. Capacity building happens during difficult 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:33.260 seasons, not after them. Yeah, that's good. So 00:53:33.260 --> 00:53:35.519 the father funds stewardship, not your desire. 00:53:36.110 --> 00:53:38.150 The Father invests in demonstrated capacity, 00:53:38.489 --> 00:53:40.969 not in declared intention. So preparation is 00:53:40.969 --> 00:53:43.590 proof of readiness. Your current circumstances 00:53:43.590 --> 00:53:47.610 are not punishment for past mistakes. Your current 00:53:47.610 --> 00:53:51.070 circumstances are training for future opportunities. 00:53:51.590 --> 00:53:55.369 So Father, we just thank you for this training 00:53:55.369 --> 00:53:58.889 that you're giving us, Lord. We're signing up 00:53:58.889 --> 00:54:03.250 for new, new training. We're ready to go to school 00:54:03.250 --> 00:54:06.090 in this new thing that you are releasing to us 00:54:06.090 --> 00:54:09.530 so that we can come into the fullness of what 00:54:09.530 --> 00:54:12.849 you have for us in the next season. 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