Wow. Wow, Wow, what a privilege to be here this weekend.
We've had an amazing time. Friday nights, we we saw all kinds of
healings and prophetic words, and people's legs were growing out and activating the kids
praying. It was awesome. And then Saturday we got to go into the
city, the Tacoma Mall and uh and the casino and we did prayer and
communion on top of the parking structure overlooking the whole city and it was just
a beautiful time. And and uh and this morning was already very very precious
and uh, you know, you guys have an amazing leadership team. You
guys have an amazing staff And uh yeah, go ahead, like that's that's
that's worthy of honor because I see your leaders where they're just like constantly serving,
they're constantly loving people. And it's it's so beautiful, and it's so
beautiful to be a part of a community that's going after prayer, put a
stake in the prayer, having you know, so many different dimensions of prayer,
and and it really is refreshing to come into a community that that has
that heartbeat to go after prayer and to really take ownership to to break off
that escapism that really kind of came into the church with with you know,
really Catholicism, and and you know what he was hitting on this morning of
the you know, rescue me out of here, Get me out of here
where the Lord is anointing us to to be his light, to be salt
to you know, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And so
it's so good to pour into you guys. And yeah, I've been a
part of Bethel Church since two thousand and two. I've been running with low
Ingle and Cheon since you know, two thousand. I used to go to
Monauditorium and get blasted by God. I know all the different sections of Modernatorium
where I've had crazy encounters and you know, so I just love that you
guys are you know a house that's that's running with Bethel and him and my
parents are actually living down in southern California and working with Jay On and working
with Jay Coopman who is planted a harvest rock in Orange County where my parents
live. And you guys are getting ready to have Tony Kim, who I've
known for fifteen years and that guy is a reformer and so it's so cool
that you're having you know, Tony come in and then Steve, I remember
when he was pastoring in Weaverville. I'd go visit him in two thousand and
two and two thousand and three, and man, that guy is just like
one of the greatest revelations of joy. That that is not just a message,
it's his lifestyle, it's what he lives out. He is one of
the ultimate encouragers and bringer bringers of joy and changing your mindset. So what
a rich time. And then I've known Brian since two thousand and four when
he was pastoring in Connecticut, and so it's so cool that you're having the
crew come in and man, what a what an amazing time, And you
know, it's just so good to be here. Like Dwayne was saying,
we're going to different nations, we're pouring into different places. We leave for
Ecuador and uh just a couple of weeks and uh like a week and a
half, and they're pray for us because they're in a pretty crazy time,
which I love that I get to go in too. You know, the
battlefields, the war zones like and you know they're in military lockdown right now.
They're curfew. They're in a mandatory curfew, and so what a privilege.
I talked to the pastor and it's like, should we cancel them.
I'm like, no, this is the perfect time for me to come in.
If they will let me come in, I am coming in. Yeah,
And then yes, we're going to We've we've been going into Hawaii really
my for the last twenty years, but there's been an uptick since really twenty
nineteen. And then you know, to see how you know, they responded
with COVID and just seeing the mental health that's that's that's gone on, this
amount of suicide that's happening there and drug addiction. And then we had the
fires and I came. I was working with Afghan refugees August with Franz.
Franz was with me and and then the fires broke out in Maui and my
heart broke and the Lord said, you need to go to Mali, and
you need to go now, because if you're going to have if you're going
to have any authority to transition them from grieving to joy, you need to
be with them in the grieving. And so I went there eleven days after
the fire. And we've gone now five times and we're we We've done different
projects of building four hundred bikes for kids. We've we've given out over like
three thousand meals. We're known as the Pancake Pastors in a number of parks
and beaches. We've done all kinds of different outreaches and worship and you know,
bringing people, being able to be there when people come in and go
to their house for the first time and sift through the ashes. We've been
able to sift to the ashes with people. We were with this one family
where she was asking God, I want my jewelry back, I want my
jewelry back, and we went and took communion and we worshiped on their property
and we're sifting through the ashes and one of our team members finds a necklace
that says her name, Jesus, sign me up for more of that.
So we go Ecuador to Malli, which is going to be fun and yeah,
I'm excited. And so we have if you want to just stay connected
to us, and we love it having prayer support where you know some of
us. You can't go to Ecuador with us or Maui, but you can
know when we're going there and you could be covering us in prayer. You
could follow us online or you know, there's a here's a connection piece right
here. You can just take your phones out and the amazing QR codes and
and uh oh yeah, so it says catch the wave, uh dot org,
catch the wave global dot org and that's our website and uh and then
also we're putting on I love that you guys are going after prayer and and
I love intercession. You know that that's one of the things that God has
called us to is to intercede for you know, our land and for you
know, going into different places. We've done per paddles and seven different countries
and and uh and and all over on the East Coast and the Atlantic and
I cannot wait. I've done the border of Mexico and California, and I
got to do the border one of these days of Washington into Canada. And
uh but that will happen soon, hopefully. And but but we are doing
a school of intercession online that is like go at your own pace. You
get videos, they'll be lives. We have Heidie Baker, Michael Miller,
my mom, my beautiful wife, Julia justin Stunball and and we just begin
to just equip on intercession, how to be an intercessor, how to stand
in the gap, how to be someone who's connected to the Father, connected
to Heaven, and also connected to your city, connected to your land.
And it's very much a joshua One model of intercession. Wherever your feet tread,
I give you that land is your inheritance. And it's so important that
we have that in the go of the Gospel and in how prayer and evangelism
work together. And I love, you know, talking with Dwayne about all
the different prayer assignments that you guys have been stewarting and going after and and
you know, I love just taking communion every prayer assignment. Communion is one
of the best places of intercession because the blood of Jesus. We always take
a little bit of the blood. When we poured into the water, we
poured into the land, and we asked the Lord to heal the land.
And it's been so amazing to see scalable prayer that you know, we I
shared this in our evangelist some prayer activation. But I'll sometimes get before per
assignment. The Lord will wake me up mid night and say, hey,
this is Ezekiel training, or this is Isaiah training. And we were going
to go prayer paddle the Golden Gate Bridge. And so the Lord said,
hey, this is Ezekiel training. And I read the Book of Ezekiel and
the valley of dry bones really stood out to me, and and and I
went. It was the Wednesday before the prayer paddle, and this pastor in
San Francisco caused me and says, one of our youth just committed suicide off
the Golden gate Bridge. And so I'm like, all right, there's a
territorial spirit there that is wooing people. This is where you come geographically in
this location. If you're dealing with suicide, you know, suicidal thoughts,
dealing with depression, this is where you come to end your life. And
I said, okay, this is where we're going to take the blood of
Jesus and we're going to pray in the opposite spirit the way that Ezekiel did
that the circumstances, there's a valley of dry bones. But what does God
see and how to co labor with him, how to move in that opposite
spirit, and how to begin to prophisy over the land that I see an
army that I am seeing what the Father is seeing and releasing the four winds
of heaven. And so the day before the pur paddle, I went surfing
in Santa Cruz and the Lord says, hey, like Ezekiel, moving in
the opposite spirit. I want you to go out there with just swim trunks,
which it's freezing. Everyone's got wet suits and booties and hoods and gloves.
And the Lord's like, I want you to go out there in the
opposite spirit, like Ezekiel, and paddle out with just your swim trunks and
and only catch party waves, which us surfers were sometimes a little selfish.
You usually only see one surfer per one wave, and if someone tries to
hop on your wave, we're usually screaming at them and hooting and hollering at
them to get off the wave. And the Lord's like, no, I
want you to catch waves and invite people to jump on the wave with you.
And so, you know, the Lord sends people out in two.
So I looked at my buddy and I said, hey, I feel like
this is Ezekiel training. That's all good. That's good to both go in
swim trunks. And he's like, all right, this is crazy and we
ended up. You know, we're calling people into our waves. And this
guy goes, wow, thanks for bringing the party vibes out here. Before
you paddled out, there was these two guys yelling. They started, you
know, they were they almost started fighting. And you have all these teenagers.
They were cussing, you know, like all his bad language, all
his anger. Thanks for bringing the party vibes here. What is he saying?
He says, you're changing the atmosphere. And my buddy goes, all
party vibes. Jesus is like the king of party vibes. He had more
joy than any of his companions, you know. And the guy goes,
hey, man, I'll go to that church. And I look at him
like, well, we're at church, and I laid hands on it,
and I'm like, let him experience the party vibe gee, you know,
the Jesus party. And then this wave comes like this is our wave,
and we all catch the wave. And then the next day we do the
we do the prayer paddle and we have winded our face like like you know,
and it's called stand up paddleboarding, so we call this the paddle of
humility. When there's a lot of wind, and we got to get on
our knees, and I say, this is perfect. We're in a prayer
service on our knees. This is how intercessors fought battles way before us.
And you know it's it's supposed to be a stand up paddleboard, but here
we are on our knees fighting the wind. And then we get under the
Golden Gate Bridge and there's all these currents and we have video footage of these
elephant seals that are like eight feet ten feet, which you've got even bigger
animals that are hunting those guys. But anyways, we were in there and
the wind was at our face, and then we just started prophisying with this
open vision where I saw people that were struggling with suicide, struggling with depression,
that the Lord was going to anoint them, deliver them, and that
they would be the next Lonnie Frisbees, the faces of the Jesus People movement,
because you could only give away what you have. And we're seeing in
our country an epidemic of anxiety and mental health issues and suicide. So the
Lord will always bring an annoying that breaks the yoke of the enemy that we
actually have land. You know, it talks about injustice and the blood,
and the land cries out that's where we come in as intercessors Jesus. So
so we started promising. I I just started declaring that UD be the John
ten ten Bridge, that people would come here to end their life, but
then they would find it that John, you know, Jesus said, hey,
I gave my life so that you could find it and have life more
abundantly. And so we're promising, and then suddenly the winds shift where they're
still at our face, but now it's in our back. Now it's at
our sides. And I look at my team and like we are in an
Ezekiel moment. The four winds of Heaven are here. And what was kind
of a bummer is we had a drone, the Mavig two many that can
withstand thirty five an hour winds, and we have the footage that's connected to
our phone where you see the winds shift and it takes our drone and hits
it against the Golden Gate bridge and ping pongs around and drops in the water.
And I'm like, wow, that was a worthy sacrifice for the resurrection
power of God to come manifest. But The next morning, I'm preaching at
this church in San Francisco, and I minister and I see, you know,
during ministry time, and I see this teenager and I start praying for
him, and I, you know, I can I know that he's at
least thirteen fourteen years old, And I said, I see you as a
nine year old boy, and you're climbing up on your heavenly father's lap and
he's holding you, and he's breaking off abandonment and like rejection, this whole
abandonment that he starts wailing, starts crying. He begins to tell us that
his father was deported by ice, so he's not like his father left him
willingly, abandoned him willingly. He was separated from his dad. And the
father is healing and it is setting him free of this abandonment issue, in
this identity of being abandoned and wiping it away, saying I'm your heavenly father.
And I could tell, like, you know, he like there's something
missing, And I realized, oh man, I should ask him, do
you have do you know Jesus, do you have you asked you to live
in your heart? And he goes, no, I've never done that I'm
going, well, hey, what's your name? Ezekiel. So it's really
good when you're in Ezekiel training. When Ezekiel gets saved and set free.
He later got healed of a back injury. But this is twenty twenty one.
He's like still in this church. He's brought his family in there.
He went and led a mission trip to Dominican Republic this last year. You
know, the pastor's sending me videos of him being baptized, and I'm like,
wow, that is amazing fruit and you know, and it continues to
go where you have to understand, prayer is scalable. So I went on
had this whole bike like assignment and I biked the Golden Gate Bridge and I'm
and this is in you know that the prayer paddle was September twenty twenty one.
And then in February twenty two, I'm biking over the Golden Gate Bridge
and I noticed these beams shooting now and I see this cop walking by and
I'm like, hey, officer, I see these beams. I was here
like a few months ago and I didn't see these beams. What are these
beams? Go? Oh? We In October, we voted as a city
to come up with prevention solutions for the suicides. Golden Gate Bridge is the
number one suicide the number one bridge for suicide in our country, and they
came up with a solution to have censored nets so that when you jump,
you land in these nets and it alerts the authorities. They have a police
station on the end of the Golden Gate Bridge and it takes the average person
ten minutes to get out of these nets, so it gives enough time for
their first responders to intersect these ones that are committing, that are attempting suicide.
And I'm like, this is the answer to our prayers. I just
would encourage you, like you would not despise the day of small begins and
to not be discouraged. If you pray, you know, and then nothing
you feel like is happening, that is a lie that there are things happening
and changing in the spirit realm, and the spirit realm will will begin to
dictate and begin to influence the natural realm. Before the natural realm influences the
spiritual realm, the prayer is scalable. Jesus, Okay, that's not what
I'm preaching on. Wow, Okay, good, It's not that late.
So I'm going I feel like, as you guys have been in this Daniel
Fast, I've been just interceding and praying for what the Lord has really giving
you guys as a community. And the Lord really quickened me that there is
in this you know, region of the Northwest, that the God of Hope
is getting ready to crash in, and that there is a mental health healing
wave that is in the beginning form over this land, and that the God
of Hope is encountering those that are dealing with anxiety, depression, suicidal thought
PTSD. And this just jump into Romans fifteen thirteen, which is one of
the lifeline scriptures for me as I was building a well of hope and building
a well of peace. May the God who gives you hope fill you with
great joy. May you have perfect peace as you trust in him. May
the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope that is very good.
Yes, and amen. You know that He gives you all joy, all
peace, And those that trust in Him, that you have to understand one
of the greatest worship services is trust. That it's almost like you got to
go through the doorway of trust to encounter the God of Hope, the room
where the God of Hope lives, so that you can partake that not in
just some joy, not in most of the joy, but all joy and
all peace are given to you. You know, I was very fortunate to
be with Bill in two thousand and two, and in two thousand and three
his dad got pancreatic cancer, and for a year we contended for healing and
you know, as a community, we would see cancer abow to Jesus,
and Bill would make these decrees that we live in a cancer free zone,
that that those that walk through the Sanctuary of Bethel that are dealing with cancer,
that cancer would bow to Jesus. And then his dad gets picreatic cancer,
and you know, me and Chris Overstreet would hang out at Earl's house
and pray, you know, through late in the night. We took him
to Santa Maria healing rooms. Like we contended together as a community for Earl's
breakthrough. And then Earle graduated to be with the Lord about a year into
this battle, into this journey, and Bill began to go through this grieving
process where Bob Jones said, you need to cancel all your speaking engagements.
You should not speak at Bethel on Sunday mornings. You should, you know,
cancel all speaking engagements. So he canceled first year and he said,
you know what the second year students, those are our my family. Like
then there's only forty of us in the second year. This is two thousand
and three, which was so awesome that we, you know, we would
meet in a fifth grade classroom. We'd sit on a couch with Bill,
the forty of us, and he would just cry, he would just weep.
He would just you know, process with us his journey. And I'll
never get a couple of months into this, he said, I'm learning to
worship again. You know, I'm getting all these emails from you know,
spiritual leaders like you know, greater levels, greater devils, like if you
make decrees like cancer free zone, be prepared that you're going to take hits,
you know, if you want to grow in that kind of authority.
And he was processing, like you know theology and that in that place of
God. I know you're the healer, but my dad died of cancer,
especially when you see so many others healed of cancer, and that's always a
tricky one for us, that's going after healing and that healing annoying. Sometimes
you'll you know, you'll have two people and you'll be like, oh,
you know, like it might be someone that's you know, like maybe both
people are blind, and somebody's like in their eighties, and then there's like
a nine year old. And sometimes you're like, oh, man, that
nine year old. I want that nine year old to get healed. And
then the eighty year old gets healed. You're like, God, I want
that nine year old. And it's like you have to process and you take
that with you in your prayer. Clauset ammunition of like I need to grow
in this healing annoying. So Bill was going through that of like, God,
why did you not heal my dad? And he begins to tell us
in this fifth grade classroom, I'm learning to worship again that the Lord his
nature is the healer, and that when I'm in heaven I'll understand everything.
But I get an opportunity here on the planet that I get to use to
worship him, choose to trust him and releases a fragrance to the throne room
that will never have the opportunity to do when we're living in heaven. And
it's trust that opens the door for the God of Hope to encounter the God
of Hope. And it's it's you know, sometimes sad to see spiritual leaders
in this time where there's been a demand by a generation of I demand understanding.
You know, this whole deal of deconstruction and this whole deal of you
know, like they're just throwing out the mystery. Well, you know,
I don't understand, like how can someone really be swallowed up by a whale?
Which I don't know if you saw this, but just like a year
ago, there was a guy that was actually swallowed up by a whale.
It got spit out. I think he broke a rib or something like that.
But anyways, there's been this demand for understanding when we weren't as spiritual
leaders. We are not responsible for understanding. We were responsible for releasing peace
that surpasses understanding. Yeah, Jesus, I went through a pretty crazy time.
You know. My twenties were amazing. My wife and I we traveled
around the world. We were a part of the Vineyard, we were a
part of Bethel. We were running around with Heidi Baker, my wife and
I ordained through Bethel Church and Irish ministries in two thousand and eight, and
so it's been this wild adventure and then my thirties or thirty four, I
just hit this season where there was like all these pain points, and you
know, we lost We lost seven family members. I lost my grandparents.
My wife lost all of her grandparents. We had a miscarriage, I had
three surgeries. I had dislocated me. I had a shattered clavical I had
hernia surgery. You know, I went through all these This lady stole twenty
grand from us. Like there was a number of injustices or trauma points,
and I was just doing everything I knew to do to like fight the good
fight that you know, Hey, I'm tenacious, I'm going to keep going.
And then I had this severe car accident in twenty eighteen where I should
have died, and I discovered the prince of peace. I got the opportunity
to build a well of hope and peace. And I've always been a very
hopeful person, like optimism and positivity. But I lost hope and I realized
how valuable hope was once I lost it. So this is a video that
I did right after my car accident, and then I'll explain the accident,
but This is a little selfie video that I did. Hi, everybody,
this is Chad. It was my fore Runner gone. These guys are kind
enough to help me freaking crazy, so I'm very concussed in that video.
I had a pretty bad head injury. I flipped five times. What happened
was I was ministering on the Central Coast in Monterey and then I was in
a meeting the next day with Heidi Baker and Will Hart in reading at nine
am. So it's a five hour drive, but if you have traffic,
it could become a seven hour drive. So I woke up super early at
three am and drove through the Bay Area traffic, and then I had a
fore Runner, so I was like, all right, I could just sleep
in the back of my fore Runner. Once I get to Vacaville, which
from Vacaville to Ready and there's no traffic. So I was like, all
right, I just got to get through the Bay Area and I'll get some
sleep. I slept for forty five minutes. I'm driving another hour and I
start falling asleep and then I pull over wisely and I'm like, all right,
I've only got fifteen minutes window to you know, to kind of like
not fall asleep anymore while I'm driving, and I don't really fall asleep,
and the alarm goes and I'm kind of groggy, get into the car,
forget to put my seatbelt on, hit cruise controls seventy five miles an hour,
and I fall asleep at the wheel and I had my hands off the
wheel. I woke up, you know, doing this, and I'm going
right towards a concrete like bridge, you know, like footing, and so
I pulled the wheel onto the highway five and obviously you know what's going to
happen. As I pull on to the asphalt, the tires catch and I
start flipping, and I felt fingers go across my legs, my torso,
my chest, my head, and then the forming of a palm where there
was like a cocoon, like I was completely protected by God. And the
highway patrolman that you saw there, they were across the five fruit and they
said, we washed you roll five times and you be ejected from the sunroof.
You bounced off the five and then you got taken back into the car.
When the cops came. When the high patrolman came to me, I
went to go talk to him, and I couldn't talk. There were stuff
in my mouth. I thought it was my teeth and it was rocks,
meaning I was doing this. I had, you know, scratches, I
have scars on my back of going on to the five and they say,
the doctors told me that seventy percent of those that get ejected from the sunroof
and in a fatality, They're like, somebody up there must really really love
you. So I survived, Yeah, thank you Jesus. He's our strong
tower, he's our protector. And you know, I had a really bad
headed injury. I could. I had like a head migraine. I couldn't.
I could. I was sensitive to light. I was I would have
anxiety attacks that put on like the borne identity and be a car chase and
all this, like you know, panic attacks would be happening, and you
know, I would have night terrors. I'd be in the accident again.
And so I had severe PTSD. I begin to learn, I begin to
educate myself of like, oh, my corsoal levels are jacked. And it's
so strange too, because like I've been in twenty eleven, I was in
a plane with Roland Baker and we flipped upside down tailspin and we dropped two
thousand feet and we almost you know, we we we almost died. And
I was like, you know, it took me a day or two to
recover, but then I was fine. You know, I've had times where
I've almost died and several different things, and I didn't have like crazy PTSD.
But this time I couldn't recover. And it's always fun, like when
you're at the airport and you're stretching and you're doing all this stuff and people
are like, oh, what are you doing, you know, like you're
stretching on about gals in a severe car accident. You know, I was
objective for the center. Oh you didn't have your seatbelt. Huh. I'll
bet you never do that again. I love it when people like put the
shame on you, you know, like, but that's the great thing is
if you know, sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. And I
made a poor decision that could have had consequences. I had a three year
old and a four month old, and I could have had the consequences of
my actions of pushing through, you know, where I should have listened more
to my body and all stuff, and I didn't have my seatbelt on that
that could have been a consequences that would have left my kids without their natural
dad. Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. But when you take
care of that, when you begin to do the work and begin to forgive
yourself, and you don't put your pain and you shove it down, that
you are present in your pain, you invite God to come where you have
pain and trauma. Then you begin to have authority and you begin to have
that place where shame cannot be put on you. Jesus, is it is
it quiet in here for a reason? Yeah? So important that we begin
to understand the power of forgiving yourself. And so I had this PTSD and
and uh, I was about a month in of just like the lords,
that I want you to meditate me as the God of Hope and as the
Prince of Peace for three hours in the morning. So I'd wake up at
six and I would just build this well of peace. And I've been I
was a month in. I was at the pra Chapel and reading a Bethel
and I and the Holy spirits. Is I want to take you on a
journey and I went to the valley floor of your and there was an art
easel. In the Holy Spirit, I want you, he says, I
want you to do art again. I had not done art since I was
like a little boy. And you understand my family history. My grandma,
my mom's mom, was a professional artist, and she used to teach me
how to do art when I was five and six, and she could sometimes
be a little critical. Then I had some art teachers that were even more
critical when I was like seven and eight, and so I began to sabotage,
have this self sabotage that I am not creative, that I'm not an
artist, to the point that I was in high school and I flunked ceramics
high school. You have to work hard at flunking high school ceramics. But
here I am at thirty seven, in the Holy Spirit says, I want
you to pick up art. And I enrolled myself in our local college and
art class, and I would have to fight these thoughts if I don't belong
like here, I am thirty seven ers through twenty year olds are way better
than me. That whole comparison thing just breaking off, breaking it off,
and then suddenly I would lose myself in the art and I would find wholeness.
I would find healing, I would find therapy as I began to do
art, and I didn't even realize they've done studies at Harvard that their actual
art therapy heals PTSD. But it was something that came down my family line.
It was something that God gave me as a kid, and I began
to sabotage that place that actually were keys to break through for my journey of
stepping into wholeness. This was my first art. I don't know if they
have that picture, but this was my first art piece and it was the
valley floor of Yosemite, And yeah, that was a fun one. There's
Julia and I. So the Lord has giving you, guys keys, and
he hasn't. Some of you are stuck in your trauma or stuck in PTSD.
And I'm telling you, I could say with confidence, God is giving
you keys. He's given you arrows, and some of them he gave you
to you as a kid or down your family line, and he's inviting you
to pick it back up that it's not too late. And it's intriguing to
me that we are dealing with anxiety and depression. And the number one trigger
for mental health issues is sleep deprivation, and they say that over sixty percent
of Americans are dealing with some form of sleep deprivation. You know that if
you don't sleep for twenty four hours, you have body chemistry that is equivocal
to you being intoxicated with alcohol. You know that, And it's it's really
intriguing with you're dealing with anxiety or PTSD or trauma, and then you're dealing
with your trauma, so you can't sleep, and then you you're you can't
sleep because you're dealing with trauma, and then you have more trauma because you
can't sleep. It's a very intriguing deal. But it's so interesting that God
said, I want you to build a well of peace and discover me as
the Prince of peace. And then you have Jesus in Mark four where he's
sleeping on the boat in the midst of a storm. Here we go,
a wild storm came up, waves crash over the boat. It was about
to sink. Jesus was in the back, sleeping on a cushion. The
disciples will come up, teacher, don't you care if we drown? What
a crazy accusation to the savior of the world. He got up in order
the wind to stop. He said to the waves, quiet, be stilled.
Then the wind died and it was completely calm. And he said to
his disciples, why are you so afraid? Don't you have any faith at
all? Yet they were terrified. They asked each other, who is this?
Even the wind and the waves obey him? And I've heard it preach
and it's a great principle, and it's totally you know, there is that
Jesus was maybe frustrated or disappointed or bombed that Peter, and that Peter didn't
realize or the disciples didn't realize that they had authority to calm the storm.
But Jesus always did what the Father was doing. And what was Jesus doing
He was asleep. See rest is a manifestation of uh. I mean,
sleep is a manifestation of rest, and rest is a manifestation of peace.
And and he I think he looked at the disciplines, goes, guys,
you didn't realize that you could sleep in the storm. See, some of
us will go through storms, and then we're like, you know what,
I'm going into intercession when an active intercession is actually sleeping. Oh Jesus,
you know, I love just you this whole like mental health awareness and you
know education. You know, it's so important that when you're dealing with pain
that you become curious, that you begin to understand that you might have physical
ailments that come up that are actually communicating you are dealing with stuff in the
soul. Maybe you get the shingles, maybe you break out in hives,
Like there's many different things you have, like a panic attack, it's your
soul saying hey, like, if you don't take care of this, you're
gonna have physical issues going on. So don't have condemnation when that's happening.
Don't have shame when that's happening. Become curious. And so I love the
Brene Brown and I love all of the stuff. Where the one thing that
I have seen though, is, you know, especially I'm a tweeter,
so I'm a gen xer and a millennial. So some of us millennials are
like in this place of gung ho of like it's all about wholeness and mental
health, and I gotta take care of me before I could take care of
others. And it's like no no, you don't understand one of the keys
to wholeness, one of the keys for getting breakthrough of your soul is by
helping others, serving others. Jesus, it's so important that we do not
get on an island where we become introspective and it's all I got to get
my breakthrough first. That it's sometimes your breakthrough won't come until you contend for
someone else's breakthrough. And I was going through this time of like PTSD killing
the giant PTSD. I loved it. I love that I have this education
to build that well. And it was about two months after my car accident,
this woman contacted my wife, who my wife's a real turn reading and
say, hey, I want to buy an investment home, but I want
to meet with you and your husband. I was in a meeting months earlier
where your husband spoke and I went into an open vision. We're going to
share the video in just one second, kid, so but you could you
could play in there. It was like so crazy because I got present,
kind of took a pause there you go. I know this will We're gonna
show this video in a second, but I just want to paint. I
just want to get the foundation, right is this woman said, I had
an open vision that you took my husband's surfing. You're gonna hear the story
of this crazy car accident, this uh or this guy was run over by
a drunk driver and he has a brain injury and he can't move, he
can't and his two youngest sons, he was a surfer. He never took
his two youngest kids surfing. And my heart broke that this guy should take
his kids. So I'm gonna help him take his kids out surfing. But
his wife says, I had an open vision that you took him surfing.
And I'm like, oh wow, I can't do that right now. Like
I look at her and say, when I am better, I'll take him
surfing. And it was months later building this of hope and peace that that,
you know, it was like nine months after my car accident. It
just worked out. It was just like this crazy intersection just easy. Grace
did not have to work for it at all. That it just like I
was already instid of the California and I'm like, and it worked out for
me to take him surfing. And I took him out, got him three
waves. We loaded him in the Van. I look at the ground while
he's pulling away, and I suddenly remember the conversation we had in December where
I said I will take him out surfing when I get better, and I
look down, I'm like, I guess I'm better. And so it's so
important that we serve others in our community, even when we have trauma that's
coming up, that we begin to take care of that trauma by helping other
people get breakthrough, to get you know, healing. And so this is
the story of us taking him surfing on Father's Day with his five sons.
We're taking a dad. I was his sons on Father's Day in that Yeah,
I mean he would be able to do it if we didn't show up.
And to be a part of that, it's pretty special and that's love.
I'm Laurie Shankeenberger and my husband Steve Schakeenberger, and we have five amazing
boys. Steve is addicted to surfing. Surfing is his passion. He wanted
to live in Nicaragua for surfing Indonesia. He would take these guys out surfing
when they were one years old. I was in the hospital having our second
kid, and he would take him out surfing with a pasifier in his mouth.
Steve's accident was four years ago on February fifth, twenty seventeen, and
he was mountain bike riding and he got hit by a drunk driver, which
was a hit and run. They ended up figuring out who hit him,
and there was a long journey of forgiveness and healing and friendship with the guy
who hit him and inviting him to go to church with us, and him
rededicating his life to the Lord. And I was just blown away by what
God was doing in this whole accident everything else surrounding it. Being out there
in the water with all his boys, that's what Steve would have wanted to
have done on Father's Day. We just got to ground zero to Dahety.
We're taking Steve out and Laurie and their sons and we're going to get some
party waves on Father's Day. You know, this is for all the fathers
that are out there that amy circumstances conditions where they can't take their kids out
on ride a passage journeys. As a father to a son or daughter,
that it's a privilege to be a part of the community to help those that
need assistance. To you know, you still breathe them. There's still a
dad, and we get to take them out surfing. And this is the
kind of stuff that I was alive for. Is to help your neighbor,
to help your community step into your fatherhood. That's just all gather together and
just but celebrate. Steve is a dad, That dad is. His greatest
identity is to being a son and a dad that he is not. His
identity is not handicapped. His identity is a dad. Yeah. And so
we bless you, Steve on Father's Day, and we bless you to catch
waves with your sons, to go and have fun with your sons on Father's
Day. And so Lord, we just pray for a hedge of protection.
We thank you for all the servers out here watching and making sure he's all
good. But Lord, we think of that there's angels here to protect him
as well. And Lord, we just pray Lord for just the heart of
a father to connect with his kids. Lord. Here we are together as
a community to rally around Steve and Laurie and Lord in their household. And
we just pray Lord that they would have epic times with you gone. You
would have epic times as it down. See if we just say that you
are an amazing down this is where you would be before this trauma happened.
Then this is where you would spend time with your sons. And so here
we are today June twenty, in twenty twenty one, to spend time to
be with you as you enjoyed catching waves with your kids. It's good you
learn than I had of. Sometimes you never call the horse. We always
kid every game saving Yeah, we ran him over. What a privilege.
Steve went to be home with his father in heaven in October twenty twenty one,
just four months after that. That's why we're not supposed to be stuck
on an island. Herope that if I would have said, oh no,
I need to do more counseling. Oh I need to do more stuff,
I need to work on myself. I'll take Steve out when I am.
You know, another time, I would have missed the opportunity for his two
youngest sons that never went surfing with their dad to now that narrative is completely
changed, that those two boys will forever have that moment on bother's day with
their dad. So I would just just put your hand on your heart.
Lord, we just pray for the God of Hope to be established in this
community. Lord, that these guys would be hope ambassadors. Lord, that
they are building a well of hope and a well of peace. So Lord
crash In has the Prince of peace. Lord, heal anyone in this room
that are feeling stuck paralyzed in their pain. Lord, that you'd give them
people to serve, to contend for, that you would give them steves in
their life. So Lord, right now, I just ask that you would
heal trauma, that you would begin to illuminate, and that there'd be a
spirit of revelation of what are the different arrows and the different keys that God
has given me to build a well of hope, to build a well of
peace. We just break off hopelessness, We break off depression, we break
off shame and condemnation. That you would know that you're a part of a
community that cares, a community that wants to fight for your breakthrough. That
you would break off loneliness and isolation. Lord, that you would give us
courage to be vulnerable. So Lord, we pray that you would just crash
in in this hour, that you would establish a well of hope, in
the Northwest. Lord, that you are evicting the enemy of suicide, anxiety
and depression. And Lord, I pray for anyone that struggles with sleep.
Lord, that you would begin to give us dreams about our destiny, dreams
about our heavenly father, dreams. That you would break off night terrors,
and that we would wake up jumping out of bed Betty to seize the day.
Lord, that you would begin to remove weariness. We'd break off the
lie that you're stuck. We break off the lie that this is your reality,
this is your crutch to bear, this is your identity. We break
that off. That you would feel connected to the God of Hope, that
your hope levels would begin to arise. So Lord, we just thank you
that you are the God of the breakthrough. There would be a breaker annoying
this morning, that hope is arising, that the Prince of Peace wants to
encounter you wreck us. God. Amen, all right, I went a
little long. Kids are probably waiting in the children's ministry. We'd love to
pray for you. I'll have a team here to pray if you just you
know, want another level of breakthrough of just the God of Hope crashing in
thank you guys again so much for having us. What a privilege, what
an honor. I love you guys. To say to Y