WEBVTT 00:00:16.060 --> 00:00:20.019 Something is shifting in this trilogy of prayer. 00:00:20.539 --> 00:00:23.500 There's a momentum. We're at the halfway mark. 00:00:23.859 --> 00:00:27.780 And God is stirring us. He stirred my voice. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.660 I used it so much I don't have it. So they'll 00:00:30.660 --> 00:00:32.439 just have to turn the volume up. But I'm going 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:38.119 to give it to you from my heart. The theme was 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:44.640 anchored. And the thought was stabilizing prayers 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.939 in seas of uncertainty. How many have felt a 00:00:50.939 --> 00:00:55.439 little destabilized or a little shaken during 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.840 this last season? Lift your hand up if that's 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.490 you. Could you stand up if you felt a little 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:06.629 bit shaken or a little bit troubled in your soul 00:01:06.629 --> 00:01:10.230 or a little bit pushed, a little bit challenged? 00:01:10.310 --> 00:01:14.950 Look at this. Now, we have to realize something. 00:01:16.709 --> 00:01:19.750 That we've come to the kingdom for such a time 00:01:19.750 --> 00:01:23.450 as this, the body. I was thinking as we were 00:01:23.450 --> 00:01:25.430 worshiping and had all these festivals, I was 00:01:25.430 --> 00:01:28.500 thinking we need a worship and family. Worship 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:31.060 week, something where we just come and worship, 00:01:31.219 --> 00:01:34.239 soak, saturate all week. Just let the Spirit 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.500 of God come on the songs. Let the song of the 00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:39.980 Lord, just let it break out. Just it's time to 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:42.799 saturate. I'm not calling you to do that. I just, 00:01:42.819 --> 00:01:45.959 you got up and said there were other festivals 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.540 and we were having a festival. I thought, let's 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:51.439 just stretch it out a couple days. You know, 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:56.060 to me, something is. Is moving. Go ahead and 00:01:56.060 --> 00:02:01.200 sit down. I just wanted to identify that we're 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.519 all in this season of uncertainty. That culture 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:11.099 around you shifts all the time. But God's kingdom 00:02:11.099 --> 00:02:15.719 moves on and is forever. And we're anchored on 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:18.919 another level. We're anchored down at another 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.319 place. And God wants to speak to us. I had this 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.759 thought coming in. I wasn't going to share it. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:27.800 I was going to move on to some notes. But I feel 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.139 I'm supposed to share it because I realize that 00:02:31.139 --> 00:02:33.759 we started this Friday night and we're ending 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.560 this today. And that it's a cooperative thing. 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.300 It's everybody together, walking together. That 00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:46.060 we are one family here. That we're moving by 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:50.099 the Spirit. That God is stirring your heart in 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:55.919 a very particular and certain way. God wants 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:01.340 to anchor us in a deeper faith. Come on, how 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:04.159 many want to? I mean, you're not, I'm not putting 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.759 anything on that. I'm just putting that out there. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:10.120 How many want a deeper faith? Just want that 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.419 root to grow. I'm going to talk about that today. 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.680 Just open up to what God has for you. Something 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.460 is moving. Something is occurring right now. 00:03:20.539 --> 00:03:25.000 God is up to something amazing. And a closer 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.360 walk with him. Have you been hungering for a 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.520 closer walk with the Lord? Have you felt like 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.520 something is stirring you to something deeper, 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.879 something more meaningful, something more fulfilling? 00:03:41.069 --> 00:03:44.889 I just sense God wants to bring us into a closer 00:03:44.889 --> 00:03:49.229 walk with him. Whatever that looks like. I'm 00:03:49.229 --> 00:03:51.289 convinced if four billion people got up in the 00:03:51.289 --> 00:03:52.629 morning to meet with the Lord, it would look 00:03:52.629 --> 00:03:54.889 different for all four billion of those people 00:03:54.889 --> 00:04:00.509 because God wants to draw us near. One simple 00:04:00.509 --> 00:04:02.949 scripture, submit therefore to God. And what? 00:04:03.370 --> 00:04:06.830 Resist the devil. That's the part we don't like. 00:04:06.949 --> 00:04:09.949 How many like that part? No, that's a reality. 00:04:11.050 --> 00:04:14.229 That this is a conflict we're in. This is a battle 00:04:14.229 --> 00:04:18.329 we're in. This is a challenge we're in. This 00:04:18.329 --> 00:04:21.709 is a, how many felt some unusual pressure coming 00:04:21.709 --> 00:04:25.930 against your mind this week? Just a weird, you 00:04:25.930 --> 00:04:28.069 prayed one of the most powerful prayers I've 00:04:28.069 --> 00:04:32.610 heard in that room. Did you feel pressure this 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:37.149 week? Yeah, there's a. There's a warfare. And 00:04:37.149 --> 00:04:40.069 it's weird because it kind of happens right between 00:04:40.069 --> 00:04:41.810 here, doesn't it? It's not something you just 00:04:41.810 --> 00:04:46.370 wake up. Oh, what's this? Like, it's a battle 00:04:46.370 --> 00:04:50.730 we're in. It's a fight. I just believe we're 00:04:50.730 --> 00:04:53.230 not, we're moving from a defensive position to 00:04:53.230 --> 00:04:56.350 an offensive position. That's what's shifting 00:04:56.350 --> 00:04:58.730 in these three conferences. I felt it when I 00:04:58.730 --> 00:05:01.689 was here on Saturday. It's like you, you, you. 00:05:02.269 --> 00:05:04.930 You get down because the pressure. And then the 00:05:04.930 --> 00:05:07.290 pressure forms your thinking. And then your thinking 00:05:07.290 --> 00:05:09.430 gets you discouraged. And then you get oppressed. 00:05:09.870 --> 00:05:14.170 And it tries to cap the capacity within you. 00:05:15.629 --> 00:05:19.290 But then God comes and breathes on that. And 00:05:19.290 --> 00:05:21.970 he opens you up. Because there's more. Because 00:05:21.970 --> 00:05:24.589 it's bigger. And he's moving us from a position 00:05:24.589 --> 00:05:28.810 of defense to offense. And to me this is so. 00:05:30.089 --> 00:05:32.879 Well. It's just bigger than me, that's all I 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:37.519 can say. So I'm not managing it from heaven. 00:05:38.939 --> 00:05:43.699 We see just in a part. You see all these people 00:05:43.699 --> 00:05:46.040 stand up and they're feeling uncertain. You see 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:47.420 all these people raise their hand and they've 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:49.779 come under some kind of mental pressure. And 00:05:49.779 --> 00:05:51.420 when it comes on you, you think you're the only 00:05:51.420 --> 00:05:55.959 person that that's happening to. You're not. 00:05:56.660 --> 00:06:00.540 We're one body. If you're feeling it, other people 00:06:00.540 --> 00:06:02.199 are feeling it. If you're going through it, other 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.720 people are feeling that same challenge. God is 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.860 waking us up to this battle. And something is 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:13.339 shifting. That is his heart for this weekend. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:17.579 It's to deepen our faith and to draw us near 00:06:17.579 --> 00:06:21.600 to him. And to draw us close and to draw us into 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.459 his love and draw us into his presence. And allow 00:06:24.459 --> 00:06:27.740 us to saturate in the grace that's available. 00:06:28.589 --> 00:06:30.490 I listen to Tim and Stephanie, I'm thinking, 00:06:30.569 --> 00:06:34.389 one was a little down, one was up, one was down, 00:06:34.529 --> 00:06:37.350 one was up. It was a mutual faith thing. They 00:06:37.350 --> 00:06:40.970 were just walking together and they saw the miraculous 00:06:40.970 --> 00:06:44.050 of God. Plus the family sees the miraculous of 00:06:44.050 --> 00:06:48.930 God. I don't know how you follow that up. I think 00:06:48.930 --> 00:06:51.490 I should just have an altar call and just come 00:06:51.490 --> 00:06:55.509 down and just get blessed. You have a financial 00:06:55.509 --> 00:06:58.939 need? Come on down. You know what I mean? Just 00:06:58.939 --> 00:07:10.680 like open heavens. It's open heavens here. This 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:17.879 is water like people are dying out there. We 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:20.319 drink it. We receive it. It flows in us. It comes 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.019 out of us. Helps us. Encourages us. Strengthens 00:07:23.019 --> 00:07:28.730 us. Our minds can't even wrap around. God is 00:07:28.730 --> 00:07:36.870 so good. Something is happening. My encouragement 00:07:36.870 --> 00:07:41.730 is open your heart. Just open it. To all he has 00:07:41.730 --> 00:07:45.529 for you in this season. He has something for 00:07:45.529 --> 00:07:49.990 you. I just want to encourage you to open up 00:07:49.990 --> 00:07:54.170 your heart. Maybe just do this. Maybe just like. 00:07:55.180 --> 00:07:57.560 Open up your heart, maybe with your hands, just 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:02.279 like, just a prophetic act, just opening up to 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:07.680 what God has. Yeah, take a deep breath. Just 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.540 let the Spirit of God just fill you with His 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:18.839 wind. I can't fill you with anything. But He 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.660 can. Right here, right now, right in that seat, 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:28.870 right? In all your confusion. Addiction. It doesn't 00:08:28.870 --> 00:08:31.589 matter to him. He's more powerful. He's stronger. 00:08:31.769 --> 00:08:34.029 He's not coming here to judge us. He's coming 00:08:34.029 --> 00:08:40.990 here to love us. Your mind plays tricks on you. 00:08:41.049 --> 00:08:47.090 Your mind's sometimes your own enemy. Your mind's 00:08:47.090 --> 00:08:48.710 taking you where you shouldn't have gone. Your 00:08:48.710 --> 00:08:52.370 mind has led you down paths that weren't healthy. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:55.759 But that was then. This is now. You're right 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.419 here. This is right now. It's right now. You're 00:08:59.419 --> 00:09:03.440 here. By the grace of God, you're here. How many 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:06.039 have a testimony, I shouldn't even be here? How 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.120 many have a testimony, you shouldn't even be 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.000 here? You had so many near misses, you should 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.919 be some, you know, that's the grace of God. It's 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:19.139 just on you. You stand up and pray. Your identity's 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:21.840 not in your prayer. You're the gift. We kind 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.799 of think, what's our gift? You're it. You're 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:29.340 the gift. You are the gift. We're always measuring 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:33.120 ourselves one to another. You're just it. You're 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.480 beautiful. Turn to someone and tell them, you're 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.080 beautiful. You're amazing. You're incredible. 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:43.840 The world's discouraging us. We might as well 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.519 come in here and get encouraged. Tell them you're 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.500 looking great. Tell them God's on your side. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.080 When you were thinking all week, he wasn't. Sometimes 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:55.259 we wonder where he went. He didn't go anywhere. 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.480 Just our brain did. We have these doctrines that 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.360 are true and stable and on the word of God. That 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.019 he's omnipresent. And we're asking questions 00:10:06.019 --> 00:10:11.960 like, where'd he go? And he's going, I didn't 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.840 go anywhere. In fact, I'm living inside you. 00:10:14.860 --> 00:10:21.799 Take a look. Okay. If I don't share like that. 00:10:22.139 --> 00:10:25.500 We think another way and we leave the same way, 00:10:25.659 --> 00:10:28.600 but God wants us to start thinking different. 00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:34.059 She stood right here and said, I'm going to think 00:10:34.059 --> 00:10:38.519 different. I'm no longer going to hope or maybe 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:43.519 or it'd be nicer. Do you like me? Do you care 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:52.259 about me? No. I'm certain. How many can't use 00:10:52.259 --> 00:10:54.799 a mind makeover? How many can't use a complete? 00:10:55.860 --> 00:10:59.379 Who's in for a mind makeover? You just kind of 00:10:59.379 --> 00:11:02.320 like need a whole new way to perceive life. The 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.700 Bible tells us, don't look at what you can see, 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.779 but what you can't see, because what you can't 00:11:06.779 --> 00:11:10.000 see is eternal. He actually implores us to look 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.320 at what we can't see. I'm thinking, I stopped 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:17.240 looking at what I can see. I do recovery ministry. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.019 I used to see a drug addict or someone in drugs 00:11:21.019 --> 00:11:25.279 coming in and that was our project. Now I just 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.019 see someone coming in looking for love. And we 00:11:29.019 --> 00:11:32.840 just start loving them. And God starts changing. 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:40.480 It's power and love. There's so much power that 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:45.320 it's brought you here today. It brought you out 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:47.799 of where you were and it's set you right here. 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:51.669 But we do know we're in this cosmic conflict 00:11:51.669 --> 00:11:55.230 that's on such a scale that if we just peek, 00:11:55.309 --> 00:11:57.129 I always say, Lord, take me back there. Show 00:11:57.129 --> 00:11:59.529 me the conflict. He said, it'd scare the wits 00:11:59.529 --> 00:12:02.570 out of you. I suffer from panic and anxiety. 00:12:02.870 --> 00:12:06.649 So he said, I don't think so. We'll save that 00:12:06.649 --> 00:12:12.950 for another day. We know so little. We build 00:12:12.950 --> 00:12:16.889 our own kingdom so we can think we're important. 00:12:23.950 --> 00:12:29.370 It's ridiculous, really. We're so... I don't 00:12:29.370 --> 00:12:31.690 know. Dismantle me, Lord. Just take me apart. 00:12:31.909 --> 00:12:35.590 Start building from the ground up. The other 00:12:35.590 --> 00:12:37.970 day, I'm driving. The Lord says, Mark. He uses 00:12:37.970 --> 00:12:46.570 my first name. Yes, Lord. What is it this time? 00:12:49.230 --> 00:12:53.200 Where are you? I'm here. I know you're always 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:57.620 here. You never went anywhere. Mark, you're not 00:12:57.620 --> 00:13:01.820 called to make something happen. I said, yeah, 00:13:01.860 --> 00:13:03.980 I know. That's what I've been doing for 56, 57 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:07.360 years. He said, you're called to be a part of 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:12.700 the happening. Changed my life in one sense. 00:13:14.659 --> 00:13:18.460 More has happened since that statement than what 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:23.440 I tried to do in all those other years. Because 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:28.259 we're a part of something that's happening. It's 00:13:28.259 --> 00:13:30.559 being mastermind from a seat in heaven. It's 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:38.019 already in force. It's already planned out. It's 00:13:38.019 --> 00:13:42.179 already been accomplished. My job is just to 00:13:42.179 --> 00:13:46.740 participate with the happening. The Bible says, 00:13:46.779 --> 00:13:50.019 my sheep hear my voice, know me, and they follow 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:52.320 me. That's all we need to use our brain for. 00:13:54.250 --> 00:13:56.610 I tell people, I said, if you're using your brain 00:13:56.610 --> 00:14:01.870 to lust or to control other people or to figure 00:14:01.870 --> 00:14:07.250 out the future or try to worry, then you're confused. 00:14:07.389 --> 00:14:08.889 How many are using their brain for that? Could 00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:11.330 I have a show of hands? No, I mean, honestly, 00:14:11.490 --> 00:14:14.049 you're using your brain for that. And is that 00:14:14.049 --> 00:14:19.809 working out very well? No. Stop it. I always 00:14:19.809 --> 00:14:23.970 tell people, just stop it. I can't. It's driving 00:14:23.970 --> 00:14:28.970 me. No, the Lord wants to free us from all that. 00:14:30.090 --> 00:14:32.330 Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 00:14:32.470 --> 00:14:35.590 He's able to lead you. He's able to guide you. 00:14:35.649 --> 00:14:37.950 He's able to direct you. He does it with his 00:14:37.950 --> 00:14:42.909 love. It's the most amazing thing when we just 00:14:42.909 --> 00:14:47.789 rest, relax, just get in the flow. There's already 00:14:47.789 --> 00:14:51.080 a current that's flowing. You know when you're 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:53.179 in it because you have these really good thoughts 00:14:53.179 --> 00:14:55.279 and you have this really, and you get up and 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.720 you can do things and you think, how'd that happen? 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.659 It happened through flow. But then you go right 00:15:01.659 --> 00:15:03.580 out and you start yelling at somebody or give 00:15:03.580 --> 00:15:06.259 me that food quicker when you give it to them. 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:15.350 And so that's called anti -flow. You had to come 00:15:15.350 --> 00:15:17.389 to the seminar to get all the facts and details, 00:15:17.570 --> 00:15:19.830 but I'm giving you kind of the highlights. This 00:15:19.830 --> 00:15:22.669 is kind of like ESPN at night. You know, you 00:15:22.669 --> 00:15:26.990 missed all the events, but you just get it. Are 00:15:26.990 --> 00:15:30.049 you enjoying it? Just if you're enjoying it. 00:15:31.590 --> 00:15:36.389 The big idea is God loves you. And he has a plan 00:15:36.389 --> 00:15:43.830 for you. And you can relax. And enjoy the ride. 00:15:46.509 --> 00:15:49.169 And we can start to deprogram all this chaos 00:15:49.169 --> 00:15:51.330 that's going on in our mind and we can open ourselves 00:15:51.330 --> 00:15:53.570 up to the love of God because they found in brain 00:15:53.570 --> 00:15:57.370 science that I didn't understand this. But I've 00:15:57.370 --> 00:16:01.950 been experiencing it. That there's two core centers 00:16:01.950 --> 00:16:04.610 in our brain down as deep as it goes. They found 00:16:04.610 --> 00:16:09.929 this in science. Love and fear. You spoke it 00:16:09.929 --> 00:16:17.830 today. The fear. The love. The love, when love's 00:16:17.830 --> 00:16:21.929 excited in us, it heals our brain. It heals our 00:16:21.929 --> 00:16:24.669 decision making. It heals our life. It gets us 00:16:24.669 --> 00:16:29.029 in the right mind. It helps us. It says perfect 00:16:29.029 --> 00:16:34.809 love casts out what? Fear. The Bible, brain science 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:37.190 now is just discovering what the Bible's been 00:16:37.190 --> 00:16:41.149 telling us the whole time. And fear brings what? 00:16:42.529 --> 00:16:48.149 Torment. How many felt tormented this week? Lift 00:16:48.149 --> 00:16:51.789 your hand up high. I mean, we're in a moment. 00:16:53.870 --> 00:16:59.830 This is where life and death are. The enemy, 00:16:59.929 --> 00:17:04.210 he's not out to play games. It's the thief cometh 00:17:04.210 --> 00:17:12.730 to steal, kill, and destroy. I've come that you 00:17:12.730 --> 00:17:15.470 might have life. And have it more abundantly. 00:17:17.349 --> 00:17:19.470 Again raise your hand if you felt that torment. 00:17:19.549 --> 00:17:24.049 If you felt that oppression. That wrestling. 00:17:24.990 --> 00:17:28.269 See as we come each week. We're in this cosmic 00:17:28.269 --> 00:17:30.670 conflict. We're in this battle. And everyone 00:17:30.670 --> 00:17:33.970 is facing it as we go out there. That's why the 00:17:33.970 --> 00:17:36.549 love of God is so powerful. And we can help each 00:17:36.549 --> 00:17:43.619 other so much. I've stopped asking people. what 00:17:43.619 --> 00:17:45.779 they do because it doesn't really matter because 00:17:45.779 --> 00:17:48.240 the gift in you, you are the gift and you will 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:52.140 do the gift. I only seem to care about how you're 00:17:52.140 --> 00:17:57.420 doing right now. Because I never know if the 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:03.259 person's in torment or if they're in flow. But 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:06.019 I do know a prayer of faith will deal with that 00:18:06.019 --> 00:18:10.640 torment. I do know a touch on the shoulder will 00:18:12.619 --> 00:18:17.500 And part of blessing. I do know a word in due 00:18:17.500 --> 00:18:23.740 season. It's sweet. We're facing such a battle 00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:26.619 out there. We're facing such a conflict. We're 00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:31.880 in such a dynamic. And I believe present truth. 00:18:35.740 --> 00:18:39.960 God's pouring out his love. He's pouring out 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.180 his love. I want to say a few things about his 00:18:44.180 --> 00:18:47.160 love, but I want to finish this. I want to get 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.559 this in the atmosphere, this thought. Embrace 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:55.539 change. Not brace for change, embrace change. 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.160 There's two choices in the kingdom. You can fall 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:14.299 on the rock or the rock can fall on you. I believe 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:19.519 that God is wanting to bring change. Permanent 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.680 change to our way of thinking. Permanent change 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:27.119 to a release of joy. How many have just been 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.240 discouraged lately? Lift your hand up if that's 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:31.680 been you. Just lift your hand up. See, the power 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.380 of what we think, the power of what goes on in 00:19:35.380 --> 00:19:38.259 our mind, the power of the pressure that's there. 00:19:39.049 --> 00:19:43.049 Are you open to embrace change? For some of that 00:19:43.049 --> 00:19:46.490 old to go and the new to come? How many are ready 00:19:46.490 --> 00:19:49.230 for some of that old thinking to pass away and 00:19:49.230 --> 00:19:51.809 some new thinking to come? How many are like 00:19:51.809 --> 00:19:54.250 our sister Stephanie who says, I just had to 00:19:54.250 --> 00:19:57.890 embrace change. Change the way I'm thinking. 00:19:58.009 --> 00:20:04.599 Brought a miracle. She said that so calmly. But 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:06.599 I'm not a calm person, so I'm over there doing, 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.759 come on, break out the song. Get the dance. Get 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:13.359 the tambourine. You know, how many of you really 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:16.240 wanted to dance? You wanted to break out? We 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:21.680 were hearing the love of God at work. And it 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:31.220 didn't depress you back there. Like, oh, that's 00:20:31.220 --> 00:20:34.789 depressing. You know, it excited something in 00:20:34.789 --> 00:20:38.589 your brain. It stimulated something to where 00:20:38.589 --> 00:20:43.549 you had these actual thoughts. And they've got 00:20:43.549 --> 00:20:48.069 it down to brain science where it releases oxytocin. 00:20:48.089 --> 00:20:50.950 You just listening to that testimony released 00:20:50.950 --> 00:20:55.029 oxytocin within your body. It's not cortisol, 00:20:55.109 --> 00:20:57.890 not the stress hormone, but it released this 00:20:57.890 --> 00:20:59.390 hormone that goes through and you get a good 00:20:59.390 --> 00:21:03.390 feeling. Believe me, God designed the body, soul, 00:21:03.769 --> 00:21:08.849 and the spirit. We've not given anything to what 00:21:08.849 --> 00:21:11.710 actually our brain does, although what your brain's 00:21:11.710 --> 00:21:19.630 thinking you're doing. Stop it. That's what I 00:21:19.630 --> 00:21:24.670 came to tell you. Stop it. One time I was at 00:21:24.670 --> 00:21:26.829 Elmer's and a guy was telling me the things he 00:21:26.829 --> 00:21:31.640 was doing. sinful things and uh after we were 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:35.359 done he got we walked out he goes that was the 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:38.279 happiest and joyous confessional I've ever been 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:43.480 at because the love of God was there he fully 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:46.880 expected to get just bam right across the table 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.359 he was saying it so loud when he was doing the 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:51.819 whole restaurant could hear I he didn't need 00:21:51.819 --> 00:21:54.240 to shout it from the house top I was thinking 00:21:54.240 --> 00:22:00.569 shut it down a little bit Hey, if you don't care, 00:22:00.690 --> 00:22:06.069 I don't care. Whatever. Just, I guess God's here. 00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:08.650 He was there when you did it. So, and you didn't 00:22:08.650 --> 00:22:11.009 even, weren't even cognizant of it. So, open 00:22:11.009 --> 00:22:16.730 it up a little bit. God, we sin in secret. We 00:22:16.730 --> 00:22:18.809 think he wasn't there. You took him with you. 00:22:22.609 --> 00:22:30.759 We don't even get it. tell you something, you 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:35.720 go, I think that's right. You go, is that in 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:41.920 the Bible? We can't get away from him. You might 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.640 as well embrace him. You might as well bring 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:57.680 it to him. You might as well confess it. You 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.059 know, if I came in here and dug on sin, you'd 00:23:00.059 --> 00:23:02.920 just close up. You come in here and love on sin 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.640 and it's just like, where's the altar? You're 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:10.380 just like, man, that's no fun anyway. It doesn't 00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:13.460 leave any lasting pleasure. And so, man, we're 00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:15.880 so confused and we're fighting all these battles. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:20.519 Open it up. I think more healings happen just 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:24.839 in standing up, raising your hand. Because the 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:28.900 devil works in darkness. And God works in the 00:23:28.900 --> 00:23:33.980 light. He used to think at Recovery Ministry 00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:39.960 that it was a God forgive me. That it was a subsection 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:44.680 of the church. Until I got the phone calls from 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.319 different people and I realized it wasn't a subsection. 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:54.640 It was a cross section. I wasn't dealing with 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:57.759 a subsection of the church. I was dealing with 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:02.640 the cross section. That everything they were 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.400 fighting, every leader was fighting, everybody's 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:09.039 fighting, everybody's fighting. No one gets out 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:23.960 of the battle. I don't know. I wanted to encourage 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:30.859 you today. Oh, let me finish this. Circular thinker, 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.339 right? Maybe I took, when I prayed for you, I 00:24:33.339 --> 00:24:35.099 was taking a little bit for me, like just a little 00:24:35.099 --> 00:24:41.779 organization. Surrender your hearts to him this 00:24:41.779 --> 00:24:45.559 morning. We're going to hear a theme. It's not 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:51.400 going to be, it's going to be a theme. Because 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:55.019 they found in quantum that what it actually proves 00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:59.819 is that man has a free will. The most powerful 00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:05.519 thing you possess is the power to choose. Choose 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:07.119 this day whom you're going to serve. You have 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:09.240 that power today. You could be in here and not 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:11.000 saved. You have the power to choose whether you're 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:14.259 going to go with the Lord. But the doorway to 00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:18.759 that choice to him is surrender. I was teaching 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:20.579 a right -wrong thinking class and I thought I 00:25:20.579 --> 00:25:22.900 was waxing eloquent, had everybody meeting with 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:25.819 the Lord. I went to have a girl share her testimony 00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:27.920 and she finally shared after 10 weeks. She raised 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:31.099 her hand and she said, I just want to share my 00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:33.339 testimony. I said, I want to share that you've 00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:35.160 been talking about surrender for 10 weeks and 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:37.380 I'm still trying to decide if I give my life 00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:39.059 to the Lord, if he'll do a better job with it 00:25:39.059 --> 00:25:44.559 than I can do. So I thought, I was waiting for 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:46.119 her to say that when she was meeting with the 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:48.849 Lord, it was fantastic. And the Lord said that's 00:25:48.849 --> 00:25:50.589 the greatest battle on the planet. I hadn't read 00:25:50.589 --> 00:25:52.529 brain science. I hadn't read anything. I don't 00:25:52.529 --> 00:25:54.269 know anything about quantum. I don't know anything. 00:25:54.509 --> 00:25:57.369 That very statement almost set me to the ground. 00:25:58.190 --> 00:26:02.069 And then the Lord said. That's the biggest enemy 00:26:02.069 --> 00:26:07.730 within people. It's the choice. Or it's the biggest 00:26:07.730 --> 00:26:12.569 blessing. It's the choice. It's just which way 00:26:12.569 --> 00:26:18.369 you choose. And so surrender is a. word that, 00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:20.869 how many like to surrender? Could I have a show 00:26:20.869 --> 00:26:24.230 of hands if you like to surrender? Now, could 00:26:24.230 --> 00:26:25.869 I have a show of hands if you don't like to surrender, 00:26:25.970 --> 00:26:27.930 if you like to have your rights and your way 00:26:27.930 --> 00:26:29.809 and your thing and you are, you know, lift your 00:26:29.809 --> 00:26:33.130 hand up. Don't, not halfway. No, you could. So 00:26:33.130 --> 00:26:37.470 I saw that halfway hand like, whoa. I'm already 00:26:37.470 --> 00:26:40.450 being set free. That's it. That's all God needed. 00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:47.180 He's already in. He's already working. Because 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:52.420 where he works, I can't see. If he's saying something, 00:26:52.579 --> 00:26:54.619 I could be saying this and you're hearing something 00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:57.079 completely different from the Holy Spirit. Or 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:00.279 you're on, I don't know, waiting for a football, 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.019 you know, or whatever. Brain's an interesting 00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:07.480 thing, but God is up to something right now. 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:13.339 He loves us. Man, does he love us. It's crazy 00:27:13.339 --> 00:27:18.079 love. I wanted to come up here and tell you how 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:23.759 much he loved you. I'm sitting down there. How 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:31.299 do you do that? How do you describe that? How 00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:37.160 do you impart that? How is that felt by somebody? 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:43.420 It's so large. We just have to open up to it. 00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:45.579 We just have to embrace change. We just have 00:27:45.579 --> 00:27:48.039 to be willing. We just have to come into this 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:53.019 new knowing that he loves us. I wanted to encourage 00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:55.900 you in prayer today. How many want to be encouraged 00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:58.400 in prayer? You want to be encouraged. How many 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:00.400 have been discouraged in prayer in the past? 00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:02.180 Have they felt a little guilt, condemnation, 00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:04.019 and shame? Could I have a show of hands? See, 00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:10.400 that's... I have like seven hours here of stuff. 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:14.380 We're just highlighting things and just enjoying 00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:19.980 the moment. I want to remind you of one thing. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.740 Prayer is the most resisted activity on the planet. 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.259 So if you've had a hard time with prayer, it's 00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:34.980 because it's resisted. I want to tell you the 00:28:34.980 --> 00:28:39.880 best things in God will be resisted. That's why 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:43.539 we have to go on the, say it with me, offensive. 00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:50.700 We're going to go on the offensive. We're not 00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:52.880 going to stay on the defensive. We're going to 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.400 move into a position and we're going to, all 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.460 we're going to do, I'm only asking you this. 00:28:58.740 --> 00:29:04.579 I make no, pastor asked me to talk on prayer. 00:29:08.170 --> 00:29:13.210 I'm asking you to lean into it. More prayer is 00:29:13.210 --> 00:29:17.609 better than less prayer. Take that to the bank. 00:29:22.369 --> 00:29:25.509 You ever pray that you didn't feel better? You 00:29:25.509 --> 00:29:30.710 ever pray for someone they got worse? They always 00:29:30.710 --> 00:29:40.990 feel better. Prayer. I put down on my notes, 00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:46.309 I wrote these notes this morning on my back. 00:29:46.910 --> 00:29:52.549 Just praying. Every conversation Kelly and I 00:29:52.549 --> 00:30:01.509 had changed me yesterday. There's a law that's 00:30:01.509 --> 00:30:06.529 called entanglement. It's an unusual law. It's 00:30:06.529 --> 00:30:10.970 a scientific law. But it proves that we're one 00:30:10.970 --> 00:30:13.369 body and that we're more entangled than we really 00:30:13.369 --> 00:30:18.049 realize. I don't know how I can feel this close 00:30:18.049 --> 00:30:23.809 to you unless it's supernatural. I don't know 00:30:23.809 --> 00:30:27.490 how we could make that five minute exchange and 00:30:27.490 --> 00:30:31.829 have it change in orientation in my mind. Except 00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:35.309 that it's the kingdom of God advancing. And it's 00:30:35.309 --> 00:30:43.180 us in. Entanglement, we're entangled. It's beyond 00:30:43.180 --> 00:30:46.380 what you, if you try to wrap around what you 00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:49.059 can see, you'll miss it because it's something 00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:52.940 beyond one spirit, one body. We read those things, 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.099 we throw them out there and then we don't, they 00:30:56.099 --> 00:30:59.970 don't, they're. They're in a supernatural realm. 00:31:00.089 --> 00:31:03.029 We have to perceive things from the supernatural, 00:31:03.029 --> 00:31:05.390 from a place where we're positioned with him. 00:31:05.490 --> 00:31:08.170 Because you can't, because how do you know? They 00:31:08.170 --> 00:31:10.890 found atoms in that thing, atoms. And then they 00:31:10.890 --> 00:31:13.490 found, there's like five other names for how 00:31:13.490 --> 00:31:16.450 small it gets. And now it's so small, the science 00:31:16.450 --> 00:31:18.390 is finding, that they just think it's energy 00:31:18.390 --> 00:31:22.529 vibrating. I don't get that. I don't even see 00:31:22.529 --> 00:31:24.809 that in the natural. I can't see that, but that's 00:31:24.809 --> 00:31:28.069 what's holding that wall up. You go out to the 00:31:28.069 --> 00:31:30.829 galaxies. You go the other direction. And that's 00:31:30.829 --> 00:31:33.869 just his creation. And that's two directions 00:31:33.869 --> 00:31:36.869 outside of what you can see. And we can't even 00:31:36.869 --> 00:31:41.089 get that. Now get God. Remember, we have one 00:31:41.089 --> 00:31:46.670 statement. He's God. We're not. We're just on 00:31:46.670 --> 00:31:48.730 a need -to -know basis with him. When we need 00:31:48.730 --> 00:31:52.269 to know it, we'll hear his voice. We'll know 00:31:52.269 --> 00:31:56.539 him and know it's him. And we'll what? Follow 00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:59.480 him. Don't use your brain for anything else. 00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:04.880 That's enough. Get the other clutter out of there 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:06.720 so we can just get that in and you're going to 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:16.220 be a dynamo. God's up to something and he's decluttering 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:21.170 us so he can fill us. Remember, we're going on 00:32:21.170 --> 00:32:23.509 the offense. If it's not a declutter so we can 00:32:23.509 --> 00:32:29.170 look good, it's a declutter for a fill up. I 00:32:29.170 --> 00:32:32.890 had these notes and everything was prayed back 00:32:32.890 --> 00:32:36.750 in that room back there. Every single thing. 00:32:38.190 --> 00:32:41.650 Every single thing. The Lord talked to me this 00:32:41.650 --> 00:32:44.170 morning and I just pecked out on my phone in 00:32:44.170 --> 00:32:52.099 the notes section. Was prayed in that room. Entanglement. 00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:55.180 You just hear something, just a vibration, just 00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:59.680 a Holy Ghost quickening and get up and blow the 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:05.740 room up. God didn't give us a spirit of fear, 00:33:05.819 --> 00:33:08.160 but the enemy would like to stir that up in your 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:13.309 brain. And cause you to be so fragmented and 00:33:13.309 --> 00:33:16.750 thwarted and stopped. And God's over here with 00:33:16.750 --> 00:33:19.529 power, love, and a sound mind. I suggest we just 00:33:19.529 --> 00:33:25.450 embrace change. Don't think you're just how you 00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:28.990 are and that's forever how you are. I'm almost 00:33:28.990 --> 00:33:32.190 out of time. I haven't even got to what prayer 00:33:32.190 --> 00:33:41.140 is. I want to say, I want you to write this down 00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:44.299 if you can. And then I want you to see if you 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:48.720 think it's right. Because I just got it this 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:59.160 morning. I believe this. Prayer is a lot of things. 00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:03.380 It's a lot of things. It's intercession. It's 00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:08.920 this. It's petition. It's a lot of things, but 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.039 I, and I don't want to, I'm not minimizing those 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.619 things. Those are all within this framework of 00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:19.380 what I want to say. It's what I believe. It's 00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:21.559 what I'm feeling, sensing, seeing in Scripture. 00:34:22.699 --> 00:34:31.699 Prayer is a place. We can open up our heart and 00:34:31.699 --> 00:34:38.289 be loved by God. That's what Kelly told me yesterday. 00:34:42.789 --> 00:34:46.989 Told me it was a place. He didn't say it in those 00:34:46.989 --> 00:34:50.070 words. He didn't articulate it. He took five 00:34:50.070 --> 00:34:54.230 minutes, but what I heard this morning was prayer 00:34:54.230 --> 00:34:57.530 is a place. We're seated with him in heavenly 00:34:57.530 --> 00:35:04.230 places. It boils down after it's a place in him 00:35:04.230 --> 00:35:08.190 where our life is hid in him. It's a dynamic 00:35:08.190 --> 00:35:11.550 prayer. We've tried to define it in what we can 00:35:11.550 --> 00:35:14.550 see. And it's not definable that way because 00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:17.610 it's a relationship with him. Prayer is more 00:35:17.610 --> 00:35:21.090 than a prayer we pray. It's an intimate, ongoing 00:35:21.090 --> 00:35:25.210 relationship with him. That's why Paul said pray 00:35:25.210 --> 00:35:29.500 without ceasing. It wasn't separate from the 00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:33.960 relationship. The other is works. But this isn't 00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:37.219 works. Prayer is a work of grace. It's a whole 00:35:37.219 --> 00:35:41.719 dynamic that when we come into it, we want more. 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.719 I thank God. And Abraham were hanging it out. 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:48.840 And the prayer for Sodom and Gomorrah came as 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:51.739 a result of their relationship. And then we pull 00:35:51.739 --> 00:35:54.440 that out. Digest that out. Get that in the natural. 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.460 Then we preach on prayer. And it ceases to be 00:35:57.460 --> 00:36:07.000 what it was. I want to read you a scripture that's 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.940 so mind -boggling. Of course, prayed in the back. 00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:14.400 Because we're all in this entanglement. We're 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:20.380 the body. And may you have the power to understand, 00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:25.159 as all God's people should, how wide, how long, 00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:28.800 how high, and how deep his love is. And this 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.599 is Paul's prayer. This is an eternal prayer. 00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:36.000 This prayer has never stopped being prayed. This 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:40.719 was an organic prayer launched in the writing 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.380 of this book. But it wasn't, it was a prayer. 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:49.409 This is the prayer. May you experience the love 00:36:49.409 --> 00:36:55.090 of Christ. Though it is too great to understand 00:36:55.090 --> 00:36:57.769 fully, beyond your understanding, but you can 00:36:57.769 --> 00:37:04.349 experience it. And when you experience it, it's 00:37:04.349 --> 00:37:09.150 undeniable. It's irrefutable. It's, sorry, I 00:37:09.150 --> 00:37:15.380 already got it. I get it. Anyway. I'm already 00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:18.840 over. Though it is too great to understand. Now 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:23.420 get this. Then it goes on. Then you will be made 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:29.860 complete. This isn't self helps. This isn't God 00:37:29.860 --> 00:37:33.119 helps those who help themselves. This is God 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:39.179 helps those who ask him for help. He's ready 00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:43.389 to help us. Then you will be made complete with 00:37:43.389 --> 00:37:45.369 all the fullness of life and power that comes 00:37:45.369 --> 00:37:50.550 from him. I want to say this one thought. The 00:37:50.550 --> 00:37:55.630 most powerful thing we can do each day. You can 00:37:55.630 --> 00:38:03.090 play. Because I'm ending. It's 1151. The most 00:38:03.090 --> 00:38:08.289 powerful thing we can do each day. Is come to 00:38:08.289 --> 00:38:14.269 God each morning to meet with him. I can't think 00:38:14.269 --> 00:38:19.369 of a more sane thing. Who wakes up clouded in 00:38:19.369 --> 00:38:23.010 the morning? Who wakes up depressed, discouraged? 00:38:26.929 --> 00:38:29.630 Prayer is an intimate, ongoing meeting with God. 00:38:33.309 --> 00:38:40.010 Psalms 90 verse 14 says, remember, I almost had 00:38:40.010 --> 00:38:49.429 a nervous breakdown eight years ago. I was riding 00:38:49.429 --> 00:38:53.829 my bike. The Lord said, the closest you and I 00:38:53.829 --> 00:38:56.289 ever were to dental school. And I flashed back 00:38:56.289 --> 00:38:57.909 to dental school, spending the mornings with 00:38:57.909 --> 00:38:59.630 him, 15 minutes. I didn't go to a charismatic 00:38:59.630 --> 00:39:01.849 church. I didn't know anything. I just went out 00:39:01.849 --> 00:39:07.309 in the woods. He came and I'd fall over and wave 00:39:07.309 --> 00:39:15.150 after wave of his presence. I felt better. And 00:39:15.150 --> 00:39:18.070 I'd go to dental school. People would get saved. 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.579 I didn't even associate that to that morning 00:39:21.579 --> 00:39:26.320 that that's what was happening. Psalms 90, 14 00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:34.460 says this. Satisfy me every morning with your 00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:38.480 unfailing love. I want to read one more scripture. 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.599 Then I'm done. God's love isn't done. I'm just... 00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:53.619 After he talks about depression and paralyzing 00:39:53.619 --> 00:39:59.320 fear, in Psalms 143 he says, let me hear of your 00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:05.599 unfailing love every morning. For I am trusting 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:10.699 you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself 00:40:10.699 --> 00:40:20.320 to you. Surrender. The Bible tells us to grow 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.340 our roots down deep into his love. It's that 00:40:22.340 --> 00:40:26.840 same prayer in Ephesians 3. I believe the roots 00:40:26.840 --> 00:40:29.699 God wants to grow in you in this season are surrender. 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.079 How many are ready to grow? Surrender. Trust. 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.480 How many struggle with trust? Let's grow a root 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.539 down into his love. How many struggle with pride? 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:53.800 Let's grow humility. Let's just get into his 00:40:53.800 --> 00:41:01.159 love. The other root is faith. The other root 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:06.679 is thanksgiving. All are prayers. But it has 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:10.860 to start in the organic place of his love or 00:41:10.860 --> 00:41:21.159 it just works. Go ahead and stand. I have for 00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:26.760 you a first 15 little brochure that you can have. 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.320 It's just a two -page little thing. It's called 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:35.079 the first 15. It's about spending the first 15 00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:38.440 minutes with the Lord in the morning. Just in 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:45.619 unscripted enjoyment of meeting with God. Don't 00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:52.460 make it a duty. Make it an opportunity. Make 00:41:52.460 --> 00:41:54.880 it a time where you can just find a little corner 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.780 somewhere. Get some music with some headphones 00:41:57.780 --> 00:42:00.659 and a little set time, a little set place, a 00:42:00.659 --> 00:42:04.460 little set plan. Oh, 15 minutes won't be enough 00:42:04.460 --> 00:42:06.619 after a while, but just start with 15. It would 00:42:06.619 --> 00:42:09.139 be, just set that alarm. The devil will turn 00:42:09.139 --> 00:42:11.739 it off. There'll be such resistance. Just fight, 00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:15.260 lean in. We're just gonna, what? Just do it. 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.679 Just, let's do this together. It's just lean 00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.849 in to prayer. into His love, into this place 00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:25.949 that He has for you. And I guarantee you this, 00:42:26.110 --> 00:42:30.969 He's going to heal your brain. And you won't 00:42:30.969 --> 00:42:34.750 even have to try. It'll be a product of growing 00:42:34.750 --> 00:42:41.090 your roots into His love. You'll be strong. You'll 00:42:41.090 --> 00:42:43.369 be strong when the wind comes and the rain comes. 00:42:43.429 --> 00:42:45.210 You'll be strong because your roots will be down 00:42:45.210 --> 00:42:49.809 in His love. He loves you so much. You have to. 00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:53.230 How many have struggled with your lovability? 00:42:53.329 --> 00:42:56.110 Just lift your hand up if that's you. Just struggled 00:42:56.110 --> 00:43:01.630 with. Just open. Let's just open up. Just open 00:43:01.630 --> 00:43:05.969 up to his love. Open up to his healing. Open 00:43:05.969 --> 00:43:09.510 up to his help. Open up to his strength. Open 00:43:09.510 --> 00:43:21.750 up to him. He loves us so much. Why don't you 00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:26.510 just bow your hearts, maybe close your eyes this 00:43:26.510 --> 00:43:32.170 morning, open your hands toward heaven. Lord, 00:43:32.349 --> 00:43:38.429 today, in all that was shared, Father, from encouragement, 00:43:38.690 --> 00:43:42.909 the testimonies, Lord, to some nuggets of truth, 00:43:43.050 --> 00:43:47.659 Lord, today we ask. Lord, that prayer would not 00:43:47.659 --> 00:43:50.139 be something we would look at that we have not 00:43:50.139 --> 00:43:54.280 done well or somehow we feel guilty because we 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:58.360 should do more. The whole point of today, Lord, 00:43:58.579 --> 00:44:03.619 is Lord, that we want to know you more. We want 00:44:03.619 --> 00:44:05.820 to move into that place of fellowship. We want 00:44:05.820 --> 00:44:08.639 to move into that place of hearing your voice 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.539 and talking to you and bringing you into our 00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:16.550 daily life, Lord, where you matter. And God, 00:44:16.590 --> 00:44:18.730 I'm praying right now, even as was a challenge 00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:21.429 this weekend at every session. And Lord, it is 00:44:21.429 --> 00:44:24.469 a challenge even this morning that we would every 00:44:24.469 --> 00:44:28.809 day take, Lord, even just a small portion, 15 00:44:28.809 --> 00:44:32.670 minutes. Lord, it's a small amount, but it's 00:44:32.670 --> 00:44:37.550 a significant amount of choice. And we would 00:44:37.550 --> 00:44:43.210 set you first. We'd worship you. We'd bring. 00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:46.460 You into our thoughts and our hearts. We surrender 00:44:46.460 --> 00:44:50.019 to you, Lord, the key of this morning. Prayer 00:44:50.019 --> 00:44:53.980 is about surrender. Prayer is about not my will, 00:44:54.099 --> 00:44:57.460 but your will be done. Prayer is about recognizing 00:44:57.460 --> 00:45:01.260 that I must have you and that you want me to 00:45:01.260 --> 00:45:04.659 ask you into my life. It's not about what I can 00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:07.719 do for you, Lord. It's about you coming into 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:12.280 my life. You're God and I'm not. Lord, infuse 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.579 us this morning with prayer. Lord, I'm praying 00:45:15.579 --> 00:45:18.260 for, Lord, Life Bible Church, I'm praying for 00:45:18.260 --> 00:45:23.340 this. This Sunday, August 14th, Lord, in the 00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:26.519 next six to eight weeks, Lord, there would be 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:31.800 a significant infusion of prayer, of people bringing 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.039 you, Holy Spirit, you, Jesus, you, Heavenly Father, 00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.639 right into the very living room, right into that 00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:43.980 place of privacy, Lord, where everything is open 00:45:43.980 --> 00:45:46.900 to you and we're not ashamed to talk to you. 00:45:48.619 --> 00:45:51.679 Some of us will walk and pray. Some of us will 00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:55.019 get into a closed room where no one can see or 00:45:55.019 --> 00:45:59.340 hear. Some of us will just find our own place. 00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:03.579 But Lord, every one of us needs, Lord, that place 00:46:03.579 --> 00:46:06.119 of encounter, that place of relationship, that 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:12.800 place of knowing you. Lord, we throw off, Lord, 00:46:12.900 --> 00:46:19.960 the old things as we heard today. Not the cherished 00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.480 things, the treasured things, the things of God, 00:46:22.579 --> 00:46:26.079 but Lord, the old mindsets that look to put burdens 00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:29.139 and shackles, that look to put religious works 00:46:29.139 --> 00:46:33.480 over our minds. Today, in Jesus' name, Lord, 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:38.340 we ask for the love of God to draw us to the 00:46:38.340 --> 00:46:41.460 place like you did with Adam and Eve, the walking 00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:45.139 in the garden. Lord, you walk in the garden of 00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:50.869 our heart. Come to you each morning and put you 00:46:50.869 --> 00:47:03.989 first. In Jesus' name, amen. 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