The Power of Rest - Jonathan Helser

how are you guys [Music] for us as leaders of worship you success for us in this school is that 10 years from now we would see one of you guys and you would be in love with Jesus you would have thriving marriages you'd be amazing parents that 30 40 50 60 years from now you would still be hungry for more not that you just write great songs and that you make albums and you do all this stuff but that you would have a relationship with him eternity measures success by relationship how much love is produced in this life is how eternity measures success and I love that right now in the earth there is this incredible worship movement that looks like family the more heaven comes the earth the more the earth will look like family I'll never forget the first time I walked in I was a 17 year old kid and I walked into a church called Morningstar and I saw this guy on the stage name dawn Potter a big white beard white hair and a guitar in his lap I don't know what he was singing but what I saw was God when I become old I want to love you just like he's loving you Psalm 92 says the righteous will flourish like a palm tree they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God they will still bear fruit in old age and they will stay fresh and green proclaiming the Lord is upright he is my rock and there is no wickedness in him that you would in your old age you would still be bearing fruit standing in the house of God declaring his praise that would be success for this worship school that you would live life's of worship I had one of my most incredible ministry moments a couple weeks ago when my son and daughter were at summer camp and I want to show you this picture this is a picture of it's coming this is my father in whom I'm well pleased my son and whom I'm well pleased and myself and whom I'm well pleased here and my dad was the camp pastor of my son and daughter summer camp where they got wrecked by the love of God and I got to be you know lead worship for these kids and I'm standing there leading worship and I'm watching my dad going around the room praying for these high school kids and then watching my son going around the room praying for all the kids there's something about God wanting to be known as the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob a God of three generations my dad has taught me that success is measured by how much love is produced in life and I can look into the eyes of my daddy 72 now and he's more hungry for Jesus than he's ever been recently bill spoke with the worship team here and Bill was last year he was really sick and really in between life and death and he and it was he was sick in bed for an extended amount of time and we got to hear him speak right after he fully recovered and I was just hearing him speak through Skype because I was in North Carolina and I'll never forget what bill said he said last year when I was in bed between life and possible death he said I wasn't thinking about the sermon that I didn't speak I wasn't thinking about the ministry strip I should have gone on I wasn't thinking about the book I should have written no I was thinking about my family I was thinking about my sons and my daughters and my grandchildren and my close friends guys in revival it can be so easy to fall in love with successful ministry more than falling in love with the God were created to minister to him I found that one of the greatest traps in this incredible worship movements is happening for me one of the greatest traps is I can fall we're in love with the anointing that I'm falling in love with The Anointed One King Jesus one of the enemy's greatest traps is if he can't keep our hearts burning for God he'll try to use the ministry to burn us out and it's incredible what's happening in riot revival right now and I want to see a healthy revival stay healthy and keep thriving the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob don't you love that in Joel 2 it's the father's dreaming new dreams it's the young men seeing visions and it's the sons and daughters prophesy and so what I want to share about this morning is a key that I believe we need to be able to sustain health in this revival that's sweeping the earth right now and it's gonna sound like a super simple key but it's the key of rest it's the power of rest burnout happens when our doing exceeds our being and great leaders know how to rest they know how to sustain themselves and run the race great worship leaders know how to leave their own heart and worship first you can't love a broken world until God loves you into loving yourself first you can't fully love a broken world we love our neighbor as we love ourself Psalm 103 I think is probably the greatest recipe in the scripture for a worship leader to become great if you can learn how to live and breathe Psalm 103 and it's a psalm where David is leading his own heart and soul into worship it's praise the Lord O my soul all my inmost being praise holy name forget not all his benefits he who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases the God who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with loving-kindness a father that crowns us with loving-kindness Thank You Josh the word praise that David uses in Psalm 103 is a Hebrew word called Barak and the word means to kneel it means to kneel and bow low worship is not a johner of music worship is a position of the heart when you bow and you know your heart rises over your head worship is a position of the heart before the face of God the word Barak means to bow and kneel as an act of adoration to praise to salute to say thank you and the first time the word Barak is used in the scripture is in Genesis and it's not us by rocking God it's God by rocking us God kneels on day six in the mud don't you love that God's first interaction with us was messy God comes to earth and he bends down his knees in the dirt and there's mud and the crevices of his hand and under his fingernails and God forms a man and watch heaven and earth come together as the lips of God kiss clay and Adam comes alive I love in that first moment when Adam opens his eyes he sees the face of his father I think they were so face-to-face that the eyes of God were Adam's mirror in God's eyes Adam saw who he was and gods going he look just like me son made in my image God breathes heaven into Adam and the first thing Adam does is breathe in heaven back into earth Adam receives the breath and then gives the breath back and everything in creation is echoing this dependency the trees need the Sun they need the rain and their roots need the water in the earth our lungs need oxygen just try holding your breath for a minute and see what happens you were created to need and to be dependent and Adam receives and then gives back I want to read this from Genesis 1:27 through 31 it says so God created mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them male and female he formed them and God blessed them there it is guys that's the first time the word Barak is used God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and subdue it rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the ground and then God said I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it they will be yours for food and to all the beasts of the earth and the birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground and everything that has the breath of life I give every green plant for food and it was so God saw all that he made and it was very good you know all the five days leading up to this he just uses the word good when he steps back from his canvas he created but on day six he says this is very good we sing to God that he is good because he's first saying over us you are very good worship is giving back to God what he first gave to us you are created to do great things but God's design is that you do the commission from the blessing because the blessing came before the Commission he first blessed them and then he commissioned them and when you get that backwards that's when Burnout happens when you're working for rest instead of working from rest when you're working for his pleasure instead of working from his delight you delight yourself in the Lord and then you discover the desire of your heart and so the father first he's he's the word Barratt means he's kneeling like he's down there holding them I love when a baby is born you just spend the first year adoring them I got the hold Moses Rider last night and I just sat there holding this little one adoring every part his nose his ears his eyes his toes his hands out the two holiest moments of my life were holding my son and daughter the moment they were born and I'm just their adoring them and God stops after creating and kissing life and he's just adoring his son he's blessing him I'll never forget when my we found out we were pregnant I couldn't sleep that night and I'm just my wife's over there fast asleep and I'm just dreaming about oh my gosh I'm gonna be a dad in nine and a half months we knew that we were gonna call our first child cadence and I just I laid there in bed like I get to shape this life I don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet but I'm gonna get to shape this life with my voice with my prayers I get to be a reflection of the perfect father to this one I'm not perfect but I get to point him to the perfect father and Melissa's fast asleep and I just quietly I'm like hovering my hand over her belly my cadence you don't even have yours yet but your spirit can hear this I'm already proud of you you've already filled your father's heart with such delight I can't even sleep right now I'm undone by you cadence and I haven't even seen you yet you've done nothing for me yet and I'm full of absolute love for you and then I start to get a little more charismatic and I'm like in cadence you're going to be a world changer you're gonna be a prophet to the nation's Melissa wakes up she's like what are you doing my hands like on her belly Adam has done absolutely nothing yet and God's just adoring him as a father adores his son and his daughter and then I love this guy's I don't know when they fell asleep that night but they wake up and Genesis 2 begins and it's day 7 and on day 7 God steps back from everything he made and he takes a day off and I believe Adam woke up to the smell of French press coffee that morning he woke up to the smell of pumpkin pancakes and something even better than bacon cooking on God's stove if there is anything better than bacon I'm not sure if they were vegetarians or what then but they it was a the father was cooking breakfast and he would Adam wakes up and if you ever had breakfast in bed it's just the best all you have to do is just sit up and eat you know you only have to brush your teeth you just eat you just receive and Adam wakes up and the father's there and he's like son guess what I took the whole day off work today I spent six days creating today is about me and you and Adams like I hadn't even done anything yet you gave me that Commission yesterday to go rule and to go reign and I haven't done anything he's like exactly it begins and arrest you don't work for rest you work from rest it begins in relationship everything Jesus did in ministry was an overflow of relationship with father I only do what I see Papa doing I only hear what I hear Papa's only speak what I hear Papa's saying it was an all and overflow of relationship an Adam and God are having this moment where God is teaching him his way and we call this day Sabbath right and the Pharisees made it super super religious don't you hate when you're like trying to play a game it's like you're having a family time and you have that one guy who's massively competitive and he's just making you keep all the rules and he's ruining all the fun of just playing a game that's what God wanted Sabbath to be play delight and the Pharisees come along and they throw these rules on it and Jesus is like can't we just have fun with Papa Sabbath is delight it's a day to enjoy God and enjoy his creation and check this out guys Sabbath came before sin Sabbath was happening before sin entered the story Sabbath is the fourth command in the ten commandments Sabbath is not an option it's a command somehow it's the one we skip a lot especially as worship leaders because we lead worship on Sunday and you know we're kind of working on Sunday because you have to be there like 6:30 for worship practice like who thought of that you need rest you created for it the Sabbath whispers of God's Way of doing family it teaches us that God loves us for who we are not what we do yes we're created to do things the other six days Adam was meant to go rule and reign and do what his father did I mean he had to name all the animals after that breakfast in bed like that's some work but every week it's meant to be a reset and to remember that moment in Eden where a father and a son began the relationship see our mindset is if we work really hard then we can get to the end of the week and rest right but God actually begins Adams week with rest that's how your Christianity started right it started when Jesus said it is finished and you stopped working and you received what he did for you when we choose to stop and rest we are honoring the image of God in us Leonard Owen says that to fail to see the value of simply being with God and doing nothing is to miss the heart of Christianity I read this incredible book by dan Allender on the Sabbath and he says this Sabbath is our recreating the garden when the Kingdom to come has come and is celebrated right now rather than tomorrow Sabbath is like a fiction a theater of divine comedy that practices eternity as a present reality rather than a future state Sabbath is a feast it is a rhythm of listening and learning together a feast is a ritual or remembrance that involves food you music dancing and stories in Sabbath we remember the time when we dined with God in a garden and we anticipate the day when we were dying with God in the new heavens and the new earth I've loved reading my kids the Bible since they were little we've collected all these different children's Bibles and I'll never forget I was reading the cadence he's about three and a half and I'm reading him a story of creation and we read about when God takes a day off and creates Sabbath and cadance looks at me and he's like dad you never do that it's incredible how your kids raised you as you're raising them and it convicted me and I'm like you're right son and I said we're gonna call it rest day and my kids like keep me and Melissa accountable for rest day like dad we have not taken a rest day this week and on rest day our phones are turned off on rest day it's about being together my kids know if they come down the stairs and I'm in the apron cooking breakfast that more than likely it's rest day because my only agenda is to be together as family a couple years ago we were given a gift me and Melissa to go on an anniversary trip we were celebrating our 15th and 15th year of marriage and we were given this extravagant gift and we we said let's let's go to an all-inclusive place where we don't have to cook we don't have to pick anything out other than what we're gonna eat let's go somewhere where it's the most like Eden we can think of so we chose the Caribbean and we had five days to do nothing but to feast on love and it was incredible and but it was one of those have you ever had a vacation you work really really really hard all the way to the moment you leave and it was one of those and sometimes you can get this mindset that you're trying to earn your vacation I'm just working so hard to get there and we finally unwind and we get to the vacation and the first morning I wake up and I go out on the front porch and it had been a really busy season for us I'm sitting out on the front porch overlooking the ocean and I grab my journal and one of my favorite rhythms with God is riding my honest prayers to him and then allowing the father to speak back to me his voice through my journal and it's incredible how the voice that created the heavens and the earth has the power to recreate our world where we're at right now and I just wrote this honest prayer to the Lord about how tired I was how burned-out I felt and how much I needed to meet him on this vacation Melissa's still asleep and I'm sitting out there with the Lord overlooking the sea and this is what the father spoke to me he said Jonathan David I brought you here to the Caribbean to show you how deep and wide my love is for you this trip is my gift to you this trip is about me serving you I want to serve you through the beauty of creation through the way I paint the sunrise each morning and paint the sunset II evening I want to serve you through the wind and the waves I'm singing your name I want to serve you through the food and everything around you I want to serve you and show you my love you can only serve me to the degree you let me serve you you can only minister to the depth you stop and be still and allow me to minister to you receive the gift of this trip your only responsibility is to receive I'm just sitting there and as as I'm writing this I hear a knock on our door I'm like what oh my gosh I forgot we ordered breakfast in bed this is the best this is our first day here and I I go to the door and Melissa's up at this point she's in the bathroom and I go to the door and I remember Jesus said I want to come serve you I'm thinking about this as I opened the door and I open the door and I see this incredible cart of food in front of me I look up I see this beautiful Dominican smile looking at me it's incredible Dominican man looking at me and I look down at his nametag and his name is Jesus [Applause] I'm like babe Jesus is at the front door of our room and he has brought us breakfast I was like come in Jesus Jesus I really need a cup of coffee and I just like I savored this moment guys a lot of this teaching is from your cultivate book you guys got cultivate yeah so a lot of this teaching is from cultivates page 111 and it's got this beautiful picture of a sell bow on the front of this article and it's about the power of rest the word rest means to cease from action or motion to be free from anxiety or disturbance to remain confident to trust and as we were eating that breakfast I was just overcome don't you love the moments where God tangibly shows you his love like that God wants to speak to us even more than we want to hear it when you begin to pray that prayer speak to me as Carrie was singing this morning speak to me I'm listening your life will become a romance with God he will take you up on it when you begin to ask him speak to me I'm sitting there just undone and all of a sudden I remember wait a second this isn't the first breakfast on a beach Jesus served as we're eating our breakfast I begin to remember one of my favorite chapters in the scripture John 21 and it's after the crucifixion is after Jesus has been raised from the dead and the disciples are just kind of waiting around they don't know what to do and so Peters like guys let's let's go fishing we I don't know what to do right now let's go back and go fishing I want to just read what I wrote in the book to kind of sum this up this breakfast in bed or breakfast on a beach moment one of my favorite moments in the Gospels is in the last chapter of John when Jesus shows up on another beach with a surprise breakfast the disciples have been fishing all night and haven't caught us fish that's why I hate fishing sometimes it's when you don't catch anything yeah they've been fishing all night and haven't caught a single fish and as the Sun is rising over the waters after a fruitless night of Labor Jesus calls out from the shore and he asked the question all people ask a fisherman on the beach you guys caught anything like what were they thinking who is this guy and he says to them hey throw your nets on the other side of the boat and when they obey their nets overflow with fish it's one of the the funniest and most amazing stories because Peter actually throws on his garments to go swim to Jesus so I guess he was I don't know how they fished back then but it was a boy trip I'm guessing because it says Jesus I'm Peter wrapped his garment around and he realized it's Jesus oh my gosh it's him and he swims to shore and when he gets to shore look what Jesus is doing he's on a beach with a fire and he's cooking breakfast for his boys there's nothing better than a fire on a beach yeah with the Sun Rise and Jesus is cooking them breakfast moments later all the disciples are around a fire on a beach watching the King of Kings kneel down in sand and cook breakfast for them guys he's just done the most important thing in the history of the earth and now he's like I just think he's in heaven he's like dad can I just go see him one more time one more time I just want one more moment with them and the father's like okay we got we gotta give the Holy Spirit but okay yes you can go guys if I passed away next week and I was in heaven and God said I'm gonna let you go back and just do one thing what would you do you have to do one thing one thing about your life that you love the most you get backing you get to go back and do it once you know what I would do I would go to my table with my wife my son and my daughter around me and I would have a meal with them and Jesus is like dad I just want to go back why'd you wanna have one more campfire just I just want to serve Him one more time and here's the King of Kings cooking breakfast I'm just messy when you cook on a beach like any time it's always so romantic my wife's like let's eat our lunch on the beach today and I'm like we're gonna have sand in our sandwiches it's worse you know what I mean and Jesus is like it's messy when you ever go camping and you wake up the next morning and you look at your hands after you've been camping you're like oh my god I hate with that last night they didn't have like baby wipes back then Jesus is messy it's like colon and fish guts and fire it's real and he's cooking for them and he's just going around here Matthew you're Peter and before he says these famous words in John 21 Peter go and feed my sheep go and feed my lambs what does he do first he feeds Peter breakfast before Peter can feed the world he has to be fed by the king because ministry is meant to be an overflow before Jesus sent their feet out to go out into all the world and preach the gospel to all nations what does he do he kneels down just like his dad did in the mud and he begins to wash the filthy feet of fishermen before he sends their feet out he washes their feet first Jesus is the model of perfect balance in ministry if we can keep our eyes on Jesus in this movement it won't get weird if we can fix our eyes as Hebrews 12:2 says fix your eyes on Jesus he is perfect theology as bill says fix your eyes on Jesus look how he does does it study the way he did it Jesus models this beautiful overflow in his ministry you guys good want to jump into Matthew 3 and this is a moment in jesus' life he's lived 30 sacred years of ordinary life up to this moment we know nothing about it other than the moment when his parents lost him when he was 12 which was a crazy moment if you lose God we know that moment and we know at 12 he already knows that he knows he's his father's son in some 18 years later Jesus is standing out a dirty Jordan River it's muddy water guys the Jordan River is a muddy river he's standing at the same River Joshua's stood as he leaves a generation across into the promised land standing at this muddy river and he's done nothing that we know of in this life he's back he's done no ministry no sermons preached no blind eyes open no miracles performed and then in Matthew 3:17 as soon as Jesus was baptized he comes up out of the water and at that moment heaven and earth are opened and they saw the Spirit of God descending on Jesus like a dove and landing on him and then a voice from heaven says this is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased he's done no ministry yet guys the father's pleasure was in his sons being and he done nothing yet in ministry because everything Jesus did in the next three years of his ministry came from the overflow of relationship with father I love how many miracles Jesus did I love the one my favorite one out of them is when he takes mud and his spit and he makes brand new eyes for the blind man he's like oh yeah this is how dad did it in a garden let me get some mud and he just sculpts two brand-new eyes and I love this blind man cuz he's about to have the same moment with Jesus - Adam had with his father he puts brand new eyes in his head and then Jesus is there smiling and the man opens his eyes and the first thing he sees is the smile of Jesus the first thing Adam sees is the smile of a father I know Jesus is like now if it was me and I just been baptized and the audible voice of God spoke over me and of course we would have had some films recording it and the Holy Spirit landed on me like a dub this is the moment I go out and I start my public ministry right and this is one of the most mysterious things Jesus in Matthew 4 instantly he was led by the spirit into the wilderness he's led he's dependent on the spirit and he's being led he's submitting to the Holy Spirit's leadership he's submitting to his father's leadership and he walks into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil you are born into a war Brian said that on the first day you were born into a war and when we realized that that's what we realized what prayers for and Jesus is about to walk into a wilderness to fight the same battle that Adam and Eve failed in the garden the voice that questions the goodness of God is waiting for Jesus in the wilderness and listen to this guy's Matthew for after fasting for 40 days and 40 nights Jesus was hungry and the tempter came to him and said if you are the son of God what did the father just say this is my beloved son and the enemy says the exact opposite if you are the son of God do something to prove it turn the stones into bread in Jesus the word that became flesh begins to quote the words of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy was God's love letter to a generation of slaves to teach them how to be royalty and he begins to quote the book of Deuteronomy and he says man does not live on bread alone but every word that's proceeding from the mouth of God what did Jesus he had been eating for forty days I'm the beloved I am so the beloved I'm the beloved I'm the beloved I'm the beloved I am so the beloved and so when the counterfeit was passed across the table when the same fruit of the knowledge of good and evil was passed to another son he looked at and said I don't live on bread alone I live on every word that comes from my father's mouth this is who I am I don't have to do something to prove Who I am I am the son when they want to find counterfeit money they train people and you know how they train them they train them not by handling counterfeit money by actually handling the real thing they study it day and night night and day they just hold it they feel it they smell it they touch it they see it so when a counterfeit bills put in their hand they instantly know what it is and as this liest put into the lap of Jesus he instantly recognizes it for what it is because he's been eating the truth for forty days so test two comes and it says the devil took him to a holy city he had him stand on the highest point of the church takes him right up there to the most successful place in the church the top of the temple if you're the Son of God he said throw yourself down from here for it is written he will command his angels concerning you so the enemy is quoting the scripture to try to mess with Jesus he'll they'll lift you up in your hands the angels will and you won't strike your foot against the stone but Jesus looks in him and says again Jesus is quoting the scripture it is written do not put the Lord your God to the test and then the third pitch is thrown and the devil took him to the very high mountain and he shows him all the kingdoms of the world and all their splendor and he says I will give you all this if you will bow down and worship me and the ultimate test is that of worship and Jesus again speaks the scripture guys when you sing the scripture demons tremble if Jesus needed to speak the scripture back to the enemy we need to know the scripture right and so Jesus speaks worship the Lord your God and serve him only and I love what happens when Jesus starts talking about worship listen to this next scripture then the devil left in angels came when children start to worship demons flee in heaven comes in Matthew 11:28 through 30 Jesus offers us rest when he says come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light I love how many times Jesus talks about agriculture because he was speaking the language of the day the people could understand it he told stories that bypass their minds and get into their hearts and they all knew all the yoke he's talking about in those days they had double yokes and the older oxen would train the younger oxen in a double yoke they would be yoked side-by-side and they would walk side-by-side so the young one would learn from the wise one by walking and living together side-by-side and Jesus has come and learned the way I do life and you will find rest for your soul because I am living from an overflow of a relationship I'm not working for I'm working from that's God's designed for you yeah I want to share a fun story a moment me and Melissa had getting to go do ministry in Norway a couple years ago any Norwegians in the house we were in Norway for a week and we had the privilege of ministering about a hundred Norwegians on this beautiful retreat out in the on the coast of Norway and I just love my wife and we get there and she we're like if you flown to Europe from here before you're just so tired when you get there yeah and we're just having this little power nap so he can make it through the day and she's like babe let's ask God for a dream for our trip before we go to sleep I'm like I was thinking the same thing you were so spiritual I would have never thought of that I was like couldn't wait to sleep and she goes ask God for a dream I was like okay so we go to sleep of course I don't have a dream she has a dream she gets up and then I happened she's like baby I had the craziest dream we were with everyone that's coming to the retreat and we were starting worship and we are in this time of worship but they weren't lifting their eyes to heaven they were lifting their heads down here because they were wearing this yoke this big heavy burdensome yoke guys you know insecurity is when you look in here for security confidence is when you look to the face of a father and it was like this yoke of insecurity is on their necks in the heaviness and they can't lift their hands and they can't do it they're made to do in the dream then faded to a child taking the yoke what the enemy meant for evil and he took it off his neck and he walked over to the fence and it was a fence that we knew in the dream was the backyard of the Father Son and Holy Spirit cuz you know a backyard is where you go and you really hang out with your friends I've had the privilege of I love coming to writing because all our friends want to cook for us it's the best like come over for dinner I think the last four nights I've been in so many different friend's backyard and it's in the backyard that you do family it's where you grill out it's where you swim it's where you are yourself in the little the the child put the yoke down and he was stepping on the yoke and it was causing him to be able to look into the backyard of heaven and see the way heaven was doing family and so we launched into this incredible week of ministry and God does incredible things and after the ministry trip was over I had a little pms post ministry syndrome and everything that I thought that we were free from that we were preaching to the Norwegians I realized like I had some stuff going on in my heart and I like kind of ruined our three days there in Norway not totally but kind of ruined it kinda just just we call it navel gazing when you're looking in here and you do and I'm just looking in here and I just was working through some stuff and we fly back home in the night that we get the night we get home I begin to find some breakthrough in my heart and and realize some lies I was making agreement with and as I go to sleep that night I have a dream as soon as we get back home I have a dream and in my dream I'm the dream begins with me standing in the backyard that I grew up in and I'm like oh my gosh I made it to the backyard remember the other dream ended with the child looking into the backyard I'm like yes I passed the test I'm finally in the backyard and I'm in the backyard and I look beside me and my father my natural father is standing beside me and as I look into my dad's eyes I realized this isn't my natural father this is the father a father standing beside me because when I looked into his eyes his eyes were like oceans his they were massive they were blue and they were love perfect love and he looks at me and he says son you can do this I'm gonna be right beside you and then the sneaky grant appears on his face I'm like dude what what what and all of a sudden he opens up this box and this snake jumps out and it was like an Indiana Jones moment I'm like why does it have to be snakes and the snake jumps out and and and the father's like you can do this I'm right beside you I'm with you the whole time we're together in this and so he's like you were made to take this snake out and so I disorder on my side and I'm running around through my backyard chasing the snake and we wind our way over to our old woodshed that we had and I look in the snakes no longer a snake it's like this bigger larger crazy creature and I'm like oh my gosh he's like you were made for this you can do this like okay so I begin to chase it and it winds all the way around to the basketball court my dad built for us when we were kids and I get onto the court and I look to the other end of the court and it's now become this massive wolf and I'm standing on one end of the court and the enemies on the other end of the court is a wolf I was praying about if I should share this story at worship you and on Monday night some of us boys went and played basketball and I pull up to the Shasta High School and it says the Shasta wolfs I'm like I probably should share this dream then and I'm standing on the court and there's a wolf I'm on a basketball court but I looked down in the dream and there's a pile of white rocks beside me and the father looks at me and he wings and I look at the rocks and I pick him up and I begin to hurl these rocks like David through the rocks of the Giant at the wolf and they're going directly into his lying mouth and I'm just hurling these rocks and the father looks at me like isn't this fine and then he walks across the court and he finishes off the enemy and I wake up from the dream and I'm like whoa the father me backyard what are the white rocks all about so of course I go to Google white rocks Bible and I find this verse in Revelation revelation says that he who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches to him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna and I will also give him a white stone with a new name that's written on it known only to the one who receives it and I'm like what in the world is the white stone me Google white stone Bible what does this mean and I find this incredible Bible commentary it says the white stone means this listen to this guys remember i'm hurling a stone on a basketball court the white stone speaks of an ancient custom of the freedom of the guilt of sin alluding to the ancient custom when a white stone was given to those acquitted on trial and a black stone given to those who were condemned in the court of law so I look on the court and there's just a pile of what the father thinks about the new name on the stone is the name of adoption adopted persons took the name of the family and to which they were adopted none can read the evidence of a man's adoption but himself he can't always read it but if he persevered he shall have both the evidence of sonship and the inheritance and so I'm hurling the rocks of who my father says I am day one he's blessing us and speaking identity and then commissioning us Jesus is offered the counterfeit lie that Adam and Eve were offered in a garden fell in a garden but another son prayed in another garden not my will father but your will be done we hid from the father behind a tree but another son hung on a tree and he hangs naked just as we hang we had naked and shame another son hangs naked and unashamed says father I want to close with this fun story I was getting to swim the other night and the backyard with little wonder Stephanie's daughter we're swimming in the pool and we said to wonder wonder you're a turkey you know just when you when kids are so cute you don't even know what to say cause you're just son done it wonder says I'm not a turkey I wonder and it was like instantly the father said that's what you do to the accuser when he comes and he begins to say who you are you stand up and you say no I am the beloved okay so let's stand up on a close let's put our hand on our heart and let's say with the childlike foolishness remember God uses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise and he takes the weak things to shame the strong and let's say what wonder said ready I'm not a turkey I am wonderful I am the father's beloved I break every lie right now in Jesus name that has come against my beloved nasarah ver each of you you are a son and daughter in whom the father is well pleased before he put the creation of the world before he laid the foundations of the earth he was dreaming over you and there is nothing you can do to make him love you more or love you less he loves you right now because he loves you because he loves you because you are his beloved in Jesus name Amen [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Yoni Bramnick

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Length: 51min 42sec (3102 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 01 2018