Dan Mohler - School of kingdom living ( Part 9 )

you really got you really got your time out of yes I'm shocked when I looked at my I said well let's see what we went I went I didn't have no clue what are you doing that sohow was oblivious man I was in a zone man I was just I was gone and they were crying and I wasn't mad something yesterday made fun yesterday I was like all the word is so amazing does anybody before we get rolling does any but remember I said make some comments about a confession sheet yesterday I wasn't I wasn't you know like totally trashing confession sheets I was just saying the way we approach it I'm not a fan of the way they're presented does anybody have a confession sheet in their Bible or something like that I'd love to have one because do you have one in your car okay but with scriptures you have one written out with scriptures of confessions and just does anybody have one on them right now in their Bible like say there be the promises of healing identity and you quote the scripture and you'll just be quoting the scripture on the confession sheet and I what I wanted to do I was leaving here yesterday you have one let me see if let me see if it'll it'll work with what I'm looking for oh yeah no that's that's no that's okay that's an identity statement no I'm talking about a confession sheet that has scriptures listed on it where people have the idea they take that and they get up and they read them out loud they just read them out loud or you're scared I mean have you she's trying to get something on me or some I'm just keeping my distance but be careful who you let touch you and by the way I don't believe that you let anybody touch you yeah but look how personal you have that yeah that's not what I'm looking for I'm just looking for a basic confession sheet like I have had a hundred of them in my hands over the years and I've seen him around you know what I'm talking about you burned them all I preached that yesterday and you burned them all you're kidding because at some point I want to model something okay I'll try to thank you okay this will work I'll make it happen good I was on the way home there's there's confession sheets that have like for healing and they'll have all these promises and scriptures for healing right so what people will do is when they're going through a symptom of sickness they'll quote all those scriptures like they've gone to on the way to work they might just take some time and sit and they'll read all those scriptures and quote them and they're actually people are taught their confession seek to make a confession what I don't hear a lot attached to it is to transition that into communion with God and fellowship with the Lord where it's personal face-to-face where like even when I sing songs in a church service and it's it says him I'm always saying you it's just that's my life so it's different yeah you know what I mean I'm not I don't want to sing about him I want to sing to him you get what I'm saying you you can't imagine it's not a technicality don't think that what I'm saying is a play on words and it's just nitpicking on a little principle you can't even imagine the difference between the tail until you enter into that do you know what I'm saying like you can read a confession sheet and and you can speak you know all these things out loud because the word is anointed the word is powerful the words alive inactive so the way the concept is hey just just speak the word brother just you know what I'm saying he's the what I'd like to speak to him and and take it personal did you have a comment or yeah well if there if it's printed in like a confession sheet form kind of thing you bring that thing back up here you want me to like preach with it or something or hold it like if I have to do anything I won't know what to do let me look at this let me look at this I'll tell you what and I'm not this would be fine I could work with this I'm gonna just do this cuz I have it thanks for helping no thanks for caring no I didn't know we could have worked that out I could have did that hey I handled Anthony's little phone it was all good it was all good stop Brent so remember yesterday yesterday I don't know what happened yesterday I don't even know what we preached yesterday yesterday was a blur to me I thought we were talking about communion with God and I don't know where we went but we went wherever I told you that school yeah I had a good time I felt felt fun in my heart communing with God we talked about meditating in the word day at night remember Psalms one there's some there's some benefits to meditating in the word just understand this that you can you can the whole purpose of what I'm trying to accomplish in this like yesterday and even today and then these next few moments is the the motivation the perspective and the mindset in which you're approaching God you're not just trying to acquire knowledge knowledge the Bible says knowledge puffs you up love edifies if your only motive is to gain knowledge knowledge will take the place of knowing him and your knowledge will replace your relationship with the Lord your Bible knowledge will become your identity and you'll just take pride in the ability that you know what the word says in the long run that will bite you because all that you know the word says doesn't you realize isn't your reality and in time it'll just it works some weird thing in people I've watched it a whole lot it's love that edifies watch this faith works through love you see yeah but brother faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word right Romans says that and but but but the truth is God is the word and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word because the word introduces you to the truth of who God is and the truth of God's will and the truth of God's nature so the word stirs faith in you because through the word you see God's love for us you get so you don't want to get rid with the simple faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word so read the word read the word read the word and we get we get mechanical and and when we give our hearts because we do care and we're going in an Avenue that doesn't necessarily produce God reality and some of the most committed people in that arena that I've known can be just as the most discouraged confused frustrated because they've done everything they were told who's ever but I've done everything but I've been doing that for six months but I did that do you hear the language what's that language reveal well know it reveals that it's not a relationship it's a method I'm doing something to get a result now that keeps you self conscious self driven could be yourself centered at some level it's just still about you what you can do to get him to move what I can do to get him to move do you hear how impersonal that is so you can quote scriptures and quote scriptures and and in it Oh yo are you sure oh this wood now I'm stretched away and I gotta make sure I'm hearing this clear oh my goodness oh I'm gonna cry man I okay I can't get away from this like will preach on prosperity in a church and all these confessions and all this stuff and there's a whole lot of fear behind the scenes people that ain't making their bills and all this stuff and weirdest preaching that the word on it instead of relationship mode and then the one person that gets a promotion we hold them up as the testimony that this works and there's 50 other people for weeks don't even know how they're gonna make it but they're trapped in a principle of something in a method of something trying to make it happen and it's works it's it's limited it's not what God's teaching then there's great condemnation and then we'll use that testimony or two out of a church of hundreds there's somebody that just got a unexpected gift and will oh god will suck the life out of that thing promoting that see what happens when you do this I just saw that in my heart and I'm fighting to even preach it I'm like are you all following me and then the people that are then there they're all the more forcing the well then I just got to keep doing this and I got to keep making sure I'd give and and bless my seed and do this and it's so works trip and it has nothing to do with relationship and faith that works to love come on if I would get laid off from a job I don't need to grab a confession sheet on prosperity I need to know God enough to say father I thank you that I am so not moved here in this this hidden in an opportune time it seems like the worst thing that could happen but the greatest thing is you're my father and I thank you that you make a way for us that you love our family that you you bless me with these children and you know my heart to be a provider and God I thank you I'll find favor that a door will open that there will be provision I will not fret I'm not afraid because you are so good to me there's a place to know that and not be who oh my god and then you go get your application and you go here and you do this and all the sudden you just find favor with God and man you already found favor with God with your find favor with man because you're not trying something to get a breakthrough or to get God to move on your behalf who knows he knows you lost your job and knows all this stuff the last thing we need to do is a Christian principle to put us in order to receive in position no I need a father that I can sit and talk with are you following me but that's the tragedy then we'll will take even even healing can get that way where where we'll make it like it's a principle instead of a relationship and we'll hold up a couple healings and if we're not careful there's there's there's times where people hold up certain healings and the way they got healed and then preach actually a works message that way if you do this this this and this and see what happened for them and we'll highlight that but there's hundreds of people that you're fishing from to find that one that that's not happening for them and they're doing maybe more than they did so it gets a paradox then it gets troubling it's not like that it's not works it's not if I quote all these healing scriptures every day I'm not waiting for my healing I'm growing in God's love for me as provision for me I'm identifying myself through Christ and I'm separating myself from the identity of this symptom I'm going through and this is growing bigger and bigger until it pushes this aside you understand what I'm saying it's so different than what a lot of us have been taught and I'm concerned about what a lot of us have been taught I've been around a lot of teaching I don't just embrace everything I've ever been taught I there's a lot of things that I've been around and taught that taught me what not to believe the reason I believe that happened because I have a relationship with Jesus that's my priority I'm in him I'm with him I'm gonna I wasn't gonna do this but necessarily now what I was gonna do it someone handed me a little note yesterday which I enjoyed and I saw they were realizing something I want to address it I didn't I didn't say anything to them so I'm not gonna give their identity away unless later it wouldn't matter but right now I'm not I want you I want you to hear this is written very clear and they don't want to address something today you answered a question this was from yesterday when the students handed me this after the session today you answered a question my mind has been asking for the past two weeks since the school started you were called by God you responded to his call this has my heart pretty well defined I must have shared it pretty clear so listen to this you responded to the call you agreed with God and you wanted to walk away from your old life motives and to know God and to know what he has planned for you to be you were saved by him and I was seeking Him it says that I was seeking Him in his word you did not say just say a sinner's prayer and you I believe were born again by the Spirit you I believe came to God through his word and I heard you say you didn't have a church at the church home at the time nor surrounded by Christian friends and learning from them I know what you're trying to say when you say this but it's not always that sir Jesus says you are blessed and Navy didn't know it no sinner's prayer for you there's a truth to what's being said here once you follow along how many among us are deceived were pressured by a person or Church to whose goal was to get us to come to Jesus and say a prayer and we are led in a sinner's prayer and sometimes it satisfies those who repeatedly ask us if we're ready to receive the free gift and then we say the prayer and join the church that's references that represents the outreaching group and then we're trained to lead others in the same way but if reading the Bible and knowing more christ-like things occurred that's the power of the Holy Spirit and we're blessed by you and you're isolated salvation experience your true child not a stepchild in his family what's being addressed here is I want you to see this in the beginning this is this can be your heart motive and here's what I want to address two things about this letter when you come to Jesus you're giving up your life in your life motives to walk in what God has designed you for it's absolutely caught that it's a lady that handed me this note I obviously revealed that when I said she caught that that's awesome no other motive not just to go to heaven not just to say a sinner's prayer just to receive the free gift now I'm dying to me so I can live to him now watch this I understand what's being said when I when I maybe was more blessed than I realized by not having an immediate church I didn't have it I hadn't gone to church forever now I got plugged into a church and went to a church pretty quick I met with a pastor right after my experience following week I took the kids there and I started to go but but I spent all this time alone I just went to church once a week for a while anyway here's the deal with this school and with what you you know we're saying and what was picked up here which was was awesome the way this is conveyed it's exactly what happened in my life every one of us can can jump into that it doesn't matter if you've been going through really really true traditional religion for 40 years the truth makes you free you have to be very careful if your story's not like my story and you have a different story that feels like it robbed you or corrupted you or limited you in some way if to be very careful that you'll wrap natural knowledge around that as if right now you're missing something because of that because you're not not one person in this place because you can transition into truth immediately bingo immediately you can transition from method to relationship immediately you can transition from a sinner's prayer going to heaven mentality to sonship immediately you can say in your heart it's what repentance does you can say in your heart wow I never really understood this or had this motive I never realized I was just totally giving up my own motives my own life and all these years I've been thinking it was this in this and I wasted and they didn't and why didn't they tell me and you could make that real big in the soul or you can go whoa I'm sure glad I see this now because I was this and I called here and just take the step and you rejoice I had a lady company healing service with another lady and they both got healed it was funny they would come to healing service when I did open healing services back where I passed her before name they both came in with canes and they had conditions and we had prayed for them and they both got healed and it was funny and and I called him when they first came I I had called him something then they chuckled about it but this lady was 70 years old so she comes for four more weeks and she's so enthralled she grew up in a denominational Church her whole life she said can I share something I said sure honey come here and she's seven years old she gets up she's overwhelmed she's got I just loved her motive in her heart in this I'm like why can't we just grab this all the time this I don't know what works and some of us sometimes too but this was beautiful she stood there and she said I'm 70 years that's what she said she said I've been a Christian attending a church for it was like fifty years she said I've lived my whole life not knowing understanding or knowing the things I've learned in these last four years my whole life went by and I haven't known the things that I've just seen in real life I am so glad that at age 70 in his calm and that my life didn't go by without knowing these things she just praised God for it now she could have been that there's something about your perspective that determines light or darkness right it's my eye is single and it's good it's healthy light if it's not darkness it all has to do with your view it says if the darkness in you if the light in you which means you created for the light it's Matthew 622 Luke 11 34 I believe since the is the lamp of the body if your eye is single if it's healthy that's C and clear through truth your whole body's promised to be flooded with light it says but if your eyes not healthy not single I call it wide view lens multiple choice optional view it says then the light in you or the it says if the light in you is darkness it says then there's darkness if the light in you listen to the language if the light in you is darkness what's that mean means you're created for the light that means God sees you for light for the light that's your calling for the light but if the light in you is darkness that's perversion come on we are so made for him every one of you is a house fit for a king every one of you you're so made for him if the light in you is darkness that's perversion it says how great is that darkness what's it mean just help twisted just how off the truth is your view because what you see determines who you are who you're gonna be does that make sense okay so we got on some of this stuff yesterday about meditating in the word about having fellowship with God remember the Apostle John was writing about his fellowship and the reason he was declaring him to us is so that we could have that same fellowship Scripture hit me on the way home as well I was just musing to my mind talking to the Lord just enjoy and I was I was having fun of my way like man that was fun Lord I didn't even know it still most 20 after 12:00 I was like I you know he's calling us into this fellowship some people say boy I wish I was here when Jesus was here and boy would have been need we have up his comments and people have their things to respond but second Corinthians says that we don't regard in chapter 5 says we don't regard anyone according to the flesh because Christ has come if he died all died and it says and no longer do we even regard Jesus according to the flesh even though we did see him according to the flesh this is amazing he's alive he's sitting at the right hand of the Father and he has sent his spear the spear of the Lord to the earth to live in as many as would believe and do in his absence what he do if he was here we have fellowship with God through the spirit it's a powerful thing and he's here for as many as we believe right so we're not limiting regarding we're not even seeing Jesus any more through the flesh he has risen he's alive right and now he's sitting at the right hand of God mediating as a high priest under God on behalf of men and the Spirit of God is here inside of all of us so the the relationship and fellowship that John's talking about that that he even had tangibly he's saying we all have even though he's not here in that human form way that he was he's so and John knows what he's talking about we all have access to that fellowship right so he wants us to all be in him like he is so that's why I want to talk about this and I want to talk about some ways to pray I want to take some scriptures look at them I want to talk about meditating in the word and communing with God the reason I asked for a confession sheet and I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna make this work this can work I had I seen so many confession sheets in my life and there was there was a void I I just had some stuff in mind but this is pretty much like it this one's called listening to God see there's nothing wrong with this okay these are like scriptural references they point you to a topic and and and so here it says listening to God Psalms 25:14 the Lord confides and those who fear him that means who reverence him who esteem him high right and and and and separate him above the rest as far as wisdom and integrity and honor you fear the Lord and it says he confides in those who fear Him I don't know about you but that confiding thing sounds pretty cool right just kind of confide in you that's intimate you know I just Lincoln I come and just share my heart and confide some things in you that's like wow that's a big deal that's the time I share the testimony all the time when when my wife was hurting and God was coming and at work and showing me where she was and what she was doing in detail and it lasted about four or five days and I would just I would be working and he'd say and I'd see oh let's see oh lord I thank you for my wife bless her God God I just asked you to come upon her and just begin to bless her minister to her heart god I just thank you that I love her and then I pray certain ways and by 5 or so days into it he did it again I was at work and he said and I went oh Lord and he said then do you know why I'm doing this well I'm showing you these things like this cuz it was you have no idea how detailed intimate and full of knowledge these impressions were you just have no idea and I said well yeah I was just like a kid I said so I could pray for that's the no-brainer to me you show me so I can pray so I can represent her heart before you suck and fried now imagine I'm only a couple weeks old the Lord I'm just safe few weeks two three weeks three weeks maybe and I said so that I could pray for her well that's a clear answer he said no it was almost like he chuckled he said no he said the reason I'm doing it this way and telling you these things is because I can meaning you're gonna hear like I hear it's like telling myself because of where you've positioned your heart and allowed me to take your heart I can tell you anything you're gonna respond like I would so I can tell you anything but I need to because you'll handle it like I would this is that our relationship with him some of us do I wish I heard the Lord more I see man just become one with his heart he can tell himself anything come on there's times in your life who knows that you're growing there's times in your life that God couldn't have told you things you can tell you now because of the way you would reacted responded handled it misread it interpreted it handle it do you see how limited we can let ourselves be with our commune with God when our hearts aren't pure we're not free from ourselves if we're not free from ourselves how can God just entrust us with what He desires because we might hear it in a self-centered ear and we might instead of go and respond like God we might go huh you're kidding me what they're doing what now with God come and give you that information and give you the ability to stumble and drive you in the flesh if you weren't equipped and ready and in position would he give you insight and information and confide in you if your heart's not in position to love come on he's not a gossip and he's not going to tempt you with something like that he's not gonna come over here and tell Kathryn something that she's not able to handle and then she goes and gets hurt and causes more hurt through it because God whispered it to her he said well he's giving her a chance to go and no he is not hurting people he will not come and give her that if he knows cuz he knows that she's gonna miss handle it and cause harm and hurt and hurt to herself there's just no way he's good he's life-giving he adds to he had a Phi's he doesn't steal kill and destroy he doesn't tempt any man with sin nor can he be tempted do you understand but all the sudden her heart is secure in Christ and her heart is flow and free and and her heart is motivated by love and all of a sudden he comes and he gives her an amazing word of knowledge all the sudden he shows her something about two people or about a group of people and it's something that nobody could possibly know and yet God will whispered to her and yet he's not a gossip why because she's not hearing in an ear of flesh she's hearing in a heart of love and now she can handle it right length and now she intervenes or she calls him one on the phone listen man I was praying I got this impression are you okay well I felt like you were right now tied up in this and all of a sudden they're bawling and oh my gosh I love you look you're more than this and does it I could tell you story after story when the first time this happened to me I was at home I had a home group where it happened in a vision where I saw the person well it was happening a lot back then and when it first started but this was one of the first ones that had happened to God would put it was fun he because the first time it happened I was like you know you do that stuff spiritual things are you're not ready for them my wife and our praying in the living room and I looked and there's a picture hovering in my living room it's an eight and a half by 11 in the air hovering in my living room and I'm like and it has a face on it and it's a person I know well you you would have done what I did what's that Lord why you see what's that Kim was praying and I'm looking and it's right it's between me and the door and it's in my living room it's just insane it's just fun just God and I said what he said Wow I jumped on it right away I dressed it it was amazing was right on it was incredible and it helps save someone's soul life it was night or two later we're praying there's a picture what Laura it disappears I get on another picture what Lord another picture it was like three of them four of them well I got that all in me now now it's one I'm just to pray about and speak over other ones I'm supposed to approach in person but I've got details about stuff that I shouldn't know nothing about now my Scout doing that cuz I'm not going you're kidding me there what what do you mean will they come to my home group no they can't be doing that well then the epic ranch you gotta be kidding me come on if that's my if that's even a close to my reaction he'll never put that picture in my living room when he shows you that stuff and speaks that it's not like you're kidding me why come on we got to go away past that this one lady the first the first one that I had this lady's face was on an ATF by 11:00 hanging hovering in my living room it was just amazing to me it was astounding and it had to be pretty captured I was like god you're amazing and I'm looking at her face and I knew who it was and the human heart outlined it drew it was like somebody took a pen and drew a human heart it just appeared and it was her face was in the middle you got the picture of a human medical heart it wasn't a valentine heart it was a human heart medical heart and I'm like this is wild and all the sudden the heart got darker and darker till you couldn't see her face anymore and I said God what's wrong I said is she sick in her heart does she have heart disease is there something he said she has a darkened heart our heart has been blackened with deception and wrong motives because of great insecurity he knows what motivates people he's not repulsed by her dark ways he's hurting because of what's promoting it and allowing it and he wants to love her and get her free and I'm like you're kidding me am I supposed to address this I guess you didn't tell me this just for knowledge he said I want you to call her in the morning it was late at night I went okay well I'm laying in bed I'm so I probably didn't sleep I'm just laying a bed thinking this is crazy picture hanging in all this stuff I called her in the morning she was so outgoing hi loving loved us outwardly like really expressed it she was like sweet lady I said honey I said I was praying last night and your face came to me I didn't tell her the details the picture I just said your face came to me I'm thinking literally and I said and I'm gonna describe the picture that I saw and I began to describe it she's silent on the phone why cuz God's entrusted me with this and his presence is already on her his love is already protecting her holding her keeping her from just running look I love you I want you free and I started to share what I saw and what I began to hear and as I was being faithful with that much of it because this was a nervous thing for me all of a sudden I got the rest of the story and as I shared it you can't even believe the tears on the phone and God uncovered the most deepest secret motive thing through that why because he could because I'm not tempted to turn and say to my wife you can't believe what God just told me about so-and-so can you believe that they did and they've been coming to our home and they and they actually if I'm hearing got it they did if that's your response you're never gonna get that kind of information would you follow me it's a good phrase he can tell himself anything that's become one with his heart through intimacy Amen I don't know about you but if I'm truly perfected in love and you're hurting and you have a deep thing that's driving you in deception if I could know about it I want to so that I could help you and rescue you when you want the same when you want to say let's be in position to hear God and manifest him to one another like that I become in love all the more amen we're gonna talk about becoming love so heavy in this school I told you you'll be like rubber bands poppin it'll be like last year was so fun I got talking about love there was so much stretching and conviction and fun in the room it was I'd look up and sometimes a third or more of the people were crying at the same time and there was just a lot of stuff going on so we got talking about what love really is I want to talk about meditating the Lord a little bit okay let's read Psalms one real quick again and then I'm going to teach this thing out and because we're pursuant to know him in relationship talking to him and I'm gonna use this confession sheet as a model so bear with me stay with me Psalms one blessed is the man we're blessed is the man it's a good position you want to be in that place blessed is better than not blessed and blessed is surely better than cursed we're called to be blessed amen blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly so you don't need just the advice of people you know I know ungodly there actually means wicked in that context in the Hebrew but anything that's apart from the truth or wisdom of God to me is ungodly just the way that seems right to a man is ungodly are you following me I don't need your advice or well this is what I think you should do and then just you speak out of your head and I don't need to do that to you you don't need that for me there's people that call me and before they call me they already know where I'm coming from and it's funny some of the conditions and places they call me from because they're not in that place but the reason they're calling because they're desperately crying out because they know I'm going to tell them what they so need to hear even though sometimes they know what they need to hear they just want to hear it and I laugh sometimes they say why did you call me because you know the answer you know what I'm gonna say you know where I'm coming from that's just that's why I called I don't know why I'm struggling but I just need a day or two because they know I'm just gonna give them Jesus in the scripture I'm not gonna say well I think you should this well this is what I think yeah it's always Jesus it's this is life it's just so ungodly in this context is means wicked but I want to stress something here that there's a lot of things that can be defined as ungodly godless whether it be wisdom counsel perspective is selfish motive and selfish perspective godly totally ungodly you can be God word and and and and see you need for Savior and want God and you can still live with the selfish motive and miss the grace blessing wisdom and heart of God along the way there's people with a lack of understanding they're ignorant to certain truths they know they need a Savior they understand they've sinned that's not an issue they know they need forgiving of sin but yet don't believe that they can live by the Spirit and don't understand what it even means so they just continue to live in the sinful state it's just a lack of knowledge we're destroyed for the lack of knowledge is this a lack of understanding sometimes wrong teaching can rob your life of certain levels of grace and blessing and yet your heart Feuer and in your heart you love God as much as anybody so love and God's not the issue some of us love God and you see yeah but if you love God to keep his Commandments well some people that that's true once you have that conviction that understanding I went to a real strong denominational setting one time and they were using their him use him those and that's not what makes him a strong denomination it was other reasons you can use him those I don't want you to connect that the them him those men if we just sing and believe the stuff in that hymn those we'd all be doing well some hymn those are amazing they're in when they sing that stuff I'm like wow somebody knew what they were writing what happens is we got trapped into reducing it to religious tradition and and you know what I said in that church how she god bless you for singing these songs out of this hymnal I said man if we'd all just believe this we'd be doing well and I started to quote some of the words from the hymnal of the songs we just sang back to the people that in that church you know what I mean but watch this I heard the Lord say this cuz back then I probably had an impression I was probably in a level of missing the mark in my heart in some ways without being grossly off track I probably had some projections because I'm in circles that oh the so-and-so's you're going to what church oh my gosh well they're a dry bone or this are their religious and we talk like that so then you project on people that are creating an image of God that love God instead of love people we start identifying and and and and then and and I probably had that going on in me at some level not in a gross way in the sense of where I couldn't love them because that's just loves love but but probably some projections of wow they're this while there that wondering if I and I'm thinking no I need to just be me and it'll all work out you know you go through those thoughts well we're in worship and we're singing out of the hymnals and I'm watching and looking and everything so stitute then they told me to come and do that fall revival they asked if I would and I said well really I don't know you're saying the word revival I don't know what that means to you and she said well you know usually we have about thirty people the first night and by the fourth night it's down to about seven committed people and we just we want change she said we just want we just want we just heard a lot of good things about you and we just thought we don't know you but the people that referred you we just thought we'd call and ask you to come I said well honey here's the thing I'm pastoring I got plenty of things to do in my life and I'm not looking for places to speak and things to put on my calendar so if you're telling me revival I don't know what that means to you but I know that if you're asking me to come I need to bring the Jesus that I know and bring the Jesus that I walk with and live with without reservation I need to just have the green light because if you're asking me to come it's not about well I need to submit to this or that and I have to be careful there's that if you need me to come and want me to come that I need to come as I am knowing him as he is and to me that'll be revival and she said sir we just want God in our church and I said oh it's just too fun so we had so much fun the first night there was so much stuff a man had a hernia just went closed a man drove home in the dark who couldn't drive because of ice I drove his family home in the dark cried it was so many things a lady that was frozen in her knees for 25 years took her hands and marched I prayed and she marched around the church and the whole valley was buzzing and on the last night there was nowhere to sit people were standing all in the back the whole church was filled then you used to be narrowed to seven by the last night so we had no we had a lot of people but here's the deal while we were in worship the Lord said something amazing to me it put me to my knees and I began to cry because I realized there's love as the projections in our lives that we don't will or intend they just are there and they can get moved out by relationships so I'm in because of this I'm worshiping I'm singing these songs I'm singing these signals and these hymnals it was refreshing for me because I'm looking at the lyrics and I'm thinking these people knew their God when they wrote these this is like deep intense right redemption stuff and I'm like wow and we're singing it and I'm into it and the Lord had me looking around him and there's people singing and they're in this thing it's just a small group he said once you look around Dan he said these people love me the best they understand they love me as much as anyone you know he said but they're there they're reduced to loving me according to what they believe is true and have been taught their whole lives but he said in that some accomplish more and are doing more with a little bit they know the many people that know so much more and I just thought of my knees and cry and just began to honor these people and realize because with the the knowledge that puffs up I could almost disdain their background with the knowledge that puffs up I could almost project on them with the knowledge that pops up I could almost feel like I'm more spiritual and better than that or like I don't know how they can come to this church I would just dry up oh my god I don't know how you can sit through us like that that's what we do that's high-minded and you missed the value the people in the heart of the people what God sees is the heart of the people before him you might be amazed how that is but that's what he told me there and he told me that these people had an ignorance about them that that in that ignorance that means that that's not a bad word you know we use that groan you're so ignorant we don't even know what we're saying we think it's a slam it just means not knowing you're unknowing these people are just unknowing but if they knew what some of us knew they'd probably run a whole lot father is what the implication was because their hearts they love God and I'm like whoa and yeah it was a WoW and I thought isn't that amazing God really we look to outward God really does look to the heart deadening so it was just very very humbling and I just wanted to just just share that thought with you right there if you think about it we tend to call those people religious bound in tradition and God was esteeming their heart above some people that I know that know a whole lot more than those folks because those people are accountable then with what you know you're accountable based on all that so to know isn't to really grow is it it's to become amen okay and this is how we're gonna do it I won't belabor this anymore we're gonna well we're not gonna walk in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the path of the sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornful please don't do that but our delight is in what the law of the Lord you want to get really stirred up in the Word of God and the love for the Word of God through the Psalms man get in Psalms 119 and it's like a hundred and what is it 70 couple verses 73 or something just read the whole thing it's like I I've camped in there I camped in there so much over the years Psalms 119 haven't read it for a little while actually there was a season where it was really speaking to me and I would just read about loving his word loving his law he says law loving his commandment loving his counsel and Psalms 19 really stirred me up but his delight is in the law of the Lord just be simple it's the Word of God just in today's language just it's in the Word of God and in his law he meditates day and night remember how we talked about that doesn't mean you're sitting back in a chair reading your Bible 24/7 you can't do that but the word becomes the way you think through you you mutter you talk you're in a God consciousness through relationship and the way of the Lord mindset 24/7 does this make sense so you're meditating day and night you shall be like a tree look at the look at the dividends you shall be like a tree planted by rivers of water remember this Crystal River in your Bible at two places that flows from the threshold the temple and there's trees all along and on the leaves on the trees is the leaves it's the healings for the nations I wonder who those trees are come on dear tree planted by the rivers of water come on it's it's in your Bible it's the pictures there Isaiah says that we're trees of righteousness the planning of the Lord why that he might be glorified why are you a tree of righteousness to manifest his glory so that men know who he is through your life father glorify your son that your son would glorify your name remember we covered that yesterday give eternal life right this is eternal life that you might know him I can't tell you how many people that I've talked to in public that I've taken time with their response isn't so much how can I get something doctrinally like I see in your life when I hear him say is how I've heard this more times necklace you see that's what I get from people when I talk to him in the public how can I know him like you they realized that I know him to a degree I feel like I'm getting to know him more and more like one lady said to me once she said you really know him don't you and I was like well and I matched her to kind of mealy-mouthed like well Holy Spirit's like just tell her you know we did that false humility thing on well you know well I'm getting too did you hang on yeah yeah and I'm gonna probably have to look where you're at you're gonna have to tell me where you're at because this yeah in it's Joe 14 verse seven and it's always comforted me and the cross reference I have is Isaiah 613 though they cut down the tree it still has its roots yeah that's good and that's always comforting me because I always used to feel but I don't feel any more like a tree that's been just you can cut me but I still have roots me in and I'm coming back but you know what my roots are deep just pruning me when something gets pruned it's like way more profuse anyway it's like where there was one sprout there's like more and more and it's just really good there's actually a pruning in the Lord the Bible talks about which is a cool principle if you can take the time to teach it but what you're saying is that I love that concept who saw how that rose something up in the room it's like yeah because that just edified everybody it's like so even if it feels like it's adversity or a trial or a hardship that came and almost felt like it took your feet out from under you and cut off what was accomplishing and stuff no you're still rooted and grounded in him in love rooted and grounded in love you know the Bible that's just a good concept but there's a lot about trees in the Bible this whole concept is just very powerful here you know how we're we're rooted and grounded in love the Bible says right so it talks about this tree that grows up or this thing that grows up in here's and it has need and it has a topic in life in it and you hear a message that has to do with your current go through and and you're like you know thank you Jesus and you're at church and you think that was for me and you get all excited and you run out and then the pressures there circumstances keep folding and also in the heat of the day the Bible says it's just the adversities like start to to bear down on that thing that shot up with joy and it says soon that thing withers and dies and it says why is it happened because there's no depth of earth earth of soil and there was no root in that thing that grill you get it it has to be more than just an answer for your self-serving need it has to be so it's rooted and grounded in love faith works through love so the adversity of life that's the concept you just shared no matter what happens to me I have roots way deeper than my trial and what I'm going through and what it appears to look like to men isn't the truth in God he is for me he is with me he hasn't thrown me away he loves me you see what I mean it's rooted and grounded in love so there's types of soil in the so or so's the word concept there and and and and the one says that it springs up with immediate joy because it feels like it got its immediate answer and it's yes and then life just shouts it down and what we lose sight of is God's incredible love and then we think well that wasn't working well I thought that was from the Lord well surely but who's the focus of that concept me and how it's going instead of me and Who I am here the difference what she just shared was the concept of me and who I am no matter how it's going knowing who you are you following that are you still reading in job she just started reading she said I like this now she's down in verse nine well though its roots may grow old in the earth and it's not may die in the ground yet at the scent of the water it's good it's all good so we're trees planted by the rivers of living water where did God place us by rivers will bring water see when you meditate watch what this is say a lot it's only through meditating in the word and standing the truth of the word that you find out who you really are and where you really are you follow me think what it's saying the the result of meditating in the word is what taking on who you really are planted by the river living water that means you find yourself in the word you find your identity you get established in truth and it's the will of God who planted you by the rivers of living water who wants you there are you following me it's by meditating in the word that you understand who he is and who you are in him and find out the truth about your life it's not gonna come through a circle of friends it's not gonna come just through life and how it goes it's not just gonna come by trying to fulfill your occupational desire and hope take a good crack at life and it's it's gonna happen when you give yourself to the word and see the truth about you amen in life once you it once you here's watch how full of identity is is I'm coming to you Gina watch how full of identity is is once you become that a firm and established tree planted by God your here's what this is saying I'm the will of God my roots will never be moved and shaken man who he redeemed he redeemed who he loved he loved he forgave he forgave I'm not a throwaway he'll never change his mind about me I'm alive in him I'm planted by him he knows what he's doing when he saved me right so you're camping there right a person that's locked in and established in this truth guess what he's gonna do he's going to bear fruit why because a tree is known by its fruit but its fruit is known by the tree in other words the fruits in agreement with the tree we covered that way back in the beginning the apple tree doesn't produce apples to prove to you it's an apple tree the apple tree produces apples cuz it is an apple tree so I'm not out trying to be righteous I can't help but to bear righteous fruit because I'm a righteous tree come on it's so simple but but you have to see identity here it's the Word of God that tells me the truth of Who I am and if I stay there in my mindset and don't drift away slip away I allowed myself to be pulled away let the way that seems right to a man eat my lunch if I camp in the truth of Who I am through Christ I'm gonna be rooted and established in identity by the grace of God that's what this is saying and then I'm gonna go on and bear fruit and manifest the very reason I'm alive and watch this I'm not gonna wear out doing it because I'm not trying to be something I've become so I'm just doing what I do are you following me and whatever I do will what why because it comes out of the truth of who we are empowered by grace it's space working through life it has to prosper cuz it's all the will of God it's all the truth about me in Christ does this make sense see don't be in a hurry and just read a song because it sounds poetic here what it's really saying if I meditate in the word I'm gonna know who I've always been in him and I'm gonna take in my rightful place here and lock in and I'm not gonna be moved that's your your word was so timely because even if it doesn't look like this is the scenario of my life who knows it is and even if it looks like I was cut down who knows I'm still a tree who knows I'm still rooted in and there's life-giving water coming in to me who knows that even if it seems like I cut down I'm gonna come back more aggressive more powerful more wise more able she cut one you'll get three in return cut those three you'll get nine more see I mean it's it's a principle there it's a faith that works through love now watch this is this other scripture and I didn't forget your hand I really didn't watch this we know it's Romans 8:28 we quoted all the time and we know that all things work together for those that well well here's what we do a lot in the church well we know that all things work together for the good brother we're we chop we take pieces of things who's who's heard us just say that part right there well you know how it works brother all things work together for the good brother no it says a whole lot more it says for those that love him now when you look at love him you think what is love him well love is take no account of a suffered wrong love doesn't seek its own love is amazing that's how God sees us it says you love God the way God loved you Jesus tells us that that we're to love God the way God loved us have got beloved that means look he believes the best even when you're willful when your motives wrong his love goes deeper and says that is so not who you are etc etc etc even when he could have the technical right to call you on things he still nurtures and brings the best out in you right here's what we do here's what we do we said well we know that God works all things together for the good well it's for those that love him why because faith stays in the picture and it works through love watch when something goes wrong what's the first almost common reaction at the church at large especially of all whole church at large the the more common reaction would man why'd you let that happen oh god why'd you allow that God what are you doing and it brings him into the conversation as if he's responsible are you following me and there's almost an accusation that he could have done something different or didn't do something he could have done it's not even love it reduces you to I need you to do things my way and if you don't we have issues yeah good luck with that when that's a real hard place man do you know how many people have that mentality and have an that mentality right there Rob's you and cuts you off from having intimacy and relationship with God do you know marriages are like that marriage is like hey you do for me I'll do for you you get that thing out of whack we got issues as much as I can be with you and join with you I can just as quick don't understand love covenant surrender Jesus he works all things together for the good for those that don't project on him lose sight of the truth lose sight of who he is don't fail to see there's still a tree and keep him in the rightful place and know they love him and know their called according to his so no matter what you're going through you realize your life is still the will of God and he is with you and for you and in you period that's the person all things work together for the good for it's very rarely taught God's so merciful that even when people fail those two you still see stuff redeemed they think but why put yourself through that rocky ride and all that hell of soul when you could just know and be hey really you guys have been patient thanks I was on Steam look she breathed into it he became a living mic um just expanded translation that I was reading the amplified version it says planted and tended and something about that just that he doesn't just bring you to it and bring you knowledge and paint you wouldn't be like okay you're good you're smart you're good see you later and that's see how emotional she's getting about that that's a sign of intimacy that's a sign of heart connectivity I love that no that's really good yeah you probably talk and cry more that's good do you hear what that one little thought has got her all mushed up that God didn't just plant me he tends to me now when you get alone and nobody's looking and you're sitting on your bed communion intimacy and you're reading Psalms one and you're reading is blessed is the man who doesn't walk the counsel of the ungodly extended father have no desire for the wisdom of the world father I separate myself right now and give myself to you and I thank you Father that your wisdom is what rules me your way is the way that I'm really here and if I hear any other way I just thank you that it's so made known to me because truths residing in my heart god I want you I want your wisdom I want to see your face I'm thinking you're the one that leads me and guides me I was tutored in this world but I thank you you've called me out of it and put me into your kingdom and I thank you that you're the source of my life and I honor you oh my delight is in you lord my delight is in your law I shall be like a tree planet all sunshine is sitting there and she says and father you don't just plant me you tend me keep me I'll never be afraid again your hand is upon my life who's gonna snatch me from your palm God I'm yours forever I'm your little girl and I thank you for snatching now the darkness is putting me in everlasting light god I worship you this is what she's doing or you're doing or I'm doing why we're reading the Bible it can never become head knowledge but you're like and I'm gonna bring forth my fruit in season see there when the Holy Spirit started taking me into this kind of stuff I was one week two weeks three weeks old the Lord I would reach stuff like this and I would make it to three verses and an hour would go by three verses and an hour why because those three verses are saying so much that if I would take my time and begin to agree with them the Holy Spirit's going to expound and open up up even more and just cause me to see even more because there's enough here to just camp out for a while right and as I get into relationship I'm not just feeding my knowledge to what the Bible says you know well you know what the word says brother it's not like that that's not what we've heard each other with that well what's the word say about that well what's the word when it and which like we'll just word word word and it sounds right yeah y'all know what I'm saying right cuz you start lording that over well the Bible says and now you just give them your last three things you just because you read your Bible now you and it's not even love for them you're not even seeing where they're at and how they feel there's no sensitivity it's just well why are you saying that if you read the word well if you knew the word you wouldn't say that it's more of a miss than a watch this so you sitting there you bring forth of fruit in your season your leaf Father I'll thank you there's no such thing as burnout in my life because I'm not trying to do anything to become anything I'm already your son I'm already empowered your spirit already lives in me I'm enjoying the ride I get the blessing and benefit of becoming your heart by your spirit it our desire that I'm a tree it's your desire I'm planning intended everything about me is your will you've initiated this thing and you'll see it through to the end I just keep my eyes on you this is amazing that's like what do you mean your leaf with her well you know like it's a tough grind brother I mean you know but it's a hard I know you might feel that way cuz you got your eyes on whatever but no I don't understand no it's not that way and you have to get alone with God and start seeing what it's really like my leaf shall not wither so anything that sells me short of that isn't the truth so so I'm pastoring phones ringing needs I got people on my phone just in the last few days that that still believe I'm their answer and that I have to go to the hospital to see the loved one and drive up to Hershey to this emergency and call this person in another state because they have a crisis and it's a constant and if I didn't understand what I'm saying I'd be like would you just leave me alone I'm not everybody's answer come on and I don't none of that stuff is even a temptation to me I understand I see past that there's need they love you sometimes people going through something and it's so in their face that they feel like they're the only ones on the earth and the only one that has a crisis if you'd hear the compulsion on the phone sometimes please I know you're busy I know you don't have probably a lot of time but this is so important so important and they start crying you don't understand this is my mother and if I didn't understand and be able to sleep as I think well yeah and it's everybody else's mother too and you selfish thing why don't you just you're just getting wrapped up in your own need why don't you crowd to God and have some faith in to see that would be a hard preacher man there's people I had one bastard tell me personally you know this ministry thing would be great if it wasn't for the people he said there's just people are so challenging it's so hard to love the church man and I said huh but he was so serious but when you're in a place of love there's a wisdom that comes with it when then people are on your phone machine talking like that you understand what's making them feel that way and you have compassion you understand that what they're saying is in a sense self-consumed they're making they're actually it's so funny the ones that say look I know you're crazy crazy they use all these additives crazy insanely busy but I know you probably have no time whatsoever today but but but but I really need just five minutes it's so funny cuz they're on one hand saying I really feel bad I'm calling you but I really need to call you and I don't feel bad enough that I'm not calling because alcohol and you and I and they're trying to work through all that in their language and it's like all blessed or would they just ask what they want cuz they call but they go through all that it's it's so hilarious it happens all the time it's all the time it's hilarious and I'm a little behind right now I've got I don't like turning people into a list in the number but I feel like I've got people on a list of numbers right now at home there's people from Friday I haven't even called and I'm getting back it's funny but I'm not burned out I'm not frustrated I'm not tired I'm not carrying a burden I'm not everybody's answer I'm doing what I know I can do and I'm trusting God with the big picture do you see I'm not here thanking God now I'm teaching this school and right now I know I can hear by the spirit my phone's ringing and I'm not there to get back to people so the list is getting longer oh my god when I get all my have is to call people back all day come on there's a way you can start thinking like that and all the sudden it's just ministry instead of loving people well so this just needs driven and ministry and your heart will get hard and hurt so what happens to folks that's what happens to ministers they lose sight of the why and who they really are and who God is in the midst Rachel you have something that's good she had a question about children the other day was awesome brought her to tears so this is good question you're gonna cry again I just may actually people I love people and I love to help them and you want to steer them in the direction of the Lord right so when you're working and like you said people are calling it constantly for that how do you know when I I don't know is it spirit lid where you just know that okay this is my time where I can shut it off where God and the Holy Spirit have to finish the work so that it doesn't I guess takes so much of you where they get super dependent on you sure there's there's codependence of where they saw the sudden rely on you and the fact that I go through that seasons with people I'll let people do that for a while because they don't have the strength to I could tell them to stand on their own or to do this or that and and yet they really just need to hear your voice tomorrow morning you know I'm saying they're just in that place you just turn that stuff and you know and then there comes a time where it's just like you grow and you're nurturing them and you're just kind of like a mama bird you're feeding that little baby and in the beginning that babies just I just had it we just had a nest in our little bushes there and and yeah and I have I I don't have to go into detail but I have I have mealworms in an aquarium that I have I'm a fisherman at times I use them I have a pet toad I feed him them and I have millions of mealworms in this aquarium right so these birds are my little buddies now when I walk outside they sit from me to you and they go the mom and dad and they're like where's the mealworms how about and I have a little lid out there that I pour him in a plate and they're like there's no mealworms in the plate and and I went out and I was sitting on the chair reading and they wouldn't let me read like the ones the ones sitting on a pole and the ones on the top of the bush I could almost touch him they're gonna where I said you guys need more of mealworms how much do they eight come on and I'm like and they're just sitting there like and as soon as I go in and bring out the mealworms they see the little cup and and as soon as I pour them in back away they and they fill their little beaks and birds can count they got three babies and they get three mealworms every time and they go in and do and feed them so it's just like when I first peeked in in the eggs hatch there's a reason I'm telling his bird story it's going to answer your question Rachel when I first looked in I knew these bright little blue eggs are cat birds and I'd peek in and I knew these eggs were in there for a while and I'm thinking they're gonna hatch soon well because of nature and instinct and stuff stuff grows extremely fast in the wild like birds they can't just sit in a nest forever something's gonna get them sooner or later and they grow very fast right so I looked in there and it was the day they hatched and these little things were shakin they could hardly even like città they were just there just quivering in their little pink little fuzzy things and they're tiny look at these little things well it was about three four days later I didn't want to be in there fussing with them too much but I was feeding giving them out so they had unlimited food supply these little birds Hey they hate a lot of mealworms but I picked in there about three days later and all three of them are sitting up straight gone absolute upper knees in an ass they need mommy they're in a little season where they are so dependent they are so and and who knows that we want to grow up into him in all things but there's a time where you really nurture somebody but here's what you have to do this is why we talk about getting your heart perfect in love and formed in love and receiving love of God because if you begin to see how God had the father you intend to you and nurture you in life it'll start giving you compassion towards others like the more you receive forgiveness the more your heart is in position to forgive the more you truly viably truly receive mercy the more you become a vessel of mercy so the more you appreciate him and live in thankfulness and appreciate his goodness the more you'll see that go this way so because of that one concept I understand there's seasons and people and and and and and at the same time people can get to depend on you rely on you almost make you as if you're Jesus and their answer and and you know what I mean so if you perceive that at some point but here's the thing I'm going to all challenge you with the mindset that says that that has to wear you out is not true now that's coming from somebody that's been saved sixteen years and probably at the level I'm talking almost the whole time because we had a home group well before I was pastoring and over two hundred different people came through there in two years and my phone would get 10 to 12 calls a day when I was 1 year old in the Lord so I've been living this way ever since I've been saved and I haven't been tired I don't know what that means or I'm putting on a good show for you I said something to Pastor Don one time about somebody said this and thought this and and he laughed he said buddy I've known you since about the year 2000 he says if that's even a little bit true you were one amazing actor man so so what so this little birds and then and then it was just two weeks ago I didn't know it was this fast but it was just two weeks ago now they're eating good but uh I looked in well then they there now their eyes are open and they're all like it's but they're bigger their feathers are already popping out this is like a five six days into action there are already three times the size and they're already and and then you know what was cool I started feeding him myself they I would pull back the bushes they don't be there and I was just stuffing down there do it they're like bags buddy bags and then I picked it and they got a little bigger and realized you don't look like my mother and then they go and they were sitting there all three in the nest sitting and they're looking each other like that don't look that don't look like mom so so they all put their beats down they're all like they're like intimidated like so cute I just touched through it a little bit on the beacon he went and he ate it I got you little you he's like they're all scared but he's like I am hungry but you're not my mom you could just see him Jayde well then it was like four days later I went out and here they were sitting on my neighbor's hedge the little ones they got out of the nest cuz their crowd mouths the nest they can't hardly fly they they like buzz a little bit they look like an overweighted B so they're still dependent but they're growing and they're still being fed but who knows that they're gonna they're gonna fly soon on their own they're gonna get their own food they're gonna so that principle is that really neat principle you have to discern and if you rightly discern where people are there's a release of compassion with your understanding does this make sense so when you look at a person don't just see them as see that's where the selfless thing cuz I understand you have to get to work I understand believe me I understand my phone rings when it can't ring but it rings and if you don't understand what I'm telling you you'll have natural reasoning and natural knowledge to be all kinds of other things and then you'll you'll fail to even see the value there's hard times sometimes where I have to pick up phone and I told you that day I got here a little late to school there was I just had to pick up the phone there was a girl on my phone now I could've said well she's just gonna have to wait cuz I got to school and God do you know I have school if I start talking like that I'm covering up self connotation with spiritual language I don't even do that I just my heart broke when my heart went oh and I heard her on my phone crying and I I grabbed that phone and I knew I was gonna be late and I just picked up the phone I said hey girl hey I'm here I was just ready to step out but man I heard your heart what's going on kid oh sorry we live in eternity it'll work out you called what's going on it took my time with her there's times I'll grab the phone and say listen man I can tell you're hurt and listen there is do you don't understand where they've them in the middle of right now and where I have to be you know you realize right now I got to catch a flight listen I love you read this right now scripture I'll give them read this right now turn your heart begin to pray you believe this scripture okay and you you get on this I'll call you when I get to wherever and that's the stuff I do that stuff but but in time I do that with people I don't counsel them as much there's a time I just give them almost as I understand they need they're like that little tiny bird that just came out of the egg The Situation's new they feel overwhelmed they're the only reason they're calling me the only reason I'm calling you is because they're looking for hope and help all right and then at some point I'll give them a little more freedom to enter into this or that or read you could call it little assignments whatever you want to call it but what I do is I nurture them toward him you see what I mean I just had somebody call me serious crisis right after being on the phone I didn't buy time so collapsed on Saturday it was unbelievable where the day went it was just boom but I was one from one crisis in another it was life stopping situations young man tough situation another person and and and and what I do is I start to give them assignments and I start pointing this way cuz I'm not everybody's answer I can't be but I can point them to him you get what I'm saying but if you keep that rate to in perspective and you understand you got to put yourself in a person's shoes to be able to minister them with compassion you have to understand where they're coming from not how they're infringing on your day if it's just how they're infringing on your day you could substantiate that with natural wisdom and you could get a lot of friends that feel the same way to agree with you well yeah but you got to get to work you can't have them calling you and all of a sudden when the phone rings instead of while compassionate said oh here we go again oh my god it is her and now you're frustrated well you can't tell me that's Jesus even if it's you know sweetheart listen you called me the last two mornings say I'm abruptly honest with people because I love people so I'll be like honey you called me the last two mornings I want to let you know I'm doing this school and I'm getting ready for school and it's very difficult it actually puts me in a tough spot because I love you I want to take time with you but it puts me in a very tough spot because I have all these students that have committed they've registered or we have I have an appointment I have to be there and this is not the time to call me you've got to be patient and I'll get back to you but right now in the meantime how about this and please man just in this window of time don't call me in the morning I'll talk like that and then and I've had this happen both ways I'll reaffirm and ask 10 times sound redundant are you okay do you hear me real clear you're not hurt by anything I said right no no I'm fine I'm fine I'll hang up and they ball but I know that I'm doing my best to convey truth to them ins but it just shows how fragile some people aren't how we and if you they feel rejected now by you they're like oh my god oh my god I called it I probably now I just have French tore this day I'm selfish right and I could call if I should they called him I feel stupid I don't know if I'll ever face him again it's crazy stuff it's from one extreme to the other be free unravel come on get loose I've been through all that more than you can imagine so where I find out that person and I say wait a minute I asked you ten times and they're now minister to that area of their life you see what I mean it's just but it's all part of just loving people it's called loving people hey man thank you sue so I hope I answered your question okay you be properly honest but here's the deal you want to always have your heart in those situations move with compassion and heart for the person if you respond to a person in that situation just in light of how they're inconveniencing your time your day and eating your life up you will probably see very little grace on your words and probably end up touching them wrong I'm extremely merciful and compassionate to people that way because I understand first of all they're really hurting they're not understanding there's something wrong even if they're out of order leaning on me codependent leaning on me there's a reason come on if Jesus just looked at our lives and weighed our lives like we tend to do I bet some of us would get cut off along the way right so that just makes sure so I got to get in this here a little better in the second half hopefully I can establish some things we're just gonna try to do this but it's break time I got my sue was landed in the airplane and I'll go back there you're a blessing we appreciate you go take a break use the potty love somebody hug somebody bless somebody just tell them you're ready because your blood is so sweet what we get in the water what were you doing cleaning a palm you guys ready I guess we're ready there's still a lot of people out there I guess but we're just gonna get rolling for times sake okay okay I've been wanting to get to this this meditating on the word dis meditating in the Lord thing is really really powerful because it's taking your Bible reading from being just building up your knowledge just learning what the Bible says it transitions it into a personal communion a lot of people if I would go around and ask people when you'd be humble and honest that how many of you feel like it feels like what do you mean get alone with the Lord like I can pray about people and things my family I can have a prayer life but as far as community with the Lord Fellowship and when I get alone with the Lord kind of like where do I go from here okay Here I am I've had people say they'll go sit in their bedroom close the door and it's like now what and they kind of feel like they don't know where to go from there so if I'd really go around the room you'd be and people be honest you'd be amazed how many people would say I've encountered that same experience where I get alone it's like I set time apart to maybe meet with God personally but where do I go from there or it doesn't seem really real or like he's really close or seems far away anyway and that kind of thing the Word of God meditating in the Word of God day and night is a big deal reading your Bible I make this comment a lot I say you know I don't read my Bible to know about him I read my Bible to know him so just your little motivation like that can be a big deal so you take the Bible you can open it up and read it like a history book who knows that's true who knows you can just read your Bible for information you just read your Bible to know what it says and and and there's a there's a benefit there because it's alive and Holy Spirit I'll start having a voice in your life in those areas there's a true conviction that can come in your life in certain areas because of things you've deposited so there is a benefit in the goodness but I don't want to just read it to have Bible knowledge I want to know God you want to know God right so we want to know him and walk with Him more effectively so that the Word of God in the beginning was the word the Word was with God in the Word was God I realized about the Spirit of God a long time we this is like my face-to-face encounter with him I I look into who he is here and no man could look into his face and live so as I look in and see who he is it dismantles Who I am apart from him and it raises me back up in truth so I don't just find him here I actually find the truth about me here and the real me I find here so I'm finding him and myself in him because we've always been one since the beginning in his heart he saw me before I was seen true so meditating in the word is going to bless you it's it's it's a good thing so I did a little bit of it just sitting there you know you're sitting in your read and blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the ungodly who doesn't stand in the path of sinners or sit and then you begin to express your heart you declare your heart towards God you'd be amazed how big that can get guys see it's not about all I got to read my Bible no I want to become the truth that it's speaking about I want to become the word become flesh okay so I'm not just sitting trying to achieve reading a chapter or I got my chapter in today or I make sure I read two chapters a day you know you can do that I'm not saying that that's a bad thing but be sure that in that process you understand and learn to commune with the Lord there there might be days in this thing that I'm talking about communing with the Lord well honestly you could sit down and read this first verse and begin to get into prayer and communion set yourself apart deny yourself receive and put on the new man you could end up for a half hour just responding to that one thing from your heart in communion with God and that's total viable prayer communion surrender and graces all over that and you read one verse because of what that's saying and what you do is you sanctify yourself through your prayers you set yourself apart father I have no need for natural wisdom and I thank you Lord God that you're giving me an ear to discern in here just the way that seems right to man that you're making it so obvious to me through filling my heart with truth Lord God I've lived a certain way my whole life and those ways are over Lord you're training me up in a brand new way I'm putting on Christ today you read that and you begin to pray this way and have communion with God it's amazing how Holy Spirit will meet you there how sometimes you'll leave the room and it'll feel like you just talked a lot about what you were but here's the thing he's expanding your heart with understanding you're getting more out of the word you're not just reading it to get through it it's becoming alive to you all of a sudden becomes a part of who you are now you're embracing it as truth and now truths making you free so you're leaving your bedroom and you're coming out of your bedroom transformed by spending time in him why because you're releasing faith in an area and when you release faith grace comes to meet that faith and begins to mold and X you grace is like what fashions you grace is the workmanship in the craftsmanship of God it's it's his skillful hand working inside of you to make you like him that's what grace does grace is God's ability it's God's power and he's willing to use it on your behalf to make you look like him so he's released in faith in his value to God in his love life and in the ability to see people through God's eye and that when he sees the world he I see what you see father cuz we are one you've put yourself in me and you're the one that looks through my eyes and you're causing me to see the world with the value they possess in your heart sit and pray in that right he can't read on love and just go out and do as he's praying this way Holy Spirit's doing a work it's supernatural you're saved by grace through faith who gets the glory come on we're not self-made he's not going to just give some big trophies in some little trophies and some no trophies hey you know your wow what a great Christian hey and now I just want to introduce to the heavenlies super Christian you know and know what makes us amazing is that he's amazing and we've yielded to him and his spirits working effectively in us he's not just gonna say Brent come to the front he's super Christian he did everything right right he's not gonna say that I mean well Fred I didn't mean it but it's not he's not gonna get a reward we're not gonna put a little coke cape around him with with SC on it you know super Christian and then and then and then he leap off the hand of God and glide across the heavens it's see we're gonna weep it we know what we are is by the grace of God before the gospel came to my life I didn't even care about you be real I didn't even care about you then if I had anything to do with you there have been something in it for me whether just a relationship made me feel better dependency was filled in something or whatever but it had nothing to do with valuing you before Christ had nothing to do with valuing you it's only the gospel that changes you on the inside and causes you to see the value of people to where all the sudden you're not mad and angry and frustrated with people judgmental and on the inside there's not envy and pride in comparison we're on the inside you actually look and you love people why because you've become one with love and you've taken the time to let him cultivate your heart by releasing faith and saying I want this you see when you do that that's communion grace comes and says okay he changes your eye by showing you something different you agree to it and then he changes the way you see he shows you there's another way to look you say yeah and then he says okay come on this is not rocket science it's it's grace its salvation I don't know about you heart heart attitude pride judgment that inside stuff we do our whole life we've done is the fall of man deluxe anybody can do it it's it doesn't make you special it makes you fallen how's that because it's so proud it's at the expense of others it's exalting yourself your own mind in your own opinion above the world above everybody it's self-righteous it's the fall of man deluxe eat the tree and you'll be God so now you project your opinions on people and you sit with an inner counsel oh what a jerk what a jerk come on you're not you're not you're not somebody awesome if you sit there with that inside your heart and that's the assessment of people around you all what a jerk no that just means you have a desperate need for Christ and salvation degenerate deluxe well that's right because what you're doing is you're valuing yourself above them apart from truth come on if God lived in that eye he'd look at the earth and say what a bunch of jerks they know what's right and could never get it right what was I thinking why would I love them bunch of losers come on that's what that mentality would suggest then that isn't how God sees us self-righteousness is a wretched terrible awful thing it's it's it's us getting saved by grace and then forgetting how we got saved and then looking at others through a different eye than God looked us through that self-righteous do we have a mic Johnny do you still have the mic are you my mic lady today you're awesome thanks no that's fine she's taking notes good she might just preach that something that whole thing that you just demonstrated there it that's what sanctification is that there's just a separating unto truth sanctification is not this in the world no I'm not I was I was thinking the way a man thinks I was thinking what this is I was thinking for me one minute ago now I've looked into the word and went whoa and I get convicted this is repentance now I changed my mind I think wait a minute was living for me I'm selfish I just so ridiculous all I care about is really me and honestly me we're not cared about me I didn't even like me truly I didn't even like me I didn't even like who I was I didn't like myself at all but I wanted you to love what I didn't like coz then it would try to meet fill that void because I had so much lack of identity that if you would love me it would help me like me can you imagine living that way and then you enter into relationship with someone with all that twisted wacked motivation and they become the meeting of your need instead of your love that's why I get on this topic so because that happens all the time insecurity identity crisis meet one another yes it's right that's why what we say we love we can hurt and devastate and cut off in time on that topic stuff goes through me like crazy but watch this let me get back on track here with what sanctification watch I read the word and the word gives light in his light we see light his word is the entranceway to light so his Word is truth it's like I read the word and all the sudden another way which is the way comes to knowledge you get it my heart goes wow I've been living totally opposite of this right repent you begin to change the way you think and you go whoa man I don't want to live for myself god I don't want to and all the sudden you're repenting and salvation is coming why because God is removing that faith is being released my life is worth living there's more to me than what it seemed I am worth your salvation because you made me for this not this and all of a sudden you're changing it's repentance and grace is coming over your life and it's making you the very living product and expression of what you're now seeing you see so you're stepping out of the old this is sanctification stepping out of the old into the new and now you're set apart washed through the blood forgiven by God filled with his spirit for a purpose does this make sense it's a supernatural awesome spiritual process now people say well the sanctifying process in the sense of being separated from darkness is it's a right now thing but the sanctifying process in the sense of the saving of your soul and the redeeming and renewing of your mind you walk in that and grow in that at I'm just going to be playing at the level you surrender it says your he has already through one sacrifice perfected forever those who are being sanctified that means those who are being cultivated in truth and manifesting truth your growing up into him but it's at the level you surrender because if you hood on to rights if you draw lines then you're only receiving levels of grace according to what you're willing to believe but if you sellout if you see Jesus and use purpose to follow him and you get along with God and just give it off it was like that little note I read to you that one of the students hand to me you purposed in your heart - never again live your life for your own motives you gave yourself to God and he showed you his salvation he's saved yet that's exactly what happened to me I saw clear what was motivating me and didn't want that to ever motivate me again so I told God that and gave my heart to him in that way and my prayers began to dictate that and declare that and I stayed in that surrendered place and grace comes and makes it your reality it's where all the sudden I'm not trying not to be selfish you get what I'm saying it's just your heart it's the way it is it's just all the sudden I'm not trying to love you come on if I'm trying to love you it means I don't I'm trying to you will never get there that way I saw your hair not calling me saying here's what you do when that's trying to happen and you're tending to see the worst in them and they're rubbing you the wrong way father I thank you you never get rubbed the wrong way whatever's causing this no ever I feel whatever's rationalizing my feelings right now I'll thank you that you teach me that you show me that even removed that away and just continue to show me the value of this person you love them you shed the blood of Jesus for the last two days have been focused on their weaknesses in God right now I just focus on their strengths and the blessing of the potential of their life and if I would have to if I would have to I would speak out and declare their destiny their value as if I was praying over my own life why so that I could start seeing them at the same value I see myself and I could never project from above them and talk down to them see what I'm saying because that's what you do when you're frustrated with a person you've elevated yourself whether you realize or not you've elevated yourself above them and now you're talking from the place of demeaning them every mountains low every valleys there's no high place in no low life no hotshot low life we all need the blood of Jesus and by His grace we're all saved we all have equal amazing value and if I have that value and I'm see I'm not on an island by myself with Jesus getting all built up in the spirit and then looking down on you I'm with Jesus getting all bit up in the spirit so I can see you exactly how he sees me that's the key right go ahead sorry I did something dang it's like you you like answer the question like and someone raises their hand you always like it start speaking and then you're answering the question before they speak I think what keeps me back and probably a lot of people from that intimacy with God is like you don't feel like you're fully pleased pleasing him like he's already pleased with you and you're trying to do it out of a you like I could even look at your life and just see the reality that you have and like oh I want that I need to do something to get to that for God I need to really please him so I can have that with him type mentality and then you go in there and you're you're trying to strive and and you eat I've heard you say before like when you're focused on yourself that's where discouragement comes well some people get alone in that place and they and what rises up in a minute just sometimes happens automatically is what you judge yourself and what you feel still lacking you like what you're not fulfilling what's still missing and there's times that can be convictions in god they can be in the Holy Spirit cause you have truth in you and they're just areas to surrender to you but what people do is then they put that on as a garment as if this is me and it's almost like Here I am with you and I'm like this and and it doesn't invoke intimacy man if you have that kind of stuff going on it's not a bad thing it's never condemnation so just start naked and not ashamed you start unraveling and undressing before God those things you see what I'm saying but but there's another thing I want to address and I'll let you finish your heart you have to be very careful that you don't compare yourself to one another but that you're inspired by one another to follow after Christ as you see something in them you appreciate but if you compare yourself to them and you feel like wow he's so pleasing to God he does this not and I see the reality I sure don't have that even if I'm preaching some people tend to hear what I'm preaching to locate where they're not instead of where God's pointing see it's it's we've been trained in an ear of condemnation and works and legalism and law we don't realize we've been trained in that way so here's the deal you are already pleasing to him he is pleased to love you save you so you have to stand there start there you're not introspecting yourself you're getting alone with God if some conviction rises in your heart in that process then the ear you hear it in is huge all of a sudden something comes to light or you think man you know it doesn't have to be this way I've kind of held on to this or I haven't really walked strong in this way all of a sudden that to me I'd receive that as conviction conviction and condemnation totally two different things conviction means to shine light upon condemnation means I'm judged for a thing you're never judged by God he did not come to judge you but to save you right so when convictions come don't misinterpret them and let a legalistic mindset beat you down when God's lifting you up so he's trimming that's like a circumcision if you will of the heart he's just cutting things off to take off that garment you don't look good in that that wasn't maybe that wasn't tailored for you that is not who you are you don't look good and that take that thing off you look better undressed right hey man go ahead it's not so much like that it's like um like I'll get pumped up just realizing Who I am in Christ sometimes and then like just being that and then I hear something from some preacher or somebody and then I feel like it's almost like well I don't have that and then I get in a mentality where I need to work for that type thing not like I'm not like putting off sin but almost like like you're chasing your tail type thing is what happens like you already have it but you're you're you keep on going to get some yeah there's something and I hope you can hear me clear and is that comparison thing because when you hear stuff it should be exciting if somebody's talking about something that you haven't walked in rather than go man I don't have that and then you get under pressure like you have to become that yeah that's not the joy of your relationship in other words it ought to make you like spiritually froth at the mouth men go whoa that is too pumped and exciting to me I would look you know god that's something I can grow in it should be a perspective that's exciting it's something being unveiled and released and built in your life do you know what I mean it's that it's just that I guys when you weigh like that and you think boy I don't have that I need to have that because then it has the tone of I'm not complete till I have that I'm not qualified to I have that I'm not accepted I'm not fully pleasing till I have that and it puts you back under a yoke yeah instead of freedom hears that you're already free you're already loved look while you were yet a sinner Christ died dude why you were an Adam even working works in your mind he said your holy blameless and above reproach through one sacrifice you start there and rejoicing if you look at some in somebody's life or hear a preacher and you get a conviction and say man that's never been building me wow I haven't even thought that well I feel like I'm lacking in that god I so thank you for bringing that to my understanding it is so my privilege to yield to you in that area God and then you cut off the old and you put on the new it's simply through prayer but the whole time you're doing that you're fully pleasing to him especially because your heart cares and you want that you your you're a teachable person in other words when you see that thing you're not going whatever when you when you see that thing or hear that thing you're not going whatever or yeah hey that's cool whatever you know or you're not just deaf and blind and dumb you're going whoa wow it's saying something but don't let it shift on any of you let it shift into where it's works like works versus relationship you know some people start out the Galatian started out by grace in the spirit and paul asked who bewitched them and how are you gonna accomplish in the flesh which you began by the spirit you see what I mean the flash could be it doesn't mean some kind of evil flesh sin it means working things out in your own strength ingenuity ability and effort you have to be careful to just remain in this place of grace so here's how simple I am if you want to if you have a yes in your heart to the things of God and you want to become that that's your part you take that into a secret place of prayer and commune that with God and grace says oh that's so cool that's how it works and it's just that simple come on if this wasn't that simple we'd be like man we'd all be like you know come on some of us that have grown into things of god we'd have spiritual calf muscles we would have kept we have cows we'd have spiritual cow muscles maybe so build up you know because we've worked so hard we've done so many reps I'm saved by grace it's not just because I'm running off enough laps it's because I believe him here this this is very grace on this I can tell there's grace on this I am what I am because I believed you did not it's cuz I believed him I believed on him get it I know him in whom I believed believing takes you there to the believer see we think it has to be something more and intellectual and something we can wrap our mind around no it's something you wrap your heart around what do you believe he loves me I'm his I have the potential of christ-like life Spirit of God lives in me I'm not lacking any good things father's pleasure give me I believe all any man that comes he must believe that he what that he is that he is what everything he says he is he is Shane's got a question over there comment whatever he has it'll be good yeah it it really just hit me yesterday with kind of anissa's going off my man's a comment in question that he had our culture and kind of our society mixed in with some of our church we're looking for something to fight for we all kind of look for something to fight for something we can dig into something we can become and I've been really struggling to this because for God I mean I want to fight for God I've been thinking of its like a warrior mentality you know I need to jump into God I need to jump into this intimacy to get something to to grow in him so that I can fight for him and it's very much as a part of our culture and part of who we are and and then yesterday I I just haven't written in my notes that he said I don't want you to become a warrior I want you to be a child you know that's that's what you're called to be and so as being a warrior you're always looking for new things that you can that you can use in warfare that you can run out with that you can become that you can take to the battlefield and so we then with that we look at them the works you know it's like oh I need to get I need to write have that so I can now have to be a part of me and fight for you know this God that I love but love how he's calling us to love and is not as a warrior not as I need to fight for this or be this or you know but simply be that child and through that he gives opportunity and he just like in your life as you progress the more and more and more he uses you as a warrior and he's developing a warrior's heart but it's inside the heart of the place of a child is that helping you that's really that's that's good that feels like a clearer answer than I was able to convey to you is that helping you good good it's just really good but what a good comment for all of us because that warrior is in that child that's what you become but that's good yeah you know what you've really taught us is just the child become the child and be loved and just love the hell out of them make the t-shirts up you know but but but there's a concept there that's it's just oh my goodness because here's the deal if we were created in God's image and Christ came and modeled a life that were called to live and he became what we were on the cross so we can become what he is it has to be this powerful come on don't turn it into Christian religion trying to live the Christian life it's being sons and daughters it's learning what it means to be children of God yo amen communing with God meditating in the word there's so many examples I don't care where you open in your Bible you can use this concept meditating in the word and Todd was messin with me one time he took the one scripture I think it was David in the Psalms and about the something in the pain and infection or something in my lord how do you meditate on that buddy we were driving and I it really easy and I just started to meditate on and he went oh my god because I just I meditated in New Testament light and finished work of Christ so because my mind's renewed because he was just being silly and he's like meditate on that dude he just said laughs like I should have figured he was gonna but I want to get into so did you not see a hand was that your hand yeah and has I've been listening to you over the years and been around you and stuff and seeing how free you are and I've seen you for since early 2000 and you know you're just as bubbly today as you were back then it's not my fault when you're around round that you know you it's like well hey and this is really real so you you start seeking and finding and and get into that place like you would the soaking the intimate time of Jesus the intimate time of God but along with that I found to it's a place of where you talked about becoming selfless its surrendering everything that there is it doesn't matter what what comes up if it's not surrendered it has to be surest exactly right and here's why that's so important it's not some legalistic thing with God I hope to have all of you or I hope none of you so it's not like that see until you become completely surrendered you won't completely see different than you've seen before you'll see through what you don't let go of you'll still see through the way that seems right to a man where at what point does your mind get renewed see it says do not be conformed to the world but this is phenomenal transformed how by the renewing of our mind I meditate day and night in the word I start saying yes to the word I yield that's the place of surrender all the sudden the way that I thought was the way is confronted by the way and in humility I yield and say this is high wisdom this is deep this is awesome or wow this wasn't wisdom at all this is the truth and and it's a whole Joyride of just being transformed through the knowing of truth it's and then your whole I this whole Gospels designed to change the eye you look through to see situations through love through him this is the biggest stumbling of our Christian lives we don't get this understanding we're just trying to do good works for God and we're just trying to stay faithful within the church and live a pretty good life and put on a pretty good showing but we don't we don't see the change that comes through just seeing everything through love and different in the value of people and selfless see if there's an ounce of self you're gonna look through the complications of self and whatever that brings and means in a situation you're gonna look at a situation of how this affects me instead of love for the person it's the automatic response when that's your motive when there's a motive down in you that's less than surrender when Anthony's saying then your eyes gonna channel through that and agree with that and you don't realize because you are pure you love God you know you need a Savior but yet there's still as much fear or anxiety or hurt or jealousy in some people's lives that absolutely look at them and you know they they love him and understand the beauty of what he's done this way but he wants to take he doesn't want to come and just love you he wants you to become that love cuz you and him are one and he made you in His image so the whole finished work of Christ I say it over and over is not to get you to heaven it's to get heaven back inside of you and transform your nature back to his so that you're in the world and not of it and you shine forth as a light holding fast the word of life it's Philippians 2 hey man Trish did you have a question can I repeat it or do you have a cut long comment you need a mic okay I'll just repeat it she said oh that's well yeah that's a that's an important question to ask because some people have a doorman they think they can be a doormat I I can't be a doormat Jesus wasn't a doormat he was the mode that was the most unjust act ever done to a man he wasn't a doormat he was the perfect example of love he took no account of a suffered wrong and what he did he did for the better and sake and whole of of the whole I mean for the sake of the whole he gave his life our psychological thinking would tell Jesus man you don't need to go through this man you can't let people treat you you just can't let people walk all over you brother you are so pure and so loving and mean well and there's a time sir you need to draw a line you can't go down that cross when Peter told him this will never happen to you he said Peter you're listening to the devil and you need to get back in tune with God you know what he said you're thinking like man thinks why cuz man thinks for himself so watch this when you're watching Jesus and you begin to value Jesus now watch you're gonna see something about Peter and why you got so sternly corrected okay because when you start valuing somebody and really caring for somebody and their meaning something to you then you sentimentally defend them you would you attack anything that threatens them because they're a blessing to you now we call it love what you know what Peter was saying when he said this will never happen to you he was telling what's gonna happen he said this will never happen to you and Peter Jesus really corrected him she'd get behind me Satan he was saying man that mindsets coming straight from the pit of hell why because it was totally self-serving it had nothing to do with love for Jesus it had to do with themselves watch what Peter was saying this can't happen to you you're the best thing that ever happened to me and ain't nobody taking you from me I live in without you and they aren't doing this to you you're the best thing that ever happened to me and this shall never happened to you you're amazing you're a gift from God you're awesome data and then because of that little twist of self interest we start identifying psycho logically that you know you could be a doorman I say this and I chuckle cuz it's so true like we have this phrase in the church all the time and I get people to come and they counsel with me all the time and they say oh but you don't understand they are so emotionally abusing me and in the church we believe that's possible and that's why we're mostly abuse it's impossible for you to emotionally abuse me I know who I am totally impossible there's no way you can I don't care if you talk mad at me screaming me and curse me every time I come out of my front door to come to this church if there's people chanting with signs and calling me terrible things how is that emotionally abusing me the only reason into marriage you can get emotionally abused by your spouse that doesn't see the value of you or who you are is because you don't realize the reason they can't love you is because they can't love themselves they don't see the value of their own life they don't love their own flesh instead of hurting for them and crying we get hurt by them instead of hurting for them and then all our prayers our hymns based on hurt instead of hurting oh boy come on this is all gonna come out within the love thing and it's a little bit coming out now but but but just because you believe you can be emotionally abused you're a target you're just you're just a sitting duck waiting to happen you're just abuse waiting to happen you you can't emotionally abuse me it's a funny thought to me see a lady I get when I preach it why cuz I know who I am come on if somebody's emotionally abusing me it's cuz they don't know who they are and they obviously don't know who I am so it's their capacity it's all they know Father forgive them they know not what they do our heart should cry for people in that situation it's so important for you to be rooted and established and grounded in truth so that nothing else can eat your lunch and identify you so you don't put on the harsh words of people you don't put on the neglecting rejection of people come on water Christians doing rejected and even counseling and talking about it because we don't know who we are how can you reject me now that he's accepted me and that is not some arrogant audacious place that says well I don't care if you don't like me you don't have to like me Jesus me you don't need to accept me he's except me no you've already been hurt talking like that it's not some hi-ho triumphant declaration that's at the cost of your value to protect myself no it's a sincere from him how can you reject me I'm in guys so if you don't see the value of my life if you don't understand the purpose and destiny of your in my life and you're miss reading him is why am i rejected and how can I lay down my life and you not appreciated me become a doormat when I love you Jesus wasn't a doormat but psychology would reveal him as a doormat certain circles and piers if you left it up to Peter and the disciples he would have been a doormat and if Jesus had the ability to be talked out of truth he could have been maybe compelled then by his peers to not go to that extreme because he's the last person that deserves that and people just don't appreciate you and there's a time you need to just take a stand and and then let people reap what they sow because da da da dun you could rap language around that all day long and miss love and Jesus would have nothing to do with that and actually called it the devil guys he said you're not thinking like God thinks you're thinking like man thinks so he attached the devil and man not thinking like God together come on sentimentally we've intervened in situation sentimentally we've counseled and befriended people and people we've taken lega too and we've tried to protect them but we've done that out of our own sentimental hearts because we know how we'd feel if they were in their shoes and we're trying to save them from something only empowering us to hold onto ourselves no we need to be saved from ourselves that emotionally abuse when it doesn't it's very challenging to people because we've embraced the language we accommodate we understand what it means to be emotionally abused and we accommodate it we we think it's possible guys and because we think it's possible we are emotionally abused look I'm not exploiting my wife but when I got saved my wife got saved with me after seven weeks and then I start I was growing and she started comparing herself to me and other things and people were loving on me and oh you're amazing and she'd here this constant your husband is amazing your husband is and then she started to believe that she's not amazing that they're only talking to her because she's my wife and all of a sudden she has no value I have all the value and she's just dawn for the ride so I would tell her Kim don't let that happen to you that is just a lie you're this and you're this well you're supposed to tell me that well that's the right thing to tell me well you just need to tell me that well for about six years she lost herself and went I've never shared the depth of stuff with you but she and now it's on tape and now it's but it's not her she God has been growing her out of all that but who knows every person needs God reality for their own heart who knows I can tell you all day you're valuable in love but until you get alone and open your heart and say father you really do value me and love me there's no faith to receive a grace for a revelation it's just knowledge and yet there's constantly things contesting it so my wife went into this deep thing for about six years and didn't even want to live and was like introverted and didn't even want to go out of the house and didn't even want to go to church or nothing and yet she was my wife and I'm ministering call a God you know we think we live in a glass house and people just think what I could have done with that if I didn't understand what I preached to you see the reason I preached all this stuff is I have great privilege to manifest it all I walk through all the privileges of trials and adversity glorying in tribulation because you can manifest truth because it's not about you so none of it's a pain in the butt or a hard time or oh my god you don't know what I've been through self-conscious self-conscious self-conscious may I talk to Jesus see if it in Paris wonder if he came as a man you know what they put me through just look at the sad tale he would tell sitting on a rock I was totally perfect totally pure I love people unfailingly and they rejected me they blast meand about me they called me a devil I actually healed their sick and they called me a demon-possessed Samaritan they thought I was a devil they were so bound with religion so stiff neck an opsin another da da da da and he could just be sitting feeling sorry for himself and want somebody to just understand oh boy I'm preaching good so think of my language all of a sudden I need prayer I need ministry all the sudden oh my god my wife she's not on page how can I walk together if I don't have the synergism with my spouse I'm so limited until she's all until the devil let's go over until God you deliver on this on that oh my god I've got a cover-up I got to protect I'm limited I'm so oh brother would you pray for me yeah hey God I don't even understand what you're saying but I see it all the time I never even asked for prayer I never felt like I needed prayer can I be honest with you this Mike this Mike I don't know if you can hear this God I've been saved 16 years it's not wrong to ask people for prayer there's time she's just you need encouragement I don't remember ever feeling like I was hurting and needed prayer but why because what I believe there's always an answer in him is that the main people that need prayer knows that's why I don't want you to hear but what I'm saying is we all have a story if I tell you mine in detail it might be important I couldn't just because of people involved in exploiting things but if I tell you my story in detail you'd probably understand why I'm what you see because I've been through more than you can imagine as close to home as you can think called marriage to all kinds of stuff but it's this I am teaching you in this belief that sees clear the whole way through it doesn't make it what it's not because if it would be about me right now and my wife's in that place I'm in deep trouble I'm just now I'm a hard-hearted subverted Minister never got to fulfill my calling and there's a deep resentment towards my wife because if she would have been strong and ran with me we could have done this and went to the nation's and did this and oh my god and now I'm sitting with regret and 25 years later I got sorrow and regret my heart and this is my story and this has become my garment come on that's so twisted because the whole time I'm doing that Jesus is Lord are you all following me so what do you do well you certainly don't get frustrated with him because you love her and you understand that she's going through great identity crisis and deception to the point that the stronghold of what she's believing is has been so strategically planted that you can't even speak to her because of her ear and you can't even love her and unless God does supernaturally begins to nurture her and father her you can't just tell her you're loved by god you're predestined there's a time to mourn well you're supposed to tell me that we just has to be her revelation so watch this so if I'm frustrated with her and I'm and I'm harsh with her and saying girl you need to get with it how am i revealing God's love and releasing God's love know I'm walking in total patience I'm not even I'm not even in a belief system where where she's at can be a detriment to me at all it just makes a drawl on love just makes a drawl on compassion and mercy I'm not married to her for my sake hello see I could talk like this because I've lived this and lived this and I know what I'm talking about it's fun for me because I watch people people would call me to Pastor them and counsel them in their marriages and weren't even going through an eighth of the things I was in the middle of and they were calling me and they were devastated and nobody knew what I was in the middle of and I was the one giving them counsel and they weren't even going through an eighth of the scenario and just because their spouse was being mean they were falling apart or they don't ever want to agree with me when I say this and now they're ready to give up on Christ I'm like time after time I get these phone calls I would say Lord this is getting funny I'd be like and I was like these people are calling me and it was like I went duh it was like he said don't you get in because you don't see yourself as a man with a problem and if your situation is much more extreme than some of these phone calls don't you see why they're calling you because you have something to give them because you don't see you give them the perspective you're living by without exploiting the situation to get what I'm saying that's why you hear me say to people don't it don't exalt your story as if you've been through more than the person beside you but we're just making a drawl on war stories and then we're reduced to Pattin each other and saying I'm sorry brother you've been through that and we're just comparing ourselves among ourselves with our war stories and accomplishing what if anything permission for being the way we are and the way we feel and if we can share a deeper story than the next person we're more qualified to be less whatever come on that's all self I just saw that this weekend Alisa but you don't know what I've been through I mean it rose up in her she's mad I said is that what's important knowing what you've been through I said honey are we supposed to compare our stories right now listen to me sweetheart I took her by the face held her looked her in the eyes you've seen crushed in me all day that's why you're talking to me she respect me in the Lord don't you shift gears oh my god that's straight with her and held her face that's how I am with folks cuz I love people and I don't need to set her straight I want to rescue her from the lie that's eating her lunch I don't need to be right show her up I want to see her free and it got to the point where she laid on the embalmed I was really fun but what was coming out was the justification of her feelings that were unsanctified but you don't know what he did to me could you imagine God the Father sitting on the throne looking at humanity saying she'll never know what they did to me I created them with a vision in a hope I gave him one command and they broke that and many more since they don't even look nothing like me and I'm their father me don't even seem like they really care most of the time the list would go on and on if God's at that mentality and viewed humanity wouldn't it and then we assume the right to even have one-liners and situations with that mindset no that's that old things pass away and behold all things become new so we can rightly assess life through him because if God's not sitting on the throne assessing you that way why do you embrace the right to look through other eyes it's the only place you're gonna find truth that's why the church is hurt rejected well I was really hurt by the church what are you doing hurt you mean you were hurt by the church you see what I'm saying I understand there's innocent young people when they come into the church and dead it and they don't know and they get taken but somebody needs to be there to impart truth to them rather than not they're on wrap their arm around say yeah I'm sorry I got hurt - oh yeah I know he can be that way man let me tell you what I was through six years ago maybe just to help make you feel better no it won't it will affirm their position we're trying to relate instead of set free boys I have person say to me once well did you ever were you ever addicted to drugs now well then you can't minister to me because you don't know what it's like said of course I can I've been addicted to sin and I've been addicted to myself I don't have to have done drugs to minister truth to you and walk in the anointing on my life don't you believe that why and I talked to them about being in a prison my whole life my identities captured and that's all that's going on with you you've just lost sight of who you are you don't know who you are I didn't know who I was either so we have more in common than you think don't think I've had to use drugs to minister to you I've just had to been fallen and saved and I was and so were you come on that's simple we get so technical so psychological we bring so much intellect into this gospel that we limit grace and the truth so many times you don't realize how much we value our opinions and how we've taken the way that seems right to manage is human psychology and integrated it into the gospel of truth and I'm not a fan of that at all it's it doesn't bring freedom it actually gives you excuses for the flesh limitation and to remain the same and I found a reason to change and if I can't find the way I'm thinking in the gospel and in the kingdom of God why am I thinking that way if I'm his son if God never saw me that way why am I seeing you that way I challenged myself in that stuff and it's brought me to a place where I feel like my eyes been fine-tuned to his does that make sense we've actually had a bunch of hands go up and I was kind of overlooking him but where was hands I was just kinda in the middle of a point it doesn't mean remember I told you beginning you have to give me if I don't call and it just means I'm we all okay so mostly your people come to you and you're gonna teach them basically what you're teaching us who they are as opposed to praying for them rather than minister that we are so ministry minded we're so quick to try to move an administration of holy spirit there's a place where one touch of God can just position your life transform your life change your life understand that I honor the touch of God and I pray that way with people a lot but where the strength of my heart is he's the Lord as the spirit of counsel and we need a good teacher called Jesus's life right the gospel to impart truth to us because what's our best friend truth is your best friend what makes you free what makes you free the touch of God's presence of truth you could say well the touch of God's presence well the touch of God presence is awesome but the Bible says truth makes you free do you understand what I'm saying so truce your best friend now watch this somebody comes to an order and they want prayer that's one thing and that's fine and I can pray for them but when I hear their harder I see where they're coming from I have more of a faith and more of a conviction in my heart to address the way they're thinking because I know this I know that if I pray for them and nobody imparts truth in the way that they're thinking and helps adjust them if they continue to think the same though experience the same and somewhere down the road not even too far they'll be up here again for some level of Prayer in the same manner and they're waiting for the touch of God instead of the transformation of truth I'll let you then yeah she's gonna share one more comment and give it to Brent however so we got that now however in the situation for your wife I'm sure there were times maybe all the time that you prayed for her not in front of her necessarily but you pray I'm a different guy probably in that way I didn't intercede everyday for her I have a calling I have a destiny I live by faith I'm in a position of faith so who knows if you add up those situations that are dear to your heart you begin to intercede all day you are consumed with what we call prayer it's it's faith pretty much pretty much that's how I lived I I said father that is not who she is and I thank you that has no power of my life you have taught me to love my God you love her so much thank you for bringing her up and out teaching her confirming her heart and give me the wisdom to just continue to manifest you and be like you are to her and be a living example thank you for the wisdom to love my wife and be a husband unto her and dad I know I'm gonna run this race I was I was questioning if I was do right there's always people that tell well yeah but you should be interceding every day I had a friend at inner seated day and night for their child and God visited him in the night and then we throw all those experiences and testimonies up and then we write another book how a God delivered my child and then we're all trying to do what that person did and now we're mechanical Christians to grab a hold of other people's testimonies about just where faith is when I got saved my marriage was over my wife was not in a good place and when I got saved I thought I hated her I was actually happy we were finally dividing cuz I thought I'm gonna find me a new girl and just live my life and get a new model I'll just start over it'll be fun and exciting that's where my mind was and I was like who cares and I was really in that place soon as I got saved I knew I loved my wife she wasn't in a place like that but here's what I said to the Lord I said father if I'd have been living in Christ all these years and living what I was cared to be none of this would look like it does I release her of all responsibility it has nothing to do with anything she's ever done wrong it has to do with me not being sincere with my heart and life and living for your glory and God I release my wife from this marriage in the sense of responsibility and I take responsibility on my end that I have not been a man of God and I know your will was to restore my marriage and I put it on the order of your mercy and I thank you you will be done and I never even thought about or pray for my marriage one more time seven weeks later God the Holy Spirit came into the bathroom and illuminated my wife and that was an amazing story a year - a year and a half later as I was really growing the Lord and started entering more into ministry stuff is when these things started hitting my wife and I saw it happening very subtle and I would address it and she would just kind of wouldn't say much and then it happened even more and then all of a sudden it was out in the open and she's crying and I'm just your wife and I'm saying well that ain't a bad thing and I'm like what do you mean and I realized what she's saying is people only acknowledge me because of who you are people only pay attention to me because I'm with you and it's the thing to do it's not because I'm special and she started believing to where when I remember one day walking in the kitchen I said hey girl and I spun her around I just had come in and I said you're this and that she just stared at me and said thank you I went well I said honey if anything ever just went right past you that I said it was right there I kind of bounced off that window back there and I said listen I said I know you're going through stuff but I said the Bible's true and it says that about you it's not the right thing to say it's the truth I kissed her on the forehead and went and changed and I didn't man she won't even receive my love you know what's wrong with my wife why did she get with it so we could just doesn't have to be this way what see that's self serving that's me and the relationship for me and now it's all about how she's not making my day better and now I'm a man with a troubled spouse I don't understand that you read your Bible about love and about even marriage and about our hearts getting hard your heart can't get hard when it's in the position of love and it doesn't say unless your spouse this and this and is this your heart can't get hard when your heart's fashioned by love or God would have cut somebody off by now I know that strong language and it causes a lot when you talk like this because people have histories paths look you might have done something you didn't know better than you might be in a different position now but but that's all learning grow through it all and that's that life in Christ be our teacher in life amen I know that's a heavy statement cuz there's people have been divorced there's people remarried there's people all kinds of stuff what I'm saying is you know who you were and you know who you're becoming let who you are today be the finished work of his love you see you don't say instead of letting that just be your resume there's people that have made mistakes in their marriage and shut off and cut off and grow to realize what they did years later and go god that could have been different oh that's when changes that's repentance that's new creature reality and all the sudden they're not even that person and also Wow so rather than go home man no wow there's a whole new way of living that's the kingdom not regret a man so it's very hard sometimes there's so much with relations and marriage in so much pain my concern is all the pain in people's hearts because of these things and I'd rather address the pain pastor said it on Sunday you know you need to pray for my husband so he stops pushing my buttons and pastors saying I want to pray that there's no more buttons why is there buttons let's get rid of the buttons come on okay Satan pulls the control panel of Katherine's life out and looks at her vulnerabilities in her life through her words her emotions her past and her resume and he checks the control panel of a life and he says wow if I just press here seems to me if I just press here here and here haha get a good response and he slides that back in that's what happens to people all the time he knows just where to push cuz he knows what determines your joy your encouragement he knows and all of a sudden ease press him we got to get to the place where we grow in love to where there's nothing to push or if he pushes it it's out of order it doesn't work anymore that used to work it doesn't work anymore he used to push that thing and have you for three weeks a mess and then you'd slowly and then he push it three weeks a mess and after a while you were so tired of getting up because you're so tired of being a mess that now you're just waylaid no he wants God wants to get you to a place where he pulls out and pushes it and there's just no avail there's nothing to push because your perspectives changed and your reality sits in a different place so that's true when pastor preached at that fence message was really good so he's carrying a fence around a fence see his little fence that's his offense so it's sermon was living without a fence good but but his question was why do you have so many buttons to push because if you're living with buttons to push it's just a matter of time too it's getting pushed if I expectations put expectations all over your shoulders see here's the funny thing your to live trustworthy in the sight of God and men but I'm not to put my trust in you but you're to live trustworthy but I'm not to put my trust in you but the time I put my trust in you then my expectation is disappointed and all I can see you for is your failure in weakness and then I miss the value and potential of your life because all I can remember is how you failed make you put your trust in no one your expectation is from the Lord see you're called to love watch this all this go stretch you you're called to love not beloved the beloved comes from Jesus is it nice to be loved or we all called the loved one another but if I hold you to that I'm gonna miss my part now I'm going to search out an atmosphere to see if it's loving and it should because I'm there well I went over to that church and he never going back there again I was right there was nobody even greeted me I wouldn't know love in the house man and now you're just a product of that lovelessness and now you just have a criticism and a gossip and you're sowing that end of 40 other people's souls for the next two years and you're painting a picture of an atmosphere because you went in there with the deficit assessing searching instead of just being because if I walk into an atmosphere being loved I'm not aware of what's not coming at me called love because I'm busy loving cuz I'm not on the earth for you to love me I'm on the earth to love you hello come on God made man in His image and God is so we're created to be loved not to need love when God and man got cut off through sin he became in desperate need of love because the source of love got cut off so he started looking for love and every one of us was born into that deficit that's why until you get formed in Christ and molded in Christ and understanding through Christ you really can't love like Christ you can eat one another and we say I love you but we're really saying I love you do you love me and it's an emotional it's a self-serving emotional I do for you you do for me mentality psychology 50/50 marriage 50/50 what are you talking about if you have a mentality that says marriage is 50/50 then you have an expectation on your spouse and they can fail you because it might be 60/40 and hey you better pick up the slack pal I'm carrying more than I need to where's love it's love it's not 50/50 it's I love you I'm not seeking my own I give myself to you for your sake that doesn't sound like now make sure you pay up your end I love you see we don't understand I've read I actually I haven't read Christian relationship books that reveal Christ they just it's the world's way with Christian attached to it it's it's the camouflage it's it's the it's the way the world lives with Christian incorporated it's Christian psychology and and I'm not saying that in a demeaning way that I'm against Christian psychologist what I'm saying is the mindset that comes from God can't be intertwined with fallen man we assess fallen man his relationships his emotional patterns and we lock him into that when we're born again and all things are new why are we assessing a fallen man and how he functions operates feels and thinks and then trying to accommodate that when that's to change that's why I Toby I'm either the most deceived man on the planet and in deep denial and needs serious help now or I'm free and I'm banking on free not just death because of the I I live through because look I was created to love not be loved so if I know that and become that in prayer you don't owe me a thing so you can't fail and break my heart because you're not in position to why because I love you how many relationships start out starry-eyed and loving and now they won't even talk to each other and they even say I hate them because you don't even understand life it's just an immature human it's a fallen its starry-eyed so it's self-serving it's I need you for now that's why you can see a person when they're saying they're in love there's a person that all of a sudden they look at the person and just say look I just things have changed and I just don't think I love you anymore it's not like it used to be I'd still love you anymore and they look cold and callous and they can just walk away like nothing unscathed and they've slept together they can even have two children together and all of a sudden they're just like I don't think I love you anymore what this is a jacket you put on and off what do you what do you mean well and then psychology explains it Church counselors explain it ah no you've never understood love never you needed them and now you've shifted and changed in your life changed and something shifted and you don't see the value in them anymore because they don't you don't have the need they used to meet something's changed and you can just this cold cut them off because they're of no value to you anymore and then they're hung devastated can't even live can't even go on without you and we call that codependency and done it well it's it's because it was needs driven in the first place and this need still hasn't changed and now you're my life walking away and I can't live with out you well who's that I can't live without you where's that go who's that bull who's that belong to not this the reason this should be here is because this is true and I've come to who I am in Christ now the fullness of strength of my life I can finally love you not need you so because I can't live without you I have the capacity to love you so out of the fullness of God in the man he reached in and brought forth the woman so if there's a woman it should come out of the fullness of God in the man not just because I love you you make my blood boil or whatever I'm not the best romantic with that stuff it's smell to me it's yeah it's just a starry-eyed thing man and all of a sudden you're making babies and breaking each other's hearts yeah yeah be honest takes one person in a relationship to understand what I'm preaching to see God don't you say because they will they won't what they don't wear this data don't you you can't even you're not gonna get anywhere with me on that one takes one person to be like Christ to have love in the midst because you ain't changing Jesus and you hang around him long enough something's gonna change but you ain't changing Jesus you show me how man has changed God over the generations you can't but I can show you how God has changed man why cuz love never why because it doesn't take an account of a suffer wrong because it doesn't seek its own love loves you take swine I've taught that for years as a pastor and people look at you it takes one person in a household to hold on to love even the Bible says the believing spouse sanctifies the unbelieving spouse it says there else the children would be unclean so a spouse after spouse have come to me well yeah but he's into this and she's into that now my kids and this and in the house and who and it's just like what you're the believer you rule and reign in the realm of the kingdom rise up and rejoice the Spirit of God is in you and let your believing heart sanctify the unbelief all around you and look at your children and know they're blessed not well this is going to lead him to this and now they're going to be into this because I see and then you say that and then it happens and there's no help there's no hope it's just despair and desperation but if you're in this place of faith even if some of that starts taking place you've trained him and taught them in the way your faith is before the throne and God's grace is on them and as they grow old they won't depart you might even see a messed up twisted season and use this rejoice because you see deeper than that and bigger than that and you say father I so thank you for what I know that I can't even move by this would be nice if they'd spare themselves of this but God I thank you you won't spare them your love thank your hand is upon them see that sure beats despair and fear and oh my god and see if it wasn't for them and then you hate them all the more because of what they did to our kids and if it wasn't for you and regret now it's like Christ's never even gain I'm doing I'm done go get on just this a little more though this love thing will be good I still have my confession sheet I'll do my best to hit it tomorrow but this is school you get on other topics hey man can we do something can we stand to our feet and just honor him and yield to him I just feel like I don't know why I don't remember doing that in the last school it's not something we did before I just feel like it's humbling to stand before him and honor him as king and the Justin righteous judge whether you want to lift her hands whatever but please turn your heart to him father your way is the way that's right and righteous unchanging and unfailing your love is amazing and what I'm excited about and what I thank you for is that everyone in this room is entitled to your kingdom through the blood of Jesus Christ and I ask that you continue to open up our understanding or one to our desire and our wills to you that we surrender and become one with you give us grace each one of us in our respective situations lives the way our minds have been molded and shaped in things the way we think the eyes we look through let it all come together and be one big revelation of truth and let us all be found in one faith one spirit in one life father I ask you to have your way and every one of us and continue to let these things call of 8us and groom us and shape us to look like you we want to look like our daddy we want to be just like you let us not just get what you can do for us but how you can make us more like you Father we're not fixed on what you can do for us but how you can make us more like you I don't want to just be free in my finances I want to be free in my heart I want to be free in my mind I want whatever I do to prosper because it's coming from a pure place called the love of God and I asked your grace on every one of us right now and I feel like Lord God there's a couple people even challenged with some of this right now we've shared in the last 20-30 minutes I ask you to work it all out and have your way and make sense and interpret this truth into their present situation and let them make sense of the truth and see clearer and come out of it look and then living just like you father I thank you I blessed school I bless these people everyone on the Internet just thank you for your word becoming flesh in Jesus name Amen amen bless you guys love y'all

Channel: Dan Mohler - Power and Identity

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Keywords: Dan Mohler, Todd white, Lifestyle christianity, power and love, Power and Identity

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Length: 161min 0sec (9660 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 12 2014