1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 You ever had a voice go off in your head as you were about to step off the corner? 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,800 You stepped back only to see a car swerve around the corner of the wood pitch you had you stay there. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,840 You ever had an opportunity you never thought would open up and all of a sudden a door opens? 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,400 Just like the motion detector at Walmart? 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,560 We want to help you in this episode discover God's fingerprint moments that you may be missing 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,760 which could unlock your purpose. 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,320 And stay tuned to the end because we're going to answer a question 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,320 that could be very crucial to where you stand right now. 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,720 Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith. 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,320 Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight under real inspiration. 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,720 Keep It 100! 12 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:51,720 Hey everybody, welcome to the very first episode of Keep It 100 with Sean and Christa Smith. 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:56,720 You're in for a funny inspirational episode as we talk about origin stories 14 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,920 and how to discover God's fingerprints. 15 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:06,120 You're also going to want to stay tuned to the end of this podcast episode as we answer the crucial question. 16 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,920 What can you know about God that you can hold on to no matter how dark it gets? 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,720 Hey, Christa, we are, we're together! 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,520 Come on, I've been excited about this moment. 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,120 This is going to be amazing. 20 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:24,520 I'm super excited just about our opportunity to address this phenomenal issue 21 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,720 that was so super fired up about. 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:27,720 Yeah. 23 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,520 And man, it's, it's been a crazy season we've been in, right? 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,320 It's been really crazy. 25 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,720 I mean, definitely the word bizarre comes to mind. 26 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,720 Unexpected. 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,720 I mean, we just have had such an extended time of lockdown and quarantine. 28 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:42,920 I know every state's a little bit different. 29 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,320 We're coming to everyone from California. 30 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,120 So we've just been in a unique season. 31 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,320 I was interviewed and somebody asked me, had you ever seen anything like this? 32 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,320 And I'm like, what do you think? 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,520 I'm a those alone. 34 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,520 Nobody live right now has ever seen anything like this. 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:58,720 I mean, it's crazy. 36 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:04,720 And, you know, we've seen all the way from just quarantine and shelves being cleared out. 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,520 Felt kind of apocalyptic a bit and then a National Guard getting called in. 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,520 We just had a series of unique and a roller coaster of events for sure. 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,320 You know, obviously as we're coming out of this season, it was so funny at your nephew's 40 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,120 graduation that you had grandmas doing drive-bys with face pass on. 41 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,120 I'm like, this is a unique season. 42 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,120 That's right. 43 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,120 That's right. 44 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,120 Well, I'm super excited because we're going to hit this theme of origin stories. 45 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,120 That's this. 46 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,120 It's fun. 47 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,120 And I love origin stories because in entertainment, which I am a comic book guy, so to speak, 48 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,920 you might even see a black man at a comic con conference, right? 49 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:43,320 I would not be surprised. 50 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:48,760 DC and particularly MCU, which stands for Marvel Cinematic Universe. 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,120 In entertainment, the origin story is the backstory revealing how our character came 52 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,920 to be and what led them to a certain place. 53 00:02:55,920 --> 00:02:56,920 Yeah, right. 54 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 So crazy. 55 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,760 When I watched Wonder Woman, I was like, hello. 56 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,840 I mean, it was just awesome. 57 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,240 I mean, her origin story was incredible. 58 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:13,840 Things are so important because when we understand the why, we get a greater window as in to 59 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:14,840 the who. 60 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Oh, come on. 61 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:16,840 I love that. 62 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,360 You know, it's so, it's, I love that we're talking about origin stories because I feel 63 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:25,200 like when you learn someone's story, it gives you context to who they are today. 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200 And when you get a context, all of a sudden you have an understanding and insight, a window 65 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,720 into why they are the way they are. 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,720 I just think it's so important. 67 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:40,320 And what's really crazy is there is more than ever true stories based on true stories, 68 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,840 you know, movies and whatnot going to the theaters. 69 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,640 And I just think stuff like that is so telling of people's love and crave for narrative. 70 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:49,640 So true. 71 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:50,880 Beginnings are so important. 72 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:51,880 They are. 73 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:52,960 It's awesome. 74 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:59,560 You know, it's ironic that God begins his book, the Bible with Genesis, which traces 75 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:05,680 the origin of all things that it establishes God in the context of this vast universe thing 76 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,040 that he's created. 77 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,560 So I figured, hey, if God began with the origin story, maybe that's a good place for us to 78 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:11,560 start. 79 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:12,560 I like it. 80 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:13,560 That's a good lead. 81 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,560 That's a good lead. 82 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:15,560 I love that. 83 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,160 Now, when I think of some origin stories, I think of we have just got finished recognizing 84 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,080 the ESPN, the highest viewed series they've ever put on a screen, which is amazing. 85 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,040 It was called The Last Dance. 86 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,840 But speaking of origin story, it was the origin story of the championship bulls of the 90s 87 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:35,000 and Michael Jordan and his asset in the midst of it. 88 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,280 That was a very interesting origin story. 89 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:39,280 Totally. 90 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:43,840 And being from Oregon, you know, I got to throw out their Nike Filnite, which is really cool, 91 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:44,840 from Oregon. 92 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:46,040 Many people don't know this. 93 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,040 Multi-billion dollar sneaker company actually was started in the back, backseat out of the 94 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:52,040 trunk of Filnite. 95 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,880 I mean, that's an incredible origin story. 96 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,560 To begin in the back of your car to now being a billion dollar leading in the athletic industry, 97 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,560 that's pretty incredible. 98 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:01,560 That's amazing. 99 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,960 You see, Hammer started like that, except there was Raktix coming out of the trunk of 100 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:05,960 his car. 101 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,320 I had the distance the Nikes had, but yes. 102 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:15,240 You know, I think of another origin story, I think of, you know, close to what, 600 million 103 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,520 people on the planet have experienced the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 104 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,480 And obviously we could trace it back to the origin story of Acts too. 105 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,480 But the more modern was W.J.C. 106 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:31,280 Moore, a one-eyed black man's son of a sharecropper that made his way out of Houston, Texas to 107 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,800 Topeka, Kansas, where he sat underneath Charles Parham. 108 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,880 And Charles Parham was a guy that had experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit, was teaching 109 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:39,880 people on that. 110 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,520 But he was, at that time, they believed in segregation. 111 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,600 He was one of those that believed in that. 112 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,600 And so W.J.C. 113 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,400 Moore had to sit outside on a sunny day outside of the classroom with the window open to listen 114 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,240 to the teaching, and it was raining. 115 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,440 They would let W.J.C. 116 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,520 Moore, this black man, sit in a broom closet with the door open. 117 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,600 And I don't say that so much to cite the racism. 118 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:06,280 I see it so much as to cite the hunger of a man that refused to be offended because he 119 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:08,360 wanted something in the spirit so bad. 120 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,280 It was like, you're not going to keep me from it. 121 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:14,760 He moves essentially into Los Angeles area. 122 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,620 They barred the doors of a church because they understand he's teaching on the baptism 123 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:23,600 and they didn't believe in that, but he continued in a house on Bonnie Bray Street, which we've 124 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,680 been to that house. 125 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,560 And as a result of that, the power of God fell, and the rest is history, and the Jesus 126 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:36,680 Street revival that ran for three years is now a packet over 600,000 people in the fastest 127 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,040 growing churches in the world right now. 128 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,040 I love that. 129 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,080 And I just want to go back to the point you made, which is so powerful. 130 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:49,240 He refused to be offended because there was such a hunger in him for the more of God. 131 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,880 He knew God had a destiny for him. 132 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:57,040 He was the man that was going to lead one of the greatest revivals to date. 133 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,960 And like you're saying, was the number 600 million? 134 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:00,960 Yes. 135 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,840 I mean, what in one life? 136 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:08,640 And just choosing God, refusing to be offended, and to this day, we're still talking about 137 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:09,640 the impact of life. 138 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:10,640 Yep. 139 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,960 As humans, we love and crave narrative. 140 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,200 So in this craving, I want to hear your origin story. 141 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,200 What's yours, Chris? 142 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:19,200 Yeah. 143 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,840 You know, what's really cool is I was born into a family that loved God. 144 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:23,840 We were Catholic. 145 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,720 We did Catholic school, like the whole thing. 146 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,880 And I actually had a really good experience in the Catholic Church, which I like to bring 147 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,840 that to the table because I think there's so much negative narrative on the Catholic 148 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:34,840 Church. 149 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,280 And obviously, there's been some really horrific things that have happened, but my personal 150 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,720 experience was really positive. 151 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:47,440 And we got hit by the Charismatic Renewal in the late 80s, or excuse me, in the 80s, 152 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:48,880 early 80s. 153 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,480 And that was basically, people don't know that term, Charismatic Renewal. 154 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,760 It simply means Holy Spirit just invaded Catholic Church. 155 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,840 And we begin to see the baptism of the Holy Spirit happen, Catholic speaking in tongue, 156 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,840 praying for healing, miracles happen. 157 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:02,960 It was really incredible. 158 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,200 And my family was totally impacted by it. 159 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:11,040 My parents began to host prayer meetings and just really seeing people, hungry, and countering 160 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,040 God. 161 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,680 And then, of course, if your parents are impacted, the children get impacted. 162 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,960 So we found ourselves as a family of five going up the I-5 corridor, the freeway of 163 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,720 I-5, going up to Smoky Point, Washington, which was about six, seven hours north of 164 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,720 Southern Oregon in our Volkswagen van. 165 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,840 And we're going to this family camp, and it was hosted by four square denomination. 166 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,720 And we didn't quite know what all that meant. 167 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,960 We just knew that we trusted the people that invited us, and we wanted more of God. 168 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,440 And we've heard that God was at this camp. 169 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,880 So we go there, we're camping, and after I'm the youngest of three girls, and my two older 170 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,640 sisters are coming back from the junior high high school meetings, which were combined, 171 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,440 and then I'm separated, I'm in the children's ministry by myself, and of course my parents 172 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:56,680 are in the adult meetings. 173 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,120 We come back the first couple nights, and we're like comparing stories of what happened 174 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,160 in everyone's services. 175 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:07,000 And I'm talking about the puppets, and they're having a stand on the chairs, and I'm singing 176 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,920 at the top of my lungs, and I'm loving it. 177 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,560 I'm loving the puppets, I'm loving the song. 178 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:11,680 It's fun. 179 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,480 But then my sisters begin to share their story. 180 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,640 And their story is people are falling out on the ground, God's talking to people, demons 181 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,560 are getting cast out, people are getting healed. 182 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,520 Now I know the verbage prophetic words are getting released, but they just said God was 183 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,160 talking to people, and I'm like, wait, what? 184 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,320 And so I heard this, and you know this story. 185 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,040 I heard my sisters tell this story, and I was like, wait, wait, wait. 186 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,560 I love the puppets, but I'm sorry, I want that. 187 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:39,360 So I concocted this plan, which felt really brave, because I was like seven, eight years 188 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,760 old, and it was to ask to go to the bathroom with no intention to go to the bathroom, but 189 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,320 instead make a mad dash across the football field, kind of length of a football field, 190 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:49,320 I should say. 191 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,880 And it was to where the meetings were being held for the junior high high schoolers. 192 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,320 And I did that. 193 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,640 I sprinted across this dark field, which felt so brave at seven or eight years old, but 194 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,720 I was so hungry, so curious for what they were talking about, and there was this mentality 195 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,600 in me that was like, forget the puppets. 196 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,640 Like, I want that. 197 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Whatever they're talking about, I want that. 198 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:13,960 As soon as I opened up the door, baby, I experienced the tangible presence of God. 199 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:19,080 I would articulate it now, obviously having the maturity to be able to look at hindsight 200 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,000 and recognize it was the glory of God. 201 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,880 I walked into the glory of God, and I crammed my little seven, eight year old body to the 202 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,880 back wall, praying, no Lord asked me to leave because I wasn't supposed to be in there. 203 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,440 And I just made a vow at that time, because I knew God was in the room. 204 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,320 I knew that what I was seeing was real. 205 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,320 I couldn't explain it. 206 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:42,440 I couldn't maybe articulate at the time, but I was marked by God. 207 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,480 And I saw at that time that this was available. 208 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:50,520 So the vow I said to myself was, if this is available, I will spend my life pursuing it. 209 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,520 And you know what? 210 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:52,800 That's exactly what happened. 211 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,400 From that point on, for the rest of my life, I got so marked by God, and I'm going to use 212 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,080 the term because we're talking about origin stories, but we're also talking about fingerprints, 213 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,080 that his fingerprints marked me. 214 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,240 His fingerprints were left on me. 215 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,520 When God is at work, you see the residue of him left on you. 216 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,200 And literally, my heart was marked. 217 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,400 My spirit was marked. 218 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,840 My mind was marked. 219 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,800 Everything about me was marked with God's hand, with his fingerprint. 220 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,920 And from that day on, I've just run after God. 221 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,240 I haven't always done it perfect, but I've missed it many times. 222 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,760 But I've just been someone that's loved God and pursued him. 223 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:30,760 That's so true. 224 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:31,760 I can say that's true of your life. 225 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,800 And I mean, for all intents and purposes, it was like you did this thing where you ditched 226 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,920 the puppets to hitch to the prophetic. 227 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,720 Oh, yes, I did. 228 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:47,880 If you were a comic book, I would say, Christa, leave Sesame Street to go to Azusa Street. 229 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:48,880 Come on. 230 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,560 Oh, man, I'm snapping right now. 231 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,560 That's great. 232 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:56,880 I think you make a great point because what you're saying is, origin stories are when 233 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,960 you discover the fingerprints of God. 234 00:11:58,960 --> 00:11:59,960 Exactly. 235 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,320 I feel like when you and I look back on our lives and also when our listeners look back 236 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,280 in their lives, they can look at specific recall moments. 237 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:07,400 They might be small. 238 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,800 They might not seem super significant, but they were significant between you and God 239 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,400 because God knows us. 240 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,360 And he knows us as such a way to put his mark on us. 241 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,560 They don't have to be these extravagant big moments. 242 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:22,120 This was me dashing across a dark field by myself at seven, eight years old and just 243 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,120 simply walking into a room. 244 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,840 No one even noticed I was there. 245 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,160 And yet God noticed and he put his fingerprint on me. 246 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:30,160 And I love that. 247 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,400 You know, I believe everyone has a fingerprint. 248 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,920 Everyone has an origin story. 249 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,080 Sometimes we just have to take time to discover what it is, but I know you have some incredible 250 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,600 stories and I'd love to hear what your fingerprint slash origin story is. 251 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,120 It's a kind of a back to the future thing, but some years ago I was at a conference. 252 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:55,240 I'm now, as I'm telling the story, I am in campus ministry directing a university outreach 253 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,640 at a secular university. 254 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,640 I go to a conference as I go to this conference. 255 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:04,160 It's a passion for Jesus conference, but they have a room where all leaders and pastors 256 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:05,640 are invited out of the conference. 257 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,840 There was maybe 80 to 100 pastors and we're in a room and a guy with a prophetic ministry 258 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:11,840 jumps up. 259 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:12,840 He's out of Texas. 260 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,080 And he's starting the whole meeting, he's supposed to speak to us as leaders and he 261 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,360 points me out and he says, you young man stand up. 262 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,720 He says, between the ages of eight and 10 years of age, had God not intervened, you 263 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,320 and I would not be having this moment, which my mind immediately ran back to when I was 264 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,320 nine years old. 265 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,320 And I'll share that. 266 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,440 That's not an origin story, but he goes on to say, you have an enlarged heart. 267 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:40,720 And he says, what I mean by that is God has given you unusual passions and you will capture 268 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,440 the passion of the Lord and share it with a generation. 269 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,880 So anyway, when he said between eight and 10 years of age, had God not intervened, we 270 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:47,880 wouldn't be having this moment. 271 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,080 I knew what he meant. 272 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:54,480 My mind flashed back because I didn't at that point recognize it, but almost died when 273 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:55,480 I was nine. 274 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,840 Had God not intervened, I literally wouldn't be in that ring. 275 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,440 And nine years of age, my dad was tragically murdered unexpectedly. 276 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,400 And then in the midst of it, I began to develop these severe chest pains to the point as a 277 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,080 nine year old kid, it would floor me. 278 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,760 I complained of this pain. 279 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,200 And so finally, my mom took me to a doctor and recommended I go to a specialist. 280 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,600 So they had all these heart checks. 281 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,240 Make a long story short, they came back. 282 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:24,520 My diagnosis was I had an enlarged heart, but because of the pressure that was put on the 283 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:30,000 ventricles and the way the blood is forced through your system, the doctor said, if I 284 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,000 don't put a pacemaker in your son's chest, he's not going to make it. 285 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,920 But he also said at a nine year old kid to do open heart surgery and put and back in 286 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,520 a day, man, these pacemakers look like cigarette boxes sticking out of your chest. 287 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:44,920 My uncle had one. 288 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,400 He says he runs the risk of fatality simply by the operation. 289 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,520 So it was kind of like, man, if I do this thing, I'm in danger. 290 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,240 If I don't do these things, I'm in danger. 291 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,360 So my mom had to think about it. 292 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,200 We walk out in a parking lot of Altevay hospital. 293 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,240 It started to rain and I'll never forget this. 294 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,560 I'm not saved at the time. 295 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,800 My mom's not saved at the time. 296 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,320 My grab is not saved at the time, which is my family. 297 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,840 Thus, this is my origin story, discovering this early God fingerprint. 298 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:15,240 My mom cries out and says, God, please don't take my only child. 299 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,360 Please don't take my only child. 300 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:18,560 And that's really all she said. 301 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,680 She didn't have the sophistication to pray this long, elaborate prayer. 302 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:28,160 Immediately in that moment, Chris, I felt this pop in my chest and I felt this tingling 303 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,160 sensation. 304 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:34,600 I remember and describe it and immediately it was like I kind of knew something and I 305 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,280 just said, hey, mom, let's run these tests again. 306 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:38,440 I think something happened. 307 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,880 So my mom went in, she made an appointment. 308 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:41,880 We went back. 309 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,400 I have to run on this thing that looks kind of like you're running on a treadmill. 310 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:52,040 They put together these suction cups and they hooked it up to my chest and while I'm running, 311 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,040 they're checking everything. 312 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,840 They do all these EKGs and all these other things. 313 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:56,840 So we had to wait. 314 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:57,840 Anyway, we got back the results. 315 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,680 And the results was I still had an enlarged heart. 316 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,400 Still do this a day. 317 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,780 But the doctor says something miraculous happened because it's not bringing any level of greater 318 00:16:08,780 --> 00:16:10,600 stress on his body. 319 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,120 He can play sports. 320 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:13,120 He can do everything. 321 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,780 We do not have to do this emergency procedure on his heart. 322 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:24,260 So here I am years later with 80 to 90 other pastors and realizing in this moment, it was 323 00:16:24,260 --> 00:16:30,320 a fingerprint moment that this prophet of God is calling out and it marked Mark. 324 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:37,400 Oh my, that is so powerful that in this private moment between you and your mom and God, right? 325 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:38,400 It's just the three of you. 326 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:39,400 No one's there. 327 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,160 It's just this quiet moment. 328 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,360 God just touches from heaven and you have a creative miracle. 329 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,760 Again, you don't have explanation for it. 330 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,240 You're not in this place with God where there's even Burbage or understanding and yet God's 331 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,320 marked you and I can tell you your life has been so marked by him. 332 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:01,520 I mean, just being your wife, I see his handprint, his thumbprint, you know, all over you and 333 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,520 I love this. 334 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:08,480 And it's what an incredible story because I just love it when we recognize that God 335 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,400 meets us in the big, the little and in the hidden and the quiet. 336 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Yes. 337 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:19,800 Well, you know, I told our listeners how much I love kind of the MCU DC and I love that 338 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,960 whole genre of entertainment. 339 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,960 Yeah. 340 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,280 As we're talking about fingerprints, I know that you love detective dramas. 341 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:27,280 Do I? 342 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:28,280 I do. 343 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,040 I love myself a great detective. 344 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:34,360 I love a good mystery because I have this thing and my husband will attest to this. 345 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:39,160 I love to figure everything out and so my goal is always to try to figure it out as fast 346 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:44,760 as possible and I always try to call out the ending and I love mystery because number one, 347 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:50,120 I love to figure out who did it and I love to know why and then I love the context of 348 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:51,120 it. 349 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:54,680 And what's really cool because we're talking about fingerprints, so much of mysteries are 350 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,600 solved by the DNA, right? 351 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,160 And it's often by the fingerprints. 352 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:04,320 It's what's left of the person at the scene and that's how they discover who was a part 353 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:05,320 of it. 354 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:10,880 But if you flip the script on that, we can often see the same principle that when God 355 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:17,240 leaves his residue, his DNA on you, we're carrying every scene that we go to in life. 356 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,440 We're carrying who he is because he's marked us. 357 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,920 It's so true because I really feel like what this episode is about is about prophetic forensics. 358 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:27,720 Ooh, yeah. 359 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,240 Because the truth of the matter is, if you can discern God's fingerprints, then you can 360 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,040 depend on his finishing touches. 361 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,680 Oh, say that again from the back. 362 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:40,200 If you can discern God's fingerprints, then you can depend on his finishing touches because 363 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,240 if the Bible says we're the masterpiece of God, so you cannot work a potter that works 364 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,040 on clay is going to leave their fingerprints. 365 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,760 In fact, the Bible even talks about this. 366 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:57,280 It says in Romans 121, Christa, in the Passion translation, it says Romans 121 again, it says, 367 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,880 throughout human history, the fingerprints of God were upon them. 368 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:07,680 So we may have scripture that challenges us to know we've got the fingerprints and by 369 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:13,120 seeing God's fingerprints in the past, it gives one courage to confidently place their 370 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:14,640 now in God's hands. 371 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,040 And you know, I want to add to that because I love that. 372 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:21,480 It says in Ephesians 2, 10, it says, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus 373 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:26,200 for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 374 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:27,200 I love that. 375 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,600 There are things that are prepared for that have been carrying the fingerprint of God 376 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,280 that we carry in us that when God knit us in the womb, we carry the destiny and the DNA 377 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:41,560 of our Heavenly Father that are ordained for us to walk in. 378 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:42,560 I love that. 379 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,360 You know, you bring up a great point that the fingerprints of God aren't just on us. 380 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:48,360 They're on our destiny. 381 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:49,360 That's right. 382 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:50,360 They're on our path. 383 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,360 They're on our purpose. 384 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,120 They're on the things that we're supposed to put our hands to. 385 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,120 That's right. 386 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,000 That gets me excited. 387 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,160 You know what that does? 388 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,400 In a time that's been so uncertain of the season that we've come out of, I feel like 389 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:07,080 the listeners need to hear this today that even in uncertain times, there is a plan and 390 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:12,140 a purpose that the Lord has for you, that nothing is a lost cause. 391 00:20:12,140 --> 00:20:13,560 Nothing is not without purpose. 392 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,680 God uses all things for his glory. 393 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,000 So even in the unknown, even the uncertain, know that you are carrying the fingerprint 394 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,120 of God over your life and over the plans of God over your life. 395 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:25,120 So true. 396 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,800 Well, I've got a kind of a fingerprint. 397 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,720 My earlier fingerprint was that fact that I got healed, but later on, what would be 398 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:39,000 the next kind of major fingerprint is my grandmother who was an alcoholic all my life, but never 399 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,200 abusive and I knew she loved me. 400 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,960 In fact, the listeners will find out in a moment how integral she was in my life. 401 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:47,440 She had been alcoholic all my life. 402 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,740 We grew up in inner city Oakland. 403 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:52,680 We were economically challenged. 404 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,840 Translation, we was po and PO. 405 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,880 My grandmother went to like Safeways. 406 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,040 That was the nearest grocery store to where we're at. 407 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,400 She's going to, she could walk. 408 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:03,400 There was a couple of blocks away. 409 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,000 She went to do some grocery shopping, of course. 410 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,120 And as she did, she ran into two older ladies and they invited her, my grandmother out to 411 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,600 their church. 412 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,400 And so my grandmother went, I think it was either that night or the next night, they 413 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,280 had a midweek service, which my grandma didn't know their midweek was that they're deliberate 414 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,280 service. 415 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,560 So my grandmother gets on the bus. 416 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,360 I'm a junior in high school, so I'm a basketball practice. 417 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:28,400 She hops on the bus and goes to this little small storefront holding this Pentecostal 418 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,260 church by Lake Merritt, Oakland, California. 419 00:21:31,260 --> 00:21:32,340 She listens to the message. 420 00:21:32,340 --> 00:21:33,340 She walks forward. 421 00:21:33,340 --> 00:21:35,100 She dedicates her life to Christ. 422 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:36,400 She's immediately delivered. 423 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,200 They let her hands on her. 424 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,040 She gets back on that bus. 425 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,420 A free woman, she comes back to our place where we live. 426 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:45,600 She goes underneath the seat. 427 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,920 She breaks all her alcohol bottles. 428 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,320 Grandma never took another drink. 429 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,760 And I remember, I got home by the time she got home because it took me a while. 430 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,320 I was going to school at that time, high school in East Oakland. 431 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,440 I look at my grandma and I saw her breaking her bottles. 432 00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,440 I couldn't understand it. 433 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:00,440 I'm not saved. 434 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,440 Right. 435 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,440 Like, why would you do that? 436 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,440 You spent all your social security money. 437 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,160 That's like, like grandma's a vestment. 438 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,160 Retirement. 439 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,640 As a retire, but she got investments in alcohol. 440 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,320 And my grandma said, I don't need to take 12 steps. 441 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,040 I just needed to take one to Jesus. 442 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,560 And he set me free. 443 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:20,640 But that fingerprint so gripped me because years later, and I look forward to sharing 444 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:27,920 my full testimony on a later episode, but my grandmother would go to see me, Jesus, 445 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,920 because she passed away from cancer. 446 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,440 And at that time I'm in college, but there was a woman there that was kind of like a 447 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,120 hospice caretaker. 448 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:41,680 As my grandmother was starting to have problems, she had a vision or something the lady described 449 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,880 where my grandmother looks away and she says to the lady, they're here for me. 450 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,360 The woman caretaker says, no, no, nobody's here. 451 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:49,360 She's me. 452 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,920 And she says, no, no, they're here for me, baby. 453 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,560 And she says, my grandma says, I'm a check out and a woman got alarmed. 454 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,840 She's getting ready to call 911. 455 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,360 My grandmother stopped her. 456 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,400 She says, I'll be gone by the time they come here. 457 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,120 She says, you just come close, baby. 458 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:06,280 She grabs it by the hand and she shares with her the love of Jesus Christ and that Jesus 459 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,360 wants to in that moment change her life. 460 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:14,640 My grandmother, according to this woman, as she spoke at my grandma's funeral, she eulogized 461 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,720 my grandmother led this woman to the Lord on her deathbed and my grandmother went out 462 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,680 with a smile on her face. 463 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,560 Come on, Ethel Lee Wynne wasn't playing and her fingerprint marked because two ladies in 464 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:32,360 a grocery store aisle were faithful to extend the fingerprints of God on my grandmother 465 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:33,360 on her deathbed. 466 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,960 She extends the fingerprints of God on this woman. 467 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:41,360 And then that would be, I'll tell it later, a domino effect to me coming to Christ. 468 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:46,040 You know, as you were sharing that, I felt like a listener needed to hear that today, 469 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,520 that it doesn't take 12 steps, but it only takes one step. 470 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,040 That in one moment with Jesus, it can change everything because I felt like there's some 471 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,240 people listening where there's been years of the same cycle, the same addiction, the 472 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,240 same process. 473 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,880 And even as you're listening to this, I just feel like God's like, it only takes one encounter, 474 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,800 one moment, one fingerprint, you know, to encounter God for that thing to be broken. 475 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,400 And I love it because when we accept and come into a realization of the fingerprint of God 476 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,800 in our life, it breaks unbelief. 477 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:21,480 And when you break unbelief in your life, it removes a veil that is hidden often, the 478 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,800 ability to see the fingerprints of God. 479 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,120 Isn't that so true? 480 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:29,200 That when we're walking in unbelief, it's really hard to see God because everything's coming 481 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:35,560 through the lens of skepticism, the lens of unbelief, the lens of not expecting it, right? 482 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,240 The lens of hopelessness, depression. 483 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,160 You're not seeing God, but when you're actually like, God, I believe you, I believe you can 484 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,160 do that. 485 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,240 It removes that veil and bam, comes the encounter. 486 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,560 You know, that's the beautiful thing. 487 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,560 It's so true. 488 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:53,200 Even the book of Acts, it talks about God, His appointed times and circumstances whereby 489 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,080 we wouldn't grope for Him that we would find Him. 490 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,080 And so what that passage says to me is that God has purposely left His fingerprints all 491 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:05,640 around us, everywhere, for us to discover and they will guide us into freedom. 492 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:06,800 I love that. 493 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,720 I love that. 494 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:09,720 So good. 495 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,720 That is so good. 496 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:11,720 And you know what? 497 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,240 To all our people, they need to understand that when unbelief is cast off, they discover 498 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,040 God's fingerprints are everywhere. 499 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,040 That's right. 500 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,040 I love that. 501 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,040 It's so good. 502 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:26,680 Well, I want our listeners, Christa, to receive three keys to discover God's fingerprints. 503 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,640 We talked about origin stories are in fact, discovering God's fingerprints. 504 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,000 We talked about how important they've been in our lives, but we want to help people and 505 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:42,200 give them some value in terms of content to how they can discover God's fingerprints. 506 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,440 So why don't you take number one and give them our first key? 507 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,600 Yeah, we just want to put some just really simple practical keys in all of your hands, 508 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,000 listeners, because we love to inspire, we love to share, but we also want that practical 509 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,800 application that you walk away with keys on how to change and discover God's fingerprints 510 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:00,800 in your life. 511 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,880 The first key is you, when you see unusual coincidences and reoccurring circumstances, 512 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,080 let me repeat that when you experience unusual coincidences and reoccurring circumstances. 513 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:17,320 And what I mean by that is so many times in my life, I have encountered the same conversation, 514 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,000 the same situation, maybe the same sequence of numbers. 515 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,720 But I know I share this story often. 516 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,320 If you hear me preach, because it's just one of my favorites. 517 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,720 Within a 15, 20 minute period, I had the same conversation with two young homeless men. 518 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,600 And it was identical life circumstances, situations as to why they were homeless and asking me 519 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,240 for a meal that day. 520 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:45,040 And it was in the encounter, the exact same situation, same age, same gender, same situation 521 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,160 that I knew God was calling me to have a heart for a generation. 522 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,640 And it was again, another fingerprint of God moment in my life, but it came through unusual 523 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,040 coincidences and reoccurring circumstances. 524 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,840 And that to me is like, don't negate, don't dismiss those things that are repetitive. 525 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,240 You're like, man, I've just had this conversation. 526 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,840 Why is this person brought this up to me again? 527 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,400 Or why do I keep seeing 11, 11 everywhere? 528 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,600 Pay attention to those things that God's showing you. 529 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:16,480 So what you're saying too, is that when you notice that things jump out at you, they're 530 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:22,400 out of the ordinary, things that are repeating, it's a sign from God that he's pointing. 531 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 There was a fingerprint involved in that. 532 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,960 That's so awesome. 533 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:31,120 The second key I want to give our listeners, Christa, in terms of discovering God's fingerprints 534 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,840 is when the impossible suddenly becomes imminent. 535 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,040 I thought it was impossible for my grandma to be set free from alcohol. 536 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,320 There wasn't a day that I could recall unless the social worker was coming to our house 537 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,480 or she or I had to go to the doctor that she wouldn't get drunk. 538 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,880 And then she would just wait till that's over. 539 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,880 And she did. 540 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,960 But all of a sudden when I recognized what I thought is it was impossible that my grandma 541 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,520 would ever change the old adage, you don't teach an old dog new tricks and all that stuff. 542 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:02,200 And then I saw her get set free because to say something is imminent is to say it is 543 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,200 occurring. 544 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,240 You're on the precipice of it. 545 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:10,640 And I think of another way these fingerprints is maybe somebody was going to step up a curve. 546 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,840 They heard a voice in their head. 547 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:12,880 So they don't step up the curve. 548 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,960 The next minute a car swabs around. 549 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,600 I know before Christ BC in my life, I didn't go to a certain party for some reason. 550 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:20,600 And I was not like that. 551 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,600 I tried to go to every party. 552 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,000 I was trying to dance, get my groove on. 553 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,120 I didn't find out the police showed up there. 554 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:32,200 And I think Revolation 3 8 says that God opens doors no man can shut. 555 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,440 I think another fingerprint we can discover is the open door. 556 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,120 That God opens doors that there's no way that door should have opened. 557 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,480 No way you should have got that job. 558 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,520 You got accepted to that college. 559 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,960 No way you should have gotten God's dream for your life in terms of that partner. 560 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,200 That's how I feel about you. 561 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,280 And just like on our front door, Christ, we have smart locks that based on an app on our 562 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,520 phone, we get in proximity of the door. 563 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,080 It opens up, although recently hasn't been working as good as we like. 564 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,720 I think there are times in life and when you get in vicinity that God goes before you. 565 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,880 He has the ultimate smart lock and he begins to open the doors of opportunity and you got 566 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,040 to stop and thank him. 567 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,120 But when you recognize that, you're able to realize that. 568 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,600 That's so good. 569 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,760 The third key and I love this is when unexplained answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at 570 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,760 you. 571 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:24,760 I love that. 572 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,800 Third key when unexplained answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at you. 573 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,720 That's often when just, you know, you're just doing your own thing. 574 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,280 You're just like thinking about this and all of a sudden this thought just jumps in your 575 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,280 mind. 576 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,120 All of a sudden it's like an interruption to your normal train of thought. 577 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,040 How many times have I had this happen, especially when I'm like waking up in the morning and 578 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,800 it's before I'm fully awake and I'm finding myself in the kind of that just pure state 579 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,600 of being still and quiet before the Lord and then the Lord just downloads a prophetic 580 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:00,120 stream and it's in that just simple rest of God that I begin to put value on what's in 581 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:05,640 my spirit and what's on my heart, what comes to mind when I first wake up in the morning. 582 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:11,320 For me, at least in recent years has been some of my clearest, purest prophetic veins 583 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,640 is things I've preached, things I've released prophetically, things I've gotten for people 584 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:21,400 because I've learned to give weight and give value for things that are just unexpected 585 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,400 and just interrupting. 586 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,400 That's so good. 587 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,480 Chris, you're a very wise person. 588 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,320 And one of the ways that I realized that is you'll say something to me and it's so wise 589 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,760 it shifts my way of thinking. 590 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,360 It brings an alteration to my perspective paradigm shift. 591 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:41,960 So say God speaks to me who has possesses ultimate wisdom. 592 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:46,000 One of the ways I know God speak to me in the fingerprint is that heaven will shift 593 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000 your thought process all of a sudden. 594 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,160 Maybe you're mad, you're angry, you're discouraged in one minute and you get one thought and 595 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:58,000 it's another way of saying receiving instant real time illumination. 596 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,600 As you ship, you can recognize, wait a second, those thoughts that later down the line that 597 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:07,480 we'll find out the entrepreneurs made millions of dollars off, someone discovered their talent 598 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,160 or gift was supposed to bring to the world. 599 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:13,600 They don't realize it was a fingerprint moment that something jumped out in them. 600 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,600 I love that. 601 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,680 And so you think about these three keys, unusual circumstances, unusual coincidences is a 602 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:26,600 recurring circumstances when the impossible suddenly becomes imminent and when unexplained 603 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,440 answers and unexpected thoughts jump out at you. 604 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,840 I know you are going to want to subscribe and get ready because our very next episode 605 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,760 is on inciting incident. 606 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,960 I'm excited about that one. 607 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,960 We're so excited that you've been joining us today. 608 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,880 We hope you continue to connect with us. 609 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:49,040 You can check us out during the week anytime available on our social media, Facebook, Twitter, 610 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,360 and you can also go to our website and there are social media handles are on there, but 611 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,600 it's SeanandChristaSmith.com. 612 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,000 Check us out, get connected, find us on Facebook. 613 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,520 We want to hear from you. 614 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,600 Finally, I told you in the beginning, I would answer the question. 615 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,760 What can you know about God that you can hold on to no matter how dark it gets? 616 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:13,000 And if you've listened to this entire episode, you arrived at this conclusion with us. 617 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,560 God's reputation rides on you getting through your crisis. 618 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,560 So good. 619 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:23,520 That God has an unblemished track record, according to his word in 2 Corinthians 2 and 620 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,760 14, that God thanks be to God will always lead us in triumph. 621 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:33,840 If you could discover his fingerprints, you know that God, you can depend on God's finishing 622 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,080 touches and as a result of that, God will help you connect the dots. 623 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,080 So maybe there's someone out there right now that they're not connected to God. 624 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,320 They don't know God or maybe they're away from God. 625 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,960 The Bible says whoever calls upon a name of the Lord will be saved. 626 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,680 So all you have to do in this moment is just call on Jesus, say, God, I recognize you're 627 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:51,680 reaching out to me. 628 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,720 And when God reaches out, he touches you with his fingerprints and you recognize those fingerprints 629 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,280 and you say, Jesus, be Lord and you turn over the steering wheel of your heart and life. 630 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,880 As you do it, you will never be the same. 631 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,520 Don't forget to join us as we'll be coming back at you 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