WEBVTT 00:00:15.949 --> 00:00:20.429 say this often, but God's presence is so wonderful 00:00:20.429 --> 00:00:27.769 and his word is so good that you feel like you're 00:00:27.769 --> 00:00:31.129 at a buffet line all the time. You really do. 00:00:31.949 --> 00:00:35.429 God's presence. Well, we've been talking about 00:00:35.429 --> 00:00:40.140 reach. We've been using Philippians. Chapter 00:00:40.140 --> 00:00:43.640 3, verses 12 through 14, one thing I do is forget 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:49.479 what lies behind and I press on. I reach forward 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:54.520 for the heavenly prize. And we talked about what 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.240 does reach stand for? R stands for readiness. 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:01.299 E stands for expectation. A stands for attitude. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.719 C stands for community and H stands for harvest. 00:01:05.739 --> 00:01:08.159 We haven't got there yet. We're now talking about 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:11.680 readiness, expectation, attitude. But in order 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.299 for us to move to community and harvest, what 00:01:14.299 --> 00:01:16.659 it means in fellowship and community, what it 00:01:16.659 --> 00:01:19.099 means to be in community, what it means, and 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:22.560 Jesus said, lift up your eyes for the fields 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.200 are white unto harvest, that you have to understand 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.719 what Jesus is talking about with vision. So readiness. 00:01:31.450 --> 00:01:34.310 We've looked at expectation and attitude. We 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:37.390 talked about our twin sisters. They come together. 00:01:37.489 --> 00:01:40.769 They arrive together. Your expectation, your 00:01:40.769 --> 00:01:44.150 attitude affects your expectation. And it also 00:01:44.150 --> 00:01:47.450 expects your expectation, your attitude speak 00:01:47.450 --> 00:01:51.840 to the filter of how you see things. And so as 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.579 we're looking at Habakkuk chapter 2, we're looking 00:01:54.579 --> 00:01:57.659 at this famous passage that lots of people quote 00:01:57.659 --> 00:02:00.359 about the vision, but we talked about a few weeks 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.760 ago that Habakkuk understood something, that 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:07.480 he had a place on the wall. Let's take a look 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.240 at it here. Then the Lord said to me, write my 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:15.229 answers plainly on tablets. so that a runner 00:02:15.229 --> 00:02:18.050 can carry the correct message to others. Actually, 00:02:18.069 --> 00:02:20.550 we need to go to Habakkuk 1, actually. The first 00:02:20.550 --> 00:02:22.550 verse, because I'm in review. If you can find 00:02:22.550 --> 00:02:25.009 Habakkuk, there we go. Thank you. I will stand 00:02:25.009 --> 00:02:29.409 at my watch post. I will remain stationed on 00:02:29.409 --> 00:02:32.189 the city wall. I will keep watching so I can 00:02:32.189 --> 00:02:36.289 see what he says to me and I can know how I should 00:02:36.289 --> 00:02:39.990 answer when he counters my argument. That was 00:02:39.990 --> 00:02:43.789 our text the last time. Saying, listen, God's 00:02:43.789 --> 00:02:46.009 got a place for me. I have to stand on the wall. 00:02:46.129 --> 00:02:48.949 If I'm not standing on the place that God has 00:02:48.949 --> 00:02:51.689 put me, the wall of salvation, the place in the 00:02:51.689 --> 00:02:55.349 body of Christ, I'm going to miss how to see 00:02:55.349 --> 00:02:59.270 clearly and I will miss how God is going to counter 00:02:59.270 --> 00:03:04.030 what my soul often wants to think. How many have 00:03:04.030 --> 00:03:06.189 ever heard your soul speak something different 00:03:06.189 --> 00:03:09.030 than what God spoke in the Bible? Anybody? All 00:03:09.030 --> 00:03:10.650 right, the rest of you are lying in church. We've 00:03:10.650 --> 00:03:13.610 got a few honest people this morning. Come on, 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:16.750 anybody ever think something contrary to the 00:03:16.750 --> 00:03:20.069 Word of God? There we go. That's the group I'm 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:23.069 with right there. Hallelujah. I'm in your company 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.150 with that. Notice he says, I've got to stand 00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:29.490 on the wall. I have to look at... I have to be 00:03:29.490 --> 00:03:32.490 where God's called me to be, and I need to see 00:03:32.490 --> 00:03:35.669 what God is calling me to see, and I need to 00:03:35.669 --> 00:03:38.729 allow him to adjust the arguments that come to 00:03:38.729 --> 00:03:41.969 my soul, my mind, and my thinking so I think 00:03:41.969 --> 00:03:46.110 like he thinks. Because this next verse, verse 00:03:46.110 --> 00:03:53.110 2 now, hallelujah, then God will say to me. I 00:03:53.110 --> 00:03:56.539 want you to say that with me. Then. God will 00:03:56.539 --> 00:04:00.800 say to me. Now you need to understand this. God 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.879 is always talking. That's the way it should be 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:13.460 versus us always talking. The Bible says the 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:18.259 thoughts of God toward me are thousands daily. 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:28.410 Thousands. Thousands. His thoughts toward me 00:04:28.410 --> 00:04:36.250 are thousands daily. Now, if we just really believe 00:04:36.250 --> 00:04:40.569 that verse, if we believe what Jeremiah said 00:04:40.569 --> 00:04:44.470 in 29, I know the thoughts and the plans I have 00:04:44.470 --> 00:04:47.009 for you, say the Lord, and their plans to do 00:04:47.009 --> 00:04:51.370 you good. If we would believe that, all rejection, 00:04:51.750 --> 00:04:57.060 all oppression, all kicking our lower lip and 00:04:57.060 --> 00:05:02.279 feeling like we need to just pat our inner puppy, 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:09.600 would flee away. We'd have to open our ear to 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.720 hear. Because his thoughts, he's not speaking 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.120 words of condemnation. He's not speaking words 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.980 of shame. He's not speaking words of destruction. 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.480 He's speaking words of life. And if we'd open 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.879 our ear, and that's part of why we have to get 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:29.500 on the wall, because what we see affects what 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:35.300 we hear. What we hear affects what we see. It's 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:40.620 cyclical. How I see determines how I hear. How 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:45.079 I hear determines how I see. You see, that's 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:49.459 the beauty about Romans when it says faith comes 00:05:49.459 --> 00:05:52.800 by... hearing and hearing by the word of God. 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.980 But the context of the Greek means faith comes 00:05:55.980 --> 00:06:00.860 by you. It's a personal. You hearing you say 00:06:00.860 --> 00:06:07.100 the word. Faith comes by hearing you quote and 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:10.240 hearing you rehearse and it builds up in you 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.160 because you're what? What you see and what you 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.920 hear actually make it so. Are you there? All 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.319 right, just making sure. So notice what it says 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:26.360 here. Then the Lord said to me, write my answer. 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.779 He's got an answer. He's got an answer for you. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.620 He has an answer for me. He has an answer in 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:37.639 regard to what the will of God is. Probably the 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.160 biggest question that I get asked as a senior 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:44.240 pastor, especially pastoring and leading a charismatic 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.230 or a... Pentecostal charismatic church is what? 00:06:48.410 --> 00:06:54.889 What's the will of God for my life? Do you have 00:06:54.889 --> 00:06:58.829 a word for me? Does God have a word for me? Yes, 00:06:58.829 --> 00:07:02.889 he does. And I don't have to be the one to give 00:07:02.889 --> 00:07:06.529 it to you. He wants to give it to you. He wants 00:07:06.529 --> 00:07:10.509 to open your ear. He wants to open your ear. 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:16.800 Write my answer plainly on tablets so that a 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.220 runner can carry the correct message to others. 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:25.680 This vision is for a future time. It describes 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.860 the end and it will be fulfilled. If it seems 00:07:28.860 --> 00:07:35.740 slow in coming, wait patiently for it. For it 00:07:35.740 --> 00:07:39.980 will surely take place. It will not be delayed. 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.079 Now there's so much in that verse. There's about 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.180 another six weeks just in that. But let's just 00:07:47.180 --> 00:07:49.759 try to finish this week. We listen to our scripture 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.459 verse. Do not worry about tomorrow. Today. Hallelujah. 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.879 Notice the first thing he says is write my answer. 00:08:00.139 --> 00:08:06.399 Translate to this. Get this inside of you. Get 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:11.060 it down. Put it down on paper. Put it down. in 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:14.519 your computer. Put it down in your spirit. Get 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:18.399 it inside of you. Don't just hear it and let 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:21.779 it pass out your ears. Begin to write it because 00:08:21.779 --> 00:08:24.720 I'm going to call you back to it time and time 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:29.439 again. Write my answer down. So that you can 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.679 remember. So that you can refer to it. As you 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:36.320 are doing life, as you are running in life, you're 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.120 going to come up to many forks in the road. You're 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.360 going to come up to decisions that sometimes 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.639 are not clear. But if you have God's answer in 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.159 your spirit, you're not going to get confused. 00:08:51.179 --> 00:08:57.639 Write it down. It is the Lord that wants you. 00:08:58.110 --> 00:09:00.809 To write his vision in your heart. You want to 00:09:00.809 --> 00:09:04.190 know what the first will of God is? Hear him. 00:09:04.450 --> 00:09:09.429 And then write it down. Write it down. That doesn't 00:09:09.429 --> 00:09:13.909 mean. It means. There's not some obscure meaning 00:09:13.909 --> 00:09:17.389 prophetically to it. It means write it down. 00:09:21.789 --> 00:09:24.110 It's the Lord that wants to write his vision 00:09:24.110 --> 00:09:29.429 in your heart. This message. This vision is what? 00:09:29.549 --> 00:09:34.850 Says, so the runner, write my answer plainly. 00:09:35.690 --> 00:09:42.570 That means clear and true. Write what is true. 00:09:43.590 --> 00:09:47.269 Now, folks, you know, I mean, not trying to be 00:09:47.269 --> 00:09:50.370 funny here, but sometimes God's people are weird 00:09:50.370 --> 00:09:56.789 and funny. And especially just... operating in 00:09:56.789 --> 00:09:59.769 the prophetic ministry here and around the world, 00:09:59.850 --> 00:10:06.649 when the charismatic light comes on, all sorts 00:10:06.649 --> 00:10:23.090 of bugs come out. And sometimes that's why we 00:10:23.090 --> 00:10:26.000 want to protect. you even even here at an altar 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.620 call or here in the ministry of the gifts of 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:33.259 the spirit we don't want personal prophecy given 00:10:33.259 --> 00:10:37.200 unless there's people there to judge the word 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.940 not because we're critical of it but to judge 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:43.659 it for safety for your sake and our sake fact 00:10:43.659 --> 00:10:47.720 is you can't find anywhere in the scripture Except 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.799 1 Corinthians 14 that tells you if there's a 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.279 prophecy, there better be a couple other people 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:58.899 judging it. And not just your Aunt Matilda. Not 00:10:58.899 --> 00:11:02.360 just somebody that's clear off in the cow pasture 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.480 that is not connected to solid teaching. It actually 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.399 is saying, let the elders and the senior leadership 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:13.240 judge. So that's why we have those type of boundaries. 00:11:14.220 --> 00:11:17.700 Not because we're controlling, but because that's 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:22.480 Bible. Get upset at God. It's not freedom in 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.860 the spirit to do the other. It's actually dangerous 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:27.179 in the spirit. It actually makes you a wingnut. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.779 All right, that's a good word, preacher. Keep 00:11:29.779 --> 00:11:35.200 going. Hallelujah. All right. Now, why do I say 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.200 that? You need to open your ear. You need to 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.500 listen. But you need to write down what's clear 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:46.990 and true. Which means you have to have an understanding 00:11:46.990 --> 00:11:51.090 of God's character, his nature, and his word. 00:11:56.330 --> 00:11:59.909 We're getting ready to, in another month, to 00:11:59.909 --> 00:12:02.929 have some prophetic ministry come visit us. And 00:12:02.929 --> 00:12:05.450 we're going to do some presbytery settings. We're 00:12:05.450 --> 00:12:06.950 going to lay hands on some people and we're going 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:10.190 to speak the word of the Lord over them and do 00:12:10.190 --> 00:12:14.440 that. But, folks. I don't invite anybody into 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:19.980 this church that is not a seasoned minister of 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:22.860 the gospel in their own right as a senior leader, 00:12:22.940 --> 00:12:25.679 elder that operates in the prophetic. I don't 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.159 do that. Why? Because we all see through a glass 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:33.500 dimly, but I want fruit of ministry. I just don't 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:35.500 want someone to come over you and say, I see 00:12:35.500 --> 00:12:40.000 the color orange, and then walk off. That's not 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:47.309 prophetic ministry. That's weirdness. I see you 00:12:47.309 --> 00:12:53.049 looking through a shopping cart. Just take that 00:12:53.049 --> 00:12:56.649 to the Lord in prayer. Okay, well, that's not 00:12:56.649 --> 00:13:02.629 clear. That is so out of bounds for the integrity 00:13:02.629 --> 00:13:05.149 of the word of the Lord. And so when the Bible 00:13:05.149 --> 00:13:07.629 is talking about to Habakkuk, he's saying, I 00:13:07.629 --> 00:13:10.289 want you to get on the wall. I want you to understand 00:13:10.289 --> 00:13:13.429 the safety in the perimeter of the body of Christ 00:13:13.429 --> 00:13:16.309 and the structure that I've laid out with governmental 00:13:16.309 --> 00:13:19.549 authority and with those that are good shepherds. 00:13:19.570 --> 00:13:21.649 And there I'm going to speak to you. I'm going 00:13:21.649 --> 00:13:23.490 to open your eyes. I'm going to open your ears. 00:13:23.570 --> 00:13:26.110 You're going to hear clearly. And I want you 00:13:26.110 --> 00:13:29.610 to write down clearly what's in my word and how 00:13:29.610 --> 00:13:32.649 I'm speaking to you according to what is written 00:13:32.649 --> 00:13:41.919 in this. Thank you. I thought it was too. All 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.700 right. Why does he want it clear? Why does he 00:13:46.700 --> 00:13:51.659 want it written down? Because he wants you, and 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:53.840 here's the key to the prophetic word. Are you 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:58.460 ready? He wants you to be able to live it out 00:13:58.460 --> 00:14:03.179 for the rest of your life. Because as we know, 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:10.909 things take time. to unfold. Has anybody ever 00:14:10.909 --> 00:14:14.090 experienced that from God? What you thought you 00:14:14.090 --> 00:14:17.250 were ready for, God said yes to, but you didn't 00:14:17.250 --> 00:14:21.470 realize that there might be a 9, 10, 12, 15 years. 00:14:21.549 --> 00:14:23.429 Like God's an auctioneer. How long is it going 00:14:23.429 --> 00:14:24.470 to make him wait? We're going to make him wait 00:14:24.470 --> 00:14:26.169 a little bit ahead. I got 9 years, now 10, now 00:14:26.169 --> 00:14:28.570 10, now 11, now 11, now 12. That's when it'll 00:14:28.570 --> 00:14:33.090 happen. You know, I mean, that's kind of, that's 00:14:33.090 --> 00:14:36.549 kind of what God does, doesn't he? He did it 00:14:36.549 --> 00:14:38.309 with Abraham, didn't he? He said, listen, I'm 00:14:38.309 --> 00:14:41.149 going to take you into a land that's good. I'm 00:14:41.149 --> 00:14:43.710 going to give you a place. Get out of your old 00:14:43.710 --> 00:14:45.389 dwelling, and I'm going to bring you into new. 00:14:45.509 --> 00:14:48.129 And then what happened? 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 00:14:48.210 --> 00:14:50.690 11, 11, 11, not 12, not 12, not 12, 13, not 14, 00:14:50.750 --> 00:14:56.190 sold. You know? And that's what happens. Because 00:14:56.190 --> 00:15:00.509 the word of the Lord is sure, but it takes what? 00:15:00.990 --> 00:15:06.169 Him working that. word inside of your character, 00:15:06.269 --> 00:15:09.429 inside of your heart so that he can trust you 00:15:09.429 --> 00:15:13.169 with it. If you only just get little shots of 00:15:13.169 --> 00:15:15.889 kind of the paprika of the spirit you're not 00:15:15.889 --> 00:15:19.879 going to get it. He wants you to actually have 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.659 an ingredient in your soul. When the word of 00:15:22.659 --> 00:15:25.740 the Lord comes, it's life changing. You can put 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:28.980 your life into it. That's why Paul could tell 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:31.500 Timothy, remember what I imparted to you with 00:15:31.500 --> 00:15:34.139 the laying on of my hands. Buy it, wage the good 00:15:34.139 --> 00:15:37.379 warfare. Why? It was a life word, not a little 00:15:37.379 --> 00:15:43.120 Tinkerbell word. Come on. And I'm just going 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.299 to say this because I'm... Joyfully irritated. 00:15:46.460 --> 00:15:49.960 Hallelujah. Sometimes the Spirit of God works 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.559 in me when I feel something. There is a tendency 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.559 to kind of have prophecy light in the body of 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:04.200 Christ and shame on us. Shame on us. Prophecy 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:09.159 was to be about encouraging, building, strengthening 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:12.419 something for your life. Not just to make you 00:16:12.419 --> 00:16:16.879 feel good at the moment. It's a life word. It's 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:21.159 a changing word. And that's why it's to be protected 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.399 and honored and why God comes around. Why? He's 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.980 given a platform. Guess what? He desires all 00:16:26.980 --> 00:16:31.840 of God's people to prophesy. All of them. In 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.820 fact, the gift that he tells everybody to operate 00:16:34.820 --> 00:16:37.720 in is the prophetic, but he also gives guidelines 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.799 with it. I don't know why I'm on that. I just 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:46.320 feel like that's important. Why does God want 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.200 it written down in your life? Because it's God's 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:54.659 vision for your life. It's his answer to you 00:16:54.659 --> 00:16:59.120 seeking him. His answer to your marriage. His 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:03.259 answer to your children. His answer for your 00:17:03.259 --> 00:17:05.839 ministry. His answer of where he's calling you, 00:17:05.859 --> 00:17:09.839 placing you, and told you to flourish. And so 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.799 many times when... I heard somebody say, I think 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:14.619 it was David, you talked about NASCAR. I want 00:17:14.619 --> 00:17:17.500 to just weave this in. How many know that NASCAR 00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:31.019 has what we call bump and rub? For those of you, 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.980 you know this is a redneck church and we're using 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:37.079 NASCAR as a sermon example in the morning, okay? 00:17:37.819 --> 00:17:42.279 The reality is at high... rates of speed in close 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:47.160 proximity people bump each other and sometimes 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.640 they hit the wall and sometimes they need a pit 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.460 crew to pull them out but the whole point is 00:17:52.460 --> 00:17:55.619 to get back on the track and start racing again. 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:59.920 Well the issue is in the body of Christ there 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:05.500 is a whole lot of NASCAR that happens. People 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:12.950 get bent out of shape. Sometimes Sunday morning 00:18:12.950 --> 00:18:15.410 isn't over and I'm already dealing with a crumpled 00:18:15.410 --> 00:18:23.029 fender and a bent hood. You think I'm kidding. 00:18:23.130 --> 00:18:27.569 I am being serious. Sometimes it happens in the 00:18:27.569 --> 00:18:29.950 parking lot in the natural as well as the spiritual. 00:18:31.819 --> 00:18:35.220 But the reality is, why would God tell us to 00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:37.140 have something written down and want to speak 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:39.900 to us so deeply? Because he understands at the 00:18:39.900 --> 00:18:42.500 high rate of speed that the world and everybody 00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:45.319 is going, there will be offenses, there will 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.700 be a hurt, there will be these things. And he 00:18:48.700 --> 00:18:51.420 wants you to understand where he's called you, 00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:53.819 where he's placed you, why he's put you there 00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:57.980 so that you don't burn out, crack up, stop. playing 00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:01.019 NASCAR or start driving NASCAR because you just 00:19:01.019 --> 00:19:03.700 can't stand it. Why? Because you didn't hear 00:19:03.700 --> 00:19:10.819 his voice. You got to hear his voice. Write this 00:19:10.819 --> 00:19:15.099 down. Now, I know Habakkuk was not seeing a NASCAR 00:19:15.099 --> 00:19:17.039 race when he was good, but guess what? He was 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:22.000 seeing a foot race. He was seeing and prophesying 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.599 to what he was seeing in the spirit. And he was 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:27.619 seeing the legs of journeys of people running 00:19:27.619 --> 00:19:30.920 the race. And he was recognizing that this race 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.460 sometimes takes a long time. It is the product 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:38.019 of your whole life. That's why hearing God speak 00:19:38.019 --> 00:19:40.759 to you and having it written down on the inside 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:44.420 of your heart and on paper is crucial for you 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:47.599 finishing the race. Why? Because the end of his 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:53.480 word to you will come. It will happen. Now this 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:55.680 is your part to play. This is my part to play. 00:19:58.859 --> 00:20:02.200 I want to just go this morning. So we're just 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:04.380 going to pretend I don't see that clock for a 00:20:04.380 --> 00:20:08.650 second. Hallelujah. This is your part to play 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:11.609 in the vision of God. You and I are the runners. 00:20:11.809 --> 00:20:15.670 We're the carriers. We're the couriers of a message 00:20:15.670 --> 00:20:20.369 that is for us. But if it comes to us, God's 00:20:20.369 --> 00:20:26.369 message never comes exclusively to you. It's 00:20:26.369 --> 00:20:29.630 for you. It shapes your life. But it ultimately 00:20:29.630 --> 00:20:34.430 is for somebody else. That is the point of how, 00:20:34.529 --> 00:20:36.269 oh my Lord, I'm going to preach this morning. 00:20:36.369 --> 00:20:41.970 That is the point. That is the point of why God 00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:44.769 gets you in the kingdom. He never just singles 00:20:44.769 --> 00:20:48.190 you out so that you can be the superstar. He 00:20:48.190 --> 00:20:50.670 gives you a message for your life that ultimately 00:20:50.670 --> 00:20:54.779 he uses to use with somebody else. He puts a 00:20:54.779 --> 00:20:56.940 message inside of you. And why does he put it 00:20:56.940 --> 00:20:59.059 inside of you? And why does he want you to know 00:20:59.059 --> 00:21:03.640 it? Because you're called to actually release 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:08.039 an impacting word that affected you. Now can 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.859 affect someone else and change them for Jesus. 00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:14.339 Turn to somebody and say, I got a word. Come 00:21:14.339 --> 00:21:20.609 on. You see, I'm supposed to have a word on the 00:21:20.609 --> 00:21:23.569 inside. That's part of the mission of this house. 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:26.450 That's why we even put it as our mission statement. 00:21:27.009 --> 00:21:30.630 Life, L -I -F -E, L stands for loving God and 00:21:30.630 --> 00:21:35.130 loving people. I stands for what? Impacting words. 00:21:36.809 --> 00:21:40.150 F equals fervent prayer and worship. E equals 00:21:40.150 --> 00:21:43.150 experiencing the presence of God. Why did we 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:46.069 put that down there? Because it is the nature 00:21:46.069 --> 00:21:51.170 of God's word spoken. It affects you and it affects 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:54.670 others. And if you'll hear it, you will always 00:21:54.670 --> 00:21:58.130 be a blessing. That's why God spoke it to Abraham. 00:21:58.430 --> 00:22:02.289 It was contained inside of him. By you and in 00:22:02.289 --> 00:22:05.549 you all, nations of the earth will be blessed. 00:22:05.750 --> 00:22:09.130 Why? Because you heard his word. And he made 00:22:09.130 --> 00:22:10.890 his promise with you. And if you're children 00:22:10.890 --> 00:22:14.410 of Abraham, you get to hear by faith in Jesus 00:22:14.410 --> 00:22:17.190 Christ. You get to hear Christ's word over your 00:22:17.190 --> 00:22:22.849 life. And you get to what? Be a carrier. You're 00:22:22.849 --> 00:22:29.900 a carrier. Now. It says, write the vision down, 00:22:29.980 --> 00:22:34.380 make it plain that he who runs may read it. I 00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:36.720 want to just, I've had this point on my notes 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:39.740 for a month. And I'm going to get this out. Hallelujah. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:42.779 And then we're going to move on. The word write 00:22:42.779 --> 00:22:50.180 is the Hebrew word kathab. It means to engrave. 00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:59.660 To inscribe. It actually. And I love this because 00:22:59.660 --> 00:23:04.039 I asked one of our people that go here that's 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:09.460 a pharmacist, I said, tell me what the word prescribe 00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:13.220 means to you. Because that's included in the 00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:21.599 definition. Engrave, inscribe, prescribe. A prescription 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:26.980 does what? It gives relief. It gives an answer. 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:33.680 It gives aid and help. It is a resource. It is 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.059 power, authority, identified for a particular 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:46.700 issue or problem. Why is it important that you 00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:50.859 get... and hear God's word is because he's actually 00:23:50.859 --> 00:23:54.140 prescribing and wanting to engrave something 00:23:54.140 --> 00:23:58.000 on the inside for your problem, but then also 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:00.900 for other people's problems so that you would 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:05.059 actually carry the prescription of the Lord in 00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:15.099 your life for someone else. So I'm going to land 00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:22.519 this plane. Hallelujah. You see, the word of 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:25.259 the Lord is not complicated. The fact is, it 00:24:25.259 --> 00:24:29.319 says here, he said, I want it to be plain, meaning 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.819 not bland. I want it to be clear and simple. 00:24:34.859 --> 00:24:38.819 The fact is, so simple that the runners who get 00:24:38.819 --> 00:24:41.759 it and allow it to be engraved on their heart 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:46.660 can actually, people can see it from a distance 00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:50.369 because it's just... clear on their lives that 00:24:50.369 --> 00:24:53.329 even as we're doing the busyness of life someone 00:24:53.329 --> 00:24:57.390 can read a person's life by that word just by 00:24:57.390 --> 00:25:01.109 being in an encounter with him would you would 00:25:01.109 --> 00:25:04.910 you stand with me this morning as pastor david 00:25:04.910 --> 00:25:07.210 comes thank you i didn't know who was closing 00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:11.109 good job i want to pray this into our spirit 00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:15.210 as we're finishing this fast i want us to just 00:25:15.210 --> 00:25:20.549 ask the lord 2018, I really believe this with 00:25:20.549 --> 00:25:24.470 all of my heart. 2018, just as I said earlier 00:25:24.470 --> 00:25:26.630 by the word of the Lord, he's moving us to a 00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:29.910 new place. And he's going to make clear the word 00:25:29.910 --> 00:25:32.049 of the Lord over your life because your ear is 00:25:32.049 --> 00:25:34.930 open. I believe you're going to hear more from 00:25:34.930 --> 00:25:37.430 God this year than some of the seasons you've 00:25:37.430 --> 00:25:40.029 ever heard in the past. Why? Because you're training 00:25:40.029 --> 00:25:43.950 your ear to hear what he's saying through his 00:25:43.950 --> 00:25:47.779 word, not just through somebody else. And he 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.099 says, write it on your life. Could you just lift 00:25:50.099 --> 00:25:51.599 your hand and say, Lord, I want you to write 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:55.279 on me. Can you do that? Jesus, we lift our hands 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:58.240 to you this morning and we say, inscribe your 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:03.980 word on the inside of us. Lord, just like your 00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:08.259 hand, your finger wrote on tablets of stone, 00:26:08.299 --> 00:26:11.119 you told your prophet Ezekiel, the days will 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:13.859 come when I will do away with what's on tablets. 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:18.000 Of stone. And I will write it on the inside of 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.890 their heart. They will know me. Father, I'm praying 00:26:21.890 --> 00:26:24.390 right now as we lift our hands that we're saying 00:26:24.390 --> 00:26:27.150 yes to you. We want to hear you like never before. 00:26:27.390 --> 00:26:31.730 We want to hear our Father and our Lord Jesus 00:26:31.730 --> 00:26:35.750 and the Holy Spirit's voice inside our own heart. 00:26:35.890 --> 00:26:39.609 We do not want any other voice. Your word says, 00:26:39.829 --> 00:26:42.670 my sheep hear my voice talking about you, Lord, 00:26:42.789 --> 00:26:45.450 and they will not follow another. Let the good 00:26:45.450 --> 00:26:48.450 shepherd's word and the good shepherd's voice 00:26:48.450 --> 00:26:51.710 be released over. every person this morning, 00:26:51.750 --> 00:26:55.230 and let there be a strengthening right now in 00:26:55.230 --> 00:26:58.190 the depth of their word and their communion with 00:26:58.190 --> 00:27:02.609 the Holy Spirit. I pray that now, in Jesus' name, 00:27:02.750 --> 00:27:19.269 amen. go to www .lifebiblechurch .org or call 00:27:19.269 --> 00:27:22.730 us at 541 -995 -8282.