Dan Mohler @ Grove CC - 3 - Saturday Q&A - June 9, 2018

real-life examples of living out love so we so we can see what it looks like in the context of school work marriage parenting friendships that's a lot of different potential examples but yeah I realize example is I practically start a family a family there's a concept of family it's covenant is everybody together makes a part of something individuals your personality's still harder holds that in a church now that's become part of the vision of a group to see something come to pass understand that you're participating in something for a common goal that all obviously Christian family so the peacemakers if you're looking to make peace for Sudanese walk love bringing a self-centered side of it then you superblock okay let's get this straight there's no selfishness you go to that server that so practically going to live in a feminist in a family workplace you you have to understand this selfless place that you're growing to you are like and if you're not thinking for yourself this is maybe something they've got a story made himself of no reputation be honest most of us have been driven to seek limitation to be noticed have a name a lot of times of the Turkish meat you can't just give a mic to anybody because they want to manifest they want to be noticed because we have these deficits it needs not like we have to surrender all that so it looks like your peace leader in your home remember the day I said you don't you don't live at the expense of anyone you don't cop an attitude in your home that puts pressure on the other people in your home but you don't just storm off to your room and refuse to respond because you're frustrated you got to get a grip on yourself and say wait a minute what am i accomplishing I'm actually teaching myself I'm causing everybody just submit to my attitude right now watch this even if your family was wrong where do you get the capacity to function outside of Jesus are you following that Christians we have to understand this we're not we're not letting sin against us decide our response we're letting Jesus decide our response so we're making peace we're gonna love animosity you have to settle in your heart animosity isn't a part of my life if you're a spouse I don't care honestly I don't mean I don't care that I don't care it doesn't matter that's a better phrase so you don't misunderstand my I don't care it doesn't matter if your spouse is contentious you don't ever have to be these are simple practical examples right into home you have to have recognized that if your spouse really knew Jesus really knew Jesus was walking with Jesus your spouse wouldn't be that way that should break your heart not frustrate your heart because your spouse is living in deficit every day don't fuel that fire put it out and don't become a product of that deficit and don't let the weakness become weakness in you you can live fulfilled I found this in my Bible oh my goodness I read this book it's amazing Ephesians three it says this it says to know to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge is to be filled with all the fullness of God isn't that what we've all searched for isn't that what we've wanted whether we've known and are not fullness completeness in our life we've been living from deficit we've been driven we've been in survival mode we've been trying to make it we hanging in there how you doing brother hanging in there what is that stop hanging in there I hope the sandal strap at least don't let go it could be a long drop is hanging in there no no to know the love of Christ it passes knowledge is to be filled with all the fullness of God so I look at the word fullness and it means a house with no empty rooms it means a town with no empty house that's a bigger picture it means a ship so full of cargo that there's no place to put another box fullness that means you're a house with no empty rooms there's no vacancy in you you're fully and completely occupied in knowing his love not the treatment of your family members knowing his love knowing his love decides how you respond in a family you overcome evil with good you never repay evil for evil some practical examples people treat you unjust at work at home people treat you unfair you never react to unfair you sometimes you take it on the cheek sometimes you turn the other cheek that doesn't enable we think we're enabling people no sometimes people actually know what they did sometimes they see you didn't react convicts them amazingly sometimes people are frustrated and they feed off of you being frustrated is this amazing how people have lived it's a psychological war path sometimes out there some people bring their family stuff in the work and they're mean and they're mad and they love it if you were mad cuz they're mad and if you don't get mad they get madder for a while but after a while they're fascinated by how you don't change so I'm at work my boss says I get saved so I worked 13 years it's just one of the guys so I pill fridge I worked in a food warehouse it was times I ate things broke open things salt things broke open and ate it when the lights went out it's not a joke when lights when we had powder out it at power outages me and two guys would run to the crab meat section we know how to get there in the dark we would run to the crab meat section when I wasn't saved and then we were bust open crab meat and when the lights would come on the place smelled like crab meat and you smelled like crab meat but because they didn't see you eating it you can't get crab off you a man we got it in us we cans have got cans just globs of crab meat stuffing like pigs in the dark it's amazing what happens in the dark it's someone I got saved I did this general assessment I don't know hockey was but I tried to make it a little above and I actually felt like I robbed the company of stole about $700 worth of food from the company over the years 13 years just breaking open cases so I went to my supervision the head guy in the plant and I apologized and repented and confessed that I had done these things for 13 years that Jesus changed my life and but I need to make this confession I can't live in a secret and I had a check written personal check to the company for that amount to reimburse them for what I had stolen and if he felt like it was right through my confession to terminate me that would be his call but I assured him I was a different man and I would do my work unto the Lord but I want to make peace and do this right I was practical I made a wrong thing right in the sight of men I took responsibility for something I was doing saying it's not me anymore and I'm so sorry it's the only way I know to make it right and you look me and I'll show you I'll never happen again he's so respected that it freaked him out he was like you're confessing this you want to pay me a check for I said absolutely it's my conscience before the Lord I'd be honored if you take it he says there's no way I'm taking it I'm excited that you've changed and I went oh okay so so I started you know his Union its precarious things its seniority it's hey you don't have to do this job bump it down hey you don't have it so the bottom guy gets all the the junk and I started realizing that I'm thinking the poor bottom guy like the bottom guy he might have he might have got hired two weeks later than you and he's getting the worst job because he's two weeks later than you and Union is so like big on that stuff that the employees and so I'm Union now and and the boss just started to read me as a yes man and they would be like well Dan I'll just do anything we say he said yes man he's a pushover now we'll just give him all the garbage it's easy nobody will fight us nobody will have to yell us we'll just give him all the junk so they'd call me up and I had a pretty good seniority and they'd call me thirteen years under my belt they call me up and say here I got a load for you here I got a backhoe for you here and he'd give me some real super undesirable across the board to the workers job and I'd look and I'd say Thank You boss appreciate it and I was glad to have a job I went and tore that thing up bang boom did it under God I'd back up and get another one my co-workers started to get mad at me so got the bosses playing me because I'm a yes-man now the co-workers a man cuz I won't bump it down and they're saying I'm gonna threaten them and they're gonna have to do what I'm doing and they're gonna have to and I'm gonna end up changing the union laws are you kidding me you can bump it down if you want stop you guys are reacting right so I didn't snap one of my just said guys you're so reacting what do you throw my I want to do the job what do you mean you want to do the job that's a piece of garbage you don't want to do that job what went down to Johnny so Johnny should always have to do the garbage cuz he's in that position Johnny doesn't have to come to work and do this every day come on I'll do it I'm glad they're giving me this job I can do it I explained Jesus stall look he never did anything wrong and he hung on the cross for me I can do this load for Johnny and there wasn't a guy in there even if he didn't agree that couldn't understand in here what I was saying so you know what happened in a couple of weeks cuz see you could just you could just go with the flow and make it easy okay I'll just bump it down hey I'm just here I just want peace I want you guys off my back the bosses are using me they think I'm a yes-man so giving me the garbage everyday you could think that if you want and then go and sing hallelujah and raise two hands what's up girl live that way I'm going to take the thing big bank we'll do it under the Lord spare Johnny and tell my co-workers to jail you know what happened in the course of two years probably more than I realize or could number of my coworkers got born again a supervisor shortly after this whole scenario called my home on my day off and asked if he could talk to me in a mealy-mouthed voice and tentative and I said man you call it it's okay talk to me what's going on he said I don't understand how you the way you do I said what do you mean he said this is Moe it's just the way you live he said if I was in your shoes I'd be frustrated I'd be mad I can tell the bosses are using you they think you're yes-man and then your coworkers are mad at you for doing what they ask and you're in the middle and you never change and he's frustrated on the phone and he said I know you're gonna tell me it's Jesus but I don't understand I said oh I can explain you got a minute and he said yeah and I begin to talk and next thing you know he just drives over to my home sits um our porch cries and gets born again why because I took the load it's just simple and because the next day I took the load and I took the next one and the next one and because my attitude was different it wasn't as hard as you think before I was saved that load I would have thought it was going to kill me I would have dreaded the load it would have seemed like it was going to take me three hours to do it I'm saved I'm knock it out in an hour and a half and feel great give me the next one that's roll man your whole perspectives changed in love because it's never ever about you it's about others and most of all his great name and then I wish we'd honor that more than anything when you're a Christ gen you're saying I represent Christ that isn't your theology it's your life your theology that's a head not a headshake theology means nothing to people if they can't see what you say in your life they'll never want what you say practical at home it takes two to tango settle in your heart you refuse to argue with your spouse no matter what no matter how wrong they are no matter how right you are right and wrong is a lie in the world God didn't come in rightness he came in righteousness if God came in rightness were wrong what's the difference then righteousness makes wrong things right righteousness is a view that makes things guilty not guilty gives hope redemption rightness just makes you wrong well you did this well you should have never done that well why'd you do that rightness leaves you wrong righteousness that makes you right why wouldn't I want to if he wills his kingdom with righteousness why wouldn't I want to see all men through that I if he saved me through righteous judgment why wouldn't I want to live in righteous judgment why would not want to give somebody the benefit of the doubt give him a chance to change even when I know they're wrong why wouldn't I just give him a chance to change and trust the goodness that I did in their life would tweak their heart enough to bring them conviction and bring change to their performance so you know somebody's miss handling something miss contacting some well I want you to step into their life in their needy in you well you brought this to yourself you should have listened I know you brought this on yourself I know you've been living out of order listen you've you've lacked responsibility for a while man look I feel bad enough no no I'm not saying that to make you feel worse I'm just recognizing that I think you really realized that I do but I need change listen what you need is right now we'll just get this off of your shoulders this is too big of a burden to bear you bear one another's burdens it says but each man carries his own load you still have to walk out in your life but I can step in and say let me help you with that I'll tell you what I'm gonna pay that off if you can just it practically so I'm gonna pay that off you see I ain't paying that off they live so how to order yeah and I'm hoping they know that now and the fact that I'm gonna pay it off is the same as Jesus come into my life and pay me off you get what I'm saying and you say listen I love this bless you I'll pay that off and I won't be a voice in your life if you let me in and accelerator in and he'd do something like that for them before they've proved any change see sometimes that's the very key that brings change because when they were untrustable you trusted in the sense that they could produce different when now I'm not talking about putting your trust in them in the way that they could break your heart we already covered that what I'm saying is you're just believing this a long little gesture could touch them in such a way a goodness it could bring change in their life and lead to repentance and if it doesn't isn't it good to help because if they don't do right and you have to talk to them about it and say listen obviously just paying off your bills not the answer we really need help good guys you need to sit down we really need a plan you need a budget you need some control self-control new life and you probably need somebody to don't feel like children in this she's kind of earned this you need somebody to help oversee your decisions before I even do that I'll just help them and Trust help itself we'll bring change I don't know how many know my buddy Todd white didn't knows that Todd White's my buddy and that we have history and roots and stuff when he went to Teen Challenge the day he went to Teen Challenge his girlfriend's at the time Jackie got a sheriff sale in their property but she called me livid furious she said she didn't believe in God or anything and she's livid and she's like what am I supposed to do with this you know you you encouraged him to go this program and I know you're trying to help him but he's up here in Teen Challenge now here he is at a resort eating three meals a day sleeping and pray and cut me a break I'm carrying the weight of this family and I got a share of sale and he's robbed us of everything we have and now I'm gonna lose the family inheritance and we're gonna lose this property she's furious and I said listen I'm sorry everything you're saying happened and I realized he's made terrible horrible decisions Jackie honey you got to hold on to something you gotta hold on to the fact that people can change and gods into the changing people business and I just kind of encourages that people can change and I hit her a long time back before a week or two before that you're still in this relationship and I know why because you have a baby together and somewhere deep down in your heart your hope and this can work and be different she's cried her eyes out so I knew what she was sitting on so I had an ace in the hole so he dawned on me while I'm on the phone oh my goodness I said well how much do you owe if you're losing your property so you must be way behind she said no she said we're only two months behind she said we've been behind so many times that they've cut off the the slack they're not cutting there's a break anymore and they said if we ever get past one month if it goes into the second month their share of selling it and they're done working with us because we've been in this thing so much because they've left to get months behind and a family member comes up with the money and then Todd stays high and they're broke again and then they're finally nobody wants to help you get it so I showed up at their house and I had an envelope and I had a check made out in the amount she told me what their monthly mortgage was I said so you only owe that twice she said that's it but I don't have it he stowed it all and I don't have it she's bawling and that's it honey I just wanna come over and pray with you and sit with you and talk about a couple things she said well I show up at her house and I had I said hey I'm glad you let me come over mm-hmm I said first I want to give you this I didn't know how to make it out to but just and she opened it up and she said what is this I said well it's what you love I just don't know who to make it to my wife and I agreed I talked to her and she was excited about helping she was excited yeah I asked her I told her what I had in my heart she was like oh my goodness do it she said wait a minute what and I said yeah we want to pay it off we want to save your property for you and and I just believe good things are ahead of you guys and she started crying she cocked her head you got her say she calls me angry she's frustrated but she doesn't understand you don't judge her for her attitude she doesn't understand she knows nothing but hardship pain and life I say I know Jesus I probably ought to do better than talk about him like probably oughta manifest him and when she's yelling me at the phone I probably shouldn't take it personal and feel slighted well here I am trying to help him and she don't appreciate it and if he don't appreciate it well I don't appreciate that hello come on I'm just being real the whole time I got understand forgive her father they know not what they do she's not being willful she's not being malicious she's not being evil she's overwhelmed and it's all she knows but when you show up with that envelope it's amazing what that stuff does she said she's trembling Wow like this see cuz it's what Jesus does Jesus Sonny he loves you she said I said it's pretty easy can we prepare she started coming to church got to pray in and seeking the Lord that before Todd left Teen Challenge the Lord said Todd's coming home don't be afraid I've changed him she heard it in prayer she's 8 weeks holding the Lord she heard it in prayer she's like Todd's coming home you're not supposed to leave child team challenge in two months it's a year-long program he gets a vision of dream three nights in a row happened to be the same dream his grandfather got when his grandfather was 20 couple years old as an alcoholic the same Zach dream and when his family was thinking he's now he's one extreme to the other he's he's the devil in the flesh and now he's Christian cuckoo they're like why can't you just find something in the middle that makes us all happy where are you mr. extreme either destroying everybody's life or trying to save everybody it's like why why don't you just camp in the meadow on be in the middle because there is no middle you the former against him either gatherer you scat there's no metal it's black or white you get grey it's because you mix the two colors there's no fence you sit on the fence it belongs to the devil it's compromised Todd's over Thanksgiving he's crying out his heart and a Tony won't talk to him they're like you are a Christian kook and he says no you don't understand I had a dream that his grandma said what do you mean now him his grandma and his aunt are sitting there crying their eyes out because they know it was Papa's dream is the exact dream you know what grandma said when she heard the dream because she she's just reacting to what she doesn't understand you better be big enough in love to understand that people are reactionary when they don't understand don't take it personal be more secure be more completing Christ than people's reactions don't get excited about something because the three people you love the most aren't that excited don't lose your excitement don't run to them to get them to participate and if they don't you're crushed are you kidding me you have a greater revelation than that I hope this simple stuff that they say her division and then they they balled and cried and said you had the same dream as Papa that's amazing and he said what and she told and he cried and cried and cried and he'll what grandma said min ago she thinks he's a Christian cuckoo guess what grandma said you know what I think Todd I think Papa never fulfilled what God called him to he just stopped drinking through the dream but he never went on and did what God had for him I think that all came upon you and from then on grandma began to pray for Todd and appreciate his salvation practical Todd I watched him so many times he was just barely saved I saw his father-in-law come up to him and say you ain't fooling me with all this Jesus stuff you're a loser and you're always gonna be hiding behind all these Christian words I'm standing right there he's like well dad don't call me dad oh you I was right there Stanton well come on you are my dad stop I just did these things and I realize it and I'm sorry I know you can't receive that but you'll see time hotel you'll see I love you don't say you love me less than a year later our family gathering he interrupts when they asked Todd to pray because he's the Christian pray over the food well you're the one going to church now out of all of us how about you praying for the food isn't that funny and when Todd's ready to pray father-in-law steps up and says wait Todd don't pray and Jackie's like oh no what's dad gonna do he starts bawling and crying and says can you forgive a full year ago I said you'll never change and I was wrong you're an amazing man and I honor you and I'm sorry I was wrong come on Todd could have took exception cause Todd could have got insecure he could have tried to prove him wrong where shed he could add some kind of spite in his heart and ha ha I told you salad he just wept and they held each other and Jackie said it was a blubbering mess they just cried like babies and she was crying simple practically you can't take life personal there's no selfishness in love and there's no love in selfishness you can't complain you you can't mix complaining and love complaining means you're not satisfied you're not happy doesn't mean you have to agree with everything but you know what I mean by complaining to her it affects your attitude to where you start feeling sorry for yourself or angry about unfairness or will this ain't right or I shouldn't have to well why do they gotta love never does that guys the Bible says when you complain you set yourself up to be destroyed by the destroyer devoured by the one that devours force Corinthians 10 oh it's there complaining is a dead giveaway that you're still about you and things don't suit you that would be like Jesus sitting on the Mount of Olives on a rocks and I just don't think people like me Lord I mean I try to do right I hear people how much more do I got to do I mean I raised Lazarus from the dead and now they want to kill him again at me I just don't think they love is God I'm not sure why we care so much about him it sure don't seem like they care about us I mean I do good and they talk bad about me I mean you shouldn't even let me hear their thoughts their thoughts are not pleasant come on would you be secure enough to hear every man's thoughts Wow see he ought to look at that Jesus perceived their thoughts and it didn't change him there was a time the Lord was showing me a vision about some things very personal couple visions he said you know why I'm showing you these things I said so I can pray he said I'm showing you cuz I can't he said cuz you'll never respond like a man you'll respond like me and that's where he taught me that he can tell himself anything and have I become one with his heart I'm in there's things God can't even show us because we'll react to him instead of respond in him he's a good God he's loving he's amazingly solid yeah wouldn't it be amazing to walk in the heart of God to where you're just in and he can show you things freely I've been in situations where I knew who touched the young girl I even knew their name I knew how old they were and didn't even know the young girl in public so that God could rescue him from the lie that was paralyzing their lives he's not going to give him that insight if you're gonna see her wrong or see her different he's gonna give you that insight because you're gonna love her and weep over her and hold her when she falls on you just like he would and right there he's going to deliver her not in four months after 12 more sessions forgive her I'm sorry but right there he's going to deliver her yeah why would he show you that stuff cuz he can so our goals become in love so you're a peacemaker you toned down a harsh word with a kind word sometimes you're wise enough to say nothing there was a time my wife was not happy with me when I first got saved because we were blown apart and I lived like the devil and all of a sudden I'm a Christian surrendered praying in my room she did not handle that very well you think she'd have been happy no she already took a redirection in her life and she cut me off and figured this is over and she ain't backtracking and all of a sudden I come and tell her I'm saved and she thinks it's a slap in the face she thinks 13 years I pray for you to get saved we finally call it quits and I muster up the to say yeah and harden myself enough to walk out of this thing and now you want to come and pull this and you're finally saved up for all these years too late but how even if you are forget it well I didn't get saved for her to come back I was celebrating we weren't together I was very presumptuous proud fella I I wasn't sorrowing my marriage falling apart I was celebrating that it was bad I celebrated it to her face it was bad told her I wasted 13 years of my life with her that's pretty bad brutal now I'm born again and realize how much I value her and that she did nothing wrong went the extra extra mile and was more of a Christian than I ever realized and was a peacemaker and that I spewed on her for 13 years and it broke my heart and I realized for the first time my life I loved her because love came inside of me so now I'm safe so I come out of my bedroom she's standing there like this you make me so sick you live like that Devil for 13 years and now you're some holy man a god I don't think so that's where you go like that you know what you could say I guess you could say welcome you know God forgives God changes you got to really be careful for hard heart or a root of bitterness if you would continue to pray so you're even mad at God if you just continue to pray and seek the Lord you'd be able to see that God really is changing my life but instead you're sitting back in your pain and your eat and seeing me for everything I did for you and you're missing who I'm becoming and and everything I said could have actually been right but alway would have been wrong I'd have probably lost my eyeballs I'd be preaching to you today like this unless God really moved so you got sometimes love just does this because you perceived where the heart is and it's not time to speak and you want to make sure you know how we've always tried to win a conversation to get the last word or do that little jab there's just a little statement that has a little bling to it that's a good sign that you're very alive and you need to die because you're trying to win yeah you're upstaging somebody you're trying to win you're speaking down on I mean it's nothing like Jesus yeah sometimes you need to just know enter yeah so there's all kinds of discernment we need but here's here's the simple thing about this long answered question when when you're seeking God to become more like him and you're putting off the things that you know are self-centered and you're putting on the things that you know are God a lot of these things unfold in the moment they're in the happening there's no real textbook on them we're not a bunch of robots it's not do this do this do this do this it's become this and this will take definition yeah are you with me and you'll discern in a moment people are individuals people are in all different levels you can't sit down and listen to somebody and how they handled and responded in their marriage and try to do what they did because your marriage could be in a whole different place and your spouse could be in a whole different place their spouse was yeah there's no textbook answer other than basic general principles of what love is and what love looks like but you guard your heart from offense love keeps your heart free from offense you're always questioning the why and what you're saying and doing and make sure it's pure because the pure & härtel chic see God right and they're the sons of God right so you weigh yourself in those things and that's how you can test if you're really growing in a right and healthy direction and you just love not your own life unto death it's not hard I don't know why we think that's hard you get alone with God and you did start declaring it father I thank you that you never created me for me you created me for your image in your glory and man I've been driving this car running the ship for a long time i man I just thank you that it's all yours and no one no one on this earth owes me a thing like I'm going to bed tonight and thankfulness when I wake up tomorrow there's one reason that I'm gonna rise if I rise tomorrow Mercy's gonna let me rise to just have one more day to be more like you I want to be like you I want to shine I want to walk in love Holy Spirit I welcome you and I thank you Holy Spirit for the conviction in my everyday life to respond to people and to address people exactly as you would if you were in my shoes and since you're in me you are so I thank you for loving them through me that's the way I've talked for years to the Lord just wake up in the morning Wow thank you for another day not oh boy I another day come on we've called that prayer six o'clock already you got to be kidding me I already slept it all God you got to give me grace I'll never get through and if that boss I'm telling you God if you let him talk to me like he talked to me yesterday I'm gonna quit let me pull this book and then you say you prayed that morning I don't think you pray I think you're in a self-centered cried delusional session I don't think your voices in the bowls of incense in a bowl could use some incense I'm sorry you guys okay but that's not prayer that's perspective see so twisted and all the sudden it's just all about you getting through your day and Ryan the complaints and you call it prayer God you need to give me grace and find then at night you go through your bed Oh God thank you and you grab your pillow and hold it because you survived that's a good way to have a hard time getting up yeah no you sit on the edge of your bed and you're thankful no matter how things unfolded thankful that you know truth and even somebody judged you wrong saw you wrong retreated you wrong while I'm so glad God I never have to be a product of how men treat me anymore I'm a product of what you've done and who you are in me this is amazing to live free thank you that no one owes me a thing on this earth and I owe no man anything but to love and love fulfills the law it does no harm to a neighbor man I'm having a blast thanks for living inside of me why is that hard it's so not hard and then you wake up in the morning and you're married and you have children while father thank you that today I can be a light in an example I asked for wisdom in every situation and I just thank you in my case I'm a guy so it's a life and if you're a girl it's a husband but I just thank you that my spouse that's just used spouse I thank you that my spouse owes me absolutely nothing today I'm privileged just shine and love and to serve and even help empower to bring out the best in her life and and god I appreciate you for the wisdom to do so and even if we don't agree today on something I thank you I can value her value even her opinion to the extent that I always love her and value the person she's created to be thank you for these eyes you've put inside of me see I don't know if you know this but you're talking to a guy see and I'm talking from a place where for eight years my wife believed one strong line it through into identity crisis I'm full-time pastor she won't even come to church she won't even answer the telephone when people call to try to help her and says they're only calling because I'm so messed up spewed on me countless times accused me of things that were totally outside the box and was lost in the lie of her own value in life and said people don't love me they love you I'm just your wife the only reason they say hi to me is cuz I'm with you if I wasn't with you no one would know I was in the room that's a good way to trash yourself so my wife lived that way for eight years lost her desire to receive love lust desire the intimacy thing hello I know fellas out there two days is a stretch three days as we got a talk I am NOT on the earth for her to love me I'm on the earth to be like Jesus so wouldn't you say in these eight years that my wife is in trouble would you say she's in trouble would you say she really needs a revelation of Jesus and his love well guess where he lives right inside of me and I live in her home so now is probably not the time to be a frustrated husband calling for counsel and saying how long is this going to last and how long can I bear this weight and if she doesn't change soon I don't know what I'm supposed to do because I can't live like this anymore well if God said that about your life when you weren't living in him you'd be in big trouble there's a good practical example of love eight years you say eight years don't make eight years the point truth doesn't no time you told me this could go on for years I ain't telling you anything I'm telling you truce this truth hookup the truth watch this whether it's eight years or it never changes don't talk like that now I'm gonna talk like that especially because you're afraid of me talking like that that means you got to grow in something whether it's eight years two months or it never changes it doesn't change truth so why would you change you might not know this but at the very same time my two children made terrible decisions and for some reason is they ear thing happened to all three of them altogether I'm in a family of four that's three so if you're not secure and you don't understand things where did I fail I can't even Stuart my family how can i Stuart the church and you don't understand that everybody needs their own revelation of God and they're all living in a moment of weakness and all believing their own respective lives it's not because I was a hypocrite it's not cuz I was going to church preaching one thing and living something else at home because they're only all struggling within their own self in a demonic war over truth so guess what I should do stand in truth so if my own kids won't let me hug them I'll just hug yours yours are just as important they cost the same it's amazing you can even preach this stuff in church we're so sentimental we actually believe our own children are more valuable than other people's children they're all cost the same they all cost the blood of Jesus they all have eternal life and eternal destiny the only difference is they have an inheritance with in your bloodline in your family but they're no more valuable your kids are no more valuable than your neighbors kids you're just bias God's love he taught me this stuff a long time ago I could hug your kids like they're my own I promised I could hug you like you're my own family why I know your value He shed his blood to redeem your life whether you know who you are not I know who you are that's why people don't bother me and get under my skin I got new skin I talked to people in public and I tell them I love them they see you kids say you love me you don't even know me you just met me you don't even know my name I don't have to know your name to love you I know why you're here I know you're the will of God there's a time to be born and here you are you're created you have a purpose the destiny and Jesus shed his blood for you you are the plan of God the fact that you're standing in front of me is the yes of God right there and you're worth his blood and he wants his life in you so yeah I love you freaks people out they think I have to know him for six months and get to know him decide if I even like them before I can say I love them I can love you on-site just telling you because of the truth that I understand that's why people don't frustrate me it's practical it's love you lay down your life for people take the back seat give show mercy make peace practical I fly on airplanes if there's an over sale and there's times I need to get home and I want to get home or I've been on a long trip there's times where I have a cake flight and it's an easy flight and there's an over sale and somebody's crying because they can't get on the plane they're gonna get my seat why they're gonna get my seat they're overwhelmed they don't fly much I fly all the time so I have to wait three hours to get on the next plane I'm gonna get them home because they don't know how to handle the dilemma they're in there young lady they think they're going to spend the night in Chicago or Detroit they're overwhelmed I probably ought to give them my seat that's the stuff I do it's practical you ask and the gate age it's like why would you give them your seat like you have a confirmed seat nobody gives their seat I said yeah that's probably a problem isn't it ma'am it's like nobody gives their life but one gave his life for me here's the real truth I say it all the time to people here's the raw truth honey somebody took my seat a long time ago and gave me theirs to give them my seat on this plane is a small thing his name is Jesus honey he changed my life that's I had one gate agent start crying she said she called me to the gate and wanted to know if she could switch out my seat and I had 10 a-and it's that the bulkhead of first-class it's a living room you can that's 10 a right there I fly right there is 10 a buddy you're looking at California to the East Coast you can think 10a that was a gift from the Lord get behind me Satan here you think the gate agents the devil and spiritual eyes it trying to take my blessing you ain't cutting into my blessing no I'll get behind me girl I'm sitting in ten a nobody taken with the Lord gave you better be careful how you preach she said she said sir I'm really are you flying alone I said yes ma'am here's what you don't know on the way out there I gave my seat you know what's cool I don't pick my seats because then I don't have to give my seat I just let the computer sit me and I fly all the time I have status I could enter on the red carpet I usually go through the pagan line it's just hilarious what we do red carpet then she shuts that lien and opens the other Lane general boarding pagans commoners lowlife no life get in line because everybody that matters is already on the plane with the best seats I'll sit by the pooper if the computer puts me there you know why because somebody has to I'll sit in the middle if the computer puts me there you know why somebody has to why can it never be you prefer customer when the gospel says lay down your life so on the way out you you might not even believe this is this too crazy of a story practical long answer you turn the corner you got 10a on the way out you got 10a it's for real you're like god that's 10a it's a living room 10a remember that if you fly no no give it to somebody else so it's not going to have 10a I was happy 10a I turned the corner there's a man from India sitting in my seat I knew he was a straight-up full-blooded man from India cuz the lady beside him has a little red thingy and the lady beside her little red thingy they were dressed colorful and I thought oh these folks are straight from India and I said well hey sir and I looked I did what everybody does I looked at my ticket uh-huh I know this is ten yeah there's a guy in my sea it was like the three bears somebody's in my bear and he spoke a little broken English he said oh you this your seat and I said yes sir ten a yes yes I was hoping I was hoping you would let me sit here with my family and you switch with me and take my seat I said stay with your family that's a no-brainer buddy I said I'll take your seat where are you at he said 30 e do you realize these the middle so you don't fly much it's a six seater a b c d es b e middle thirty I'll say you got it buddy enjoy the flight I'm glad you can all stay together didn't even blink I know 30s the middle I know it's way back there by the pooper and I took my little stick in my little bag that you don't understand this but when I go back I'm not being rude there's two ladies in the aisle and the window and there are much larger than the seat not being rude the very large ladies there's no way you're putting down the armrest no way and I looked and there's my seat and I said hey girls so much fun I'm like hey girls I'm in there and they're nervous they already know they're no they're heavy oh you heard they know that somehow the computer put them both in the same row it's like a nightmare they're like oh my goodness who's gonna sit here the little skinny guy from India he would have fit he's in my living room he's back in my house and I'm taking his house and I just had fun with it I said well girls I'm that's my seed that's it I said okay I said it looks like we're gonna be close and intimate on this ride we're gonna get to know each other girl so now I was laughing just having a light all the time they're like oh turn I was warm the whole I don't even put down the thought I just popped on the ladies I just have fun and next thing you know you talk about Jesus next thing you know you pray with one of them it's just all right I was warming and I was locked in I didn't even need my seat belt on that one how was this was this hidden so now we're leaving I get called to the gate I got 10 a on the way home I'm like Lord are you serious you put me back in today cuz I don't pick my seat you put me in 10 a oh my goodness I gave 10 air you put me in 10 a that's sweet damn all or come to the desk are you traveling alone sir I am she rolls her eyes sir up I have a favorite ass I said you want to keep a family together do you need my seat well yes that's what I was gonna I said honey if it's keeping a family get her to no-brainer I said sure I'll give my seat you say what you didn't even ask what seat I have for you I said does it matter totally absurd thought to a gate agent does the see diamond matter she's like that's the highest blasphemy in the airport she goes well I would certainly think it matters yeah that's because that's what every customer projects but if I'm keeping us his family together and I'm taking a seed it wouldn't be true giving if it mattered what seed I get in exchange she said sir I've never met anybody with the mindset you have that perspective and I said that's probably sad isn't it she put her eyes and well yeah I said isn't amazing how everyone's for themselves I said can I tell you where I got this perspective she said yeah because that's a very rare view I said a long time ago and a porter in I hook lining I'm a fisherman anyway I said a long time ago there was this man and I was in a seat that was so undesirable and there was no way to get out of it and he came and he took me out of my seat and put himself in it and sat me where he sits she's like he did his name is Jesus and she went oh that's the most beautiful thing I ever heard she started crying and I said yeah and he changed my life through it and I'm gonna live like he lives and be like he is I said give me your hands I want to pray for you she gave me her hands mr. sires no I'm just kidding just kidding I'm just kidding I didn't do that see you like that you people like that like see you people they like that yes why do you like that so much so so I was like praying with her and she's just weeping and sobbing and after we were all done she looked up and smiled and said you know what I said what she said I had a window seat for you anyway I said aw bless your heart she gave it to me and through this so glad I met you who knows that one little encounter watch I'm not even thinking ministry I'm just being me and that's so evangelistic it's ridiculous I'm not even thinking of analyzing because when you think evangelizing you're probably a robot when you're living Jesus it probably waxed the human heart yeah okay I'm sorry that was an hour it's a long question their question and answer we got through one but isn't that book question like I said everywhere I go guys see I'm still going now look no listen seriously if we miss this yeah honestly if we miss this we've missed the whole reason that he came and we did a lot of church and failed to become her what a bummer this is what we're here for yeah it really doesn't cost you anything cuz there's such a joy in living this way if you have the finances if you have the means and you're ever in a grocery line and you take notice to somebody and you realize they probably work hard she might be a single mom rather than say well wonder why she's single and got them babies you might want to just take your card when they bring her bill and all them groceries and just reach up and just swipe it like that and just step back it's so cuz the clerk gets freaked out like sir that was her and the lady's like sir you just swipe your card at my bill yeah I know why would you do because I wanted to cuz Jesus just spoke tomorrow and said bless her I want to pay her bill and encourage her honestly honey I feel like this has been a time where you've been a little pressed and finances have been a little tight and I think this will really bless you today and it's my honor to love you in Jesus this way so just say thank you and just move on in your day and be blessed he loves you so it's in the clerk can't even function I'm just telling you it's fine when you don't think for yourself life actually gets fun when you think for yourself anxiety worry trouble yeah when you don't think for yourself oh my derivative it's just out fun doesn't cost you anything just to lay down what you never were created for anyway and pick up what you're here for the simple little things true story in a grocery line eighteen year old little clerk she's just learning first job she's training and she's on her own today because she was training you're about six back it's busy he might be eight back and she hits a wrong key and she don't know how to get out of that day and she's got a call a manager to come and neutralize things and get things back on track so she can keep working and the grunts and the noises that come out of the row of people are amazing the looks the unspoken body language the inner frustration coming out in the face and there's a little frail eighteen year old girl under pressure so she has two options break and fall apart or harden herself and say who cares and gives a flip about them so you're forcing your into being one or the other so guess what you do when you're a Christian and maybe seven of those people in line maybe a couple of them actually go to church and they're going oh well help it's gonna be a long no no no well get home for supper huh she hears all that she sees it she hears it she's under more pressure she can't think she's gonna hit another button wrong and then you're gonna blame her so guess what you do right in front of the line true stories not analogies excuse me honey hey listen I don't want you under that much pressure and you make your way past everybody I realize sometimes we get impatient we don't even see the value of human beings and people you're very young as this is one of your first job you just get past training you're pretty new and even somebody that's been ordering this might have done something like this it's honey I just want you to know we released you and I'm sorry that we expressed frustration and impatience at the cost of your soul your emotions no I value you you're precious you're more than a mistake of hitting the wrong button and I'm sorry that we've made you feel this small on the little bit now just begin to put and everybody's down because you're going your true colors are coming out now if you're in that line you're either gonna get repenting and go oops man I was being an odd head or you're gonna be like whatever I wish they get people that know how to run this beam you're just gonna stay hard or you're gonna learn from this but either way I'm going to give you the chance and the worst she could probably do is punch me or yell at me well the worst you do is shoot me and kill me but I'm not gonna die but you know what I'm saying so you encourage her and she sniffles and you say no seriously you need to relax you're managers come in anyway honey you can do this job and you'll get better and I'm sorry that we put even more pressure on you then it's already on your shoulders I don't want you under pressure come on God's gonna give you grace we're gonna pray father I thank you for your love right now for her god I just appear and when you're praying his comfort comes on or hers presence begins to touch her yeah and you're just trusting that he's like back drafting into the line need a face for anything man and then you slide back and you take your place and nobody say in a word and everybody's weirdly uncomfortable but guess what she is encouraged and that pressures off and she's learning not to take that kind of stuff so hard yeah that's Christianity simple Christianity take a stand for what you believe and Minister the truth of it in the midst of people especially when they're living out of context and out of yeah and be a light in a dark place and rescue a girl that's in trouble yeah okay yeah my opinion I don't I don't even that's funny because I don't really talk about politics from the pulpit much at all I think love has the same honestly this isn't a cop-out okay first of all what politics of Prayer is huge prayer huge pray for all men especially those in authority I say that you pray for all men so make sure rather than talking about what you disagree with you're actually praying for my sincere heart for God to intervene in that Avenue in that arena just too easy to have gripe it's too easy to have an opinion in politics my goodness that's pray that's a Scott for justice behind the scenes in the midst upright hearts for coming into office that actually fear him and know him and the people that are in there that don't it doesn't mean we're ship without water or something that means God can bring change would you bring him to truth God would you grant them wisdom and you begin to pray with compassion understanding maybe even the pressures of certain things and some of the temptations instead of just sitting back like that you know and as far as issues with homosexual as sexuality an abortion and things it's a hard one because there's there's so much defense and walls set up to where people are listening for words you know so you're against also you want these Christians that do did it I don't think it's something that can be addressed in a political forum or a media forum I think it's something that's addressed in an individual way in a personal way within your own life as you come in contact with such now I really think it's too defended too much public I I think the the world would just lash out at the Christian response like I wouldn't I wouldn't be one bit interested in trying to sit on a panel open public media and get in in in a confrontation and debate or a thing with people sitting there unless I would take it into the arena of having the access to really minister teach you were created to be try to unlock some lies and show that I actually value the people that are living in those arenas that would be a joy I don't know that you'd have that capacity because there's such an attack mentality on anything that doesn't agree so rather than try to go through that Avenue which God is so not limited to that Avenue sometimes that avenues a set up because it's called public I I think the higher Avenue is you and I in our everyday life embracing people that we come across that we find out and we realize in embracing them I had some ladies that were in that lifestyle come into a healing service that I did twice a week they came for weeks and they were overwhelmed by the love they saw in my heart towards the people and towards them and and they kept coming and they kept come in and they were listening they were hearing things they never heard and they came for weeks and they literally fell in love with my heart may valued the Christ that they saw with me I didn't know that they were in this lifestyle and I didn't know that they had been trying to fit in churches for a long time and then the churches would realize their lifestyle and and obviously sit down and have the meeting you know this isn't God etc etc so one day I'm leaving and they were hanging around and I said hey girls glad to see you again that gave him hugs and he said can we talk to you and they looked a little motion I said sure I said let me go down and make sure things are squared away in the office and let me let the administrator and secretary know that I'll be up here and does it add to that I just need to cover some things off of something right back up come back they were waiting we sat and they shared the lifestyle with me and shared their story and how people have handled them and they kept saying you're the most loving man this was their view of not boasting in me that was their view they were saying you're the most loving men we've ever met you are so sincerely loving we can tell you love people and you value people and like I do it's because of Jesus it's all his fault like he did that to me and and they said well we wanted to know what she think about and where your opinion is on and they shared their lifestyle because and they told me they're storing us oh wow and because they valued me because I knew they respected my voice I was very open with them and I just shared from the beginning and I shared I actually shared Romans 1 with them and I shared some Scripture with them and they said so you're saying but and I said that's exactly what I was saying and I said but I don't feel any different towards you I believe you're gonna rob yourself if you don't pursue this truth if you don't deter to do and I just kept because you're the ones seeking the answers so be ready to handle your answers when they come don't push them aside so I challenge them like if you're asking a question make sure you're ready for the answer if you're if you're a child and you ask your parent can I go here you better be prepared for a know as much as you want a yes or you become a whiner a beggar a tantrum person or mad at your parents because they never let you do what you want to do well you put them in the position you ask them a question you better be ready to handle and know if they choose no that's how you honor your parents yeah see III teach kids that I was in a church in this little seven year old said she's so bright she came up to me and she said hi I said hey you and I squeeze her in his little story behind it all have time to go into her I'll be another hour because it was a night I preached for three hours and six minutes it was crazy and she didn't want me to stop seven years old and when I saw the time and panicked and said I need to stop she stood to her feet and said no I said no honey I've been preaching for hours a guy on a sofa I've been recording it's three hours and six minutes and I said honey you should be asking your mother if I'm ever going to stop and can't you go home yet and she said oh no sir seven I get so much out of what you say seven she wasn't thinking are you ever gonna stop three hours how can I gotta pray for three hours there's a long service she was sitting on the edge of her seat hearing like she never heard going wow I get it and when I told her I'm stopping she panicked no I said how old are you she said seven I said man you inspire me to just keep on going and preaching and she did some kind of happy dance thing and I said chill out chill out I'm actually stopping and she sat down away so the next day I come in and she ran up to me and she said hey and I said hey my little buddy and I a dirt should you so bless my heart last night she said you know she said I really like my children's church like nothing against my children who would think of that at seven to qualify that nothing against side children I like it a lot but I don't want to go down there today she said I want to sit up and listen to you I said you really do don't you see I said wow and I hugged her again and I said well where's mommy and daddy and cuz her mommy got healed that night it was amazing thing I said where's mummy and daddy she said they're back I said okay I see mamas and that's your daddy cuz he wasn't there the night before she yes here's what you do see so I'm getting to instruct her on being a child and and their parents don't even know what I'm doing but they would have been thankful if they don't heard me I I said I said listen here's what you do I said you go ask your parents okay and you ask them if you can stay up and because you wanted to hear my heart and hear what I must say but you have to understand this when you ask your parents a question like that and you're full of desire and you want them to say yes at the same time you have to honor their know if they so desire that you just stay in children's church for whatever reason and then remember how the Bible says honor mother father I said the highest way you can honor them as you go back there and you want them to say yes mommy daddy can I stay up and listen to Dan and skip children's church and if they say no I'd rather go to children just say oh okay okay mom okay dad thank you bless you and just go to children's church don't do the O but I wanna do it but please I said cuz honey every time you do it you just teach yourself self-centeredness getting your own way okay it's phenomenal so she took off and asked her parents and I went off my way and people were talking stuff I'm up there preaching I kind of forgot about her and I never really saw her after that I'm up there preaching I look and she's sitting right there I'm freaking I'm like hey oh well I guess they said yes I gave I gave these girls what I thought my heart they cried and here's what they said to me thanks for your insight thanks for encouragement thanks for the scripture we're not sure we're ready and we're not sure where we stand but thank you for loving us and I said honey yeah I won't change what I believe but I'll never stop loving you and I said listen girls and I told them they're in a very delicate place because they have convictions and I said if you follow your convictions God will give you the grace to break free God will give you the grace to not be inundated with emotions feelings and connective stuff if you really ask him I believe he'll help you get free and move on and what he really created you for and that's what I left him with you got to be careful you don't come out and then I used the example this morning and never actually finished a story I see it right now this denominational pastor I was doing a service in his church and he hosted it but he didn't know me and when I preached he froze I saw him as a preach and freeze out in the foyer and listen and he left his group and came and stood in the doorway and leaned and listened the whole time so he wanted to spend time with me he wanted to take me to the airport and everything he wanted to ride together when we got alone he started weeping and he said you really messed with me today he said I've been to he was at two seminaries had to Bible college degrees pastor stuff he said they taught me the whole time in Bible school to come at them based on their depravity he said and you come at men based on their value and I've never even heard of that concept but when you shared it it was so powerful it grabbed my own heart I said yeah because when you come at them with their depravity then they stay condemned and they feel judged and they wonder if they're good enough and did they fail again and they're constantly crying and saying they're sorry and never feel good enough you got to separate them from works and get them over here into grace where the life can be changed and not be afraid you're enabling sin you're removing sin you're empowering them to be changed most pastors are afraid that if they preach that they're going to allow people to do bad and think it's okay it couldn't be further from the truth you can't listen to me preach and go out and not live changed and not think about it it'll get you in your sleep like there's nothing I preach that empowers you to stay the way you were but yet the message is he loves you and it'll never fell and he values you but it's not based on your performances based on your creative purpose he's redeeming the truth you get it so I never attack a man's depravity I go after their value because I read this scripture in Romans that says the goodness of God is what leads men to change so yeah I don't think you can address these hot topics from the public platform I think they should be and picket signs on our answer then I said I hope if things ever come hard in this country that the church is prepared to do more than pick it yeah and stand for her right it's time to walk in love and have an expression of Christ I see these signs where so-called Christians are holding up God hates gays God hates gays will be judged repent I'm like wow you're accomplishing a lot it's not good it's not good I couldn't disagree more I'm saying that probably with that recorder I'll probably get an email about that couldn't disagree more it doesn't say for God so hated you he sent his son hoping you'd believe on him and change since God so loved you he's his love is bigger than what the love you and I'd grew up calling love his love separates what they're doing from what they're created to be come on on your darkest day look if you break one law you've broken all the law she said well I I never lived the homosexual lifestyle yeah but you did this you lied you cheated you stole you did something you're the same you get judged it's the man that murdered because if you break one law you've broken all laws because you've lived outside of the nature and character of God and you need a Savior and you need the same blood as the murderer actually to hate is to murder because you cut off the value and destiny of the one you hate you can't see past what you hate in your eyes you've murdered them and they have no value beyond what you hate are you with me yeah so Jesus said you said but I say he who hates his brother is already committed murder you say don't commit murder but I say if you hate your brother you've already murdered Jesus Wow so what's he addressing the heart yeah so yeah I'm done with that question I hope I answered it yeah yeah did better oh I'm totally good I hope it's up to these guys I I'm like I'd like I'm eternal I'm never gonna die and I'm just having fun yeah yeah the Energizer Bunny has nothing on what's in me I've had Energizer's in these battery packs and they have died on me and I was still go [Laughter] come on man the bunny he needs more than Energizer's yeah okay well that was just him choosing to manifest that way and speak to me that clear but here's what you have to understand about me first okay I believe he loves me way before I ever experienced his love for me the believing his love is first that's your strong tower that's your foundation that's your rock believing it if you need it to be manifested you'll always question your belief until it's affirmed and then when it's affirmed through manifestation you'll think another manifestation is continual formation and you'll live for the moment instead of the truth so I don't need that to believe he loves me he just came in a special way and was teaching me something about sonship in my view every day about not being sin conscious and not staying in sin conscious and staying Sun conscious right believing I'm his and he loves me so he was just affirming that and teaching me that and he just had fun with it and he really made me cry and he blew on me I could tell he was melting me it was ridiculous it was so real that there was no way excuse me there was no way I could endure it stand up or walk out of it I tried to get up three times and he melted me like water into the floor three times I decided I'm getting up because I need to preach pull it together dan and I barely got up and he just went and I was done there was nothing I could do about it I didn't ask for that it was actually amazing there's manifestations I've had I don't even talk about never ever in my Christian life has mentioned things that have happened to me in the Lord because people go after them and then then you hear once you share and then people start sharing their stories of all I had this manifestation I had that Memphis's look manifestations are a dime a dozen knowing and the truth is what's going to take you through the long run manifestation you could so look for a manifestation and open the door so wide anything can come through anyway be careful with manifestations that way you're not seeking a manifestation you're seeking truth and truth is in him so if I believe he loves me I never need to experience he loves me because my believing develops a knowing that is actually a knowing that ends up being experiential because my heart knows like right now I'm not feeling the love of God but man I know he loves me like he loves me like yay you get it somebody just gave me a shirt it was in my mailbox I don't even know where it came from that he didn't have a note attached to it but I've used the example sometimes you just got pull out the big Daisy and just port pulling the pedals he loves me he loves me he loves me and not be afraid of it he loves me he loves me not because there's no he loves me not and just walk in your bedroom and pull the pedals he loves me he loves me I just get flaky with it you get down to the last two and don't be afraid of where it's fallen because there's no me not so they just got me a shirt it has a big Daisy on it and a petal fall into the ground that says he loves me he loves me he loves me it was what I slept in last night I used it for my little nightshirt in your big king bed with the king he loves me I slept last night in a he loves me shirt with a daisy and a petal fall couldn't even hardly come out of the room this morning look I'm a guy and I'm talking like this and freaked out it's good guys if you'd see me in my dress I look really good I got this white dress it's a robe of righteousness oh it looks good on me I look good to him anyway huh so be free man we're not talking about anything weird and natural it's all spiritual he he made us his bride he loves us guys you can receive that love guys you can all receive that love get alone don't just think it's a girl thing oh Jesus guys you can receive that love get along close the door and be with him yeah yeah did I answer that question I never pursue that stuff I pursue knowing him and if he chooses to give me an experience in the process and knowing him I certainly won't fight that I'm not begging manifestations guys manifestations have got tons of people in trouble I've had people call me and they're offended as sister so-and-so and yet they say they visit heaven and sit at his feet every day and I'm like you're not doing that you're in delusion you're not sitting at the feet of Jesus every day and offended it sister so-and-so you're in delusion stop stop hiding behind delusion you're demeaning sitting with Jesus every day when you're living offended so you have the need to say you're having this encounter to be marked as spirit saw but you don't even reveal your spirituality by loving your sister ci it doesn't even matter to me if you tell me you were walked by the hand by Michael into them and whatever indebted I've you can't love your brother none of that means a thing to me and it doesn't matter don't pursue manifestation heavens in you why do you need to go there he's in you don't pursue manifestations please pursue him you know people tell me I'm wrong for this but I'm not even worried about being wrong right like like there was a time in my life where and this guy he called everybody up front and I didn't we didn't know what to do if I shake him he wanted to go up front but he kind of put us all on the spot or when all the leaders want you guys up there and he started praying for these manifestations going our lives it was a whole Gold Dust thing in the whole whatever and he said I want you to look at your hands right now cuz God's putting gold dust all over you guys and I look down in my hands were red blue and silver flecks all over my hands I'm like what I don't want red blue and silver flecks on my hands and I don't need it on my hands to pray for the sick it's not encouragement to me it actually creates questions and it's weird to me sounds like I don't even know about this law I don't think I should have come up in this line I don't need you to cover my body with gold dust to prove the value he put your son in the cross I'm valued I don't need gold dust cover me to say I'm valuable I see a neat story one time guy in the kingdom school that we did he's crying he can't believe his value or teaching him pouring into him he's just laying crying he's talking to the Lord on the floor and he can't get past the verse that we're all in the school doing and he just can't he's just crying god help me and believe I just don't know I just don't know I had the stronghold and when he got up from the floor he had this perfectly cut stone laying right under his face in the carpet he picked it up and he went what this can't be God he came to me and said did God do this I said I don't know it might have fell out of somebody's your ring I said why don't you go get it checked and see what it is you ain't got it checked and the guy said where did you get this he said well I was praying at the church in the carpet and they Nova thought of some ways ring or earring he said sir I can't even tell what substance this is this is unidentifiable substance I don't even know it's not showing as anything that we're aware of and besides who would have cut this it's so flawless no one could cut a stone like this stones cut and he began to tremble and realize the Lord said I value you and he gave him a stone with the substance it's undetectable and a cut that nobody could do so he had to put the little post and put it in his ear just to remind him God did that for me on that day when I was crying out really seeking now that now watch when you share that story you know what people do they start praying for a stone no you pray for a revelation you pray for your heart to open up so a week after this thing at the order I'm in a restaurant and I walk by this couple and I stopped right at their booth they were sitting talking and I said hey guys I sorry I don't mean to be intrusive and invasive I know you're probably waiting for your meal yeah what's up man I just heard something for you ma'am you heard something what you mean honestly I know it's right it's the Lord he lives in me Bam Bam Bam she grabs her husband's arm he's squeezing her tities said dude this is freaky I said no no it's the Lord well it's dead-on that's freaky I think no it's the Lord we're gonna pray and he's gonna change this and I and I went to pray and I look down and I got my whole hands are red blue and silver and I'm like to me it's a distraction I turned and I said lord I don't even know what this is if it's you I know you're too big to get offended I don't get it I don't need it to have faith to believe you're rockin her yawl ray gave me a word of knowledge you're already moving I don't want this on my hands I don't want it in my life I looked down it was all gone it's never come back I don't need it I don't want it you shouldn't pray a manifestation away I don't want it why do I need red blue and silver flecks on my hand to have faith to pray for a lady why is that people say well it's just a sign it points to you how does it point to him how's the manifestation point to him nobody's ever answered these questions for me but teachers teach this stuff it's just a sign how does it point to him the word of knowledge points to him the manifestation of healing points to him but leave my hands alone keep that stuff off of me see I'm adamant about it and I'm not ashamed to talk about it and God's not offended with me I know does that mean every manifestations not God know when you need him I'm concerned yeah they're a dime a dozen when they show up in the middle of your pursuit for him that's different when you're pursuing knowing him presumably and changed by him and he encounters you I'm praying for five weeks in my bed room for God and to establish me in love and playing a little CD I'm not even coming out of bedroom but to go to work and come back because I don't have a relationship with my wife I've got my kids though and I'm loving on them as best I can it but but I'm in the bedroom all the time and in five weeks in just this literal whirlwind see I don't even share this stuff normally this whirlwind I'm just trying to give you an example practical of how it happens you're not looking for it I'm just enjoying being with him and this whirlwind comes into my room it's so overwhelming that I curl up in the middle of the bed now I'm trembling and it feels like I'm Dorothy On The Wizard of Oz I mean you're thinking the cows coming by in a minute and the lady on the bike you know but you're so overwhelmed you're not even looking up actually and you're just curled up in a fetal position and you're shaking and it's so real to you in that moment and amazing and the Lord with a voice that I heard said do you even realize I've given you the privilege of loving in my unfailing love what he was saying is stop seeking my heart it's in you and he was letting me know we're one and don't pray from where you think you're not pray from what you've begun and the whirlwind subsided and I sat up and I'm so freaked out but you think you're ready for that stuff some of you are praying for it you're not even close to ready it's freaks you out you're sitting there in your but you know he's in you in his love is and you stop playing the way you were praying and you start praying from a thank you well I thank you your hearts in me I thank you when I look through my eyes I see what you behold wow I think you were one it changed my whole prayer life but I wasn't seeking the encounter God saw my sincerity am i seeking instead I'll tell you what I'll just give him a little encounter it'll get the message across and he'll get it and he did it don't seek that seek him when the manifestation happens in the pursuit of him it will always be healthy yeah if the manifestation happens because you're seeking the manifestation I would question that'll be healthy and you might need another manifestation and another win and you might go to this service because this happens and you want to encounter and knit and go to this and you need him to lay hands so you can feel it and next thing you know you're just running all around and Jesus is in you the whole time yeah you guys okay you're kind of looking somewhere you're looking at me funny you are I I'll tell you when you were looking at me funny when I said I don't want that stuff on my hands I saw some folks looking at I'm telling you I don't need that stuff on my hands faith comes by hearing him by the word if faith doesn't come because I have speckles on my hands faith comes because Jesus rose from the dead and sits triumphant at the right hand of Almighty God his blood speaking better things and God's love never fails that's where faith comes from yeah there was a time in my life I got so tangible praying for the sick my face would go numb I would vibrate my ribs is unbelievable leg would vibrate feel like it was half asleep and it was big I feel like my hands were in a paint shaker but they weren't shaking but to me it was like they were violently shaking to where it almost hurt and yet you couldn't see him shake and what it did it started to get me to depend on the manifestation so I would pray for that I would try to work myself up and step into that and I would was taught that's the anointing coming on you to empower you to pray and and then and then I got into this thing where manifestations seem so important and and then if it wasn't happening I didn't have faith to actually pray until my hands were vibrating and the Lord talked to me about it he said and when I did that to you it was a sign of grace to get you to step into something you've never done before it's just like a child learning to walk in the daddy pat sit on the behind and says it's okay you can do it that's all that is it's that you can do this because I'm with you he said stop leaning on the manifestation it's the truth that makes men free not your hands vibrating but I kept leaning on the manifestation because it was just so easy and when it wasn't there I didn't have the same confidence and one day it was completely gone and I said and honestly when it was in that season I wasn't seeing as many manifestations of healings miracles I wasn't seeing the cancers disappear like I was believing for and then one day I didn't have the manifestation I saw people still experienced him sometimes they tangibly got touched sometimes they fell out whatever sometimes we think this stuff is also important what's important is that the cancer goes away what's important is that the life is transformed look I'm not interested in you laying on the floor screaming for an hour saying you're on fire getting up and you still have the infection it diminishes something about God's presence it's something's wrong I I'm not into all that it's too weird to me I'd rather I tell people stand up yeah just okay stand up we've been down enough stand up now pray because I want to see the fruit of what we're believing for I could care less if you're scratching fleas yeah you know what I mean right look I've seen amazing things I think I'll do some stuff it's that's not what he said I said Lord why don't I feel you anymore when I pray he said Dan you've been caught living by feelings I've removed it from you so you Minister unlimited because when the feelings are there you believe I'm there and when they're not you think I need to show up and I'm in you and I cried in my car and said thank you what a gift I was in a service I was so it was distracted me it was so ridiculous I remember getting near a lady and I was three feet away and she melded like and I got four feet from the next thing and they melted and I'm like oh my goodness come I turned I was very young Lord I turn this to the Lord this is amazing but it hurts since I'm almost distracted me I believe you're here and I really don't need it like this right now thanks I know you're here it just went going just going I turned this to have one more person to pray for and isn't it amazing how as soon as it was gone I walked near him and I wasn't sure God was going to touch on and I just told God that I know you're here I don't need this so when I went I felt alone and I felt wow this thing is powerful this feeling this emotion this essential thing that we've grown up in is very dangerous sometimes to pursue that just pursue him yeah No okay I'm getting are they good you guys okay okay oh it's gonna be a long answer buddy I'm just ready to draw my sword that's how we talk at home we're like hit it again hit it again hit it again this is a great question this isn't as scary as I thought that's a tremendous question there's no direct answer on that you have to learn to perceive the moment if you who's ever prayed for the sick and you realized after you prayed a couple times you were actually striving and you were more in unbelief because of what you weren't seeing than what you originally set out believing who's experienced that so you need to discern that for one thing and you need to really discern the position of the person because you really you want them blessed you want that heal if you're just looking for the testimony and the healing for the sake of healing your way backwards anyway you want them touched by the finished work so that God reveals himself through healing in their lives and they walk free from whatever it is right it's not about a testimony it's not a little I prayed they were healed even though that's exciting it's amazing that God would heal somebody through us that we would say be healed Jesus name and even something like Inc incurable according to medical science would disappear that's a WoW right here's here's there's there's no right or wrong in this here's how I teach it out when I pray for somebody and nothing changes I talked to them about that first of all and make sure I keep my own heart guarded because my heart used to get troubled by that I'm frustrated and it would make me like I remember Todd now and Todd was very young in the Lord he's like a bulldog anyway we got that we'd say hit it again that's why I'm laughing that they hit it again because we'd say he'd say dude we just got hit it again now like okay let me hit it again father I just thank you how's it feel it's the same that's Todd you know I just hit it again if the person you're praying for especially if it's in the church over something you can talk and ask and find out that they're totally fine but you it's never works and it's not you have to be careful that you don't turn faith into this got a tumor sticking up right here block father I just thank you that whatever I ask in Jesus name it shall be done in Jesus name tumor you leave whatever I ask in Jesus name shall be done Jesus name father I just thank you right now that and after about four prayers and lord I know what I'm missing but uh there has to be a place where you wrap faith around what you believe and never let faith turn into a point in time faith is the position of your heart to believe what he accomplished so you're not threatened by believing you're actually threatened by not believing but when you believe and you pray over a visual thing like that and you don't see it change you have to make sure not seeing it change doesn't change you so when you take your hand off and it's still sitting there and it looks like it has a face and it's looking back at you yeah you look and you don't look too deep right and you just say father I just thank you for what you do and you're so good I thank you that your desire is wholeness in my life or in their life and God would ever ask we pray pray but leaving it shall be done it if I lands on the sick or recover it gives I have these scriptures that give me a precedence for this right so they stir faith in my heart and I go thank you for what you're doing God and you teach people to never turn faith into a hit miss win or lose maybe he will maybe he won't that's give it a try that is not faith faith is he loves you he heals he stores that's believe him so watch you go home from being prayed for and they only prayed one time and you said hey I'm good I'm believing or they prayed four times and the whole time they prayed they were like you are you good or you do you understand we're just believed them for a manifestation right now listen one way or the other we're believing changes come into your hip and we're believing he loves you and he paid a price and right now we're not striving trying to make this happen we're just speaking over it sometimes I'll feel like we need to swing the sledge of faith and just crush the rock that's trying to sit in front of us and can we just pray one two three more times are you good with that no just pray and what you do is what'll give you a way that you're grabbing for straws is if you're changing your prayer every time I've been in this thing for a little bit I've learned some stuff watch this I've seen people say well let me try I've seen people shift their whole prayer the second time because they're thinking well the first time being connected to try this way third time a whole different prayer watch be healed in Jesus name is probably plenty if there's a revelation because face says to the mountain yeah so if the thing doesn't change does that shake you to where you don't believe anymore because you need the immediate result because Jesus has all these sudden leaves in his life or do you thank God that if I lay hands on the sick they'll recover and I'm so blessed that I got to speak this into your life and over this this thing is changing and I'm not talking in months this thing is changing bless God you got to believe that I've seen countless people not see any change but teach them to not change you how people get healed in a healing service and then somebody's over here prayed for nothing changed we don't address it enough they leave the service you know what they're thinking wonder why they got healed and I didn't I wonder what I'm doing wrong I wonder what's blocking my healing I think I need inner healing I need some kind of ministry there's got to be something blocking my healing yeah right and then they go home and they're actually more downcast and encouraged and the fact that they didn't get healed the healing service is a bummer and we go to bed they go to bed bombed instead of in him so I teach that you never take that personal you never mark yourself as not healed you mark yourself as loved and God doing a work in you so we crawl in debt and your hip grabs you Oh like it does every night even though you were prayed for and so for other people testify they were healed and two of them in their hips right and you're like do you throw that away don't think on it get home you crawled in your hip grabs you here's how your hip changes you roll over and you say father I so thank you for what you're doing in my body through what you did in your son god I thank you that you are restoring me join upon joint bona Bumba muscle up on muscle God you're doing such a good working me thanks for loving me can you smile sincere faith filled and you fall asleep in that place you wake up in that place that's how your hip changes when you think with your mind look with your eyes think with your mind that's a troubled day when you spiritually analogy it troubled day so there's no right or wrong in the question I weigh my own life and away the person I'm praying for if I passed somebody in the street I've done this countless times hey you're on the way you going to lunch from work or something yeah yeah I don't have much time why what's up do I know you no no no listen man I felt this in my heart whoa how'd you know that listen it's it's the Lord honestly I won't be long listen nobody even know what we're doing man I know you're trying to get to lunch about six seconds I'm just go pray I believe God's taking that out of you BAM pray no matter what he says I discerned that he's heading to work whether he says it's gone or it's not I'm already positioned man he's given me one shot to step into his personal life in his little sir he's giving me a won't chance that's all I need I'm blessed to get hands on him and pray right so if he tells me the pain still there the pains gone or the pain somewhat gone decides how I'm gonna respond if he says it's still there usually if he's on his way to lunch and I could tell he's already in a hurry I'm not here to be labor him I'm here to bless him so I say well listen man I'm so honored you let me pray for you I won't say can I pray again most times if I discern I'm holding him up if I think he has a lot of time I'll flat-out ask him hey man do you have time what do you mean listen I just want one more time I just won't pray one more time I just want to see one more time I just want to see I feel like if we can pray one more time something might shift and change you say aren't you taking a risk no if I pray one more time and nothing changes I still have the same faith in the same truth to wrap around that I say listen man I'm so honored you gave me the chance to pray for you these couple times here's what the Bible says I'm so excited about it so I've stopped you if I lay hands on the sick believing they shall recover the reason I stopped you is because I'm believing God's gonna do a work in you when that pain disappears you get out of your car tonight you're laying in your bed you wake up for work and you realize oh my goodness it's gone you know where your heart is gonna go right to him because this was God he's doing a work and I'm excited thanks for your time man bless you you walk away and people realize you ain't sellin nothing you didn't invite them to church you didn't pass an offering basket and you didn't hand a business card and they're going whoa that dudes sincere and it's almost like he cared for me and all the sudden God can work into their heart that he cared for them from the beginning and next thing I know they're laying on their bed cry and have an encounter with God because you sow deceit and instead of sitting there going I wonder why their pain and go away and I'm not walking in in the anointing and they didn't get healed no no no if love never fails don't fail to love step out and pray if they're in a hurry I don't ask to pray again if they change somewhat you usually have the grace to say so that's definite oh my gosh that's that's like 60 70 percent better they're excited it's their body they're not making that up they're telling you 60 said if they say that they're usually excited if you say can we just pray one more time I believe God oh I'll take that even further I really don't remember anybody saying no and be like yeah because they're intrigued and if they're healed that's a no-brainer they're like what blank a lot of times and isn't it amazing I've never seen the sickness jump back on him when they swear what the blank oh I've never seen that why cuz God's not startled by them swearing he already knew it before he healed him he's not grabbing Jesus's ears at the right hand what the blank he's not a legalist he loves people yeah he paid a price to forgive the sins of the world in his mercy triumphs over judgment men don't have to get what they deserve so yeah you can pray ten twelve times if the if the grace is there if you're not striving and the person you're praying for is totally cool with you contending pray as long as you can without striving when you feel like you're frustrated you're trying to get something to happen or you're changing up your prayer getting a different tone on the shofar or looking for another colored flag that's when it's probably time to pack up wrap faiths around truth okay Todd and I personally prayed for an 80 year old lady who had arthritis so bad that her hands were all going in the same direction and she couldn't even pick up silverware it was rheumatic arthritis and her hands were so manipulated she couldn't pick up a spoon or anything and we saw her hands and we just caught odds like and I'm like it's okay I'm going to pray we prayed for her I'd think him we prayed for her don't quote me on this but in the ballpark of 15 12 14 15 times and and we just kept praying and we were like honey is anything change well no do you to say do you mind if we just pray again to you you boys are really go getters ha I know she was a sweetest lady and we're like you have no idea like this guy is a pit bull in disguise he's a pit bull in a human body he's like he's not really a man he's like so we're praying and we watched her hands watched her hands go straight but we don't pray 15 times for everybody we don't write a book on that yeah we don't turn something that was in the moment and Holy Spirit into a method of ministry yeah yeah yeah I saw a spirit come out of a lady one time singing a song over her because it happened to be her favorite spiritual song that made her feel so close to God and got the attention of her heart and she was in infidelity and in unconfessed sin and she was bound by the spirit for so long and and when I sang this song over her it activated her heart toward God and when her heart went god I'm sorry the thing left her immediately because it had no way to stay but I have never sang a song over a person since and I didn't write a book on songs of deliverance come on we don't understand that Holy Spirit is amazing and he inspires and sometimes we take what he does and try to turn it into a method of ministry and then we lose the sharp edge that it has when it's by him yeah yeah Todd and I were in the mall public setting ladies smoking a cigarette over by a thing there and he said this is sand in it and she's standing there she's rough language and we just love her man we're like oh my goodness this lady like we just imagined her upbringing where she's not repulsive to us we're not thinking oh my gosh this lady needs to clean up are you kidding she needs love she needs Jesus she needs a revelation we went over and realized she couldn't bend her leg at all that she was in a terrible accident and her leg was frozen for years and years and her friend sitting beside her and we said honey what happened to your leg oh my goodness and can you even bend it she said oh oh blank no I can't move that blanket leg got legs I'm blanking frozen for I mean I'm not exaggerating yet sir you know talking to us it just smoked in it's just funny we said listen would you let us pray for you like what what the bank you want to break my life we do we honestly believe God can change your leg we would you let us just pray and let's see you got nothing to lose come on if it doesn't change it was that way already anyway and you weren't expecting it to change so you certainly not let down on your kind of thinking we're probably cuckoo why don't you let us pray you got nothing to lose well yeah you can if you want we look to each other wasn't being taught we knelt down we started to pray every time we pray - so funny she'd sit her cigarette down sit down see people have a sense she'd set it down and stand there as soon as we stopped she'd pick it right up soon as we pray she put it down it was hilarious we prayed for her about eight times she's laughing at us like you think my legs just gonna change I mean it's been frozen since 1970 whatever Oh Mike honey it don't matter he's God he breathed into a dirt a man stood up girl he raised Lazarus from dad he can fix your leg hmm we're gonna pray again if you don't mind no she was amused by it I think she appreciated our conversation she appreciated that we actually had a sincere sense of caring she didn't agree with us she probably thought we were a little loco spiritually but she was I thinking entertained by us he's like oh yeah you could bread all day if you were like yes because we weren't striving we're believing he's probably at the eighth time and she said whoa something feels different touch like what what's different he's looking at me it's okay town boy down and she said I don't know it just something happened when you prayed it's almost like I felt something through my leg I said honey would you bend your leg she said I can't bend my leg would you try we watched her kneel in the mall on a leg that was completely frozen and I had to repent in my heart because when she was kneeling I said in my heart I did I said Lauren that's a good position for her keep her there kneeling is not gonna hurt this lady what but here's what happened she stood up and she started crying hard her neighbor knew her all these 20 years and knew that she'd never been her leg witnessed the whole thing tell me that's not vital seed you say well did you lead her to the Lord we gave her the Lord now she has to deal with that and if she'd say what must I do to be saved that's an easy answer I don't try to push people into a confession i ministered jesus to them till their heart says how can I know him like you I've had people on airplanes cry and look me in the eyes and say how can I know him like you I see you no I want to know him like you to me that's them saying what must I do to be saved yeah yeah I'm not trying to get a confession a notch in the belt of fish on the board I want them to encounter him to where he transforms their life so she got rocked and her neighbor got rocked we prayed probably eight times she was totally cool with it we didn't feel like we were striving game on I've been in situations where I got emotionally involved where it was a child or it was some really intense and I can tell myself I was getting caught up emotionally and I was striving and I was frustrated and I had to back out and find faith and leave him in a place of faith because I knew I was banging my head against the wall I was across the line if you hear me that's happened to me more than once especially with children yeah great question okay it looks like this I told it I haven't told this money for a long time but it's one from a long long long time ago but it's when I first learned this so it's precious to me so to me it's a highlight clip for my life it's a marker I'm praying for a little child that they think could be mentally handicapped for the rest of their life because of a violent seizure nine months old so you want to hold that baby you want the possibility of God to come and pray you're not afraid to hold that baby you're doing public healing services you're teaching about the Lord and healing so you want to hold that baby and pray the baby has visuals their seizures they're the babies shaking like this and you can tell it's not there as it's shaken like this the eyes are going like this it was very destructive it was very painful to see nine month-old baby had no idea what it was doing it was affected by the siege of neurologically so you take the baby and you pray your best believing prayer that you understand and believe and it's not long but you believe it you pray it and now you got the baby and you look and what's the first thing you see this is real she comes to church because she's overwhelmed she's bringing the baby she's over her head we're proclaiming Christ she's thinking let's bring the baby maybe Jesus will show up through these people through the service through this man whatever so I'm in this amazing position to minister Jesus to the baby so I'm holding the baby I'm not condemned by this it's a sobering humbling amazing thing but at some point this baby isn't changing at some point I've got to do what I've got to either hold baby till it changes or at some point decide it's time to hand the baby back to the lady hardest thing you've ever done when you get deceived when your heart's not in faith as you're sure you lost you feel like you're not getting anything and the hardest thing on the planet is being sincere and seeing things like this in your life and all of a sudden this baby's not changing and I have to hand it back to the arms of the lady this is real and as soon as the baby is being handed back her eyes fill with tears why because she's saying oh well I might as well resolve the fact that I brought the baby in hope it just didn't happen but oh well but I was hoping but oh well tears now your eyes fill with tears because you know that you know you believe that you know that you know the deep down in your heart know that he's God and he could just go and then you don't go well then how come then why then what she's leaving I'm standing there holding the back of a chair in the front aisle I remember kicking my toe hard on the carpet cuz I was full of emotion I got ten more people to pray for and I just want to go in a corner and cry why because when she don't stop shaking I'm believing she ain't healed and we didn't get it when that lady goes out that door I'm believing we lost and I'm frustrated I'm hurt I'm upset I want to cry Holy Spirit cuz I'm sincere I believe and I asked him to father me all the time that's one of the reasons I believe he intervenes and and keeps me from making bad mistakes every once in a while because I asked him to father me all the time he said hey don't be so deceived I said huh he said why aren't you counting it a privilege an honor and a privilege that you touched that baby in Jesus name Dan you're looking with your eyes and thinking with your mind why are you so to see he's saying why did you change what you believe cuz she didn't see her change and I'm going duh I preached this stuff I preached this stuff but I got so emotional and caught up with the 9-month visual the seizure oh it wrenched me that I was deceived and Holy Spirit said why are you so deceit he's accounted a privilege she touched the babe in Jesus name well that's amazing wow that counted a privilege that means you're moving heavens engaged we released the kingdom duh what am i doing watch don't get offended when I do this the lady's overwhelmed she brought her to us hoping she would receive from Jesus through us I preached the word represent the word pray for the baby but when I look with my eyes and think with my mind this is what I do with the word and say well we didn't get it maybe next time oh well didn't work now don't be mad that I threw my Bible over there okay don't anybody get religious on me in this room God's not bruised he's not limping he doesn't have a headache God promised and I didn't dishonor him I'm just using that as an illustration we tossed the word away so Holy Spirit said so I got immediately restored back to me uh-huh yeah oh my goodness we touched the baby Jesus name so I had two ladies working with me because I was starting to try to train and equip multiply get people my dad - ladies precious ladies that just love Jesus you mention his name though they're holding the baby praying and they're feeling just like me but at some point we gave the baby back to mom well it was actually a neighbor it wasn't even the mom the mom had no faith to come anyway and the neighbors said can I please take the baby that was Wednesday night Friday morning late towards noon I got a phone call it's the lady because I got the girls together I said listen I was feeling like and I was in there like I said they'll not listen Holy Spirit asked why I'm so to see Ryan accountant and honor a privilege to touch the baby in Jesus name we held the baby in Jesus name we released the kingdom lay hands on the sick they recovered uh we got caught up in the moment sentimental we're caught up in a moment little baby yeah yeah I said listen God is on this thing he's moving he can change that baby come on we released the kingdom we got to believe that it was like a football in a new play we're gonna score we couldn't wait to line up on the ball we go to bed live all Thursday go to bed Friday late morning I get a phone call it's the lady Dan I have something amazing to share with you the mother walked by the crib and the baby was cooing and making baby noises hasn't made a sound since the seizure she walked in the room and she's holding one of her crib toys cooing and talking to it with awareness she scooped her up and ran her to John Hopkins they ran every test totally negative every test and totally normal the last time I talked to the lady and was aware of the child the baby was in fourth grade I'm not in touch now but in fourth grade with no effects of that season completely a normal fourth grade child when they walked out of the church she was the same Holy Spirit said why are you so deceived why are you looking with your eyes and thinking with your mind counted an honor and privilege you touch the baby in Jesus name that's a pretty amazing testimony mark my heart and taught me what faith has seeing isn't believing seeing is believing could you divot when Jesus disciples couldn't heal the epileptic boy and he called him a perverse generation a twisted minded corrupted thinking people said bring the boy to me how long should I bear with you how long should I be with you he's not mad he's saying look guys I'm telling you I'm about to go be turned over to Pilate and be crucified I'm gonna sit at the right hand a father I'm about to hand you the baton of the New Covenant New Testament church you got to get this yeah bring the boy to me your minds are spinning you're corrupted in your thinking violent seizure visual you pray doesn't change why isn't he changing why isn't he healed yet if Jesus was here he'd be healed by now wonder what we're doing wrong he instantly heals the boy they come privately in verse 19 teacher why couldn't we heal the boy pretty direct question in a question-and-answer session Jesus doesn't give the long answers that I give he says because of your unbelief he didn't say cuz you ain't got no faith he said because of your unbelief guess what it translates to be guess what it means because of what you fail to see then he turns around and says but truly I tell you this if you have faith as a mustard seed you'll say to them out move in and remove and nothing shall be impossible for you what's he saying it's because of what you fail to see but truly I tell you this if you see what I see you'll do what I do and nothing will be impossible for you now you show me a limitation to what Jesus said except that we fail to believe it and grow up into it even when we don't see the fruit the only limitation is that we throw away what he said and try to reevaluate what he said compared to the lack of fruit or somebody dies or doesn't get healing so why don't we continue in the knowledge of the Son of God grow up into him in all things to the full measure of the stature of Christ instead of spiritually analogy away to make our trouble hearts feel comforted in a false way let's just go after this thing because I question see I threw my Bible over there remember I questioned what would happen to that little girl this isn't condemnation it's sober if I wouldn't hurt Holy Spirit say why are you so deceived wonder if I had never heard the voice of Holy Spirit and just left my Bible throne and just believed oh well we failed and didn't get the answer no well God didn't heal her I wonder what her state would be because here's what we say well God will heal her if he wants and I think we forget that he moves through people that he gave the earth to the children of men and he set it up that way for his kingdom of the flow through his children don't say if God wanted you to have it he give it - he says you have not because you ask not so if you don't speak life you don't get life if you speak death you get death but God's will in life and it's not mixed this thing up and twist up sovereignty let's take the privilege of stewarding the earth and that's walking truth and live by the spirit not fight over if men are reaping what they're so and then not everything that's happening is orchestrated by the Lord if we're destroyed by the lack of knowledge then it has nothing to do with the choice of God so if you get the knowledge we can stop destruction yeah ok I'm done I can't I can't yeah I wouldn't mind you guys good did you endure this is this was this long this was long no I just good I hope you all got some about it yeah stop that Lisa wasn't a spit ball my brother who are you here this morning spit off food that one was easy spit ball would take some faith wouldn't you guys good to get something out of this session I mean feel empowered good I feel empowered I just appreciate you guys I thank you for being here and thank you for your intense hunger you guys are amazing you guys are fun to like be around and really sit in front of them proceed you guys are really in a good place with that corporately I can't say enough about that this realize we're part of something that God's doing Amen that he created us for whether you go to this church or not we can alway cup for the same reason to live for the same goal if we're not waking up and pursuing his image and pursuing to walk and love you're gonna miss why you're actually here and life's gonna feel like a grind and you're gonna get tricked into feeling sorry for yourself or being discouraged just made or angry and none of those things produce any life so they can't be the Lord what a perversion of why you're here don't spend another moment in those things because they're not who you are how's that for straight talk yeah yeah so father we just thank you right now for what you're doing I thank you for the corporate hunger that I perceive every service I just think are you doing something amazing and there is people from all around they're not all just Grove community but I thank you that what you're doing in growth community you're doing in other places what you're doing in other places you're doing here and I just believe you have a plan you have a strategy and I believe we're honored to be a part of that and we're asking you to continue to give us wisdom to empower us teach us your love and teach us to walk in and manifest your love without striving without pressure without evangelistic duty just let the grace of God be so prevalent in our life your grace Lord God through Jesus Christ mowed us and shape us into something authentic something real something that has expression and brings impact God we want our lives to make a difference if you made a difference in me then I want that difference to make a difference in others and we're asking that corporately today that our lives would be so touched by that others couldn't help but be touched by your grace your power your love your attitude your perspective that all flows through us God we thank you we're honored to be called the embodiment of Christ let it be such in Jesus name Amen amen bless you guys thank you so much you

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Length: 129min 29sec (7769 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 20 2018