WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.000 I am so glad to be here. Now, let me 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:06.960 see again, how many of you been to Turlock? Well, 3 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.599 let me see over here. Oh my gosh, that's incredible. 4 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:12.640 I hope to see you again soon. It nice to just, 5 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:16.559 you know, be able to go back and forth. My 6 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:19.160 notes just went off. I hate that when that happens. 7 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.559 I'm all ready to preach of my notes. There it is, 8 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:24.839 they're back, thank god. A couple of things I could 9 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.760 tell about this church, just because my husband and I 10 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:30.440 have been in ministry for. 11 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.240 Close to thirty years now. 12 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:36.640 Yeah, same place too, so we're just putting it, put 13 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.840 down roots and we just expand out. It's been our 14 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.439 m But one of these I could tell about this 15 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.439 church and your pestors is I know a place where 16 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:50.719 there's things that I'm noticing in the body price now 17 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.000 is there's pastors that have been in ministry now for 18 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.479 a long time and they have done well. And your 19 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:02.280 pastors are reflecting longevity that you need to pay attention to, 20 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.000 longevity of relationship, longevity of ministry and just being solid. 21 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:10.959 And that is like you don't realize what it's like 22 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.200 to either lose your pastor or not have a church 23 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.680 to go to because there really isn't a good solid 24 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.799 leader in the area. So you need to like like 25 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.239 double triple, quadruple your honor for your pastor's pastor Joanne 26 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.480 and Joel in the house. And I can also tell 27 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:30.920 there's prayer here, and I can tell there's a generous 28 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:31.760 spirit here. 29 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:32.680 And those are just. 30 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:37.319 Little things that I can tell because longevity has qualifications. 31 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:42.040 So there's qualifiers on the longevity and the staying power 32 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.719 of certain people, and they will always have certain characteristics 33 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.319 and so I just want to acknowledge that. And I'm 34 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:53.680 enjoying a handful of friends now that they're just like 35 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.680 your pastors there. They're just been in ministry for a 36 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.719 long time. So trust me, this is not normal. It 37 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.200 is not like the going story out there. 38 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.879 But I believe God has has UH. 39 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.520 He's creating something that we that we can look to 40 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.120 and and learn from because we want to be finishers 41 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:14.319 and we want to finish well. 42 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:14.719 Amen. 43 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.280 Amen, all right, I have a few books that I'd 44 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:20.919 like to give out to you. I noticed this cause 45 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.599 a little different, so I picked up some different books. 46 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.639 This is about the UH, the gift of decerning spirits. 47 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.319 I was so honored to be able to break open 48 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.360 language for this because when it came on my life, 49 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.719 it came on a super strong and nobody could really 50 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.039 tell me much about it back then, and so I 51 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.120 had to. I had to hammer out language, plain language 52 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.840 for people who were feeling things, seeing things, hearing things, 53 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:55.039 tasting things. Because a gift from God should not operate 54 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.400 through your senses, it should operate through your mind. Nope, 55 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.360 that's not how this one works. It operates your senses. 56 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.680 You get information about what spirit is behind pretty much 57 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:10.840 anything by what you feel, see, taste, a sense. 58 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.199 And it's a very unusual gift. 59 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:14.960 And if you don't know you have it, you think 60 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.439 you're going crazy because you were normal until you stepped 61 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:24.680 into that room, and then all of a sudden you're 62 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:25.240 losing it. 63 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:26.800 And then you leave that room and you're back to 64 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:30.120 yourself again. What was that? The gift of descerning the spirits? 65 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:33.280 Holy Spirit gave you information for the purpose of prayer 66 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.520 and ministry and all of that. If you have this 67 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.039 gift and you're struggling with it, raise your hand. I 68 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.319 want to give this book to you right here, ma'am. Okay, 69 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.439 she's right there. Okay, thank you so much. Okay, and 70 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.800 I'll shorten up my little commercial here Awaken the Dreamscape. 71 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.800 There's just a whole big history of how this book 72 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.000 was birth. It was birth out of Australia actually, and 73 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:01.039 the indigenous Aboriginals there they are dreamers like crazy. It's 74 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:05.560 like a whole dream visionary realm out there. Sadly, ancient 75 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.960 deities got into that realm and took possession of those 76 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.360 tribes and they worshiped deities from that realm. But I 77 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.759 believe God's kicking them out and that He's taken back 78 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.680 the dreamscape. Anyway, this is the book about dreams, supernatural dreams. 79 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.639 It has some instruction on how to interpret your dreams. 80 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.519 If you're a dreamer, you don't know what to do 81 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:24.879 with it. Who would like this book? 82 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:26.480 Right, do we hear? Yes? 83 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:26.800 You? 84 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.560 Yes? Right? 85 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.120 Yeah, come on and get the book or somebody's got 86 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.920 to give it to her because I'm not going down there. 87 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:40.120 All right, all right, thank you? Okay, let's see here 88 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:45.199 we're I was going. Well, let me start. Is there 89 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.040 a few names here? Since I get names of people 90 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.279 and I want to check make sure am I hearing God? 91 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:52.519 Am I not? Sometimes I'm wrong? 92 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.240 Is there a stacy or and or a Nadine here. 93 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:04.000 Stacy, or a Nadine Stacy? 94 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.240 Is there a Nadine here Nadine n A D I 95 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:13.720 N E. Is that like your mom or something? Nadine? Okay, Stacy, 96 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.560 all right, your name dropped in my heart this morning 97 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.800 and I was like, it's not the first service I 98 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.600 knew that. Okay, would you mind coming forward since there's 99 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.560 since there's a camera on us, would it bother you 100 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:29.920 too much to come up here? 101 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:31.399 Because the only. 102 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.279 Reason there's a camera and I'm not going to make 103 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:42.199 a big show. Don't worry. One of the things I 104 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.519 feel that God wants to assure you of that his 105 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.439 plans and purposes are not going to be thwarted in 106 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.720 your life. That everything He designed for you and intended 107 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.920 for you to do with Him in partnership with Him 108 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.040 in the earth, that this is going to come to pass. 109 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.639 It doesn't matter if someone betrays you. It doesn't matter 110 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.920 if someone leaves you. It doesn't matter if somebody doesn't 111 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.879 agree with you. It doesn't matter if somebody persecutes you. 112 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.800 It doesn't matter if a whole army persecutes you, a 113 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.480 whole group of people persecute you, and doesn't. 114 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:14.720 Go with it. 115 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.839 But there is a clear cut assignment just for you 116 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.800 on your life. There's beauty all over it, and there's 117 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.120 a clear cut assignment. Your voice is going to go 118 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.920 into places and you're gonna speak into subjects and topics, 119 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.639 and you're gonna give truth and you're gonna say this 120 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.199 is what needs to happen here and there is no 121 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.920 other way. And you're gonna stand your ground against opposition. 122 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.600 And God's got your back. The angels have been a sign, 123 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:44.319 and you're gonna accomplish everything he has designed for you 124 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:45.759 to do in Jesus name. 125 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.759 Amen, A mad God bless you. 126 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.000 Okay, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but 127 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.800 I'm gonna give you just a short summary of it 128 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.600 because I need to go a few different areas in 129 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.240 this service. So I've been talking about Matthew chapter six, 130 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.480 and this is when the disciples they approached Jesus and said, 131 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:13.120 teach us how to pray. And what we believe the 132 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.279 reason behind that was because Jesus was walking in power. 133 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.240 How many say, Jesus. 134 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.480 Was walking in power, Amen, And it was power they 135 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.879 had not seen in front of their own eyes before, 136 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.959 and it mesmerized them. They caught their attention, and they 137 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:30.240 took note that Jesus, even though he was fully God, 138 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.040 but he laid that down so he can walk amongst 139 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:37.319 us as an example, an anointed man of God. But 140 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:40.199 he was fully God. But nevertheless, he still prayed. He 141 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.000 was one who prayed, and he prayed a lot. And 142 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.839 there was there's hints in the book of Hebrews of 143 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:47.959 the sound of prayer that would come out of him. 144 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.800 And he would, I mean, he would shout. There were 145 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.959 shrieks coming out of him. He was an intercessor. Okay, 146 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.759 he ever lives to make intercession for us. He's praying 147 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:00.839 for us now. And if and if you're ever one, okay, 148 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:02.920 if you are prayed for. I can't tell you how 149 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.079 many times I've woken up in the night knowing I'm 150 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.000 praying for somebody. I don't even know who they are, 151 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.759 all right, And I think He's got us covered. That's 152 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.000 basically what I'm trying to get to you. And so 153 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.360 they took notice of his prayer and his intercession and 154 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:22.240 his communion with God the Father and his heavenly Father, 155 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.480 and they said, teach us how to pray. And this 156 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.959 is where we begin to unfold the Lord's prayer. You 157 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.279 know our father, who are in heaven. Hell will be 158 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:29.720 your name. 159 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:30.040 You know it. 160 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.879 Your kingdom, calm, you will be done on earth as 161 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:34.679 it is in heaven. Do you know this word? Give 162 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.919 us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our deaths. 163 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.559 Let's say it together, as we forgive our debtors. Do 164 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.639 not lead us into temptation. Deliver us from the evil 165 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.120 one for yours as a kingdom and the power and 166 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.000 the glory forever. 167 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.200 Amen. Now many of us we recite that. 168 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:55.159 We use it as communion in our personal time of prayer, 169 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:57.519 and we say it from A to Z. It's all good, 170 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.639 it's great, it's it's a beautiful piece of meditative peace 171 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.679 that we utilize. Nevertheless, each little line in here is 172 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.879 a teaching point, you know, if you can actually break 173 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.679 it down, and it is a full on teaching point. 174 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.759 Let me give you an example, verse ten, Your Kingdom Come, 175 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.559 you will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Well, 176 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.960 when we read that, you know we love the concept 177 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.159 on earth as it is in heaven. But what is 178 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.600 Jesus telling them saying, this is what you need to pray. 179 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.519 You need to pray the things of the Kingdom, the 180 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:32.120 will of God. You need to pray it and pray 181 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.480 for it to come and for God's will to be done. 182 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.320 Because the inference is if you don't pray it in, 183 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.159 it doesn't happen. That's a hard truth for us. If 184 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.879 you don't pray it in, it doesn't happen. And why 185 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.639 is that a hard truthless because we don't think that 186 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.720 God even pays attention to us. We don't consider ourselves 187 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:51.960 of any value, any worth that He would actually hear 188 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.960 our voice. And that is absolutely not true. First of all, 189 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.240 you have been made in the image of God. You've 190 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.279 been created in the image of God. This is why 191 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:01.200 the devil hates you. That's the only reason he hates you, 192 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.799 because when he sees you, he sees a reflection of 193 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.559 the one that's gonna take him out, all right, And 194 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:08.919 so you've been made in the image of God. 195 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.320 Furthermore, in the Book of Revelation. 196 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.679 Not only were you created in the image of God, 197 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.559 you were also created to be a king and a priest. 198 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:21.399 Talk about authority, friends, You've been made these things. 199 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:23.559 And then he's saying, this is how you pray. 200 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.799 Because there is a heaven to Earth's connection with a 201 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.840 voice of one who looks like God is created in 202 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.799 his image, being made a king and a priest, beings 203 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:32.919 to call forth the will of God on earth. Then 204 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.720 he partners, he partners with our voice, okay, to release 205 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:39.919 the things of the kingdom into this earth. 206 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.039 It all goes back to who did he give this 207 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.600 earth to you and I in Jesus' name? 208 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.240 And so this whole thing where I'm just you know, 209 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:55.279 I'm just gonna rely on the grace of God. I 210 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.039 don't need to pray, and I don't ever need to pray. It, 211 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.279 don't ever need to give my voice to God. Jesus 212 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.399 prayed if you're gonna be praying too, And so I 213 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.039 want to encourage you first and foremost personally that you 214 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:06.360 need to have a rhythm of prayer. 215 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.480 What is your rhythm of prayer? Now? 216 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.080 I would recommend that you have a set time each 217 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.600 and every morning, no matter what happens, you have that 218 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.840 set time. If you are a new mom and you 219 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.000 got babies, little babies, okay, you're gonna have windows of times. 220 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:23.039 You're gonna have pockets, but use those pockets, all right. 221 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:24.919 But that's usually the season where you have to make 222 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:28.159 an adjustment but outside of that, have that set time. 223 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.720 I know, for myself, I travel all over the globe. 224 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.879 It doesn't matter what's going on in my life. There 225 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.440 is a set time and prayer in my household. In 226 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.320 my household, my husband's getting up, I'm getting up. Our 227 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.679 eyes are blinking, and you know, we're doing this and 228 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.080 we're getting our coffee and you know, and we're getting 229 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.759 and we're starting to pray. Our children have watched us 230 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:53.519 pray every single morning, every single day, and so we 231 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.360 want to have a personal rhythm of prayer. I woke 232 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.159 up on January first, twenty five out of a dream, 233 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.279 one of those dreams. It's real, you know, it has 234 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.320 that realistic quality to it. And I was in a 235 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.960 prayer meeting in that dream. It's not like me to 236 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.080 have a dream about a prayer meeting, but I was 237 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:10.919 in a prayer meeting. And I woke up out of 238 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:13.000 the dream with the spirit of prayer on me, spirit 239 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:13.879 of intercession on me. 240 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.120 I said, what's going on this year? Lord? You know? 241 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.799 And I have just felt a call to deepen my 242 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.159 prayer life. And it's not because I was doing something wrong. 243 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.879 It was just there's a call for greater communion. There's 244 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.639 a call for depth, there's a call to change my routine, 245 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.519 and so I made some decisions to to you know, 246 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.039 add in some more windows of time during the week 247 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.000 per se. And then I'm also just taking some time 248 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:37.399 when I can to have some. 249 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.799 A personal prayer retreat. It's like overnight. 250 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:42.039 Okay, I go to this what's called the Home of 251 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.960 Peace in Oakland, California. That is a healing home from 252 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.440 the a century ago and all the all the great 253 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.799 healers used to stay there. It's a mansion and if 254 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.919 you're a minister or a missionary, they'll give you a room. 255 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.320 And you can get a room there. Okay, So it's 256 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.799 like going to your great grandma's house and so so anyway, 257 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.120 and it's in Oakland, California, and it's a beautiful ground. 258 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.080 You go two blocks over. Sadly, everybody gives you the 259 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.879 side eye, but you go back into the Home of 260 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:09.759 Peace and His peace. 261 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.320 Amen. All right. Oakland's notorious. 262 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.039 All the a lot of great preachers preached there, but 263 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.559 they all crush. There's many that Christian burned there. So 264 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:23.799 this house is like a statement of longevity. We're still here. 265 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.360 The healing home is still here amen, all right. So 266 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.200 what I wanted to get to you is they wanted 267 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:34.600 to get to Second Kings, Chapter twenty, verse one to five. 268 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:36.120 And this is about Heekiah. 269 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.600 It says, in those days Isekiah was sick and near death, 270 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.720 and Isaiah the prophet, Now Isaiah, we respect. 271 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.519 Isaiah right like Isaiya. He's he's the guy. 272 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.879 Isaiah the Prophet went to him and said, thus says 273 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.960 the Lord set your house in order, you shall die 274 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.480 and not live. There's nothing like getting a word from 275 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.799 the prophet, from God, your dad go, you know, get 276 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:57.799 it together, because this. 277 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:58.879 Is it, all right? 278 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:02.320 So this is what is here are the paradox here 279 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.639 like this is you know, Bible's reality here. 280 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:05.559 And this is what he said. 281 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.000 And then it says, then Hezekiah turned his face toward 282 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:12.240 the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, remember, now, Lord, 283 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:14.720 I pray, how I walk before you in truth with 284 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.080 a loyal heart, and have done what was good in 285 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:22.759 your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And it happened before 286 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:24.720 Isaiah had gone out in the middle court, that the 287 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:28.559 word of the Lord Kingdom, saying, return and tell Hezekiah, 288 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.000 the leader of my people. Thus says the Lord, God 289 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:33.799 father of David, your father. 290 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.879 I've heard your prayer, I've seen your tears. Surely I'll 291 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:37.159 heal you. 292 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:38.960 And on the third day you'll go to the house 293 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.679 of the Lord. So Hezekiah gets gets a word. You're 294 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.080 gonna die. He says this, you know, he begins to 295 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.720 cry out to God and then the same the same 296 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.200 prophet goes back to him. Okay, we're changing course here. 297 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.679 Why because he prayed a lot of times. We accept 298 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.759 that bad report. Okay, then, and what's the challenging is 299 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:05.120 this bad report came from God. You're coming home and 300 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.440 this guy's like, I don't want to. 301 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.360 I'm not ready to. 302 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.559 I said, got life to live, And God's like, okay, 303 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.240 fifteen years. 304 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:19.240 What are you accepting in your life that you need 305 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:19.679 to do. 306 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.200 You need to turn your face to the wall and 307 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.279 cry out to God and shed some tears. 308 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.720 Okay, because he has a he has another word for you. Okay. 309 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:29.799 I really believe. 310 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.120 There's many in this room this morning that God has 311 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.600 has a new word for you. Somebody may have come 312 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:38.720 to you and said, this is the Lord. It's awful, 313 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.120 it's terrible, gloom, doom, all of that, all right? 314 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.840 But but go to the wall and cry out, because 315 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:49.639 God's gonna turn it around, all right. 316 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.720 And so so Second Corinthians two fourteen says, now, thanks 317 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.840 be to God who always leads us in triumph in 318 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.279 Christ and threw us diffuse the fragrance of his knowledge 319 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:05.960 in every place. Boy, winning smells good, Winny smells good. All. 320 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.240 I remember, you know when when my husband and I 321 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.879 we weren't married yet, we were attending Old Roberts University, 322 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.360 finishing our last leg of education, and the Lord began 323 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:17.480 to speak to us supernaturally. You're gonna go back to 324 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.919 a church in Turlock. The church you were at that 325 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:21.960 and it was the one that I did not like. 326 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.720 And we were at this church, and he says, you're 327 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:26.480 gonna go back to that church, and you're gonna pastor. 328 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:29.279 Now keep in mind we were not married yet. Keep 329 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.879 in mind I didn't like that church, all right, And 330 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:34.840 and the Lord was like, like, you're both going back 331 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.519 and you're gonna pastor that church. 332 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.080 And so this is. 333 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:43.919 The church that everybody said was the pastor's graveyard. The 334 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.480 pastor's graveyard. Now I had a great history. Amy simple 335 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.799 Macpherson came to Turlock. Can you believe that she did 336 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:54.600 an evangelistic meeting there, and out of that meeting was 337 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.879 birth the prayer meeting. And out of that prayer meeting 338 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.919 was birth the church. Okay, the Pentecostal mission. And out 339 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.440 of that Pentacot submission was birthed our church. 340 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.960 And that was over like by the time when. 341 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.920 We got there's about eighty years of history. And that 342 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:13.839 church had massive revivals in the past. I mean David 343 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.480 Yankee Choe, Paul Young GEcho, whatever his name is, well 344 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.640 he preached there til Osborne and his wife Daisy preached it. 345 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.599 They actually got married in our not married, they got 346 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:28.200 engaged in our balcony. Okay, we had massive revivals and 347 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:29.400 and so. 348 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:30.079 This you know. 349 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.680 But we got the church when it was on the downcline. 350 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.240 It was on the downcline, and the pastors were not 351 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.039 making it. Actually the pastor that we were under as 352 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:45.000 associates on the the powers that be inside of the congregation, 353 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:50.079 you know, the the demonized power mafia people individuals in 354 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:52.680 there all right. So they actually put him in the 355 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.960 hospital so many times with like stress, stress breakdowns. And 356 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.039 then finally I remember when he left to go to 357 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:03.559 Vegas and to the church that he had planted. He 358 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.319 went there, and and then he gives us a phone 359 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:12.039 call because he wasn't planning on coming back. And my 360 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.599 husband and I ever ever told anybody that God had 361 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:17.680 told us that we're gonna be the senior pastors there. 362 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:19.319 But that's not how it's supposed to go. 363 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.960 Okay, So we're entering into the pastor's graveyard at the 364 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:27.000 word of the Lord, right at the word of the Lord. Okay, 365 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.720 the rumor, the you know, the powers that be, the 366 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.039 prayer people that make the decrease, you know, because they 367 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.039 look and they observe what is and they call it 368 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:35.920 a prophetic word. 369 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.599 That's not a prophetic word. And so so. 370 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.880 It's a pastor's graveyard, you know, And and nobody makes 371 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.119 it here. And yet God had called us, and so 372 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.480 we got we turned our face to the wall, and 373 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.480 we begin to cry out, and God began to speak. 374 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.799 He began to speak to us. You know, Jesus said, 375 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.799 I only do what I see my father doing. 376 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:58.880 What was that about? 377 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.400 What that was about was he was praying, he was 378 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.720 getting visions and what he's supposed to do that day, 379 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:04.960 all right, and. 380 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.359 Then back to the Lord's prayer. If we kept going. 381 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:09.799 Versus eleven says, you know. 382 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:13.200 Jesus said, prayed that I would give you a pray 383 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:15.559 that I would give you your daily bread. 384 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:17.319 Okay, and what is that about. 385 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.680 It's not just bread, you know, provision for food and 386 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.400 sustenance and all that. You know. I mean it is, 387 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.440 but it has another layer of meaning that we are 388 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.039 to pray for God to give us that bread, that 389 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.119 word that leads us to provision. Right, And so we 390 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.839 turned our face to the wall. We begin to cry 391 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.799 out to God, and he began to speak to us, No, 392 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:41.400 this is a life giving place. 393 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.480 No, my power is gonna fall here, no, you know. 394 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:46.839 And he began to tell us the exact opposite of 395 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.279 what all the you know, the spiritual people were telling us. 396 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.400 And so we had to begin to agree with God 397 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:59.240 for his kingdom to come and his will to be 398 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.680 done on earth as in heaven. But we would have 399 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:04.359 ever even heard those things that God was saying. It 400 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.359 was exact opposite of our situation. We would not have 401 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.920