Intimacy With God by Benny Hinn

become my greatest delight and your word my greatest treasure say that again to him lord become my greatest delight and your word my greatest treasure let that be your prayer from now on that your heart would be so wrapped up in the master you know he is so merciful and so gracious not to have forsaken me a long time ago because you've got to understand we preachers get caught in our success you know there's a there's a something very precious i heard from lauren cunningham many years ago lorne cunningham started youth with a mission why wham you all know of wyoming right and they're throughout the world now and in in in 1972 lorne cunningham preached at a church in canada the day i i surrendered to to the lord publicly he preached this message i remember the message till tonight and i heard it february of 1972. i got saved on monday which was the 14th the 14th of february was a monday that was on a thursday the following thursday so that's monday tuesday wednesday thursday a few days after i was saved i heard him preach this message and this is where in that night i walked down the aisle and gave my heart to jesus in a public way even though i was saved on monday in school that was my public confession in the church and he spoke on how wyom bought a ship at the time anyways and he got so involved in that ship and he had a dream and in the dream he saw the ship and he saw the lord but the ship was getting clearer and clearer in his dream and the lord was getting farther and farther away where now the ship was in the center of his dream and the lord was somewhere way back there fading away from his vision and the lord spoke to lorne cunningham and said who do you want the ship or me and this is what happens to a lot of preachers where we get so caught in the ministry that we forget the lord who gave it to us who is the source of what happens in it and what happens is that ministry when jesus walks out that ministry becomes a business it's all it becomes and then but what what happens like samson they keep doing the same thing and thinking well i'll just shake myself again and he'll show up and then you saw you all know what happened with samson he shook himself but but that last shaking god was gone you all remember that right yeah remember they would tie him with this and he'd just shake it off time with that and shake it off but the last time he tried to shake it off it didn't shake because the lord had departed and he did not know the lord had departed so that's what what happens when you say no lord i am not going to pay the price which really is a privilege not a price i am not going to seek you i've done enough i've sought you enough and the lord says fine and he just walks away from you and what do you have left all you have is the shell you had the shell of your ministry who wants the shell nobody so here's what i believe the lord wants me to talk to you about because i think in one way or another you are going to all come to that same place do you know how many preachers have been fired and don't even know it see they they lose the anointing but they just cannot tell because because when the anointing begins to go it goes very slowly god doesn't remove it like that he just takes a little way a little bit here a little bit there a little bit there a little bit here and and and they become accustomed as they go on to the little they are left with till one day they have zero and they think god is still there and he's not there all they end up with is noise noise and no power and most believers are smart enough to tell the difference you watch them on tv and you say something is missing well no it's not something it's someone is missing and that someone is the holy spirit he's no longer there so they go on with all the stuff and it all looks the same sounds the same but the master is gone and and really this is what the lord dealt with in revelation he said to the church in ephesus he said you lost your first love and he said unless you repent i'm going to spit you out of my mouth you you need to go back to your first love now where would you be tonight without the master now really ask yourself where would your life be what would your life be like if jesus should walk away you don't want to think about it do you okay nobody really wants to so it's time for us to re-examine our hearts i believe with all of my heart every one of you is going to come to that place where the lord is going to deal with you exactly as i'm going to talk about here and your answer will decide your destiny what you say to the lord will decide where he takes you everybody here must ask this question when the lord sends me this royal invitation how will i respond and and and and that response your response will determine how deep you go and what will happen to your destiny and eternity you know you reach a place and i think you're deep enough i can say it you reach a place where jesus will show you his terror can i say that again when you start as a christian you see his gentle side his precious side his the side that most christians see but very few see his terror paul the apostle saw that and said knowing the terror of the lord we persuade man he saw another side of jesus it's that side that you see with god telling jeremiah he said if moses and samuel if they come back now and into a seat for israel i'll say no that side have you ever rather than of course you have if you have not you need to god says to jeremiah because jeremiah is is praying for israel israel had gone so far away from god into idol worship that jeremiah starts to pray and god says to jeremiah he says even if moses even if samuel comes before me and prays that i deliver israel i will say no that's god reaching a place that's frightening it's that place where moses comes and says please let me enter the promised land and god says don't ask me that again you're not going it's that place where paul the apostle says please deliver me from the storm don't ask me that again i don't i will not do it my grace is sufficient you've got to deal with it there's a side to god we haven't seen yet and that's the side that says i am not going to do it you are through he did that with moses where he said you are not going to enter the promised land i am not letting you in and moses cried out and finally god said don't ask me again so paul saw that son of god and said knowing the terror of the lord i've seen the terror of the lord we persuade man and having seen that side he said i put my body under subjection left after i preached to others i be thrown out it's that side of jesus where they come and say lord in your name we've prophesied in you in your name we've done mighty works i never knew you i never knew you depart from me you were cause of iniquity that side my brother that sign my sister the world will see one day but the church will see it first that's the fear of the lord that's what causes you to fall flat on your face and cry out be merciful because we treat him as though he's some cheap god he is holy he is mighty he is powerful he is glorious glorious how can we describe the lord he's beyond our description he's beyond our words he's so holy that the bible describing his beautiful glory in daniel 8 it says that before his throne is a is a sea of glass mingled with fire a fiery stream proceeds from the throne and angels on their faces crying holy holy holy so great is his presence that moses said when he walked in he was frightened he was afraid to walk in we we've seen only a glimpse of that now as you progress in the lord you discover that this mighty savior gives you gives you a tremendous honor to remember tremendous privilege what he says all right i'll let you come closer but you got to give this up and this up and this up because i won't allow you near me if that is in your life and suddenly you realize these things that you thought were harmless fine are not fine he wants them out of your life so what you do you you you you throw yourself at at his mercy praying he'll give you the strength to let go of these things because you cannot do it on your own on your own you are so attached to things and people and whatever you don't want to give them up and you think it's okay because it's been okay for the last 35 years but you've come to the place now god says all right this time it's not okay and you and now it dawns on you to whom much has given much is required he's asking more because he's given more he's done more you've experienced more therefore you're responsible but the minute you make that decision and and go you you find a place you did not even know existed there is a place where god begins to reveal to you things you've never seen before about himself and when he does everything in you breaks because suddenly trash it's new it's the side of him you haven't seen before and so incredible and so precious and so beautiful is this truth about him everything in you just is stunned so jesus is much deeper than you know i'm telling you precious people the treasures that await you are greater than you can handle now is anybody listening see you say well he's my savior and he is he's my king and he is lover of my soul oh yes he is my lord oh yes he is but he wants you to know him deeper than that he wants but you see it deman he demands of you he demands everything he demands that your heart be absolutely 100 percent his and nothing will be given to you nothing shown to you till you say yes and mean it and then he will begin to draw you with his own blessed presence without you having to force yourself because you really can't anyways you're gonna fall and the first things he'll deal with are these things in your life that are obstacles to the depth of his presence it's intimacy he's looking for see jesus created you for worship jesus created you that that that he might reveal his heart to you in john he said i in them thou in me that they may be made perfect in one this kind of oneness is a is such a mingling of lives when i was a young man i had a vision and i did not fully understand it i'm beginning to now in my vision i i was actually praying on my knees i was on my knees praying when suddenly i see a troubling sight and i saw myself bound i saw me benny him totally crippled i i looked like a a man with uh with with uh with a like a hunchback and my every part of my body was was wrapped in this dark brownish ugly atmosphere away from me and i'm in a way like on the other side of this place i was in stood the lord in all his perfection beauty he was wearing a white robe that glistened it was glistening white i did not see his features but i saw his face and as he stood there in glistening white i heard i was hearing him i'm now the real me was outside on my knees looking into this vision that was so real to this day i can remember every detail and jesus was saying to this other being who was bound just the simple word come just come that's all now me on the outside began to cry out oh lord can't you see he's a can't you see he's bound please go touch him and the lord ignored this beneath him praying out here totally and he just kept repeating the one word come very softly he said come come come well this been in on that side could not even move because this terrible dark bondage was holding him back and suddenly i realized i i saw this this benny was was fighting everything was fighting to get out of this bondage now mia over here the real man praying was crying out i asked i got caught in this vision in such a way i began crying out praying for him over there there's been him there the lord ignored me when suddenly he began to slowly move and slowly come out of this dark atmosphere and he began to move very slow very slow still unable to move freely and suddenly he came close enough to where he was standing tall and straight and this atmosphere was trying to pull him back but it it it it lost its grip as he came close to the present and the atmosphere that surrounded jesus because in the presence of the lord there's liberty and as he came closer and closer and closer and jesus came closer and closer and closer something happened something amazing to this day it it still amazes me that actually i was thinking about this only days ago in my prayer where suddenly they both entered into one another and that benny disappeared and all you saw was jesus benny was gone and jesus stood there without the two became one but the one that was seen was no longer been he was gone he was disappeared out of sight and i came out of my vision struck i was it took me days days to even start feeling normal and i remember praying at that time i said lord what would happen to and i said me at the time i said what would happen to me if i should walk away he said you you'd walk right back in your bondage he said away from me is darkness and only in my presence is liberty how often have we walked away and not realized our foot is getting caught in that whole thing back there ladies and gentlemen i have news for you he did not say to you i will follow you he said you follow me and where he goes you have to follow but the question is where is he leading you he never tells you he just says trust me is that in is not right that is going to happen to you but be careful be very careful don't go back to that old dark bondage because for him he'll pull you in he'll take your whole it'll take hold of you and you're back in that dark tunnel of destruction jesus wants you to be right where he is so you can stay free and and and sometimes we we we we get so caught in our busy lives or our ministries or our families that jesus takes second place and then third place and fourth place and next thing you know you're praying just before you sleep and you're too tired to pray and then your your prayer life starts to die and your heart knows you're in trouble and you do nothing about it and within a very short time everything you've gained you start to lose and you lose so much and you're not paying attention to how much you're losing till suddenly the old habits begin to show up oh i got your attention now that's the danger that's the danger so psalm 42 verse one as the heart panteth after the water brooks this is psalm 42 psalm 42 verse 1 as the heart pants after the water brooks so panteth my soul after thee o god my soul thirsteth for god for the living god when shall i come and appear before god he's asking the question he's he's wanting to come and stand in god's presence he says my tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say to me where where where is your god so here's david says i'm longing for you i'm i'm i'm i'm like the like the like the animal the heart the deer pants after the water my soul is craving for you my soul is thirsty for you please when will i come and appear before you my tears have been my meat day and night i've been eating and drinking my tears while the enemies are saying where is your god when i remember these things i pour out my soul in me and he says i have gone with the multitude i went with them to the house of god so i was there praising you lord i i i went with the crowd but lord something is wrong with me verse 5 says why art thou cast down o my soul why are you so quiet inside of me then he makes a powerful statement of faith he says i shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance oh my god my soul is cast down within me therefore will i remember thee from the land of jordan and of the hermenites from the hill mizar and these all these places represent god's presence in the bible deep calls on unto deepa the noise of thy water spouts all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me now the lord yet the lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime in the night his song will be with me and my prayer unto the god of my life in this portion is one of the most beautiful description of what happens to us believers here you are going to church see what it says in verse 4 for i had gone with a multitude i went with them to the house of god with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holiday you stand in church you sing the praise songs you you rejoice but you're empty you sing you rejoice you you hear the message and you go home as empty as when you come in all you have is a little more knowledge fine what what do you do with it you're going to forget it probably in a month maybe in a week maybe in a day most people will for forget that thing by tomorrow morning david says i'm with the i'm in with the crowd i'm praising god and i'm following the multitude but why are you so quiet on my soul why are you disquieted in me why are you cast down why are you cast down all my soul i'm empty i'm quiet something is wrong here but i'm hungry if you're hungry you're in the right place how many say to me tonight you are hungry listen uh wait wait you are hungry for the person the person of jesus christ you you you are so hungry to to to walk with him intimately yes you're in the right place as the heart pants after the water works now this is what happens when you're hungry and the enemy is chasing you because what happens is the minute you say to the lord i'm going that's it i'm letting go of everything i'm going i'm going for you lord i'm going to pursue you like you're you're asking the minute you say that the demons of hell come at you and it's a real battle this is not something in your head this is real brother but you stay with it you stay absolutely with what god has called you to do and david is experiencing this what he says as the heart pants after the water broke so my soul pants my soul after after you why why is he looking for the water why is this deer looking for the water why is this animal looking for the water because the the heart knows the heart hart knows that this animal knows the minute it finds the water its scent would be lost and the minute the sentence is lost the enemy cannot find it ladies and gentlemen the only place you can hide in is god's presence that's where the enemy cannot find you there's a place job 28 says there's a place no foul can see no lines whelp can see and that place is that place that psalm 91 talks about the secret place we all want the promises of psalm 91 but when we are not willing to pay the price it's asking for it's asking for what he that dwelleth not visits he that dwells he that lives he who makes his address there he who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide god is looking for those who will dwell and abide continual constant abiding not visiting one day and saying bye tomorrow you got to stay there and that is the price but you know we we surprise really it's a privilege that's the place he's asking you to be in and when you do it you know i've sought the lord in the past like this but not on this plateau that's the difference did you hear that yeah we all seek the lord but we are in a different place our life in a different place our ministry in a different place now we come to this sacred place a higher plateau where there's more than that that god asked of us you know do do you know what i think is happening to me jim i thought about this my my girl jesse was born i was holding her in my arms she was probably no more than a few months old and i was enjoying holding my baby and out of nowhere i mean i was not praying and i was not fasting and i was not calling on god and i was not thinking about him i'm being honest i was thinking about my baby i was enjoying a daddy little daughter moment when the lord spoke to me and he said one of these days you'll all be mine and i was stunned i said lord i'm yours already oh no he said now you're hers he's a jealous god jealous and it all those years it stayed with me i thought why did the lord say that to me now she's gone grown gone married my precious tasha is grown almost married god willing my joshua is 18 almost he's in school in florida and my little precious lily turned 17 and i'm thinking lord is that what you're doing is that what you're looking for i think so i think he's come back to say to say wait wait you gave me your life i want it back i let you have those last few years for your children now come on i pray that is what's happening frankly i think that is what what is happening and now the lord comes and says okay here's what i'm asking yes or no thank god i said yes but i've got to go back to what happened here in psalm 42 because honestly this is exactly what's happening again look this happened with me already in the past it happened in a different way now it's happening in a much more precious way if if i may say i'm i'm experiencing this in a brand new way on a different plateau and if i can say it suddenly i i'm stunned i'm saying lord i wish i knew this back then now he did not answer me on this one but should he have answered me he would have said you you were not ready for it but back then you were too occupied with with with being a daddy raising children now that you're done with that i'm asking this because what you begin to experience you think i can't believe it that glorious now here's here's here's this marvelous verse verse 7 deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts all thy waves and all thy belows are gone over me i'm i mean i'm i'm really trying to i'm trying to teach i'm just having a little tough time right now because that verse is so real to me i cannot tell you how real there is a depth to jesus i have never known there is a depth that is most heavenly there is a love you know that man who wrote that song i think must have experienced this i think i'm sure he did oh the deep deep love of jesus vast unmeasured boundless free rolling like a mighty ocean in its fullness over me underneath me all around me is the current of thy love i'm telling you that's exactly what this is talking about where you are so loved every part of you is immersed and so he says deep calleth unto deep and when that happens you become extremely extremely quiet and the presence of god gets richer and richer and richer and richer until you wonder if more of it comes what's going to happen to you i'm glad i'm making you thirsty psalm 63 would you look at it verse one oh god thou art my god early will i seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is to see thy power and thy glory so so as i have seen in the sanctuary because thy loving kindness is better than life my lips shall praise thee thus will i bless thee while i live i lift up i will lift up my hands in in your name my watch watch this this this is this is awesome my soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips my god how many of you want the presence of jesus to penetrate you so much you'll be satisfied come on lift your hands up it belongs to you i'm telling you it belongs to you you see what the psalmist said he said you're my god early will i seek thee my soul is thirsty for you my flesh is longing for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water there's no moisture there's no presence lord i am in a place i'm starving for you i'm hungry for you but the problem is i cannot find your presence anywhere and i want to see your power and your glory as i have experienced you in your sanctuary and you're going to do it lord because your loving-kindness is better than life my lips will praise you i'm gonna bless you while i live and then he says this amazing thing when you answer my prayer my soul will be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and suddenly my mouth will erupt with your praise oh dear god i pray somebody's listening hear the word of the lord ye children of israel this is hosea 4 verse 1 hear the word of the lord you children of israel for the lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of god in the land this is what is going on now no truth no mercy and no knowledge forgive me you you you turn on your television set and you shut it off because there's nothing there you're looking for truth and they scream at you you're looking for mercy and you can't find it you're looking for knowledge and you have to cry out for it because it comes and goes and the whole time you're crying out like the psalmist my my soul is hungry my my flesh is longer for you i'm in a dry and thirsty land there's no water here but i know i'm i'm i'm getting there why are you so quiet on my soul why are you why are you cast down and you gotta talk to yourself and say hope in god i'm gonna still praise him he's the help and health of my countenance jesus lord speak to us here's the key hosea 6 3 then shall we know if we follow on to know the lord here's what what here's what happens hey david come here can can i get him from the back i want to i want to show you something david sir let's start walking here come on no no i i'm i'm i i want to show you something in all reverence i am the lord you're me follow me now i didn't pull you i didn't beg you i just asked just said come follow me now as you follow me i'll bring you to a place and i'll stop you have to stop because i have stopped i may sit down so therefore you'll sit down but then you become very comfortable in that place but one day comes and i don't tell you i'm about to move again and you become so dull and there's so many noises around you because that's really what happens so many voices start talking to you you're not hearing the lord at all and i say again follow me but you don't because you really didn't know i'm leaving and you didn't even hear me say it so i leave i'm going on i am not coming back because i said i'm going we shall know if we follow on to follow did you just read that look at it again hosea 6 3 are you still right there you cannot know him in his depth unless you do what i just read i'll read it again then shall we know if we follow on to know we shall know if we follow on to know the lord it's a progressive walk it's a daily fellowship so you stop here i walk i i leave you really behind because you didn't decide to follow i'm here you're there but what what happens to you when when the when the master is elsewhere you die suddenly the bondage is back the world is back the devils are back everything is back that you thought you were free from because jesus is gone right that's right yeah but that's what happens that's what happens but if you make a decision oh you got it brother yeah don't leave me see what i said to the lord a few days ago i said please lord for your sake time it to you and never let me go i said i don't get how you do it tie me to you because wrap me take hold of me sometimes we're all too blind and too deaf thank you dave we shall know if we follow to know anybody listening here yeah now the bible tells us back in psalm 62 let's turn to it please i want the lord tonight to talk to you frankly i believe he is psalm 62 1 truly my soul waiteth upon god from him cometh my salvation total salvation is when jesus is there in his fullness i don't think frankly we've experienced that but see what it says my soul waiteth i'm going to talk about this in just a second but i want you to go to psalm 39 and i want you to look at verse 7 verse 8 and now lord what wait i for remember he said wait what am i waiting for my hope is in thee i'm waiting for you lord deliver me from all my transgressions make me not the reproach of the foolish because you see my brethren sister if you do not seek the lord and wait for the lord till you find him your transgressions will take hold of you and the foolish will reproach you all right let's talk about waiting would you mind giving me psalm i should say isaiah 40 you all should know it they that wait upon the lord shall renew they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint okay now look at me all of you waiting is not prayer it's it's beyond prayer waiting is that place of communion and intimacy so you you come to the lord you make your request known that's the asking world i talked about earlier you make your request known and then when you're done you wait and while you're waiting that's the difficult part while you're waiting the flesh has to die and submit and now you wait for the lord to quicken you that's what you're waiting for you wait for what psalm 80 verse 18 says quicken me and i'll call upon thy name now you say well no wait i was already praying oh no no all you did is simply tell the lord about your troubles now he heard you you had no assurance from him that he'll answer except from his promises in his word but there's been no assurance in that no faith has wrapped your being yet you're still all listening yeah so you go to god you make your requests known and the mistake people make is they say oh man they leave they don't give the lord the time to wait so now you wait upon the lord and as he quickens you real prayer is born now and the minute he quickens you like the psalmist said in psalm 80 verse 18 you begin to call upon jesus it's no longer about you it's not long about your needs and troubles it's all about the master now you call on him your eyes suddenly are turned towards him your attention becomes totally focused on the master and jesus at that moment becomes real but somewhat still a little far away from you but real enough to where his presence begins to slowly penetrate your heart at that moment something happens something quite remarkable you begin to regain the strength you lost because while he wasn't there your strength was gone they that wait upon the lord shall renew renew means you're gonna have it back their strength your strength is back spiritual strength not physical strength we're not there yet your spiritual strength is back and suddenly your inner man is strengthened you know how paul prays that we be strengthened in our inner man your inner man becomes strengthened your spirit comes alive when your spirit comes alive something else happens something you lost and haven't had for maybe weeks maybe years your discernment comes back now you begin to discern the presence of the lord that's the first thing you'll discern is his presence so they shall mount up with wings as eagles well what does an eagle do an eagle stands on the on the rock and the eagle waits till the current of the winds is just right and the minute the the wind is at full force the eagle surrenders that's what happens when you wait upon the lord the first thing is going to happen to you your strength comes back into your spirit man the second thing that's going to happen to you your discernment is back and you begin to discern where is the lord where is his presence how strong is the wind of the spirit when do i surrender when do i hold back when will i let go into his blessed wind and you surrender to the wind of the spirit moving upon your heart and next thing you know that wind carries you to a higher plateau and higher plateau and higher places and now suddenly you're in that high place the bible talks about isaiah talks about the high places deuteronomy 32 talks about the high places the high places are the places of intimacy the places of worship the place where god's god's presence becomes extremely real and the higher and the higher and the higher the more intimate the more intimate the more intimate till jesus becomes more real to you than you in that place of intimacy that's what the high places are all about there are places where where the presence of the lord becomes extremely intimate so intimate you you begin to even know his mind that's what paul meant by we have the mind of christ you begin to know his mind you know you you begin to feel the things that grievous the things that displease them and suddenly a massive spotlight comes on your heart and things that are in there that you do did not know begin to to to to to grieve your heart you say lord deliver me from them i did not know they were there that they were even there and now something else happens they shall run not be willing why are you running you're catching up with what you had lost in that time of waiting there is strength in that time of waiting there's discernment of the wind and now the surrender to the to the wind because he carries you higher in that place of waiting there's also catching up with where you had the the things you lost the the the experiences you had that are that suddenly have become a shadow a fading memory are all back the very presence of god restores your place in him and the final thing that's going to happen to you which is glorious your fellowship is restored they shall walk walk means you're in perfect harmony now back with the lord he's not ahead of you he's right there by you why they shall run you ran to catch up and when you caught up you're walking and now talking and having a marvelous time with them this is that blessed place of fellowship you cannot lose and ladies and gentlemen next day you better go right back and walk again because if you don't you are way back again in the behind the cloud or amalek will destroy you anybody listening so now you're walking with the lord and you must understand give us this day our daily bread fellowship with god is a daily experience the day you miss the day you miss may literally cause you to lose much that you've gained yesterday and that's what happens to us christians we have these high moments in god high places with god blessed intimacies with god and then we we get busy with our ministries or life or family or whatever and we and and suddenly jesus just takes second place third place fourth place maybe even 20th place and we think he's still happy with us while he's grieving over our failure but one day in his awesome mercy he wakes us up and when you recover oh dear god where am i where are you he's way ahead of you in the distance so far ahead from you you lost him now the bible says that we seek him with our spirit turn to isaiah 26 you seek him with your spirit this is where the spirit comes alive okay come on sing it with me you all know it you ought to know it they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as ears they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not fade teach me lord to what now that's what we want that's the most difficult lesson to learn is weight now you remember earlier i read the psalmist said early say early say it again early will i seek thee god is not interested in your uh in you seeking him when you're all worn out you're no good he wants the best of your day in the morning exactly he wants the best of your hours so the uh isaiah said that we begin to seek him with our spirit okay verse 8 verse 9 isaiah 26 the bible says yea in the way of thy judgments o lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to to the remembrance of thee with my soul have i desired thee remember that psalmist said that earlier with my soul have i desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will i seek the early wow say with my spirit will i seek thee early so you get up in the morning you wash you make sure you're awake and you see god and you seek him until he quickens you you wait till he quickens you and when he quickens you you enter into that second realm called the holy place the the tabernacle of moses was a was a a very beautiful example the first is the outer court where the sacrifices were offered the blood was shed that's where the labor was where they had to wash therefore this is the place we come to where we we enter we confess our sin the blood must cleanse us we make our requests but fellowship with god is absent at that place did you hear that yeah fellowship with god is absent all i have done in that place is i gave him my troubles i gave him my i gave him my sin and my troubles and i yielded there of course but if i should say amen and leave i receive nothing i leave empty so now i stay and i do what isaiah commands wait upon the lord that is the unpredictable part of prayer because i don't know when he will quicken me he may take ten minutes he may take two hours i must wait and that is where most believers fail because they're not willing to wait they have other things they have to do they have work children school all that stuff of course is in the way well that's between god and you now you you you just need to rearrange your life get up earlier in jeremiah he said if you'll seek me with all your heart you'll find me that's that invitation that comes to you when when he quickens you like this to say come on i'm calling you and you're amazed he's calling you because suddenly you realize the lord where where have i been what have i done and he quickens you and the minute he quickens you now you you you've got to come and experience what i've been giving you through the word you come to that place now all of us of course have been coming every day just saying lord here's my problem and you spend half an hour one hour he said lord this did it i mean by what did you accomplish well i have peace about it okay fine what else you want oh that's all i want is that all you want what a poor soul you are because you've left with peace but jesus has been left still waiting because fellowship with god is more than just peace fellowship with god is where you get to know his heart that intimacy that the bible tells us belongs to all of us and that's where the treasure that's where the riches of christ are found that's where your heart explodes with love that's where the bride experiences the bridegroom so you walk in and now you wait and this is that second dimension it's the holy places that's seeking realm remember jesus said ask seek not it's the seeking realm the seeking realm is you start seeking the lord that's psalm 42 and psalm 63 you start to seek him you start to cry out but now the crying out isn't in the flesh it's real you know what i just said the crying out is real it's coming from your being and that's when he responds at one point his presence will become real and the longer you stay the more real it becomes and the longer you stay the quieter you get and now his presence just takes hold of you let me let me show you what happens in that second round can i psalm 40 turn to it this is what you need this is what we all need the second realm will bring you out of your pit uh you missed what i said can i read it to you verse 1 psalm 14. i waited patiently for the lord this is that second realm remember that he inclined unto me and heard my crab i watched the result he brought me up also out off and horrible pit out of the miley clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings stop stop stop stop you you missed it look at me all of you there are people who go and pray every day and so lord here's my needs a b c d f g please meet them amen they leave and they are demon possessed demon oppressed the same devils that were there are still there when they say amen but my brother you seek god and every devil comes out of you that's when deliverance takes place deliverance takes place in the second realm not the first shall i say that again there are christians who pray every day who are demon oppressed they're oppressed by devils they're looking for deliverance services they they look for everybody that can cast out devils to go to them and they pray every day but their prayer life is in realm one realm one is no place for deliverance it's the place where you say lord save my mom save my dad heal my body take care of my finances blah blah blah amen you leave and you say well i feel marvelous you know god is gonna answer my my prayer that's all you have the next day you go back and you're still messed up like you were before you prayed yesterday but the same devils that you came with are still there they harassed you tomorrow like they harassed you yesterday but you start seeking god like psalm 40 says and he'll bring you out of your pit how many of you want to be out of the pit let me see your hands up high that's the seeking realm but wait there's a third realm that's even greater than that that's much greater than that oh dear god i don't know if i have time to tell you but i've got to tell you before i let you go there is nowhere you're going home just coming out of the pit there's more there's more to it than just the pit coming out of the pit right okay so the seeking realm brings deliverance the asking realm brings well you know i feel good about it he heard my prayer thank god i prayed but what about those devils that were harassing you that demon of lust he's still there that lying devil he's still there that tormenting spirit of fear is still there whatever demon you had is still there you have not been freed from your devils now comes deliverance when you seek and when you seek he'll bring you also out of a horrible pit out of the mouth clay and he'll put your feet back where they belong on on the rock and establish your walk now that's the second plateau that's the second round there's a third are you ready for the third all right you asked for it the third is this knocking realm they shall knock remember that ask seek knock now the devils are gone because the devils leave when you seek jesus you seek jesus he shows up demons cannot stay when jesus walks in devils walk out now keep them out you keep them out by abiding in the presence of the lord that's john 15 he that abides in me and my word abides in him he shall ask what he will i'll do it this is the place where god begins to show fruit jesus talked about abiding abiding the third realm is psalm 91 he that dwelleth in the secret place and in that place the presence of god is so real it's so real you don't have to wait for it tomorrow because the second you say jesus it's there you break that their god look at me all of you look at me here's here's what i've discovered now i'm not saying this is what's going to happen to you i've discovered it it'll take you seven days to break through seven days before the presence of god becomes the norm in your life now that's what i'm not i cannot base it on some scripture i believe i can find it if i have just a little time to find it but i believe that if you look at the old covenant there's a lot of mention of seven days now whether i'm right or not it doesn't matter i don't really care if it takes for four 14 days or 14 months just wait god will surely meet you now in my case i will pray sometimes for a whole week be before the trickles begin to come there may be no trickle of god's presence for seven days or more but you stay with it every day stay with it every day the demons of hell will fight you don't worry about it stay with it and when you break through and it may take you seven days it may take you longer well who cares how long it takes when the trickles of god's presence become real to you and suddenly life comes back isaiah 40 becomes reality isaiah 40 they that would wait upon the lord shall renew their strength i can guarantee you it will not happen in one day no way it won't happen in one day you you you might as well settle it in your heart moses prayed for 40 days twice in fact when he went into the presence of god the bible says there was one time he waited for three days be before god ever said come on on come on in wait three days before god says come on moses i want to talk to you so there are there are many portions in scripture where we find men having to wait for god to even speak to them but i believe that this flash of ours gets so much in the way we have to just break loose of it and breaking loose will not take hours it will take days when you break through and you break loose but now finally the trickles of god's presence and i say trickles first because that's really what happened the trickles of god's presence become real and suddenly life comes back and suddenly the presence of god is there but it's not always it's not really there yet in in in full force but thank god it's their son anybody here listen to me but you pursue and pursue and pursue and now it's easier to pursue because god's presence has given you some moisture now you're not struggling there's no rust it's it's easy now or easier but next thing you know as you pursue something amazing happens what begins to happen is so remarkable well now you don't have to wait a whole hour you could wait five ten minutes because now you've you've broken through and you've stayed consistent the one thing i fear is to miss tomorrow because if i miss tomorrow i'm going to lose everything that happened in the last three weeks now almost two two and a half weeks because if you miss it it's like sliding back way down the hill because it is climbing up the hill i pray to god it's getting through to you let me tell you something about walking with jesus if you walk with jesus you're always walking up a hill i'm just giving you a revelation jesus is not walking on a flat road it's always up a hill did you hear me hello in the spirit it's always up the hill stay up the hill say it again jesus is not walking down the hill he's not walking straight straight on a flat plateau he's walking up the hill always up the hill and you look at the bible how often he loves to walk up the hill he's still the same he hasn't changed he loves walking up that hill but when he walks follow him but then there'll be there must the time must come you're not following you're walking right next to him and you're walking up the hill with him not behind him now you're with him but if you miss one day he's keep he is going to keep walking and you're down there and brother running up that hill will be tough for you so it's better not to run it's better to just walk make sure you keep up with him now you come back to the lord the next day and what took you an hour takes you 10 minutes tomorrow because suddenly he is as close as the mention of his name while two weeks ago he was close but it took a while to even feel that closeness my god i'm so glad i'm talking about this tonight this is the best alignment i know about fix this one first brother then we can fix all the others so now you you come to this third dimension of of of knocking and something so awesome happens in that third dimension is where jesus truly takes control he's guiding now he's he is totally in charge you want that of course you do see that that knocking starts and then as as as you start knocking you you're not going to stop knocking wait now you didn't hear what i said can i say it again you start knocking on that door and you are so determined you will not quit knocking on that door but it's a spiritual knock it's coming from the depth of your being and you're not knocking so you can get something you are knocking so you can enter in and sit with him because he's behind that door you know what the lord said he said we will come and sup with him it's that place of precious fellowship say that say precious fellowship and you sit in that place of fellowship with the lord where okay i'm going to tell you this dl moody had that experience once you know who that dear precious man was right d.l moody began to experience god's presence on a daily basis and the presence of god because he he entered in he came to that place where he started to knock knock knock knock knock till the lord opened the door and he just came in and began to experience such glory that god began to give him things he was not asking for behind that door he'll give you things you never ask for that's that place isaiah talks about we've not experienced where he says i'll answer before they call right it's that place where he'll give you so much you say lord dear murray had such an experience where the presence of god so filled him he said to god he said please if you keep feeling me i'll die take your hand away it's that place god will touch you without you begging him to touch you it's that place he will pour his love on you without you saying oh please pour it on me it's that place he will begin to literally abundantly bless you without you saying a word because now you're in out there you beg in there you enjoy there's no begging on the inside you ask you seek and then you just receive because once you're in the riches are beyond description i want to begin tonight on the third realm of prayer remember there are three worlds of prayer there is the asking world the seeking world and the knocking world jesus said ask seek and knock if you remember the tabernacle the tabernacle had first the outer court then the holy place then the holy of holies the holy of holies is the most intimate it's the most holy when when when we enter into the presence of god we always begin in the outer court the outer court is the asking world it's the realm where the flesh is still the boss the flesh is ruling asking world is where the enemy can still attack you and harass you when you enter into the holy place this is where the enemy's uh grip is loosened this is where you're able to really enter into praise and enter into liberty in prayer but you you have not yet experienced communion and intimacy until you are in the most holy place so the three worlds are the world of asking where we make requests to the lord will we confess our sin to the lord but then there's that world of seeking god where we are not giving him our needs we are seeking his fellowship and then we are allowed when his presence becomes tangible then we are allowed to enter into the the most holy place where true intimacy and communion begins where heart to heart communion becomes reality and this is what psalm 42 verse 7 says deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me billows are the intensity of waves so when the waves of god's presence come they become more intense they become more powerful as your intimacy continues with god i dealt last week with the asking world i i really began to deal with the seeking world and i want to continue from from what i left off but i really want to get into the knocking world and the knocking world is where literally heart communes with heart or words become inadequate or silence reigns in the presence of god where we experience the the the most awesome promise in isaiah 40 what it says have you not known have you not heard that the everlasting god the lord the creator of the ends of the earth faints not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding even the youth shall faint and the young men shall utterly fall but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles run and not be really walk and not faint that happens in that third dimension where we begin to experience the fullness of intimacy that's psalm 91 that is the secret place where we are totally protected that's the place where isaiah talks about what he says in quietness and confidence shall be what thy strength that's that blessed place that sadly not many believers experience on a daily basis our daily practice and prayer most of us is the asking world lord help me bless me forgive me meet my needs and and that and which of course is important because the bible says let your requests be made known so it is a realm we must experience as believers it is the outer court it is where you begin as a believer but it's not the place to say amen you must pursue god you must enter into his presence you must wait upon the lord and waiting upon the lord is not and will not happen in the realm of the outer court the outer court the asking realm the asking world is not the place of fellowship that's the place where we say lord i have a problem lord forgive my sin and we have to enter in with confessing sin remember and i'm sure you all know this but when god commanded moses to build the tabernacle he started with the ark of the covenant so god works from the inside out we begin from the outside in and god in his amazing mercy said i will dwell among them i will come and make my habitation among them i will tabernacle among them you think about the god of glory the god who is worshiped and adored by angels crying holy holy holy the god who cannot be described with human words think about daniel 8 well the bible describes him as one with fire from his loins up to and from his loins down think about a god who sits on a throne and a rainbow around his throne think about such power and glory with thunderings and lightnings think about a a a fiery stream that issues out of him think about a a a glassy sea with mingled fire an angel standing by in by innumerable numbers crying holy holy holy this god desires our fellowship this god does not desire the fellowship of angels he desires the fellowship of human hearts no angel ever said to god i love you no angel ever heard god say i love you yet the lord speaks to us and says i love thee with an everlasting love he loved his own unto the end john said our relationship is what we have to pursue with him relationship is much more important than our need if we live where our needs are we will be defeated but when we go beyond our needs and begin to experience fellowship with god almighty our needs will vanish into nothing suddenly our hearts are knit with his and communion begins the communion of the heart begins there is more to fellowship with god than we know we we have experienced so little of it we we really have not experienced the depth of communion with god almighty that is what i loved about kathryn kuhlman that's what i loved about basilia schlink where they they they understood would you mind for a minute playing fairest lord jesus just for a second and i want you to listen to the words i'll say the words i won't sing the words fairest just softly please all right fairest lord jesus now only a man in love and a woman in love with her god can say fairest ruler of all nature oh thou of god and man the son thee will i cherish thee will i cherish he desires to be cherished thee will i honor thou my soul's glory joy and crown you think about thank you jim you think about saying such precious words to him walk into his presence and we are cold-hearted dull-minded repetitious being harassed by devils while we're praying we can't even concentrate our prayer is is is is really spoken with empty hearts and troubled minds and we think god is impressed or touched and we say amen and walk out and we leave as empty as when we come in probably more troubled in some cases because rushing into god's presence and rushing out insults his glory you know what god said to israel he said i am tired of your offerings i am weary of your feasts and new moons and sabbaths and sacrifices in isaiah he said away with it i cannot bear it i am tired of your repenting now when someone comes into the presence of god is always confessing the same old sins it's because that man or woman is not really free because liberty exists only in fellowship with the son of god liberty doesn't exist in the in the in that realm of asking we come and say lord here's my problem here's my needs here's my wants here's my desires please do this and please do that and forgive my sin which you have you already confessed yesterday but you repeat it today because you're not able to be free from it now you leave and you feel good about yourself but what have you really what have you really done what have you accomplished in the spiritual realm not much because tomorrow you go back and it's the same old story there's nothing new and your prayer goes to the wall and comes back at you that's because you're lacking fellowship with the lord fellowship with the lord happens after i make my requests known it requires me time i have to spend time i can't rush in rush out 10 minutes half an hour will not do it anymore you have to persist you have to pursue you have to be determined not to give up and when you do that and and and the beauty of it is the longer you stay on your knees or the longer you stay in god's presence even though you will not feel his presence at first nobody does really because we always begin in the realm of the flesh we always begin in that first outer court and remember it's called the outer court for a purpose it's out of god's presence alter means it's outside so you all we all begin in the outer the place outside where god is god is in that most holy place called the holy of holies that is covered there are two curtains not one between the outer court and the holy of holies are two curtains you you have to cross two realms to enter in and most of us are not willing to wait that's the whole thing is we just don't have the time to wait you have to wait have you ever read madame leon's book on experiencing the depth of jesus christ how many have how many have not that woman experienced what i'm talking about it's a realm of communion that is so powerful so divine so heavenly so glorious so peaceful so joyful you cannot stop while you're in there when you start you cannot stop and that's the place job 28 talks about precious people i'm going to tell you something i think most christians have not really been there look at job 20 20 this is this is one of the most powerful descriptions of this intimate place in god this is the place where the devil cannot break through no demons exist in that realm are you ready for it okay look at verse uh 7 of job 28. you're all there right there is a path which no foul knoweth and which the vultures eye hath not seen the lion's welts have not trod in it nor the fierce lion passed by it look at me all of you how many desire the secret place of the most high in that secret place demons cannot enter i will hide them in my pavilion the psalmist said thou shalt hide them in thy pavilion nothing can touch you in that place you are in a realm of heavenly glory this is where temptations do not occur this is what the mind is at peace and rest this is where the heart overflows as a fountain this is where joy unspeakable and full of glory truly lives this is the place of absolute protection no evil shall be fully no plague shall come nigh thy dwelling he shall give his angels charge over thee where in that place we want the angels to come to our realm wrong we must go into their realm angels will not come into the world of the flesh oh yes they visit the earth that's not what i am talking about angels appear in the realm of god's presence god's presence must be real in us and through us for angels to appear may i say that again the only reason the saints saw and still see angels it's because they live in a realm of heaven you know the old song heaven came down glory filled my soul you have to create a habitation for god to dwell in where angels can visit i don't think you heard me i'm going to say it again when i experienced the holy spirit in in the in the 70s when the presence of god would be in my bedroom for hours at night angels appeared in my room many nights i i cannot lie about this it's just fact but we don't see angels all the time because we don't we don't allow their realm to take over our lives god is holy and we forget they are called holy angels holy angels can only uh and i've got to choose my words properly here but holy angels need a holy atmosphere to operate in this is where they become active that's why prayer releases their power remember in the psalms psalm 103 god's word and prayer release angels it says they excel at the sound and the voice of his word angels excel in strength as they hear god's word spoken you know that right did you ever read that in the psalms psalm 107 103 verse 20 says that in fact go ahead and put it on the screen for the people just in case angels excel in strength the the bible is so clear on that bless the lord ye his angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word well the only way they hear his word is through you and angels were released in answer to prayer don't you remember when they prayed for peter prayer was offered day and night and the angels were released and released him from prison angels came in response to prayer angels appeared to the son of god because he lived in that realm the presence of jesus the presence of god on earth paul the apostle saw so angels because he lived in that realm he he his cry was forget the things that are behind and pursue heaven pursue total death to self where christ can live when christ is all in all so that incredible place we call the most holy place psalm 91 the bible says in job 28 no foul can enter in there's a path watch this this is amazing there's a path verse 7 which no foul knoweth meaning no demon can even find it remember what we saw last week as the heart pants after the water so my soul yeah why to see thy pattern like glory i have to be in the water like the deer i gotta be covered with water so my scent would not be found by the enemy the enemy cannot find you in that place of heaven on earth and you are there and you're you're basking in god's presence you know dr rambo wrote a song stand still and see his glory and she experienced this to write about it she said bask in that pure living water refreshing reviving your soul we need to bask in god's presence to where truly our hearts are connected to his and communion is heart to heart deep calls on too deep where the waves of god's presence are coming at you with such force and power that every wave that comes the next wave is stronger than the one before it just it just keeps coming and you and you can't stop and this is where healing takes place how often we pray when the presence of god is not there nothing happens and when people you know somebody asked katherine kuhlman years ago when are people healed and she said this she said when jesus becomes real to them they will be healed his real presence brings miracles so when you are worshiping if you're only singing there's no healing but when you worship which is totally different you know when when people worship often they they can't sing they're crying too hard they become quieter as they worship the the deeper the worship the quieter the soul when you worship jesus you are so taken by his presence you can't even sing you can't even talk all you do is cry and suddenly his presence wraps you like a blanket all over and you feel this awesome divine tangible substance of his glory and at that moment anything you ask happens but when his presence is absent nothing happens so you've got to wait for this realm to become real this blessed most holy place and that is where demons cannot enter precious people please listen to me we are accustomed to darkness more than light we live in it so much more than we live in the realm of god's light i promised you something i have experienced this realm so i can talk about it when the presence of god comes real tangible when jesus becomes more real to you than you and that is exactly what what happens he he becomes the fullness he becomes the the the wealth of your being he he takes over suddenly you are you are raptured absolutely raptured you know fanny crosby wrote about that and she was a blind woman she wrote the song face to face i shall behold him far beyond the sorry sky when in rapture i'll behold him now we can experience this incredible tangible blessedness on this earth where jesus can be as real to you as he was to peter james and john while walking the earth are you listening yeah and in that tangible moment demons flee so it says no foul knoweth which no vultures eye has seen look look at this the lion's wealths demons or even the fierce line satan nor the fierce lion passed by it even satan himself cannot find that place nor can he get near it it's a realm known only by the saints of god now watch the results he puts forth his hand upon the rock he overturneth the mountains by the roots he cutteth out rivers among the rocks and his eye seeth every precious thing in that place of holy fellowship god puts his hand and starts to overturn obstacles away removing mountains out of your way god begins to cut out rivers among the rocks suddenly you are you begin to be flooded with the rivers of heaven the river of god begins to just flood your being do you remember that his waves the psalmist said psalm 42 7 his waves are gone over me yeah god brings that and then it says this and his eye seeth every precious thing suddenly look look at me i've got to tell you this suddenly out of your being flows the most precious out of your spirit comes the most precious to god almighty you know a lot of what we say to god is not precious because a lot of what we say to him is born by the flesh and that is offensive but when we are in fellowship such words come out that amaze us such words of love come out that amaze us suddenly we are having such intimacy it is really a love relationship it is intimacy beyond words you know husbands and wives we have intimacy that is only a a a forgive me it's a cheap shadow of the real where god unites husband and wife in a manner where suddenly you become one not just in flesh you become one in thought one in heart one in spirit the the two shall be one it says but the two shall be one not only in the natural there is a oneness beyond the flesh that is experienced in marriage that is only a shadow and a cheap shadow of the real fellowship with jesus who is our bridegroom and only the bride can experience that fellowship that love that union that incredible oneness of heart that that just comes out of you with such loving words like vaselier schlink talks about in her book my all for him or she says suddenly words most precious words come out about jesus my precious one my lovely one my holy one my life my being my adore and you start to adore him my goodness you're listening because suddenly it's not you it's not me my needs my problem now he raptures you he takes hold of you your words become words of love it's the song of solomon all over again in that in that incredible holy place the bible says this happens this is awesome oh i want to i want to say something about the precious things you know that our fellowship to him is most precious you know you know what god said to jeremiah he said if you'll find the precious in the worthless i'll use you if you find the precious in the worthless you'll be as my mouth that's one of the most powerful verses in the bible and you can look it up yourself i'll give it to you next week when we're when when when i'm here because god looks beyond the flesh we human beings see the outside we well i like him i don't like the way he looks i don't like the way he talks all the stuff god looks at the heart and the heart is where that precious fountain is the human heart the human spirit and so it's your human spirit comes alive in that in that in that blessed realm suddenly the the soul is actually silenced the emotions are put out of actions because our emotions are not really spiritual our emotions are soulish it's the soul is real most well i shouldn't say most many christians experience the solace realm and call it spiritual it's not spiritual because it's all feelings it's all oh i feel so good oh i love you jesus and then they they walk out and they lose it they get caught in the atmosphere of the moment but when they leave that building they're as empty as when they came in why because it was all solish when it is spiritual it goes with you you take it back home with you you take it back to the hotel with you god's presence doesn't leave you because now the spiritual realm has been experienced and you take it home you know when when i experience this realm and i have as recently as last night i'm not gonna lie to you when you experience this amazing realm of one-on-one one heart to one heart that's incredible oneness when you experience that and you walk out of your room i promise you i promise you the gospel truth you cannot pull away from it it's like it's like it's like your spirit has just been resurrected and you can't calm it down you know what i mean you are in you are so taken by by the lord he's he is all around you and you're aware of him the whole day and this is where prayer without ceasing is born you cannot pray without ceasing in the natural realm or the soul israel you can only pray without ceasing in the spiritual realm that's the realm that job 28 talks about and then he says this and this this absolutely amazes me verse 11 he binds the floods from overflowing and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light that is awesome that's where all bondage is destroyed can you imagine what it would be like if the presence of jesus binds demonic powers without you having to say i rebuke the devil okay now i'm going to say something to you look at me all of you i believe i really do believe that we have the power to speak the word of god and say what i said earlier about claiming and so forth but i think in that realm words do not work in that realm where the voice of god now is clear in that realm where your words become offensive actually in that realm or silence rules in that realm where tears become your language in that realm where the holy spirit is is in full control where you are carried by the wings of the spirit that's the realm mentioned in isaiah am i getting too deep here that's the realm isaiah 40 talks about where the eagle is mountain is mounting up where the wind is now in control where the eagle doesn't know where the wind will carry it you trust the wind the wind now controls your life as long as the the eagle stood on on that rock the eagle was in control but when the eagle let go into the winds those currents can be so powerful that no eagle can oppose the power of that wind i experienced that once on a plane in the el nino year back years ago we were coming out of new york when suddenly a 200 mile an hour wind hit our plane and carried it 6 000 feet in two minutes the pilot told me later he said i could not see the controls i could not control the plane i could not even control he he tried to bring the flaps down they wouldn't come down the wind was stronger than the plane and and a pilot recently told me in fact my pilot can who flew president bush and reagan and all of them he's one of the brightest man i've ever talked to i said captain why did that air french plane crash leaving brazil a few weeks ago this this happened over the atlantic he said well there were new pilots who did not understand the power of the wind he said they flew into a thunderstorm and began to fight the storm he said the plane broke the tail the vector broke and it crashed in the atlantic ocean he said the best thing to do when you are in a thunderstorm is let the thunderstorm control the plane you'll have a very uncomfortable flight he said the best thing is to stay away from it and build and believe me i don't let him get near those things but the thing is is the wind and i was in on the plane when the wind carried us up and down we lost control and another wind hit us from the top and we dove six thousand feet and i experienced the power of nature that night over new york that's only the wind the holy ghost is way more powerful than that but think about surrendering to the wind you lose control we want to be in control all right you can be in the natural you can be in the solace you cannot be in the spiritual realm when you enter in you lose control of how long you'll you'll be there what you'll be what you'll be told what you'll see what you'll experience and god will not allow you to experience it if you are not and i want to be careful here but we have to let go like let go of our plans let go of our distractions let go of the things that come to uh take our attention away you have to let go of these things god knows what's going on inside of you he knows well he's distracted he's thinking about his son his daughter his job a phone call he's he's got to make and the lord won't even enter in you have to be totally free from the things of this world and when you are suddenly the holy spirit will take over and believe me what will happen to you will be so intense so powerful it will impact your life just one time if you'll only experience it one time you'll you you'll say to yourself how blind have i been how deaf have i been not to experience this more often and and amazingly uh you come out and uh you're peaceful you're more peaceful than you uh then you know how it's like it's like that's not you anymore and you say you you think to yourself that's not me i don't even feel like myself and they will look at you and they'll say are you all right and you'll say i've never been better it's like you are completely ruled by the spirit your problems vanish it's like you just don't think about it not that you don't care you know there's there's a there's an amazing promise in the psalms and it's and and it's real david says though the earth underneath me disappears nothing happens thou wilt keep him come on imperfect peace whose mind is stayed on brother i tell you what that's a real real world that's a real promise such peace it's like nothing shakes you and you don't want to ever go back to the world you lived in because that's what what the trouble shows up that's where you worry that's where you fight that's where you get angry that's where you say things you have to repent for that's where you get really kind of messed up in your head but you taste this presence because it says taste and see you taste this presence and you come out like and you're singing to yourself praising and adoring and worshiping and it's like you can't stop honestly you can't stop you know you know there's an that old song there's a river of life flowing out of me jim that's real that's absolutely real father i pray in the name of jesus that every person sitting in this class every one of them will experience what i've been talking about lord jesus i i pray knit their hearts with yours let them fall in love with you all over again let them experience the depth of your presence in jesus mighty name and god's people said amen remember that the lord desires you greatly he desires your fellowship in such an intense way that the bible in fact says and this is one of the of the most amazing bible truths that the impulse to seek god begins with him the impulse to seek him begins with him in other words god puts that in you god knows that the human heart is not capable of seeking him so god gives the human heart strength to do it it's like it's like let's say i say to somebody said you know i really want to get to know you and that somebody said well i'm not sure i want to know you but then god being god puts the desire in you to know him and that's fantastic we don't have the capacity we don't have the ability we we don't have the hunger desired to seek the lord so the bible clearly states that god puts the hunger in us and that's why psalm 42 verse 1 says as the heart pants panteth after the water broke so panteth my soul after thee oh god my soul thirsteth for god for the living god when shall i come and appear before god he asks the question he's he he's so hungry for god he he's asking when will i come before god my tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say to me where is your god so the the enemies are harassing and saying well where where is god's presence in your life i don't see any evidence so david says when i remember these things i pour out my soul in me now all this this great hunger we see here in verse 12 and on originates with the lord himself that's why it says in the song of solomon chapter 1 verse 4 we can see this on the screen please the bible says you you cannot run after the lord unless he starts to draw you to himself and that's fantastic draw me we will run after thee so we are a people unable and uncapable we we don't have it in us to see god so god puts that desire in us and uh and the psalmist in psalm 80 8 0 verse 18 the psalmist said quicken me quicken me and then i'll call on your name i gotta be quickened lord before i can call on you every one of you in this studio every one of you watching really around the world hungers for the lord a true christian is always hungry because hunger is the sign of life in a believer you know that the first thing a sick person loses is their appetite the hunger for food as long as you are healthy as a christian you're always hungry for god the day you lose your hunger it's the day you really lose everything that's when sickness strikes the human heart but the real believer is always hungry but the bible says hunger is is placed in our hearts by the lord himself so will we not go back from the watch this we are not going to leave you lord why because you will quicken us quicken us and we will call upon my name that is one of the greatest portions i think on prayer in the whole bible quicken me lord god seeks before he is sought can i say that again you cannot seek god till god has sought you we all want to see god on our own if you if you begin in the in the flesh you fail because you have to wait till he quickens you and that's what happens when people enter into that first realm of prayer the bible talks about three realms the outer court realm this is the asking realm where we come and ask lord here's my trouble jesus said ask that's the first round then we enter the second realm the seeking realm and that's the holy place in the old testament god gave us a pattern for entering into his presence and the pattern was outright court holy place holy of holies in the outer court is where we make requests in the outer court is where we fight the devil and our own minds so somebody starts to pray and at that moment when you get on your knees in the outer court remember it's called outer because it's outside where god is so there's no quickening power there there's no presence there there's a lot of fighting there there's a lot of repetition there that's where you confess your sin because that's what the altar of sacrifice was and that's where you make your requests known to the lord and this is sadly where people say amen and go out no no you don't understand you must enter the second realm of prayer to even and and this is something so important you cannot experience victory in prayer till you break through to the second round because the second round which is the seeking realm is where this happens right here this is uh this blessed verse happens in there quicken me lord and i'll call on you so we will not go back from the we are not you see people sometimes they they they pray one day and then they miss the next and the next and the next and then they pray next week and then they miss three four days why because they haven't entered into the deeper realm if you only experience the outer court you will get tired of it very quickly can i say this again when people come to prayer and and and all they do is talk lord help me bless me forgive me that's the outer court forgive my sin bless my mom help me pay my bills that's all the outro court that's where the mind attacks you that's when your thoughts wander that's where the devil attacks you with horrible things in your head that's where you're rebuking the devil while you're trying to pray anybody here can identify yeah and this is where you get tired and you yawn and you want to sleep and you're hungry and your your your stomach starts to make noise and distraction is in the outer court you you get distracted you got bothered you're trying to pray somebody calls you you get all mad then you have to repent for getting angry all that happens it's all the outer court realm and then you say amen and you've been there for maybe an hour but you're tired you're worn out you are totally wiped out why because you've been working praying talking to god nobody's talking to you god isn't talking yet god speaks in the holy of holies god doesn't speak in the outer court right moses said to enter into the holy of holies to hear god speak from be between the cherubims it's a great marvelous verse oh can i just read that to you one of the most beautiful and you know sometimes ah we just don't like to read about all the details in the bible so we skip it all and we miss the most precious treasures when we do that numbers chapter 7 is one of the longest chapters in the book of numbers it deals with the offerings of the 12 princes you don't have to turn that i'll just give it to you so when you read that book you think all right all these offerings what do they mean and then you come to the treasure of that chapter the last part the last verse and when moses this is verse 89 of numbers chapter 7 and when moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him in god then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims and he speak unto him oh that's glorious that's glorious now think yourself in that holy of holies and here's the ark of the covenant no bigger than watch please no bigger from this speaker to this speaker and over the ark of the covenant are these two sheriffs with their wings spread almost touching each other and from between those wings a voice comes out that's a very small little space no no probably a little bigger than than the top of this pulpit and the voice comes out and moses is listening very quiet he's got his ear real tuned in that's how god speaks in the holy of holies you can't hear his voice out there in the outer court the voice you'll hear is the devils it will be attacking your head trying to distract you trying to take you away wearing you out you know what it it says in and i'll take you there in just a second isaiah 57 says you have wearied yourself you have worn yourself out because you haven't yet entered into that most blessed place of quietness and rest there is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of god a place where sin cannot more less sin can't even get in there so now you walk into the holy place this is second realm realm number two the seeking realm and in that seeking round you're quickened he said but wait now did i waste all my time oh no no there are no shortcuts you have to go through the process you got to get on your knees make your requests known to god and wait the waiting begins after you are done with the first round they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount them with wings as eagles run and not be weary walk and not faint this happens after you are done with the first realm so the first realm of prayer the request realm the realm where you come and ask make your request known to god the realm where you are distracted you'll be distracted for sure you'll be tempted remember jesus was praying in the wilderness when he was tempted you'll be you'll be you'll be tempted you'll be distracted the flesh is still you know uh you know in in control out there and you're gonna get tired and worn out like isaiah 57 says but wait long enough when you're all done talking and you have no more to say and you've done all your repeats you know how we'll repeat every everything we forgive me forgive me forgive me forgive me bless me bless we repeat everything over and over we think that god is definitely in here you know didn't hear us the first time so we say second third and fourth and fifth so we can feel better but maybe you know god now can really you know believe i'm really serious about this when you're all done that's the time to just stop and wait so wait for what wait for uh god to quicken you wait for psalm 80 18 to happen psalm 80 verse 18 to actually take place where suddenly you you actually feel that quickening you say how you'll know it trust me suddenly jesus will become real but his reality when he quickens you is not full yet it's like the beginning of it you it's like it comes and goes oh i gotta talk about this is very important when you enter the second realm of prayer and you start to seek the lord because that's what seeking is all about you're seeking him not seeking answers you seek the lord in the in the second round it starts with a nudge here a notch there it's like a tasting session you'll taste he'll pull away you'll taste because what he's doing is he's drawing you he's drawing you are you are you hearing me yeah i was watching a a program recently and they were struggling on how to get this animal into this cage they tried to push it it won't work they tried to pull it it won't work finally somebody came up with a with an idea of letting this this animal taste something very tasty so it licked it and the guy went licked it again till he got him right in there that's what god does he'll let you taste it first just taste and see that the lord is good you gotta taste it so the taste when we taste it oh here's and then he's gone again like our our tears come and go we experience a beautiful moment then it's like it all dries up in a second what do i do nothing he's just this is your tasting session god is letting you taste this presence anybody getting this have you experienced this of course you have every christian has so god lets you taste his presence and takes it away from you there you go come on come on come on and you're just getting closer and don't even know it because you are getting closer that's what it says in the song of solomon chapter one draw me draw me well god draws you by by allowing you to taste how good it is in his presence now you suddenly your heart starts to melt and and your words become wealthy and your words become right and you are focused and everything is lovely and now jesus takes over and the words that come out of you now are not forgive me i praise you lord i thank you jesus praise begins to erupt out of you and amazingly all the tiredness you felt starts to go away all the little hunger in your tummy starts to vanish even the noises of your tummy get quieter i tell you that's the truth suddenly you become very calm very comfortable i'm going to give you a piece of counsel don't read the bible till after you've prayed because if you read the bible before you get to the to the to the outer court your head is messed up it's you're not there you're too confused and chaotic in your head you won't even get the bible through you just let the lord minister to you first that's what my that's what mad madame guy said and she and she was right in in her book uh experiencing the depth of jesus christ she talks about how prayer prepares you for the word of god and it's true and so you you you start getting into that second round and now in the second realm your hunger goes wham inside of you you just hunger just hits your being while in the outer court you are hungry now you are famished now you are starving for the presence of god starving to feel his touch starving to be embraced by him starving to feel his blessed presence just come over you and now your words become extremely proper and what i mean by proper is they become precise no repetition in there no chaotic stuff and you think ah my mind is so peaceful yeah because the devil can't get in there it's that job 28 all over again there's a place the fouls can't see that the demons of hell can cannot enter which i gave you last week remember that now you're in there and something starts happening suddenly we we we begin to experience exodus 33 13. in exodus 33 13 we have a most marvelous revelation let's just get it on the screen quick so i want to opt to see this so marvelous fantastic i tell you in exodus 33 verse 13 now therefore i pray thee if i have found grace and thy sight show me now thy way that i may know thee that i may find grace in thy sight you're gonna read this thing very carefully moses says to god if i have found grace in your sight show me now thy way show me how to get into your presence lord and when i get into your presence that i may know thee help me come to know you lord you start the process because i don't know the way in but you begin the process for me show me your way if i have found grace in your sight show me your way that i may know you that's asking god to take the lead so now in the second round god takes the lead you are now following the master he's leading you into the holy of holies because the holy of holies is forbidden without jesus walking in the first the the bible clearly states in hebrews he went into the holy place first he still does oh you missed what i said did you just hear what i said yeah he leads you in there because he's the one who knows the way in there but you wait for him so you've done all your requests and all your prayer rather than out of court and you said every forgive me and bless me and you've confessed all your sins about 10 times and now you're worn out now you're done with your prayer you're done with your request and you wait and that is the key wait most people will not that's why they leave and then they lose desire to come back tomorrow because they they haven't tasted the goodness of the lord yet now you wait and when you wait you are entering into the second realm where your strength comes alive they that wait upon the lord's shell that's in the second round they shall mount up with wings as eagles second round run and not not be weary second realm walk and not faint second realm this is meaning this means you start your fellowship with god now is restored that's what walking means i'll walk fellowship is restored this is where you run and catch up with what god is in fellowship shall i repeat that okay remember what isaiah said in in isaiah 40 in the last portion of that chapter they that wait upon the lord waiting happens after the second or after the first realm is done they that wait upon the lord will renew their strength suddenly spiritual strength is restored that's what paul said to the church that god might strengthen you in the in your inner man it's restored now suddenly you run but before you run your spiritual antennas come back to life you're mounting up with wings as eagles because the eagle is able to discern the winds of the spirit the eagle christian there is can discern the currents of the winds like the the animal the eagle stands on the rock and waits for the right twins before it spreads its wings we christians wait in the presence of god suddenly our strength is back spiritually and suddenly our antennas start to work our discernment is now alive and we surrender to the winds of the holy spirit and suddenly we are running why we are catching up with where we we where we were or what we have lost in fellowship because god is always moving you start moving and now you start running and when you start running then actually you know you're walking and he's right next to you that is your fellowship now is restored okay can i can i go on now yeah when that happens suddenly something happens to you and the third realm becomes reality psalm 46 10 suddenly hits you be still and know i am god the third realm is the realm of quietness the realm of such intense quietness that the bible says in isaiah 26 8-9 that suddenly uh silence takes over you can't even talk you are so overwhelmed with the lord his presence so overwhelms you you are soaked in tears your pillow is soaked in tears your body is numb with god's presence and your heart is crying out for more of jesus oh that's the most glorious place so isaiah 26 8-9 says yea in the way of thy judgments o lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee with my soul have i desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will i seek thee early wow this is awesome now the spirit of man comes alive the spirit of man comes alive in the presence of his creator and the spirit of man his language is the heart remember verse 7 of psalm 42 deep calls on too deep right that's what actually happens now the heart takes over and silence becomes the product of abundance oh i gotta say this again dear god i was watching one of my clips one time i was working on uh one of the roles you see on tv and i'm watching the people worship in one of the crusades and the cameras came close to this mess precious precious lady an elderly african american woman was worshiping i began crying looking at her that woman was in glory i mean in glory she could not talk every everybody around her is singing but she's just standing glowing i mean like glowing like like the light of god's glory was shining on her and she captured my eyes and i began crying i saw the glory of jesus on that woman to this day i remember her face and i thought dear god how beautiful she was immersed in the presence of god you know that song that dr rambo wrote years ago stand still and see his glory i'm telling you that is what that woman was watch as his mysteries unfold bask in the sweetness of pure living water reviving refreshing your soul that woman was experiencing that she was basking in the rivers of heaven how would you like that that's the third round that's the knocking realm that's where your spirit comes alive really the soul is still in that presence uh in that realm the soul actually is put out of action so if if i can say it like this the physical round is the outer court the soulish realm is the holy place but the spiritual realm is the holy of holies where the spirit of man comes alive and his soul is silenced his body is out of action the flesh is totally out of the way now demons can't enter in so that's job 28 that talks about this and you're standing in there in my case often i'm just laying in my bed with my pillow soaked in tears the presence of god just overwhelms you and the most amazing times i've had have been usually at night when everybody's gone because in the morning you know you don't have the time at times even though you spend time with god and he lets you taste his presence and you you i've even entered into the holy of holies in the mornings but god knows and i know i have to leave because i have things that i have to do even jesus had to often come down from that mountain but at night you're going nowhere you go to sleep in it and you wake up in the morning still feeling it all around you it actually prepares you for the morning prayer so now the the the your silence is is is the product of abundance you know what i mean by that yeah god's presence so takes hold of you that zephaniah 1 7 happens you know you know what it says in zephaniah 1 7 get this on the on the on the on the screen for us and and hosea 2 14. these are two scriptures i've got to have you experience zephaniah 1 7 hosea 2 14. hold thy peace at the presence of the lord god hold thy peace at the presence of the lord god there comes like a like a moment of holy hush it's a holy hush that permeates your soul do you know i absolutely believe that if we begin to experience this holy hush in prayer god would heal our body it it because it's like peace peace wonderful peace coming down from the father above sweeping over your spirit and then hosea 2 14 please if we can see that this is exactly what david experienced when he said in in psalm 46 10 be still and know i'm god therefore behold i will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak what comfortably to her god allures you into that holy of holies to speak to you comfortably beautifully quietly you are immersed in his presence worship is arising out of your soul like like you know that blessed song oh the deep deep love of jesus vast unmeasured boundless free rolling like a mighty ocean in its fullness over me it's like those waves coming at you and that's what psalm 42 7 says it says thy billows and thy waves are gone over me deep calls unto deep and the at the noise of thy water spouts and it says your waves it's like waves of god's presence come at you and you sink under them oh i tell you i can feel this thing here my daughter jessica when we went to maui once we we were warned about the waves and i guess she did not pay attention there was such a uh yeah it sucked her right in i'm telling you that's what i have experienced in god's presence it's those waves that just suck you right in and you let go you don't fight you just let that wave pull you in and when it pulls you in your whole body becomes totally still still to the to the place it's it's uh not natural to be still like that because we human beings are not accustomed to this kind of stillness we're always you know we're very restless and the bible is clear on rest finding your rest jesus said come come unto me i'll give you a rest that rest is is found in that holy of holies you know abundance let me just talk about this abundance is the result of access uh it's the result of too much it's the result of you know the el mory said to god one day he said if you'll feel me any more i'll die i can't handle anymore it's the running over of god's presence the activities of the soul and the body are silenced in that in that abundance please listen to me um can i give you a piece of counsel do not dig wells where there is no water i'm going to say that again don't dig wells where there is no water that's what people do when they pray in the outer court and say amen by they're digging in a place there's no moisture there's no water be in the place where the waters of the spirit are found dig wells where the holy spirit is working don't waste your time building nothing and this is this is i think what isaiah 57 10 says you have wearied yourselves in your doings you pray without waiting for god to draw you it says watch this thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way yet set us down not there's no hope thou has found the life of thine hand therefore thou was not grieved this is an awesome verse it says you're putting your trust in your own strength aren't you grieved that's what it says aren't you tired of it aren't you tired of working and getting nothing back aren't you tired of digging wells and no water you've wielded yourself now watch this listen all of you please listen to me when you pray we all begin in the flesh we all begin in the outer court we all begin with making requests and so forth fine don't say amen when you're done stay there stay there until you're quickened and when you're quickened true prayer is born prayer in the spirit begins now and prayer in the spirit is not praying in tongues that's pray with the spirit praying in the spirit is where the spirit of god takes over will your words become chosen praise is a part of that realm worship is a part of that realm and i don't remember ever being longer than half an hour in that realm the outer court can take me two hours to even just get in and this is where you get tired because say well come on two hours is too long sometimes it'll take an hour sometimes an hour and a half it depends on where you are in the flesh it depends on how occupied you are in your head it depends on how how many how many calls you ring and what's occupying your mind and how angry you are with your whatever because you got to deal with with all this in the outer court you got to confess your sin and forgive all your enemies that's tough because god won't let you in there till everything is cleaned out and this is where you say lord i confess my sin please help me remember whatever i have forgotten and god will amazingly show you things it'll come to your to your to your to to your mind that you have forgotten so you confess it but that realm is a realm of struggle and hard work and that's why most of us say hey man i'm think thank god i'm done they walk out but see what they have what they have missed is they have missed that place of quiet rest wait upon the lord now the time comes to do isaiah 40. wait just wait so what i don't you have to you've worked too hard not to be rewarded wait play some worship songs to to help you even if you have to find but while you wait i have never ever ever please listen i beg of you i have never spent more than half an hour in the holy place the holy place is fast moving because god now is in control and i tell you the gospel truth i spent sometimes two two hours in that outer court half an hour in the holy place and i am shocked at how quickly i can move into the holy of holies when you enter into the holy of holies and you feel this overwhelming love i mean you are baptized with love your your your cells come alive with love everything in you shuts down everything in him comes alive when i say in you i mean in your soul shuts down your body is so and i don't want to sound weird but your body becomes so uh cancelled so out of action that i think at that point your blood pressure is perfect i'm i'm not kidding you you there's such peace it overwhelms you that you're actually experiencing it and suddenly you you you you can't even talk you are so over overwhelmed even your words don't fit and the presence of god just over you and it's wave after wave and everything in you suddenly something happens that's beyond description can you uh put habakkuk 220 for a second on the screen you you are suddenly in such intense intense worship and you're not saying a thing the heart comes alive the lord is in his holy temple that the whole earth keeps silence before him the glory of god takes over and you are so quiet and yet you are so loud you're the loudest in there in the spirit do you know what i mean by that did you what i said your inner man becomes so loud but there's no words it's the yearning of the heart it's the longing of the soul it's that incredible yearning for jesus and you love him and there begins the most amazing intimacy with god intimacy to the place and i don't want to tread that i'm i'm i'm using my words very carefully intimacy to the place you are in ecstasy you are in spiritual ecstasy everything in you is at the highest point it can get in the presence of the lord there is joy but that joy is so supernatural it takes hold of your inner being and starts to pour out to the solace realm and starts pour out into the physical realm till every part of you is dripping with it i pray god will bring you there fast job chapter 4 verse 16 says this is where we begin hearing god's voice in that in that deep and i want to use the word deep silence can can can i say something to you that i hope doesn't sound weird but it's the only way i can say it the depth of silence becomes so deep that you think in yourself i i don't know what else how else to say it it's like a depth that takes you in anybody understands put your hand up high if you do okay then you've been there it's a depth that takes you in in where you actually feel like you're you're being you're being pulled into a depth you've never known before and the deeper you are pulled in you i i've actually at times felt where my whole body went numb on you you feel like a heaviness you feel like a like a weight on you paul calls it the weight of glory the weight of god's presence begins to saturate your whole being to to you actually can't move i have had it happen to me well my body actually froze under that froze my my my whole body was i couldn't move my arms i tried i i couldn't open my my eyelids stuck the whole bean just went numb just like going under you know when the when the when the doctors put you under that i've i've never had that happen to me except you know when you go to the dentist and that's kind of a very cheap imitation really really god's presence takes you under its own its own anesthesia its own how many have ever ever felt that amazing isn't it and suddenly the presence of jesus is more real than your body you can you can feel him walking in the room now you are completely immersed in that third round and jesus called that realm amazingly the knocking realm why because the door opens and you move into this realm that is unknown to you at that moment the highest spiritual attainments become easy they are attained the highest spiritual attainments your deepest desires are granted in that place i stood in a service once catherine cuman it only happened once that i've recalled well the presence of god was as intense as i am describing it now the whole the whole auditorium was under this cloud of glory and catherine said there is such oneness in the spirit here and she asked the audience to be quiet she did not have to we were already all quiet and ever is crying you can't talk no no nobody even was whispering and the presence of god just came in like a like a like a numbness that over overpower the whole crowd and catherine said any thing you want ask now she said whatever you ask in this moment he'll grant he sure granted what i asked for we don't often have those moments i pray god will give them to us one more time but this this is what what happens in this in this in this realm what what you have fought for what you have cried out for what you have prayed for become the easiest to receive now so this realm is the receiving realm the knocking round is really the receiving realm but in this realm and please listen in this realm the intercessor enters in because that's his realm jesus the intercessor enters into that realm and that's the place where we are told groanings without uttering the holy spirit starts to this is what he takes over and he starts to groan out of our being but the groanings is not audible suddenly intercession takes over our our hearts but into true intercession is really quite silent what people call intercession is really not in intercession because pure intercession is absolutely 100 holy spirit intercession where he is the intercessor and you are the vehicle that he uses and suddenly you are you are the temple he dwells in in such a manner that you you are simply being used god uses your your your very being to cry out and now now please listen this is this is this is probably the most powerful thing i can say to you now god literally makes you his partner your your groaning becomes one with god this is where heavenly agreement comes in god looks for this to act god in fact waits and yearns for people to enter in there because when you get in there and you become his prayer partner god uses your vessel god uses your heart god uses your spirit to actually agree with him oh dear lord help me get this through to them it's it's like what he what god said to to jeremiah and to ezekiel that he would do nothing till there was an intercessor but the intercessor is interceding spiritually in the spirit through intercession groanings that can be uttered that are now that are god-given because you you can't you cannot produce this on your own god-given and god says yes to himself you missed it god says yes to his own self the holy spirit asks the father to do something and you are right in between both my god the holy spirit waits till he can use your vessel to ask you become the instrument of prayer in the most holy place and think think about this god the father is standing on one side and the holy spirit is using you to do the crying the yearning the longing without uttering a word everything in you is is boiling like a volcano in the presence of god and the holy spirit is using your vessel your heart to commune with god and you walk out and you think ah i have been privileged to change history i've been have just been used to change the destiny of nations and now god says i am going to reward you for letting me use you like this in glory and in glory means in my presence so in heaven you're going to stand before god he's going to say i have a number of rewards for you for when you entered into the holy of holies in prayer and you allowed my spirit to use you here's what you accomplished and you can say lord you're the one who accomplished oh no you let me use your vehicle for me to accomplish for god to accomplish earthly things he needs an earthly body that earthly body becomes you i'm going to say something else there are two intercessors in heaven god the son god the holy spirit god the son intercedes for you god the holy ghost intercedes through you shall i say it again two intercessors the son the high priest intercedes for us but the holy spirit intercedes through us and through us with groanings that cannot be uttered the son intercedes for me that i might be welcomed into the holy of holies that i might be allowed into the holy of holies it's the intercession of the son that gave me access into the throne room it's the intercession of the spirit that allow me to be used to change destinies of nations and kingdoms and people don't miss what i said this is deep deep deep so jesus prays so i can get in and the holy spirit prays when i'm in and now when i'm in i am used literally by the holy spirit to change destinies nations people and i'm yearning and i'm longing with groanings that can't be uttered and this is where speaking in tongues is useless oh i got your attention now because this is not praying with the spirit this is praying in the spirit tongues come into being in the second realm not the third you say well i'm interested you see you've not understood what the bible teaches on this praying with the spirit is what the bible calls tongues we call it tongues my prayer language but that is used in warfare against the devil that is also used in praise there are three kinds of tongues and i want to get into that right now maybe some some other time i will but in the holy of holies it's the spirit the holy spirit using the human spirit literally to call on god the father and the holy spirit is making requests now so powerful and suddenly something happens i wanna i wanna actually read this to you psalm 31 verse 20 thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of men thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues this is a place of secrecy this is a place that only you and god are are a part of it that's why it's called the secret place it's called the secret place because it's not to be known by anyone else but you and god starts to reveal to you his secrets the secrets of the lord belong to them that fear him the bible says you know wonderful to be given secrets heavenly secrets from god himself don't you remember in genesis it says abraham drew near and the next thing we read is god saying shall i hide from abraham the things i'm about to do and that god reveals the secret to abraham about sarah gomorrah and abraham the intercessor the holy spirit uses abraham to talk to the father shall not the judge of the whole earth do right what what if there's 50 how about 45 how about 30 how about 20 how about 10 only a true intercessor can draw near and only to the intercessor god says shall i hide from them the things i'm about to do so secrets are revealed in the third realm the secret of of the lord belongs to the one who fears him but he's entered that realm it's a place of such light it's a place of such peace and tranquility and it's the place where the secrets of the lord are revealed to to the to the human heart jim would you play as as we pray right now you are my hiding place you know the the hiding place is the lord himself but i love what it says in psalm 31 20 thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence lift your hands and ask him to do this for you to to hide you in the secret of his presence that his presence becomes your habitation this is what jesus talked about in john 15 if you abide in me and i in you ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done [Music] this is the abiding place do you know why god chose joshua rather than gershom gershom was the firstborn of moses yet god chose joshua it says because he departed not from the tabernacle he loved god's house and what does david say i'm like an olive a green olive tree in your house in the house of the lord you become a green olive tree you be you become literally a source of god's anointing because you're in that blessed place god wants every one of you there think about what peace you've been missing what joy you've missed what incredible miracles you've missed think about what what what god had in store that have been really missed by you because your your life has been the outer court where you say amen when you're done and you're you go and don't give the lord the chance to start alluring you i will allure her into the wilderness speak comfortably unto her he says taste and see that the lord is good he's good he brings you in where his presence is so wealthy so rich so thick so full so abundant and then you get in there and psalm 42 7 is now reality deep calls unto unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts your pillows your waves are gone all over the lord i'm i'm i'm literally being pulled by the current of your ways and you make me a an instrument of intercession now finally to those individuals belongs protection thou shalt hide them in the secret pavilion and in the book of jeremiah any in in ezekiel specifically too god places protection on intercessors in fact in ezekiel we read that the angel comes and places marks of protection on people who are interceding but intercession in the holy of holies is is his word it really happens so precious jesus bring us into that place let us begin to to experience your depth your person your love your abundance your mighty name bring us into that place of quiet rest [Music] into that place of such abundant peace your word says great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them thou shalt keep that one in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee it's only in that holy of holies it's possible we cannot force our minds to think of you except in that holy of holies our minds naturally are at peace and you are the preeminent one you become our all in all in that place we give you praise and i pray that every person in this class every person watching at home will experience that quiet place that place where your presence is our hiding place in your precious name i pray amen exodus chapter 30 [Music] isn't the lord precious verse 22 moreover the lord speak unto moses saying take that also unto thee principle spices of pure myrrh 500 shekels of sweet cinnamon half so much even 250 shekels of sweet calamus 250 shekels and of casey 500 shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary and of oil olive and hen and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment an ointment compound after the art of the perfumer it shall be an holy anointing oil and thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith and the ark of the testimony and the table and all his vessels and the candlestick and his vessels and the altar of incense and the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels and the labor and his foot and thou shalt sanctify them that they may be most holy whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy and thou shalt anoint aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister unto me in the priest's office and thou shalt speak unto the children of israel saying this shall be unholy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations upon man's flesh shall it not be poured neither shall you make any other like it after the composition of it it is holy and it shall be holy unto you now before i talk about the fragrance of the master you remember last monday i talked to you about the three realms of prayer the first realm is the asking realm the second is the seeking realm and the third is the knocking realm and god gave us in the tabernacle of of moses what is called the tabernacle of moses in the wilderness a pattern into his presence we entered into the presence of jesus and there are no shortcuts we all begin in the outer court and in the tabernacle we had the outer court in which stood the altar of sacrifice and then the laver next to it and that was in the outer area then as you look straight ahead you saw a tent which is called the tabernacle and the tabernacle was split into two the first was called the holy place and the second was called the holy of holies separated with a veil a curtain called the veil there was a curtain that you had to go through to enter into the holy place and there was a second veil a second curtain called the veil that the high priest would go only into that area once a year so three realms three worlds the first world is the outer court where stood the altar of sacrifice and worse to deliver the altar of sacrifice was the place where they would sacrifice the offerings they offered to god the blood was shed the altar of sacrifice is the that place where animals were killed and died for the sins of israel and then beyond that a few feet beyond that was a labor looked like a big cup and saucer made from brass that women used for glass and it was filled with water and the priests before entering into the holy place to minister had to wash hands and feet in that labor that entire area is the first realm of prayer where you and i experience and you and i experience it every day no one can enter into the holy of holies without going through first the outer court area the realm we call the asking realm of prayer and nobody can get into the holy of holies without entering into the second realm which is called the seeking realm now in the seeking realm in the second round in the second in the in the actual tabernacle and i would call that the first part of the tabernacle the actual tent now you're inside the tent you just went through the the door it was called the door it was still a curtain but they called it the door hung on five poles and when you'd go in to your left stood a lamp stand to your right to the table with 12 loaves of bread on it frankincense spread upon the bread and straight ahead stood a a a square table with a crown what looked like a crown on it again covered with gold all the the the lamb stand and the and the and the uh table of showbread it was called were covered with gold and there stood in front of you also a golden altar of incense in the outer court outside there was no gold in the outer corner there was brass the altar of sacrifice and the labor were covered with brass the gold was found only in the tabernacle now not in the outer court so as you came in there was the lamp stand golden lampstand there was a table called the table of showbread with 12 loaves of bread fresh brought in every day spread with frankincense and there stood a golden altar of incense that's the second realm of prayer that's the second place that the priests would enter into for ministry and that is also our place of of uh uh seeking the lord which i'll talk about in just a second and then you entered into the holy of holies where stood the ark of the covenant and there you you it was very a very small space much smaller than the first uh portion of the tabernacle and there stood the ark of the covenant and the ark was covered with a mercy seat it was called basically the cover of the ark and on this mercy sheet that looked like a square crown long square crown two sheriffs were on top their wings nearly touching each other as they bowed looking at the mercy seat that is the most holy place god said to moses that the four spices that were mingled with olive oil he made it very clear to him that he is to anoint the tabernacle with them i'll get into this in just a little bit but i i want to repeat because i think it's important we we all understand that god's will for us and god's desire is that we fellowship with him daily in the holy of holies when we do not our lives will wither away the reason christians cannot experience the abundance of god's presence is because they neglect the holy of holies the holy of holies is our destination daily daily but we all must begin in the outer court where there's brass there's no divinity there's no presence of god out there there are sacrifices that must be made out there the word of god must cleanse us and purify our minds out there and like i said last monday that is the place where we come into the presence of god we enter into scorch but not yet into his presence we enter into escort and that first realm is where the flesh is still in control this is what our minds will wonder this is where our stomach will get hungry this is where distraction is a reality this is where we repeat ourselves with forgive me and bless me and keep me and bless my mother my father and my family that's the realm of repetition it's also there the enemy can still attack you it's still there he can attack your mind it's still there where corrupt thoughts can occupy your mind you can actually be in the outer court with corrupt thoughts attacking your own mind this is where the flesh must be crucified you cannot crucify the flesh in the holy place it has to be crucified outside death it's the place of the remember the altar of sacrifice is outside we have to lay our lives on the altar of sacrifice don't you remember paul the apostle says we offer our bodies as a living sacrifice that happens on that altar it's the only place you can sacrifice yourself to god is at the altar there is no altar of sacrifice in the holy place so now this is the place where most believers come to daily and sometimes not as often sadly and and they they give they they give the lord a list of requests they say amen and they're gone how sad that that's all they know about the christian walk it's a life of struggle it's a life of repetition it's a life of battles and no victories it's a life of forgive me demonic harassment or god's presence is absent but that's the outdoor court that's why it's called the outdoor court it's outside god's presence but as you stay and and this is where isaiah 40 begins that last part of isaiah 40. they that wait upon the lord you you make your request known now you are done with the repetitions and the forgive me and the bless me and the keep me and all the stuff you say to god and all the things you you repeat now uh you you said all these things if you know a few times god heard you now the time comes for quietness and the time comes for waiting upon the lord they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength now your strength as as you are waiting upon the lord he'll quicken you there is no quickening in the outer court in the outer court there are battles repetitions of prayer confession of sin and that's what the flesh is still in control now you're not failing out there you will fail if you leave when you say amen but that's not a place of failure that's the place of beginning that's the place where you have to persist in prayer now comes the time for quietness before god and that's the most difficult thing for us to do we because we think we're done and we got work to do so let's just be done with it but how sad we we we do not experience god's glory and presence if we leave so now it's time to wait and as you wait upon the lord like isaiah says he'll quicken you psalm 8 18 says quicken me and i'll call upon you and this is where uh the song of solomon chapter 1 verse 4 becomes reality where it says draw me i'll run after you this is also where god gives you strength to seek him because we do not need god's strength in the outer court we need god's strength in the in that time where we have to to call upon the lord we have to wait for him and so there's a there's a precious promise in the scriptures that god will give you strength to see to to seek him that strength is what isaiah the prophet talked about in isaiah now i pray the lord will just reveal this one glorious truth to you because when you when you are there waiting for the lord and suddenly that quickening takes place you will actually feel a divine energy take hold of your soul and as this divine energy pours into you you enter into a a realm of calmness where suddenly everything about you starts to get very quiet your words become few and chosen and praise erupts out of your soul not worship yet praise and now suddenly and this happens very slowly you begin to taste the presence of the lord bet by bed it's not coming at you in fullness it's coming at you in in small amounts if i can say it like that now you're drawn in because as you taste his presence your hunger for his presence intensifies now that the tears begin to flow now the whispers of the heart begin to manifest now you begin to use certain words with him you had not used in the outer court precious jesus wonderful master out there it was about me and me and my in the holy place precious lord you know i love you dear jesus now words of love begin to come out words of beauty begin to erupt out of your very being and the presence of god is is is uh being granted to you uh in little tastes at that at that moment and you're you're being drawn in right now and and god is drawing you and pulling you in into his presence by allowing you to taste his presence and in those moments in the holy place the place of praise the place of seeking jesus you're not seeking things you sought things out there in the outer court now you seek the lord you see you are asking for things out there now you're not asking for anything you're just crying out for the lord and you'll say words like dear jesus i'm looking for you dear jesus i'm seeking you now you're crying for him not for anything else and as you do he begins to manifest his preciousness and presence to you where suddenly you begin to feel like uh like a well comes alive inside of you while it was dry out there it's it's getting wet and moist and beautiful in the holy place are you still there do you understand what i mean yeah now at that point bondage begins to break god begins to do something with you that is absolutely remarkable psalm 40 verse 1 and 2 says i waited patiently for the lord and this is what happens in the holy place he inclined unto me and heard my cry he brought me up also out of a horrible pit out of the miley clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings suddenly as you seek the lord that the the chains of death begin to vanish the chains of death are real in the outer court but the chains of death begin to die in the holy place because in the holy place he starts pulling you out of that pit you've been in that you know why there's so many christians who are in bondage they've never experienced the second realm they've known the first realm but in the first realm there are there is no liberty from bondage in the first realm where we ask we we can still go back to to the to the pit we're in because we haven't experienced the waiting period they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles that's freedom that's not bondage they shall run catch up with god they shall walk fellowship with god that happens in that second realm and i've been saying that to you for the last few weeks but it's how good to hear it again in that realm our hunger erupts with intensity for the master himself in that realm we experience as the deer painteth for the water so my soul and we cry out for him what did the psalmist say in psalm 42 1 and 2 he says the heart is the dear pants for the watermark so my soul pants after you to see thy power and thy glory as i have seen you in the sanctuary i want to see you again i want to behold you again that always is the cry of the second realm of prayer now the second round is a is is a great place of liberty but it's not a place of intimacy it's not a place of union with the master the place of union is the holy of holies you see psalm 42 1 and 2 is the holy place but psalm 42 verse 7 is the holy of holies which says deep calls unto deep this is the place where heart meets heart and heart fellowships with with heart at the noise at the noise of thy water spouts all thy waves and thy bills are gone over me here the lord commands his loving kindness in the day season and the night season his song will be with me this is a place of absolute ecstasy in the spirit such glory it cannot be described a mingling of lives takes place in the holy of holies i in them and thou and me that they may be made perfect in one think about that i in them and thou in me a oneness together with the trinity a union with the master the son of the living god we will come and fellowship with you holy of holies a place of such communion where now the spirit meets his creator the spirit of man comes alive in the realm heart talks to heart and suddenly words are inadequate silence prevails now something happens the presence of god becomes prayer oh i gotta say that again you see in the outer court i was asking that's a realm of prayer but not true prayer in the holy place i was seeking that's a realm of prayer a deeper realm than the first but not through prayer true prayer is in the holy of holies where the presence of god becomes prayer and prayer becomes the presence of god i i want this thing to go deep in your being suddenly there is flowing communion on ceasing communion when you begin to experience that that realm you will pray without ceasing we cannot pray without ceasing in the outer court because in that accord there's an amen and we're done we cannot pray without ceasing in the in the holy place because in the holy place we we are seeking jesus crying out for him but he's not totally he's not fully yet there he he we we we taste his presence but we're not uh immersed in it when you are immersed in his presence you literally enter into a realm so deep in god where god's presence becomes prayer and prayer becomes god's presence suddenly they are united do you remember brother lawrence the practice of the presence of god he experienced exactly what i just said you cannot get away from jesus at that point you carry him out with you you are living under a cloud of glory day and night that is possible every believer can have that sadly many of us do not i believe kathryn kuhlman lived in that realm and when you live in that realm where prayer becomes god's presence god's presence becomes prayer meaning that suddenly it's it's it's prayer without ceasing you cannot stop you cannot stop you cannot you come out of that whole elf of holies and every part of you is erupting like a volcano you can't stop you are talking to him all the time his presence is so close to you there's an awareness of of him as you leave that room and when you come in contact with people jesus is right there it will literally change the lives of those around you and here's what's going to happen you will come out of that realm and as you come out of that realm and your mom sees you she'll start crying as your dad sees you'll start crying you say mom why are you crying i just feel the lord all over yeah why because he has so enjoyed you now he is everywhere you are you go he goes so now you walk in the kitchen and jesus is in the kitchen and your heart is like it's like a uh your being is in ecstasy and you can't be sad you can't be mad you're just glad and every part of you is bubbling i've experienced that that's why i can talk about it i remember one time i was in that realm and jim poynter who came uh who was a dear friend of mine who took me to see kathryn kuhlman of course i heard his is he he used to drive a a uh chevy and it was one of those long cars he was breaking down all the time and i heard the hunk of the uh the horn and and and and i'm trying to leave and i tell you the truth in that realm you will actually hear this just a few more minutes please you think the god of heaven is asking permission just a few more minutes please because he is enjoying you so i i walked out of the of the room and i get in the car and jim starts to cry and he he he can't go nowhere and suddenly he closes his eyes and he's like this hallelujah he starts to sing are you all right benny when you walked in here the presence of god came in with you i was unaware of it because when you're in it you're in it it becomes the norm but not for jim dear jim was crying he couldn't even drive finally he wiped the tears and we began driving and he went to preach at this little methodist church north of toronto it was a little crowd that came to hear him and the pastor got up and he kept looking at me just wouldn't take his eyes off me and finally he came down he said young man who are you he said i'm benny he said there's a glow all around you i wasn't even aware of it now precious people you experience that and you'll never forget it and the lord is calling me back into it but there's a price and the price is your time and we're all so busy what's more important now in that realm which i can feel all of you wanting to get in there in that realm something will happen to you that's quite amazing in that realm you you cannot really talk a whole lot in that realm you experience psalm 46 10 be still and know i'm god in that realm you will experience groanings without uttering our utterance and in that realm you'll experience such love that it's beyond description and this is where you can experience the fragrance of the lord see the tell what i i can just feel god's presence just talking here yeah lord just just a second ago just something came all over me you mind just lifting your hand a second come on [Music] so [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] once again please thank you lord [Music] ah [Music] lord i love you [Music] [Music] so jesus [Music] bless the lord give me praise [Music] you [Music] [Music] in psalm 45 thou love is righteousness and hatest wickedness therefore god thy god hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows all thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and casia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made the glad the lord jesus has a fragrance god said to moses in exodus 30 which we read earlier that when he was mingling the spices for the anointing he says first the first ingredient is myrrh myrrh was taken from a tree in arabia and the word for myrrh is free-flowing the meaning is free-flowing it also means spontaneous it is very sweet to the smell it's very bitter to the taste it is sweet therefore it's piece of love it is bitter when you taste it therefore it speaks of suffering a song of solomon chapter 5 verse 13 i'm going to tell you something precious people that such a precious presence of the lord here that you just want to just worship and not do anything else the song of solomon 5 13 his cheeks are as a bed of spices as sweet flowers his lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh myrrh is the first ingredient of the presence of the lord the song of solomon chapter 1 verse 13. a bundle of myrrh is my well beloved a bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts jesus is described first as myrrh in the bible mur spontaneous free-flowing sweet yet bitter love suffering love it speaks of suffering and love in john 19 39 i pray you'll begin to experience not only his depth and presence but i pray you'll experience his fragrance in john 19 39 the bible says and there came also nicodemus which at the first came to jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh you see how myrrh was connected to his life throughout the scriptures the bitterness the bitterness of myrrh sees it speaks of suffering also remember that so that's why we see it in john 19 here where nicodemus brings myrrh john 19 39. nicodemus brought myrrh a mixture of myrrh the bitterness of myrrh the sufferings of christ are mingled with his love so myrrh in the bible speaks of his love flowing through his sufferings his love that flows through his sufferings revealed through his sufferings the myrrh has a very sweet smell i've smelled it as a young man in israel because you can buy it on the streets the second thing god said to moses in exodus 30 is he said cinnamon that's the second ingredient of the anointing here again we we we have to go to the word to understand what what does cinnamon uh signify when it comes to the presence of the lord so we go to the song of solomon again chapter 4 verse 14. the bible says spaniard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all the trees of frankincense mir and ellos with all the chief spices this this speaks of christ verse one behold our fear my love now what's fair the the cinnamon is mentioned here in connection with the bride of of christ in this chapter but here's something most amazing quite deep and uh to me revealing in proverbs chapter 7 verse 17 it says i have perfumed my bed with myrrh aloes and cinnamon cinnamon in this portion is connected is connected to a sinner to a prostitute who has filled her bed with cinnamon the hebrew word is kinamin and the word kinah in hebrew means jealousy min appearance so cinnamon is the appearance of jealousy jealousy that will purge god's house of carnality he's a jealous god cinnamon in the in the scriptures speaks of the appearance of jealousy he god is so jealous over his bride he's going to purge her from sin and sinners in john 2 17 and psalm 69 9 we find these scriptures also in john chapter 2 verse 17. i'm going to give you all these scriptures make sure to look them up because i really believe the lord's going to give you some depth in his presence john 2 17 the bible says this and his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up that's from psalm 69 verse 9. cinnamon means that christ in his jealousy will transform you from a sinner to a bride from a sinner to a bride because in the song of solomon it speaks of the bride having cinnamon and only the bride can experience that intimacy with christ jesus you know what i want to bring to you one day i want to teach on the bride of christ maybe i'll do it when i come back would you like that that's the next class see we're being led by the spirit now in in in the in the song of solomon uh chapter 8 verse 6 we find this remarkable scripture and i want you to just write it down i'll read it for you there's no no need for you to go to every scripture i go song of solomon 8 6 said for love is as strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave now we understand that in love for his church he suffered cruelty in love for his bride he suffered cruelty the cruelty of sinners are you still with me yeah the third squid is sweet calamus the hebrew word means a read a cane that's that stands upright again we we we go to the song of solomon because the song of solomon explains this and more to us song of solomon chapter 4 verse 12 through 16 a garden enclosed is my sister my spouse a spring shut up a fountain sealed thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits campfire with spaniard spaniard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all trees of frankincense myrrh aloes with all the chief spices a fountain of gardens a well of living waters and streams from lebanon awake or north wind and come thou south blow upon my garden watch this the spices thereof may flow out let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruit that is awesome the holy spirit the north wind blowing south upon the god in my life the church that the spices therein may flow out and when the spices flow out my beloved will come into his garden and that awesome that's what happens in that holy of holies where suddenly the fragrance of jesus in his presence becomes so real my beloved comes into his garden i hope you're getting this the holy spirit oh this is marvelous are you ready for this how how many of you want the winds of the spirit to be yours every day can i say this to you the holy spirit only blows upon a garden full of spices he doesn't blow up upon an empty garden oh come north wind blow thou south blow upon my garden that the spices there in me all flow out that my beloved may come into his garden man this is awesome i think from now on you have to pray this prayer oh north wind blow south come into my garden that the spices therein may all flow out and that my beloved may come into his garden i am the garden god describes us as the garden that he comes into and when he walks into our garden the holy spirit only blows upon that garden if the spice is there if the fragrance of christ is in our garden are you getting this so you must in the holy of holies the spices being the the the spices begin to appear the fragrance of the lord becomes your uh uh most most precious uh experience you know how they knew the high priest was coming they smelled them first because those spices were all over him they would mingle the the oil in the four spices and before he could be seen he they would smell him coming because his garments were covered with that anointing oil but the anointing oil had the four spices in it the real anointing oil had these spices i'm i'm giving you here so that that calamus that sweet reed god places it upon his church this reed grows in mire it shoots out straight uh like a cane oh this is awesome but for the calamis to give its fragrance it must be crushed they crush it first therefore it's symbolic of weakness in matthew 27 29 and isaiah 42 3 we we see what the bible says about this then the soldiers of the governor took jesus into the common hall and gathered until the whole band of soldiers they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe and when they had plated a crown of thorns they put upon his head and a reed in his right hand they bowed the knee before him and mocked him saying hail king of the jews you almost wonder if that reed was calamus did you hear that because the word calamus means a reed they placed a reed in his hand because it was symbolic of someone very weak symbolic of weakness and he almost wondered if that read was actual calamus or something else we don't know of course but here is the son of god covered with spittle bleeding mocked and what did they put in his hand a reed meaning you're weak you have nothing to offer i'll read this amalek of weakness in psalm 42 oh sorry isaiah 42 oh this is rich this is rich in isaiah 42 3 look what the bible says here and this is really holy you know i really believe the lord is going to bring us into this experience with the lord but we will experience his preciousness like that isaiah 42 3 the bible says a bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking flacks shall he not quench he shall bring forth judgment into truth you notice that the reed is bruised a bruised reed therefore it's it's weakness he died in weakness he arose in power so when oh this is awesome dear god do you know what happens in the in the deep presence of god please look at me i've gotta tell you this when when the lord becomes tangibly real in that holy of holies there will come a moment where you will see the suffering messiah because he is still the man of sorrows he still grieves over his people and in that place god will allow you to do something you would never ever ever believe possible you will comfort the son of god this is the most holy thing i can talk about because suddenly the reed is revealed remember the myrrh sweet love revealed through suffering but the reed his weakness is revealed his weakness that's where you read mother basilia schling's books and and she talks about comforting the son of god and you wonder what does she mean by comforting jesus i'm looking for him to comfort me in that holy place the positions are switched suddenly i will comfort him you're not precious imagine god will use you to bring a smile to the son of god's face wow it's too holy moses experienced that with god the father when god the father was grieving over israel moses began to comfort the father and you know we we misunderstand the scripture in exodus 32 where where god is so angry he wants to destroy israel and moses stands there in the way and says you can't do it you've made a covenant and god repents think about moses saying repent of the evil you're about to do moses wasn't rebuking god he was comforting god he was taking his anger away imagine a man saying wipe my name out of the book of life but don't touch them that's a man who knows how to comfort god when god is grieving over his people paul the apostle knew that also when he said in in the scriptures may i be accursed so they be saved and what was jesus what did jesus do in revelation come on people you gotta all know this he was seen as a lamb slain not just the lion of judah he's also the lamb and and john began to see the son of god in a whole different light in that precious book i can tell you something and i speak almost in fear and trembling you're right because i'm trading on holy ground i've experienced moments like this in the 70s it's almost too much to ex to to to to even for me to say it's impossible where you begin to speak to god and literally comfort him because you know his heart is bleeding over the conditions of his people and you would say things to him would never would never come out of your mouth at any other time but now his heart is revealed to you and suddenly he is looking for your comfort that's precious i walked into the sanctuary of occ one time they had just released that movie that blasphemy that what was that movie called years ago one of them i can't remember was one one of those terrible movies that i can't but it was a total blasphemy against the lord i i don't know what it was there but i it was it was they they they made a big deal out of it in the news back then it was in the in the 80s i think or early 90s i think was 80s one of those movies and i i walked into the century it was it was actually on a monday morning or a tuesday morning and my office in in occ at the time was in the back of the church right behind the platform and for me to to go through to any other office i had to go through the sanctuary and they would shut the lights in the sanctuary during the day to save money i guess and i'm going through the darkness of the sanctuary on a monday or tuesday and i hear this woman sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and i stopped and i looked and we had pews just kind of short little pews on the sides of the church and i looked and here's this little lady on her knees and you know you can hear what she's saying in the whole sanctuary because there's nobody there and she's comforting the lord i stopped and listened i still do this they remember her words she was comforting him she was weeping and weeping and weeping the presence of god came all over me just listening to her one lady in a sanctuary by herself comforting the son of god and i still remember her saying don't be wounded by what they're doing to you just know i love you just store my heart and i i didn't want to move and i thought dear god here's a lady who's telling jesus not to be troubled by what the world is doing to him because she loves him and she says she was saying words like i am here for you just know i love you i would never betray you and i thought wow heaven is listening to her right now and you almost wanted to fall on your knees at that moment so precious i believe god is bringing you into that place once you lift your hands and ask him you're ready to do it jim can i have some music you and shero this is too holy to just preach it without an atmosphere of preciousness you know stand still and save the lord that's awesome that's awesome just to comfort the son of god my god [Music] you think about what he may be going through now now the fourth queso you know what casey means it means to uh bow down means to worship that spice casia means the actual word is bow down in verse 8 of psalm 45 all thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and casio out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad [Music] worship it's amazing that when you look at the four spices myrrh was presented to the kings of the ancients therefore it speaks of the godhood the trinity the king that's jesus in matthew the cinnamon speaks of the office of the prophet that's mark the calamus speaks of weakness the savior death that's luke and casey the son of god we worship him now ladies and gentlemen when you enter into that presence into that intimacy into that place of oneness with with him you'll experience these four fragrances these four spices you'll experience the myrrh his love the cinnamon his purging the calamus his weakness and the case here you'll worship him can i say that again yeah in that blessedness in that place of intimacy the holy of holies you'll experience his love you will be overwhelmed with love his love will penetrate your soul this is where you become united to him in love this is psalm 42 7 deep calls on too deep your heart knits with his you are mingled as one literally intimacy as husband and wife experience and the husband and wife experiences only by the shadow of the real intimacy with christ because we are his bride and the bride experiences that intimacy with the son of god where what his love suddenly penetrates your being and your love begins to penetrate his and you begin to experience the the the the incredible depth of that the second thing will happen is he'll start to purge you that's the cinnamon there's there's a purging in the presence of god because of his jealousy remember that i said that earlier and then he reveals his weakness to you or you begin to comfort him his weakness you'll see how his heart hurts because of the sins of men and and the needs in his people and there you you you be you be you become the comforter of the living god and then you worship him that's the case here and when you worship him and the word casey means you the actual word means to bow down and i believe there will be a time in every person's life and i pray it will happen daily in your walk that you'll experience true spirit worship where you are straight on the floor before him and his presence is literally overwhelming you now the vehicle that spreads the fragrance of christ is the oil because it's the oil that is poured therefore the holy spirit is the vehicle so jesus is the myrrh jesus is the cinnamon jesus is the sweet calamus jesus is the casey but the holy spirit comes upon these four spices and there's a mingling therefore he reveals christ it's the holy spirit who reveals him he's the one who begins to make him known to you his heart is known to you he's the one who blends the spices into one uniting and revealing so the holy spirit is the one who reveals the depth of jesus christ to the human heart may i say that again the holy spirit reveals the depth of jesus christ to the human heart the holy spirit is the one who he he's the oil remember god said put that put a hand of oil another just a little drop of oil in it and the oil comes into those four spices and they're mingled now that they're mingled they give a they give a combination of fragrances that become one and that fragrance suddenly permeates your being but who's the one who mingles the blends the one who blends is the holy spirit he is the uniter and the revealer of christ he is the one who literally brings your heart and his together he literally causes the the heart of christ and the heart of man to become one in that intimate place and now jesus is revealed in his beauty his love he's revealed in the myrrh he's revealed in the cinnamon he's revealed in the calamus in the case here and every uh revelation of his you you enter from revelation to revelation we begin with the mur his love we go to the cinnamon he purges he starts to cleanse us to purge we we the third dimension he reveals his weakness and we comfort him and the last dimension he reveals is casey and we worship him in that holy of holies four things happen always and if they don't happen it's not the real experience experience number one it's a love relationship intimate love from heart to heart psalm 42 7 deep calls too deep you become overwhelmed with his love suddenly you love him with intensity indescribable and supernatural you cannot create it on your own you can say listen listen you can say i love you in the outer court and it's empty but you say i love you in the holy of holies it comes from the depth of your being and their words of love exchanged in that communion but the second thing he does is exactly what john 15 talks about in that abiding he'll purge that's what jesus said will will happen to us he starts to purge us he starts to literally remove from us things that have been there for years you know purging is not cleansing purging is when he he takes the seed of sin out of the heart of men be holy i'm holy literally he begins to sow holiness in your inner being so when you come out of of that experience every time you come out your your image has been transformed just a little closer to his because that's the place of transformation in that place there's transformation you experience his depth and his love free flowing love that's what the mirror means it means free-flowing it's love that is unconditional it's love that is so divine and so pure loves you in spite of you and you stand amazed that god loves you this much but the next thing he will do is he'll purge you and in that purging he starts to remove out of you things that people have put inside of you he will literally purge your conscience from dead works like hebrew says that's where real freedom enters your heart and you walk out of there and you are free that sin will never reappear you don't have to confess that sin again because it's gone that bondage is cancelled that place of such purging is only in the holy of holies and that's the cinnamon but then you come to the place of brokenness where he reveals to you his weakness the the calamus the reed and suddenly you're overwhelmed that the son of god wants to lay his head on your shoulders you were looking for his hug when you came in now he's looking for yours and jesus in many ways would say would say to you hold me a little closer i need it i got me i should be privileged to love the son of god like this i should be privileged to comfort my redeemer because he is still the man of sorrows acquainted with grief so i am the one who is strengthening him in his moment of weakness you say what do you mean weakness listen jesus still reveals to his church his true heart and his true heart is a grieving heart you say well i don't really understand that you you will you enter into that that place and you will that's what broke the paul the apostles heart what what do you think changed paul that i may know his sufferings haven't you read it in philippians the fellowship of his what suffering the fellowship of his suffering is the calamus it's the comforting of christ himself paul was crying out he said i want to know the fellow the fellowship of his suffering i want to be there for him i want to comfort him because we don't see the lord in that light and finally he reveals the the case here suddenly i'm flat on my face worshiping the son of glory the son of god the king of glory and i'm adoring him for his heart for who he is and that will transform any man or any woman who walks in there and then you come out of that holy of holies are you are you ready for this you know that old song his name is as ointment poured forth jesus jesus the song of solomon chapter 1 verse 3 says thy name is as ointment port for now now wait wait wait you can understand this look at me all of you i was in that presence when my phone rang one time and a girl named linda pornell from california who was always troubled she lives in israel now and i experienced what i'm just been talking about here because i've been there and the phone rings and linda had always she attended this the same church i went to maxwell white and maxwell would have was a very powerful preacher who preached on deliverance and he would cast demons out of people on sunday nights and she would go to his church which i attended in those days but she would go home still as bound as she when she came and i picked up the phone and i was in that glory i mean you know you you enter into that depth and i very calmly said hello and i hear her crying out they're gone they're gone i said who's this linda i said who's gone she says benny i called you to pray because demons were tormenting me but when you said hello they left his name is as ointment put forth you come out of experiencing that depth and your words carry the fragrance of the master you missed it don't miss this what i'm telling you you walk out of that place and when you speak people feel him when you speak he releases his presence even your hello becomes full of the majesty of the glory of god because i just said hello she said they're gone so who's gone he said the devils when you said hello they left brother when you're anointed you're anointed that's what it means [Music] because of the savor of thy good ointments song of solomon 1 3 because of the savor because of the fragrance of your ointments your name is as ointment put forth therefore do the virgins or the church love thee and i'm precious man that's heavy stuff here so his name becomes healing now i'm going to say one more thing and i'm done are you ready for every prayer you utter to be answered if you are put your hands up high now put your hands down then enter into that place and experience the four realms the four spices i just talked about and if you do when you say in jesus name it'll happen you can say in jesus name out there nothing happens you can say in jesus name in the second realm it may happen you say jesus in the third realm when you've experienced the fullness your words will not fall down to the ground because the bible says because of the savor of thy good ointments when i experience the fullness of your fragrance your presence your name becomes ointment in my lips so when i say your name there will be there will be results there will be results now lift your hands and thank him you're going there you're not precious

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Published: Thu Nov 26 2020