(316) “Longing for God”

0:00 I will write my word in your hearts and in your minds, and you will know me. You will know me. That's this longing. That's this thirst for God. You can know me, he says. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out of his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We are so glad that you have joined us. God has been stirring in our hearts about himself, about wanting him, about thirsting for him, about longing for him.

0:46 This is about longing for God. Thanks so much for joining us today. We're so glad that you're with us. We love to connect with you and we want to connect with you in a greater way. If you haven't already signed up for our email lists, just go to globaloutpouring .net and click on the green subscribe button and subscribe to our email lists so that we can stay in touch with you by email. and share things that are beyond what the podcast is. And then you can also see what else is on our website, including the events tab that will take you to the events that we have coming up, including we're almost there to our convention 2026, May 21st through 24th, 2026. We're going to have such a glory time.

1:39 And I feel like there are some people that have been wanting to come, but haven't really made their decision. And I want to tell you, you have an appointment with God. This is a time for you to come if you're able. If you're not able, we understand. But there are some times that... It looks like we're not able, and then God has a provision for us. So I want to encourage you to really press into the Lord and ask for his clear guidance that he will show you if you're supposed to be there. And if you are, please do what it takes to get there. The events tab has a link to the hotel reservations. and also a link to register. It's $50 registration. We just want to encourage you to make that move if you haven't already done so. And if you have done so, and if you're planning to be with us, and even if you're not planning to be with us, I encourage you to go back to episode 306 with Pastor Tony Kemp, who... taught us about the capacity code. I believe that there's a secret there that's going to unlock what God wants to do in this convention. And even if you can't come, go back and review it again. If you haven't listened to it at least two or three times, there's probably more that God wants you to connect with to help you. Get the spiritual atmosphere in you that will prepare you for what God wants to pour out in this convention. We're expecting

3:10 it to be unprecedented because it's Shavuot, it's the Feast of Pentecost, and it's the time for the outpouring. So we're pressing into God to have something more. And that's what this episode is all about. It's about longing for God as I was having my devotions. I was spurred on by the Lord to look at Psalm 63, and I want to read it from the Amplified, the Amplified Classic. It says, O God, you are my God. Earnestly will I seek you. My inner self thirsts for you. My flesh longs and is faint for you in a dry and weary land where no water is. So have I looked upon you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory. Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. So will I bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips. There's something about praising him. There's something about going beyond where you are, that when you're longing for him, you're reaching out into something that's beyond you. This psalm was written when David was in the wilderness of Judah. Now, if you haven't

4:41 been to Israel, you need to go. But if you have been to Israel, or if you haven't, you need to understand that this wilderness area It's probably this dry, arid land. It's mountainous. It's hilly. Some of it's very rugged. And, you know, the shepherds will take their sheep there. David had been there probably in his younger days. You know, you kind of just wander around with the sheep looking for food. And it's funny. And what did Mark Twain say? I was just going to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're on the same page. So Mark Twain, when he came to the Holy Land in the 1800s, he wrote a whole book about it. His book was called Innocence Abroad. And he talks about... In the 1800s, there was hardly anything there. The whole land was desolate.

5:40 The whole land was mourning for the return of the people that belonged there. Now, I was just studying earlier this week about the fact that through the centuries, let me back up even further, when the Romans made the Jews exit, there was still a remnant of Jews that stayed. There's always been a remnant of Jewish people that have inhabited the land. They've always been there. The promises of God have been there for them. And in the 1700s, there were groups that came back from Eastern Europe, I think like from Yemen and those kind of areas. 1700s, 1800s, the one that they call the first Aliyah. which means the return of the Jews, was in the 1880s. And I don't remember exactly when Mark Twain came, but back to Mark Twain. He wrote that it looked like the sheep were eating rocks because he couldn't see that there was anything there for them to eat. And what they were eating was, you know, in the winter, there's rain and there is... a growth. Grass will grow there and other plants that the sheep can eat, but then they dry up.

7:07 But they're still edible. It's kind of like eating hay for the cows in the winter. You know, you cut your hay in the summer so that you have something to feed your cows in the winter. So it's that kind of thing where there is some kind of tufts of brown stuff that they will eat. It is edible and they can subsist on it. They can exist. They can thrive even because it's what God provided. But it's really desolate. And it's really thirsty because you get out there where you're getting close to the Dead Sea and just everything is dry. Hot and dry. Hot and dry, even in the winter.

7:49 In the winter, it doesn't get very cold down there because it's way below sea level. Yeah. And so David was out in this kind of a wilderness where, you know, you got to know where the water is. You've got to know where wells have been dug by shepherds along the way. You know, you read through the Old Testament, through Genesis, where Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are digging wells. And so some of those wells are still there, and some of them actually still have water in them. Jacob's well in Shechem, as it's said in Hebrew. Nablus is the modern name of the town. It still has water. And there are others that do. But the point is that you get out there in this dry, thirsty land. Yeah. And it's like, oh, if I could only have some water. And if you don't bring your own water with you, you could get in serious trouble. Dehydrate very fast.

8:49 Yeah. Yeah. Because it's really hot. And like I started to say, even in the winter. You know, the temperature might get into the 50s, where up in Jerusalem, it might be freezing or almost freezing because it's a higher elevation. But you get down where it's below sea level. And it's mild. It's mild. So in the summer, it's hot and it's dry. And you've got to know where your water is. So David is saying, I am longing. Oh, God, you are my God. Earnestly will I seek you. My inner self thirsts for you. It's like if you're thirsty, you know that you need to drink something. And you're longing to drink something. You're thirsty. There's a thirst for God that God wants to really stir up in us. If we don't have it, it's time to get it. It's time to get thirsty for God. It says, my inner self thirsts for you. My flesh longs and is faint for you. You know, if you don't get water, you're going to get faint. In a dry and weary land where no water is, there are areas where there isn't any water because they haven't dug any wells there. And then you're certainly not going to get any water out of the Dead Sea because it's full of minerals, so salty that you can't even

10:19 sink in it. And he goes on to talk about, so I have looked upon you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory. Now, it's interesting because I pondered this for quite a long time in my meditations and study about this. And I'm thinking. What sanctuary is David talking about? Yeah, because the temple didn't exist yet. The temple didn't exist, and this is before he became king. So, I don't know, did he go to the house of Abinadab, where the ark was? Or did he go up to Gibeon, where Solomon had gone to that high place? That's where the rest of the tabernacle was, but it didn't have the Ark of the Covenant.

11:08 So what sanctuary did he go to? And I'll just back up and say that scholars have two different ideas of when this took place. And some of them think that it happened when David was escaping from Jerusalem when his son had... Ought against him. Yeah, when his son Absalom decided he's going to be king and he gathered everybody around him and he's trying to depose his father. and David is running. But as I looked at that, I didn't think that made sense. Now, that would be a time when he had been in the sanctuary. He had the ark at that time. But he was running, and he was only on the plains of Judah. He wasn't in the hills. I mean, he went down the hills of Judah to get there. I think the boundary between Benjamin and Judah is kind of right in that area.

12:01 But I don't think he had time to sit and write a psalm. He had to escape over the Jordan that night. So I don't think it was then. I think it was when he was running from Saul. So I'm wondering, when did he have this time with God in the sanctuary? But I was looking at other translations and the Smith's literal translation. Can you read that for us, Philip, what the Smith's literal translation says for verse two? Thus in the holy place I saw thee. to see thy strength and thy glory. In the holy place. Now that puts a little bit different tilt on it. A holy place.

12:45 So can you make any place a holy place where you just sit and worship? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe when he was even out with his sheep. Yeah. I just have to wonder this. When did God speak to David and say, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek? Now, we know that that was talking about Jesus because the book of Hebrews says so. So it was the son of David that really, really fulfilled it. But I wonder if David had such an intimate relationship with God the Father that maybe the Lord even caught him up into the heavens. Or maybe just in that place where his presence comes down. And you know that you're face to face with God, even if you don't see anything. You know that his presence is there.

13:42 And I wonder if that's the sanctuary or the holy place that David experienced. It's just in his presence. So what did he do in his presence? I saw you. I saw you, yeah. What did the Amplified say? To see your power and your glory. I have looked upon you. I'm longing for another experience with you. I'm longing for another encounter. I'm longing for something more. I want more than I even got the last time. Now, there's a principle in the Spirit that wherever you have been in the Spirit, because you've been there and you have the memory of it, You can go there just by going into your memory, just like reenact it in your mind. Just go back there because the presence will still be there. Go back there.

14:39 It's like resurrecting that moment or it's not like it died. But if you're not living in that moment, go back and get that place. Go back into that place and go further. Don't be satisfied with wherever you've been because there's more. There's always so much more. Yeah. So what does the ESV say for verses 6 through 8? When I remember you upon my bed and meditate on you in the watches of the night, for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. My soul clings to you. Your right hand upholds me. My soul clings to you. Yeah. You know, David was writing before Pentecost, before the Pentecost that we celebrate from Acts chapter 2, before the outpouring. Before the outpouring, yeah.

15:38 But David had an unusual relationship with God. He was a man after God's own heart. And you can interpret that a couple of different ways. You could say that he was a man that God looked upon with joy. He's after my heart. Or you could say that he was after God's heart, like he's after him. He's after him. I'm going to go get his heart. You know, that's this, I'm earnestly seeking you. Is that what God wants? I'm thinking so. Go after him with all our hearts. Amen. If with all your hearts you truly seek me, that's out of Jeremiah. Yeah, you shall ever surely find me. This saith our God. Amen. Amen. So let's look at verse 8 in a few different translations.

16:29 King James says, My soul followeth hard after thee, thy right hand upholdeth me. I guess I should use my right hand. Thy right hand upholdeth me. My soul is after you. What does the New King James say? My soul follows close behind you. Your right hand upholds me. The New American Standard says, My soul clings to you. Your right hand takes hold of me. You know, there's something so fulfilling. There's something so... where you can anchor your trust when you know that God's got you in his grip. I remember Dr. Eby, Dr. Richard Eby, used to sign his letters in his grip. In his grip. That's good. Yeah, in his grip. He's got a hold of us, and he's drawing us back to him. So there's some other scriptures that are similar to this. What does Psalm 42, 1 and 2 say? As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Beautiful. This reminds me of, you've been to Israel and you've been down south. One of the places that's a favorite to go is in Gedi. I don't know where the scripture says it was where David loved to haunt. Yeah, yeah. You know, because here you are coming out

18:01 of the mountains. is this stream of water that goes into the Dead Sea. And there's just foliage all around it because it's dry everywhere. And it comes out of a cave, and you can climb up in there. It's a nice hike, you know. It's beautiful. And it really gives you a picture of a place to really get away. And I'm sure it wasn't only David's place either because where there's water. There was going to be people. There was going to be animals, you know. But there was a cave there. So he had his own man cave, I guess, there, you know. Literally. Maybe all to himself. That's one of the places where he was in hiding with his men. Yeah. And I think, didn't we talk about that recently? Or was that on Friday Night Live Worship? On Friday Night Live. Yeah, I think that was a week or so ago on Friday Night Live Worship. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. And that's also the place, I believe, where Solomon was talking in the Song of Solomon about go to the mountains of Bethar, which means the rugged mountains. And it's there. There are several caves there. And there is one that is called the Cave of the Beloved. And it refers to the Song of Solomon. I am my beloved's and he is mine. So that was probably a... a place where Solomon haunted too. So Psalm 81, verses 1 and 2, what does that say in the New King James?

19:34 How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. You know, that's how I feel about this convention coming up, that I am longing. I'm longing. for what God wants to do there. I'm longing to participate. I'm just humbling myself and doing everything to allow the Holy Spirit to get things out of the way that would be in the way, that my flesh would get in the way, so that I don't hinder Him in any way from anything that He wants to do in this convention. How lovely. How lovely is this convention? You know, I've been to all of them, and there's something so... lovely about these conventions that my soul just longs and even faints for these courts of the presence of God, where we're going to worship and we're going to go deep into the things of God. And I just picture that at some point, at least once, that the presence of God is going, I think it's going to inhabit the place really the whole time, but the weightiness of His glory is going to come down. I just feel like there's going to be a time of silence where we're just all in awe of his presence. And he's going to minister to every single one of us where we need it. He's just going to be there to do things.

21:07 My heart and flesh cry out for the living God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. And he really wants to come down right now, right where you are, right where you're listening or you're watching. Just take a moment and let him come and minister to you. Because he has something for you that's beyond you, that's beyond your expectations. He wants us to start expecting. beyond our expectations. Yeah. And even Moses, before they went up on the mount, and we went up and the Lord said, tell the people to sanctify themselves. And three days I'm coming down on the mountain. So they had three days to get themselves in order, if you want to call it that way. Because they're dealing with a lot of stuff out there in the desert. They got all the hurts of the last 400 years passed down to them from their ancestors in Egypt. But they've never seen God come down.

22:12 I mean, well, they saw the fiery tornado that separated them, cloud by day, fire by night. So they saw the glory like that. But they didn't see the glory when they wake up and get out there in the morning. and the shofar is blowing loud. I mean, what alarm clock that must have been. And they run outside, and the whole top of the mountain is on fire, and it's thundering, and the earth's probably shaking and quaking. And, you know, that would put fear in anybody. Sure. What's God going to do? What is God going to do? That's right. That's right. You know, Psalm 119 is one of my favorite. Psalms. And it's the longest, it's the longest chapter in the Bible.

23:00 But it's broken down into chunks. It's an acrostic. And so every little section starts with a letter from the Aleph Bet, which is alphabet in Hebrew. Like the first section starts with Aleph, and the second section starts with Bet, and the third section starts with Gimel, and so on. There's something in that psalm about the longing for God and the longing for his word and the delight in his word and the joy in this word. And it's all about his word. So can you read for us verses 9 through 16 from the ESV? This is the bet section.

23:40 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you. Let me not wander from your commandments. I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord. Teach me your statutes. With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes. I will not forget your word. Beautiful. Isn't that beautiful? I just love that. And, you know, it's not just for young men, although it's good for young men and young women, that you want to want to keep yourself pure. And the best way to keep yourself pure is to pour the word in. Pour in the words. Bend time in the word. I tell you, I just... Every day when I get into the Word, I find something new. And I've been studying it for a good long time. But I find something new and fresh every day that just excites me. And it excites me to find how this piece here fits with that piece over there.

24:59 And that piece there fits with that piece there. And, you know, it's the putting together of things that, you know, God designed this. And he designed us. to go together. He designed his word to fill in the framework of who we are. It's kind of like you're the cake pan and his word is the batter. And you put it in the pan and you bake it and it takes the shape of the pan and it becomes something beautiful and sweet and wonderful to eat. It's meant to be consumed. And the more you put it in, the more it's going to modify your behavior. It's going to modify how you think.

25:47 Because once you modify how you think, it's going to modify how you speak. And once it modifies how you speak, it's going to modify how you act. You know, and then always pray in the morning, okay, Holy Spirit, you know, help me. Help me in this day. But you can't just say that and then... not say it no more through the day. I mean, it's a continual thing just to stand in contact with because I've found the more and more I do that, like when I take a trip to town or somewhere and you have all these errands, things you have to do, things just drop into place. Yes. It just happens. And sometimes you... You know, you just don't know, how did that happen? And you know how, but you just keep concentrating on the Lord and the Holy Spirit. And he does lead and guide. Absolutely, he does. You know, everybody's probably, many of you have seen it already, that airplane that was coming in real low. And there's this, the video shows this truck driver just singing. I don't know what he was singing, you know. Was he a believer? I don't know. Maybe he was a believer afterwards. But when the tires... of a 767 go across and smash your windshield as it's going to land, I think you'd be thanking God that you're still alive and everybody else in the plane too. Absolutely.

27:06 You know, and you can just keep praising God and he will do things. He can arrange, because if that truck was a foot more forward, a foot and a half, two feet, that would have took the whole front that might have torn off the landing gear. And the plane would have maybe, you know, crash landed on one landing gear. And that would have been extremely serious. And it would have taken off his head. Yeah. Yeah. So you look at the timing of that, how incredibly close that is. So when you, you know, so when you stay close to the Holy Spirit, you know, he's a master of time. Yes. Of making things happen. You know, that was a Kairos time for that man. It was an opportune time because a Kairos time, it can be a long period of time. It could be some years.

27:57 It could be a moment. And that was a moment. Absolutely. Wow. Absolutely. Go ahead. That was a freebie. I'm looking forward to getting a testimony from that man. Yeah. Because I'm sure that there's something there. I mean, they may not. If he's a believer in Jesus, you won't hear it on a lot of networks. You'll hear it on CBN. You'll hear it on CBN. But the thing that stirs in me about this is there are lots of people that are feeling from the Lord to intercede. for these infrastructure kind of places like airports. It seems like there are kind of like waves of attacks on airports these days where you have two or three accidents in a row. And we know that there is witchcraft going on that's trying to cause these kind of things. But the intercessors rise up and they take authority. And we need to keep taking authority.

28:55 And we need to stay on our guard. There's a beautiful scripture that talks about the word is a hammer. And the thing that I see in this is that the hammering of things, you don't just pray something once. You have to hammer it. You have to hammer it. And how many strikes does it take to drive a nail? It depends on how strong you are. It depends on how big the nail is. And the type of material being hammered into it. Exactly, exactly. So as intercessors, we need to continually continue to hammer on these things that God has put on our hearts to pray. You don't just pray at once and walk away. You can pray it once and spend all the rest of the time thanking God for the answer to that prayer. Yeah. In any case, it's a hammer. And it's also filling up the bowl of incense, you know, where it shows in Revelation about the angel that there's an angel with a trumpet that blows and the bowl is poured out.

30:01 And it includes the prayers of the saints. And the intercessions and all of that. So it's important for us to realize that, you know, like, especially if you're praying for someone who needs a healing, that you keep praying, you keep the request before the Lord. By thanking him. Once you have established that you've prayed it, you've prayed the word of God over a thing, and then you thank him, Lord, thank you that you are answering this prayer. Doesn't matter that we haven't seen it yet. You are answering it. It has already been done according to your word. Your word said it. We believe it.

30:42 But you continue to thank him. You continue to praise, just like the scripture that we read earlier about. Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. So will I bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. And there's something about lifting up your hands and declaring the goodness of God, lifting up his name and just glorifying him for what he has already accomplished. Because, you know, Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world. He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But then there was a moment in time when he was actually slain on the cross. And it all fits together. So when God says it's done, it's done from the foundation of the world. And then there's a moment where.

31:36 it manifests. So you just have to keep on keeping on and keep on declaring the truth of what he has said and what he has done because it's his loving kindness. That word in Hebrew is chesed. And it means loving kindness. It means steadfast love. It means mercy. And it's a covenantal love that there's an obligation by God because he has made a covenant to keep this kind of loving kindness. And think of God as a parent. He's our father. If you are a parent or if you have a parent, and you probably do, the experience of a parent. It really helps you understand God better because you love your child no matter what. No matter what they do, you love your child.

32:29 Sometimes they'll do something that annoys you. Sometimes they'll do something that is, you know, disobedient and it makes you angry. Sometimes they're going to do something really wonderful and nice. And all of those things create an emotion in the parent. But nothing stops the parent's love. There's a covenantal love, like nothing will stop the love of a parent for their child. You might even break fellowship over something. Yeah. But you still love them. Yeah. And that's that covenantal love. So this experience of David's was prior to Jesus coming. David had kind of a prophetic relationship with God. that really pegged him and pegged his descendants to be part of the line of Jesus. That the things that David did, the right things that he did, were prophetic of what Jesus would do. Jesus would be the embodiment of God in the flesh, like David with a heart after God, right? So let me just give you another little... prophetic picture of David. When David lusted after Bathsheba and had her brought to his bedchambers and she got pregnant. And then,

34:02 oh no, what are we going to do? And he tries to get her husband back from the battle and tries to get him to go to her so it looks like it's his baby. Yeah. And he won't do it. He has no idea. He has no idea. But he's so loyal. He's so loyal to David and to Israel that he is just not going to go there. Why should I get to go to my wife when all of my brothers in arms don't get to go? So he doesn't. He doesn't go to his wife. So now David's thinking, now what am I going to do? So he comes up with this plan to have Uriah killed in the battle. So here he is guilty of adultery and guilty of murder. When that baby is born, David should have died for his own sins. That's the law. The law was, okay, adultery, you should be stoned, and murder, you should be stoned. You should be killed. But God said through the prophet, you will not die, but the baby will die. So the son of David. died for David's sins. It was prophetic of the son of David who would die for our sins. It's the principle of substitution that God had the son of David die in David's place. I just think that's amazing. Amazing. coming down the line to Jesus.

35:35 He comes as the son of God, as the son of David, of the seed of the woman, which is prophecy from Genesis. When God put the hammer down on the snake, he said, the seed of the woman is going to crush your head. You're going to hurt his heel, but he's going to crush your head. And that's exactly what happened, obviously, when Jesus died. It broke the power of death. Broke the power of sin and death over all of mankind and broke the power of death by resurrecting. How amazing. How amazing. And then the Spirit was poured out on the day of Pentecost. It brought in the new covenant. Now, Jesus gave the Holy Communion that cup. He said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. And we've talked about this before, but it's so meaningful to me that Jesus was saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. And that referred to Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to 34. It was prophesied. So what is the new covenant? The new covenant is I will be your God and you will be my people. Well, the old covenant had that too. I'll forgive your sins and your iniquities. Yeah, it's the old covenant. The old covenant had it kind of because they had sacrifices for it. And they could do it once a year to take care of the year. But

37:06 this is forever, right? Yeah. And then I will write my word in your hearts and in your minds. And you will know me. You will know me. That's this longing. That's this thirst for God. You can know me, he says. That's what Paul had. He had that longing. Because he had that encounter with murder in his heart. They had told he was blinded. He had an encounter in the glory. Yes, he did. And so he had a taste of the real thing. And he continued to press in to get there. You know, he's speaking. Things that are unspeakable to see. You know, it wasn't time. You know, it's kind of like what Jesus said to the apostles, I have many things to share with you, but you cannot bear them now. True. So Paul had many revelations, but he knew that the people would think him as a heretic or something. And, you know, even on our comments, you know, we had some of our speakers, you know, it comes up on Facebook. And, you know, the supernatural experiences and people are saying, nobody's ever been to heaven, you know, this or that. And I thought, these people are just so blind. They have no understanding. Right. And, of course, a lot of these might have just been unbelievers anyway, you know. But if they were an unbeliever, they may not have a visit to heaven first. It might

38:36 be a visit where God might dangle them over hell. You know, we've heard many testimonies of that. It is real, you know? Yeah. Oh, wow. It really is. Absolutely. And the thing is this, because of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, it has opened the doors. To see things. Now, I'm pretty sure that Moses had an encounter with God where he saw into heaven to see the furniture there. Yeah. And then God told him, now, here's how I want you to do it on the earth. So he saw the Ark of the Covenant. And so he knew God showed him what to do. He told him specifically, do this, do this, do this. It's like he burned the blueprint into him. Yes, that's a good way. Into his memory, you know. Yeah, yeah. Wow. There were encounters. Ezekiel had an encounter. Isaiah had an encounter where they were caught up into heaven. Old Testament already. And we know that John the Beloved had an encounter. We know that Paul had an encounter. It's not unusual for people to have encounters where they're caught up to heaven. But that's the beauty of this new covenant.

39:51 And Jesus said in his time with the disciples at the Last Supper, in the book of John, those last chapters, what is it, 13 through 17, I think it is, the Upper Room Discourse, they call it, where he says, and we talked about this recently on that podcast about the Holy Spirit being the flesh tamer. We talked about how the Holy Spirit, where Jesus said, you know him because he's been with you and he shall be in you. And that's what this whole baptism in the Holy Spirit is all about. That's what the day of Pentecost is about.

40:33 Shavuot. It's about receiving. The first time it was receiving the law. This time it's about receiving the Spirit. This time it's about receiving the law being written in our hearts. In our hearts and minds. And getting to know him inside. Yeah. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come on people. And they would speak for the Lord. Or like Samson, when the Spirit came on him, it was like he was clothed in power. Yeah. Amazing. he's trying to teach us, what's available to us, is the Spirit of the living God living inside of us. When we invite Jesus to come and dwell in our hearts, he comes in by his Spirit, and he comes in and he takes up whatever we give him. He can take up residence in a closet, if that's all you give him in the house of your life. But he'll take whatever you give him. And he's looking for us to give him everything. So 1 Corinthians 3 .16 says, Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Oh, now what does it say?

41:58 What does the Young's literal translation say for that? Have you not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God does dwell in you? Ah, sanctuary. Sanctuary. That takes us back to where we started in Psalm 63. So have I seen you in the sanctuary. What God is after, at least part of what God is after, is that we become so enamored with him, so... fulfilled in him, so filled with him, that his holiness is known upon us. His holiness upon us is obvious. And it's not about being holier than thou. It's about letting his spirit have his way in us so that it affects our atmosphere and our atmosphere will affect the atmospheres around us. He's wanting that sanctuary of himself to make a difference in the world. You know, he comes to live within us and we are in him also. So it's kind of like this sandwich kind of thing where he's inside of us and we're inside of him. The Ark of the Covenant is made that way. It's a gold box. inside

43:28 of a wooden box, inside of a gold box. And inside that is where the covenant, the tablets of the covenant were put in there. There's supposed to be a pot of manna and Aaron's rod that budded are all supposed to be in there. The idea is that our flesh is like that wooden box. And the beautiful thing is that ark, the golden, gold represents God. Gold represents the Holy Spirit, deity. And so you have this part that's God inside of you. And then you're inside of him. And so then there's a crown of gold that goes over that.

44:11 So it covers up the flesh. It covers up that whole fleshly nature. When we give ourselves to God, when we let that Holy Spirit be. The flesh tamer in us. Then his manifestation comes more and more and more in our lives. And he's looking for us to let him, let him do that. Let him do that. So 1 Corinthians 6, 17 says, but he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. It's even beyond that fleshly box with gold boxes around it. It's spirit. Yeah. Our spirit. is one with his spirit. Imagine taking a blue light. and shining it in a red light and shining it. And you have them next to each other, and they're definitely blue and red. But then you shine them both onto the same thing, and you've got a purple -white. There's something has changed.

45:12 So that's what happens in us when we yield to the Holy Spirit. His ways can come out through us. He can express himself through us. And it's not like we become cookie cutter Christians. We shouldn't all be looking alike. We should all be looking like him, but he is dressing himself in our personalities. And only you can be you with him in you, expressing him in your personal way. Nobody else can express him in the same way that you do. And that's why that you need to. That's why you need to express him and let him express himself through you. Hallelujah.

45:55 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Philip, would you read 1 Corinthians 1, 20 through 22? For all the promises of God, whatever their number, had their confirmation in him. And for this reason, through him also our amen acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God through our faith. But he who is making us as well as you steadfast through union with the anointed one and has anointed us is God. And he has also set his seal upon us and has put his spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing. Don't you love that? Put a seal. You know, it's like a certificate or something. Put it there and you have that seal. Yeah. Squish. You know, and you got to put pressure to put that seal on that piece of paper. Yeah. You know, or if it's a stamp, like if, you know, we have a lot of keys to our place with different buildings and I get a new set of keys. I take them in and I got a little, like a little anvil there and I got a hammer and I have a set of. stamps for the letters of the alphabet and numbers. I put that on there and I stamp that thing, you know, whack. And they can hear it all the way down the hall in the other offices. But I make sure it's that imprint is in that key. So if it ever anybody can look at it and know what that key is for.

47:18 Yes. And isn't that what God does? Well, he puts his signature on it. Yes. You read that in the book of Ezekiel, the man with the inkhorn. Yes. When he says, go and put a signature in the foreheads, or put a mark in the foreheads of all those that cry. inside for all the abominations going on in Israel because the temple is getting ready to be destroyed. But God, and when you look at Mark, the Hebrew is signature. So, you know, God puts his signature, just like writes it in, but it's kind of like invisible ink. You can look in the mirror, you can't see it, but it's there because he writes it on your heart. It's true. It's on your heart. It's not like it's going to show up under a blue light or something.

48:04 Right. But you can tell there are people that glow. Yeah. You can tell that they know Jesus because they glow. You might just meet them in a gas station, but you can tell that they are believers because they glow. Yeah. It's that simple. The idea of this seal. I think the King James talks about it as being the earnest of the inheritance. In other words, it's kind of like the engagement ring before the wedding. You're engaged but you haven't come into the fullness of the relationship yet. So having the Holy Spirit in us and operating through us is just a foretaste of the glory that's ahead for us for all eternity. What we're doing here is like a rehearsal for all of eternity and getting used to working with him. It's like boot camp for what we're going to do for all of eternity.

48:59 You know, our finite minds have a hard time even wrapping around the idea of eternity because we're so connected to time. comprehend eternity and infinity, you know? Yeah. Just one more scripture, Solomon 1 verse 4 from the literal standard version says, Draw me. We run after you. The king has brought me into his inner chambers. We delight and rejoice in you. We mention your loves more than wine. Uprightly, they have loved you. So God wants us to go deeper in revelation. Whatever revelation we have is a great place to start, but there's always more. He wants, he's drawing us and he wants us to be drawn by him. He wants us to long for him and to recognize that we already have the earnest of the inheritance. We already have a taste. We have a foretaste, but it's kind of like when you're preparing dinner, and you just taste a spoonful of something, that's going to be good on the table. Okay, but all you've gotten is a spoonful. There's more. There's always going to be more. And God wants us to get connected to the more. And I've gone back for about three years in my journal, and I feel like I need to share this. The Lord said to me, you see me in

50:31 the details and in the big picture in many ways. But I'm there in so much greater ways than you can comprehend. My vastness is way beyond what you have perceived up to now. I'm hiding in plain sight, as it were. It's really got me. Human self -awareness, and aren't we taught in the world that you have to be self -aware? It's all about self, self, self, okay? Human self -awareness. hides me from your perception. You tend to have very low expectations of me in order not to be disappointed in my seeming failure to show up.

51:17 Guilty. But I'm there for you in greater ways than you understand. Release that habit to me. It's time for that to stop. So I wrote a little repentance there. And the Lord says, I forgive you. Now loose yourself in me. Let go of your moorings to the known and follow me into the unknown. My plans for you are vast. This isn't just for me. This is for you. My plans for you, the Lord says, are vast. Don't hinder me by your small perceptions. My thoughts and ways are so much higher. and more multidimensional than human perception has been able to explain with all their weak theology. I have to read that again.

52:06 Yeah, that's good. My thoughts and ways are so much higher and more multidimensional than human perception has been able to explain with all their weak theology. They hinder my power as they box me into their limited understanding. I'm limitless in my scope. I'm so big that they slash you can't see or perceive me. Quit trying to explain me in human terms. I am Yehovah. I always was. And I will always continue to be all that I am and ever was. And I will continue to be what I am and ever was. And ever was. I am all -encompassingly vast and ever -expanding to create existence like a symphonic crescendo and yet tenderly, softly whispering imperceptibly fine details in the vastness of my plans for you and all mankind and everything that has life.

53:11 Even the elements that you think are inanimate are held together by my word. And then he told me to rest in his vastness. So I want to encourage you, invest and rest in his vastness. And I just want to close with this prophecy that was given by Stacey Campbell, I would say in about 2011 in Calgary, Canada. And whoever was recording this didn't start instantly when she started. So there's the first few words for lost. To places so deep. to creatures that the eyes of man have never seen. Or when you go into the galaxies and see systems, solar systems, planets, and galaxies that the eye of man has never seen, don't shrink me. Don't shrink me to what you can do. I'm inviting you into what I can do.

54:13 And a reformation of a nation and of a planet will not happen. if you shrink me to what you have and what you can do. Don't shrink me. Just believe me. I am Jehovah Jireh. I can multiply fish. I can multiply bread. I can fill bank accounts. I can make water come out of rocks. So don't shrink me. Your nation will never see reformation if you shrink me. Now I invite you to gaze at the mountains, to stare into the stars, to stand at the ocean's edge, and you will clearly see my divine nature, my eternal power. And I invite you, come out on the water. Walk on water with me. Walk through walls with me. Be translated from one place to another. What do you believe about me? Who do men say that I am? You can do anything, but don't Shrink me. And Jeremiah 32, 27 says, Behold, I am Yehovah, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? So, Father, we ask you to increase our longing, increase our thirst for you, increase our desire for you.

55:36 Cause your spirit to dwell within us and stir in us. Set us on fire. Set us on flames, Lord, that you will do everything in this planet that you want to do. And we volunteer to be a part of what you want to do. Lord, we're asking you to increase for all of our listeners and viewers. Increase their desire for you. Increase their longing for you. Begin to write your word in their hearts and in their minds greater than ever before. And for all of us, Lord, us too. Lord, we're asking you to increase in us and help us to let go of our moorings that keep us in the known so that we can participate in the unknown, the heretofore unseen miracles that you intend to do on this planet. Just like when Moses and the children of Israel were standing on the shores of the Red Sea. Nobody had any idea that you could part the Red Sea, and you did. And they walked through on dry ground. Lord, we're asking you for heretofore unknown miracles, the greater works, Jesus, that you said that your disciples would do. We're volunteering to participate in that, and we're asking you by your Spirit to prepare us for that. Prepare us as a sanctuary. Lord, prepare me a sanctuary.

57:02 pure and holy, tried and true. Thank you, Father. Pour your Spirit out and use us in these days. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. Check out our website at globaloutpouring .org to find out more information, read our blogs, connect with us, and donate. You can also browse our web store for life -changing anointed books. Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. And I'm Philip Buss.

57:50 God bless you with His overwhelming, loving presence.