(263) “Pattern Your Life to Live in the Glory”

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You're not going to bring forth fruit when you're

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dealing with the cares of this life or the deceitfulness

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of riches or lusts of other things entering in.

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It chokes the word. Pleasures of this life. These

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things can distract us from the heavenly pattern.

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And we want to pattern our life to live in his

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glory. His glory is in his presence. God promises

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in Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring, we equip for that

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outpouring, so that we may engage in that very

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outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today. We're so excited

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to bring this episode to you today. Philip had

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an encounter with the Lord recently in his devotional

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time, and we're going to talk about Pattern Your

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Life to Live in the Glory. Thank you so much

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for joining us today. We really appreciate you

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just... keep you up to date with what we're doing

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these days. And one of the things we're doing

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these days is our convention 2025 coming right

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up. And I've been talking about this for weeks

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and weeks on this podcast and telling you all

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about who's ministering. But I really want to

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emphasize the fact that the most important person

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who's going to be there is the presence of the

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Lord. We know that when we assemble that he shows

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up. because we're coming with a heart of humility.

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We're coming with a heart to seek his face. We're

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coming with a heart to worship him. We're coming

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with a heart to be open to what he has for us

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and get new marching orders, fresh marching orders.

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engage with him in what he wants to do in the

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earth. We want it to be on earth as it is in

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heaven. So we're dedicating our hearts to bring

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new, fresh things from the heavenlies into the

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earth while we're in worship, while we're in

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intercession, while we're in study of the word

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and revelation that has come to the speakers.

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We're just ready to just soak in his presence

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and get renewed and get freshened up in what

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he has for us. So I really encourage you to come,

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bring the children, bring the teens. We have

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something special for each of them. We even have

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a nursery. And so we're looking for the people

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that God is tugging. Is he tugging at your heart

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to come? It's at the St. Louis Airport Marriott,

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and it's May 21st through 25th. We really encourage

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you to come if you possibly can and participate

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in this and draw from this deep well. There's

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a deep well of... history and anointing and things

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that we haven't even experienced on the earth

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yet. And we're going to talk about some of that

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kind of thing today on this podcast. So, Philip,

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tell us what happened with you a few days ago

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that gave you this idea for this podcast. I was

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just in my morning prayer time before the Lord,

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and I just heard, do everything according to

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the pattern. Yeah. I don't... precisely remember

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what all I was just praying, but that just ran

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across and immediately I knew where it was because

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that's when Moses was on the mount in the presence

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of God. Yeah, Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai. The Lord

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gave him the pattern for the tabernacle. Yes.

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And it had it from the terms that most believers

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are familiar with, like the Ark of the Covenant

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and, you know, the altar of incense. Yeah. And

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all the furniture. So that was all given to Moses

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and the mount. And I think God caught him away

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into heaven and showed him the heavenly tabernacle.

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Because it's in the book of Revelation where

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it talks about those things, like the seven spirits

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of God there in flames. So then the Lord showed

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him, now here's how you do it on earth. And there's

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also in Revelation, it says, and the temple of

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God was opened. See, there is a real temple.

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Everything on the earth is a shadow. It's a model

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of what is to come on earth as it is in heaven.

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Yes, exactly. So Moses is getting this pattern.

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And it's not like it's a pattern of this was

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what they followed all through the Old Testament.

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Yeah. But many of the... things they have today,

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it's like a lot of the rabbis, they don't follow

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everything. They follow more the oral traditions

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of things. And that's where things can get complicated.

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And it just kind of loses things too. Yeah. They've

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added to it because, and that oral tradition,

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I just have to make a point here. It says in

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the scripture, and Moses wrote everything that

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God said. So if there's an oral tradition, then

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who said it? Because Moses wrote down everything

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that God said. Yeah, that's very good. And which

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we do too, many times when the Lord speaks to

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us. Oh yeah, write it down. Write it down, especially

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in the night seasons and that. Because if you

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don't write it down, your devotion time, you'll

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lose it. It's true. Unless you've got a photographic

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memory. Of course, you're not seeing a photo

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if you have a brain memory. Whatever kind of

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memory. You're blessed to have that. That's great.

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So then what happened? Well, so when I did get

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up, and I've been reading this year, it's a devotional

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Sister Gwen's, and she has written many devotionals.

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Oh, yeah. Started out as she was looking for

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something for a trip to Israel. Yeah, a devotional

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for travelers. And she couldn't find one, so

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she wrote one. Yes. It was amazing. Absolutely.

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And then she just kept writing, and that turned

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into Daily Preparations for Perfection. That's

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the name of the book. That's the name of the

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book. And it's not in any particular book. It

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takes different scriptures and one for every

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day. And she went from there to Day by Day, which

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was on the Psalms. Yep. And that's a remarkable

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one on the Psalms. Absolutely. It's like sitting

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at the feet of Jesus, every one of these books.

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And we would send those to prisons. We would

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get requests from prisoners, you know, can you

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please send this to us? Yeah. And it has just

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touched so many lives. It's true. And then her

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next, what was her next one she wrote? I think

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the next one might have been In the Beginning.

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In the Beginning. Yeah, that's just on the book

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of Genesis. And that's a whole. Oh, it's amazing.

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That's a Bible study in itself. It's remarkable.

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Yeah. And these devotionals are not. normal devotionals.

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These are deep for deep study in the Word. And

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then she has one just on the Proverbs. Yes, Gems

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of Wisdom. Gems of Wisdom. And then she has one...

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He sent me back to tell you. That was her last

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one. Yeah. That's a big one. After she was at

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the gates of heaven hoping to go in, and we prayed

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her back. She wasn't very happy. She says, don't

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ever do that again. Isn't that what Polly said

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to Smith Wigglesworth? What did you do that for?

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What did you do that for? Because she died, and

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he commanded life to come into her body. And

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she had some conversation with him that says,

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you've got to let me go. And he let her go. She

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went back to heaven. Went back to heaven. Authority

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of the believer. Yep, yep. Call your spouse back.

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But my favorite one is when we had the fire.

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Tell about the fire. It was in 1990. The fire

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was 1990, but we had this fire. It was like 1

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o 'clock in the morning, and it took everything.

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Yeah, took our offices. Somebody broke, one of

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our staff broke into the accounting office and

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got all of the mailing list, files of the mailing

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list. Yeah, the mailing list and the accounting

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records. So everything burnt, the print shop

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burnt. Everything was in one, all our eggs were

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in one basket. Yeah, our bookstore, our school

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of ministry, our baby. All the manuscripts, originals.

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all the original stuff of Sister Gwen, 40 years

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of ministry went up in one night. I think it

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was 50. It was 50. Yeah, it was 50. Yeah, actually

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it was 50. And Sister Gwen was planning a sabbatical,

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and she took one. After the fire, she closed

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the Bible school down, didn't travel, just as

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it was a sabbatical unto the Lord. I think she

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went to Israel. Yeah, he gave her permission

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to do that. To do that. After a time of grieving,

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the Lord gave her this book, spoke to her and

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says, pick up your pen. I want to teach you out

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of the red letters of the Gospels. Yeah. And

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so the title of this devotional is From the Heart

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of Jesus. And it's not one that has a date for

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every day because it goes beyond 365 days. But

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it's the story of Jesus, you know, how he spoke

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to her in the first person. Yeah, his life on

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earth, even when he was a 12 -year -old in the

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temple. Yeah, it's like background. It's a background

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is what it is. It's like Paul Harvey's the rest

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of the story. Yes, exactly. And I'll tell you

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right now, there is not another devotional like

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this that I have ever seen. Yeah. And it is so

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powerful because it's the rest of the story of

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things. And it includes in their traditions things

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we don't understand that aren't in our New Testament.

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Or in our culture. Or in our culture. Because

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a lot of the New Testament deals with the culture

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of the day. Things we don't understand. And why

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did he say it? And we try to make something out

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of this or that. It's my favorite one. And so

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I was reading in it that same morning, and the

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title of this devotion was called, Things to

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Know If You Are Called of God. We have a calling.

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Make your calling and your election sure. And

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many seek to find it in many different ways,

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but the key to finding it is the presence. Amen.

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Getting in the presence of God. And even in our

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world conventions that we have, we don't call

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them world convention anymore, We just call them

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conventions because we've got global in it. And

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we have these flags. We have over 160 or 170

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flags, if we have room, of all the nations that

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this ministry has operated in. We have somebody

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there with feet on the ground doing the work

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of the kingdom. So we just don't put a flag up

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because we want to. It's because we've had somebody

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there ministering in that nation from our organization.

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And that's big when you think about that. I thought,

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wow. And even this podcast has gone out to a

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hundred and... At least 189. 189 nations, you

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know. Yeah. That's just somebody there, even

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in the Muslim nations, Arab nations, somebody

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has clicked. And the islands of the sea. And

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the islands of the sea. You know, of course,

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the U .S., Canada, Australia, with a lot of people

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in Australia. Yes. And we don't hear from them,

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but they listen. So this is... So things to know

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if you are called by God. And I want to read

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this segment that she has. This will give you

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an understanding. This is the Holy Spirit talking

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through Sister Gwen, you know, Jesus speaking

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to her. It says, I went up into the mountains

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alone to pray. A number of men had been following

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me. I had to know the Father's will. It was important

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that I only ordained those whom he had prepared

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to serve with me. I also knew that among those

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whom I would ordain one, one must be different

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from all the others. He would be evil in his

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heart and would eventually betray my whereabouts

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to my enemies so that I would be arrested and

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crucified. Sometimes you too must permit a Judas

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to be included in the group who will work with

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you in the ministry. Do not always try to get

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rid of Judases. They are there for your perfecting.

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And also to test and try those who work with

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you to see if they will remain loyal to you under

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testing and temptation. Wow. Yeah, wow. You will

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be surprised how many of those who you trusted

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will follow the Judas goat and be led astray.

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And I'm adding this. You may have heard what

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the Judas goat, you know, you may not know what

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that does. There's a footnote there, isn't it?

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Yeah, there's a footnote here. A male goat that

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is kept for the purpose of leading the other

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sheep and goats to their slaughter. Yeah. Oh,

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wow. Mm -hmm. Yet these things are necessary.

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Did I not say, I have chosen you and one of you

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is a devil? That's in John 6, 70. And it is needful

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that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom

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the offense cometh. And you'll find that scripture

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in Matthew 18, 7. After I had chosen 12 men,

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I ordained them to go to the lost sheep of the

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house of Israel. It is important that you know

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who should be your co -workers and where you

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should go. Always wait until you get your orders

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from me. Never make decisions in your own understanding.

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I commissioned them to preach the gospel, heal

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the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead,

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and cast out devils. That's Matthew chapter 10,

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verses 7 and 8. There are 10 important points

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to remember when you are called. One. And so

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this is the pattern. This is the pattern. And

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this is spontaneous writing. Yeah. When Sister

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Gwen writes, this is spontaneous. She gets it

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from the Holy Spirit. Number one, wait for me

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to send you. That's important. Especially in

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organizations, you know, if you have opportunities

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or things, you only want to go where God wants

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you to go because you don't want to go somewhere

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that is not his will. Exactly. And that's why

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you have to spend time with him. Lord, where

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do you want me to go? You know, the way he opens

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the door and makes things happen. Two, go only

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to the places I approve. Yeah. Number three,

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do only the works I have commissioned you to

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do. If you do any more than that, you will break

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under the burden. Don't we know that one? That's

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true. We totally understand that. Go where you're

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commissioned. The expression, just don't go with

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any Tom, Dick, and Harry. When's the last time

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you heard that expression? That's an expression.

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That's an old one. That means just don't go with

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anybody. Get your orders from the Holy Spirit.

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Number four, remember it will not be easy. You

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will be hated even as I was. You will be persecuted

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by men. But trust me to be with you and help

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you to give the right answers to your inquisitors

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when that happens. And Sister Gwen has taken

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some amazing groups. I remember one group, you

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were on it, I wasn't, but they were in Haiti.

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And just as they're leaving, they're having a

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military coup. Actually, I wasn't on that one.

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You weren't on that one. No. So you never know

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what's going to happen. And it was on a tour

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somewhere, you were on that one, where they were

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waiting for the bus and someone died right on

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the spot. I wasn't on that one either. You weren't

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either. No. But Sister Gwen said, nobody's going

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to die on my tours and just called life back.

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That's true. And this lady was... She was seeing

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the lights and all that, and then all of a sudden

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she heard Sister Gwen calling her back. Nobody's

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going to die on my tours. We have exciting tours

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when we took them. Yeah, she said the Lord gave

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her the scripture. I think it's in the Book of

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Acts that I give you all that are journeying

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with you. All that are journeying with you. Yeah,

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that's good. And we say, remember, it will not

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be easy. A lot of tours we've been on have not

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been easy. Oh, yeah. You get off the plane in

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Tibet, you're at 11 ,500 feet, and we went up

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to 17 ,800 feet. We only have half your oxygen.

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Yeah. And places you go, you've got the communist

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government looking for people like you. Right.

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But if you're where God told you to go, the Holy

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Spirit hides you. It's true. And we've had those

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experiences. And even our brother Bob Baldwin

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tells of his experience. They were in China.

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And it was the Lord spoke to him to pray for

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this person. This was not a believer. They had

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an ailment. She had a bad pain in her stomach.

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He prayed for her in the name of Jesus. Remember,

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these are Buddhists or they're communists. And

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the person got healed. And all of a sudden, here's

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a line. of people for him to pray for, spontaneous.

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So he's praying for them, and all of a sudden

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they grab him and say, we've got to go out there

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because someone called the police. And the police

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are coming in the front door, and they pull him

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out the back door, and they had to go and hide

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somewhere. You know, wow, want to go on a tour

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with us? But this is when God commissions you

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to go, he will protect you and make a way of

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escape. Right, but it won't be easy. But it won't

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be easy, and if you do get caught, there's a

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reason for that too. Wow. Okay. So, number five,

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trust me to supply all your needs. Absolutely.

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You know, God is so good at that. And one time

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Sister Gwen in her early years went to Indonesia

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and the Lord spoke to her. You won't have to

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bring any money. Yeah. She did bring some because

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you have to. How much money do you have? She

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changed like $20 or something. And the Lord said,

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you won't need that. You won't need that. Yeah.

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And sometimes they ask, how much money do you

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have with you? Because if you don't have money,

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they may not let you in. That's true. And so.

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She used just some of that money to buy stamps.

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And then later somebody gave her some stamps.

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She didn't even need to use it. It was like $3

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or something. The stamps were cheap back then.

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But she had money because it was kind of a requirement.

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But God provided all her needs, all her food,

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her hotel. Everything was taken care of. Because

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even a lot of times we travel, we bring money

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and we give in the offerings because a lot of

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the people don't have anything. And number six

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is trust me to protect you. Never be afraid of

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your enemies. That's in Matthew chapter 10, verse

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28. And there's times Sister Gwen has been on

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trips where, you know, you could hear the gunfire.

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That was in Pakistan years back. You could hear,

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you know, gunfire and things going on. And we've

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been in that. And I remember once we were in

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a bus going to Israel, we were in a tour that

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is not for normal tourists. It was for passengers.

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We do unusual things. And we were going to an

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area where you had to have an armored bus, which

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we had. Or no, maybe we didn't have. No, this

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one wasn't an armored bus. Yeah. And all of a

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sudden, here comes a Molotov cocktail. I watch

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it. Come over the front, it hits the front of

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the bus and the side, but it didn't do any damage.

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Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God. So we always

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pray every morning we get on the bus for God

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to protect us, and he's so good on that. And

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number seven was love everyone but trust only

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a few. Yeah, that's good. I think one time Sister

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Gwen was in Russia, and she heard the word fox

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or something like that, the Holy Spirit. That's

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a fox. And when they're being introduced to some

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people, didn't someone mention it was by the

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Spirit or something? They call him the fox or

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something. So she knew immediately the word that

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the Lord gave her, you don't trust him. And so

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God is so good at that to do things like that.

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Wow. Number eight was be willing to lay down

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your life. I remember on our trip to Tibet, we

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had everybody sign a waiver. We're not responsible

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if you don't come back. You know, that's a scary

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thing when you're on a tour. That means the ministry

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is not responsible to get you out of jail. We

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even made like next of kin sign that they were

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in agreement. Yeah, that was Tibet. That was

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because that's a unique place to go. Difficult

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place. Yeah. And number nine was you shall be

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rewarded for your faithfulness. And when you

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do things in the will of God, you will be rewarded.

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God is so good at doing that. It may not be in

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a financial way or something, but he has other

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ways of blessing you because of your faithfulness.

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And number 10 was, I'm coming soon and my reward

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for your faithfulness is with me. Amen. And that's

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what we want to be because when we strive to

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get close to him, we strive to enter his rest.

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It's to be close to him. Yes. And he is so faithful,

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even in the little things. Absolutely. Especially

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in the little things. You get those kisses from

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the Lord when you realize he's the only one who

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knew I wanted that. Why don't you share that

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cookie one, the Oreo? Oh, yeah. One of our ladies

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had this experience with the Lord where she was

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watching. She just had the TV on. She was probably

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not even paying much attention to it. And she

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heard an advertisement for Oreo cookies. And

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the thing that was said about it was, Oreo cookies,

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the cookie that loves milk. You know, because

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you want to dip your cookie in milk, right? Or

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coffee. But she said, it's not the cookie that

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loves milk. It's the cookie that loves coffee.

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coffee and she only wants coffee when she has

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a sweet she doesn't drink coffee without a sweet

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and she doesn't eat a sweet without coffee that's

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just how her taste works you know so sometime

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not very long after that she was in a restaurant

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and she had just finished her dessert and coffee

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And the waiter came around and said, would you

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like some more coffee? She said, oh, no, thank

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you. I only have coffee with my dessert or with

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something sweet. And I don't drink coffee unless

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I have something sweet. He says, well, let me

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see what I can do about that. So he disappears

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and he comes back with a little plate that has

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three or four Oreo cookies on it. And he gave

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them to her and poured her some more coffee.

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And she heard the Lord say, I was listening.

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Isn't that sweet? And what it turns out is, the

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backstory is that he went into the kitchen or

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wherever he had his backpack, and he got from

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his own supply of Oreo cookies to serve to her,

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which you wouldn't think that's even probably

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right to do in a restaurant. But God led him

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because he heard her little thought. that she

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spoke out into her place where she was living

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all by herself, and God was listening. It's a

00:24:05.579 --> 00:24:08.160
kiss from the Lord when those kind of things

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happen. You just need to recognize those kisses.

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Yeah, that's just amazing. Isn't that sweet?

00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:17.059
Oh, that really is how God really just does things

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like that, just to let you know. Yeah, it's true.

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He likes our taste. It's true. So the important

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thing is that we do things according to the pattern.

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Now, that was a pattern that the Lord spoke to

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Sister Gwen in that devotional about, you know,

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here's a list of things that you need to know

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about being called by the Lord. Yeah. And so

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we should take that into consideration. It comes

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from heaven. Remember how Jesus taught his disciples

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to pray. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on

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earth as it is in heaven. And that's what Moses

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was shown in the mountain in Mount Sinai when

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he was with the Lord for 40 days. And then he

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came down and broke the tablets and dealt with

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the calf and went back up for another 40 days.

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And I don't think he had a meal in the middle.

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He was fasting for 80 days, probably. Wow. You

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know that's God. Yeah, you know that's God. But

00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:20.359
in his presence, when you have that kind of face

00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.339
-to -face encounter with the Almighty God, the

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Most High, I would think that you wouldn't have

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any interest in eating. No, the glory just overwhelms

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you. Yeah, it's about the glory. And the title

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of this episode, Pattern Your Life to Live in

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the Glory, was a line from a song that the Lord

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gave you. Yeah, that was from Hebrews chapter

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8, talking about the minister, this is King James,

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to the minister of the sanctuary. And that's

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our Lord Jesus. Yeah. That's in the sanctuary.

00:25:52.059 --> 00:25:55.019
Yeah. I mean, back when they had the Ark of the

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Covenant, the tabernacle, you had the altar of

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incense, and that's where the presence of God

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was. His presence was over the ark, had the two

00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:08.279
angels covering it. That was the presence of

00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:11.819
God on earth. Right. And that was in that. Yeah.

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So in Hebrews chapter 8, verse 5, it's referring

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to that same verse that Philip read earlier from

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Exodus 25, 40. And it's quoting it, Hebrews 8,

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5. It says, and it's talking about the priests.

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Every high priest, this is verse 3, every high

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priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices,

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etc., etc. And then it says in verse 5, who serve

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the copy and the shadow, or the example and the

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shadow. That's in the King James says example,

00:26:44.690 --> 00:26:47.869
and the New King James says the copy. So what

00:26:47.869 --> 00:26:50.769
we have on earth is a copy of what's in heaven.

00:26:51.230 --> 00:26:54.890
Yeah. It reminds me of what we do in our spare

00:26:54.890 --> 00:26:57.750
time, which is little. But over the years, we've

00:26:57.750 --> 00:27:00.670
managed to put together a train board. A model

00:27:00.670 --> 00:27:03.809
railroad. A model railroad. And you want things

00:27:03.809 --> 00:27:07.289
to look like the real thing. So you get this

00:27:07.289 --> 00:27:11.000
plastic. model that's all bright and shiny and

00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.960
but you want it to look like the real thing there's

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.240
not any bright shiny train cars out there only

00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.500
when they roll out of the factory yeah and and

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:20.339
they don't stay that way for long so you dust

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them up and you make them look weathered and

00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:25.700
and you try to make it look authentic so it's

00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:28.980
the same idea only what's heavenly we don't want

00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:31.619
to dust up and make weathered and look bad but

00:27:31.619 --> 00:27:36.279
you know that we want to do on earth as it is

00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:38.299
in heaven. Yeah. And, you know, a little side

00:27:38.299 --> 00:27:42.079
bunny from that bunny trail, you know, is where

00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.579
people might remember the Where's Waldo? Oh,

00:27:45.579 --> 00:27:47.799
yeah. It has this little guy with a cane and

00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.720
glasses. He has a striped red shirt and the book

00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:53.900
or wherever, they have this big crowd of people

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:56.460
and you got to find Waldo in there. Where's Waldo?

00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:59.420
Yeah. Yeah. And so actually on the... On the

00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:01.940
train board. We do have a Waldo. He rides actually

00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:04.180
in the caboose at the moment. Yeah, at the moment.

00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:06.339
And when Sharon painted him, this little tiny

00:28:06.339 --> 00:28:09.640
figurine had to use a paintbrush with about two

00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:13.119
hairs on it and a magnifying glass to get the

00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.460
detail. But it's all in the detail. Right. Because

00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:18.759
we want it to look authentic. And to look authentic.

00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.220
Yeah. And he does look authentic from a distance.

00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:23.099
It's pretty good. Pretty good. You couldn't buy

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:25.660
one, so we had to make one. Yeah. We didn't want

00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:29.200
to pay the money for the buying one. It was too

00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.680
expensive. So back to the scripture. Yeah. End

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:34.079
of bunny trail. End of bunny trail. So talking

00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.740
about the priests who serve the copy and shadow

00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:41.240
of the heavenly things. As Moses was divinely

00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:43.859
instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle.

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.519
For he said, see that you make all things according

00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.299
to the pattern shown you on the mountain. So

00:28:49.299 --> 00:28:52.890
we want to. do things according to the pattern

00:28:52.890 --> 00:28:56.150
of what's in heaven. And that's part of why I

00:28:56.150 --> 00:29:01.990
love the fact that God is so gracious to us,

00:29:02.009 --> 00:29:04.849
to have connected us with Dean Braxton, who had

00:29:04.849 --> 00:29:08.029
an hour and 45 minutes of earth time in heaven,

00:29:08.109 --> 00:29:12.920
which was... a huge experience in heaven. Huge,

00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:16.480
huge. And I was just rereading part of his book,

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:18.980
Deep Worship in Heaven, and I highly recommend

00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:21.519
that you get that book. It is life -changing,

00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:25.039
absolutely life -changing, because he gives details

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:28.529
of what it was like. to worship at the throne

00:29:28.529 --> 00:29:31.750
in heaven. And as you understand how it is in

00:29:31.750 --> 00:29:34.609
heaven, you can begin to apply it from your own

00:29:34.609 --> 00:29:38.910
heart on earth and begin to worship him in spirit

00:29:38.910 --> 00:29:41.569
and in truth. Like Jesus said to the woman at

00:29:41.569 --> 00:29:44.250
the well, you know, the time is coming and now

00:29:44.250 --> 00:29:46.750
is that they that worship him will worship him

00:29:46.750 --> 00:29:49.890
in spirit and in truth. So when we're in that

00:29:49.890 --> 00:29:53.829
place on the earth where we're drawn into the

00:29:53.829 --> 00:29:56.069
spirit realm and drawn into his presence, presence,

00:29:56.250 --> 00:30:00.789
that's where we begin to give him something that

00:30:00.789 --> 00:30:05.089
really just blesses him. He loves it. He loves

00:30:05.089 --> 00:30:07.970
it when we do on earth as it is in heaven. So

00:30:07.970 --> 00:30:10.950
you see this pattern in the mount, and in Numbers

00:30:10.950 --> 00:30:14.470
chapter 8 and verse 4, there's a similar scripture,

00:30:14.609 --> 00:30:17.309
and it says, and this work of the candlestick,

00:30:17.309 --> 00:30:20.589
which would be the menorah, was of beaten gold

00:30:20.589 --> 00:30:23.589
unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof

00:30:23.589 --> 00:30:26.440
was beaten work. According to the pattern which

00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.920
the Lord had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.519
So it's so important that we do things according

00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.799
to the pattern. And the candlestick is like a

00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.380
representative of the seven spirits of God. Right.

00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:44.240
Which Dean says are like pillars of fire. Wow.

00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:47.380
Yeah. Awesome. That was what he experienced.

00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.799
I just read it this morning. Oh, wow. That's

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:52.920
good. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? That's like God's

00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:55.500
kiss timing for this. I love it. I love it. He

00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:59.259
gives us the pieces of the puzzle. So I was also

00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:03.799
moved by what the history says in 1 Chronicles

00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:09.619
28, 11 and 12, where it talks about what... David

00:31:09.619 --> 00:31:13.559
did. Because remember, David wanted to build

00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:17.920
a temple for God. And the prophet Nathan, I think

00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.039
it was, said, go to it. Go to it. The Lord bless

00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.000
you in your plans. Because it sounded good. It

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.680
sounded great. But then the Lord spoke to him.

00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:31.019
And here's another thing where it's so easy for

00:31:31.019 --> 00:31:33.700
us to get into agreement with a good idea that

00:31:33.700 --> 00:31:38.299
might not be a God idea. God said, no. David

00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:40.839
can't do that because he's a man of bloods. He

00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.339
has shed a lot of blood in all these wars, and

00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:45.640
he was doing the wars in agreement with God.

00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.160
He was following the leading of the Holy Spirit

00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.180
in all these wars that he participated in, all

00:31:51.180 --> 00:31:55.660
these battles. But because of that, it wasn't

00:31:55.660 --> 00:31:59.759
appropriate for him to build the house. But he

00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.480
prepared things for the house. God told him,

00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:05.799
your son Solomon is going to build it because

00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.220
he's a man of peace. He's not a man of war. But

00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:13.259
David gathered up all kinds of things for the

00:32:13.259 --> 00:32:15.880
building of the house. He gathered up gold and

00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.420
silver and brass and fabrics and all these kinds

00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:24.660
of things. But he also sat before the Lord to

00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:28.960
get the pattern. And it says in 2 Chronicles

00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:33.599
28, where it's talking about how David brought

00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:37.240
the leaders together and explained to them, what

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.359
he had in his heart and how he was not allowed

00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.319
to do it. And then he goes on to say in verses

00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:47.900
11 and 12, and David gave his son Solomon the

00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:50.559
plans for the vestibule. Now, it says in the

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.420
King James, David gave to Solomon his son the

00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:57.130
pattern of the porch. So the pattern word is

00:32:57.130 --> 00:33:00.650
there, and it's just translated differently in

00:33:00.650 --> 00:33:03.970
the New King James. The plans for the vestibule,

00:33:04.029 --> 00:33:07.309
its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers,

00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:10.990
its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy

00:33:10.990 --> 00:33:15.009
seat. And the plans for all that he had by the

00:33:15.009 --> 00:33:18.769
Spirit. By the Spirit. of the courts of the house

00:33:18.769 --> 00:33:22.009
of the Lord, of all the chambers all around,

00:33:22.250 --> 00:33:24.890
of the treasuries of the house of God and of

00:33:24.890 --> 00:33:27.609
the treasuries for the dedicated things. And

00:33:27.609 --> 00:33:30.950
then it goes on in verse 18, where it's talking

00:33:30.950 --> 00:33:33.109
about all the gold and the silver and all these

00:33:33.109 --> 00:33:36.269
things. In verse 18 says, and refined gold by

00:33:36.269 --> 00:33:39.700
weight for the altar of incense. And for the

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:43.039
construction of the chariot, that is the gold

00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.539
cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:49.559
the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this,

00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:52.980
said David, the Lord made me understand in writing

00:33:52.980 --> 00:33:57.400
by his hand upon me. all the works of these plans.

00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.539
And again, in the King James where it says plans,

00:34:00.779 --> 00:34:03.279
in what I just read, it uses the word pattern.

00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:07.220
But this word for the construction of the chariot,

00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:09.699
that word is also pattern in the King James.

00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:15.519
And it means it's like an image, a likeness of

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.239
a thing, a model or a structure. So you get this

00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:23.659
idea of it has the appearance of what he saw.

00:34:24.269 --> 00:34:26.170
And that's the kind of thing that Dean talks

00:34:26.170 --> 00:34:30.869
about, Dean Braxton talks about, that you can't

00:34:30.869 --> 00:34:35.989
explain in human language what it looked like.

00:34:36.530 --> 00:34:40.150
And even if you look at Ezekiel and Isaiah and

00:34:40.150 --> 00:34:43.070
John the Revelator, when they had their experiences

00:34:43.070 --> 00:34:47.190
in heaven, they didn't have words to say what

00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:50.829
it was. They said it looked like. Looked like.

00:34:51.190 --> 00:34:54.309
It was like this. And that's what Dean struggles

00:34:54.309 --> 00:34:58.050
to get words to explain what he saw. And he'll

00:34:58.050 --> 00:35:01.250
say it was like something that we can relate

00:35:01.250 --> 00:35:03.969
to. And that's what the pattern is. The pattern

00:35:03.969 --> 00:35:07.869
is something that's a likeness of the real thing,

00:35:07.969 --> 00:35:11.130
like our little model railroad things are a likeness

00:35:11.130 --> 00:35:13.880
of the real thing. You know, you get up. next

00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:18.239
to a locomotive and it's huge and it's dirty

00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:21.960
and it's, you know, it's greasy, but it's huge.

00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.820
So we try to make this little bitty version of

00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:28.099
it, you know, and make it look like the real

00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:32.179
thing. It's like, it's like, so he's, he's looking

00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:36.840
for us to model his likeness in the earth because

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:39.139
we were made in his likeness in the first place

00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:44.050
and we lost it. You know, Adam and Eve blew it.

00:35:44.170 --> 00:35:48.630
And they lost their likeness of the one who is

00:35:48.630 --> 00:35:53.730
light. He is light. But if we have Jesus on the

00:35:53.730 --> 00:35:55.929
inside of us, who is the light of the world,

00:35:56.010 --> 00:35:58.869
he said, I am the light of the world. And his

00:35:58.869 --> 00:36:02.849
father is the father of lights in whom there

00:36:02.849 --> 00:36:07.159
is no darkness, neither shadow of turning. he's

00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:11.199
looking for us to allow that light to shine through

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:14.239
us so if we've got him inside of us right we've

00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.500
we've invited him to come and live inside of

00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:22.159
us and we are also in him in him we live and

00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:26.000
move and have our being right so it's kind of

00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.900
like you could imagine it kind of like you've

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:31.960
got a sphere that's inside of a sphere that's

00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.260
inside of a sphere So the inner sphere and the

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:38.980
outer sphere are him. And then there's us in

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:42.760
the middle, the in -between part. And I really

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:46.480
feel like what he's looking for is for us to

00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:52.639
cooperate with him in the process of transforming

00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:58.039
the fleshly nature, the soulish nature, into

00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.900
his nature. Because the light can't shine out

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:06.150
of us. And connect with that outer light unless

00:37:06.150 --> 00:37:10.130
we're transparent. And so what the Holy Spirit

00:37:10.130 --> 00:37:14.429
is working in us day by day, it's not an instant

00:37:14.429 --> 00:37:17.909
thing. It won't happen overnight. But day by

00:37:17.909 --> 00:37:21.750
day, as we yield to his presence, as we yield

00:37:21.750 --> 00:37:25.230
to the weight of his glory. We're allowing him

00:37:25.230 --> 00:37:29.750
to kind of push out the impurities and get those

00:37:29.750 --> 00:37:31.650
things out. And sometimes he puts us through

00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:35.769
the fire to burn up the dross, to burn up the

00:37:35.769 --> 00:37:38.010
stuff that doesn't belong there, the wood and

00:37:38.010 --> 00:37:41.050
the hay and the stubble that doesn't belong in

00:37:41.050 --> 00:37:45.070
heaven. It doesn't belong there. And when we

00:37:45.070 --> 00:37:49.710
become more and more transparent in our walking

00:37:49.710 --> 00:37:53.360
with him, where we instantly realize, oops. I

00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:55.699
made an exaggeration when I said that, and you

00:37:55.699 --> 00:37:59.960
correct yourself. That's a thing where his truth

00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:04.059
is working in us. And we begin not only to tell

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:06.599
the truth to other people, but we have to tell

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:10.360
the truth to ourselves. It's critical. It's critical

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.219
that we let that truth, like especially the truth

00:38:14.219 --> 00:38:18.159
of the things that he says about us. We, as humans,

00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:21.699
have a tendency to look at ourselves in the mirror.

00:38:22.489 --> 00:38:24.670
instead of looking at ourselves in the word.

00:38:25.070 --> 00:38:28.949
And what you see in the mirror isn't even really

00:38:28.949 --> 00:38:31.869
you. You have to be honest with yourself. Yeah,

00:38:31.889 --> 00:38:33.630
you have to be honest with yourself. But what

00:38:33.630 --> 00:38:36.769
you see in the mirror is actually a mirror image

00:38:36.769 --> 00:38:40.289
of you. It's backwards. If you look at yourself

00:38:40.289 --> 00:38:42.050
in the mirror all the time and then you look

00:38:42.050 --> 00:38:44.750
at yourself in a photograph, if you part your

00:38:44.750 --> 00:38:47.590
hair on the side, It's going to be on the opposite

00:38:47.590 --> 00:38:51.309
side. So you're not really seeing a true picture

00:38:51.309 --> 00:38:54.389
of yourself in the mirror. But if you look into

00:38:54.389 --> 00:39:00.230
the word, he's talking about you for who he says

00:39:00.230 --> 00:39:03.829
you are. And he's the one that says something

00:39:03.829 --> 00:39:08.190
and it happens. So our job is to get into agreement

00:39:08.190 --> 00:39:12.579
with him, to get into agreement and co... operate

00:39:12.579 --> 00:39:15.420
with him, co -labor with him. Yeah. You know,

00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:18.360
you see these bumper stickers now and this is

00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:21.519
coexist. Oh yeah. You know, it shows all the

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.880
signs of all the different religions. Yeah. But

00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:28.420
there is no way that they can coexist because

00:39:28.420 --> 00:39:31.059
light cannot fellowship with darkness. Yeah.

00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.199
And that's how, you know, we coexist with Jesus.

00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.070
Right. You know, because light has no place for

00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:41.150
darkness. So if you're living in any kind of

00:39:41.150 --> 00:39:44.789
darkness, it's going to hamper getting more light

00:39:44.789 --> 00:39:47.570
into you. Yeah, it's true. Now, on the other

00:39:47.570 --> 00:39:51.690
hand, you do need to love them. Yeah. And that's

00:39:51.690 --> 00:39:54.949
where you can coexist in that way. You can be

00:39:54.949 --> 00:39:57.110
pouring light into them and pouring light on

00:39:57.110 --> 00:40:00.329
them. But I see your point. I totally see your

00:40:00.329 --> 00:40:03.980
point. You know, as I was meditating on... this

00:40:03.980 --> 00:40:07.699
principle of living in the pattern that was shown

00:40:07.699 --> 00:40:10.260
in the mountain and patterning your life to live

00:40:10.260 --> 00:40:12.260
in the glory, because that's what the glory is.

00:40:12.340 --> 00:40:15.300
The glory is the heavenly way of doing things,

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:17.860
God's way, doing things God's way. And that reminds

00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:22.139
me of the webinar that we just had recently with

00:40:22.139 --> 00:40:25.960
Timothy Bentz. We had him on the podcast some

00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:29.980
weeks ago, several weeks ago. And then we spent

00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:33.909
the night at his house. on our journeys quite

00:40:33.909 --> 00:40:36.769
a few weeks ago. And he began telling us things

00:40:36.769 --> 00:40:40.110
about spiritual warfare that he had learned because

00:40:40.110 --> 00:40:42.510
Jesus has been mentoring him since he was two

00:40:42.510 --> 00:40:46.429
years old. And so he has learned a lot about

00:40:46.429 --> 00:40:50.590
spiritual warfare and the importance of coming

00:40:50.590 --> 00:40:53.670
into rest and coming into the presence of God

00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:56.429
and humbling ourselves in the sight of the Lord

00:40:56.429 --> 00:40:58.730
and submitting to God before we try to rebuke

00:40:58.730 --> 00:41:01.800
the devil. Because the devil won't flee from

00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:04.460
us unless we are submitted to God. You know,

00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:07.679
that's just how it works. So anyway, he rolled

00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:09.900
out some amazing things, and I really want to

00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:12.969
encourage you to go to our YouTube channel. And

00:41:12.969 --> 00:41:16.909
watch that webinar. There's four sessions. And

00:41:16.909 --> 00:41:20.210
it's very, very, very powerful. I found it life

00:41:20.210 --> 00:41:23.510
-changing. And if you are a Christian, you probably

00:41:23.510 --> 00:41:26.610
need to listen to that. And especially if you

00:41:26.610 --> 00:41:29.730
pray, if you engage at all in spiritual warfare,

00:41:29.909 --> 00:41:32.469
which who doesn't if you're a believer? There's

00:41:32.469 --> 00:41:35.269
warfare going on all the time. You need that

00:41:35.269 --> 00:41:38.550
message. It will be life -changing. But I said

00:41:38.550 --> 00:41:41.880
all that because I was talking about... how we

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:46.320
deal with the opposition that comes to us and

00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:51.519
how sometimes it's difficult because we're looking

00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:54.960
at a mirror image of ourselves and we're looking

00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:57.300
at the world around us and the circumstances

00:41:57.300 --> 00:42:00.440
around us. And if you watch the news or listen

00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.000
to the news, I mean, it's just, it would be discouraging

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:08.550
if you do that. I just, I don't even do it. Yeah,

00:42:08.610 --> 00:42:11.489
I look at headlines occasionally, but I'm looking

00:42:11.489 --> 00:42:14.969
at even those less and less because I want to

00:42:14.969 --> 00:42:17.929
know what's going on in heaven and practice it

00:42:17.929 --> 00:42:20.670
on earth, and that will affect what's going on

00:42:20.670 --> 00:42:23.150
on earth. And I believe the Lord is looking for

00:42:23.150 --> 00:42:26.489
a people who are willing to shut off the earth,

00:42:26.690 --> 00:42:30.230
the earthly things, in the right amount, in the

00:42:30.230 --> 00:42:34.170
right time, in the right way, in order to connect.

00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.059
with our Father in heaven. And what I've been

00:42:38.059 --> 00:42:40.699
experiencing lately, you know, we've got convention

00:42:40.699 --> 00:42:44.699
coming up. And there's so many things to do before

00:42:44.699 --> 00:42:46.460
convention. And they're all in my head, because

00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:49.519
I've been doing this all these years. And we

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:51.000
want to do this, and we need to do that, and

00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:52.340
we need to do that, and that, and that, and that.

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.079
And, you know, I want to make sure all these

00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:59.800
things get done. And I find that I get... into

00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:02.280
a little bit of stress or maybe a lot of stress.

00:43:02.460 --> 00:43:05.380
And I know that's not the place to be. The place

00:43:05.380 --> 00:43:09.739
to be is in his rest. And I was reminded of Mark

00:43:09.739 --> 00:43:13.420
4 .19 that talks about, you know, the parable

00:43:13.420 --> 00:43:16.380
of the sower, which is really more about the

00:43:16.380 --> 00:43:21.579
soil that the seed fell on, but the seed that

00:43:21.579 --> 00:43:26.929
fell on ground that had thorns. And it says,

00:43:27.050 --> 00:43:30.570
the cares of this world and the deceitfulness

00:43:30.570 --> 00:43:33.090
of riches and the lust of other things entering

00:43:33.090 --> 00:43:36.710
in choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.

00:43:37.030 --> 00:43:41.190
And the same story in Luke 8, 14 says it this

00:43:41.190 --> 00:43:43.690
way, and that which fell among the thorns are

00:43:43.690 --> 00:43:46.210
they which when they have heard go forth and

00:43:46.210 --> 00:43:49.289
are choked with cares and riches and pleasures

00:43:49.289 --> 00:43:52.409
of this life and bring no fruit to perfection.

00:43:53.260 --> 00:43:56.000
You know, it's like the fruit falls off the tree

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.719
while it's still green. Yeah. It doesn't ever

00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:02.500
get there. And I'm just being transparent myself

00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:07.239
here that sometimes life is happening all around

00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:11.579
me and I get kind of moved by the stuff that's

00:44:11.579 --> 00:44:13.820
going on around me instead of remaining in that

00:44:13.820 --> 00:44:16.840
place of rest where that's where you're going

00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:19.260
to bring forth fruit. You're not going to bring

00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:21.519
forth fruit when you're dealing with the cares

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:24.440
of this life. Or the deceitfulness of riches.

00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:29.079
Or lusts of other things entering in. It chokes

00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:32.699
the word. Pleasures of this life. These things

00:44:32.699 --> 00:44:38.840
can distract us from the heavenly pattern. And

00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:42.619
we want to pattern our life to live in his glory.

00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:46.599
And his glory is in his presence. And so walking

00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:51.519
in his presence. I'm reminded of how easily we

00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:56.400
can lose revival. Revivals through the years

00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:00.619
typically last a year or two or three. They might

00:45:00.619 --> 00:45:03.840
last as much as seven or eight or nine, but eventually

00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:09.380
they wane. Arthur Burt wrote a book called There

00:45:09.380 --> 00:45:13.199
Shall Be No Ebb, and he gets that title from

00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:17.289
a prophecy that he heard in 1934. And that prophecy

00:45:17.289 --> 00:45:20.670
is, it shall come as a breath and the breath

00:45:20.670 --> 00:45:23.710
shall bring the wind and the wind shall bring

00:45:23.710 --> 00:45:25.929
the rain and there shall be floods and floods

00:45:25.929 --> 00:45:30.510
and floods and torrents and torrents and torrents.

00:45:30.730 --> 00:45:33.469
Souls shall be saved like falling leaves from

00:45:33.469 --> 00:45:36.590
mighty oaks swept by a hurricane. Arms and legs

00:45:36.590 --> 00:45:38.750
will come down from heaven and there shall be

00:45:38.750 --> 00:45:43.269
no ebb. In other words, this will be a move of

00:45:43.269 --> 00:45:47.289
God that comes in. Like when the tide comes in.

00:45:47.869 --> 00:45:51.210
The tide comes in and then it ebbs back out.

00:45:51.269 --> 00:45:54.150
And then it comes in and then it ebbs back out.

00:45:54.269 --> 00:45:57.550
But this move of God that we are anticipating,

00:45:57.769 --> 00:46:01.610
and it's begun in pockets around the world, this

00:46:01.610 --> 00:46:07.670
is coming in and not going back out. In order

00:46:07.670 --> 00:46:11.309
for the outpouring to continue without ebb. The

00:46:11.309 --> 00:46:13.610
Holy Spirit must have the freedom to move in

00:46:13.610 --> 00:46:16.630
unique ways and not be bound to an earth pattern.

00:46:17.010 --> 00:46:21.050
So what I see is, and I think Arthur Burt wrote

00:46:21.050 --> 00:46:24.489
in his book, because he lived to be over 100

00:46:24.489 --> 00:46:28.809
years old. And so he saw lots of revivals come

00:46:28.809 --> 00:46:32.010
and go. And what he saw, and I'm going to put

00:46:32.010 --> 00:46:34.329
this in my words because I didn't read his book

00:46:34.329 --> 00:46:37.789
recently, but what he saw was that pride would

00:46:37.789 --> 00:46:41.059
come in. that the people in charge of the revival,

00:46:41.239 --> 00:46:45.300
it's like, okay, I see the pattern that God is

00:46:45.300 --> 00:46:47.760
doing. Okay, God, we've got this. We'll just

00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:50.840
continue with that pattern. And that is how denominations

00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:55.000
get started. And you get a denomination that

00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:58.480
it was born in the Spirit. It was born in revival.

00:46:58.739 --> 00:47:03.360
It was born in an outpouring. But the leaders

00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.619
say, okay, we've got this now. We can see how

00:47:06.619 --> 00:47:08.719
God is doing this, so we will continue to do

00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:13.440
it this way. And the fire goes out or goes very

00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:18.320
dim, and what was there in the move of God becomes

00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:21.739
something that's predictable. And they should

00:47:21.739 --> 00:47:25.699
be pressing in for more and more, but you get

00:47:25.699 --> 00:47:28.500
used to where you're at. It's true. It's true.

00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:35.159
And you think, okay, this is how it's done. a

00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:38.300
place where he used to preach. And there was

00:47:38.300 --> 00:47:42.679
a lady that was really a wonderful believer,

00:47:42.860 --> 00:47:45.760
and she would get overcome by the Holy Spirit

00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:48.239
in a meeting. And she'd walk over to the piano

00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:51.460
and pick up the potted plant, the potted flower,

00:47:51.659 --> 00:47:53.599
off of the piano and stick it on top of her head

00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:56.989
and dance around with it. So he could tell. Any

00:47:56.989 --> 00:47:59.489
time there was somebody who had been around this

00:47:59.489 --> 00:48:02.289
woman's ministry, because they would walk up

00:48:02.289 --> 00:48:04.070
to the piano and pick up the plant and dance

00:48:04.070 --> 00:48:05.929
around with it because they thought that that

00:48:05.929 --> 00:48:08.110
was the pattern. Here's how we're supposed to

00:48:08.110 --> 00:48:12.210
do it. Right? But that's the flesh. It's trying

00:48:12.210 --> 00:48:14.610
to do in the flesh what can only be done in the

00:48:14.610 --> 00:48:17.190
Spirit. It's like a lot of your Sunday morning

00:48:17.190 --> 00:48:21.230
programs will have three songs, then have the

00:48:21.230 --> 00:48:24.670
offering, and that's the pattern. Right. But

00:48:24.670 --> 00:48:27.719
Jesus. He likes to blow patterns out of the water.

00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:32.059
Absolutely. Wow. Absolutely. So with this idea

00:48:32.059 --> 00:48:36.500
of being willing to let the Holy Spirit lead

00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:41.320
and do anything he wants to do, he wants to do

00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:45.320
things beyond what we've ever seen before. And

00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:48.440
that even if he does things according to a certain

00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:51.039
pattern, we see a pattern happening. Okay, we

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.349
can see the Holy Spirit is moving here. But rather

00:48:54.349 --> 00:48:56.929
than jumping on that and grabbing a hold of it

00:48:56.929 --> 00:48:59.670
in the flesh, we need to be ready for him to

00:48:59.670 --> 00:49:03.269
do something completely new that's outside of

00:49:03.269 --> 00:49:05.550
the pattern. Yeah. And we have to be willing

00:49:05.550 --> 00:49:09.929
to just submit and go with the flow. Outside

00:49:09.929 --> 00:49:14.090
of the box. Outside of the box. So I had an experience

00:49:14.090 --> 00:49:17.630
back in the late 90s that actually we talked

00:49:17.630 --> 00:49:20.519
about it, I think, in episode one. If you've

00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:24.239
never heard episode one of this podcast, you

00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:25.920
could go back and listen to the whole thing.

00:49:26.019 --> 00:49:29.519
We talked about this vision in particular. So

00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:31.679
I'm just going to touch on it now and read part

00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.420
of it. But it was a prophetic vision that the

00:49:34.420 --> 00:49:38.260
Lord gave to me when it was described to me about

00:49:38.260 --> 00:49:41.340
someone who is in the spirit -filled charismatic

00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:45.079
movement. And she went back to her denominational

00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:48.690
church because it was predictable. Okay, so there's

00:49:48.690 --> 00:49:53.210
a pattern that's in the flesh that has lost the

00:49:53.210 --> 00:49:56.309
fire of the Holy Spirit on it. I mean, it may

00:49:56.309 --> 00:49:58.550
be really good, and maybe the Holy Spirit's going

00:49:58.550 --> 00:50:01.050
to get as much done as he possibly can, because

00:50:01.050 --> 00:50:03.070
that's what he's trying to do. He's trying to

00:50:03.070 --> 00:50:06.329
help everybody get in, but he's only going to

00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:09.989
do what we permit him to do. So after I heard

00:50:09.989 --> 00:50:13.329
that, I had this vision of an atomic mushroom

00:50:13.329 --> 00:50:17.239
cloud. Like this big explosion has just gone

00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:20.539
off. And you know that when the atomic bombs

00:50:20.539 --> 00:50:24.239
went off in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, that the

00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:29.139
individuals who were at Ground Zero were basically

00:50:29.139 --> 00:50:31.300
vaporized. There wasn't anything left of them.

00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:34.260
Except their shadows. Their shadow in stone.

00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.139
Yeah, their shadow was burned into the stone.

00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:41.840
And so what the Lord gave me was this. This is

00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:45.030
the message. We are at Ground Zero. of an atomic

00:50:45.030 --> 00:50:48.349
explosion of God's mighty, heretofore unseen

00:50:48.349 --> 00:50:52.949
power. All the known and predictable of God's

00:50:52.949 --> 00:50:55.849
power, including all the miracles of the Bible,

00:50:56.050 --> 00:50:58.969
the parting of the Red Sea, the sun standing

00:50:58.969 --> 00:51:02.469
still in the Valley of Ajalon, the creative miracles

00:51:02.469 --> 00:51:05.150
of the Gospels and the Book of Acts, will be

00:51:05.150 --> 00:51:08.250
like the commonly known atoms before they are

00:51:08.250 --> 00:51:11.349
split to release the energy of the atomic bomb.

00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.199
When that explosion takes place, everything at

00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:18.360
ground zero, everything normal, predictable,

00:51:18.659 --> 00:51:23.480
I'm adding that now, will be vaporized. And a

00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.059
pillar of the predictable known biblical miracles

00:51:27.059 --> 00:51:31.039
will billow and shoot upward. But then a splitting

00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:34.219
of those known miracles will occur, releasing

00:51:34.219 --> 00:51:37.320
the unknown power of God to form the top of the

00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:40.940
mushroom cloud. This unknown power will billow

00:51:40.940 --> 00:51:44.119
out above the pillar of the known to stretch

00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:47.179
far beyond the known into the reaches of the

00:51:47.179 --> 00:51:50.480
domain seen by Ezekiel, Daniel, and John the

00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:54.199
Revelator into that which Paul described as unlawful

00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:57.000
or impossible to be uttered in 2 Corinthians

00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:01.800
12, 2 -4. Those who will cling only to the normal

00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:07.519
will be vaporized, so to speak. and disappear

00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:10.800
from the scene. Those who will lay aside their

00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:14.380
need to control and will yield to God will reach

00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:18.460
into this explosion of God's glory and be catapulted

00:52:18.460 --> 00:52:21.619
into miracle ministry. And those who will be

00:52:21.619 --> 00:52:26.380
willing to let God shatter and smash their preconceived

00:52:26.380 --> 00:52:29.880
understanding of God will be changed into the

00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:33.150
image of the resurrected Christ. They will receive

00:52:33.150 --> 00:52:35.829
their glorified bodies with their anatomical

00:52:35.829 --> 00:52:40.449
structure rearranged at the atomic slash molecular

00:52:40.449 --> 00:52:44.090
level, restoring the power of God to each atom.

00:52:44.650 --> 00:52:47.989
They will come and go like the wind and pass

00:52:47.989 --> 00:52:50.409
through walls like Jesus in his glorified body.

00:52:50.670 --> 00:52:53.469
These will be used in the power and demonstration

00:52:53.469 --> 00:52:56.690
of God's unknown power to be vessels of miracles

00:52:56.690 --> 00:53:00.309
never before seen or dreamed of. This power goes

00:53:00.309 --> 00:53:29.599
beyond reason. Beautiful. And that word for strange

00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:33.489
things is the Greek word paradoxos. It means

00:53:33.489 --> 00:53:37.150
beyond expectation or opinion, something beyond

00:53:37.150 --> 00:53:40.769
one's expectation, a miracle. In Luke 5 .26,

00:53:40.989 --> 00:53:44.389
it was used to express new things, miracles not

00:53:44.389 --> 00:53:47.929
hitherto seen, and thus beside and beyond all

00:53:47.929 --> 00:53:51.690
opinion and expectation of men. And that little

00:53:51.690 --> 00:53:54.550
piece I just read comes from the Lexical Aids

00:53:54.550 --> 00:53:57.469
to the New Testament by Spiros Adiades in the

00:53:57.469 --> 00:54:01.440
Hebrew -Greek Key Study Bible. the addition that

00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:05.880
I have from the 90s. So the point here is that

00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:13.639
if you want to go beyond the normal, to go beyond

00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:18.019
the known, to go beyond what you can predict,

00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:23.500
you need to get into the presence of God. And

00:54:23.500 --> 00:54:27.559
you need to submit to him and let him work inside

00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:32.260
of you and let that flash of light. I mean, when

00:54:32.260 --> 00:54:36.519
that atomic bomb went off, people in far distances,

00:54:36.699 --> 00:54:40.059
their eyes were affected by the brightness of

00:54:40.059 --> 00:54:45.400
the flash. So the flash of his presence that

00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:49.099
will change us into his glory. We want to be

00:54:49.099 --> 00:54:53.409
patterned. after his glory. Jesus was the pattern

00:54:53.409 --> 00:54:59.349
son. And he did things that he saw the Father

00:54:59.349 --> 00:55:02.570
doing. And he said the things that he heard the

00:55:02.570 --> 00:55:05.650
Father saying. I had an experience just the other

00:55:05.650 --> 00:55:09.110
day where I was meditating on the things of the

00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:13.210
Lord and this idea of Jesus doing what he saw

00:55:13.210 --> 00:55:16.150
his Father doing. I always had this understanding,

00:55:16.329 --> 00:55:18.650
it was what I was taught or maybe what I just

00:55:18.650 --> 00:55:23.300
gathered, That when Jesus would get up while

00:55:23.300 --> 00:55:25.500
it was still dark and have his prayer time with

00:55:25.500 --> 00:55:28.400
the Father, that he would have visions of what

00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.340
was going to go on during the day. And that might

00:55:30.340 --> 00:55:33.980
be true. That might be how it was. But this thing

00:55:33.980 --> 00:55:39.139
that came to me was, it was like Jesus inside

00:55:39.139 --> 00:55:43.739
of me was looking out through my eyes and looking

00:55:43.739 --> 00:55:47.539
through his presence on the outside of me. And

00:55:47.539 --> 00:55:50.800
sometimes I've experienced that. in the grocery

00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:54.260
store or someplace where I'm out in the world,

00:55:54.340 --> 00:55:59.420
and I see someone, and as I look at them, I see

00:55:59.420 --> 00:56:05.179
the love of God for them. It's like God's love

00:56:05.179 --> 00:56:08.179
is looking at them through my eyes. And I just

00:56:08.179 --> 00:56:11.019
wonder if maybe that was what Jesus was experiencing,

00:56:11.139 --> 00:56:14.099
where he only did what he saw his Father doing,

00:56:14.179 --> 00:56:17.380
as he would look at a person. His eyes would

00:56:17.380 --> 00:56:20.409
look on them in the Spirit. and see their need,

00:56:20.570 --> 00:56:23.610
and have the understanding of what God wanted

00:56:23.610 --> 00:56:26.050
to do. Because I think that's how it works, even

00:56:26.050 --> 00:56:28.670
in ministry. I've had that kind of expectation

00:56:28.670 --> 00:56:31.989
come to me, where I look at someone that's come

00:56:31.989 --> 00:56:34.969
from ministry, and I can see what God wants to

00:56:34.969 --> 00:56:39.050
do. So I believe that this is the pattern that

00:56:39.050 --> 00:56:42.090
He wants to work in us, the pattern of the glory,

00:56:42.369 --> 00:56:45.869
the pattern of the heavenly, the pattern of what

00:56:45.869 --> 00:56:49.059
He wants to do in the earth. is what we're looking

00:56:49.059 --> 00:56:53.699
for. So let's pray. Father, we submit ourselves

00:56:53.699 --> 00:56:57.800
to you. And we're asking you to do in us and

00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.519
do in the listeners who are saying yes in their

00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.480
spirits, they're resonating with this message.

00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:08.360
Lord, do in us according to the pattern of heaven,

00:57:08.460 --> 00:57:14.159
that we can operate on earth as it is in heaven,

00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.969
that we can be a part of that group of people

00:57:17.969 --> 00:57:21.809
that are so submitted to you and so willing to

00:57:21.809 --> 00:57:25.570
die to ourselves and to die to this life and

00:57:25.570 --> 00:57:29.590
to die to our passions and our desires so that

00:57:29.590 --> 00:57:32.469
we can have you. that we can have your way, Lord.

00:57:32.550 --> 00:57:35.730
We just want to be those people that you will

00:57:35.730 --> 00:57:39.090
be able to flash on the inside of us and cause

00:57:39.090 --> 00:57:42.849
our bodies to be changed even, Lord. And while

00:57:42.849 --> 00:57:46.130
we're in this process of getting there, Lord,

00:57:46.210 --> 00:57:48.650
that you'll give us these experiences here and

00:57:48.650 --> 00:57:50.889
there, Lord, where we're translated or where

00:57:50.889 --> 00:57:54.650
we see miracles at our hands, Lord, as we obey

00:57:54.650 --> 00:57:58.769
your spirit. Lord, cause us to flow with you.

00:57:59.230 --> 00:58:02.829
Cause our listeners to flow with you and recognize

00:58:02.829 --> 00:58:06.329
when you are doing something and that they have

00:58:06.329 --> 00:58:09.630
that grace to be obedient because we want to

00:58:09.630 --> 00:58:13.789
see your work done in the earth and that we pattern

00:58:13.789 --> 00:58:17.789
our lives to live in your glory. In Jesus' name,

00:58:17.989 --> 00:58:27.219
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