"Stewarding Glory" | POWER HOUR | Ep.172 - 22 Sept. 2021

[Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] good afternoon par our family how are you around the world let us know what you're up to what you're doing what time it is in your part of the world we love to see your names uh in the comments and you sharing your life with us as we share ours with you and i am joined by the glory that is sarah jane biggert and mr luc finch hi are you sj and look fabulous thank you excited to be with you who is also fabulously glorious emma looking very um very relaxed in your nice leather jacket it must be autumn it is awesome it is autumn and actually in homage to america which we love we love americans we love being in america because biden and our prime minister bojo have uh agreed that the borders are now open for us going there i have put how am i ever going to show you my i put my cowboy boots on i might actually do myself an injury if i try to show you my cowboy bits don't fall over increase the size of my screen just as i actually i'm not doing it again you'll not be able to dig them off oh no he's got to be even bigger on the screen am i going to now wait a minute to get on and off oh no this is turning into oh right okay so we're so excited actually that it looks like from november we will be able to get to america hooray isn't that amazing that's great it's been a long time so we might be able to uh go to the uh global prophetic consultation with cindy in fact she just emailed yesterday to say see if i could speak and i'm like oh yes i can say yes nose uh to america so look let's hear your voice fantastic well also in celebration of america i must say one of the things i love about america and the americans is their celebration of the seasons and this is one of my favorite things so i am celebrating with a pumpkin spice latte this morning oh the heck mind in the uk it's not quite the same as in america i've got to admit it's it's very very festively colored in america it's very very orange and they do put a lot of cream and spice on the top but that's my homage and celebration i would have won my cowboy boots if if i'd known i've also got a fantastic pair of uh snakeskin cowboy boots i've got some too let's put them on for our meeting this afternoon yes let's do it i was actually we were actually shopping together when you bought yours weren't we in dallas somewhere outside dallas yes and a great brilliant sort of uh massive western shop spent hours trying on boots didn't we um yes i was gifted mine from a lovely guy but in pittsburgh i don't think pittsburgh is that well known for cowboy boots yeah that was where he gave them to me at lovely player so yes i'll dig them out and we'll wear them this afternoon i'm not happy where mine are but yes let's do that i i have to say we've been um oh sam you're our meeting this afternoon he's begging us he says cowboy boots are awful no please i beg you sam you can't say that so there's nothing better than skinny jeans and cowboy boots come on we're definitely wearing them now sam that's like saying to an irish person you don't like potatoes oh it's true actually that could be part of an offensive comment to quite a big number when i lived in texas it's all i wore cowboy boots even with shorts they do those things with shorts yeah it's a really good thing it's quite cute i don't think i could wear cowboys not when you're 50 something but when you're 20 something it's quite cute what always amazes me i love say yes to the dress i i know we get you know david will be like silencing me in a minute but i love saying yes to the dress and dave is like it's so tedious they always get a dress at the end you know they know what's gonna happen but i love saying yes to the dress and uh but what always fascinates me is those southern belles who want a wedding dress with cowboy boots yes they seem to suggest it's quite common on say yes to the dress americans is it it's maybe in the south maybe in like texas and south america i mean maybe in montana where the cowboys are yes is it yes somebody is saying that they're one of their family wore coy boy um uh boots under oh and it was diana send a picture on social media of the boots i think this afternoon that would be fun we have been doing and some fasting uh uh for our new building and uh so actually we're gathering later today to pray for about three hours and then break our fast uh and really believe in god for uh uh building miracles is what we have leaders here have been up to but i have to say our our text conversation earlier was how do you want to break your fast and then we we were all salivating about cheese so as long as with a strange addition emma that you have a strange craving for which i think i craved when i was pregnant with thomas pickled onions oh pickled onions and cheese oh absolutely [Music] very very nice cheese and bread and chris sam no isn't it funny though when you're fasting you you do crave this the simple things as well so one of the kids made just hot buttered toast yesterday it was torturous eating and torture i would never make that normally just hot butter toast but when you're fasting oh my god i know everything is yes everything is yes so good right yes somebody say naked marshmallows i do love a naked marshmallow and and for those of you who don't know what a naked marshmallow is google the company naked marshmallows but anyway yes yes yes and pick pickled onions and cheese and no we're not pregnant before you start to ask [Laughter] now i'm thinking about cheese lord focus holy spirit cheese out the brain right all right okay brilliant so we have had an interesting few days as a team and uh we started back after actually 2012 i think was the last time we we did it we started back with friday uh fires and uh we we've done that once a month for quite a period of time just blessing the city and just doing worship for extended periods of time but we're now back every friday night and and i think we kind of confuse some people online that's not live streamed yet that at the moment that's in person only and that's friday fire seven to ten just worship uh worship and prophecy and worship prophecy and deliverance uh the kind of things we love to to do together and there was such a sense of stepping into the throne room and stepping into his presence and and i we really felt very marked by that now did we do anything different did god do anything different and i think we've been asking that question about we suddenly hit a moment and we want to talk about stewarding glory how do you steward the glory of god and i felt the lord say this you have got a mindset of waiting only you are stuck in a wrong thought that you are waiting for me to do something and the lord is saying that we have partnered with a one day mindset one day down the line oh someday far off and this dissatisfaction that we live in of always thinking that our future is way down the line a delayed future and actually that has become uh i think a curse on the church of this continual sense of current life in this moment dissatisfaction because we are always a people who are waiting and i actually think god wants to grab hold of your thinking he wants to surgically cut that one day thought off he wants to liberate you from a life of dissatisfaction he wants to liberate you from a life of waiting and from reading books like why revival tarries that reinforce a lie that he is in some way not ever present that he is in some way lost his on the presence capabilities and that he's somehow lost that sense of the god who is always wanting to be connected that somehow he has lost the sense of being prepared to come down to be with his people and i think we are not stewarding his glory well because we are postponing it to a future date we are not stewarding his ever-present help in times of trouble his ever-present omnipresence because we are thinking it must look like something else in their future and i think god wants to rescue that uh rescue us from that mindset so that we can live in revival here and revival now and i want to say to you i think revival is here and revival is nigh and we we don't know all things please give us grace i mean you see our gaps you see our conversations over all these r's and r's of power are you see us sharpening each other you know we are we are very far from polished articles but uh and polished human beings but actually i think we are starting to learn how to steward glory in the here and now without a sense of the glory of god being postponed for a future moment so i want to talk about how do we steward glory how to use steward glory here and now and lose that one-day mindset ooh there's a there's a task we've set ourselves isn't it do you want to come in and comment on that well yeah so aware of that emma as you talking about it and even as god reveals that and i think for some of you you've commented here saying i feel so guilty about this but actually we've believed this lie as the church that when we die then we get the fullness of our inheritance and the sense of actually when our bodies are dead then one day we walk into this and one day god will come and he will live with man but not until we've died the lord said to me fairly recently there is more agreement with death than there is with life in my church oh wow and this agreement with death particularly well actually particularly anyway no just generally actually this this sense of of death in the corporate church uh being so partnered with we are so entangled and ensnared with death that it looks like these uh fronds or roots from a plant that the lord is now beginning to reveal to us and and ask us will we entangle ourselves from agreement with death and so for me i've been working with the lord on this recently and just watching it in the spirit as it begins to reveal itself it was almost like horrible black roots almost like a tree of death that i was in and we are in as the body of christ because we've been with their so much for the centuries and and these recent years that we're having to untangle ourselves to be people of life and we're in that place of the john 10 10 pivot into fullness of life but we can't pivot into fullness of life and that connection with life until we've untangled ourselves from all the agreements with death as you're saying emma it's so important that as we move in and as you listen into the conversation today that you begin to ask and work with the lord on god untangle me from every partnership that i've made with death so that i can move fully in to that place of life because he's exposing it and illuminating it right now in the corporate body on the earth and it's amazingly wonderful but we've got some work to do yeah i think that's fascinating what you say they're estimated that our thought processes are more about death than life the the more they're more about um that delayed mindset the the dying the future mindset which is a death mindset it's actually a robbing mindset it's a robbery mindset that satan gives you to rob you of partnering with god here and i that you actually feel you're tarrying or waiting for something of course we know that there are moments we do wait on god but that that is a proactive waiting but i think we're talking uh you know in a broad sense of a stuck church that believes that it needs rescued by the sovereign hand of god rather than understanding that revival is here and revival is nigh because jesus is here and jesus is nigh yes yeah yeah absolutely yes and we've been talking a lot about uh ephesians 2 22 that scripture that says in him you also have been built together into a dwelling place for god by the spirit in the spirit and and we've been talking around that whole corporate you know the corporate dwelling place of god because if we believe the fact that we have we are now the temple we're the dwelling that we personally are that resting place of god why do we even use the third person language of he's out there and he's up there and he's beyond when actually the reality is that we're in the same place and we're operating together yeah so a lot of us haven't even grasped that personally but the lord wants to pull us into a corporate dynamic of that how are we going to do that if we don't even answer personally yes yes yeah let me know let me unpack that and so we we we read in scripture some interesting thoughts about who can ascend the hill of the lord and that kind of concept if you read that wrongly makes you think that god is far away up there and that i have got to do some very challenging things to go up to where he is that he's kind of slightly unattainable and of course we read concepts like zion or god who lives in might zion the same kind of concept that god is kind of like oh way above and that is not how you are to read those and that leads us into this trapped mindset of the god who is inaccessible or the god who is too far away for a day-to-day partnership now what that means when the bible says he lives on a hill or he lives on a mountain is really talking about his stature and his greatness rather than his removedness that's really important and actually when it says who can ascend the hill of the lord it's really saying who can go into his realm who can step into where he is not oh god is so far away from us and so when you pray heaven come dine or thy kingdom come what you are really asking is not that something descends from the sky but that you become aware of his realm that is right there beside you superimposed on earth thy kingdom come is not about the descending of god thy kingdom come is about an understanding that his realm that is superimposed over us takes the preeminent space this is really important because the dwelling place of god is with man the kingdom of god is at hand and i think as we steward glory and we move into that really what we are learning and stay with me you have to you have to stay with us on this that the kingdom of god is in the spirit realm right here that i'm standing here in the flesh but i'm standing here in the spirit realm in his kingdom at the same time yeah right here i'm aware of all that you know all the stuff trying to bite me but i take one step here and i'm aware that i am in the realm of his spirit at the same time and of course here i am consumed with things of the flesh but i take one step into an awareness of his realm and i am suddenly consumed with things of the spirit and that is why i am saying revival is here and revival is nigh because all i need to do is become aware of a partnership with his spirit realm yes wow that's right let me push that we are moving into thin living and the the veil coming down or the veil being removed is not a veil above my head it is not something shifts here above me and suddenly heaven comes down it is a shift here to the side of me where the veil is torn between my understanding which is dull about the natural realm and an enhanced understanding of his proximity there beside me somebody's saying it's hard to grasp help me explain it so thy kingdom come what are you praying when you pray thy in the lord's prayer thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven what are you praying you're actually contending for a revelation of his throne on earth yeah yeah and a kingdom begins with a lord with a with a with a ruler with a king with a true headquarters and thy kingdom come is the awareness of the proximity of the throne thy kingdom come is an awareness of the arrival of the king and his rule his rulers and his throne that i stand living before the throne which is right at hand amen are we explaining this help me unpack that more so we've really understood that yeah i think the the reinforcement of that is so clear from the lord where he is saying what is prima to us what is first but also what is the first page if you will of this new era is the revelation 21 truth of the now the now god dwells with men as you say emma the now is the word that almost god wants us to grab a hold of now come in now come through now join with me now see the new heaven and the new earth not later but now in this moment as we come uh together with god and become the connecting point between the scene and the unseen realm and so we become the door we become the gateway we become if you will the opening of the realm between the heavens and the earth all the new heavens and the new earth now not sometime in the future but right here right now because god's beginning and ending is circular it is not linear and we kind of have to understand and get our heads out of chronos time to really understand this that the ending if you will is accessible now that the beginning is accessible now in the spirit through god because he has given us access through christ jesus who is in us and we are in him john 17. that sense of we're hidden in christ christ has all access to all things all realms all time there's no limits and that sense of actually we have access now to what is coming of the new heaven and new earth that john speaks about in revelation 21 and i encourage you again to meditate on that word of revelation 21 and let god resonate with the now god is dwelling with men now he's coming and men will be the tabernacle together now god is moving in and through us as we are in him we become the door we become the opening where god meets with man and we have to meet with him first but then we give access to others it's a whole other paradigm and it's blowing your mind as it's coming out yes and this is really it's really important and that concept of we are a door i am a door between the the natural realm and the spirit realm now the actual technical biblical word for i am a door between the natural realm and the spiritual realm is priest i am a priest and we are a nation of priests as peter says but i'm a priest i am one who can mediate or understand or go between the natural realm and the spiritual realm or if you prefer sarah jane's terminology you are a doorway between the natural and the spiritual or you are a priest between the natural and the spiritual you are able or a portal as kerry is saying but the biblical words of the priest but the same understanding that actually i am uh the doorway between both realms and the tragedy is that i usually and if david if you can put me on the full screen i usually what i do is i go way over here in the natural realm i forget that i'm a doorway to the spirit and i'm expecting god somehow to invade the natural realm and god is saying what no no no no i'm already superimposed i'm already i'm already here you've got to understand that you move you inhabit as a doorway both realms as a priest you actually stand between both realms and you grab the substance of the realm of god the spirit realm and you bring it into manifestation in the earth okay now that's why i can say revival is here and revival is nigh because in the traditional old-fashioned understanding of revival i'm over here in the natural realm just wanting a holy ghost invasion yeah i don't think god's gonna do that he does that in his kindness when we're dull but i'm able to say revivalist here in revival is now because i'm actually a priest i'm actually an you're a priest we're a nation of priests who are the doorway between both realms and actually i can grab the presence of god the glory of god i'm closed in it i live in that realm in fact i live in the in the two realms at the one time now when we talk about stewarding that that's our entry-level understanding how do we steward his glory as a priest who is in both realms yeah wow look do you want to talk about into the word into yeah which is so it's what we see isn't it as well is that if we are living just in that kind of natural realm all the time we have to be pulled by the lord so sovereignly he pulls us to pull us back into that in between place that's the pivot scripture without a doubt isn't it uh john 17 just that we're in him and him he is in us um and so we have to maintain that as the thing and then ask the question well what does that look like to be in rather than going up rather than going on rather than um you know ascending in the in our old mindset and framework in that old old covenant language of ascending what does it look like then to step in to that place if the scripture is in him and he's in us how do we step into that um and i think with that analogy emma it's really easy to see that when we are on one side if we are if we are out and not in there um then actually we you know we we we're very conscious that to get back in we have to align things and we have to adjust things but when we're in it's a whole different dynamic it's a whole different dynamic of relationship it's a consciousness of everything being important everything being something that keeps you and uh holds you in that place um and it's an awareness that comes that um everything that is happening around as well affects the balance of being in yes yes yes somebody's saying it you know do we stand as the doorway do we stand in the doorway you know okay let me answer that question uh no you stand biblically as a priest and actually you've got to really go into uh first peter two verse nine david i wonder if you can put that on the screen first peter two verse nine that we are a a a chosen people a royal priesthood a we as as a nation of believers we are all royal priests in other words we all stand in the place where we bring heaven to earth and we bring the people who are lost to connect with the realm of god and with jesus christ we are the priestly generation the priestly nation the priestly people who are bi-located according to ephesians i am seated with christ in heavenly places the word of god is very clear on your by location the word of god is very clear that you're a nation of priests and that actually your job is to co-inhabit to those two realms uh the national the natural realm but as a royal priest i minister to god in his realm in the spirit and i connect the realms um yeah i'm trying to find the scripture i can't find at the moment there is uh an old testament scripture that talks about the responsibility of the levites people of god ministering in house of the lord they held the keys of the doors for access for the people in and out and so transfer that into the new covenant into the current way of living that in the same way still we as the people of god hold the keys to the door hold the keys to that door between those realms the access and in and out of the that realm and so it just transfers into the establishment of the new covenant that we stand there on the on the threshold of the door where stuff can come in from the spirit and the kingdom of god can be shown and released in the earth you want to add to that because actually and maybe so much to say on this we may need to come back to it but sergeant you don't add just the concepts that we're building about why we can say that that the kingdom of god is here and now and that revival is here and now and that murdering of that someday mindset when actually i am currently in the kingdom of god and in this realm and i'm able to grab hold of both yeah there is that sense of actually the word i think that we can come back to in these recent weeks is merge the merging of the natural realm with the spiritual realm and paul exhausts us all doesn't he keep your eyes on the unseen we've said this before keep your eyes on it and actually paul also says in colossians 3 set your affections on on god and things beyond this earth so our whole being our heart our whole self are to be set on god beyond the realm that we inhabit of earth so that we can uh be that realm we can be that kingdom community together we can release it we understand that we have language for it we're citizens of heaven as paul says and we're able to unpack it and open it up for others and just like you said luke that sense of actually the gatekeepers and um there is a responsibility on the on the levitical call there's a responsibility to step into that place of merging the two together so that all can find god and the and doesn't jesus say i am the gate i am the way and so we know that his way has been open to us enough with fresh eyes and fresh revelation for today but i think what's interesting if i just take a slight side digression because phil sanderson who's on british house council prophets and he and i have been working on something together revelation and sharing backwards and forwards and one of the key things with gatekeepers because we've been really feeling that the lord say look you need to occupy the threshold and somebody mentioned that the priest moved from the altar to the threshold from the the worship and the incense and the release of their worship um into the place of the door and the gate and so what's interesting is the four gatekeepers of the lord that are mentioned in the old testament and the new their names all mean apostolic humility they mean completeness and the presence of god they mean my brotherhood is a gift godly community and they mean a violent advancement of the kingdom of god and so i think it's fascinating to look at even what the the four gatekeepers names mean and that they were considered um as important as the priests and as important as the king and that sense of what we guard we must guard our hearts mustn't we so that we can enter into that place of oneness and stillness with the lord where we connect with him and we occupy that that union place of being able to see and sense both as citizens of heaven that which is unseen that which is untouched by many of us but actually at hand as emma already said it's right there as we stretch our hand out it's right there to grab and connect with and that's actually acknowledging the fact that we are again supernatural people who are spirit first and that we have to get our heads out of the way and we have to get our flesh out of the way of bouncing off if you will the veil that is there between heaven and earth we can't get through with our heads we can't get through with our flesh but we can get through and understand it with our spirits and so for me even lately it's lord i am praying over myself spirit in me lead me spirit in me get ahead of my head head be subject to my spirit thinking flesh be subject to my spirit and that we the thinness of us individually and corporately um in this whole understanding that we're talking about today relies on us being willing to die to self die to thinking die to flesh not that thought is wrong but you understand what i'm saying we have to get over ourselves while we've got stuck to be able to move into that place of thinness and merging between the scene and the unseen yeah clear and not too complicated no i love what you're saying about spirit lead me spirit lead me the spirit of god who is indwelling me lead me that lead me before my heart does before my head gets in the way before my habits get in the way before my culture gets in the way spirit lead me spirit lead me and that my spirit man might be alive and in tune and that actually i may easily be a supernatural being no let me unpack this because we're supposed to be talking about steering the glory rather than the realms so let's let's go there what i think happened on friday fire when the team came together and was not necessarily that god came down or we went up or anything like that what i think happened was this we on mass stopped being in the realm of the flesh we stopped being aware of the natural realm of what chair was there what art was on the wall what plant was on the plant stand and on mass we started to live and worship and become more aware all together that we were in the kingdom in the spirit realm in the throne room and on mass it was though the veil here to my side remember it's not above me it's not like heaven is up okay but to my side an awareness came that we were in the spirit and in the throne room on mass now i think there are some interesting things that we have started to learn from that you see when i live or when we live on mass in the spirit realm before the throne whose king has come whose kingdom is here who i could i mean i could see immediately oh there's the 24 elders but they weren't up there okay oh there's the living creatures oh there's the throne it was right in front of me in this realm thy kingdom come okay it was truly a thy kingdom come moment and we were all aware what was the one major change that i saw in everybody there what is the one major learn above everything else of stewarding glory i am going to give you a massive key it is this the fear of the lord when you are before the throne you partner with a fear of the lord in a different way than just going about your everyday life and yet that fear of the lord should be permanently with us now proverbs 9 verse 10 says the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the holy one is understanding in other words that's proverbs 9 verse 10 in other words regarding him as he is regarding him as truly awesome regarding him as magnificent regarding him as he should be seen means i tremble and i stoop and i come low and i remember my place before and an all-powerful word and when i remember my place before an all-powerful god it begins in my life wisdom and it begins an ability for me to know what to do the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom fearing god sets you on a path of knowing how to think and how to act and knowing how to fear him enables him to be rightly received oh come on you've got to understand that how could a king come if he is not rightly received why could a king come if he is not rightly received and knowing how to fear him let me say that again enables him to be rightly received and i feel like the lord is saying okay you're in the realm of the flesh you're a priest who should be going between both realms the fleshly realm and the spirit realm but actually you've not been able to work with the spirit realm you've not seen the glory from the spirit realm you're contending for revival like it's some way a hundred years time from now and actually your key is that when you fear me my glory will surge around to bite you because my my dwelling place is already with man and the issue is you don't fear me so you have no wisdom to perceive me wow so when you fear him you get the wisdom to perceive him which if you like the word revival is revival well wow wow and so i think we've had a season here of just on our knees i've i've never done anything like it just on our knees all our knees on our knees low and you can kind of pretend that you know you can just get on your knees like everybody else is the same way you can raise your hands like everybody else does we can play the game of love of being low we all do on occasions but actually i think on our knees is actually training our hearts i i think being low is training our hearts it's changing my internal dynamic to remember that the fear of god begins something yes and that god has said look the kingdom of god has always been at hand the kingdom of god has always been there i've always dwelt with you you know i've always been right beside you i've got you to pray thy kingdom come for millennia you've prayed that and what were you praying not that it would somehow descend but thy kingdom come is really about your ability to fear me enough to perceive it oh look or sarah jane who wants to pick up on that wow wow oh i'm in the place that you're talking about so maybe luke go first i'll just work with the lord in the glory something's coming go luke first we were we were talking as musicians as a worship team about how do you operate and play in that space in the glory yeah because it's it's different again using the language that you know we've kind of been distinguishing um when you are going somewhere trying to get to somewhere the songs that you sing and the way that you play is different because you have destination but when you are there present and you have to minister from that place in that place it's a whole different dynamic i think the main thing that you discover is that you become aware of everything yes it's almost as if your senses are just step up a level so you are aware of everything natural that goes against what's happening in the spirit and everything spirit that is you know that is trying to pull the natural so it's you're in this quite a place of tension but it's i was trying to find the scripture there's this incredible balance between the fear of the lord but the joy of the lord in being in that place as well it's really strange but as far as practical playing is concerned if i'm sitting and playing the keyboard i can physically feel when a note or a frequency is not the right thing in that place it's that it's that it is that clear it is that distinct um and so playing in that place is a whole different ball game too uh a lot of how we've grown up and what we've been taught about getting to that place um and that is a notable thing i think that translates then into all areas even just of existence in life is that you just have a heightened awareness of the consequence of everything and as you um develop that you realize then even on a practical way how to um maintain that place stay in that place individually you know and and just and so playing in the presence is a whole different thing you play a frequency that enhances what's happening in the spirit or a harmony that enhances that rather than yeah i i think the tragedy from me at least we kind of started there but the absolute tragedy for me is how many years i mean how many years have we kind of wasted by believing we were we were waiting for god to do something yeah and god say no no no no my kingdom's always been right beside you i mean my kingdom's always been around you my spirit realm is active where you are my throne is right in your living room is right in your kitchen my throne is right in your church my throne is in your bedroom i am the only present all-powerful god my realm you know in the spirit is not up there it's here and actually you were waiting what are you waiting for actually i was waiting for you and i was waiting for you to come back to fear me because when you fear me you can receive me and and when you fear when you fear me rather than demand i think we have done more demanding of god than perhaps any other generation partly fed by the individualism and greed of capitalism and evangelicalism and we've got increasingly demanding increasingly demanding and actually the show me your glory stuff is not done in reverential all the show me your glory is done with god you need to turn up in an ugly way and most of the time and actually god say if you fear me it will begin something the fear of the lord is the beginning come on guys and actually if you fear me oh sergeant's lost her connection if you fear me i will drop that block of your sight and you will live in the realm of my throne room yeah and i think that affects everything sergeant have you um yeah resolved your thought so i just was in the spirit just as we've been talking about the lord took me to the place in front of the tree of life and he said as you said emma about you know call it revival if you want but it's like no it's beyond revival it's beyond revival it's going back to the oneness it's going back to where god began with man and that sense of actually the fire that we have to go through is the fire that separates us from man and the fire that god put in genesis 3 to to separate us as man because we needed to be separated but the lord is saying now you come back now you understand what it is to be one with me and now you get to dwell with me and i get to dwell with you and it's that sense of the dwelling of god with man the dwelling of of man with god and that union and that merging that we are going to but the lord says he says stop calling it revival it's beyond revival and i feel like the lord is doing this with our thinking that it's a temporary moment of awakening that it's a temporary moment of transformation when it's actually everything it's everything it's that oneness of everything that the lord has taken us to yes it's the fear of the lord and what did adam and eve do they didn't fear the lord in that moment but it's taking us back to the fear of the lord and i all i can see in the spirit right now is the tree of life i'm taking you back to the tree of life i'm taking you back to that place beyond the fire but choose now to go through the fire of purification so that i can bring you there more merged into that oneness and that's really what i'm just my hands i'm just like vibrating right now which is a very odd feeling but that sense of the lord taking us back to the beginning in that place of oneness with him and and just that almost like i feel um a grieving of the lord where we've called something revival yeah because we didn't understand really what he was inviting us into and i feel like the lord's like scratching not like literally raising that word revival to say look i'm taking you back to the oneness where i designed you to be and maybe that's it yes yes that he let me let me push on this thought a little bit more and the hebrew stay with me on this because it will build what sergey said the hebrew word for work has multiple meanings and the hebrew word for work is a bad but it means to work to serve to worship the word to work means to show allegiance to god by how you work i work with the fear of god and that word for work is the same word as worship whoa you've got to know this they are not separate words and we have separated life we have divided ourselves and we have said there's a worship world where i want revival whatever that means and there's a work world which is kind of separate and yet the bible says work and worship are the same thing they are the same concept they are the same word in scripture and so scripture starts to say worship is work and work is worship interchangeable words in other words our entire lives whether i'm in the sanctuary of god or whether i'm out of the sanctuary of god in this beyond revival concept whether i'm in the sanctuary or whether i'm out of the sanctuary my work and my worship are the same thing and actually i steward the fear of the lord 24 7 across the realms of and the disciplines of my life and i stand as that priest in the fear of the lord between the realms between the spiritual realm and the natural realm and i worship and i work and i work and i worship and god doesn't just smell my aroma when i worship in church god knows if i'm bringing a pleasing smell in how i approach my work because he says that is also worship and so every space is sacred and we live continually before the throne and therefore if i live continually before the throne and my worship is work and my work is worship i am able to wherever i am be the priest that brings his glory down and so that priestly role is a maintenance of the fear of the lord now how do i know that because the word work in genesis 2 and the word to keep now i'm teaching you because adam in the garden is told to work it and to keep it work and keep genesis 2 concepts but those words work and keep are only used elsewhere in scripture to describe the levites and the priests working and keeping the temple and what were they keeping they were keeping the fear of the lord because they didn't keep the fear of the lord and the sacrifices they would get fried and killed so when god says worship is work and work is worship he is saying be like the priests who kept the fear of the lord my job as a royal priesthood is to keep the fear of the lord wherever i am did you hear that my job is to keep the fear of the lord wherever i am as i stand between the realms and as i contend and keep the fear of the lord then the king can be rightly received look wow wow wow when it talks about grace um in romans it talks about how actually grace in itself there's there's the laws of grace around grace and as we as we became the temple in the dwelling place yeah constantly with the lord here that actually there was a a dynamic that was attached to that in grace that was beyond the laws of the old covenant and so the laws of the old covenant you know um were the the separation ones where you can go from here into the presence if you do this you're clean but actually coming into that whole new covenant thing um it just pulls us into the lifestyle of grace but actually the fear of the lord attached to that yeah even though we are now the dwelling place but actually the dynamic of the fear of the lord attached to that their work of grace and our our response as far as lifestyle is concerned even goes beyond even goes beyond it goes beyond what was required for uh before and that's not in a heavy you know you must do this you must do that way it's actually just in it's just as a response to the unbelievable position that we now find ourselves in that we are with him and he is with us and so we must go beyond we must we must go beyond in in our living and and the consciousness that we feel you know just as you're saying emma some of the greatest times of revelation for me have been when my work has been worshipped and i've been doing the dishwasher and suddenly i find myself in the throne room in a dynamic that i've never experienced yeah you know in a worship scenario that we would redeem a worship scenario and suddenly you start working with the lord in that way yes sj do you want to add anything yeah i heard the lord say um i'm looking for those with seamless lives so that there can be seamless interaction between the realms that we've already talked about and that sense of the seamless life the whole life before the lord under scrutiny at this time where he's looking for those and to respond in the fear of the lord and manner and to move into that place where we do everything with wholeheartedness as paul writes in three columns uh sorry colossians 3 23 that sense of do it with your whole heart as if you're doing everything to the lord because you know he's watching and he's responding to everything that we do and actually our lives are responding to everything that we do and if we can see our whole life as a seamless um frame before the lord and even before ourselves that everything has an impact on our life and our engagement in merging with him and merging with that seamless realm that he's inviting us into and i think we chatted a bit about this earlier and i would encourage again you know we we love getting meditating in scripture colossians 3 is great paul really outlines the the the revelation of how we live kind of rules and sets out rules for holy living and there's a lot of ouches in there you know when you read it there's a lot of ouches and there we go oh my goodness first corinthians 13 the way of love which is the invitation that we have meditate on this as well because there's a lot of vouchers in that to work with the lord on to truly for us all you know me included and i'm sure is all included when none of us are there yet but that sense of actually the seamless life before the lord and i think for me inspiration can come if you're looking for inspiration reading the letters of brother andrew he was on the earth in the 1600s and the way that he practiced that god consciousness in all of his work worked in the kitchens um in the monastery for what 15 years hated the job but actually made it a labor of love unto the lord and so i think whatever we do with our hands whatever we're having to do as dads moms uh daughters and sons whatever we do there's that sense of doing it unto the lord and finding the joy in it because there is a joy in the work and the service of the lord yeah promised in scripture that actually there's a joy to that when we come into that agreement with the fear of the lord that all that we do is work and service and worship and i i love that avodah word because it says so much about how we're supposed to live yeah well our time has has come and gone and it is uh truly a day not to wait it's truly a day not to be stuck it is truly a day not to delay the future and live in a one day one day one day mindset but it is a day of fearing the lord of trembling before him and that trembling before him means that he can be rightly received that trembling before him means that i can comfortably have the veil between the realms removed and i can behave rightly as a citizen of heaven in the fear of the lord as the angels are as the living creatures are as the elohim are and i'm in that place in the culture of god fearing him and then what flows is his ability to go between the realms tremble people tremble before him lead your people to tremble before him put in the ours of contending for his fear and see that the boundary between the spirit realm and their flesh realm disappears amen well we are we will see you uh on sunday morning and uh for par church sunday morning half past 10 and then we are back next wednesday for another par r and we look forward to hanging out with you guys very soon lots of love [Music] you

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