(316) “Longing for God”

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I will write my word in your hearts and in your

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minds, and you will know me. You will know me.

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That's this longing. That's this thirst for God.

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You can know me, he says. God promises in Joel

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2 .28 to pour out of his spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promised outpouring, we equip for that

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outpouring, so that we may engage in that very

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

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Welcome to the podcast today. We are so glad

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that you have joined us. God has been stirring

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in our hearts about himself, about wanting him,

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about thirsting for him, about longing for him.

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This is about longing for God. Thanks so much

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been wanting to come, but haven't really made

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their decision. And I want to tell you, you have

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an appointment with God. This is a time for you

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to come if you're able. If you're not able, we

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understand. But there are some times that...

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It looks like we're not able, and then God has

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a provision for us. So I want to encourage you

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to really press into the Lord and ask for his

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clear guidance that he will show you if you're

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do what it takes to get there. The events tab

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done so, and if you're planning to be with us,

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and even if you're not planning to be with us,

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I encourage you to go back to episode 306 with

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Pastor Tony Kemp, who... taught us about the

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capacity code. I believe that there's a secret

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there that's going to unlock what God wants to

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do in this convention. And even if you can't

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come, go back and review it again. If you haven't

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listened to it at least two or three times, there's

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probably more that God wants you to connect with

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to help you. Get the spiritual atmosphere in

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you that will prepare you for what God wants

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to pour out in this convention. We're expecting

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it to be unprecedented because it's Shavuot,

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it's the Feast of Pentecost, and it's the time

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for the outpouring. So we're pressing into God

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to have something more. And that's what this

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episode is all about. It's about longing for

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God as I was having my devotions. I was spurred

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on by the Lord to look at Psalm 63, and I want

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to read it from the Amplified, the Amplified

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Classic. It says, O God, you are my God. Earnestly

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will I seek you. My inner self thirsts for you.

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My flesh longs and is faint for you in a dry

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and weary land where no water is. So have I looked

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upon you in the sanctuary to see your power and

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your glory. Because your loving kindness is better

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than life, my lips shall praise you. So will

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I bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands

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in your name. My whole being shall be satisfied

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as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall

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praise you with joyful lips. There's something

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about praising him. There's something about going

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beyond where you are, that when you're longing

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for him, you're reaching out into something that's

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beyond you. This psalm was written when David

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was in the wilderness of Judah. Now, if you haven't

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been to Israel, you need to go. But if you have

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been to Israel, or if you haven't, you need to

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understand that this wilderness area It's probably

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this dry, arid land. It's mountainous. It's hilly.

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Some of it's very rugged. And, you know, the

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shepherds will take their sheep there. David

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had been there probably in his younger days.

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You know, you kind of just wander around with

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the sheep looking for food. And it's funny. And

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what did Mark Twain say? I was just going to

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say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're on the same

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page. So Mark Twain, when he came to the Holy

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Land in the 1800s, he wrote a whole book about

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it. His book was called Innocence Abroad. And

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he talks about... In the 1800s, there was hardly

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anything there. The whole land was desolate.

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The whole land was mourning for the return of

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the people that belonged there. Now, I was just

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studying earlier this week about the fact that

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through the centuries, let me back up even further,

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when the Romans made the Jews exit, there was

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still a remnant of Jews that stayed. There's

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always been a remnant of Jewish people that have

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inhabited the land. They've always been there.

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The promises of God have been there for them.

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And in the 1700s, there were groups that came

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back from Eastern Europe, I think like from Yemen

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and those kind of areas. 1700s, 1800s, the one

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that they call the first Aliyah. which means

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the return of the Jews, was in the 1880s. And

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I don't remember exactly when Mark Twain came,

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but back to Mark Twain. He wrote that it looked

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like the sheep were eating rocks because he couldn't

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see that there was anything there for them to

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eat. And what they were eating was, you know,

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in the winter, there's rain and there is... a

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growth. Grass will grow there and other plants

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that the sheep can eat, but then they dry up.

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But they're still edible. It's kind of like eating

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hay for the cows in the winter. You know, you

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cut your hay in the summer so that you have something

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to feed your cows in the winter. So it's that

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kind of thing where there is some kind of tufts

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of brown stuff that they will eat. It is edible

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and they can subsist on it. They can exist. They

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can thrive even because it's what God provided.

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But it's really desolate. And it's really thirsty

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because you get out there where you're getting

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close to the Dead Sea and just everything is

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dry. Hot and dry. Hot and dry, even in the winter.

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In the winter, it doesn't get very cold down

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there because it's way below sea level. Yeah.

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And so David was out in this kind of a wilderness

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where, you know, you got to know where the water

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is. You've got to know where wells have been

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dug by shepherds along the way. You know, you

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read through the Old Testament, through Genesis,

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where Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are digging

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wells. And so some of those wells are still there,

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and some of them actually still have water in

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them. Jacob's well in Shechem, as it's said in

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Hebrew. Nablus is the modern name of the town.

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It still has water. And there are others that

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do. But the point is that you get out there in

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this dry, thirsty land. Yeah. And it's like,

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oh, if I could only have some water. And if you

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don't bring your own water with you, you could

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get in serious trouble. Dehydrate very fast.

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Yeah. Yeah. Because it's really hot. And like

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I started to say, even in the winter. You know,

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the temperature might get into the 50s, where

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up in Jerusalem, it might be freezing or almost

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freezing because it's a higher elevation. But

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you get down where it's below sea level. And

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it's mild. It's mild. So in the summer, it's

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hot and it's dry. And you've got to know where

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your water is. So David is saying, I am longing.

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Oh, God, you are my God. Earnestly will I seek

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you. My inner self thirsts for you. It's like

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if you're thirsty, you know that you need to

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drink something. And you're longing to drink

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something. You're thirsty. There's a thirst for

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God that God wants to really stir up in us. If

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we don't have it, it's time to get it. It's time

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to get thirsty for God. It says, my inner self

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thirsts for you. My flesh longs and is faint

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for you. You know, if you don't get water, you're

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going to get faint. In a dry and weary land where

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no water is, there are areas where there isn't

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any water because they haven't dug any wells

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there. And then you're certainly not going to

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get any water out of the Dead Sea because it's

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full of minerals, so salty that you can't even

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sink in it. And he goes on to talk about, so

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I have looked upon you in the sanctuary to see

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your power and your glory. Now, it's interesting

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because I pondered this for quite a long time

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in my meditations and study about this. And I'm

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thinking. What sanctuary is David talking about?

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Yeah, because the temple didn't exist yet. The

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temple didn't exist, and this is before he became

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king. So, I don't know, did he go to the house

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of Abinadab, where the ark was? Or did he go

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up to Gibeon, where Solomon had gone to that

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high place? That's where the rest of the tabernacle

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was, but it didn't have the Ark of the Covenant.

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So what sanctuary did he go to? And I'll just

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back up and say that scholars have two different

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ideas of when this took place. And some of them

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think that it happened when David was escaping

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from Jerusalem when his son had... Ought against

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him. Yeah, when his son Absalom decided he's

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going to be king and he gathered everybody around

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him and he's trying to depose his father. and

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David is running. But as I looked at that, I

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didn't think that made sense. Now, that would

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be a time when he had been in the sanctuary.

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He had the ark at that time. But he was running,

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and he was only on the plains of Judah. He wasn't

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in the hills. I mean, he went down the hills

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of Judah to get there. I think the boundary between

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Benjamin and Judah is kind of right in that area.

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But I don't think he had time to sit and write

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a psalm. He had to escape over the Jordan that

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night. So I don't think it was then. I think

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it was when he was running from Saul. So I'm

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wondering, when did he have this time with God

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in the sanctuary? But I was looking at other

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translations and the Smith's literal translation.

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Can you read that for us, Philip, what the Smith's

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literal translation says for verse two? Thus

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in the holy place I saw thee. to see thy strength

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and thy glory. In the holy place. Now that puts

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a little bit different tilt on it. A holy place.

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So can you make any place a holy place where

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you just sit and worship? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe

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when he was even out with his sheep. Yeah. I

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just have to wonder this. When did God speak

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to David and say, you are a priest forever after

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the order of Melchizedek? Now, we know that that

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was talking about Jesus because the book of Hebrews

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says so. So it was the son of David that really,

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really fulfilled it. But I wonder if David had

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such an intimate relationship with God the Father

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that maybe the Lord even caught him up into the

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heavens. Or maybe just in that place where his

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presence comes down. And you know that you're

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face to face with God, even if you don't see

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anything. You know that his presence is there.

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And I wonder if that's the sanctuary or the holy

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place that David experienced. It's just in his

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presence. So what did he do in his presence?

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I saw you. I saw you, yeah. What did the Amplified

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say? To see your power and your glory. I have

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looked upon you. I'm longing for another experience

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with you. I'm longing for another encounter.

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I'm longing for something more. I want more than

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I even got the last time. Now, there's a principle

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in the Spirit that wherever you have been in

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the Spirit, because you've been there and you

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have the memory of it, You can go there just

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by going into your memory, just like reenact

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it in your mind. Just go back there because the

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presence will still be there. Go back there.

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It's like resurrecting that moment or it's not

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like it died. But if you're not living in that

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moment, go back and get that place. Go back into

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that place and go further. Don't be satisfied

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with wherever you've been because there's more.

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There's always so much more. Yeah. So what does

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the ESV say for verses 6 through 8? When I remember

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you upon my bed and meditate on you in the watches

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of the night, for you have been my help, and

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in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

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My soul clings to you. Your right hand upholds

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me. My soul clings to you. Yeah. You know, David

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was writing before Pentecost, before the Pentecost

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that we celebrate from Acts chapter 2, before

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the outpouring. Before the outpouring, yeah.

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But David had an unusual relationship with God.

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He was a man after God's own heart. And you can

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interpret that a couple of different ways. You

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could say that he was a man that God looked upon

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with joy. He's after my heart. Or you could say

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that he was after God's heart, like he's after

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him. He's after him. I'm going to go get his

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heart. You know, that's this, I'm earnestly seeking

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you. Is that what God wants? I'm thinking so.

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Go after him with all our hearts. Amen. If with

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all your hearts you truly seek me, that's out

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of Jeremiah. Yeah, you shall ever surely find

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me. This saith our God. Amen. Amen. So let's

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look at verse 8 in a few different translations.

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King James says, My soul followeth hard after

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thee, thy right hand upholdeth me. I guess I

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should use my right hand. Thy right hand upholdeth

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me. My soul is after you. What does the New King

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James say? My soul follows close behind you.

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Your right hand upholds me. The New American

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Standard says, My soul clings to you. Your right

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hand takes hold of me. You know, there's something

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so fulfilling. There's something so... where

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you can anchor your trust when you know that

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God's got you in his grip. I remember Dr. Eby,

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Dr. Richard Eby, used to sign his letters in

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his grip. In his grip. That's good. Yeah, in

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his grip. He's got a hold of us, and he's drawing

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us back to him. So there's some other scriptures

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that are similar to this. What does Psalm 42,

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1 and 2 say? As the deer pants for the water

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brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul

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thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall

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I come and appear before God? Beautiful. This

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reminds me of, you've been to Israel and you've

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been down south. One of the places that's a favorite

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to go is in Gedi. I don't know where the scripture

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says it was where David loved to haunt. Yeah,

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yeah. You know, because here you are coming out

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of the mountains. is this stream of water that

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goes into the Dead Sea. And there's just foliage

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all around it because it's dry everywhere. And

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it comes out of a cave, and you can climb up

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in there. It's a nice hike, you know. It's beautiful.

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And it really gives you a picture of a place

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to really get away. And I'm sure it wasn't only

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David's place either because where there's water.

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There was going to be people. There was going

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to be animals, you know. But there was a cave

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there. So he had his own man cave, I guess, there,

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you know. Literally. Maybe all to himself. That's

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one of the places where he was in hiding with

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his men. Yeah. And I think, didn't we talk about

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that recently? Or was that on Friday Night Live

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Worship? On Friday Night Live. Yeah, I think

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that was a week or so ago on Friday Night Live

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Worship. We'll put a link to that in the show

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notes. And that's also the place, I believe,

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where Solomon was talking in the Song of Solomon

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about go to the mountains of Bethar, which means

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the rugged mountains. And it's there. There are

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several caves there. And there is one that is

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called the Cave of the Beloved. And it refers

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to the Song of Solomon. I am my beloved's and

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he is mine. So that was probably a... a place

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where Solomon haunted too. So Psalm 81, verses

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1 and 2, what does that say in the New King James?

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How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

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My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts

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of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for

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the living God. You know, that's how I feel about

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this convention coming up, that I am longing.

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I'm longing. for what God wants to do there.

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I'm longing to participate. I'm just humbling

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myself and doing everything to allow the Holy

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Spirit to get things out of the way that would

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be in the way, that my flesh would get in the

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way, so that I don't hinder Him in any way from

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anything that He wants to do in this convention.

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How lovely. How lovely is this convention? You

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know, I've been to all of them, and there's something

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so... lovely about these conventions that my

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soul just longs and even faints for these courts

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of the presence of God, where we're going to

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worship and we're going to go deep into the things

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of God. And I just picture that at some point,

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at least once, that the presence of God is going,

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I think it's going to inhabit the place really

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the whole time, but the weightiness of His glory

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is going to come down. I just feel like there's

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going to be a time of silence where we're just

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all in awe of his presence. And he's going to

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minister to every single one of us where we need

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it. He's just going to be there to do things.

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My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

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Hallelujah. Glory to God. And he really wants

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to come down right now, right where you are,

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right where you're listening or you're watching.

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Just take a moment and let him come and minister

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to you. Because he has something for you that's

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beyond you, that's beyond your expectations.

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He wants us to start expecting. beyond our expectations.

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Yeah. And even Moses, before they went up on

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the mount, and we went up and the Lord said,

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tell the people to sanctify themselves. And three

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days I'm coming down on the mountain. So they

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had three days to get themselves in order, if

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you want to call it that way. Because they're

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dealing with a lot of stuff out there in the

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desert. They got all the hurts of the last 400

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years passed down to them from their ancestors

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in Egypt. But they've never seen God come down.

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I mean, well, they saw the fiery tornado that

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separated them, cloud by day, fire by night.

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So they saw the glory like that. But they didn't

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see the glory when they wake up and get out there

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in the morning. and the shofar is blowing loud.

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I mean, what alarm clock that must have been.

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And they run outside, and the whole top of the

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mountain is on fire, and it's thundering, and

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the earth's probably shaking and quaking. And,

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you know, that would put fear in anybody. Sure.

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What's God going to do? What is God going to

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do? That's right. That's right. You know, Psalm

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119 is one of my favorite. Psalms. And it's the

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longest, it's the longest chapter in the Bible.

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But it's broken down into chunks. It's an acrostic.

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And so every little section starts with a letter

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from the Aleph Bet, which is alphabet in Hebrew.

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Like the first section starts with Aleph, and

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the second section starts with Bet, and the third

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section starts with Gimel, and so on. There's

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something in that psalm about the longing for

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God and the longing for his word and the delight

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in his word and the joy in this word. And it's

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all about his word. So can you read for us verses

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9 through 16 from the ESV? This is the bet section.

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How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding

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it according to your word. With my whole heart

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I seek you. Let me not wander from your commandments.

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I have stored up your word in my heart that I

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might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O

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Lord. Teach me your statutes. With my lips I

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declare all the rules of your mouth. In the way

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of your testimonies I delight as much as in all

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riches. I will meditate on your precepts and

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fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your

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statutes. I will not forget your word. Beautiful.

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Isn't that beautiful? I just love that. And,

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you know, it's not just for young men, although

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it's good for young men and young women, that

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you want to want to keep yourself pure. And the

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best way to keep yourself pure is to pour the

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word in. Pour in the words. Bend time in the

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word. I tell you, I just... Every day when I

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get into the Word, I find something new. And

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I've been studying it for a good long time. But

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I find something new and fresh every day that

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just excites me. And it excites me to find how

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this piece here fits with that piece over there.

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And that piece there fits with that piece there.

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And, you know, it's the putting together of things

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that, you know, God designed this. And he designed

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us. to go together. He designed his word to fill

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in the framework of who we are. It's kind of

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like you're the cake pan and his word is the

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batter. And you put it in the pan and you bake

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it and it takes the shape of the pan and it becomes

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something beautiful and sweet and wonderful to

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eat. It's meant to be consumed. And the more

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you put it in, the more it's going to modify

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your behavior. It's going to modify how you think.

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Because once you modify how you think, it's going

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to modify how you speak. And once it modifies

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how you speak, it's going to modify how you act.

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You know, and then always pray in the morning,

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okay, Holy Spirit, you know, help me. Help me

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in this day. But you can't just say that and

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then... not say it no more through the day. I

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mean, it's a continual thing just to stand in

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contact with because I've found the more and

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more I do that, like when I take a trip to town

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or somewhere and you have all these errands,

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things you have to do, things just drop into

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place. Yes. It just happens. And sometimes you...

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You know, you just don't know, how did that happen?

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And you know how, but you just keep concentrating

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on the Lord and the Holy Spirit. And he does

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lead and guide. Absolutely, he does. You know,

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everybody's probably, many of you have seen it

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already, that airplane that was coming in real

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low. And there's this, the video shows this truck

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driver just singing. I don't know what he was

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singing, you know. Was he a believer? I don't

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know. Maybe he was a believer afterwards. But

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when the tires... of a 767 go across and smash

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your windshield as it's going to land, I think

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you'd be thanking God that you're still alive

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and everybody else in the plane too. Absolutely.

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You know, and you can just keep praising God

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and he will do things. He can arrange, because

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if that truck was a foot more forward, a foot

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and a half, two feet, that would have took the

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whole front that might have torn off the landing

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gear. And the plane would have maybe, you know,

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crash landed on one landing gear. And that would

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have been extremely serious. And it would have

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taken off his head. Yeah. Yeah. So you look at

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the timing of that, how incredibly close that

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is. So when you, you know, so when you stay close

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to the Holy Spirit, you know, he's a master of

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time. Yes. Of making things happen. You know,

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that was a Kairos time for that man. It was an

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opportune time because a Kairos time, it can

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be a long period of time. It could be some years.

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It could be a moment. And that was a moment.

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Absolutely. Wow. Absolutely. Go ahead. That was

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a freebie. I'm looking forward to getting a testimony

00:28:06.450 --> 00:28:09.009
from that man. Yeah. Because I'm sure that there's

00:28:09.009 --> 00:28:11.089
something there. I mean, they may not. If he's

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a believer in Jesus, you won't hear it on a lot

00:28:13.809 --> 00:28:16.369
of networks. You'll hear it on CBN. You'll hear

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it on CBN. But the thing that stirs in me about

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this is there are lots of people that are feeling

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from the Lord to intercede. for these infrastructure

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kind of places like airports. It seems like there

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are kind of like waves of attacks on airports

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these days where you have two or three accidents

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in a row. And we know that there is witchcraft

00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:47.660
going on that's trying to cause these kind of

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things. But the intercessors rise up and they

00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:54.980
take authority. And we need to keep taking authority.

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And we need to stay on our guard. There's a beautiful

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scripture that talks about the word is a hammer.

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And the thing that I see in this is that the

00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.420
hammering of things, you don't just pray something

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once. You have to hammer it. You have to hammer

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it. And how many strikes does it take to drive

00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.619
a nail? It depends on how strong you are. It

00:29:18.619 --> 00:29:21.539
depends on how big the nail is. And the type

00:29:21.539 --> 00:29:23.319
of material being hammered into it. Exactly,

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.519
exactly. So as intercessors, we need to continually

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.160
continue to hammer on these things that God has

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put on our hearts to pray. You don't just pray

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at once and walk away. You can pray it once and

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spend all the rest of the time thanking God for

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the answer to that prayer. Yeah. In any case,

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it's a hammer. And it's also filling up the bowl

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of incense, you know, where it shows in Revelation

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about the angel that there's an angel with a

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trumpet that blows and the bowl is poured out.

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And it includes the prayers of the saints. And

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:09.759
the intercessions and all of that. So it's important

00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:13.359
for us to realize that, you know, like, especially

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if you're praying for someone who needs a healing,

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that you keep praying, you keep the request before

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the Lord. By thanking him. Once you have established

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that you've prayed it, you've prayed the word

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of God over a thing, and then you thank him,

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Lord, thank you that you are answering this prayer.

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Doesn't matter that we haven't seen it yet. You

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are answering it. It has already been done according

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to your word. Your word said it. We believe it.

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But you continue to thank him. You continue to

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praise, just like the scripture that we read

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earlier about. Because your loving kindness is

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better than life, my lips shall praise you. So

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will I bless you while I live. I will lift up

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my hands in your name. And there's something

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about lifting up your hands and declaring the

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.160
goodness of God, lifting up his name and just

00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.460
glorifying him for what he has already accomplished.

00:31:10.740 --> 00:31:14.900
Because, you know, Jesus was slain from the foundation

00:31:14.900 --> 00:31:18.119
of the world. He was the lamb slain from the

00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:20.599
foundation of the world. But then there was a

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:25.240
moment in time when he was actually slain on

00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:30.240
the cross. And it all fits together. So when

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.079
God says it's done, it's done from the foundation

00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.640
of the world. And then there's a moment where.

00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.039
it manifests. So you just have to keep on keeping

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:44.819
on and keep on declaring the truth of what he

00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:46.839
has said and what he has done because it's his

00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:50.200
loving kindness. That word in Hebrew is chesed.

00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:55.019
And it means loving kindness. It means steadfast

00:31:55.019 --> 00:31:59.519
love. It means mercy. And it's a covenantal love

00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:03.539
that there's an obligation by God because he

00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:07.480
has made a covenant to keep this kind of loving

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:11.240
kindness. And think of God as a parent. He's

00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.819
our father. If you are a parent or if you have

00:32:14.819 --> 00:32:18.180
a parent, and you probably do, the experience

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:22.160
of a parent. It really helps you understand God

00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:26.460
better because you love your child no matter

00:32:26.460 --> 00:32:29.819
what. No matter what they do, you love your child.

00:32:29.900 --> 00:32:32.519
Sometimes they'll do something that annoys you.

00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:35.980
Sometimes they'll do something that is, you know,

00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:39.259
disobedient and it makes you angry. Sometimes

00:32:39.259 --> 00:32:41.400
they're going to do something really wonderful

00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:45.019
and nice. And all of those things create an emotion

00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:48.799
in the parent. But nothing stops the parent's

00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:53.160
love. There's a covenantal love, like nothing

00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:55.799
will stop the love of a parent for their child.

00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.859
You might even break fellowship over something.

00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:03.079
Yeah. But you still love them. Yeah. And that's

00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:07.359
that covenantal love. So this experience of David's

00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:14.140
was prior to Jesus coming. David had kind of

00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:20.220
a prophetic relationship with God. that really

00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:24.940
pegged him and pegged his descendants to be part

00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:29.099
of the line of Jesus. That the things that David

00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:33.319
did, the right things that he did, were prophetic

00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.339
of what Jesus would do. Jesus would be the embodiment

00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:41.920
of God in the flesh, like David with a heart

00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:46.339
after God, right? So let me just give you another

00:33:46.339 --> 00:33:51.650
little... prophetic picture of David. When David

00:33:51.650 --> 00:33:57.650
lusted after Bathsheba and had her brought to

00:33:57.650 --> 00:34:02.569
his bedchambers and she got pregnant. And then,

00:34:02.630 --> 00:34:05.029
oh no, what are we going to do? And he tries

00:34:05.029 --> 00:34:08.349
to get her husband back from the battle and tries

00:34:08.349 --> 00:34:11.010
to get him to go to her so it looks like it's

00:34:11.010 --> 00:34:14.389
his baby. Yeah. And he won't do it. He has no

00:34:14.389 --> 00:34:18.460
idea. He has no idea. But he's so loyal. He's

00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:21.980
so loyal to David and to Israel that he is just

00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:24.920
not going to go there. Why should I get to go

00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:27.679
to my wife when all of my brothers in arms don't

00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.320
get to go? So he doesn't. He doesn't go to his

00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.039
wife. So now David's thinking, now what am I

00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:35.960
going to do? So he comes up with this plan to

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.159
have Uriah killed in the battle. So here he is

00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.800
guilty of adultery and guilty of murder. When

00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:50.760
that baby is born, David should have died for

00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:55.079
his own sins. That's the law. The law was, okay,

00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:58.260
adultery, you should be stoned, and murder, you

00:34:58.260 --> 00:35:01.159
should be stoned. You should be killed. But God

00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:07.539
said through the prophet, you will not die, but

00:35:07.539 --> 00:35:13.050
the baby will die. So the son of David. died

00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:17.309
for David's sins. It was prophetic of the son

00:35:17.309 --> 00:35:20.210
of David who would die for our sins. It's the

00:35:20.210 --> 00:35:24.230
principle of substitution that God had the son

00:35:24.230 --> 00:35:29.030
of David die in David's place. I just think that's

00:35:29.030 --> 00:35:35.139
amazing. Amazing. coming down the line to Jesus.

00:35:35.619 --> 00:35:39.539
He comes as the son of God, as the son of David,

00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:42.840
of the seed of the woman, which is prophecy from

00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:49.239
Genesis. When God put the hammer down on the

00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.219
snake, he said, the seed of the woman is going

00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:55.820
to crush your head. You're going to hurt his

00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:58.440
heel, but he's going to crush your head. And

00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.840
that's exactly what happened, obviously, when

00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:04.880
Jesus died. It broke the power of death. Broke

00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:08.179
the power of sin and death over all of mankind

00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:12.599
and broke the power of death by resurrecting.

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:16.619
How amazing. How amazing. And then the Spirit

00:36:16.619 --> 00:36:21.599
was poured out on the day of Pentecost. It brought

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:25.679
in the new covenant. Now, Jesus gave the Holy

00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.539
Communion that cup. He said, this cup is the

00:36:28.539 --> 00:36:31.019
new covenant in my blood. And we've talked about

00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:35.119
this before, but it's so meaningful to me that

00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:38.099
Jesus was saying, this cup is the new covenant

00:36:38.099 --> 00:36:40.820
in my blood. And that referred to Jeremiah 31,

00:36:41.099 --> 00:36:46.420
verses 31 to 34. It was prophesied. So what is

00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:50.190
the new covenant? The new covenant is I will

00:36:50.190 --> 00:36:51.969
be your God and you will be my people. Well,

00:36:52.130 --> 00:36:55.650
the old covenant had that too. I'll forgive your

00:36:55.650 --> 00:36:57.969
sins and your iniquities. Yeah, it's the old

00:36:57.969 --> 00:37:00.349
covenant. The old covenant had it kind of because

00:37:00.349 --> 00:37:03.130
they had sacrifices for it. And they could do

00:37:03.130 --> 00:37:06.409
it once a year to take care of the year. But

00:37:06.409 --> 00:37:10.170
this is forever, right? Yeah. And then I will

00:37:10.170 --> 00:37:12.750
write my word in your hearts and in your minds.

00:37:14.030 --> 00:37:18.010
And you will know me. You will know me. That's

00:37:18.010 --> 00:37:21.190
this longing. That's this thirst for God. You

00:37:21.190 --> 00:37:25.889
can know me, he says. That's what Paul had. He

00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:29.610
had that longing. Because he had that encounter

00:37:29.610 --> 00:37:33.449
with murder in his heart. They had told he was

00:37:33.449 --> 00:37:36.809
blinded. He had an encounter in the glory. Yes,

00:37:36.809 --> 00:37:40.530
he did. And so he had a taste of the real thing.

00:37:41.250 --> 00:37:44.909
And he continued to press in to get there. You

00:37:44.909 --> 00:37:49.219
know, he's speaking. Things that are unspeakable

00:37:49.219 --> 00:37:53.119
to see. You know, it wasn't time. You know, it's

00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:55.719
kind of like what Jesus said to the apostles,

00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.800
I have many things to share with you, but you

00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.300
cannot bear them now. True. So Paul had many

00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:04.480
revelations, but he knew that the people would

00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.400
think him as a heretic or something. And, you

00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.980
know, even on our comments, you know, we had

00:38:10.980 --> 00:38:14.000
some of our speakers, you know, it comes up on

00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.750
Facebook. And, you know, the supernatural experiences

00:38:17.750 --> 00:38:20.329
and people are saying, nobody's ever been to

00:38:20.329 --> 00:38:22.250
heaven, you know, this or that. And I thought,

00:38:22.309 --> 00:38:24.869
these people are just so blind. They have no

00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.750
understanding. Right. And, of course, a lot of

00:38:27.750 --> 00:38:30.369
these might have just been unbelievers anyway,

00:38:30.630 --> 00:38:34.469
you know. But if they were an unbeliever, they

00:38:34.469 --> 00:38:36.610
may not have a visit to heaven first. It might

00:38:36.610 --> 00:38:40.510
be a visit where God might dangle them over hell.

00:38:40.929 --> 00:38:43.710
You know, we've heard many testimonies of that.

00:38:44.349 --> 00:38:47.449
It is real, you know? Yeah. Oh, wow. It really

00:38:47.449 --> 00:38:52.550
is. Absolutely. And the thing is this, because

00:38:52.550 --> 00:38:57.130
of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, it has

00:38:57.130 --> 00:39:00.980
opened the doors. To see things. Now, I'm pretty

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:04.000
sure that Moses had an encounter with God where

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:09.659
he saw into heaven to see the furniture there.

00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:12.159
Yeah. And then God told him, now, here's how

00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.679
I want you to do it on the earth. So he saw the

00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:18.679
Ark of the Covenant. And so he knew God showed

00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:20.699
him what to do. He told him specifically, do

00:39:20.699 --> 00:39:23.440
this, do this, do this. It's like he burned the

00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:26.000
blueprint into him. Yes, that's a good way. Into

00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:29.230
his memory, you know. Yeah, yeah. Wow. There

00:39:29.230 --> 00:39:32.349
were encounters. Ezekiel had an encounter. Isaiah

00:39:32.349 --> 00:39:34.510
had an encounter where they were caught up into

00:39:34.510 --> 00:39:38.670
heaven. Old Testament already. And we know that

00:39:38.670 --> 00:39:41.530
John the Beloved had an encounter. We know that

00:39:41.530 --> 00:39:45.730
Paul had an encounter. It's not unusual for people

00:39:45.730 --> 00:39:47.630
to have encounters where they're caught up to

00:39:47.630 --> 00:39:51.699
heaven. But that's the beauty of this new covenant.

00:39:51.739 --> 00:39:54.940
And Jesus said in his time with the disciples

00:39:54.940 --> 00:39:58.519
at the Last Supper, in the book of John, those

00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:02.119
last chapters, what is it, 13 through 17, I think

00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:04.800
it is, the Upper Room Discourse, they call it,

00:40:04.900 --> 00:40:08.940
where he says, and we talked about this recently

00:40:08.940 --> 00:40:14.800
on that podcast about the Holy Spirit being the

00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.699
flesh tamer. We talked about how the Holy Spirit,

00:40:18.820 --> 00:40:22.699
where Jesus said, you know him because he's been

00:40:22.699 --> 00:40:27.219
with you and he shall be in you. And that's what

00:40:27.219 --> 00:40:30.539
this whole baptism in the Holy Spirit is all

00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:33.280
about. That's what the day of Pentecost is about.

00:40:33.380 --> 00:40:37.219
Shavuot. It's about receiving. The first time

00:40:37.219 --> 00:40:39.920
it was receiving the law. This time it's about

00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.280
receiving the Spirit. This time it's about receiving

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.849
the law being written in our hearts. In our hearts

00:40:46.849 --> 00:40:52.369
and minds. And getting to know him inside. Yeah.

00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:56.369
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come

00:40:56.369 --> 00:41:00.050
on people. And they would speak for the Lord.

00:41:00.090 --> 00:41:03.690
Or like Samson, when the Spirit came on him,

00:41:03.809 --> 00:41:07.630
it was like he was clothed in power. Yeah. Amazing.

00:41:08.940 --> 00:41:12.300
he's trying to teach us, what's available to

00:41:12.300 --> 00:41:17.780
us, is the Spirit of the living God living inside

00:41:17.780 --> 00:41:21.880
of us. When we invite Jesus to come and dwell

00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:25.559
in our hearts, he comes in by his Spirit, and

00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:29.280
he comes in and he takes up whatever we give

00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:33.260
him. He can take up residence in a closet, if

00:41:33.260 --> 00:41:35.340
that's all you give him in the house of your

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:39.469
life. But he'll take whatever you give him. And

00:41:39.469 --> 00:41:44.849
he's looking for us to give him everything. So

00:41:44.849 --> 00:41:50.550
1 Corinthians 3 .16 says, Do you not know that

00:41:50.550 --> 00:41:53.530
you are the temple of God and that the Spirit

00:41:53.530 --> 00:41:57.949
of God dwells in you? Oh, now what does it say?

00:41:58.050 --> 00:42:00.670
What does the Young's literal translation say

00:42:00.670 --> 00:42:04.699
for that? Have you not known that ye are a sanctuary

00:42:04.699 --> 00:42:07.960
of God, and the Spirit of God does dwell in you?

00:42:08.380 --> 00:42:12.000
Ah, sanctuary. Sanctuary. That takes us back

00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.739
to where we started in Psalm 63. So have I seen

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:22.159
you in the sanctuary. What God is after, at least

00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.940
part of what God is after, is that we become

00:42:25.940 --> 00:42:33.650
so enamored with him, so... fulfilled in him,

00:42:33.789 --> 00:42:39.809
so filled with him, that his holiness is known

00:42:39.809 --> 00:42:44.289
upon us. His holiness upon us is obvious. And

00:42:44.289 --> 00:42:47.530
it's not about being holier than thou. It's about

00:42:47.530 --> 00:42:53.489
letting his spirit have his way in us so that

00:42:53.489 --> 00:42:56.610
it affects our atmosphere and our atmosphere

00:42:56.610 --> 00:43:02.019
will affect the atmospheres around us. He's wanting

00:43:02.019 --> 00:43:08.960
that sanctuary of himself to make a difference

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.460
in the world. You know, he comes to live within

00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:16.099
us and we are in him also. So it's kind of like

00:43:16.099 --> 00:43:20.039
this sandwich kind of thing where he's inside

00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:24.039
of us and we're inside of him. The Ark of the

00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:28.940
Covenant is made that way. It's a gold box. inside

00:43:28.940 --> 00:43:33.059
of a wooden box, inside of a gold box. And inside

00:43:33.059 --> 00:43:36.380
that is where the covenant, the tablets of the

00:43:36.380 --> 00:43:38.599
covenant were put in there. There's supposed

00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:41.880
to be a pot of manna and Aaron's rod that budded

00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:45.239
are all supposed to be in there. The idea is

00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.960
that our flesh is like that wooden box. And the

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:53.780
beautiful thing is that ark, the golden, gold

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:56.579
represents God. Gold represents the Holy Spirit,

00:43:56.739 --> 00:44:02.260
deity. And so you have this part that's God inside

00:44:02.260 --> 00:44:08.500
of you. And then you're inside of him. And so

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:11.679
then there's a crown of gold that goes over that.

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:14.820
So it covers up the flesh. It covers up that

00:44:14.820 --> 00:44:17.059
whole fleshly nature. When we give ourselves

00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:21.599
to God, when we let that Holy Spirit be. The

00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:26.480
flesh tamer in us. Then his manifestation comes

00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:29.960
more and more and more in our lives. And he's

00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.039
looking for us to let him, let him do that. Let

00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.179
him do that. So 1 Corinthians 6, 17 says, but

00:44:36.179 --> 00:44:39.219
he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with

00:44:39.219 --> 00:44:45.599
him. It's even beyond that fleshly box with gold

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.139
boxes around it. It's spirit. Yeah. Our spirit.

00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:56.239
is one with his spirit. Imagine taking a blue

00:44:56.239 --> 00:45:01.059
light. and shining it in a red light and shining

00:45:01.059 --> 00:45:03.900
it. And you have them next to each other, and

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:06.340
they're definitely blue and red. But then you

00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:09.059
shine them both onto the same thing, and you've

00:45:09.059 --> 00:45:12.199
got a purple -white. There's something has changed.

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:17.900
So that's what happens in us when we yield to

00:45:17.900 --> 00:45:22.219
the Holy Spirit. His ways can come out through

00:45:22.219 --> 00:45:26.250
us. He can express himself through us. And it's

00:45:26.250 --> 00:45:28.570
not like we become cookie cutter Christians.

00:45:28.949 --> 00:45:31.550
We shouldn't all be looking alike. We should

00:45:31.550 --> 00:45:34.730
all be looking like him, but he is dressing himself

00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:39.409
in our personalities. And only you can be you

00:45:39.409 --> 00:45:44.110
with him in you, expressing him in your personal

00:45:44.110 --> 00:45:47.170
way. Nobody else can express him in the same

00:45:47.170 --> 00:45:48.929
way that you do. And that's why that you need

00:45:48.929 --> 00:45:52.139
to. That's why you need to express him and let

00:45:52.139 --> 00:45:54.860
him express himself through you. Hallelujah.

00:45:55.139 --> 00:45:58.079
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Philip, would you read

00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:02.820
1 Corinthians 1, 20 through 22? For all the promises

00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:06.019
of God, whatever their number, had their confirmation

00:46:06.019 --> 00:46:09.320
in him. And for this reason, through him also

00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:12.699
our amen acknowledges their truth and promotes

00:46:12.699 --> 00:46:15.480
the glory of God through our faith. But he who

00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.360
is making us as well as you steadfast through

00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.500
union with the anointed one and has anointed

00:46:21.500 --> 00:46:25.360
us is God. And he has also set his seal upon

00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:29.300
us and has put his spirit into our hearts as

00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:33.019
a pledge and foretaste of future blessing. Don't

00:46:33.019 --> 00:46:35.320
you love that? Put a seal. You know, it's like

00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.000
a certificate or something. Put it there and

00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.059
you have that seal. Yeah. Squish. You know, and

00:46:42.059 --> 00:46:44.679
you got to put pressure to put that seal on that

00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:46.960
piece of paper. Yeah. You know, or if it's a

00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:49.920
stamp, like if, you know, we have a lot of keys

00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.539
to our place with different buildings and I get

00:46:52.539 --> 00:46:55.380
a new set of keys. I take them in and I got a

00:46:55.380 --> 00:46:57.820
little, like a little anvil there and I got a

00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:00.869
hammer and I have a set of. stamps for the letters

00:47:00.869 --> 00:47:03.289
of the alphabet and numbers. I put that on there

00:47:03.289 --> 00:47:06.349
and I stamp that thing, you know, whack. And

00:47:06.349 --> 00:47:08.070
they can hear it all the way down the hall in

00:47:08.070 --> 00:47:11.050
the other offices. But I make sure it's that

00:47:11.050 --> 00:47:15.110
imprint is in that key. So if it ever anybody

00:47:15.110 --> 00:47:18.289
can look at it and know what that key is for.

00:47:18.429 --> 00:47:22.130
Yes. And isn't that what God does? Well, he puts

00:47:22.130 --> 00:47:24.719
his signature on it. Yes. You read that in the

00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:27.619
book of Ezekiel, the man with the inkhorn. Yes.

00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:32.260
When he says, go and put a signature in the foreheads,

00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:35.820
or put a mark in the foreheads of all those that

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cry. inside for all the abominations going on

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in Israel because the temple is getting ready

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to be destroyed. But God, and when you look at

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Mark, the Hebrew is signature. So, you know,

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:52.559
God puts his signature, just like writes it in,

00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:54.719
but it's kind of like invisible ink. You can

00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.139
look in the mirror, you can't see it, but it's

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there because he writes it on your heart. It's

00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.539
true. It's on your heart. It's not like it's

00:48:02.539 --> 00:48:04.639
going to show up under a blue light or something.

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Right. But you can tell there are people that

00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:11.280
glow. Yeah. You can tell that they know Jesus

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because they glow. You might just meet them in

00:48:13.900 --> 00:48:16.239
a gas station, but you can tell that they are

00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:19.320
believers because they glow. Yeah. It's that

00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:24.010
simple. The idea of this seal. I think the King

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James talks about it as being the earnest of

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the inheritance. In other words, it's kind of

00:48:28.949 --> 00:48:31.630
like the engagement ring before the wedding.

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You're engaged but you haven't come into the

00:48:36.590 --> 00:48:40.150
fullness of the relationship yet. So having the

00:48:40.150 --> 00:48:43.309
Holy Spirit in us and operating through us is

00:48:43.309 --> 00:48:47.730
just a foretaste of the glory that's ahead for

00:48:47.730 --> 00:48:51.210
us for all eternity. What we're doing here is

00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:54.449
like a rehearsal for all of eternity and getting

00:48:54.449 --> 00:48:56.889
used to working with him. It's like boot camp

00:48:56.889 --> 00:48:59.269
for what we're going to do for all of eternity.

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You know, our finite minds have a hard time even

00:49:02.989 --> 00:49:05.989
wrapping around the idea of eternity because

00:49:05.989 --> 00:49:09.800
we're so connected to time. comprehend eternity

00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:14.179
and infinity, you know? Yeah. Just one more scripture,

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Solomon 1 verse 4 from the literal standard version

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says, Draw me. We run after you. The king has

00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:28.860
brought me into his inner chambers. We delight

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and rejoice in you. We mention your loves more

00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.949
than wine. Uprightly, they have loved you. So

00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:38.889
God wants us to go deeper in revelation. Whatever

00:49:38.889 --> 00:49:42.130
revelation we have is a great place to start,

00:49:42.269 --> 00:49:46.590
but there's always more. He wants, he's drawing

00:49:46.590 --> 00:49:50.969
us and he wants us to be drawn by him. He wants

00:49:50.969 --> 00:49:54.570
us to long for him and to recognize that we already

00:49:54.570 --> 00:49:57.570
have the earnest of the inheritance. We already

00:49:57.570 --> 00:50:01.469
have a taste. We have a foretaste, but it's kind

00:50:01.469 --> 00:50:06.179
of like when you're preparing dinner, and you

00:50:06.179 --> 00:50:09.860
just taste a spoonful of something, that's going

00:50:09.860 --> 00:50:12.400
to be good on the table. Okay, but all you've

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.980
gotten is a spoonful. There's more. There's always

00:50:15.980 --> 00:50:19.699
going to be more. And God wants us to get connected

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to the more. And I've gone back for about three

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years in my journal, and I feel like I need to

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share this. The Lord said to me, you see me in

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the details and in the big picture in many ways.

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But I'm there in so much greater ways than you

00:50:39.619 --> 00:50:44.460
can comprehend. My vastness is way beyond what

00:50:44.460 --> 00:50:48.579
you have perceived up to now. I'm hiding in plain

00:50:48.579 --> 00:50:52.539
sight, as it were. It's really got me. Human

00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:56.380
self -awareness, and aren't we taught in the

00:50:56.380 --> 00:50:59.539
world that you have to be self -aware? It's all

00:50:59.539 --> 00:51:03.639
about self, self, self, okay? Human self -awareness.

00:51:04.090 --> 00:51:09.909
hides me from your perception. You tend to have

00:51:09.909 --> 00:51:13.829
very low expectations of me in order not to be

00:51:13.829 --> 00:51:16.250
disappointed in my seeming failure to show up.

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Guilty. But I'm there for you in greater ways

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than you understand. Release that habit to me.

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It's time for that to stop. So I wrote a little

00:51:28.789 --> 00:51:32.219
repentance there. And the Lord says, I forgive

00:51:32.219 --> 00:51:34.940
you. Now loose yourself in me. Let go of your

00:51:34.940 --> 00:51:38.960
moorings to the known and follow me into the

00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:45.219
unknown. My plans for you are vast. This isn't

00:51:45.219 --> 00:51:48.159
just for me. This is for you. My plans for you,

00:51:48.260 --> 00:51:52.960
the Lord says, are vast. Don't hinder me by your

00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:56.480
small perceptions. My thoughts and ways are so

00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:00.599
much higher. and more multidimensional than human

00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:03.460
perception has been able to explain with all

00:52:03.460 --> 00:52:06.739
their weak theology. I have to read that again.

00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:10.179
Yeah, that's good. My thoughts and ways are so

00:52:10.179 --> 00:52:13.360
much higher and more multidimensional than human

00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.960
perception has been able to explain with all

00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:20.239
their weak theology. They hinder my power as

00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.599
they box me into their limited understanding.

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I'm limitless in my scope. I'm so big that they

00:52:27.590 --> 00:52:34.530
slash you can't see or perceive me. Quit trying

00:52:34.530 --> 00:52:39.650
to explain me in human terms. I am Yehovah. I

00:52:39.650 --> 00:52:42.949
always was. And I will always continue to be

00:52:42.949 --> 00:52:45.969
all that I am and ever was. And I will continue

00:52:45.969 --> 00:52:51.449
to be what I am and ever was. And ever was. I

00:52:51.449 --> 00:52:55.989
am all -encompassingly vast and ever -expanding

00:52:55.989 --> 00:53:00.050
to create existence like a symphonic crescendo

00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:04.309
and yet tenderly, softly whispering imperceptibly

00:53:04.309 --> 00:53:07.869
fine details in the vastness of my plans for

00:53:07.869 --> 00:53:11.170
you and all mankind and everything that has life.

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Even the elements that you think are inanimate

00:53:15.170 --> 00:53:21.119
are held together by my word. And then he told

00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:25.119
me to rest in his vastness. So I want to encourage

00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:30.340
you, invest and rest in his vastness. And I just

00:53:30.340 --> 00:53:33.260
want to close with this prophecy that was given

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by Stacey Campbell, I would say in about 2011

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in Calgary, Canada. And whoever was recording

00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:45.400
this didn't start instantly when she started.

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So there's the first few words for lost. To places

00:53:48.579 --> 00:53:53.019
so deep. to creatures that the eyes of man have

00:53:53.019 --> 00:53:56.860
never seen. Or when you go into the galaxies

00:53:56.860 --> 00:54:00.880
and see systems, solar systems, planets, and

00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:03.840
galaxies that the eye of man has never seen,

00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:09.039
don't shrink me. Don't shrink me to what you

00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:13.059
can do. I'm inviting you into what I can do.

00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:17.019
And a reformation of a nation and of a planet

00:54:17.019 --> 00:54:20.780
will not happen. if you shrink me to what you

00:54:20.780 --> 00:54:26.059
have and what you can do. Don't shrink me. Just

00:54:26.059 --> 00:54:30.639
believe me. I am Jehovah Jireh. I can multiply

00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:34.639
fish. I can multiply bread. I can fill bank accounts.

00:54:34.860 --> 00:54:37.420
I can make water come out of rocks. So don't

00:54:37.420 --> 00:54:41.119
shrink me. Your nation will never see reformation

00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:45.380
if you shrink me. Now I invite you to gaze at

00:54:45.380 --> 00:54:49.599
the mountains, to stare into the stars, to stand

00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.119
at the ocean's edge, and you will clearly see

00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.940
my divine nature, my eternal power. And I invite

00:54:55.940 --> 00:54:59.760
you, come out on the water. Walk on water with

00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:03.079
me. Walk through walls with me. Be translated

00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:06.239
from one place to another. What do you believe

00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:10.579
about me? Who do men say that I am? You can do

00:55:10.579 --> 00:55:15.889
anything, but don't Shrink me. And Jeremiah 32,

00:55:16.110 --> 00:55:20.269
27 says, Behold, I am Yehovah, the God of all

00:55:20.269 --> 00:55:24.530
flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? So,

00:55:24.630 --> 00:55:30.289
Father, we ask you to increase our longing, increase

00:55:30.289 --> 00:55:35.489
our thirst for you, increase our desire for you.

00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:40.679
Cause your spirit to dwell within us and stir

00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:45.679
in us. Set us on fire. Set us on flames, Lord,

00:55:45.780 --> 00:55:50.300
that you will do everything in this planet that

00:55:50.300 --> 00:55:53.739
you want to do. And we volunteer to be a part

00:55:53.739 --> 00:55:57.159
of what you want to do. Lord, we're asking you

00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:00.239
to increase for all of our listeners and viewers.

00:56:00.900 --> 00:56:04.219
Increase their desire for you. Increase their

00:56:04.219 --> 00:56:07.360
longing for you. Begin to write your word in

00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:09.300
their hearts and in their minds greater than

00:56:09.300 --> 00:56:11.659
ever before. And for all of us, Lord, us too.

00:56:11.900 --> 00:56:16.280
Lord, we're asking you to increase in us and

00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:20.679
help us to let go of our moorings that keep us

00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:24.039
in the known so that we can participate in the

00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:27.760
unknown, the heretofore unseen miracles that

00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:30.639
you intend to do on this planet. Just like when

00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:32.780
Moses and the children of Israel were standing

00:56:32.780 --> 00:56:35.670
on the shores of the Red Sea. Nobody had any

00:56:35.670 --> 00:56:38.949
idea that you could part the Red Sea, and you

00:56:38.949 --> 00:56:41.969
did. And they walked through on dry ground. Lord,

00:56:41.989 --> 00:56:45.050
we're asking you for heretofore unknown miracles,

00:56:45.150 --> 00:56:49.630
the greater works, Jesus, that you said that

00:56:49.630 --> 00:56:52.769
your disciples would do. We're volunteering to

00:56:52.769 --> 00:56:54.909
participate in that, and we're asking you by

00:56:54.909 --> 00:56:57.849
your Spirit to prepare us for that. Prepare us

00:56:57.849 --> 00:57:01.530
as a sanctuary. Lord, prepare me a sanctuary.

00:57:02.570 --> 00:57:06.070
pure and holy, tried and true. Thank you, Father.

00:57:06.429 --> 00:57:10.269
Pour your Spirit out and use us in these days.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Your review helps

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