WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:14.599 I should be on am I there? Can you find me? Hello? 2 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:23.000 Hello? There we go, Thank you. Let's stand prayer for the word. 3 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.359 I think I sound funny, something's wrong with the EQ. Father. 4 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:32.960 We thank you for this morning. Thank you for your word. Thank you 5 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.840 for the way you move in our lives and the way you lead us to 6 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:43.960 draw us, bring us into the fullness of victory. We bless you for 7 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:50.280 it. We bless you for your word today, and we welcome your leading 8 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.960 us even deeper. Give you the praise for it in Jesus name. And 9 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:07.560 everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen. I want to start in John 10 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:30.120 seventeen and John seventeen. A bunch of us in this a bunch of us 11 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:36.680 in the room today are married. Those of us that aren't maybe want to 12 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:42.319 be, or a bunch of us that aren't were and it didn't go well, 13 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:51.959 right, But marriage is marriage is very much about unity. You know, 14 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:00.239 where there's disunity, there's disharmony. Right where there's disunity, there's right, 15 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:07.319 strife, anxiety, conflict. Where there's disunity, there's usually a division. 16 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:17.360 Right division is connected to disunity more than one vision. That's a division 17 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:27.039 and part of you know, part of the calling on our lives. I 18 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.159 still sound funny, but I don't know what we can do about it. 19 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:36.080 That soundthhingy to you, that's some funny to me. Part of the the 20 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.719 microphone's not supposed to bring attention to the speaker, you know. Part of 21 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:46.039 the calling on our lives and the calling of this ongoing season is to continue 22 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:55.039 to leverage Heaven on earth. Right, we're want to continue to leverage forward 23 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:59.039 Heaven on earth. That's what that's what we want, that's what we desire, 24 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.639 and it you know, so much of that flows out of unity with 25 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:14.120 the Lord, right as in a marriage, because we're married to the Lord. 26 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.319 He's the groom, he's the husband of our spiritual relationship. And I 27 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.960 think you know so much of you know, so much of what he did 28 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:31.000 when he was on the earth is because of his unity with Father. So 29 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.080 rather than going to John seventeen, just for a second, let me go 30 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.039 to John twelve. And you don't have it, I'll just read it John 31 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.120 twelve forty nine. I don't speak on my own authority. The Father who 32 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:51.520 sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. Think 33 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.639 about that for a moment. Would you allow the Holy Spirit to micromanage your 34 00:03:54.759 --> 00:04:09.479 mouth that much? Would you allow the Holy Spirit to micromanage? Well, 35 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:17.199 if it resulted in victory and exaltation and triumph over all your enemies, maybe 36 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:23.079 it'd be worth it, right, So I think this is pretty cool, 37 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.399 Matthew, this is I'm sorry, this is John twelve forty nine. I 38 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.079 don't speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me 39 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.920 what to say and how to say it, and I know his commands lead 40 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:41.439 to eternal life. So I say whatever the Father tells me to say. 41 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:48.120 Oh, that Dwayne would be so cooperative, right, Oh, that we 42 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.279 would be so cooperative. And then you know there's another passage here. I 43 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:59.639 wanted to bring it to you. This is John as well, John five, 44 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.560 and I think it's verse nineteen. Let me look real, God, 45 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:09.120 yeah, verse nineteen. Jesus gave them this answer. I tell you the 46 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.720 truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He can only do what 47 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.319 he sees the father doing. Because whatever the Father does, the son does 48 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:25.240 also. So what we're hearing about when we look at those passages, we're 49 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:34.240 hearing about complete unity, no division, complete unity, and that's where that's 50 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:40.800 where the blessings are going to flow, and that's where the annoying thing is 51 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:46.680 going to be present. And we're going to see the Church, the body 52 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.759 of Christ, the believer leveraging heaven forward not only in their own lives, 53 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:57.680 but also in the world. And it comes out of unity. So even 54 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:02.079 as he was, even if he was unified with the Father, that we 55 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:08.759 are called to be unified with them as well. John seventeen, we're called 56 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.680 to be unified with them as well. My prayer John seventeen, verse twenty 57 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.680 is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in 58 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.920 me through their message, that all of them may be one Father, just 59 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:27.240 as you are in me and I am in you, May they also be 60 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.279 in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 61 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:38.560 May they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you 62 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.720 have sent me. I have given them the authority that you gave me, 63 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:46.759 that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you 64 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.480 in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the 65 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:58.639 world will know that you sent me and have loved them as you have loved 66 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:06.399 me. Not crazy. So this is part of why we fast, part 67 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:16.680 of why fasting is commonplace, normal. Everybody say normal, common is common 68 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:27.639 and normal, and it's part of our lifestyle. Is because fasting is ordained 69 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:35.879 to bring us near and though we we know biblically that we're one with him, 70 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:45.480 we know biblically and legalistically, legalistically from scripture, we know that we're 71 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.439 born of the spirit. We know the Holy Spirit dwells within. We know 72 00:07:48.680 --> 00:08:05.439 all of these things that often we don't experience because there is the lins and 73 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:15.319 the impairment that blocks us from that connection that is truly ours. We have 74 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:22.480 this divine privilege, and fasting is meant to remove, even to remove the 75 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:28.279 you know, Paul says. For Strengthians, Paul says that though we prophesy, 76 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.879 we prophesy through a darkened lens. We only see through a darkened lens, 77 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.840 remember that passage. So we don't see fully, we don't see clearly, 78 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.360 we don't see completely. And then actually he says something. He says, 79 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.559 you know, this is the end of chapter thirteen. He says, 80 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.720 but when the perfect comes, Oh who's the perfect, by the way, 81 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:56.519 Jesus is the perfect. When the perfect comes, then we will see him 82 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:03.799 face to face, and we will know as we are fully known. That's 83 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.480 interesting. In other words, whenever you're in the presence of Jesus, it's 84 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:13.080 totally different than not being in the presence. And when you're in the presence, 85 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:20.600 everything that you could ever imagine is available to you. But when you're 86 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:28.240 not in his presence, then you and I are called upon to remove whatever 87 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.759 encumbers the hearing and the seeing so that you can be in his presence. 88 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.600 Am I making sense? Mark two? Let me read it to you Mark 89 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.200 two out of the King James, No, no, no, I can 90 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:48.480 read this out of the nivy Mark two, verse eighteen. Now John's disciples 91 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:54.399 and the Pharisees were fasting. Everybody say fasting. John's disciples and the Pharisees 92 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.720 were fasting. And so some people came and asked Jesus, how is it 93 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:05.320 John's disciples and the disciples are fasting, but yours are not. Jesus answered, 94 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.879 how can the guest of the bride room fast while he is with them? 95 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.679 They cannot so as long as they so, They cannot so as so 96 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.799 long as they have him with them. But the time will come when the 97 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.639 bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast. 98 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:33.799 The thing about that. You know, they're comparing. They're comparing relationships and 99 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:41.480 their comparing lifestyle between John and the Pharisees, who are not in the presence 100 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:46.000 of the King of Kings, they're not in the presence of Yeshua. They're 101 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.720 observing on the outside, and they're still yearning for something more. But the 102 00:10:50.759 --> 00:11:00.360 Disciples of Jesus were dwelling with something more. They were literally with him, 103 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:07.759 so they had no yearning that was not being fulfilled because they're literally with him. 104 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.519 So during the whole period that he walked with them, there was no 105 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.879 reason for them to fast, because the fasting, even Old Testament fasting, 106 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.759 was a fasting to humble the soul and to be drawn closer so that the 107 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:28.559 veil would be removed, the ear would be opened, and the colored lens 108 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:35.799 that blocked the vision would be removed. So the Disciples of Jesus, they're 109 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.679 in the midst of that. And he says this is much like a groom 110 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:45.360 with the bridal party or a groom with the bride, that when he is 111 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:50.080 away, they yearn for him, they desire him. They don't know what's 112 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:56.840 going on. There's distance, they're impeded from communication. But when he's present, 113 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:03.480 then there's fulfillment, and this is how we move ourselves. And it 114 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:15.720 shouldn't be you know, it shouldn't be once a year. Fasting has been 115 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.279 the practice of the Church throughout history. Once He ascended, then the church 116 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:33.559 used fasting historically once a week. The church used fasting often frequently, to 117 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:41.320 draw near and to get into the place where His presence was real and deep 118 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.440 and abiding, and they could hear what he was saying. Because we aren't 119 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.799 supposed to say what we want to say. We aren't supposed to do what 120 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:56.159 we want to do. We're supposed to say what he's saying and do what 121 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:03.440 he's doing five twelve. We have the same call on us. We have 122 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.440 the same exact call on us that he had on him that we would, 123 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.960 but we can't do that unlessener's unity. And this is one of the purposes 124 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:20.039 of fasting, is to bring us into divine unity. And if you haven't, 125 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.000 if you haven't, you know, it's amazing. Sometimes I could confess 126 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:28.559 to you sometimes I've needed to hear something and I was going to go into 127 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.360 a big fast, right and maybe I was going to fast a day or 128 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.600 two or three. I've had every kind of fasting experience you could imagine. 129 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.480 But the Lord was so good. I got my answer maybe after skipping meal 130 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:50.559 number two. So praise the Lord. That was the shortest fast ever. 131 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.159 I'm done with that one. You ever done that? Oh? Yeah, 132 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:01.600 well, thank you Jesus. We're back to stake tonight. God is good. 133 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:09.440 Wow. I don't think he's upset with that. I think this is 134 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:15.240 fun. This is fun. It's it's it's the kingly who desire to look 135 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:20.799 in the mysteries and desire to know. That's the that's the yearning of the 136 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.039 royalty within us, that we would yearn to look into mysteries, that we 137 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.480 would love to know him, that we would love his heart, that we 138 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.679 would love to flow with him. This a little confession there for him, 139 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.440 a little confession. So this is one of the this is one of the 140 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.320 until things that that we get to walk in and fulfillment of. Is that 141 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:50.960 until the groom comes, say that with me until the groom comes? Are 142 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.919 you with me until the groom comes? This is what the bridal party does. 143 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.600 This is what the bride does. This is what the bridal party does 144 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:09.039 until the groom. As the groom come, he hasn't come back yet. 145 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.039 He hasn't come back yet. So this is just what we do. Come 146 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:18.320 on, this is what we do. And the reward in it, the 147 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:24.279 delight in it, the joy in it, the revelation in it. It 148 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.320 will always bless you because Father or Dane, that we do this. Now, 149 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.279 just a couple of thoughts, and I know we're moving on time, 150 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.200 but just a couple of thoughts. The Daniel Fast is interesting, right, 151 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:43.039 It's interesting the Daniel Fast. God honors the Daniel Fast. God honored the 152 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:52.080 dan teenagers. God honors the Daniel fast children. God honors the Daniel fest 153 00:15:52.200 --> 00:16:03.799 seniors, framers, ironworkers, electricians. Where am I going to get my 154 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:10.279 protein? You'll figure it out. But maybe you'll fall short a little bit, 155 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:25.559 maybe you'll burn up. Maybe you'll burn up a little bit. See, 156 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:33.600 the power of fasting is not only suffering, but the power of fasting 157 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:42.080 is to declare that whatever you are setting aside, and these are legal things, 158 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.159 by the way, it's not a sin for you to mean, not 159 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:52.919 a sin for you to eat sweets, sweetbreads. Talking about imbalance, and 160 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.000 for most of us, it's not a sin for us to drink wine unless 161 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:03.320 the Holy spirit's quickened you to leave it alone for you. So Daniel was 162 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.000 not leaving off things that he shouldn't. You know, they were sinning. 163 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.960 I shouldn't be doing those anyway, Shame on me. These were all things 164 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:17.839 that he had a legal entitlement to do. But in the fast, he 165 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:23.359 was saying, you are my sweet, you are my meat, you are 166 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:29.039 my wine. I would rather have the meat of heaven. I would rather 167 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.160 have the sweet of your presence. I would rather have the wine of your 168 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:40.759 anointing than to have these elements that satisfy my body. So this is why 169 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:42.680 it's powerful, This is why it's effective. This is why it opens you 170 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.720 up. This is why it opens up the heavens. This is why it 171 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:52.720 opens up Holy Spirit toward you because of this proclamation and this declaration and this 172 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.559 heart and this attitude that you're going to be manifesting toward him as you embrace 173 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.400 this. But it's challenging that Daniel. I find the Daniel fast is almost 174 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:07.599 more challenging than a total fast, because you got to mess with food. 175 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.920 You got to mess with food. You go in a regular fast, you 176 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.279 go in to full fast, and you can do that. You want to 177 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.519 go in a full fast, that's good. You can do that. They're 178 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:22.000 both effective, they're both revered in the spirit realm. You can go in 179 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:29.720 a full fast. But this is what we've chosen and we invite you to 180 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.400 be a part of it with us. But it's challenging because the enemy can 181 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.640 get in there and your flesh can get in there, and all it once. 182 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.519 It's all about the food and all it once. And we can take 183 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:45.400 a twenty one day Daniel fast and turn it into a twenty one day diet 184 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:52.319 if we don't keep the spirit realm first. This is not a twenty one 185 00:18:52.440 --> 00:19:00.000 day diet for a slimmer trimmer you. This is a twenty one day fast 186 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:06.359 asked that will have physical benefits for you to leverage heaven forward and to put 187 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.720 the enemy under your feet. This is a spiritual This is a spiritual game 188 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:19.039 change or for your entire life and your family. This is meant to leverage 189 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:25.480 you and the kingdom forward. And so you want to be aggressive, you 190 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.799 want to be hounrey, you want to be you want to be serious, 191 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.160 and so just you know, I would just say don't let it be about 192 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:37.160 the food. So you know, some of us get really wild about the 193 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.319 food, trying to make the you know, the artificial meat tastes just like 194 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:48.720 meat. Why why why why why why why why you're going to Trader Jones 195 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:56.599 and looking for artificial meats that tastes just like meat. The power is in 196 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:04.920 the suffering, because what are you going to tell Father when you say when 197 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.480 you say, I'm not having meat because I'd rather have meat from you. 198 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:17.400 If you're saying this soy meat is really good, though, I mean, 199 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:22.400 I'd rather have meat from you, and and the soy meat. I'm you 200 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.279 know, I'm you know, just hear me out. You know, we 201 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:30.440 take care to not literally kill our palette at the wolf House during this. 202 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:36.079 We're not trying to kill ourselves just make it taste like garbage on purpose. 203 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.519 No, we're not. We're not doing that. But what I'm saying is 204 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:45.519 that the emphasis is the prayer. The emphasis is you in the spirit realm. 205 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:52.720 The emphasis is hearing better, hearing well, seeing better, partnering in 206 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.039 the unity of the spirit. That's the emphasis, right, And that's Daniel 207 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:02.240 chapter ten. He said I was in mourning. I'm I'm leveraging my prayer 208 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:07.640 life for the nation of Israel. This is this is Daniel chapter ten. 209 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:12.960 I'm leveraging my prayer life for the nation of Israel. And he goes into 210 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:19.960 twenty one days of mourning. It wasn't twenty one days of rejoicing. It 211 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:29.599 was twenty one days of the prophet Jeremiah has spoken over my nation. There's 212 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.319 been prophetic words over my nation. They're not coming to pass. I yearn 213 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:38.160 for them to come to pass. I yearn to know why they aren't coming 214 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:44.000 to pass, and why our people are still suffering. So he found a 215 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:49.960 cause, and he attached his heart to that cause. And yeah, we 216 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.640 still rejoice in the Lord, and we still rejoice that we're born of the 217 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.640 Spirit, and we still rejoice in worship. And you know, we have 218 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:02.119 different elements, but there's something about this twenty one day period where we are 219 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:11.480 continuding to shift things forward and to move things forward because we see the chaos 220 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:18.400 and the peril and the evil and the works of darkness. Anybody know it's 221 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:30.920 not God's will. There's a second thing I want to touch on that we 222 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:37.960 do until Luke chapter nineteen. Something else we do until until he comes. 223 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:45.880 Everybody say until he comes Luke nineteen twelve. He said, Therefore, a 224 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:52.559 certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to 225 00:22:52.640 --> 00:23:00.839 return. And then he called ten of his servants and delivered them and said, 226 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:07.960 unto them, occupy until I come. Everybody say occupy until I come. 227 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:11.880 Now, now, what in the world does that mean? This is 228 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:18.400 the King James, and said, the King James doesn't give us enough clarity 229 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.480 on it. But he's telling them to do something until he comes back. 230 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:29.680 Now this same parable, it's a parable, and it's about the kingdom. 231 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.079 It's about the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of 232 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.079 Heaven. These are synonymous terms. And it's about leveraging the Kingdom of Heaven 233 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:42.920 forward, leveraging the Kingdom of God forward in culture, in life, in 234 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:51.480 manifestation. And I want to pick it up in the New International the NIV 235 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:59.960 at verse eleven and give you the context. While they were listening to this, 236 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.960 he went on to tell them a parable. And again he's telling them 237 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.759 parables. The Kingdom of Heaven is like, the Kingdom of Heaven is like, 238 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.039 the Kingdom of God is like. He goes on to tell them a 239 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:15.400 parable. Because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the Kingdom of 240 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:22.079 God was going to appear at once. Now, imagine you're living in his 241 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.079 day. You know, you're yearning for the Kingdom of Heaven to come, 242 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:27.400 and you just you were, you know, Matthew twelve. You're with him 243 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:32.519 when he's driving out demons and he says that if I drive out demons by 244 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:36.599 that finger of God, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come under you, 245 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:40.000 right, And you're around him and you're seeing all this stuff, and you're 246 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:41.519 like, you want the Kingdom of Heaven to come, and you're thinking, 247 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.079 Oh, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, it's coming. 248 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:49.319 Now, this is the Messiah. He's going to bring the kingdom. But 249 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:53.359 now they're walking with him a few days and like, the Kingdom's not coming. 250 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:56.799 So they're asking and they're perplexed, and they're like, what in the 251 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:03.200 world's going on because the people thought that the Kingdom of God was going to 252 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.359 appear at once. But then he tells him this parable. He said, 253 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.920 a man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king 254 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:19.720 and then return. So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten 255 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:26.240 minas. Put this money to work, he said, until I come back 256 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.720 but his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him. We don't want 257 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.240 this man to be our king. No, this is a parable about Israel 258 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:40.799 and about the Jewish community, and it's about him. He was made king, 259 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.400 however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom 260 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.640 he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained 261 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:56.079 with it. The first one came and said, Sir, yur Minna has 262 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.359 earned ten more. Well done, my servant, said the master, because 263 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:03.799 you've been trustworthy in a small matter, take charge of ten cities. The 264 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:10.839 second came and said, Sir, your mina or minna has earned five more, 265 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.440 and his master answered, you take charge of five cities. So you 266 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.079 remember this story In Matthew twenty five, it is called the Story of the 267 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:26.279 Talents. Matthew tells it. Luke tells it a little different spin on it. 268 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:33.160 But Luke uses the word occupied till I come Matthew doesn't. The New 269 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:41.240 International translates it, put this money to work until I come back. Now. 270 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.599 Is it all about money? No, it can't be about money, 271 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:53.200 because the question that they brought to him was when is the kingdom coming? 272 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.440 We thought that the kingdom was coming. Now, how is it? When 273 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.720 is it? When kingdom coming? When are you bringing the kingdom? He 274 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:06.079 doesn't answer them, He answers them with a story. Here's how the Kingdom's 275 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:15.240 going to come. I'm going to pour my treasures into others. I'm going 276 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:19.720 to pour my treasures and they're going to invest the treasury of heaven with their 277 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:27.440 life, in culture, in family, in work, everywhere they go. 278 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:34.640 They're going to be investing the treasure of heaven that I give them authority with. 279 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.680 And that's how the kingdom's going to come. That's how the kingdom's going 280 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.319 to come. That's how the Kingdom's going to come. That's how the kingdom's 281 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:52.839 going to come. That's how the kingdom's going to come. Here's what occupy 282 00:27:53.480 --> 00:28:00.000 uh, here's what occupy it. Till I come means the word occupy. 283 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:07.240 It's the word from which we get pragmatism, practice, put it into practice. 284 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:15.720 Pragmatism. The Greek actually says practice till I come, or practice till 285 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:23.519 I am coming. Be pragmatic with what I've given you, Put the treasure 286 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:33.160 I've given you into practice, take over and dismiss the influence of darkness until 287 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:41.400 I come back, invest all I've given you fully on my behalf until the 288 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:52.240 last moment of my return some of us. Some of us we got all 289 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:57.640 excited about the rapture, and so we got so excited about the rapture that 290 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:02.119 we thought, well, he's coming back anyway. I'm going to take what 291 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:10.079 he's given me and just stop investing it because he's coming back so soon. 292 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:18.440 It seems silly for me to invest what he's given me in the marketplace or 293 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.640 in the world around me. I mean, he's coming back any minute. 294 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.920 He's coming back so fast that I think I'm just gonna hang on to this 295 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:33.680 for now. But that isn't the word. No matter how smart you are 296 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:42.640 prophetically about the end times, he said, be pragmatic, put into investment, 297 00:29:44.920 --> 00:30:03.519 run with do something with what I've given you until I go. This 298 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:32.480 man in Ezekiel chapter thirty seven, a lot of you know the story Ezekiel 299 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:41.839 thirty seven. Ezekiel goes into a vision and he sees a giant valley of 300 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.559 dry bones, and the bones are separated from each other. They're dismembered, 301 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:56.960 and they are dismembered from their head. And then this revelation comes to him 302 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:03.279 God says that that valley of dry bones is the whole house of Israel, 303 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:14.680 and the whole house of Israel, they are dismembered, They are disunified because 304 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:26.359 they say their hope has perished. So what about us as a church, 305 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:32.319 what about us in our own lives, in our cultural situation, in what 306 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:36.119 we see around us? What is our perspective? Is our perspective? Our 307 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:45.839 hope is perished, our hope is perished? Mind, the set separates us, 308 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.880 and no longer are we unified with the victor, but we're separated from 309 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.680 him. And now we're just a dry bone out here. But that isn't 310 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.079 what God has in mind. God wants us unified together, and he once 311 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:07.519 us unified under the heart of Holy Spirit, and his hope hasn't perished for 312 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:14.000 the world. And so then he tells him to do something. He says, 313 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:16.880 can these bones live? This is Exequel thirty seven three through eight. 314 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:22.759 Can these bones live? And like any good church member is equal's likings. 315 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.119 I don't know, Lord, only you know if these bones can live. 316 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.119 The Lord's like, of course these bones can live. Shut up, boy, 317 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:36.440 stand up here and get the microphone. Speak to these bones. Command 318 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:43.240 these bones to live, command life to come into these bones. This is 319 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:49.559 nothing more than decree. This is nothing more than decree. When we're unified 320 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.480 with him, then we get revelation from him, then we say what he's 321 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.920 saying, that's to issue a royal decree. When we issue royal decrees, 322 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.440 things begin to happen, and so Is steps up to the microphone and he 323 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.279 commands the bones to live, and all at once the bones start living. 324 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:09.960 Now, most Christians, all they want to do is assess the bad bones 325 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.920 and to pray about the bad bones. Oh Holy, give you the microphone. 326 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.519 Yeah, okay, we'll come up in the prayer. Oh Lord, 327 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:24.480 you see the broken bones, you see the scattered bones. Lord. And 328 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:30.200 then we start asking him, Lord, can these bones live? He's asking 329 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:36.000 you, because they can. He just needs a prophet. He just needs 330 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.960 a prophet. He just needs a prophetic church. He just needs a prophetic 331 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:44.839 word. He just needs agreement with Heaven. That's why we're gonna spend twenty 332 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.400 one days in decrees. Right, We're gonna spend twenty one days in his 333 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:54.000 presence in a deeper way, but twenty one days in doing what his Ekiel 334 00:33:54.079 --> 00:34:00.920 was told to do. Thank grabs the microphone pretty soon as the bones are 335 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:05.079 living, and then he starts to command life. The Lord says, command 336 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:08.000 life to come on those bones alone, life and muscles and sinews. Pretty 337 00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:14.519 soon, pretty soon it was a whole army raised up. Pretty soon, 338 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:21.480 the whole army was raised up because the Ezduel had a John twelve moment. 339 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:28.840 He's submitted to I'm only gonna say what he's saying. I'm only command what 340 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.440 he's commanding. But I'm definitely gonna do that. I'm definitely gonna do that. 341 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:36.760 I'm not gonna leave it to him. I'm gonna do that. I'm 342 00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:39.360 gonna do that. I'm gonna partner with him. I'm gonna be his mouthpiece. 343 00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:46.920 And as I'm his mouthpiece, then he'll he'll lose that which needs to 344 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:53.159 be loosed and he'll cause things to begin to shift. That's what we're gonna 345 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:57.320 do. I'm gonna ask the prayer team to come this morning. I'm gonna 346 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.400 close in this way this morning for the whole prayer team would come, those 347 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.719 of you that serve in the prayer team. And I want to I just 348 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:09.639 I see it's coming up and just getting a hand put on us. And 349 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:17.280 just as an impartation for this season and my prayer, my desire is that 350 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.880 if you're if you're in any way hesitant or you just don't know how it's 351 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.119 gonna work or how it's gonna happen, or you know, how's you know, 352 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:29.559 what are the elements of it? The natural, the physical, the 353 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.920 spiritual elements of all this, and is this even something you want to do. 354 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:40.960 I'm just believing that we're going to release a impartation over you and you're 355 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.960 gonna be quickened, You're gonna be you're gonna be empowered to embrace his season, 356 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:50.840 and you're gonna have the grace on you to enter into things you've never 357 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:54.519 entered in before, and walking in things you've never walked before, and just 358 00:35:54.639 --> 00:36:02.079 taste of him and the ways you've never tasted of him before. Yeah, 359 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:06.239 thank you Lord. Byron spread out a little bit. There aren't too many 360 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.960 of us here, so I'm seeing we're low on prayer team. Yeah, 361 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:14.280 Ron, you come up and help, And yeah, Todd, that's good. 362 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.639 Some of you come up and help. Yeah, Nate, if you'd 363 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:20.639 come up, Nate and Gale just come up and help, if you would. 364 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.320 Oh, that's good Edie, how beautiful. So I'm not looking for 365 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:29.840 long prayers. All I'm looking for is there going to release over you a 366 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:35.519 grace for this season. Just literally shout an impartation grace over you, and 367 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.519 we're gonna believe. Holy Spirit's gonna meet you, and there's gonna be a 368 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.840 shift. Amen, Holy Spirit's gonna meet you, and there's gonna be a 369 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:45.800 shift. And I just you know, you don't have to do nothing, 370 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:47.239 but I'd love it if you'd just come up and you know, just give 371 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:52.239 them thirty seconds just to let God do something. Holy Spirit, we thank 372 00:36:52.280 --> 00:37:00.320 you this morning for a shift inwardly in our own hearts yearn for your presence 373 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:07.239 like the bride for the groom, and where we take on a heart to 374 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:14.960 leverage the Kingdom forward, Heaven forward, until you come scrapping, throwing away 375 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:22.519 every excuse, every mindset, every rationalization that would hinder that Holy Spirit, 376 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.000 we welcome right now in impartation to flow right now through the hands of these 377 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:35.280 prayer warriors, and impartation of grace flow through these prayer warriors to enable to 378 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:45.920 enable us as a body to rise into this and apprehend spiritual things and breakthroughs 379 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:51.199 we've never apprehended before. We thank you for it in Jesus' name, and 380 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:57.360 everybody said Amen, Amen, God bless your church. Yeah, just come 381 00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:00.400 forward as we worship gay