Appetites and Atmospheres

0:00 Hey Dreamers, this is your host Barry Miracle. Welcome to Wake Up Into Your Dream. It's time to wake up out of the nightmares of normality and wake up into God's Divinely Designed Dream for your life. Jump on this podcast today and let's discover God's awesomeness waiting for you. Hey everybody and welcome back to Wake Up Into Your Dream. I hope you're enjoying the podcast. We are on, I think, number 200 and we have, I don't know, well over 100,000 downloads but I just want to say thank you for just drawing by your faith and thank you for all the comments that you've been making and the value that you've put in this show, this podcast and what you're receiving here and we just bless you guys and once again if you want to connect with us on a better way or you want to be more connected to us you can go to BarryMiracle.ca or you can email events at BarryMiracle.ca as well. We love you guys and we are looking forward to seeing the best days and as I've been talking about how June 24th was an apex moment just past here not too long ago that things are increasing and

1:30 I want to tell you we were in Montreal, power, glory of God showed up, hungriest I've ever seen the Quebec Quo in my life and then we went to Ottawa and had amazing meetings there and I was actually preaching on the 24th at Capitol City Church with Pastor Mike Welch and Adam and Brian there just had a fantastic time and June 24th was powerful. People were, I wouldn't even, I was just walking towards people and they'd start falling out and holy ghost. The altars were full of people that sensed the anointing and wanted to go to the next level and want to receive a breaker anointing to break out of the past and into the best days of right now. There's an anointing to look just like Jesus in this season. There's an anointing of the now Jesus. There's an apostolic royal anointing oil that wants to be mantled upon you for this season to prepare you and to form you and propel you into your best days. We are the answer that the whole world, we are the manifestation of the children of God that this whole world is waiting for. This is who we are and so how do we handle, how do we load manage and I've been doing go back and listen to some of my podcasts on load management and who we are as a new creation, all these things and get your identity piece intact because now is time to take back and take over

3:06 and go into all the world and all the kingdoms of this world and make them the kingdoms of our God. It's not time to take off, it's time to take over, it's not time to escape, it's time to bring the dominion of God. So I say like this, not time to escape, it's time to dominate, but what does that look like? It sounds kind of a little strong, Barry, sounds a little well, no, because the dominion of God has to do with eight things primarily. Are you ready? Faith, hope and love is a foundation, the pillars are righteous, this peace and joy and you operate in grace and truth. So we use the sword against the enemy and the towel for the people. We are here to serve people because people are our ministry. So anyway, you want to connect with us more? Please go there. But I'm excited to present to you this new series and I don't know how long I'm going to go with this. I don't know if it's going to be one off, but I think it might be a little bit longer, but called appetites and atmospheres. And you actually create the atmosphere that you want to live within by one simple thing, your appetite. What is your appetite for? What have you been creating your hunger for? What is what are you hungry and thirsting for? In the word, like you get hungry, you get an appetite, as they would say, you get a little, little, little hungry because you don't eat. But in the kingdom of God, well, in actually in the spiritual realm, it's both for good and for evil, whatever

4:42 you feed yourself, you will hunger more for. So it's exact, almost the exact same exact opposite from the physical to the spiritual, because when you begin to feed on different aspects of the spiritual realm, you will create more of an appetite for that. And your appetite will actually create out of an overflow of your being, you begin to manifest what you've been eating. You are what you eat. And so you, you will begin to eat the things of the spirit for instance, if you begin to eat the things of the word of God, you will begin to manifest what overshadows you will flow forth from you. What you continually are building your muscle around your, your building your appetites for is what you will begin to manifest. What you behold is what you eventually will become. And so this is what it's about. It's about creating an appetite. And so last week, last week I preached, I shared on, excuse me, a war of awareness. And I mentioned that just a small little piece there that your, your, your flesh has appetites. And the key to a victorious life in the kingdom is to allow the, the, the atmosphere of heaven to invade your body and let love cover

6:19 a multitude of sins and spend time in the presence of, of God, where your flesh begins to be dumbed down, where your flesh begins to be drowned in love, in the spirit, the word of baptism, where we get the baptism of water, you have a baptismal service and you get baptized in water. And then there's the baptism of the Holy Spirit. But they, the root of that is baptism, which means to drown. It comes from the Greek word, Bapto, which means to drown. And so you need to submerse yourself in the presence of God. You got to submerse yourself. You got to be drowned in the presence or drowned in the glory of God to be able to, your flesh to be put to death. It says, in Romans chapter 13, I think 11 through 15, it says, put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for your flesh to fulfill its lust. It's really important that you put on the Lord Jesus Christ. What is that? Put on the anointed one and his anointing. You got to put on the, the, the, the, the atmosphere of heaven. You got to be baptized on a regular basis. You got to be drowned in the atmosphere of heaven so that your flesh is not screaming out because a lot of people are just trying to satisfy the appetite of the flesh. So there's an appetite for the things of

7:52 the world. There's an appetite for the things of the spirit and, and which I'm talking about spirit is obviously God and Jesus and Holy Spirit in the kingdom of God. So a lot of people are trying to fulfill the lusts of their flesh to satisfy. There's a craving that you have. Like you ever, ever have a cra- I have cravings. Okay. Every once in a while, I just got to have like french fries and gravy with ketchup on it. Every once in a while, I'm telling you, I, I got to have some Christian chicken or Swiss chelé as we like to call it elsewhere. But I got to have, my daughters got to have every once in a while, they got to have chick filet. They got to eat these things because they're just craving it. We don't absolutely got to, but I'm telling you, it's, it's, it's actually fun to have cravings, but it's, it should be fun to have a craving, but it cannot dominate your life. And this is what the people are just led about by their stomachs. They're led, this is what the Bible, the Bible talks about this, that people that are, that are, you know, getting around people that will tickle their ears with, with things they want to hear and, and they just want to create appetites for things that will fulfill them and make them feel good. You know, it's not, God's not interested in making you feel good primarily, but you will feel good, will be the end, not end goal, but that will be the byproduct of, of living a holy life. And

9:23 living a holy life is not difficult. It's what you create an appetite for. What are you hungry and what are you thirsting for? This is a question. What is your appetite? Your appetite will determine your atmosphere and your atmosphere will determine your victory. How do you create the appetites? And, and why is it important to create the proper appetite? So this is what I want to talk to you about this week. And so last week, I'm just going to hit on that just quickly, the War of Awareness, and I talked about the lust of the flesh and, and, and how that we're trying to satisfy the appetites of that we've created in the world. And now we got to, we got to change the way we, and I'm suggesting you might want to think about it like we just came off of, we were on a keto diet, pretty strict in the beginning. And then we went into low sugar, low carb, and then we went on vacation. And now we got to get back. We got to refocus. We got to go, you can go back into ketosis, where your body begins to eat the stored fat within 12 hours. I want to tell you, you can get back into a proper diet that's going to create the proper atmosphere, and it's going to take a lot shorter than you think. You feel like, ah, I've blown it, and I've gone off my diet or I've blown in the spirit, I've gone off and I've, and I began to feed on

10:54 other things. And I've given my, my attention and my focus and I've been eating of the things of what I should not be eating of. And, and I've created an atmosphere that I don't want right now, and a hunger that I don't want right now. So how do you do that? You just simply make a decision. You say, great, God, give me the grace to repent so that I can be everything I'm called to be, so that I can have the proper appetites again. So you just need to begin to eat the word of God. You need to, with intentionality, wake up in the morning and set the trajectory of your life by spending time in his presence. And people say, I don't want to tell you how much time you should share. What I want to tell you, I think you need to spend some significant moments, not five, not 10 minutes, not 15 minutes. I want to say to you, take time to spend at least a half an hour, whether that's in just worshiping or whatever. I mean, for me, because of what I need, I just need God more than you probably, because I'm more needy than you may be. But I'm at least an hour in the morning. And then I'm also doing things throughout the day. And I'm listening to podcasts myself and feeding myself. I got to feed what I want to create. I got to, what I feed, I am what I eat.

12:15 And you will become what you eat, what you, so you got to have, and you got to create appetites for the things of the Lord. And you can create the appetite. So let me just talk about appetites a little bit more before I get into what appetites create, which is an atmosphere that you live and breathe within. There's this, you know, biometric, you know, these different ecosystems that we, that are created. And there's actually, you know, bubbles that you create, where you can create these different atmospheres within atmospheres. And so I want, I want us to be able to create the atmosphere of heaven here on the earth, but I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit. So I wanted to start off with a very, it's, it's, it's a story, it's a life story of what I walked through with a young man who was a spiritual son of mine. And this guy, and I'm not going to mention any names, but this guy, he would come into a room and he would smile and he'd like to play soft. He had a laugh that was infectious, a big jovial and you couldn't help but just laugh and have a good time. He was always looking to make somebody, you know, laugh and, and just be, and just have a good time. He was, he was like a combination. I don't know if

13:52 this makes any sense to you, but he was like Chris Farley, a Labrador retriever in Clint Brown. Clint Brown is one of my favorite worship leaders, but he was just like Clint Brown. He, he could, and if you have never listened to Clint Brown before, go on and just type it into YouTube or into Apple Music or whatever, I don't know where you get your music from, but you will, you will listen to, and this is what this guy sounded like. He just very anointed whenever he, he could just worship like nobody else. And I loved, I would love to take him on the road with me. And whenever he worshiped, he would manifest heaven here on the earth. His heart was to worship. He, he loved the Lord immensely and he, you could, you could feel his, his passion for the Lord when he was worshiping, operating in his gift. And, and so I would take him on ministry trips with me and, and he would, he would set the atmosphere of, of worship. And, and this is really important, you know, that we're talking about this because, you know, you can set an atmosphere. And so I'm going to be doing a conference in, in at our church, our home church, and it's coming up.

15:04 And it's called Roots and Wings and there'll be more details coming out about it, but it's my, this September 20, 20th, 21st and 22nd, and we'll have a leadership luncheon as well. Roots, beef dinner will be served. It will be really good anyway. So I'm bringing my daughter in Sarah because she can set a prophetic atmosphere to, so I could prophetically preach and teach and it just makes it easier. And so you can create different atmospheres. This, this guy that I, a spiritual son, he was a son before you would, anybody was really called a spiritual son and now it's a little bit more common, but he would travel with me and I love this guy.

15:51 And I really didn't want anybody else to, to lead worship except for him because of the gift that he had was so amazing. So most every time he'd play his keyboard and, and he would just begin the worship, our risen savior and his presence would invade the room and every once in a while he'd just, he'd get out his soprano sax or, and he would just play it and, and, and it would just, oh my, my, my, the, the, the power, it was powerful and the presence of God was there. And, and as I'm sharing this with you today, I just want to say I miss him. Now, he was 37 years old when he passed away, just a few years ago. I cried out so many different times to the Lord of, of what could I've done better? How could I have served him better? How did I fail him? And, and it was very, very, it was, it was a tragedy. It was, it was awful. I miss him.

16:56 I loved him so much. I still love him. And as a spiritual father, you just kind of, even with my own children and, and different other spiritual kids, when they kind of mess up, you, you just think like, where did I miss it? How did, how could I've helped him better? What could I've done more? And, and I, you know, I, I tried, I tried and I would give him time and time again. We would, we would dust him off and get him back in the saddle again. And like, he was, he was snuffed out at such a young age. And it was, it was horrible and it was devastating and seemingly unfair. And he was robbed from his mom and his dad from us and from his baby. And, and just, he had so much to live for. He had so much that adventures that he could have been on. And, and ladies and gentlemen, he didn't, he didn't die of in a, in a dingy, dingy hotel, you know, strung out on drugs. He, he didn't, he wasn't an alcoholic. But I believe he died of a broken heart with, because he dealt with atmospheres that he did not and was not able to continue in the right one. He would, he would go into a, you know, service and he would worship and bring down

18:29 or and release the glory of God. And, and, and then he would, after he would be done and he would, maybe for a, you know, weekend or a few weeks, he'd be in some meetings because I just, I was not just mentoring him. He was actually with some of the great names, evangelists that were evangelizing all of North America at this time and even into different other places in the world that he was working with and, and they were trying to help him as well. And he was, he was just so gifted. But he would leave these meetings and then he didn't know how to create that atmosphere in his personal life. He would leave the secret place that he would be manifesting in these meetings. And then he would go to another secret place and, and he would, he would try to fulfill the lust of the, of his, of his desires or the appetites that were calling to him that he would, he would at times go to these other secret places and he would time and time again, he would, he would go into the he would go into the prayer, he would, he would sacrifice and spend time and, and just get clothed with the glory God and he, and ask God to forgive him. And then, and then he would go back and, and then he would, he'd be willing to sacrifice so that he could be in the presence, but his body

20:07 could not handle the different atmospheres that were being created at different times. And, and this is what ended up destroying him is because he lived in two different atmospheres and, and he would try to fulfill, like I said, the lust of the flesh, the appetites he created in his former days, he then would go back to that. And this is what the problem is. And, and I wanted to share a scripture with you and it's found in, in, in why I'm sharing the story with you. And it's a tragic, it's a tragic story. And, and we need to, but we need to learn from these things, because there's, there's opportunity for us to write the ship and, and, and use this story to help us to live a proper life and live a life of longevity, because we're not, we're not just here to be a fireworks, we're not to shoot up and do an explosion. And then that's the end of it. And, and then we're cat, you know, like Paul, the apostle says, I don't want to preach to the mass and then myself become a castaway. So this is, this is what, and if you're listening here and you're a leader, you know, you might want to pass this on to other people, because I know that this is an issue where people are living in a dichotomy, where they're living, they want to live for Christ.

21:34 I tell you my, my, this spiritual son that I, I tried raising up and other people tried helping and raising up and, and tried to help him be everything that God called him to be. We, you, you just have to learn how to do things. And it's not like I said, not like an explosion. It's not like, you know, we want to be this powerful thing. And then we fade away, you know, we burn out and fade away. No, it's not that it's long, this longevity of life that, that we need, we need to have, we need to fulfill the full amount of the calling of God on our lives. So please share this out to leaders if you can. But in 1 Samuel 15, 22, we have Saul who did not obey the Lord, and he saved these animals so that he can sacrifice them, he said. But God said to kill everything and do not save anything. And so God, God ends up saying this great thing. And we apply it to different other areas of our life. He says that God loves obedience more than he loves sacrifice. What does that mean in this topic of what we're talking about? You need to obey the Lord because I know, I know other ministers that they will, they will kind of do what they want to do in their lives. Not that they're

23:07 overtly like living in a, a life of debauchery or something like that, but they're living a life that is not exactly what they should be doing. Because all things are permissible, but nothing, not all things are lawful, but not all things are permissible. There are some things that, like my grandfather said to me, he says, Barry, others can, you can't. There's just certain things that I can't do. There's two significant things that God asked me to lay down in this season and probably forever that I cannot do that other people can do. What are you creating an appetite for?

23:49 You've got to stop doing some things that are creating an appetite which are creating an atmosphere and you're wondering why you can't have the victory that you need to have in this season. It's because your appetites need to change. You need to set your mind on the things that are above. You need to set your affections on the things of the Lord. You need to, you need to begin to change the way you think by the washing of the water of the Word of God. You got to transform your mind. You got to persistency and consistency in pressing into the things of the Lord is very important because God wants your obedience, which is your greatest weapon, more than he wants you to sacrifice.

24:38 And what does that mean? A lot of people, like I said, ministers will do what they want to do when they want to do it, who they want to do it, and then they'll come a time where they need to preach at church or a conference or something like that. And then they spend like hours in the trying to get back into that presence of the Lord where you're trying to always get back to some place. Instead of going from glory to glory, we go back and fulfill some of the things we want to do and take time off from the presence and fulfill some appetites of the flesh. And then we come back and then we try to get back to that place where we can minister. And I want to tell you, God loves just your consistent, obedient walk and creating appetites for him and the things of the spirit of God. And so that you can then go from glory to glory. I'm not, I'm not, I had to say this, right? I'm not special. As in, I'm God's favorite, but so are you, right? So I gotta do it the way everybody else does. Jesus had to do it the way we have to do it. We have to do it the way Jesus did it. He had to spend time. He created the atmosphere by his appetites, by spending time.

26:00 He was always spending time in seeking, seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. You will be filled with God if you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. You will be filled. You'll be filled with all the goodness of God. So be obedient in all of your days. And it takes time. I'm 57. I think I'm just maybe getting it right now. I'm looking at the best Barry. God's always fine tuning you and he will be fine tuning you and making you better. But can I offer you a little bit of my life so that you can understand that you don't have to waffle between two opinions. You don't have to get a little bit of the world and find my rest and some things of the world and try to take time off.

26:58 Taking time off is not removing yourself from the presence or the kingdom of God. When I'm on vacation, Tammy and I are still spending an hour in the presence of God, in the word of God, in devotion to God every morning. We don't take time off from that. That is our life. And that's the way we stay yoked up to him. And that's the way that I'm able to walk in victory is because of the appetites that I have developed. So we need to develop these appetites so that we can create the atmosphere. And this is what the Bible says. And we just turn to it here in Psalms chapter 27 verse 8 in the AMPC translation. It says, you have said, seek my face, inquire for and require my presence as your vital need. My heart says to you, your face, your presence, Lord, will I seek, inquire for and require of necessity and on the authority of your word.

28:11 So what is that saying? It's saying this to you today. Matthew 6.33 says, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. There is a a hunger that you need to have. That word seek there is really, really, really strong. And it says desire in 1 Corinthians 14.1. I think that's where it says desire, spiritual guests, pursue love, desire, spiritual guests, but especially that you prophesy that word desire there is the same word that we use for lust. It's lust after. And I know that's kind of creepy sounding because we think of lust as a really bad word, but it's just usually using a bad connotation.

29:01 But it actually just means the hunger for thirst for pursue love. I'm supposed to pursue love. I'm supposed to pursue God. God is love. I need to pursue his righteousness. I need to strongly desire spiritual gifts and especially that I would prophesy. He's telling us today, through those scriptures, and this one I just read in Psalms 27, 8, this is how you create the atmosphere. It is you got to seek. You got to see. Sorry. This is how you release the atmosphere of heaven into this realm is by seeking and creating an appetite for the things of God.

29:42 You need to ask God for a grace. And I just be created to clear over you today. I'd be created to clear over you a grace to create the atmospheres of heaven, to create the, an appetite to release the atmosphere of heaven. In Luke chapter 11 verse 2, it says, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. I got to make my spheres of influence and my metronome ministry. I got to make it just like heaven on earth. I got to have the atmosphere of heaven. And how do I do that? I create the proper appetites for the things of the world and ask God to give you a grace today. And I'd be created to clear over you today, a grace to repent all the way through that you're not fulfilling. There's been times where you have a fit of carnality where you have a, you're, you're, you're, you know, going after and you've been fulfilling the lust of the flesh. Why? Because you created an appetite for it. Stop it and begin to ask God to give you a grace to repent. You can't repent. You can't change the way you think, which is metanaeo in the Greek changing the way you think.

31:04 You can't do it without a grace. So I release to you a grace and ask God for a grace to change your appetites and give you a grace to repent for trying to fulfill and trying to be fulfilled by fulfilling the appetites of the flesh. What you spend time eating, what you spend time in, is what you will eventually become. And you need to become the atmosphere of heaven. You need to be the rivers of living water. So I'm really hoping this helps you today. I'm hoping that, that very sad story of someone that did none, could not. He had a wonderful, wonderful anointing and wonderful gifts. And you guys have all this potential. Don't squander it by running back to the, the, the dogs of vomit. That's what the Bible says. When you return to that, you're regurgitating something that is stinky and, and useless and, and has no value in it. Stop buying bread that cost you something. Go to God. He's got the bread of life. He's, he's, he's got the, the, the spirit, the, the, the rivers of living water that you can drink from. And the more you drink of these rivers and the more that you eat of the, of the bread of life, the more you're going to hunger for the things of the Lord. So your atmospheres that you want to live in. So the, the biosphere

32:44 or this, this realm that you want to create within the realm of the fallen world is you can create an atmosphere where you can be breathing heaven in the midst of the toxicity of the world. People are just trying to live there. And this is no condemnation. I'm just, this is a diagnosis and an answer to you. I'm not, I'm not, you know, discredited. I'm, I'm sorry. I'm not defaming anybody. I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm not trying to point anybody's faults out today. I'm just saying you can't live the life of the spirit and then live the, the life of the world and then try to live between the different realms. It doesn't work and it becomes havoc on your system. And so you need to make a decision to serve Christ and, and make a decision to live holy and live from your righteousness so that you can become holy and create, you can create your appetite that will manifest the presence and atmosphere of heaven here on this earth. Anyway, so bless you guys. Hopefully, like I said, that helped you. I just put up my banner here at the bottom here that you can connect with me. If you have any questions you want to, you want to deepen your relationship with us or you want to sow a seed into Take Charge Ministries, which is our, our charity that we have and that helps us, you know, to go around and preach the gospel.

34:21 But if you want to sow a seed, you can go to BarryMarical.ca. Love you guys. Hopefully, this is helpful. And, and I just am believing with you that you're going to create the proper appetites of the things of the Lord so that you can create the atmospheres that you and your family need to live in so that you can have the ability, the strength, the rock, the holy breath of God so that you can fulfill everything and be everything that God has called you to be. Amen. So bless you guys until next week. BarryMarical signing off.

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