(307) “How Is God Expanding Our Capacity?”

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There's a capacity of what you can be filled

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with. And then how much can you carry? How much

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can you carry? How much can you carry? So can

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you carry more responsibility? You want more

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responsibility? You want something bigger and

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better? How are you handling the responsibility

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you have now? God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour

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out his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global

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Outpouring, where we contend for that promise

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outpouring. We equip for that outpouring so that

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we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip

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Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast

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today. We were so blown away in the last episode

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by Pastor Tony. We called it a bombshell. We

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were really resonating with what he was talking

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about. So this episode, we want to talk about...

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our reactions and how God is dealing with us

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with regard to the capacity code, like how are

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we going to increase our capacity? Thanks so

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much for joining us today. We're so glad that

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of things. And make sure also that you've clicked

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Convention 2026. Pastor Tony is going to be one

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of our speakers and Dean Braxton and Anna Werner.

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Claren McQueen, and I'll be speaking also. And

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the worship is going to be out of this world.

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It's just glorious. And you'll have an opportunity

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to build relationships. That's what we're all

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about, is building relationships, building community.

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We want to help you to come into the place that

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you've always wanted to be. I can't tell you

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how many people that I've heard. that have given

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the testimony that I finally found my tribe.

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I finally fit. So come to this convention. All

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of the information is available on our website

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under the events tab about the convention. And

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there's also a school of translation you might

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be interested in coming to right here at our

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headquarters. Tune in to what we've got on our

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website, globaloutpouring .net. So, Pastor Tony

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blew us away. And when we were recording, we

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couldn't take notes. So we went back to take

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notes. And he's got so much material. So we printed

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the transcript. And we've marked it up. And we

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want to talk about some of these things that

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zinged us about, okay, the Holy Spirit's putting

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his finger on some things. And what I love, too,

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is that... I could tell that the Holy Spirit

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had already been doing some things in my life,

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putting his finger on some things, and I was

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already starting to make some adjustments, so

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that was encouraging. That felt good to really

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say amen to things he was saying, and then other

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things were ouch. Ouch, hallelujah. Yeah. So

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what was his opening statement that caught us?

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Because we've been feeling stuck. Yeah. Your

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life is not stuck because the Lord has said no

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to your prayer. Your life is stuck because you

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cannot yet carry what you're asking for right

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now. So there are opportunities. There are resources.

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There are blessings hovering over you. But they're

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not waiting for your prayers to get louder. They're

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waiting for your capacity to get stronger. That's

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it. So the Father is not testing people's desires.

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What the Father is looking at is your personal

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infrastructure, church infrastructure, your ministry

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infrastructure, business infrastructure. So it's

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all about infrastructure. Infrastructure. So

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it's all about all of the stuff that you need

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to be successful, right? You know, this reminds

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me a bit. I work construction for a while. Yeah.

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And we put in the walls. I mean, the foundation

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was laid. We came in, we put in the walls. And

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there's so much infrastructure that goes into

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big buildings. Yes. You never know it because

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all you see, you walk in and you see paintings

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on the wall and building looks nice. But you

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have no idea what it looks like underneath your

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feet and to hold everything that was put on top

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of it and put in it. That's infrastructure. So

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the Lord is looking at our structure. He's looking

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at how can we handle things? Can you handle what

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you're asking for? Can you handle it emotionally?

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Can you handle it spiritually? Most importantly,

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can you handle it structurally? Are you built

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strong enough to do this or are you weak, right?

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So the internal architecture. The systems and

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the boundaries, they have to be able to sustain

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the blessings that you're asking for. So it's

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really important that we get a blueprint from

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the Lord about how to build our internal structure.

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Because what you cannot manage, the Father cannot

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multiply. And sometimes you have to go back to

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the drawing board. Yeah, that's true. How many

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times have we? Had to do that. Yeah. So what

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you cannot sustain, the Lord Jesus will not provide.

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It's not punishment. It's protection. Increase

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without infrastructure is not a blessing because

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if it's given to you too early and you're not

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ready for it, you will sabotage yourself. Sometimes

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people want increase in results without a willingness

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to increase in responsibility. Yeah. And sometimes

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people want a blessing. without the added burden

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that the blessing is going to bring. Some people

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want to have added gifting without the growth

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required to steward it properly. So when your

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prayer is not answered, you question the goodness

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of God, or do you examine your capacity? When

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you're praying for increase, Jesus looks at your

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financial discipline. He sees how you handle

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pressure. He looks at your emotional regulation

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under stress. You know, he looks at your boundary

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management. He looks at your time stewardship.

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He looks at your relationship patterns. So based

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on what he observes, he calculates exactly how

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much you can carry without breaking. That reminds

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me a lot when we had our big ice storm back in

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2009. Yeah. And when it was raining, you could

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hear trees falling over. You could hear freezing

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rain. You could hear the limbs breaking off.

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And then when the rain would stop, everything

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would slow down. And then if it would start raining

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and freezing again, you would hear things breaking.

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And it's just like it took everything to the

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max. of what it could handle. And when it went

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over what it can handle, it broke. And, you know,

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God is so good that he, you know, he won't give

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us more. It says he will not tempt us beyond

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being tempted. I think if we look at that. It's

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1 Corinthians 10, 13. There's no temptation taken

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you, but such as is common to man. But God is

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faithful who will not. suffer you to be tempted

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above that you are able. But will with the temptation

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make a way of escape that you may be able to

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bear it. So you won't give you more than you

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can bear with him. That's a tremendous scripture

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to hang on to. Absolutely. Especially when things

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are not going the way you want it to. It's true.

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It's true. So he's looking at our spiritual capacity,

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our emotional capacity, our mental energy, our

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emotional energy, physical energy. So You stop

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praying for the Father to give you more and you

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start praying for him to build your capacity.

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That's where we need to focus instead of, I want

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to get out there and do it now. It's about what

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do I need to let you deal with in me so that

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I can handle being out there doing something

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that's more so. Right. Does that make sense?

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Yeah. So he withholds it for our protection.

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He doesn't want us to crash and burn. Right.

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Yeah. So he says there's three laws. The first

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law is the law of vessels. And so it's like the

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blessing takes the shape of the container. And

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he talks about this, the widow woman that was

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told to pour out the oil, borrow lots of vessels.

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Yeah, and borrow not a few. Right. That's what

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it says in the King James. And then pour. Pour,

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yeah. And because that's all she had was just

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a little bit of oil. Yeah. And so she borrowed

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all the vessels from the neighbors and poured

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the oil. It just kept coming and coming, filled

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them all up. And she asked for another one. Another

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one. And it says that there's no more and the

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oil stayed, is what it said. But if she had more

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vessels, it would have kept filling up. Right.

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And so we always keep our vessel open so we can

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always get more. Oh, that's good. Because we

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can't. We can't get too much of God. You can

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get too much of a lot of other things, but you

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cannot get too much of the presence of God. I

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mean, it will overwhelm you, which is what we

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want anyway. But the thing is, don't stop because

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you feel, I've got all I need for right now.

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No, you have to keep going, because if you're

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not going forward or not going up, you might

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be going down. And I love what Pastor Tony said

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as the punchline on this. The blessing that this

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woman had, the blessing she received, matched

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exactly the capacity she prepared. So it's the

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preparation that determines the capacity. And

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so as we're preparing, that's the big thing.

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It's opening up this capacity, okay? So the second

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law is the law of weight, and it has to do with

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your capacity to hold up the weight. So there's

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a capacity of what you can be filled with, and

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then how much can you carry? How much can you

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carry? How much can you carry? So can you carry

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more responsibility? You want more responsibility?

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You want something bigger and better? How are

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you handling the responsibility you have now?

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Right? Wow. Yeah. So the father's going to evaluate

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your readiness for increase, not your desire

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for it. Because he doesn't want you to fail.

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He wants you to succeed. And, you know, it's

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kind of like in school, you have these opportunities

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to learn something and then take a test. Yeah.

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And you find out from the test how well you learned

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the thing that you were studying. Right? in a

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class that is important for you to pass. If you

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don't pass it and you have to have it, you get

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the opportunity to take it again. So, you know,

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God wants you to learn the stuff you're supposed

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to learn. Learn this capacity. Learn this weightiness.

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The glory is weighty. You want the glory? How

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are you handling the responsibilities you have

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now? How am I handling the responsibilities I

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have? What's on your plate. Right. Everything

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that's on your plate. And how do you respond

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to the circumstances that require you to stretch

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beyond your comfort zone? What do you know about

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stretching? Yeah, that brings up a story. And

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I've probably told it before, but it bears repeating.

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It bears repeating because it's so good. We had

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a word of the Lord that was given in our devotions

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one time many years ago, many, many years ago.

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And the word of the Lord was, I'm calling you

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to stretch. And so in my spirit, I went, yes.

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I'm going to stretch. I will do this. Yes, I'm

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going to stretch. I received this word. I received

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this encouragement to stretch. So the workload

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was heavy and the responsibilities were heavy.

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And so I just, I kept that word in my spirit.

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I'm going to stretch. So I kept going, kept doing

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the right thing. And then we, I think it was

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probably when we had like a six week road trip.

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That was intense. That was intense, but we did

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it. Yeah, we did it every year. And we did it

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every year. And then we came home and we printed

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the next book that Sister Gwen wrote. And reprinted

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a few of the others that need to be reprinted.

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And then there was... Convention. And then right

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after convention, we went to the booksellers

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convention and there was no anointing really

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to help you with that one. And you're exhausted

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from convention. But somehow I had it in my head

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that once we got to the month of August, that

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the pressure would let up. Right. And, you know,

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I'm stretching, I'm stretching. But, you know,

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in August, maybe we can kind of take it easy

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a little bit. But we didn't. And the pressure

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was there. And the pressure was heavy. And it

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was getting more and more. And I went to Sister

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Gwen one day and I said, I don't think I can

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stretch anymore. And she put her finger out at

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me and she said, you can stretch limitlessly

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if you keep your spirit right. And it went into

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me like an arrow. And it gave me this revelation

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that, yeah, I can stretch limitlessly. if I'll

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keep my spirit right. And of course, keeping

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your spirit right is about staying tuned to the

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Holy Spirit, walking in the spirit and not in

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the flesh. It's huge. When the Lord spoke to

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me when I was 18, he said, I want you, I want

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you 100 % and I want you right now. And from

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time to time through the years, it's been a long

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time since I was 18, coming up on 50 years. That

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sounds awfully old. 68 doesn't sound old, but

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50 years history sounds old. But through those

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years, it's like the Lord reminded me of, I want

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you 100 % and I want you right now. And it's

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kind of like, oh, I guess the 100 % that I gave

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when I was 18 is not the 100 % you're demanding

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right now. that you're calling for. And that's

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where our capacity grows. When we realize that,

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okay, the weight is getting heavier, it requires

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a new dedication. It requires a new experience

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of the grace of God. It's his grace that enables

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us to do these things. It's his grace that gives

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us what we need to be able to say yes. So you

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just have to get under the grace spout. And when

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you're really in love with Jesus, it's easier

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to say yes. That is the truth, Philip. You've

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got it. It's absolutely the truth. And I've been

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meditating on this idea of loving the Lord your

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God with all your heart, with all your soul,

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with all your mind, with all your strength. And

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especially I've been meditating on loving him

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with all my mind. That's difficult. Yeah, but

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it's something that he's not going to ask us

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to do something that is impossible. Yeah, that's

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right. But it's only possible. If we soak in

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His love, if we recognize we can love Him because

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He first loved us, and that increases our capacity.

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When we increase our reception of His love, it

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increases our capacity to love Him back. Amen.

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Amen. So, back to stretching beyond your comfort

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zone. Yeah. And thanks to God gives us, too.

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Like, you know, financially or, you know, things

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we seek after. And, you know, it's just like

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a person who cannot manage a thousand cannot

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be trusted with a hundred thousand dollar opportunity.

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It's true. You know, getting back into integrity,

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you know. Oh, yeah. And the person who collapses

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under a current relationship demand may not be

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ready for marriage. It's true. You know, when

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you have the engagement. Some may only after

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a month get engaged, maybe after six months.

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And Sharon and I, we got engaged. It was in February

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under the influence of the Holy Spirit. That's

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another story. A love story. We got married in

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July. And it was a God thing, how he orchestrated

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everything. But it's just like you don't know

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how the other person operates until you're married

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to them. True. You think you know them, but pressures

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happen. Things will happen. And so it's just

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like sometimes it's maybe like iron, rubbing

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iron a little bit. Iron sharpening iron. Yeah,

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iron sharpening iron. And when you work these

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things out, and that's what happens when God

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gives us these circumstances. He gives us things

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to overcome. Right. Because he won't give beyond

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what we're tempted. We already told you the scripture

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that. but things that will happen that are going

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to cause you to stretch. Right. And the more

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responsibility you're given, the more, you know,

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you have to be able to stretch things. And it's

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just like, you know, I've never asked for promotion

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ever. You know, that was not my nature. I wasn't

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a person that would just be forward. Except when

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you were playing clarinet and you wanted to be

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first chair. Yeah, and I wanted to be first chair,

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you know, wear that armband as a section leader,

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you know. Then you were competitive. Then I was

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just competitive, you know. But you just got

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to do it all for Jesus. Right. But that's how

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you grow. So then I'm on the board of directors,

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you know, the Ministry of Global Outpouring.

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And you didn't ask for it. I didn't ask for it.

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And then secretary. And now vice president. I

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did not ask for that, but it happened. And it

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was something I had to step into. But when you

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have to step into something, God gives you the

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grace to step into it. And he gives you the confidence.

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He doesn't show you everything at one time. On

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this walk of life that I have been on for these

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44 years myself as a believer, if God showed

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me what things were going to be like up ahead,

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I don't think I could have handled it. So he

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only gives us so much at a time that we step

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into. And sometimes it's like that, the story,

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or you see the picture with the footprints, why

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there's only one set of footprints. That's where

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I carry you. And that's where he carries you

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through things until, okay, you can walk on your

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own through this one. Then sometimes he has to

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carry you again a little bit more. It's true.

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So it's responsibilities that he gives us for

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our... areas of influence and everything that

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he has for us, but we don't want to overstep

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our boundaries. Yeah. So when we were meditating

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on this idea of this law of weight, Pastor Tony

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used the example of the talents that the master

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of the house gave five to this one and three

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to that one and one to another one according

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to their abilities. The first two doubled theirs

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and the other guy had buried his. And then there's

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another story in Luke 19 where the householder

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has 10 portions of money. Okay. And he gives

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10 servants each one. And one of them gets 10

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back. And the master, the Lord says, so you've

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been faithful with this little. Yeah. I'm going

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to give you 10 cities. You know, he's coming

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to his kingdom. I'm going to give you 10 cities.

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And the next one says, well, I got five. And

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he says, well, I'm going to give you five cities.

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And then there's the guy that just, you know,

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put it in a handkerchief. Here's what you gave

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me. I didn't lose it. But he didn't do anything

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with it. God is trying to get us to bear the

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weight of what we have, become responsible for

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what we have so that he can give us more responsibility.

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He can give us those things that we're asking

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for, for the outpouring. We want to see the outpouring.

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So what happens if a mentor gives someone...

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before they're actually ready. Oh, yeah. You

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know, we talked about this a little earlier,

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like if you're a famous singer or something,

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you get saved and you're right on the worship

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team. You know, it doesn't work because it's

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building integrity. And I remember the facilitator

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was Al Warner in Niagara Falls, the facilitator

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of a pastor's table that we were attending. And,

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you know, he says, I didn't pray for my kids

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to have anointing. Because I saw some... Because

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he saw a lot of people that had it, but they

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had no integrity. They ended up in jail because

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they had no integrity. Wow. So he said, I'm not

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asking for anointing for my kids. You don't want

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to put a novice into the pulpit. Exactly. Even

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when you think you're ready. And I remember when

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our founder passed away in 2013 in January. We

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didn't feel like we were ready to take over.

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I mean, a year before our convention, she publicly

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handed the ball to us. But were we ready when

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that actually happened? It's just like it's a

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shock because it happened suddenly when it happened.

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And all of a sudden, I'm the vice president and

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Sharon's the president. And that's not something

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we asked for right away. We didn't ask for it

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at all. We weren't ready. 13 years ago is what

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it is now. But we are a lot better prepared now

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than what we were then. True. And we just had

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a unique experience on our last trip. We stopped

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at Sweetwater, the big music, the Amazon of the

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music industry. They've got a warehouse the size

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of five football fields. They have over 600 salespeople.

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And you go through a training, intense training

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for, I forget how many. Thirteen weeks. Thirteen

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weeks of intense training. So when you take the

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phone to take an order, you're going to be prepared.

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Not like some other music stores, they'll train

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you for a couple days or a week and all of a

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sudden you're there. But you're not going to

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be able to answer questions. So it's a time of

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training you have to go for to be the responsibility.

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So you will have the integrity of training that

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the company wants you to have. So if you take

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a short survey after here, you want five stars.

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Yeah, exactly. You want to be the best, but they're

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not going to release you until you're ready.

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And that's the way it should be in the kingdom

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of God. God will not release us into a position

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if we're not ready. And I remember in Pastor

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Jeff John's church in Lafayette, Indiana, he

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gave a testimony. Someone came, I want to sing.

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So the first thing he did was start to clean

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toilets. Yep. You know, start doing this, start

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doing this with a good heart. And after a season

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of time, when he felt they were ready, they had

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him come and be part of the worship team and

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said, and there was anointing on it because they

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learned to be a servant. And that's what God

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wants us to do in training is to be a servant

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so we can receive what he has us to receive.

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And it'll be one step on the ladder of the ladder

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of spiritual success. To get to the next rung

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on the ladder and not hit a plateau. We're going

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into realms. Realms. Into new realms of expansion.

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It's like the rung of the ladder will take you

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to realms. Oh, that's good. I like that. I had

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to think of that one through a little bit. That's

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good. That's good. So the third law that Pastor

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Tony brought was the law of expansion. And he

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says, the Father increases provision, everything

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you need, only to the degree that you expand

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your own identity, your discipline, and your

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boundaries. In other words, provision follows

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preparation. Prayer empowers you through the

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Holy Spirit and assists you with your preparation.

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It is when you pray according to the Word of

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God and you receive the wisdom of the Holy Spirit

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that you can come to understand that increase

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does not follow good intentions. Increase follows

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Holy Spirit, God -given infrastructures that

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you have allowed to be built into your life.

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So it's God that's building the infrastructures.

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I'm remembering a... I think it was this morning

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when we were having our prayer for Israel. One

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of the ladies brought Deuteronomy 33, 27. And

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I felt like this fits right here. The eternal

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God is your refuge or dwelling place or habitation.

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And underneath are the everlasting arms. His

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everlasting arms are underneath us as we dwell

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in him, as we live in him. The secret place of

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the Most High from Psalm 91. It's living in him

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that provides all of that provision. And then

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it goes on to say, he drives out the enemy before

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you, giving the command, destroy him. So he wants

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to work with us. He wants to help us develop

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this expansion and this ability to carry the

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weight and the vessel, expanding our vessels

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so that he gets the glory as we give him the

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glory. When we still want a little bit of that

00:27:16.410 --> 00:27:19.410
glory for ourselves, it's not going to give him

00:27:19.410 --> 00:27:21.670
glory. And that's where if you're working in

00:27:21.670 --> 00:27:25.069
a ministry or a church, you stay within your

00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:28.519
boundaries. Right. the more you press into God

00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.980
and the anointing in your life, you will realize

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you can bloom where you're planted. You'll know

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your boundaries and overstep into somebody else's

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territory, because then you get contention. And

00:27:41.539 --> 00:27:44.539
of course, there's nothing more the devil likes

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to do than bring contention into a work of God,

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something that's going on. And if enough contention

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gets in and enough of this happens, Things that

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you can end up going into a church split or something.

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But if everybody keeps their focus on Jesus,

00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.940
that they keep their boundaries of what the Lord

00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:07.160
has put them in, trained to be keeping your boundaries,

00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.279
that will bring you into further promotion. It's

00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:13.700
true. Spiritual promotion. So we all need more

00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:16.140
capacity, right? Capacity. That's what this is

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all about. So now he's talking about identity.

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And this was a zinger for me. So identity expansion

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means you see yourself according to the word

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of God. Now, we've heard this, but I don't think

00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.019
we've completely gotten it. I haven't. And one

00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:39.460
thing Pastor Tony says is he's still working

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:42.859
on it and it takes time. And if a bishop says

00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:46.119
he's still working on it. So identity expansion

00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.279
means you see yourself according to the word

00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.259
of God. And this part's very important as well.

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And as a person who is already operating in the

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level that you're seeking. So a person asking

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for wealth while identifying as broke will sabotage

00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:06.019
every opportunity for increase. Isn't that clear?

00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:09.180
That is so clear. The person requesting respect

00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:13.599
while identifying as a victim will unconsciously

00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:18.140
maintain patterns that invite disrespect. The

00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:21.940
person wanting promotion. Here we go. This is

00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:25.420
me. The person want. It's not that I want promotion.

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:28.759
It's just that I want to expand into the things

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.279
that God has for me. OK, that's that's my heart.

00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:35.049
That's my heart. That's my mindset. But while

00:29:35.049 --> 00:29:39.089
identifying as inadequate, we'll find ways to

00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:42.450
prove that their inadequacy is a fact, even though

00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:46.650
it may not necessarily be true. So think about

00:29:46.650 --> 00:29:50.009
it this way. Sometimes we're striving to be humble.

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And in our humility, we might identify ourselves

00:29:56.670 --> 00:30:02.009
as less than what God says we are. And so I guess

00:30:02.009 --> 00:30:05.700
that would be false humility, wouldn't it? So

00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:10.059
he says your perceived identity is your internal

00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:14.000
thermostat. It will not allow your external results

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to exceed your internal personal concept for

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long. So discipline expansion means building

00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:24.380
systems that can operate at the level you want

00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:27.039
to reach. The person wanting financial abundance

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:29.569
must first. build discipline around their current

00:30:29.569 --> 00:30:31.930
income, right? The person wanting relational

00:30:31.930 --> 00:30:35.569
harmony must first build discipline around emotional

00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:41.069
regulation. And that's critical for all of our

00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:45.849
relationships, right? So we have to build discipline

00:30:45.849 --> 00:30:49.029
around current responsibilities. And the discipline

00:30:49.029 --> 00:30:53.069
is the result of following Jesus. This is all

00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:56.950
about working with him, cooperating with him.

00:30:57.009 --> 00:31:01.089
This is where it's coming home to us. It's good

00:31:01.089 --> 00:31:03.329
to preach about it, but God wants to take us

00:31:03.329 --> 00:31:08.200
to the next realm, to the next expansion. So

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.160
discipline means to say no to the self -life

00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.559
and yes to the life of Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:21.740
Right? Yeah. In Acts chapter 20, verse 32, Paul

00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:25.180
says, I commend you to God and to the word of

00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:28.660
his grace, which is able to build you up and

00:31:28.660 --> 00:31:31.960
make you strong and enable you to receive your

00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:35.000
inheritance among those that the Lord has made

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.799
holy. So the word of God builds my personal capacity.

00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.200
And then Jeremiah says, your words were found

00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.380
and I did eat them. So I remember our former

00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:50.740
vice president, our late vice president, I should

00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:54.140
say, Colonel Jim Shaw, before Sister Gwen would

00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:56.700
marry him, she said, you have to read through

00:31:56.700 --> 00:32:00.099
the whole Bible. You know, he loved the Lord,

00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:06.299
but he was still a lot in his worldly mindset

00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:09.519
that he had learned in the world. He was a military

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.339
man, right? So he's busy trying to read the Word

00:32:13.339 --> 00:32:16.880
so he can marry this woman. And so he made up

00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.160
his mind, I'm not going to eat until I read the

00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.440
Word, thinking that it'll help him get a good

00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.640
start in the morning. Well, sometimes he didn't

00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:28.400
even eat until suppertime because he hadn't gotten

00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.339
the Word in because he was still developing discipline,

00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:34.400
right? And then he was pretty good discipline.

00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.039
It was good discipline himself to do that. Yeah.

00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.579
Yeah. It's just that he still had to discipline

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:43.839
regarding time. So anyway, he told the story

00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.799
about how he was in Pakistan at one point and

00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.839
he was out in a little field. He just thought

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.000
it was a nice place to sit and read the Bible,

00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:56.180
right? Because it was time to read the Bible.

00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:58.720
Well, he fell asleep, but there were some goats

00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:03.160
in that field. And when he woke up, he found

00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.079
that a little goat had taken a couple of bites

00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:11.099
out of his Bible. And he showed us that one of

00:33:11.099 --> 00:33:14.259
the places that this little goat had a bite was

00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:18.180
in Jeremiah with this scripture, I found thy

00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:22.319
words and did eat them. It wasn't a Waco that's

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:26.039
sleepiest. No, it wasn't. But you could see in

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:30.539
his Bible the little teeth marks, and the part

00:33:30.539 --> 00:33:33.819
of the page was missing. So the point is that

00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:38.579
as we eat the Word of God, as we digest it, It

00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:43.079
becomes part of us. It becomes a part of who

00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:47.319
we are. Regular food, ordinary food, you eat

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.000
it, you get energy. You eat it, your body can

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.680
rebuild cells that have gotten tired and died.

00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:55.460
It enables you to increase your health if you're

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:57.619
eating the right kind of food. And so eating

00:33:57.619 --> 00:34:01.779
the Word of God is going to build us spiritually.

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.960
It's going to give us what we need, and it's

00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.650
going to fill us with joy. Yeah. So eating the

00:34:09.650 --> 00:34:14.130
Word, reading the Word, studying the Word, getting

00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:16.289
revelation from the Holy Spirit. You know, the

00:34:16.289 --> 00:34:18.389
Holy Spirit was the one who inspired it in the

00:34:18.389 --> 00:34:21.250
first place. And when you read the Word and say,

00:34:21.309 --> 00:34:24.030
Holy Spirit, give me something I've never seen

00:34:24.030 --> 00:34:27.829
before. That's beautiful. He'll give you something

00:34:27.829 --> 00:34:30.760
you've never seen before. And sometimes you don't

00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.960
even have to ask. He'll just all of a sudden.

00:34:33.059 --> 00:34:35.519
And I've read the same scriptures over and over

00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.699
and over again. And I keep getting new things

00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:42.889
because he's limitless. And his word is limitless

00:34:42.889 --> 00:34:45.130
and his spirit is limitless. So he's expanding

00:34:45.130 --> 00:34:49.030
our capacity as we read the word. And praying

00:34:49.030 --> 00:34:53.530
in tongues is huge because 1 Corinthians 14 says

00:34:53.530 --> 00:34:56.090
that he who speaks in a tongue is edifying himself.

00:34:56.309 --> 00:34:58.730
So you're building up yourself on your most holy

00:34:58.730 --> 00:35:01.679
faith. It says that in the book of Jude. Building

00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.420
yourself up in your spirit realm, it'll expand

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:10.400
you as you continue to pray in tongues. It's

00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.820
just huge. And then Jesus said, every servant

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:18.219
is not greater than his master. But the idea

00:35:18.219 --> 00:35:22.760
is that we pursue becoming like the master. So

00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.079
the more we spend time with him, the more we're

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.280
spending time in his word, the more we're spending

00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.900
time in... letting his spirit flow through us

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:34.900
in prayer, the more we're becoming like him.

00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:38.420
And that's the goal. He wants all of us to be

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:44.280
like him. Hallelujah. Amen. So the Holy Spirit

00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:49.019
is trying to help us do self -assessment, okay?

00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:52.019
Identity expansion is the result of following

00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:54.280
Jesus and you become like the one you follow.

00:35:54.579 --> 00:35:57.360
So when you exercise the discipline of Jesus

00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.780
at your current level, It's now proof of your

00:36:00.780 --> 00:36:04.079
readiness to reach the next level in Jesus. So

00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.400
that's what I want. I don't even want to call

00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.400
it levels. I want to call it expansions. I want

00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.099
to call it getting into new realms. So it's about

00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:20.159
getting into a place where we're letting the

00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:24.139
Holy Spirit work with us in discipline. The person

00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:27.260
who cannot protect their time cannot be given

00:36:27.260 --> 00:36:30.300
more time. Right. Well, yeah. The person who

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:32.599
cannot protect their energy will not be given

00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:36.179
more demanding responsibilities. These three

00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:41.139
expansions happen in order. OK, number one, identity

00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:45.460
creates the framework. And number two, discipline

00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:48.780
builds the structure. And number three, boundaries

00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:52.559
protect the investment. Yeah. And when all three

00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:56.460
expansions are complete, vision flows supernaturally.

00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:59.440
Not because the father just suddenly decides

00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.400
to bless you, but because you've become the kind

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.500
of son or daughter that the blessings will now

00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:08.920
gravitate towards. Wow. Isn't that beautiful?

00:37:09.219 --> 00:37:12.519
It is. The blessings will come to you. I'm seeing

00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.599
it kind of like a vacuum. Okay. When you've got

00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:18.360
this capacity increase, something's going to

00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:21.780
flood in to fill it. Yeah. It's like Deuteronomy

00:37:21.780 --> 00:37:27.199
28, isn't it? All the blessings will overtake

00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.000
you. Right. And that's what we want. Right. We

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.860
want the blessings. And it's a promise from God.

00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:36.920
Right. The blessings will overtake you if. Yes.

00:37:37.179 --> 00:37:40.539
There's an if there. There is an if. If you are

00:37:40.539 --> 00:37:43.760
in a place to receive it. Amen. And if you're

00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:45.900
ready to receive it, if you've got the space

00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:49.320
for what he wants to give you. Yeah. Because,

00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:51.219
you know, Jesus will not give you something you're

00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:53.400
not ready for. It's true. Because at the end

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.880
of the day, he does not want you to be crushed

00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.179
or condemned by it. Amen. He gives you what you

00:37:59.179 --> 00:38:02.320
can handle so you can be commended by God. You

00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.480
know, I think a good example here is people that

00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:09.199
have won the, like the Irish sweepstakes or something

00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:12.579
like that. The lottery. I mean, big, big amount.

00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.599
And all of a sudden they get all this money.

00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:18.840
And the stories we've heard, how many of them

00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:23.340
end up broke because they did not know how to

00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:26.820
handle it. They could not handle wealth. So even

00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:31.079
it's like a worldly thing, it's a spiritual thing

00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.860
too. God doesn't want to give you something that's

00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:37.039
going to really mess you up. Say you get a big,

00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:41.159
maybe you win $60 ,000, so you go out and you

00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:46.079
buy a $55 ,000 car. Yep, spent it all. By the

00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.099
time you pay all the taxes and then you have

00:38:48.099 --> 00:38:50.960
insurance and then all of a sudden your insurance

00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:54.679
rate goes up. Like I was at the insurance company

00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:57.619
today asking them about certain cars. And he

00:38:57.619 --> 00:39:00.659
said, if you have an electric, a hybrid. says

00:39:00.659 --> 00:39:03.900
your insurance just goes up immensely. Even a

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:06.340
little tiny car, they'll say, this little hybrid,

00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:09.079
why is the insurance so much? Because the parts

00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.840
are so much more expensive. Right. So it's like

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:14.739
things you inquire before you buy. True. And

00:39:14.739 --> 00:39:17.469
so all of a sudden you get... get a big wad of

00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:20.250
money or something. But if you don't manage it

00:39:20.250 --> 00:39:23.969
right, you don't research, you know, learn to

00:39:23.969 --> 00:39:28.250
abstain from spending it all. You know, that's

00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:30.269
the principle God wants to give you. He doesn't

00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:32.449
want to do something that's going to hurt you

00:39:32.449 --> 00:39:34.449
in the long run. Right. Well, you'll bite off

00:39:34.449 --> 00:39:37.030
something you can't chew. Even at the moment,

00:39:37.070 --> 00:39:39.110
it looks like you got the big enough knife and

00:39:39.110 --> 00:39:41.690
fork to make it happen. Right. You know, and

00:39:41.690 --> 00:39:45.289
it ends up hurting you. It's true. So one of

00:39:45.289 --> 00:39:47.429
the things that's so important that I resonated

00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:51.630
with is you have to set boundaries around your

00:39:51.630 --> 00:39:56.489
own reactions. And I find that I have an issue

00:39:56.489 --> 00:40:01.250
with, as Papa Jim used to say, or Colonel Jim.

00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:05.519
the perversity of inanimate objects. When something

00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:07.840
goes wrong on the computer, when something goes

00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:09.579
wrong with this, when something goes wrong with

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:11.780
that, when it doesn't act the way I think it

00:40:11.780 --> 00:40:14.340
should act, I'm finding that the Holy Spirit

00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:17.260
is putting his finger on my reactions because

00:40:17.260 --> 00:40:21.219
I'm finding myself reacting to an inanimate object.

00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:27.199
I mean, it's not that they're animate, but, you

00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.699
know. They can be perverse. And I don't mean

00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:34.519
that sexually. I mean that they just don't work

00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.980
the way you expect them to. You know, you have

00:40:37.980 --> 00:40:39.820
to you have to figure out how to talk to a computer.

00:40:39.900 --> 00:40:43.619
Right. But the challenge is emotional regulation.

00:40:44.779 --> 00:40:47.519
That is so important in ministry. I remember

00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:50.739
someone, I asked, how is so -and -so pastor doing?

00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.360
He says, well, it depends what day of the week

00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.219
it is. Oh, wow. And I've been with this pastor

00:40:57.219 --> 00:40:59.699
before in his early years before he was a pastor,

00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:03.460
and I can understand that too, you know? Yeah.

00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.539
I'll give you a good example of one of the...

00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:11.519
Amazing miracle man was Jack Cole back when in

00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:15.400
the 50s and the 50s. And he had an amazing, credible

00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.400
healings in that. But he had a personality that

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:21.280
was rough. Yeah. And he was warned by different

00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.360
people says you need, you know, in order for

00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.659
you to continue, you need to learn to not be

00:41:27.659 --> 00:41:31.239
rough. Yeah. Regulate your emotions. And don't

00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:33.519
treat people badly. Don't treat people badly.

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.940
Yeah. But he didn't change. And he died very

00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:39.800
young. Yes, he did. His ministry did not last.

00:41:40.099 --> 00:41:43.579
And that's sad. So there has to be, like our

00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:46.619
beloved Papa Dorn would say, you know, be nice

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:49.239
to Jesus. Right. Be nice to the Jesus in each

00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.380
other. Right. You know, and even you get someone

00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:53.460
that kind of rubs you the wrong way in ministry,

00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:57.340
you know, it's just okay. Just learn to iron

00:41:57.340 --> 00:42:00.000
sharpen, sharpening iron a little bit. But, you

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.619
know, get your rough edges off and just take

00:42:02.619 --> 00:42:05.360
it as a learning progress from the Lord because

00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.539
the Lord may have your work. you know, with someone

00:42:08.539 --> 00:42:11.960
else that is like that, and he's preparing you

00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:14.159
for maybe your next position of what you have

00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.539
to do, learning to live or work with difficult

00:42:17.539 --> 00:42:20.179
people. It's true. If you can work with them

00:42:20.179 --> 00:42:23.119
with the love of Jesus, it will be better for

00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.199
you, and you will go a step higher of a rung

00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:29.619
of a ladder in the success of glory. Yes, and

00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:32.599
really, I think you could take 1 Corinthians

00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:39.809
13 as a rule book, as a guide for how God wants

00:42:39.809 --> 00:42:43.769
us to react to people, how God wants us to think.

00:42:43.969 --> 00:42:47.369
Because it's all about us allowing him to cultivate

00:42:47.369 --> 00:42:51.369
his love in us. And like I said, it's about receiving

00:42:51.369 --> 00:42:57.190
his love so that you can also give it. So what

00:42:57.190 --> 00:43:00.010
we're talking about is making some big changes,

00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:03.489
but how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a

00:43:03.489 --> 00:43:07.489
time. Exactly. So Pastor Tony kind of helps us

00:43:07.489 --> 00:43:11.010
out with some ideas here. He says the first thing

00:43:11.010 --> 00:43:15.050
you have to do is create a boundary and choose

00:43:15.050 --> 00:43:20.630
one area where you currently have no limits and

00:43:20.630 --> 00:43:23.610
establish a clean boundary. Might be a time boundary,

00:43:23.849 --> 00:43:27.769
a money boundary, an energy boundary. And I remember

00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:30.130
when Don and Catherine, when our daughter was

00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:33.070
young, they gave us some really good advice.

00:43:33.449 --> 00:43:37.369
And they said, choose your battles. Don't try

00:43:37.369 --> 00:43:41.289
and fix everything all at once. You know, children

00:43:41.289 --> 00:43:43.909
are children and they're delicate and they need

00:43:43.909 --> 00:43:46.630
to be handled carefully and lovingly. So you

00:43:46.630 --> 00:43:49.380
choose one thing you're going to work on. Maybe

00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:54.840
two. But focus on one thing and deal with that

00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:56.960
until you have success and then find something

00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:01.639
else. So choose one area and set a boundary.

00:44:01.900 --> 00:44:05.219
And he says the boundary must be specific. It

00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:08.420
must be measurable. It must be non -negotiable,

00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:11.860
except under extreme, extraordinary circumstances

00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:16.679
like an emergency. He gives it examples. I will

00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:19.000
not spend more than this amount on entertainment

00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.360
each month. It's a measurable boundary. It's

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.099
a non -negotiable. So once you've set a boundary,

00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:27.679
you're going to keep it, right? You're going

00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.340
to choose to keep it because you want expansion,

00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.860
right? And he made a statement that my capacity

00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:40.420
increases when my chaos decreases. So that's

00:44:40.420 --> 00:44:43.219
number two. You're going to eliminate one area

00:44:43.219 --> 00:44:46.360
of chaos. Yeah. And so I remember when I first

00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.260
got saved. So it's a total change of everything.

00:44:49.460 --> 00:44:52.860
And sometimes you have to leave friends behind.

00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:56.599
You cannot go back to the bar with them or something

00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:59.780
like that. You know, you keep friends at a distance

00:44:59.780 --> 00:45:02.539
to witness to them, but you cannot partake of

00:45:02.539 --> 00:45:05.000
the lifestyle you were. Because I remember when

00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.920
I mentioned some of this before, when I got saved,

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.679
I took all my records that I had, you know, a

00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.179
lot of records worth a lot of money today. And,

00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.480
you know, my Led Zeppelin and, you know, my this,

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:18.699
my that, all that, took them out of their jackets,

00:45:18.739 --> 00:45:21.760
only been played one time, no scratches, put

00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.760
on a cassette, never played a record again. took

00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:27.679
each one out, bent it over and stomped on it,

00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:30.440
make it unplayable, threw it into the dumpster.

00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.300
And I told my best friend what I did, you know,

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later on at the bowling alley where I bowled

00:45:37.539 --> 00:45:39.599
and hung out. And he says, why didn't you give

00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:42.880
them to me? And out of my mouth came. I don't

00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.019
want to be responsible for your damnation. I

00:45:46.019 --> 00:45:48.880
never would have said that to my best friend,

00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:51.099
but that's what came out of my mouth because

00:45:51.099 --> 00:45:54.679
I would not want to stuff I had that was demonic

00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:58.699
and that give to him, you know, get rid of it.

00:45:58.739 --> 00:46:01.019
And so, you know, the Lord will deal with you

00:46:01.019 --> 00:46:04.199
to increase capacity, get rid of the things that

00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.320
are causing chaos. Right. And so one of the things

00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:11.280
that he said that struck home for me. was I will

00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.539
clean up my personal environment. Clutter is

00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:19.340
attracted to me. And the Holy Spirit was already

00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:22.099
dealing with me. And I've done some of the clutter

00:46:22.099 --> 00:46:24.840
cleanup before I even heard Pastor Tony. But

00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.619
he says that it has to be a permanent thing,

00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.960
that we don't just clean up temporarily and then

00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.909
let it... fall back into clutter again. We've

00:46:35.909 --> 00:46:40.409
got to have the discipline that enables us to

00:46:40.409 --> 00:46:44.349
be able to handle more things that God wants

00:46:44.349 --> 00:46:46.289
to give us. Yeah, it's like building a system,

00:46:46.429 --> 00:46:49.449
you know, that works for you. Right, that's number

00:46:49.449 --> 00:46:53.110
three. And Oral Roberts, I remember reading his

00:46:53.110 --> 00:46:55.889
testimony, I think it was his lunch hour a certain

00:46:55.889 --> 00:46:59.570
time, you did not disturb the man. I mean, he

00:46:59.570 --> 00:47:02.090
turned the phones off. He says, you do not bother

00:47:02.090 --> 00:47:05.769
me. quiet time in the middle of the day. I mean,

00:47:05.809 --> 00:47:07.510
he probably had his quiet time in the morning

00:47:07.510 --> 00:47:11.130
too. But like Smith Wigglesworth, he would read

00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:13.849
his Bible or scripture like every 15 minutes

00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:15.469
or so. I think it was 20. Or 20 minutes. But

00:47:15.469 --> 00:47:19.070
still. I mean, I'm at 20, you know, pull out

00:47:19.070 --> 00:47:21.750
a little New Testament or something and read

00:47:21.750 --> 00:47:25.190
scripture. I mean, and I just really get convicted,

00:47:25.250 --> 00:47:27.110
you know, how much scripture that I read in the

00:47:27.110 --> 00:47:30.849
morning. But at night, I discipline myself to

00:47:30.849 --> 00:47:33.889
do the Psalms. You know, I'll do five Psalms.

00:47:34.110 --> 00:47:36.329
I'll put it on speaker, you know, while I'm brushing

00:47:36.329 --> 00:47:38.889
my teeth and getting ready for bed. You know,

00:47:38.909 --> 00:47:40.869
like first of the month, you know, it'll be.

00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:45.059
Psalm 1, and then I'll go to Psalm 31, Psalm

00:47:45.059 --> 00:47:50.559
61, Psalm 91, Psalm 121, and do that for every

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.619
psalm. You get through the whole book of psalms

00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:55.019
in a month, and then I just repeat it all over

00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:57.260
again. It's true. Just getting more scripture

00:47:57.260 --> 00:47:59.920
in, and it really works because, you know, thy

00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.960
word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto

00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.380
my path. Of course, it takes a while to get through

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:08.360
Psalm 119. Yes, it does. It does. But you're

00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.420
building a system. And it's a system. A system

00:48:12.420 --> 00:48:16.940
will replace willpower. When you develop that

00:48:16.940 --> 00:48:20.360
it's non -negotiable, I'm going to do this. I'm

00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:25.079
going to do this. It's a fact of life. This is

00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:27.940
what I'm going to do. So you can build a learning

00:48:27.940 --> 00:48:31.079
system. You can build all kinds of systems. Find

00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:34.679
the system that works for you. Like I've said,

00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:39.929
I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe. So I've put myself

00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:44.289
into a class where we're learning Hebrew, where

00:48:44.289 --> 00:48:46.949
we're learning biblical Hebrew. So I had a little

00:48:46.949 --> 00:48:49.969
bit of learning before, but now I'm getting where

00:48:49.969 --> 00:48:54.650
I can read the Hebrew of a verse. So when I'm

00:48:54.650 --> 00:48:57.650
doing my studying every day, I'm making it a

00:48:57.650 --> 00:48:59.730
system that I'm going to actually read through

00:48:59.730 --> 00:49:02.789
that in Hebrew, and I'm still learning what it

00:49:02.789 --> 00:49:06.269
means. But it's a system. It's something that

00:49:06.269 --> 00:49:09.289
I'm doing that is non -negotiable. And when I

00:49:09.289 --> 00:49:12.349
have a system, I don't have to rely on motivation

00:49:12.349 --> 00:49:15.309
because I've found that there are times when

00:49:15.309 --> 00:49:18.369
I just don't have the motivation. Pastor Tony

00:49:18.369 --> 00:49:22.789
said that and I agree. So I have to rely on structure

00:49:22.789 --> 00:49:26.210
and I have to measure my progress over time.

00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:30.190
Okay, so the next thing is measurement. Number

00:49:30.190 --> 00:49:33.369
four, measure the system consistently and constantly

00:49:33.369 --> 00:49:37.429
and faithfully. And then what gets measured gets

00:49:37.429 --> 00:49:44.219
managed. So number five is I will accept responsibility

00:49:44.219 --> 00:49:52.739
without complaining. It's so easy to complain.

00:49:53.219 --> 00:49:57.800
Yes. Like the phone rings and there's nobody

00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:01.320
to answer the phone. I'm going to choose to answer

00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:06.019
the phone without complaining. And it gets to

00:50:06.019 --> 00:50:09.840
be fun sometimes. to talk to people. But, I mean,

00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:13.139
it's a responsibility. I'm accepting it. I'm

00:50:13.139 --> 00:50:15.059
accepting it. I'm not going to make excuses.

00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:18.460
I'm going to take ownership of this. Yeah, and

00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:21.519
it's practicing delayed gratification. That's

00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:23.880
number six. Intentionally, a number six. It's

00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:27.260
like you see something you want, you know, and

00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:29.760
it's a management thing. You know, if you get

00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:31.920
a lot of money or something and all of a sudden

00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:34.659
you're spending it, but... I will deliberately

00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:37.679
wait before getting it, not because I can't afford

00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:41.320
it, but because I'm training myself. Even though

00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:43.860
I desire it, I prefer it, but I'm going to say

00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:48.119
no to it just to practice the D -line. So that's

00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:50.800
really good. You got the money. I just got all

00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.559
this money. I'm going to splurge shopping. Go

00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.500
to the big city. I remember a worker we had,

00:50:58.659 --> 00:51:01.900
someone not part of our staff, came down. Working

00:51:01.900 --> 00:51:04.099
on, got something, you know, got paid, says,

00:51:04.219 --> 00:51:06.679
all right, going to Branson. You know, it's going

00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:09.559
to spend all this money in Branson. And a lot

00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:12.179
of alcoholics, they'll get their paycheck and

00:51:12.179 --> 00:51:15.199
they'll gamble it away within like a day or two.

00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:18.179
You know, you can't give a person like that a

00:51:18.179 --> 00:51:20.539
responsibility of a lot of money because they'll

00:51:20.539 --> 00:51:23.340
just blow it. So it's training. It's just really

00:51:23.340 --> 00:51:25.760
God training because these are kingdom principles.

00:51:26.019 --> 00:51:28.469
Right. Because it's all about kingdom. And delayed

00:51:28.469 --> 00:51:31.429
ratification is dying to self. Yeah. You want

00:51:31.429 --> 00:51:34.010
the thing. But I'm going to say no. Yeah. And

00:51:34.010 --> 00:51:36.769
it builds this strength in you. You know, it

00:51:36.769 --> 00:51:38.789
builds a strength in you not doing because once

00:51:38.789 --> 00:51:41.670
you overcome that, it's all overcoming. Keep

00:51:41.670 --> 00:51:44.789
overcoming and it just gets easier. Yes. And

00:51:44.789 --> 00:51:49.670
number seven is do one action daily that my future

00:51:49.670 --> 00:51:53.190
can inherit. I want to inherit this future. I

00:51:53.190 --> 00:51:55.710
want to inherit this thing. So I'm going to do

00:51:55.710 --> 00:51:58.900
one thing every day. that's going to help me

00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:02.579
in my future. And I guess really doing that thing

00:52:02.579 --> 00:52:05.599
about studying the Hebrew, that's going to help

00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.579
me every day. Every day I'm going to do this.

00:52:08.820 --> 00:52:11.159
It's going to help me grow. It's going to help

00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:14.050
me understand more every day. Before long, I'm

00:52:14.050 --> 00:52:17.929
going to learn the grammar and the spellings

00:52:17.929 --> 00:52:21.030
and all of these things. So it's a structure.

00:52:21.070 --> 00:52:24.369
And I'm going to do that one thing every day

00:52:24.369 --> 00:52:28.610
that's going to help me inherit the kingdom of

00:52:28.610 --> 00:52:32.190
God. It's going to help me inherit this new place

00:52:32.190 --> 00:52:36.949
in him that I really want to go to. So Pastor

00:52:36.949 --> 00:52:39.590
Tony finished up with, there's three objections

00:52:39.590 --> 00:52:43.800
that we might have. One objection is, I'm already

00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.880
ready. Your readiness is not measured by desire.

00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:49.139
It's measured by demonstrated capacity under

00:52:49.139 --> 00:52:51.579
current conditions. So if you can't handle what

00:52:51.579 --> 00:52:53.300
you have, you're not ready for more. You're really

00:52:53.300 --> 00:52:57.019
not. You might think you are. Objection number

00:52:57.019 --> 00:53:00.780
two is, once I have more, I'll be more disciplined.

00:53:02.019 --> 00:53:04.820
Doesn't work. Objection number three is, I'm

00:53:04.820 --> 00:53:10.900
overwhelmed. Guilty. Guilty as charged. You know,

00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:13.340
when you're overwhelmed, you're just kind of

00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:16.239
saying, I can't do this. I don't know how I'm

00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.219
going to do this. I'm overwhelmed. And this logic

00:53:20.219 --> 00:53:22.579
ensures that your current limitations become

00:53:22.579 --> 00:53:25.860
permanent. We have to let go of this overwhelmed

00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:29.920
feeling. Capacity building happens during difficult

00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:33.260
seasons, not after them. Yeah, that's good. So

00:53:33.260 --> 00:53:35.519
the father funds stewardship, not your desire.

00:53:36.110 --> 00:53:38.150
The Father invests in demonstrated capacity,

00:53:38.489 --> 00:53:40.969
not in declared intention. So preparation is

00:53:40.969 --> 00:53:43.590
proof of readiness. Your current circumstances

00:53:43.590 --> 00:53:47.610
are not punishment for past mistakes. Your current

00:53:47.610 --> 00:53:51.070
circumstances are training for future opportunities.

00:53:51.590 --> 00:53:55.369
So Father, we just thank you for this training

00:53:55.369 --> 00:53:58.889
that you're giving us, Lord. We're signing up

00:53:58.889 --> 00:54:03.250
for new, new training. We're ready to go to school

00:54:03.250 --> 00:54:06.090
in this new thing that you are releasing to us

00:54:06.090 --> 00:54:09.530
so that we can come into the fullness of what

00:54:09.530 --> 00:54:12.849
you have for us in the next season. And we bless

00:54:12.849 --> 00:54:16.849
our listeners to say amen in their spirits to

00:54:16.849 --> 00:54:20.769
get with your program so that we can all move

00:54:20.769 --> 00:54:25.949
forward equipped. And ready for you to flow through

00:54:25.949 --> 00:54:29.289
us in the outpouring that you want to do in all

00:54:29.289 --> 00:54:47.719
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