Speaker 1: Potter, We thank you for your word today, thank you
Speaker 1: for the power of your word to transform us, and
Speaker 1: we welcome you moving in upon and our hearts and
Speaker 1: in this atmosphere right now in Jesus name. And everybody said, Amen,
Speaker 1: isn't that so much better? I get so excited. What
Speaker 1: happens is the volume calms me down. If I can
Speaker 1: tell I'm killing you with volume, then call me. Colds
Speaker 1: me right down. I want to talk to you a
Speaker 1: little bit this morning about a redeemed imagination. You know,
Speaker 1: when we think about your soul, your soul is Your
Speaker 1: soul is mind, will, emotions, imagination, and reasoning, and your
Speaker 1: soul is the unredeemed part of you. Essentially, it's what
Speaker 1: gives you personality. It is a spiritual element. But when
Speaker 1: we're born of the spirit, our soul is not sanctified
Speaker 1: or redeemed. Our soul has to be redeemed. It has
Speaker 1: to be sanctified by the washing of the water of
Speaker 1: the word. And so the word, the Word, by way
Speaker 1: of conviction and by way of promise, is washing out
Speaker 1: of us. And we're responding. And this is the calling.
Speaker 1: The calling that we have is to pay attention to
Speaker 1: the logos, the written word. Pay attention to the spirit,
Speaker 1: the rama, the spoken word in our own hearts. Pay
Speaker 1: attention to the prophetic word, which is the ram Us
Speaker 1: spoken through others over us and to us. So this
Speaker 1: is all us us positioning and placing our soul before
Speaker 1: the Lord in humility, so that the Holy Spirit dwelling
Speaker 1: on the inside, who is the manifestation of Jesus, and
Speaker 1: the Spirit of truth, testifying of truth, leading us into truth,
Speaker 1: so that he will wash our soul so that our
Speaker 1: entire personality is presented before the Lord and becomes useful.
Speaker 1: I don't want just the testimony of Holy Spirit within me,
Speaker 1: convicting me or leading me, and me not responding, arguing,
Speaker 1: not cooperating, not partnering with I want the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: in me, finding partnership in my soul so that with mind, will, emotion, imagination,
Speaker 1: and reasoning that what he wants to do is fully
Speaker 1: fully accentualized, fully brought to the forefront, fully manifested, fully experienced.
Speaker 1: And the imagination has a huge part of that. Fact
Speaker 1: is your imagination is so critical, it's so key because
Speaker 1: it's even what you it's how you posture your will,
Speaker 1: like my will, which is like the backbone of my soul,
Speaker 1: my will. I can posture my will to think on
Speaker 1: or meditate on something, and through imagination I can begin
Speaker 1: to see things that aren't seen. This is a God
Speaker 1: quality that you have. You have a God quality about
Speaker 1: you to be able to do this with your imagination.
Speaker 1: This is this is like no other animal or specie. This,
Speaker 1: this is what separates you apart from the rest of
Speaker 1: created order or nature. Is that this ability to see
Speaker 1: and this ability to function with imagination, It's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: So what I want you to see is that you
Speaker 1: got this from You got this from your father, you
Speaker 1: got this from God, and that this is how God
Speaker 1: operates concerning you as well, that that God actually is
Speaker 1: a God of imagination. Now we might say that imagination
Speaker 1: is essentially seeing things before they exist, and this is
Speaker 1: how God brings things into order. God brings things into creativity.
Speaker 1: This is how God expresses then faith, and we might
Speaker 1: we have to understand that even though we are compelled
Speaker 1: to be people of faith, and even though we are
Speaker 1: challenged to be people of faith, and even though we
Speaker 1: are constrained to be people of faith, and we talk
Speaker 1: about faith all the time in church, this is actually
Speaker 1: God's realm, That faith is God's realm. That you know,
Speaker 1: God doesn't say you walk by faith, and I don't right,
Speaker 1: that faith is actually his realm, that he actually walks
Speaker 1: by faith, and that he's showing us how faith works,
Speaker 1: even you know, through scripture and throughout the Bible, and
Speaker 1: he's showing us how it partners with imagination. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: in Genesis one one through three, it says that he
Speaker 1: created the earth, and it says that darkness was there
Speaker 1: and that he was brooding. So the earth was formless
Speaker 1: and empty, darkness was over the sea surface of the deep,
Speaker 1: and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Speaker 1: So hovering is one translation. Another is brooding, Another is fluttering.
Speaker 1: There's probably four different words there. In the Hebrew imagination stage.
Speaker 1: This is like incubation. He's actually before he speaks, he's seeing. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've thought of God in that light,
Speaker 1: but but God actually is seeing things before he speaks them.
Speaker 1: In other words, he's thinking about them, he's meditating on them,
Speaker 1: and he's imagining them before he declares they are. So
Speaker 1: let's let's uh, let's look at a couple of verses
Speaker 1: factors on this, Uh, just real quick that kind of
Speaker 1: speak to some of this. One that I love is
Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty five eight through nine. For my thoughts are
Speaker 1: not your thoughts, nor are my ways your ways, says
Speaker 1: the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
Speaker 1: so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
Speaker 1: thoughts than your thought, higher than your thoughts. So think
Speaker 1: about that for a minute. So his thoughts are like
Speaker 1: super high. And we know the Lord, the Father, and
Speaker 1: the Son are one. So when I say God, I
Speaker 1: just want you to see the Father and the Son
Speaker 1: are one. But these are like these heavenward thoughts, right,
Speaker 1: And these are even the thoughts that he has over us.
Speaker 1: So he's got these super high, crazy thoughts that are high,
Speaker 1: and he's always calling us up to his thoughts. And
Speaker 1: his thoughts are bigger than holiness. His thoughts include an
Speaker 1: encompass holiness. But again, most of the time we're so
Speaker 1: trained in church to think about sin that we miss
Speaker 1: what God's really up to. We're so trained to think
Speaker 1: about the Ten commandments and whether we measure up to
Speaker 1: them or not, that we are we're always approaching God
Speaker 1: out of legalism, and if he's this, you know, cosmic
Speaker 1: kill joy up in the sky looking the club us.
Speaker 1: If we don't meet the ten commandments, so then we're
Speaker 1: missing that. No, these thoughts, they actually pertain to everything.
Speaker 1: Like he has promises. Two Peter Chapter one, verses one
Speaker 1: and two says that he has promises over your life.
Speaker 1: They are precious and magnificent promises, which is interesting because
Speaker 1: it's a parallel to something else we're going to read
Speaker 1: in a minute. He has precious and magnificent promises over
Speaker 1: your life, and it says so that you will have
Speaker 1: everything you need for life and godliness. So he's got
Speaker 1: promises over food, he's got promises over cars, he's got
Speaker 1: promises over babies, he's got promises over stuff. He's got
Speaker 1: promises over right over everything and godliness in church. We
Speaker 1: just keep thinking that it's all about godliness. He says
Speaker 1: these promises. Second Peter, too, we aren't going to go there.
Speaker 1: Second Peter one, I'm sure. One and two. He says
Speaker 1: that these promises are critical for us to escape corruption
Speaker 1: and become partakers of the divine nature. So he's got
Speaker 1: these promises. I want to just throw another thing out
Speaker 1: of that shoe. Because we always think in terms of
Speaker 1: the logos. We're always thinking terms of the logos, which
Speaker 1: is the written word. But in Ephesian chapter five, where
Speaker 1: he says he washes this with the water of his word,
Speaker 1: you have to realize that he can't do complete washing
Speaker 1: if the water of the Word that he washes with
Speaker 1: is just the logos. Is that going to sound like heresy?
Speaker 1: Sounds like heresy, doesn't it. You think about it when
Speaker 1: even when Paul wrote that word, they didn't even have
Speaker 1: the logos. When Paul wrote that, it wasn't even scripture,
Speaker 1: they didn't have the New Testament. But you you have
Speaker 1: been told to limit your entire spiritual experience to the logos,
Speaker 1: to the written word. But you can't get your mind
Speaker 1: renewed with the logos alone. The Holy Spirit. Why would
Speaker 1: you put the Holy Spirit, who is the us of
Speaker 1: a person of whom you've been created in the likeness
Speaker 1: of Why would you put him in a box and
Speaker 1: say that he can't talk. Why would you say he
Speaker 1: can't speak to your heart? Are you going to tell
Speaker 1: your wife she can't speak to your heart? So the
Speaker 1: washing of the water of the Word, this is the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Is he's calling you. He's got so many
Speaker 1: Oh my word, he's got so many crazy things that
Speaker 1: he wants to say over you, to make imprint on
Speaker 1: your imagination, to bring you into a realm of hope.
Speaker 1: But if you limit what he can say to the logos,
Speaker 1: to what's written, then you've limited his ability to brood
Speaker 1: over you. He was brooding over the earth, he brooded
Speaker 1: over Abraham, he brooded over Joseph. If he brooded over
Speaker 1: this one, that one the other one to bring forth
Speaker 1: the royal calling and the royal significance that he had
Speaker 1: over them. But if you limit him to the logos,
Speaker 1: then you will not allow him to bring you into
Speaker 1: the fullness of what he has for you. Now, let's
Speaker 1: look at this. This is this is I'm trying to
Speaker 1: connect you to the fountainhead of hope. God's imagination is
Speaker 1: known as hope. We're infused with hope, we're born again
Speaker 1: with the spirit of hope. But we can have darkness
Speaker 1: in our soul that's resisting that hope, blocking the hope.
Speaker 1: We can have darkness in our soul. We can have distrust,
Speaker 1: we can have bitterness, we can have jealousies, we can
Speaker 1: have carnality that's blocking the hope. But God is the
Speaker 1: supreme see of hope, and that hope is really just
Speaker 1: the use of his imagination. It's what he sees over tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And it's only hope because God can't see with darkness.
Speaker 1: There is no darkness in him, so when he imagines,
Speaker 1: he can only imagine that which is good. So that's
Speaker 1: why whatever flows out of God brings hope, because there's
Speaker 1: no darkness in him. You can use your imagination. You
Speaker 1: know how to use it really good with fear. You're
Speaker 1: a professional with worry. You're skilled with anxiety. You know
Speaker 1: what to do with dread, you know exactly how to
Speaker 1: milk that one. But that's not hope because you're using
Speaker 1: your imagination and it's connected to something dark and so
Speaker 1: all it brings is depression or sorrow. But you're using
Speaker 1: your imagination and you can frame it really well and
Speaker 1: you can see how it's going to unfold, and you
Speaker 1: can have every single detail put together with that thing.
Speaker 1: That means you're skillful with your imagination, but you're not
Speaker 1: grabbing that tool with your will and aligning it with
Speaker 1: God's word over your life. And God has a word
Speaker 1: of your life. God has a God has a bigger
Speaker 1: word of your life than the logos. Sounds like harrisy,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to prove it to you. Listen to
Speaker 1: some one thirty nine. If for if two Peter Chapter
Speaker 1: one wasn't enough for you, write that down to look
Speaker 1: at it, read it, study it, but listen to some
Speaker 1: one thirty nine. How about the one you have memorized?
Speaker 1: You have one memorized. Everybody in this building's got Jeremiah
Speaker 1: twenty one eleven memorized. I know the plans that I
Speaker 1: have for you, Plans to give you a hope and
Speaker 1: a future, plans to prosper you. One translation I hated
Speaker 1: it says plans for welfare. There's no welfare plans for
Speaker 1: many cheligd Okay. We know the translators didn't. They weren't
Speaker 1: connected to the United States welfare system, so they weren't. Okay,
Speaker 1: But we know Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. So God says,
Speaker 1: I know the plans I have for you. God is
Speaker 1: imagining something over you now. He said that over Israel
Speaker 1: when they were messed up, they were super messed up.
Speaker 1: They were all they were in sin. Jeremiah was giving
Speaker 1: them a good what forward. They were the good swift
Speaker 1: kick and a rebuke. But in the middle of that,
Speaker 1: his grace was so sufficient, was so amazing. He said,
Speaker 1: even though you have problems, and you've been a problem,
Speaker 1: even though I still have plans for you, I'm still
Speaker 1: calling you into the royalty. I'm still calling you up
Speaker 1: out of degradation. I'm still calling you up out of
Speaker 1: that negativity. I'm still calling you up out of that bitterness.
Speaker 1: I'm calling you out of that unforgiveness. I'm calling you
Speaker 1: up out of that anxiety. I have plans for you,
Speaker 1: says the Lord. Well, those plans weren't in the logos.
Speaker 1: He was telling them to draw near, and he actually
Speaker 1: says in Jeremiah thirty three to three, just a couple
Speaker 1: chapters later, he says, call to me, and I will
Speaker 1: answer you and show you great and mighty things that
Speaker 1: you do not know. How many have you had that
Speaker 1: memorised Jeremiah thirty three to three. Okay, some of you
Speaker 1: know that scripture. If you know that scripture, call to me,
Speaker 1: and I will answer you and show you great many
Speaker 1: things that you do not know. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: It's not all in the logos, it's not all in
Speaker 1: the Bible. Well, then how am I gonna get it all?
Speaker 1: You better do what we talked about today. You better
Speaker 1: draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
Speaker 1: He says, draw near to me, and I will draw
Speaker 1: near to you. Wow. I mean this is this is
Speaker 1: like a major One of the major reasons why I
Speaker 1: seek the Lord every day and I get on my
Speaker 1: face and I turned to him and I draw near
Speaker 1: to him is because I know what I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I know I don't know a lot, and I
Speaker 1: know he knows, and some I one thirty nine, your
Speaker 1: eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for
Speaker 1: me were written in your book before one of them
Speaker 1: came to be. Huh did you hear that? How precious
Speaker 1: to me are your thoughts? Oh? Oh, these aren't negative thoughts.
Speaker 1: These are precious thoughts. Did you know that God saw
Speaker 1: you in Christ before you came into being. God saw
Speaker 1: you in Christ. He didn't see you in Satan. He
Speaker 1: saw you in Christ. The Bible says fall wrote to
Speaker 1: the Cristons. He said God was in Christ, redeeming the
Speaker 1: entire world to himself. God saw you in Christ. That's
Speaker 1: why he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of
Speaker 1: the earth, God saw you in Christ before you had
Speaker 1: day number one. Meaning the book he wrote about you
Speaker 1: is not a book of despair. It's not a book
Speaker 1: of defeat. It's not a book of sickness. It's not
Speaker 1: a book of disease. It's not a book of failure.
Speaker 1: It's not a book of fear. It's not a book
Speaker 1: of sorrow. It is a book of victory, a book
Speaker 1: of grace, a book of blessing, a book of health
Speaker 1: and wholeness. He wrote the book he wrote about you,
Speaker 1: he wrote it in and through the beloved who covers you.
Speaker 1: So the book he wrote about you couldn't be any
Speaker 1: different than the book he wrote about the sun. You
Speaker 1: hear what I'm saying, Like he didn't write a book
Speaker 1: about Okay, Oh your Shua all right now, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the word made flesh, and he's my heart made flesh.
Speaker 1: And oh, he's gonna raise the dead, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna pay his taxes by calling coins out of
Speaker 1: the and he's he's oh, he's gonna walk on water.
Speaker 1: That's your Shoa. Dwyane, poh, where Dwayne the bathtub. Let's see,
Speaker 1: Dwayne's gonna have this going, Dwayne, He's not gonna qualify
Speaker 1: for that great No, Jesus qualified me for a good
Speaker 1: book before I ever came along, when the polywog hit
Speaker 1: the seed. You know what I'm talking about. At that moment,
Speaker 1: God had a book written about me, and he sent
Speaker 1: me into this generation for a divine purpose. I'm sent
Speaker 1: like an arrow, thrust into this generation out of the
Speaker 1: quiver of God for divine purpose that he already saw.
Speaker 1: Now that's what hope is. This is why when you're
Speaker 1: born of the spirit, you're reconnected to your divine assignment,
Speaker 1: your divine purpose, your divine identity. It's impossible for you
Speaker 1: to fail unless you just keep believing you have to.
Speaker 1: How stubborn are you now? I just want to be
Speaker 1: a failure. I just like it. I just like it
Speaker 1: down here under the circumstances, I like living under the
Speaker 1: very far. I'm way down down, I'm under them, under
Speaker 1: the circuman. Listen to the Listen to the ESV. The
Speaker 1: ESV is the closest to the Hebrew, so it is
Speaker 1: a trustworthy translation and I like to read it, especially
Speaker 1: as it pertains to the Old Testament. Because of the
Speaker 1: manuscripts that they use to write the ESV. So it's
Speaker 1: not as groovy for the New Testament, because the New
Speaker 1: Testament's Greek, but the Old Testaments Hebrew, and it's a
Speaker 1: little more groovy. And listen to the way it says this,
Speaker 1: your eyes saw my unformed substance. In your book were
Speaker 1: written every one of them, the days that were formed
Speaker 1: for me. In your book, we're written every one of them,
Speaker 1: the days that were formed for me, when as yet
Speaker 1: there were none of them. How precious to me are
Speaker 1: your thoughts of God? How vast is some of them,
Speaker 1: if I would count them, they are more than the sand.
Speaker 1: When you are born of the spirit, you are immediately
Speaker 1: connected to that reality you are immediately connected to and
Speaker 1: that's the living hope and in you is directly connected
Speaker 1: to the testimony of Jesus over you, which is the
Speaker 1: fulfillment of God's identity and purpose and redeeming power over you.
Speaker 1: Even when you don't know what it says. I gave
Speaker 1: my life to the Lord when I was four years old.
Speaker 1: Don't say it didn't happen. It was vivid. I remember
Speaker 1: every moment of it. And as an adult fifteen years later,
Speaker 1: I got to call the evangelist the Cruzy Brothers in Everett, Washington,
Speaker 1: and talk to Johnny Cruzy who was in Ben Doregan
Speaker 1: leading the Tinkers in and thank him. So I've been
Speaker 1: going on with the Lord for sixty two years. I
Speaker 1: still don't know all the thoughts that are in the book.
Speaker 1: I still want to know more of the thoughts that
Speaker 1: are in the book. I'm still pressing in. Paul says,
Speaker 1: I've obtained a bunch, but I haven't obtained at all.
Speaker 1: This is Philippians three twelve. So I press on that
Speaker 1: I might fully obtain, that I might fully know why
Speaker 1: he took hold of me. Right, I want to fully
Speaker 1: know why he took hold of me. And so that's
Speaker 1: that's like we're pressing in because why because not one
Speaker 1: single imagination that God had, not one single thought as
Speaker 1: he as he literally wrote a book about me for
Speaker 1: my life and my generation, not one single thought was
Speaker 1: anything other than precious and magnificent. And it is literally filled,
Speaker 1: it is ladened with That book is ladened with promise.
Speaker 1: It is filled with promise. So this is this is
Speaker 1: why we prophesy. You know what prophecy is. No true
Speaker 1: prophet is creating anything, nor is any new revelation actually
Speaker 1: coming into existence. Any true prophet is just reaching into
Speaker 1: the book. What's already written. They're just reaching into And
Speaker 1: if it's if administering to Dennis, it's like, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: show me what's in the book. All I'm doing is
Speaker 1: reaching into the book because that's where hope is. And
Speaker 1: wherever hope is, see, hope has to precede faith. And
Speaker 1: once there's an incubation of hope, once there's an incubation
Speaker 1: of hope, then faith can come. And faith is where
Speaker 1: I partner with God through agreement. This is where I
Speaker 1: partner with God through agreement. God nursed. I'm watching the
Speaker 1: time God nursed. Yeah, thank you thinking easy for you
Speaker 1: to sent. God nursed Abram along with imagination, and then
Speaker 1: at one point he required Abram to believe. Starts in
Speaker 1: Genesis chapter twelve, and his name is Abram, and he
Speaker 1: calls him out from his family's household, and he begins
Speaker 1: to paint pictures of promise over him to quicken his imagination.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you a great nation. I'm gonna make you.
Speaker 1: Every nation's gonna be blessed for you. And this just
Speaker 1: goes on. It goes on in chapter thirteen. He says,
Speaker 1: open your eyes and look around as far as you
Speaker 1: can see, to the north, southeast, and the west. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you this land. And just over and over again,
Speaker 1: there's visitations and there's conversations, and he's appealing to Abram Abram,
Speaker 1: and Abram says, you're gonna give me this land. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the father of many nations. That's all great,
Speaker 1: But I have a hope I want to present to you,
Speaker 1: hoping this is going to come through my lineage. I
Speaker 1: would like my loins to be involved. And all I
Speaker 1: have is Eliezer, a servant in my house right And
Speaker 1: God says, no, this is going to come through you.
Speaker 1: And so God just continues, you know, to romance him
Speaker 1: with these downloads, leading him to fully believe. Are you
Speaker 1: with me? Chapter fifteen, verse four, Then where the Lord came,
Speaker 1: This man will not be your heir, but a son
Speaker 1: who will be your own flesh and blood will be
Speaker 1: your heir. And he took him outside and said, look
Speaker 1: at the sky and count the stars. Do you hear
Speaker 1: God talking about imagination? This is God imagination. God wants
Speaker 1: to partner with your imagination. So shall your offspring be
Speaker 1: and Abraham believe the Lord, and it was credited to
Speaker 1: him as righteousness. Abraham believed so when he believed, then
Speaker 1: the Lord came to him and said, all right, now,
Speaker 1: I want you to change your name. I want you
Speaker 1: to change your name. I want you to I want
Speaker 1: you to now begin to go by Abraham instead of Abram.
Speaker 1: And when God did this, when God asked him to
Speaker 1: change his name, so much time had occurred through this
Speaker 1: process that he was all dried up, right, his loins
Speaker 1: were dried up. And Sarah had all dried up. She
Speaker 1: had gone through menopause. She had paused for men. Use
Speaker 1: your imagination. But God said, God said, change your name.
Speaker 1: And he said, not only you, I want you. I
Speaker 1: want her to change her name. It's no longer Sarah,
Speaker 1: but he said it will be Sarah. Now listen, I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you real quick. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: change our name. Isaiah prophesied it about it, he said,
Speaker 1: and they will be called by a new name. We
Speaker 1: change our name to Christian. And when we call ourselves Christian,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to emote an imagination within us that we
Speaker 1: begin to see that as He is, so are we
Speaker 1: in this world. We begin to see ourselves healing the sick.
Speaker 1: We begin to see ourselves blessed going out and blessed
Speaker 1: coming in. We begin to see ourselves raising the dead.
Speaker 1: We begin to see ourselves. We begin to see ourselves
Speaker 1: loving the unlovely. We begin to see ourselves reconciling where
Speaker 1: there's been problems. We begin to see ourselves over coming
Speaker 1: evil with good. We begin to see ourselves. Because we
Speaker 1: bear the name Christian, it's not supposed to be just
Speaker 1: a nomenclature. It's not supposed to be just a tag
Speaker 1: or something that we put on because we go to
Speaker 1: a church. It's an indication of a change of nature.
Speaker 1: It means that we're allowing Holy Spirit to conquer our soul,
Speaker 1: and we are putting aside everything that hinders and we
Speaker 1: are submitting our imagination not only to him, but the
Speaker 1: partner with him, so that heaven can come. He can't
Speaker 1: bring heaven, and we talk about it all the time.
Speaker 1: He can't bring heaven any further than he can bring you.
Speaker 1: The book he wrote about you, it's a book of
Speaker 1: heaven on earth. He can't bring heaven to you or
Speaker 1: through you if you keep resisting him, or you won't
Speaker 1: partner with your imagination. Every word, every promise he's spoken
Speaker 1: over you, it's meant to fuel your imagination, your god
Speaker 1: like ability to begin to see it come to pass.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to tell you everything. He just needs
Speaker 1: to fuel your imagination when it says in Deuteronomy eight eighteen,
Speaker 1: he gives you the power to create wealth. That's supposed
Speaker 1: to provoke your imagination. Oh, my goodness, the power to
Speaker 1: create wealth, Holy Spirit, What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: How can we do that? How can we partner? What
Speaker 1: do you have in mind? Holy Spirit? All of these
Speaker 1: words are meant to draw us near to Him in hope,
Speaker 1: so that we begin to receive the downloads of promise
Speaker 1: from him, so that we begin to come into agreement.
Speaker 1: Because it's not just the name Christian that I want
Speaker 1: to embrace, but I want to come into agreement with
Speaker 1: every promise he's spoken over me, every promise in that book.
Speaker 1: I want to come into agreement. When I come into agreement,
Speaker 1: I can enter into rest Hebrews fourth. There's no rest
Speaker 1: if there's no agreement, as long as you're continuing to
Speaker 1: push against, or fight or exalt your carnality against the
Speaker 1: testimony of his promise, then there's no rest for you.
Speaker 1: But when you enter into rest, then you experience what
Speaker 1: abra Ham experienced. Romans Chapter four, seventeen through twenty one.
Speaker 1: He considered his body as good as dead, even though
Speaker 1: he was ninety nine and his loins had dried up.
Speaker 1: Her loins had dried up. He considered his body as
Speaker 1: good as dead. But with regard to the promise, he
Speaker 1: did not waver, considering him who made the promise well
Speaker 1: able to bring it to pass. So instead of wavering
Speaker 1: in doubt or unbelief for fear, it says that he
Speaker 1: grew stronger in faith, giving glory to God. Giving glory
Speaker 1: to God. I'll say this morning, heaven on earth, Heaven
Speaker 1: on earth, Heaven on Earth is going to come as
Speaker 1: you continue to press in. But you're not pressing in
Speaker 1: prayer just to overcome the ten commandments and stop sinning.
Speaker 1: God has a much higher calling than that for you.
Speaker 1: You're pressing in because you want to know what's in
Speaker 1: that book. You want to know what's written in that book,
Speaker 1: because on earth is written in your book. Concern you
Speaker 1: concerning every Christian expression and concerning the fulfillment of your purpose.
Speaker 1: It's all in that book, and so you want to
Speaker 1: press in and you want to receive, because as you
Speaker 1: receive downloads prophetically or by the Spirit visiting you or
Speaker 1: ministering to you or touching you, giving you rama. And
Speaker 1: you write it down, It says, Mary, cherish the Word
Speaker 1: in her heart. We cherish the rama in our heart.
Speaker 1: The renewing of our mind that doesn't come through the
Speaker 1: logos alone. Be no longer conformed to this world, but
Speaker 1: be transformed into a heavenward being by the by the
Speaker 1: by the renewing of your mind. Well, the renewing of
Speaker 1: your mind comes through what's in the book. It's the
Speaker 1: promises over you. You're working your tail off, you're exasperated
Speaker 1: with frustration, you feel like a failure. You go into prayer,
Speaker 1: You press into prayer, and Holy Spirit says, no, you're
Speaker 1: my son, you're my daughter. You're victorious, You're royalty to me.
Speaker 1: You're the apple of my eye. Try this. Put your
Speaker 1: net on the other side of the boat and see
Speaker 1: what happens. Oh, oh, a spirit, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: What did he do? He washed failure out of your heart,
Speaker 1: the washing of the water of the Word, the washing
Speaker 1: of the water of the Rama. He washes the failure
Speaker 1: out of your heart. He washes the plan that you
Speaker 1: thought was going to work out of your heart. He
Speaker 1: shows you a better plan, and you leave the place
Speaker 1: of prayer in victory and you launch into seeing it
Speaker 1: come to pass. It works, and Heaven comes. Now you're
Speaker 1: manifesting more of Heaven, and you're parting with him with
Speaker 1: your imagination, seeing what he could do. Seeing now, the
Speaker 1: enemy wants you all wrapped up in stupid stuff. Right.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you praying. He doesn't want you seeking.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you running after God. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: you looking beyond the logos. He doesn't want you paying
Speaker 1: attention to prophecy. He doesn't want the spear of prophecy
Speaker 1: ministering to you. He wants your whole life engaged in
Speaker 1: streams and stupid stuff. Why Because he knows your imagination.
Speaker 1: If God, he knows. If God and you partner in
Speaker 1: the realm of imagination, then you will partner in faith.
Speaker 1: And if you partner in faith, you'll partner in victory,
Speaker 1: and Heaven will come. Heaven will come, Heaven will come
Speaker 1: if your imagination will partner with God. Heads about just
Speaker 1: for a minute, eyes closed, real quick I want the
Speaker 1: whole prayer team up here. We're we're just gonna close,
Speaker 1: just offering this morning that if you feel blockages in
Speaker 1: your soul, I want you to come forward. If you
Speaker 1: feel like you're lacking this hope, this infusion of hope,
Speaker 1: I want you to come forward. If you've gotten a
Speaker 1: revelation of how this hope comes, and this is your
Speaker 1: morning to lean into that and say yes to it.
Speaker 1: I want you to come and be prayed for. If
Speaker 1: you've been afraid of what God would say over you,
Speaker 1: I want you to be prayed for and ministered to.
Speaker 1: If there's a blockage of distrust or bitterness, if you've
Speaker 1: not been seeing the goodness of God over your life
Speaker 1: and you've not been able to dream with him, would
Speaker 1: you come be prayed for, be ministered too. As we
Speaker 1: close this morning, Holy Spirit, we thank you for this beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful morning in you and in the Word and in
Speaker 1: the Spirit, we give you the praise for what you're
Speaker 1: doing and saying we honor you today in Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: and everybody said, let's worship as we go church. Mm hmm.