(315) “Things that Are Coming in the Spiritual Start in the Natural” with Don James

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We're expecting the transition between the perishable

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and the imperishable. Amen. That which builds

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a priesthood in us so that we may serve him properly.

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Yes. According to his will, his plan. Yes. And

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come into that person. Yes. And an understanding

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of this is the desire of the Father for each

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one of us. Yes. To be able to touch him and be

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touched by him. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to

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pour out of his spirit on all humanity. Welcome

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to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that

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promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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

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to the podcast today. So glad that you're with

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us. We are going to have a wonderful discussion

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with Don James, who has been over our youth department

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for many years, and he is also on our board of

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directors. And he has a revelation of how important

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it is for us to recognize that things that are

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coming in the spiritual start in the natural.

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Thanks so much for joining us today. We're just

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delighted that this is an opportunity for us

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going to just do it so much more in the days

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to come. So we really encourage you to do that.

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And if you haven't already made plans to be at

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our convention, Global Outpouring, 2026 in St.

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Louis at the Hilton Hotel at the airport. It's

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going to be a time of glory, glory, glory. It's

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for all ages. Everybody has a place. Everybody

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has a thing. Everybody can meet God. We're expecting

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an unprecedented outpouring, and we really encourage

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you to get there. While you are on our website,

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you can go there to the events tab and look for

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the convention, and all the details are there.

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and the places to click to make reservations

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at the hotel and to register. It's all there,

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all the descriptions of the speakers. And there's

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also a place where you can click to donate. If

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you want to help us with this podcast, we're

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reaching the nations, we're reaching out into

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people's lives and helping them to grow in the

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things of God. Help us to pay that forward, if

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you will. Thank you. Don James, it's such a pleasure

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to have you with us right here in the Global

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Outpouring Studio. And we're excited about what...

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God is going to pour out today through this podcast.

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And you've just come back from Israel recently,

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and you were there during a very exciting time.

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If you want to just start out a little bit with

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talking about that. Yes. Israel was such an adventure.

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Catherine and I would find ourselves in these

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groups, and all of a sudden... People would be

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just so excited that we came. And, you know,

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we're scratching our heads going, what did we

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just do? What did we say? What happened? Because

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it wasn't just a, oh, I'm glad you're here. It's

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almost like something touched them spiritually.

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And we were totally uninvolved. consciously in

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it, which made it even more exciting. It was

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like, oh, thank you, God, because you knew God

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did something. So it was just amazing to be a

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part of the many groups that Jeannie and Mary

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Lois are associated with. Yes, and we're referring

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to our House of Peace in Jerusalem, the ministry

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that we've had there for 27 years now. And you

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and Catherine, your wife, went to be with them

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as they were finishing up and putting things

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back together after the kitchen renovation that's

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just been completed. Thank God for that wonderful,

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wonderful thing that God has done there. No,

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we need to go see it. Yeah, we need to go see

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it. And thank you to all who participated in

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helping to pay for it. We're grateful for that.

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It's paid for. And while you were there, the

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bombs started flying, the missiles started flying.

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You know, what was that like? Well, I was ex

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-military, so I've been around a lot of shooting

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and rocket firing and torpedo firing and all

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kinds of other firing. That was Navy, wasn't

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it? Yeah, that was Navy. But it wasn't Catherine's

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thing. Well, she's a military wife. Yeah, she's

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been around a long time also. Also, you know.

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She's not easily flapped. No, she's not. That

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is for sure. And if she is, she will try hard

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not to let you know it. So you could say she's

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practically unflappable. Yeah. But you could

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see those missiles coming and hear the booms

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when they were intercepted and that sort of thing.

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There were some things that landed like the shrapnel

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landed in a few cases fairly close to the house.

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Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And I don't know. For me, what

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was so disturbing is. You could barely see it.

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You see the vapor trails because it was so far

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away at times, or even when it was closer. I

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mean, those things really scoot. And you're following

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the vapor trail, and really the rocket's probably

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quite a bit ahead of the vapor trail. Wow. So

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it was fascinating, maybe a good word. Yeah.

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And I just wished some buildings would get out

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of the way so I could see their towers. But,

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you know, the bottom line is you could see the

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hand of God protecting Israel. Oh, yes. You know,

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the IDF is the Israel Defense Force. And really,

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God is their IDF. God is their first line of

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defense. And some of them know it and some of

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them don't. It's very clear that there would

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be no Israel if God were not the God of Israel.

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Just think if all those, how many thousands and

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thousands of rockets they shot actually made

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it to Israel. Yeah. You know, what that would

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have been like. Yeah. You know, God gave them

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the creativity to develop interceptors and to

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realize the importance of... creating bomb shelters

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for their people because they were constantly

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being bombarded over decades. This is not something

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new. They have bomb shelters because their enemies

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were continually going after them. And the Lord's

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given them witty inventions. Yeah. Yeah. So I

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love Israel. We love Israel. We go there as often

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as we can. And we prayed for you folks a lot

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while you were over there. And Jean and Mary

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Lois. We'll be coming home soon to be with us

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for the convention, which let's talk about convention.

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What are your expectations for convention, Don?

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My expectations for convention is God will come

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and reveal himself in a new and living way. Amen.

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By the strength of his presence. So his presence

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may draw us in. Right now, God is building a

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spiritual priesthood. Amen. And that spiritual

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priesthood, it has a lot to do with what we're

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going to talk about today. Right. It has to do

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with you getting a revelation of that and moving

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yourself in that direction. I mean, the faith

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people look at the statement in Revelation 1

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and it's, you know, God's raising up priests

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and kings. That's what we are. No, that's what

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we're going to become. But you've got to become

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it to become it. Oh, that's good. Because the

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natural first and then the spiritual will come.

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And you'll go, wow, like us in Israel, these

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groups, we had no idea what we said or did that

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touched them so much. Wow. And that's how it

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will be in these last days. You won't be able

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to put your finger on something so you can stand

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up on a stage and tell them step one, two, three.

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Right. It ain't going to happen. God is after

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relationship, and that issue will manifest before

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the coming of Jesus Christ. He started with a

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relationship, and it will end with a relationship.

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Because Father will tell the Son, it's time.

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Because he's built. Being in Israel, I had a

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greater understanding of the statement of Jesus.

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I go and prepare a mansion for you. We went to

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some of the settlements of the people that fleed

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Jerusalem between the various wars there for

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a decade. They were constantly being attacked.

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You're talking about first century, second century?

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First century. It's 62 AD, 67 AD, and 70 AD.

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Okay. You know, different groups attacked them,

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mostly associated with the Roman. Right. You're

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talking about Susia, right? Yeah, I'm talking

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about Susia. It's fascinating. If you ever go

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to Israel, go to Susia. I love it. And get a

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guide of some kind to explain all the buildings

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to you. But the family was literally like an

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apartment complex. And every time someone's getting

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married, you built another end on it or attached

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it. So you are starting with at least one wall

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when you start building the house for your bride.

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Okay. So it was all interconnected. And so the

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Father could watch your progress and encourage

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you. That's good. Give you a swift kick, whatever

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the case may be. Get this done, son. Dad, I need

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help with the plumbing, you know. Yes. They didn't

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have that problem back, didn't have plumbing

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back then. Oh, they had wells, though, in this

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place. It was fascinating. As I said, what they

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did in Susha is a fascinating story. But again,

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it's about the bride of Christ. And right now,

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Jesus is preparing a place for us. Amen. Literally,

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until the Father says it's time. Go and get your

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bride. And that's relationship. And the bride,

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even though there's not a lot of relationship

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in the natural, that's the way it seems to be

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now. You don't see a building. You don't see

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this, that, or the other. But it's happening.

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And that should be where our vision and our faith

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for is to prepare ourselves for this wedding.

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Yes. In my opinion, it starts with you got to

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build a priesthood. Priesthood dealt with the

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holy place and the holy of holies. Right. Christians

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deal with the outer court. And we've had these

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teachings before, but it's coming again back

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with increase, I think. You know, with the brazen

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altars where we really need to get better at

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repenting. That's true. And recognizing the situation.

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We fell short. If we were not a part of the solution,

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then we were part of the problem. I didn't even

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say a word. You were part of the problem. You

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were seeking God. God, what's my part here? What

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should I do to? enable this to be healed, move

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forward, or come into you somehow. What? What's

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the solution? We don't. We typically avoid where

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we really need to participate, not in the priesthood

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of the natural that separates God from men, but

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brings men closer to God, as well as ourselves,

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our own personal relationships, our own understanding

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of what he's calling us for in this day. Yes.

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And it has a whole lot to do with just the little

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items you find in the holy place. Okay. Might

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want to take a look at those. Yeah. Go for it.

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And, you know, maybe for another day. Okay. We

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need to pray. If you get nothing else to say,

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please get this. Pray. God, show me how to be

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your priest on earth. Show me what you want in

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this hour that I might. worship and lead others

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in worshiping you. Amen. You know, that just

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brings me back. I keep referring to this over

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and over again because I think it's so essential

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what Pastor Tony Kemp. taught us in episode 306

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about the capacity code, that the reason why

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he's not answering our prayers is not because

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he doesn't want to say yes. It's because we don't

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have the capacity to receive what we're asking

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for. So one of the statements that he made is

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God wants to build the minister before he builds

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the ministry. So it's about turning into that

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priest. It's a process. In the priesthood, they

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did not start out as two -year -olds becoming

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priests. They were groomed, shall I say. They

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were raised. They were taught. You're going to

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become a priest and watch and imitate and do

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these things. and learn the holy things of God

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and learn the ways of God. Father would teach

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son. And this is part of what we're missing is

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the heart of the thing. You can do all kinds

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of things on the outside and not have any heart

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relationship at all. And that's what God doesn't

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like. He wants us to do the stuff out of relationship

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with him. And so often we're just busy trying

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to do the stuff and do it right. We want to look

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good. We want to look good on the outside. But

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God wants to deal with the inner stuff. So I'm

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with you, Don, about making the priest. We're

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to become those priests, to become those ruling

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authorities in the earth. But it has to do with

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letting God rule through us. So the reason why.

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I wanted to do a podcast with you is a few weeks

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ago, we had, well, let me go back a little further.

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We put out a newsletter last, in the end of February,

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and in it we listed some of the things that God

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has already brought. to pass of projects that

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needed to be done and needs that needed to be

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met. And we, you know, we said, God has already

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done this. And, you know, we've got this new

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oven used, but new to us and working to replace

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the convection oven that we had before. And,

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you know, just various things that God had already

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brought to pass. And then there was a list of

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things that were needed. And we got a phone call

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from somebody who said, I can't buy that car

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for you, but I can send a car payment every month.

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So I'm going to send a car payment every month

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for five years. And that's kind of what we were

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praying, you know, to get a car. Where we wouldn't

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have to pay for it. Yes. Even somebody make the

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payments for it. Right, right. I wouldn't have

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thought to pray that, but Philip prayed it. And

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God was listening to Philip. And so, and then

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a few days later, he called back and he said,

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you know, I'm going to do it for six years so

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you can get a better car. So it was like, whoa.

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So we brought it to the board of directors. And

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Don is part of our board as an advisor. And he

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began talking about this is a thing of first

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the natural and then the spiritual. Not long

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after that, we got another call from somebody

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who read in the same paper about how our copier

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had died. And we thought we were going to get

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it repaired. And our copier... Because they've

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always been able to fix it. They've always been

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able to fix it. But they've been, hopefully...

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They've been hoping it would die. Yeah, because

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it's way behind. Resurrection life into it. Yeah,

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so... So we keep the same contract. The very

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day, the very day that I was... getting ready

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to print, I was printing the very first copy

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of the first page to proofread it. And it came

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out and it was all wrong. Like the yellow was

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missing completely. And the black was gray. And

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I thought, let me fix this. And so, you know,

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I punched some buttons to do one of the things

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that you can do to fix it. Well, it didn't fix

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it. So I called the company that services it.

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And I said, you know, we've got this problem.

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The guy said, let me order the part. You probably

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need new drums. Well, he told us that the drums

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normally will do 59 ,000 copies. He said, you've

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got 100 ,000 copies on these drums. God was good

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to us. And probably about a million copies on

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the machine. Probably. So anyway, long story

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short, he put new drums in and it didn't fix

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it. Well, in the meantime, they couldn't get

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the drums for They were backordered for two weeks.

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So they offered to print it on their copier in

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their office. And it was like, wow, what favor.

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That was amazing. And they charged us the same

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as if we had done it on our own. That's just

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amazing. Which is also amazing. So, you know,

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it was just favor. And then so we sent it out.

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We get this call. And I put in there that it

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looks like we're going to need a new copier.

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But we were hoping that we could get this one

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fixed. you know, kick that can a little further

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down the road and, you know, somewhere down the

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road, we'll have to get one. Well, this person

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calls up and says, I want to take out a loan

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to be able to pay for this copier. And I said,

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what? I couldn't believe it. And I should believe

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it. I should believe it. These things are credible

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because they come from God, not incredible. They're

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credible. And so then he called back later and

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he said, And I see that you also need a mower.

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I'm going to increase what I'm giving. I'm going

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to increase the size of my loan so that I can

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get you a mower too. And God gave us favor with

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the mower too. They gave us an amazing deal for

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a better one than we were believing God for.

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So it's first the natural, then the spiritual.

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Now I'm going to toss the ball back to you, Don.

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What do you see about first the natural and then

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the spiritual? Where are we going with this in

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the spirit? Well, in 1 Corinthians 15 is quite

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a chapter. I encourage you to read it and close

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read it and think about what you just read. What

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does it really mean? Okay, because it's a pretty

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intricate passage. in the Bible, the whole thing.

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But the faith people coined it for us. They said,

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you know, you've got to activate your faith.

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You've got to have an action. That's the natural.

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The natural really is something that's tangible,

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seeable, doesn't require a lot of thinking. But

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you're believing God for the spiritual part,

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not just the thing. It's about what the thing

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is doing in you to bring you closer to God and

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God manifesting himself in some way to prepare,

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to build, to help people turn the curve and go

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a slightly different direction. will in the ultimate.

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But God uses the natural. Not only is it totally

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necessary, he wants to be in charge of it. He

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wants to drive the boat. And when we began to

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understand that, you were saying before, you

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know, the fact that the priesthood, it was not

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them. We serve God. It's like... I get to do

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this for God? You know, that awe of looking at

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it and changing it from just this natural thing.

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I mean, the tree does this for us. I'll explain

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that in a minute. This natural thing to, wow,

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what's God up to? And collaborating with God

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to bring about his desired will, which we usually

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don't know before we go. True. I mean, if we

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do, we are now highly capable of messing it up

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before it gets anywhere near the end. We were

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listening to a little thing, and I sent it to

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Sharon last night. It was this pastor, and he

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was talking about when he was a little boy, his

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mother got polio. Oh, yes. And the church pastor

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calls and says, we don't want you to come because,

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you know, we don't want anybody else to get this.

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Yeah, the people are afraid of getting it. People

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are really, you know, afraid of that. And she

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said, Pastor, would you come over and pray that,

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you know, that God could use me? And the pastor

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said, there's no way God will use you now. Yeah.

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God's finished with you. God's finished with

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you. That's what he said. And she was just so

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devastated, but she didn't— She said no. She

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said no. God is going to— And then she kept praying,

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and then eventually they got a new pastor. The

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pastor called them, come over to visit and says,

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I want you to start a Sunday school, you know.

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This mother in a wheelchair. And she had faith,

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and she called the people that have the buses.

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And I went with her son and says, we're going

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to go. And she walked to get into the office,

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says, we need a bus for Sunday morning. We want

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you to give us a bus. Give us a bus that we can

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take kids for Sunday school. They only had a

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couple of kids. Oh, it was her two kids. Her

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two kids. That's all they had. Well, I think

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they had a few more by then. But they had a vision.

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But within another week, they needed three buses

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or so. The owner said, I'm going to give you

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one bus with one driver for one Sunday. And he

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said, make sure that God knows that I said that.

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And, of course, her son is just kind of going,

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well, Mom, Mom. They don't do this. But within

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what was a couple years or so, they had to have

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like 35 buses. Yeah. On a Sunday morning. Yep.

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5 ,000 kids in the Sunday school. 5 ,000 kids

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in the Sunday school. I mean, this is going back

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some years. I remember polio back in the, you

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know, when I was a little kid in the late 50s,

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you know, my mom sent a note to school forbidding

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me to have a polio shot because people were getting

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polio from the shot. So this goes back, you know,

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to this time period. But what faith this lady

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had, even though she could not do nothing for

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herself. But she did an act of faith. But she

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did an act of faith, and look where God took

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it. Yeah. Wow, you know. Glory to God. And that's

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what he's doing in these days. I mean, we're

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stepping out in things. It's part of your capacity

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code. Exactly. Expanding your capacity from where

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you've never, we're going places we've never

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been before. That's right. Reaching out into

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faith we've never had before. True. You know,

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because the time is short, and the kingdom of

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God. is within you, and the kingdom of God is

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at hand. So if you marry those two together,

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let's go, G -O, let's go do it. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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It's the back of my hat. Here we go. Let's see.

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There you go. Is it centered? How is that? No,

00:22:57.170 --> 00:22:59.750
it's not. Which way? That way or this way? Well,

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there you go. There you go. Well, close. Okay.

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He's turning us around. Well, there you go. That's

00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.099
a prophetic act. Amen. But he uses that. I just

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know there was a time in our lives where I was

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in the Navy, Mayport, and I was with a group

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that worked with a lot of different commands.

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So I found myself driving here, there, and everywhere

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rather than hanging out at the base a lot. And

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I just know that every time I'd get on I -95,

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I would pass this sign and I would stare at it

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the whole time. I was driving. It was the Admiral

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Benbow Hotel. I don't know what called Ben, B

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-E -N -B -O -W. And they were just a small group.

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And I'm going, one day I go, God, why am I always

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staring at this sign? And I just got a big smile.

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It was my picture in heaven. And then I went

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to another school and they sent me to Memphis,

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Tennessee. And while there, and I was going to

00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:07.519
be there about three months. And while there,

00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:11.259
we were looking for a place to go to church.

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And we walked in the Christian bookstore and

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we started talking to them and found out that

00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:19.059
we were charismatic. I said, oh, you may be interested

00:24:19.059 --> 00:24:22.720
in this. This guy, he's a pastor and I know him

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.180
quite well. And he always comes in and he's always

00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:28.660
full of life. He's starting a service and it's

00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:31.960
at a hotel every Sunday. Well, where's it at?

00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:37.180
Oh, the Admiral Benbow. And I go, okay, we're

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supposed to go. Because the natural first, I

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didn't know why it was attracting my attention

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or what the purpose was. I just always. Do I

00:24:46.349 --> 00:24:50.089
just think the name's funny or something? I'm

00:24:50.089 --> 00:24:52.750
in the Navy and I see the Admiral part. Why am

00:24:52.750 --> 00:24:55.890
I staring at this sign? And then all of a sudden

00:24:55.890 --> 00:24:59.309
God reveals. And this guy literally took us under

00:24:59.309 --> 00:25:02.829
his wing. When he'd go visit people in the church,

00:25:02.890 --> 00:25:07.279
he'd take us with him. Wow. And it was so cool,

00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:10.680
you know, just to have this experience at where

00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:13.359
we were in the Lord at that time. Glory to God.

00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:15.799
Yeah. I mean, we were literally being mentored

00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:17.819
and he knew we weren't going to be there very

00:25:17.819 --> 00:25:21.279
long. Wow. He had to hear God to do something.

00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:24.240
That's tremendous. Wow. But it's those kinds

00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:29.039
of things that God sets us up for because the

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natural's first. But it's supposed to be followed

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.920
by the spiritual that's overwhelming. It talks

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about being perishable. And then it talks about

00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:42.200
imperishable. But then, hey, a tree. When a tree

00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:44.680
is just a whole bunch of round things, you got

00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:46.720
big ones and little ones and little pointy ones

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that kind of come out to the end. It looks kind

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of what? I'm not sure. How do you describe a

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:55.579
tree? That's nothing. They look kind of dead

00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:58.970
and willowy and just like. Hanging out there.

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And then it starts to turn green. Yeah. And then

00:26:02.210 --> 00:26:04.849
if it's a fruit tree, which is the kind God wants

00:26:04.849 --> 00:26:08.890
us to be, it all of a sudden blooms. It takes

00:26:08.890 --> 00:26:11.089
on, like when you get a revelation, you got a

00:26:11.089 --> 00:26:13.509
smile on your face. That's true. Because it just

00:26:13.509 --> 00:26:16.089
hits you like, wow, I've never seen that before.

00:26:16.269 --> 00:26:19.490
Or God, you won't believe what God just told

00:26:19.490 --> 00:26:22.210
me. Those kinds of things, all of a sudden there's

00:26:22.210 --> 00:26:25.710
a blossom. Yeah. A lot of times it stops there.

00:26:27.309 --> 00:26:32.529
Because we never engage to bring it to fruitfulness.

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And it's the fruit that we judge all things.

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You judge everything. That's Luke or Matthew

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around 15 or 16. Judge everything. By its fruit.

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.440
True. Oh, they were judging the false prophets.

00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:51.079
And he was telling them, you know, you know things

00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:54.700
by their outcomes, their fruits. So judge these

00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:56.619
guys who are claiming to be this, that, or the

00:26:56.619 --> 00:27:02.740
other by how they speak, come across the outcome

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:05.380
of their actions and their words. Did it come

00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:09.539
to pass? Yes. Yeah. So, you know, it's the imperishable

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:11.880
brought about or the perishable brought about

00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:14.299
more perishable. You know, that's the fruit.

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He still did. Still did. Not a lot. Not a lot.

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Whereas if God's in it, then you walk away going,

00:27:23.130 --> 00:27:26.789
God, I'm so glad I was a part of that. Oh, thank

00:27:26.789 --> 00:27:32.329
you, God. Amen. Amen. Which is just, we recognize

00:27:32.329 --> 00:27:36.349
life. We do. Sometimes we can't tell the difference

00:27:36.349 --> 00:27:39.950
between excitement or enthusiasm or any of the

00:27:39.950 --> 00:27:42.910
other emotions. But we really do have a recognition

00:27:42.910 --> 00:27:48.029
of life and seeing what it really is. You know,

00:27:48.049 --> 00:27:50.529
to go just a little bit further with that idea

00:27:50.529 --> 00:27:53.990
of the blossoms, you know, we have a pear tree.

00:27:54.740 --> 00:27:57.299
And a few other little fruit trees. But the pear

00:27:57.299 --> 00:28:02.059
tree has been here since 1910. And so it's part

00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:06.380
of our valley. And so we watch it every year.

00:28:06.700 --> 00:28:10.359
It blooms and then sometimes it will have a freeze.

00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:14.440
And the blooms will die. But then it will bloom

00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.140
again. And once in a while, even they'll have

00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:20.700
another freeze. And, you know, because sometimes

00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:23.559
it'll warm up too soon, right? And it's eager.

00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.740
It's eager. Come on, let's put out some blossoms.

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:31.500
But every time it always comes back at least

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.460
a third time with some more blossoms so that

00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:37.279
it can bring forth fruit. And I'm thinking while

00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.119
you were talking, Don, I was thinking about in

00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:45.650
life when we put out a blossom. It's required

00:28:45.650 --> 00:28:51.829
that there be some other thing that comes alongside

00:28:51.829 --> 00:28:55.109
that's attracted to that flower that's going

00:28:55.109 --> 00:28:58.150
to cause the pollination to happen. So it's something

00:28:58.150 --> 00:29:01.569
that gets into that flower to tickle it, so to

00:29:01.569 --> 00:29:05.390
speak. It might be a bee that's looking for the

00:29:05.390 --> 00:29:08.109
nectar and, you know, it's going to take the

00:29:08.109 --> 00:29:11.769
nectar home too. to the beehive and feed the

00:29:11.769 --> 00:29:15.390
baby larva that are developing. But it's going

00:29:15.390 --> 00:29:17.809
to grab some pollen on its legs. And while it's

00:29:17.809 --> 00:29:20.230
scooting around in there, it's going to pollinate

00:29:20.230 --> 00:29:24.069
that thing. And we have to recognize that when

00:29:24.069 --> 00:29:27.309
we get a revelation, before it comes to fruit,

00:29:27.509 --> 00:29:29.950
that sometimes there's going to be something

00:29:29.950 --> 00:29:33.880
that, you know, Does it tickle or does it irritate?

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.819
I mean, tickling can be irritating if you're

00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:42.240
very ticklish. So, yeah, you know that very well,

00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:44.480
Philip, because your cousin used to tickle you

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.319
unmercifully. Anyway, that was irritating. So

00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.220
sometimes there can be an irritation that comes

00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:55.970
to us, but it's a part of. The bringing forth

00:29:55.970 --> 00:29:58.250
of fruit, because if there's nothing that gets

00:29:58.250 --> 00:30:00.849
in there to irritate it or to tickle it, it's

00:30:00.849 --> 00:30:04.509
not going to germinate. It's not going to become

00:30:04.509 --> 00:30:06.990
productive. It's not going to continue in the

00:30:06.990 --> 00:30:09.809
process that will actually cause it to bring

00:30:09.809 --> 00:30:12.769
forth fruit. Germinate. Germinate. There's another

00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:14.549
word for it, but it's not going to reproduce.

00:30:14.730 --> 00:30:18.470
There will be no reproduction. It will not go

00:30:18.470 --> 00:30:23.480
from the blueprint to the building. Okay, you

00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:25.859
start out with a blueprint, but it'll never get

00:30:25.859 --> 00:30:29.099
past the blueprint, so to speak, in the process

00:30:29.099 --> 00:30:33.180
if it doesn't have that irritation or tickling

00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:35.579
or whatever that is caused by something from

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:38.559
the outside. The tree can't pollinate itself.

00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:42.119
I mean, the wind can, but there's got to be something

00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:46.740
involved outside of your vision to help your

00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:49.730
vision come to fruit. And we have to embrace

00:30:49.730 --> 00:30:51.910
that when it comes, because it's coming from

00:30:51.910 --> 00:30:55.470
God. And rather than becoming irritated by it

00:30:55.470 --> 00:30:58.769
and annoyed by it, we have to say, okay, Holy

00:30:58.769 --> 00:31:01.230
Spirit, what are you saying? Amen. What are you

00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:05.849
doing? What's going on here that is causing this

00:31:05.849 --> 00:31:09.210
to come to fruit? Now, you know, sometimes— It

00:31:09.210 --> 00:31:11.509
takes irritation sometimes for that to happen.

00:31:11.589 --> 00:31:15.000
Yeah. And sometimes it— It's required, really,

00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.599
that we get somebody else involved in our vision,

00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.640
and they might have to help us make some adjustments.

00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:25.079
Like if a person gets a vision to go and do something,

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:29.680
they might not have the skill level in business

00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.619
or the skill level in something that it requires

00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:34.819
somebody else to come along with a piece of wisdom

00:31:34.819 --> 00:31:38.980
to help bring that thing to where it can reproduce.

00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:42.039
So everything's not supposed to be perfect when

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:44.299
it's God's will. I mean, I'm actually supposed

00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:47.819
to have problems? Well, Jesus did promise us,

00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:50.240
in this world you shall have tribulations or

00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:54.519
troubles. Did Moses have problems? And I have

00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:56.740
learning, and I hope I finally get really good

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:59.539
at it. God, what are you saying to me in this?

00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:02.859
Exactly. Because that's the question. Because

00:32:02.859 --> 00:32:05.900
he wants us to speak what he speaks and do what

00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:09.460
he does. So we should be asking, right? Absolutely.

00:32:09.460 --> 00:32:12.289
If that's what we've been told to do. If he wanted

00:32:12.289 --> 00:32:15.049
me to know, he'd show me. Maybe he wanted you

00:32:15.049 --> 00:32:17.890
to natural first and then the spiritual. Ask.

00:32:18.190 --> 00:32:20.470
Because we have not because we ask not. He made

00:32:20.470 --> 00:32:23.269
it very plain. There's got to be interaction

00:32:23.269 --> 00:32:27.049
in order to get more revelation or additional.

00:32:27.410 --> 00:32:30.430
Yeah. And which is the pollen being rubbed around

00:32:30.430 --> 00:32:32.950
and disturbing things and moving. I mean, he

00:32:32.950 --> 00:32:34.670
destroyed the whole house. He moved everything

00:32:34.670 --> 00:32:38.869
everywhere. Yeah. As you were talking earlier,

00:32:39.109 --> 00:32:42.089
I was also picturing. how when the children of

00:32:42.089 --> 00:32:44.990
Israel were in the wilderness, there was a time

00:32:44.990 --> 00:32:49.250
when God said, okay, in three days you're going

00:32:49.250 --> 00:32:54.410
to move. And so the Levites and the priests would

00:32:54.410 --> 00:32:57.410
start taking down the tabernacle and packing

00:32:57.410 --> 00:33:00.089
it up and getting it ready to move. And once

00:33:00.089 --> 00:33:04.809
the tabernacle moved, once the Ark of the Covenant

00:33:04.809 --> 00:33:09.109
led the way, They were to follow it, but they

00:33:09.109 --> 00:33:12.150
were to let it go ahead about the distance of

00:33:12.150 --> 00:33:16.190
three football fields. I think about football

00:33:16.190 --> 00:33:17.829
fields because I was in the band, you know, and

00:33:17.829 --> 00:33:22.950
we'd march. About 300 yards. 300 yards, 300 meters

00:33:22.950 --> 00:33:26.410
more or less to get that far ahead of you so

00:33:26.410 --> 00:33:28.690
that you can see where you're going because the

00:33:28.690 --> 00:33:30.529
Lord says, because you've never gone this way

00:33:30.529 --> 00:33:35.009
before. And we know that we are entering into

00:33:35.009 --> 00:33:37.990
a time that we've never gone in before. We've

00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:40.670
never been where we're going. The outpouring

00:33:40.670 --> 00:33:43.450
that we're expecting and we're seeing already

00:33:43.450 --> 00:33:47.930
pockets of it here and there. There's going to

00:33:47.930 --> 00:33:51.650
be unprecedented things happening. There's going

00:33:51.650 --> 00:33:53.829
to be miracles like we've never seen before.

00:33:54.710 --> 00:33:57.210
I believe the Lord spoke to me and said that

00:33:57.210 --> 00:33:59.210
what's coming is going to be like the book of

00:33:59.210 --> 00:34:02.750
Acts on steroids. So again, what Don is saying

00:34:02.750 --> 00:34:08.099
is first the natural. So we engage. in the process.

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:12.639
He's working on expanding our capacity so that

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:16.699
we will be ready for him to do what we're asking

00:34:16.699 --> 00:34:19.280
him to do. We're asking him, we're contending,

00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:21.360
we're equipping, we're engaging for the outpouring

00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.840
because we want to participate. We want to participate

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:28.420
in what he's doing. So we have to let him engage

00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:33.289
with us and go deeper in those areas that we've

00:34:33.289 --> 00:34:36.170
kind of swept under the rug or we've pushed them

00:34:36.170 --> 00:34:39.849
in the closet or they're under the bed and we

00:34:39.849 --> 00:34:41.869
haven't gotten rid of the little dust bunnies

00:34:41.869 --> 00:34:45.650
that are under the bed. And God is doing a process

00:34:45.650 --> 00:34:48.889
of cleaning up his church, cleaning up his people.

00:34:49.389 --> 00:34:52.110
And it's the natural. It's a lot of the stuff

00:34:52.110 --> 00:34:54.329
is the natural. We're dealing with the natural

00:34:54.329 --> 00:34:58.320
man. We did a recent episode about, you know,

00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.940
dealing with your flesh. We've done lots of episodes

00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:03.659
about walking in the spirit rather than walking

00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:06.719
in the flesh. And that's part of our heart because

00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:09.900
that's part of the process of getting into that

00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:12.880
place of maturity where God can pour through

00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:17.059
us the way we want him to. And so it's that engaging

00:35:17.059 --> 00:35:20.019
with him and letting him put his finger on stuff,

00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:23.530
letting him. Bring conviction. That's part of

00:35:23.530 --> 00:35:26.349
what the Holy Spirit does. And so we respond

00:35:26.349 --> 00:35:31.130
in the spirit, in the natural, really. Dealing

00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:33.469
with the natural man, dealing with the emotions

00:35:33.469 --> 00:35:36.590
that get out of sorts, dealing with the flesh

00:35:36.590 --> 00:35:39.489
flashes, dealing with the things that we otherwise

00:35:39.489 --> 00:35:44.809
might just let go and pretend they're not there.

00:35:45.070 --> 00:35:48.809
But he's dealing with that stuff, right? Yes,

00:35:49.090 --> 00:35:52.650
very much so. Yeah. Very much so. Now, a couple

00:35:52.650 --> 00:35:54.630
of things in that. The children of Israel failed

00:35:54.630 --> 00:35:58.170
in the wilderness because they never came into

00:35:58.170 --> 00:36:00.190
a relationship with God. Well, there you go.

00:36:00.309 --> 00:36:05.130
Now, the priesthood had a chance to come into

00:36:05.130 --> 00:36:07.750
relationship with God because they, look, they

00:36:07.750 --> 00:36:11.250
had the skills to put it together, take it apart.

00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:16.449
They had great physical, spiritual skills. But

00:36:16.449 --> 00:36:21.500
many of them, Korah and his... bunch, never came

00:36:21.500 --> 00:36:24.699
into relationship. And we can see that Caleb

00:36:24.699 --> 00:36:27.579
and Joshua, Joshua especially, came into relationship

00:36:27.579 --> 00:36:30.519
because he looks at giants and says, they're

00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:33.420
like bread for us. Exactly. I mean, the whole

00:36:33.420 --> 00:36:36.699
statement is one of lunacy of, what do you mean

00:36:36.699 --> 00:36:39.940
they're like bread? We're going to eat them for

00:36:39.940 --> 00:36:44.159
breakfast. Exactly. And it's because he came

00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.159
into relationship. He was always at the door

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:48.820
of meeting. Exactly. So all that outflow is just

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:52.480
blasting him. But even in that story, the priest

00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.960
slid out first. Yes. That's why I keep saying

00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:58.320
God right now is building a priesthood. Amen.

00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:02.079
Priesthood is about relationship. Kingship is

00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.300
about authority. But priesthood is about relationship

00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:09.489
with God himself. Absolutely. They're going to

00:37:09.489 --> 00:37:12.190
have to get it going first. Amen. And then a

00:37:12.190 --> 00:37:15.409
modern day one was World War II, you know, with

00:37:15.409 --> 00:37:19.329
Germany and Switzerland. The Germans would shout

00:37:19.329 --> 00:37:21.210
across the border, we're going to take you before

00:37:21.210 --> 00:37:24.210
breakfast. And then what's little Switzerland

00:37:24.210 --> 00:37:27.829
against the mighty army of Germany, but the intercessors,

00:37:28.030 --> 00:37:31.010
you know. And it's kind of like Caleb, I mean,

00:37:31.030 --> 00:37:34.110
these giants are bred for us. Germany was a giant.

00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.400
And I'm sure they were kind of shaking their

00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.039
boots on the border of Switzerland, knowing that

00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:43.239
that could happen very easily. But it never happened.

00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.820
God put his hand there. And that's what he did

00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:50.099
for Israel, too. When he had that pillar of fire,

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:52.880
they couldn't go past that pillar of fire. They'd

00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.820
get burnt. Yeah. You know, so we're believing

00:37:55.820 --> 00:37:58.260
God will do more supernatural things like that.

00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:00.840
Yeah. For us in these days. Amen. Especially

00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.599
if the Holy Spirit's going to be poured out in

00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:05.599
measures we've never seen before. Right. And

00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.099
we've got this convention coming up that just

00:38:09.099 --> 00:38:14.420
happens by God's happenstance to be on Shavuot

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:18.820
or Pentecost. We did not know it when we booked

00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:23.019
this event. We thought we were booking it because

00:38:23.019 --> 00:38:26.320
we could get less expensive hotel rooms. You

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.780
know, they'll do that for organizations that

00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:33.059
want to meet, you know, and have less expensive

00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:36.460
hotel rooms rather than the business times, you

00:38:36.460 --> 00:38:38.500
know, when they can make a lot more money per

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:41.619
room. And so, you know, we just booked it over

00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:45.840
Memorial Day weekend. Little did we know until

00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.780
we were talking about it and advertising it that,

00:38:48.860 --> 00:38:53.300
oh, you mean opening night when the sun goes

00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:56.219
down is the beginning of Shavuot. The giving

00:38:56.219 --> 00:38:58.519
of the law, the celebration of the outpouring

00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.519
of the Holy Spirit. And that lasts for two days.

00:39:01.659 --> 00:39:03.780
And there's fire on the mountain and fire on

00:39:03.780 --> 00:39:06.900
the temple mountain. Exactly. Exactly. And then

00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:10.440
on Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. And those two

00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:14.159
don't always coincide. Sometimes the Shavuot

00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:17.639
on the Jewish calendar is a different week, a

00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:21.039
different day, different timing. But this is,

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.139
you know, the three days that we're going to

00:39:23.139 --> 00:39:26.230
be there are Shavuot. There are the outpouring.

00:39:26.309 --> 00:39:29.349
It's about the outpouring. And so I'm totally

00:39:29.349 --> 00:39:32.989
expecting unprecedented outpouring. And we have

00:39:32.989 --> 00:39:35.409
seen outpouring after outpouring every year.

00:39:35.570 --> 00:39:39.250
God meets us. He meets his people. He does amazing

00:39:39.250 --> 00:39:42.190
things in our lives. He gives us marching orders

00:39:42.190 --> 00:39:45.610
for the next. Time to come? The next year? Lord,

00:39:46.170 --> 00:39:48.789
what do you want me to do? And in that atmosphere,

00:39:48.869 --> 00:39:51.010
when you have all these people gathered together

00:39:51.010 --> 00:39:53.690
that are seeking God, it's easier to hear from

00:39:53.690 --> 00:39:56.510
God. It's just easier. The presence of God is

00:39:56.510 --> 00:39:58.309
there. You have an open heaven. And there's an

00:39:58.309 --> 00:40:01.329
open heaven with the worship that we have. And,

00:40:01.329 --> 00:40:04.070
you know, Don, you've been involved in our youth

00:40:04.070 --> 00:40:08.090
department there for many, many years, and you've

00:40:08.090 --> 00:40:10.449
seen amazing outpourings among the youth and

00:40:10.449 --> 00:40:12.650
the children. What are your expectations this

00:40:12.650 --> 00:40:17.480
time? That they would know him. Amen. And they

00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:21.440
would get the idea that it's as much about relationship

00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:25.159
as attendance. Much about relationship is enjoying

00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:28.719
it. It's more about relationship than all these

00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:33.039
other things. Amen. And so that's what I'm coming

00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:37.380
to impart and to impress as much as I can. Amen.

00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:41.440
Amen. And Catherine too, I know. I just know

00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:43.920
that God has a plan and we have something for

00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:47.739
all ages. It's going to be just really a glorious,

00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:52.539
glorious time. But I wouldn't be surprised if

00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:56.260
at some point God just... comes down in the weightiness

00:40:56.260 --> 00:40:59.139
of his glory, and we might all fall out under

00:40:59.139 --> 00:41:02.239
the power and just let him minister. What do

00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:04.300
we need to do anything for? Hotel staff along

00:41:04.300 --> 00:41:07.639
with it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it could be. I don't

00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.440
know what God's going to do, but I know it's

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.079
going to be great, and I know it's going to be

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:13.820
life -changing. And I hope that you are coming.

00:41:14.219 --> 00:41:16.619
I hope that you'll join us. It's at the Hilton

00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:20.099
Hotel at the airport in St. Louis, St. Louis,

00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:24.539
Missouri. It's May 21st through 24th. And it

00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:26.780
starts Thursday night and goes all the way through

00:41:26.780 --> 00:41:28.820
Sunday night. So you go home on Memorial Day

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:32.179
and you'll go home changed and you'll go home

00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.739
ready to impact your neighborhood and your home

00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:39.500
and your place of work. I just feel like it's

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:43.460
just going to be such an amazing time. Hallelujah.

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:45.340
And I want to speak into that, but I want to

00:41:45.340 --> 00:41:47.820
read these scriptures real quick. 1 Corinthians

00:41:47.820 --> 00:41:53.179
15, 46. However, the spiritual body is not first.

00:41:53.710 --> 00:41:57.530
But the natural, then the spirit. Okay, that's

00:41:57.530 --> 00:42:00.429
what it says. It starts with the natural. Yes.

00:42:00.570 --> 00:42:02.889
Then it moves to the spirit. And then in verse

00:42:02.889 --> 00:42:06.030
58, therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast

00:42:06.030 --> 00:42:09.829
and movable, always abounding in the work of

00:42:09.829 --> 00:42:15.389
the Lord. Amen. Knowing that your toil. toil.

00:42:15.590 --> 00:42:21.510
The word is toil. Physical effort is not in vain

00:42:21.510 --> 00:42:25.929
in the Lord. No, in the Lord. That's a co -laboring

00:42:25.929 --> 00:42:29.550
statement. It means while we're engaging anything

00:42:29.550 --> 00:42:34.170
for God, we must interact. God, would you have

00:42:34.170 --> 00:42:37.050
me do something different? God, what? You know,

00:42:37.050 --> 00:42:40.050
whenever anything comes up, begin to engage and

00:42:40.050 --> 00:42:44.250
ask. Now, what you've just described, And the

00:42:44.250 --> 00:42:48.250
convention is the natural first, first night,

00:42:48.369 --> 00:42:51.989
then the spiritual. I mean, that is, I don't

00:42:51.989 --> 00:42:54.550
know if you can get a better example. I mean,

00:42:54.590 --> 00:42:59.650
Pentecost Sunday? Right. Yeah. Right. So really,

00:42:59.829 --> 00:43:02.889
we are following the pattern, having no idea

00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:06.510
that was the pattern we were following. And we're

00:43:06.510 --> 00:43:09.929
expecting the transition between the perishable.

00:43:10.230 --> 00:43:14.349
And the imperishable. That which builds a priesthood

00:43:14.349 --> 00:43:18.389
in us so that we may serve him properly. Yes.

00:43:18.630 --> 00:43:22.110
According to his will, his plan. Yes. And come

00:43:22.110 --> 00:43:25.449
into that person. Yes. And an understanding of

00:43:25.449 --> 00:43:28.969
this is the desire of the Father for each one

00:43:28.969 --> 00:43:32.570
of us. Yes. To be able to touch him and be touched

00:43:32.570 --> 00:43:38.010
by him. Amen. All day long. Yes. Yeah. All day

00:43:38.010 --> 00:43:41.449
long. And for those that have labored at things

00:43:41.449 --> 00:43:46.070
and when does this end? Your toil is not in vain.

00:43:46.230 --> 00:43:48.650
Amen. We've got to always put that on the front

00:43:48.650 --> 00:43:51.309
burner. There is a natural part. It's not just

00:43:51.309 --> 00:43:55.070
going to parachute in, do its thing and be zapped

00:43:55.070 --> 00:44:00.449
out. It's toil. Yeah. And he calls it toil. That

00:44:00.449 --> 00:44:03.769
is physical, hard labor here. But it's the promise.

00:44:03.869 --> 00:44:07.599
That whole. chapter talking about a lot of spiritual

00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:11.619
stuff, including glories and ranks and laboring

00:44:11.619 --> 00:44:13.639
more abundantly than all the other apostles and

00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:16.639
everything else, because Paul said, I was the

00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:22.579
least, ends here. Your toil is not in vain. So

00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:27.099
keep on going. Right. The natural and the spiritual

00:44:27.099 --> 00:44:30.360
are really going together. You know, in these

00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.699
things, every natural thing that you're doing,

00:44:32.739 --> 00:44:35.500
you're taking a step in the natural. And God

00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:38.099
is just following up with goodness and mercy,

00:44:38.260 --> 00:44:41.699
following you and following up and operating

00:44:41.699 --> 00:44:45.139
through what you're doing in obedience to him.

00:44:45.340 --> 00:44:48.000
Well, and I've learned a principle in my life.

00:44:48.059 --> 00:44:49.699
I don't know if it happens to anybody else's,

00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:53.079
but I must be up to a count of 100 at least by

00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:56.500
now. God will use something in the natural. like

00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:58.820
a fishing lure, and get me to move in a certain

00:44:58.820 --> 00:45:01.099
direction or begin or thinking I'm doing this

00:45:01.099 --> 00:45:04.760
for this reason or such. And once I engage and

00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.099
start moving that direction, all of a sudden

00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:10.000
I start getting clarity. Yes. All of a sudden

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.840
I get plan B. And you know what plan B stands

00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:15.460
for? What? The plan from the beginning. Oh, there

00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:18.440
you go. But he can only use A to hook me into

00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:22.760
it. There you go. And literally. That was the

00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:24.739
priesthood in the wilderness. They were supposed

00:45:24.739 --> 00:45:27.519
to figure out. Yes. Because they could see what

00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:29.760
was happening to Joshua. They could see what

00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:31.699
was happening at the tabernacle. They were supposed

00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:34.019
to figure out, we need to get closer to this.

00:45:34.139 --> 00:45:36.559
Yeah. I'm not sure they did because they didn't

00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:39.559
have the revelation. No. They were still thinking

00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.059
like slaves in Egypt. Exactly. They were just

00:45:42.059 --> 00:45:45.739
laborers. They toiled in vain. Where God tells

00:45:45.739 --> 00:45:49.699
us not to toil in vain. Wow. That means we've

00:45:49.699 --> 00:45:52.190
got to constantly give it to God. Yes. Until

00:45:52.190 --> 00:45:55.150
he breathes life on it. And that life lifts us

00:45:55.150 --> 00:45:57.449
up so we can see what's actually going on in

00:45:57.449 --> 00:46:01.230
his kingdom rather than just the natural. I've

00:46:01.230 --> 00:46:03.590
had friends quit jobs because the people he worked

00:46:03.590 --> 00:46:07.150
around so awful. And I'm going, God dropped you

00:46:07.150 --> 00:46:09.750
in there for a reason. You were supposed to be

00:46:09.750 --> 00:46:13.130
the light bulb, man. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know,

00:46:13.170 --> 00:46:15.949
it's just overwhelming, you know, just overwhelming

00:46:15.949 --> 00:46:18.630
to it. And because it was really bad. But at

00:46:18.630 --> 00:46:21.460
the same time. Who knows if he had just held

00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:23.880
in there what kind of miracles God would have

00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:27.099
started doing. Right. Who knows? Right. And that's

00:46:27.099 --> 00:46:30.239
the thing about living this life. How we start

00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:34.460
may not always be the reason we're there for.

00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:38.280
But if we keep going and relating to him, we'll

00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.420
find out why we're crossing this wilderness.

00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:43.739
That's true. We're crossing it so we can come

00:46:43.739 --> 00:46:47.409
more like him. If we draw close to him, he'll

00:46:47.409 --> 00:46:49.389
draw closer to us. Because in the wilderness,

00:46:49.590 --> 00:46:52.630
many times that's when you find him. Like Paul,

00:46:52.829 --> 00:46:56.429
then Jesus, when he started his 40 -day fast,

00:46:56.610 --> 00:46:59.289
he was out in the wilderness. And I remember

00:46:59.289 --> 00:47:03.289
Sister Gwen out there in her early years had

00:47:03.289 --> 00:47:05.869
to kind of find God for herself. Yes. When there

00:47:05.869 --> 00:47:09.969
wasn't a real, a deeper spiritual teacher, you

00:47:09.969 --> 00:47:12.400
know, out on the mission field. Yeah. She was

00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.139
kind of like Paul, had to find God for herself.

00:47:15.659 --> 00:47:18.440
Very true. And she did. Very true. And that encourages

00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:20.619
us, too. Wherever you're at, wherever you go,

00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.000
you know, he's there and he'll listen to you.

00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:26.980
It's true. Yeah. It's true. And what you give

00:47:26.980 --> 00:47:30.860
to him, he takes. Yes. He's faithful that way.

00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.019
And it's not just that he takes something. It's

00:47:34.019 --> 00:47:36.880
always a divine exchange. You give him something,

00:47:36.900 --> 00:47:38.960
and he'll give you something better back. Yeah,

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:41.260
we just talked a little bit about Walter Buechler,

00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:44.760
I think, on the last one. And he was from Germany.

00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:48.019
He came to the U .S., I guess it was. And he

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:50.280
looked at his schedule, and the only time he

00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.579
had time with God was, what, between 2 and 4

00:47:52.579 --> 00:47:54.360
in the morning? I think so, yeah. So he'd get

00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:57.269
up, and he set a chair there. And he would talk

00:47:57.269 --> 00:47:59.510
to Jesus like he was actually sitting there.

00:47:59.710 --> 00:48:03.449
Yeah. And then one day, you can tell. Well, then

00:48:03.449 --> 00:48:07.210
after a year, all of a sudden, he's up at his

00:48:07.210 --> 00:48:10.010
two o 'clock appointment with Jesus and, you

00:48:10.010 --> 00:48:12.170
know, sitting across from the chair and he hears

00:48:12.170 --> 00:48:15.190
footsteps on his porch. And then he hears the

00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:18.369
door open. The door was probably locked. I don't

00:48:18.369 --> 00:48:20.849
think that was, it was probably in the days when

00:48:20.849 --> 00:48:24.690
they didn't lock doors much. But the door opens

00:48:24.690 --> 00:48:27.889
and he hears the footsteps coming down the hallway

00:48:27.889 --> 00:48:32.409
and entering the room. And here's Jesus in person.

00:48:32.809 --> 00:48:36.289
And he comes to sit with him in the chair. And

00:48:36.289 --> 00:48:39.550
he talks to him. And it's like, so, you know,

00:48:39.550 --> 00:48:46.250
the natural that he was doing by faith, by, you

00:48:46.250 --> 00:48:50.050
know, making space for Jesus, making an appointment

00:48:50.050 --> 00:48:54.809
with Jesus. Then Jesus came in the natural. Yeah.

00:48:54.949 --> 00:48:57.530
And from then on, you know, the rest of his life,

00:48:57.570 --> 00:49:00.550
Jesus would appear whenever it was appropriate

00:49:00.550 --> 00:49:03.090
for him to appear. He has mentored many. Yeah,

00:49:03.090 --> 00:49:06.389
yeah. Even not in person, just on his writings.

00:49:06.630 --> 00:49:08.909
Yeah. So we had a little bit of heaven on earth.

00:49:09.289 --> 00:49:13.400
Absolutely. That's eternal. Yeah. And the presence,

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:16.039
the weight of the glory would come down in his

00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:19.199
classes. There's at least one incident that I

00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:21.019
know of, and I think it probably happened more

00:49:21.019 --> 00:49:24.019
than once, where, you know, the presence of God

00:49:24.019 --> 00:49:26.300
would just come down into the room in this Bible

00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:31.059
school class. And everybody is silent and everybody's

00:49:31.059 --> 00:49:34.940
just soaking in the weight of the glory. And

00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:36.840
then it's time for the classes to change and

00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:38.920
nobody moves. And the next class comes in and

00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:41.429
they feel the weight of the glory. And they're

00:49:41.429 --> 00:49:46.329
just immobilized by it. And that time goes by

00:49:46.329 --> 00:49:48.489
and it's time for the next class to come in.

00:49:48.590 --> 00:49:52.349
And pretty soon the room is full of people from

00:49:52.349 --> 00:49:56.329
multiple classes in there. And the Lord is just

00:49:56.329 --> 00:49:59.590
meeting them right where they are. So, you know,

00:49:59.630 --> 00:50:03.409
these are things that God has already done. So

00:50:03.409 --> 00:50:08.079
I'm expecting that and more. Whatever it is that

00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.219
we've experienced before and it was wonderful,

00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:14.219
we can expect that to be a seed form of what

00:50:14.219 --> 00:50:17.599
God wants to do now because it's time for the

00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:19.719
greater. And that's why God is challenging us

00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.519
to increase our capacity. So if you haven't seen

00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:24.679
the capacity code or listened to it, go back

00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:27.559
to episode 306 and get it and listen to it or

00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.280
watch it more and more and more because it will

00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:35.210
change how things work. that thing we were telling

00:50:35.210 --> 00:50:38.690
you about, about the influx of the finances to

00:50:38.690 --> 00:50:41.710
do what needed to be done, we felt like that

00:50:41.710 --> 00:50:45.489
was in direct response to Philip and me saying,

00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:48.590
Lord, let's increase our capacity. We're going

00:50:48.590 --> 00:50:52.130
to yield to you and let you work on the things

00:50:52.130 --> 00:50:55.960
in our lives that need to be worked on. God is

00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:58.559
just increasing our capacity. So especially if

00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.320
you're coming to convention or if you're going

00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.320
to watch the convention online, if you can't

00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.519
come, let God increase your capacity so that

00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:09.239
when convention time gets here, you're going

00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.320
to be ready for the bigger thing. And it's going

00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:16.659
to be there for you. Hallelujah. Sometimes it's

00:51:16.659 --> 00:51:18.800
just the better thing. It may not look bigger,

00:51:18.900 --> 00:51:23.750
but it will be. It will be. And I think one of

00:51:23.750 --> 00:51:25.949
the things that Pastor Tony says, and he didn't

00:51:25.949 --> 00:51:29.070
say it on that particular episode, but I've heard

00:51:29.070 --> 00:51:32.590
him say it more than once, that God is inviting

00:51:32.590 --> 00:51:36.909
us into realms. Yes. And we first enter a realm

00:51:36.909 --> 00:51:43.309
as a guest. And we kind of feel our way around,

00:51:43.469 --> 00:51:46.369
like, is this a place that I can make my own?

00:51:47.309 --> 00:51:50.639
And then it can become your realm. If you're

00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:52.519
willing to let God help you make the adjustments

00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:55.880
that you need to make to dwell there. We can

00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:58.900
enter realms in an event. You know, you go to

00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:01.480
a conference and God is moving and you say, oh,

00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:04.800
I love this. I love this. You can enter it and

00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:09.940
not ever live there if you don't let God work

00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:13.199
that thing in you, work that thing in you to

00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:17.519
make. Make it be your dwelling place. And he's

00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:22.179
continuously wanting to expand us into more realms.

00:52:22.460 --> 00:52:27.659
You know, I think of it like you see these inflatable,

00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:31.219
like a bouncy house, you know, that kids want

00:52:31.219 --> 00:52:33.460
to have for their birthday or whatever. And,

00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:36.599
you know, they plug the thing in and it begins

00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:39.599
to expand. And there's all these different chambers.

00:52:40.349 --> 00:52:43.190
that have to be filled up with air in order for

00:52:43.190 --> 00:52:47.610
the thing to actually become a house, you know,

00:52:47.610 --> 00:52:50.269
an inflatable house. And it has to have this

00:52:50.269 --> 00:52:53.730
whole thing at the bottom that they're able to

00:52:53.730 --> 00:52:56.570
bounce on. So there has to be this expansion

00:52:56.570 --> 00:53:00.050
that comes. Think about what the Holy Spirit

00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:04.219
wants to do in your life. And there's parts of

00:53:04.219 --> 00:53:06.500
you that have never been expanded before, that

00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:10.300
he wants to blow into. He wants to blow his spirit

00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:15.719
into you and into me, into us, to expand the

00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:20.829
building, to expand the structure. That's held

00:53:20.829 --> 00:53:25.730
up by his spirit. It's constructed by air. It's

00:53:25.730 --> 00:53:29.389
constructed by, and we're just the empty vessel.

00:53:29.469 --> 00:53:32.639
That kind of reminds me of the. picture that

00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:35.659
I had when we were living in Niagara Falls. And

00:53:35.659 --> 00:53:38.719
it's a very windy place. And I stepped out into

00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:42.519
the backyard and I saw this sermon illustration.

00:53:42.780 --> 00:53:44.639
I knew it was a sermon illustration as it was

00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:48.699
happening. It was an empty plastic bag, an empty

00:53:48.699 --> 00:53:51.659
Walmart bag that was flying through the air.

00:53:52.699 --> 00:53:56.300
And I heard this question in my spirit, what

00:53:56.300 --> 00:54:01.599
is it about that? bag that allows it to fly.

00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:05.559
And I knew that the answer was that it's empty.

00:54:05.739 --> 00:54:09.280
It has nothing. It has no baggage. There's nothing

00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:11.840
in it to weight it down. And that's what God

00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:15.860
is doing in us. He's in this process of working

00:54:15.860 --> 00:54:18.800
through helping us to drop off the things of

00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:21.920
the flesh, to drop off those things of the natural

00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.949
so that he can get us into the spirit. You know,

00:54:24.969 --> 00:54:28.170
Jesus said to Nicodemus that the wind blows wherever

00:54:28.170 --> 00:54:31.769
it wants to. And so are they that are filled

00:54:31.769 --> 00:54:34.409
with the Holy Spirit. So are they that are in

00:54:34.409 --> 00:54:37.570
the flow with the Holy Spirit. And so that's

00:54:37.570 --> 00:54:40.190
what he's trying to do with us to try and help

00:54:40.190 --> 00:54:43.550
us to let go of our emotions that are out of

00:54:43.550 --> 00:54:47.849
control, to let go of our intellect that is not.

00:54:48.139 --> 00:54:50.739
open to the things of God. That's what He wants

00:54:50.739 --> 00:54:53.860
to do with even our bodies, you know, our bodies

00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:56.400
that are out of sorts. He's wanting to bring

00:54:56.400 --> 00:55:00.440
His Spirit in and do something new and do something

00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:04.619
anointed and change us to make us able to fly,

00:55:04.820 --> 00:55:07.920
you know, to fly above our circumstances. He

00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.659
can pick us up by His Spirit. We're going to

00:55:10.659 --> 00:55:13.679
be having a school here with Bruce and Reshma

00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:17.639
Allen and Michael and Gordana von Vleiman. first

00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:21.000
week of September. I think it starts on Labor

00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.559
Day, the first Monday of September, and goes

00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:25.239
through the Saturday, I think it's the 7th through

00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:28.199
the 12th. And we'll have them on a podcast here

00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:31.500
soon. But the school is the School of the Supernatural

00:55:31.500 --> 00:55:35.360
Translation by Faith. God wants to help us get

00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:40.429
loose from the things that are waiting us down

00:55:40.429 --> 00:55:43.710
so that he can take us where he wants to take

00:55:43.710 --> 00:55:46.889
us. Now, this isn't that thing where you decide

00:55:46.889 --> 00:55:49.550
that you want to travel. What's that word, Philip?

00:55:49.750 --> 00:55:51.789
Astral projection. Astral projection. He always

00:55:51.789 --> 00:55:54.750
helps me remember. Yeah, this is an astral projection.

00:55:54.949 --> 00:55:58.969
That is the counterfeit of... what God has given

00:55:58.969 --> 00:56:01.090
to us in the Scriptures, and the Scriptures are

00:56:01.090 --> 00:56:03.650
full, you would be surprised. And that's why

00:56:03.650 --> 00:56:05.969
you need to come to this school and learn about

00:56:05.969 --> 00:56:08.750
it, because it's really surprising about how

00:56:08.750 --> 00:56:11.610
much is available to us from the Scriptures,

00:56:11.690 --> 00:56:16.429
showing us that this is for God's mature people,

00:56:16.530 --> 00:56:20.840
for God's purified people. I'm not saying that

00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:23.599
you have to be gray -haired. I'm saying that

00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:26.079
you have to let God work in you. So there are

00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:29.699
children that are flowing with the Holy Spirit

00:56:29.699 --> 00:56:33.239
and not burdened down with a life of sin that

00:56:33.239 --> 00:56:35.300
are able to move into these things because their

00:56:35.300 --> 00:56:38.760
spirit is mature. It was 20 -some years ago that

00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:42.039
the Lord spoke to Bruce Allen. It says, can people

00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:44.880
be translated by faith? And the Lord spoke to

00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:46.800
him that said, the day is coming when you won't

00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:49.219
be able to travel anymore. Yeah. And we saw how

00:56:49.219 --> 00:56:52.440
easy that could happen with COVID. Sure. Everything

00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.190
was shut down. You can't shut the spirit down.

00:56:55.269 --> 00:56:57.269
That's right. That's right. And we'll get to

00:56:57.269 --> 00:57:00.409
that with that episode when that comes. But I

00:57:00.409 --> 00:57:02.409
just wanted to give you a teaser to be looking

00:57:02.409 --> 00:57:05.449
for that and to be looking at our website and

00:57:05.449 --> 00:57:07.630
get information about it because it's coming

00:57:07.630 --> 00:57:11.909
up in September. But just with this idea of the

00:57:11.909 --> 00:57:14.289
natural, first the natural. Don, do you have

00:57:14.289 --> 00:57:16.760
any other thoughts that you wanted to add? Yeah,

00:57:16.860 --> 00:57:20.599
your bag referenced something for me. Your flying

00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:23.679
bag. Yeah. There's certain things that's obvious

00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:26.940
about it. One, it's upside down. And most people

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really need to turn upside down once in a while

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because they're so fixed on so many things that

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don't have. A lot of significance. Right. Opinions

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about so many things they've really never asked

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God himself about. They've assumed because of

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their wonderful knowledge. And I'm going, I got

00:57:48.730 --> 00:57:52.929
a bag. It is upside down. So it's emptied out.

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Not only empty, but is open to full capacity.

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There you go. Ready to receive. There you go.

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And me, we as Christians. We don't need to be

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gullible, and I'm not implying that. But we really

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need to turn things upside down once in a while

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and fully open ourselves up to receive what God's

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trying to tell us. Amen. Because so many times,

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like the children of Israel, they'd already fixated

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on some judgment or some opinion of it that they

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don't have room to receive anything else. Because

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we are fully told, put off the old man. Yep.

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But put on the new. Yep. You got to do both.

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You can't just put off the old man. And you can't

00:58:35.769 --> 00:58:38.250
just put on the new. Right. Because it won't

00:58:38.250 --> 00:58:41.369
fit really well over that dirty, triple -sized

00:58:41.369 --> 00:58:43.550
whatever that you're already wearing. That's

00:58:43.550 --> 00:58:45.429
true. You know, it's like the windsock at an

00:58:45.429 --> 00:58:48.670
airport. Yeah. You can tell, you know, the strength

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of the wind and the direction of the wind by

00:58:51.750 --> 00:58:55.570
the way the sock is blowing. You know, and that's...

00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:57.960
This is the way you go. Here's the direction.

00:58:58.260 --> 00:59:00.480
This is how you land this thing or how you take

00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:03.820
off. Right, right. But how does that fit in?

00:59:04.269 --> 00:59:05.949
Brother, we're supposed to walk by faith, not

00:59:05.949 --> 00:59:09.110
by sight. Why are we looking at a windsock? It's

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the wind. I thought that would be a good illustration.

00:59:11.230 --> 00:59:13.710
It's the wind. No, it is the wind. And who can

00:59:13.710 --> 00:59:15.510
see the wind if you don't have a windsock, right?

00:59:15.550 --> 00:59:19.090
I mean, exactly. It's those things that help

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us discover direction and God's will. Yeah. All

00:59:24.130 --> 00:59:25.829
of a sudden you see a door with a key in it,

00:59:25.829 --> 00:59:30.119
and you go. I guess that's what I'm supposed

00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:36.179
to go through. That is not walking by sight.

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That is walking in God's knowledge, understanding,

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and wisdom. And then you discern it as you go,

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always inquiring of him as you proceed through.

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Amen. Amen. Beautiful. Would you close in prayer

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with that for us? Oh, God, help us to get better

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at following you. And most of all, Lord God,

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let us draw near. In these days, Lord, let us

01:00:03.619 --> 01:00:06.940
just ask, Lord, how do I do that? Let us do the

01:00:06.940 --> 01:00:10.019
things you tell us to do, oh, Lord. So in these

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days, we will not only feel your presence in

01:00:13.179 --> 01:00:17.179
such an awesome, weighty manner, but we will

01:00:17.179 --> 01:00:21.920
carry it, oh, God, so others may know what they

01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:26.199
don't have. Come, Lord God, because they will

01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:28.840
want it if they get anywhere near it because

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it brings life and it brings it more abundantly.

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It clears the darkness and gives us understanding.

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Come, Lord God, help us to be curious of your

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presence in these days in which we live. Thank

01:00:44.219 --> 01:00:47.460
you, Father. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray.

01:00:47.739 --> 01:00:57.489
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