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00:00:00You know that I believe that even that worship a song would be an anthem even in the seasons
00:00:24to come because the reason why we posture ourselves in prayer you see prayer is so
00:00:31powerful man and sometimes we we look at it as you know when everything else fails pray
00:00:41no you can send prayer into your future in the place of prayer you posture yourself to
00:00:48receive the prophetic flow of God to receive the mind of God and it's from that place that
00:00:56you know that that is where your confidence comes in because being a Christian is just
00:01:02not like a badge of honor the Bible says my people perish for lack of knowledge he didn't
00:01:10say the world he says my people and why is it that we perish for lack of knowledge because
00:01:17we're not coming to the place of seeking his face but when you posture yourself to hear
00:01:22from God and we're going to talk about this today when you posture yourself to hear from
00:01:27the Lord it anchors you in a way that you are not afraid you see I remember I there
00:01:33was this invitation that I received to speak in a war-torn country and I wouldn't lie when
00:01:40I saw it I said this cannot be my portion I'm just being honest my first thought was
00:01:47not that holy but immediately the Holy Spirit says if I'm sending you there I will protect
00:01:56you you see when you know where the Word of God is guiding you and leading you no matter
00:02:03the chaos around you you know you're covered you see this is so key for these times because
00:02:11you're going to hear so many things in the news you're going to hear and even some of
00:02:16the things that will be happening in the times to come already I'm experiencing where people
00:02:21are like listen I'm out of this country I'm moving to Europe Africa they're just finding
00:02:27different spots to move to but you have to know where is the Word of God guiding you
00:02:33to because you remember there was a man named Lot in the Bible and Lot had followed Abraham
00:02:40when the Lord called Abraham out of his father's house and all of that to a land that he would
00:02:44show him but there came a time where Abraham and his family and his staff and everyone
00:02:50they I mean when you come look at his and you look at lots day it was too much they
00:02:54needed to separate and so Abraham gave Lot first pick he said Lot look we are too many
00:03:03look around the land and choose for yourself where you would go and I will take the other
00:03:09when Lot looks up he looks for the land that is green pastures he looks for the land that
00:03:15looks like fertile ground this will be the place of abundance and increase he is judging
00:03:21it by his natural sight and so he picks that land and Abraham takes the other but Lot did
00:03:30not realize that even though what looked good today was already set for destruction in the
00:03:37times to come so you don't just pick things but out of your natural inclination because
00:03:45sometimes even the place that they're like man you should move to this city move to this
00:03:49state this is where it's happening did God send you there did the Word of God send you
00:03:56there because if God's Word is not anchoring you that is where fear has permission to come
00:04:02because faith was not what sent you in the first place so when we get to a place where
00:04:08we say Lord I fear no evil why because I'm also anchored by your word you see today I'm
00:04:14gonna be speaking to you from this thought that God speaks to you you see so often we we find
00:04:21ourselves we were like man I'm doing all the things but it feels like I can't hear the Word
00:04:25of God and with the time that we have I believe that you're gonna step into what the Lord you
00:04:31know ordained for this service and so I just thank you Lord have your way amen you may be seated now
00:04:38if you were here last week our pastor was teaching on build for the flood right and it
00:04:47was so beautiful because it was more so of his burden the burden that God has put in his heart
00:04:52about that we are coming into times of a flood that will come but not a flood like in the times
00:04:59of Noah because the Lord has showed us that look he's not going to do that again he gave us his
00:05:04promise even through the rainbow but a flood in the sense of a time where there is a great shaking
00:05:11but it would be the instructions you receive from the Lord that would be your protection and safety
00:05:17and so you're gonna see how many men and women of God have been sounding the alarm that people get
00:05:25ready something is coming but they're sounding the alarm not to cause fear or anxiety and not
00:05:32to make you wonder do I have what it takes to get ready no they're sounding the alarm because it is
00:05:38time for the church to be the light of the world it is time to be who Jesus formed and shaped you
00:05:45as and so it is a time to seek the face of God not just in the sense of self-preservation no God
00:05:54what is about to shift and what is about to take place see the Word of God says if my people who
00:06:01are called by my name will humble themselves and pray he doesn't put the weight of it on the world
00:06:07he says my people then he would respond and he would heal the land and so when we see times of
00:06:14great shaking it is for the church first not just the world that sometimes you you you see where
00:06:20there are moments where you know the church starts looking like the world and God's people you can't
00:06:26tell the difference between them and the people of the world and then the Lord allows a shaking
00:06:33for us to get back to who we were called and fashioned to be you see we see this all the way
00:06:39back even and this is not really my notes but we even see this all the way back to the first family
00:06:45when Adam and Eve had Cain and then they had Abel you have to recognize that first of all the woman
00:06:54was told she was giving this promise by God after she had they had fallen in sin and the promise was
00:07:01that her seed would crush the seed of the serpent but when the Lord is talking about the seed of the
00:07:08serpent he's talking about the workings of the enemy the things that took place on earth as a
00:07:14result of their fall and the seed of the woman that was being referred to was Jesus that God
00:07:21would come in the form of man to give us back our authority again that the authority that was taken
00:07:28for us from us will be restored unto us but you see the Lord is speaking from a place of an eternal
00:07:35perspective but this was to Eve she did not fully understand what this really meant it is possible
00:07:42that Eve was thinking that she was about to have a son who would be the one to fulfill that so when
00:07:48Eve had Cain she's like wow the Lord has given me a child that I have begotten a son from the Lord
00:07:56but you see there are things that the Lord is not limited in his in knowledge but we are and the
00:08:01enemy is and so the enemy also heard that word and so he's like wait hold up because um whoever
00:08:09that son is I need to get him on our side first so Cain when Cain is the one to open up the womb
00:08:17and start this family the enemy had his eyes set on Cain and so when Abel shows up and I encourage
00:08:26you to read this story because I want to get into my notes Abel shows up and then there was a time
00:08:30where they had to present offerings before the Lord and Cain brings an offering that the Lord
00:08:35rejects but the Lord is like look if you do well you will be accepted but then he tells him he says
00:08:41sin is at your door and it's and it's seeking its desire is for you sin had a personality in
00:08:49that moment because sin was referring to the enemy has a desire for you but then the Lord says to him
00:08:56boy you should rule over it don't let this consume you because you see from the very beginning it was
00:09:03always about image we were created in the image of God and the enemy was trying to see how can he
00:09:10take away from that and cause us to walk in his image and so he has his eyes set on Cain
00:09:19but Cain did not humble himself before the Lord he stayed in the place of pride and pride is at
00:09:27the root of every sin and because he stayed in the place of pride Cain became the first murderer
00:09:35on earth to kill another human but whose image does that look like
00:09:42Satan and the Bible will let her tell you that how Cain left the presence of God and built a
00:09:50civilization and if you study his lineage you will see that in his lineage were people who
00:09:59became the first to reflect different traits of the enemy different different attributes that
00:10:07were in rebellion against God in the lineage of Cain there was a son that was called Lamech
00:10:14and Lamech was the first polygamist in the Bible you see these were things these were
00:10:19attributes these were images outside of God's presence so there is always this war for image
00:10:28there is always this fight for image and sometimes we don't even realize where we
00:10:34lose our way and start blending in with what the enemy is after
00:10:41because that civilization that Cain built is what is now known as the world
00:10:47because it was a civilization outside the presence of God everything we were called
00:10:54to do was called to be done with God in his presence and so when we look at the world
00:11:01that's what the Bible says be in it but don't be of it because if you're in it then you are going
00:11:07to find comfort in doing things outside the presence of God you may come to church you may
00:11:13pray you may do things as religious check marks but the fruit of your life shows that you are
00:11:19living outside God's presence because your decisions have it doesn't have a consciousness
00:11:25of the Holy Spirit you just do whatever you feel like because you already know you calculate okay
00:11:32if I do this this way then this is the outcome even today I remember there was there are some
00:11:37folks I was talking to and they were talking about man you know if you're a lot if you're
00:11:41a young lady or a young guy and you're looking to get married these are the states to go to
00:11:45you're laughing because you've heard it you're like oh man L.A. oh child we got to pray you know
00:11:54but this is real talk I remember they were like yeah you know they they broke it down I said wow
00:12:01this is some wisdom right here so you know if you're looking for a guy that's like this you
00:12:06know you should go to D.C. you know if you're and I said wow this is so fascinating because we have
00:12:12found comfort in our intelligence we have created a narrative of how to live our lives
00:12:19outside the counsel of God because in his presence is where we get his counsel God I know that this
00:12:26is this is this state is where x y and z happens but do you have it for me there
00:12:32and so when there is a shaking the Lord is calling his people to get back in position and be the
00:12:39to get back in position and be the light and so we're going to see that you know what the truth
00:12:45of the matter is oftentimes we have this you know question about like wait how does God speak in x y
00:12:53and z but you even see it that the same way that God spoke to Noah and what I love about how God
00:12:59spoke to Noah when you study that chapter I mean it is so it is just gangster you know because
00:13:06literally the Bible goes from you know and God saw the world and he saw that it was filled with
00:13:12corruption and there's no pause that just this fluid transition and God said to Noah build an
00:13:18ark that tells you that they had this walking intimacy that Noah had this ability to easily
00:13:27discern the voice of God it was not his first encounter with God that God could see something
00:13:33and just have a conversation with Noah as he's looking he's like you know what Noah build this
00:13:38ark because I've seen that the earth is filled with violence and corruption and in that same
00:13:43way God can speak to you even right now the Holy Spirit can be speaking to you the problem is that
00:13:49we don't discern it the problem is that we are lacking the ability to discern his voice you see
00:13:57there are four primary ways that God will often speak that we experience the voice of God and I'm
00:14:01going to go through this very quickly because the key thing that God showed me is what I want to
00:14:05hit on but the first thing is that you have those who um you know I refer to them as the feelers
00:14:11right these are people that have this heightened sensitivity to the emotions of God you know some
00:14:18might wonder like does God have emotions absolutely the Bible will tell you about different types of
00:14:24emotions of God anger compassion you know love hate there are things that the Lord hates right
00:14:30and so when you are someone who you know when you can experience the voice of God as a feeler
00:14:36your your emotions are now surrendered to experience God's emotions concerning the thing
00:14:44so this is for example when people will say things like man I don't have peace on this
00:14:49right and you don't have peace on something that looks great on paper everything about it should be
00:14:55amazing but there is something that you're like man I don't feel peace on this because God is
00:14:59allowing you to experience the fact that he is not in it and but here is the thing too because
00:15:08you know Jesus would say I want to let's go to Philippians 4 7 the Bible would say and the peace
00:15:14of God which transcends all understanding actually no before we go there let's go to John 14 27
00:15:19Jesus would say peace I live with you my peace I give to you not as the world gives do I give you
00:15:27let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid now there is a peace that comes from God
00:15:33and there is a peace that comes from the world because just because you've sent I don't have
00:15:39peace on this is not the ultimate marker because you still have to vet it because the peace that
00:15:45comes from the world is the peace that you know is when you find comfort when nothing is shaking
00:15:51you're what you're after is to lessen your fears the voice of your fears because if there's a
00:15:58certain move that causes you to feel like man you know this is where's the money gonna come from how
00:16:03am I gonna do this how am I gonna pay this bill and x y and z and so you choose to settle for an
00:16:08option that makes you feel safer you see I read this quote and it talked about how comfort is
00:16:16worse than a prison cell that this illusion of comfort is actually worse and that really
00:16:25stood out to me because could you imagine and it gave me this idea I'm like can you imagine
00:16:30someone who is in prison and it's time for them to be released but they're like you know what my
00:16:36friends are here you know I got a job here it's cool three square mil I'm good you know just
00:16:45let me stay in my bunk there's a whole world out there waiting for you to experience but because
00:16:52what you've known for so long is this then it's like nah I'm good it's true story there was a
00:17:01time that a friend of mine got caught up in some stuff and they got arrested and they were really
00:17:06shaken about it and so I was like you know what I'm gonna come visit them that was my first time
00:17:11visiting you know someone in prison so there was this whole thing you have to get in the bus
00:17:16then the bus takes you there this whole thing when I was in the bus
00:17:20somebody was proposing to me an idea that was a crime
00:17:24I said am I being punked and I'm like literally I said I said you know we are on the way to
00:17:34the prison he's like yeah you know I just got out
00:17:40I said and you're trying to commit moral crimes and I'm like no I'm not I'm not
00:17:45I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not
00:17:53I said you're trying to commit more crime you're you're already negotiating your plans to commit more crime
00:18:00on the way and it baffled me I change seats I said I don't know if there are recording devices here
00:18:08I'm trying to go home after
00:18:12real talk I was so baffled I said how in the world is this man looking for his next partner in crime
00:18:21time. On the way to the prison.
00:18:29Because that has become all
00:18:30they've known. And so there is
00:18:32this false peace. It's when you
00:18:35can stay in the place of your
00:18:37safety and comfort. That is why
00:18:40even when Jesus is talking
00:18:41about my peace, I've given to
00:18:43you, he ends it with do not be
00:18:45afraid. Because even in the
00:18:47peace of God, your flesh could
00:18:50not surrender to God. So even
00:18:53when God gives you peace about
00:18:55a thing, if your flesh and your
00:18:57mind and your soul is not
00:18:59settled in his word, it could
00:19:01find fear. So the peace that
00:19:04comes from God is something
00:19:05different. It doesn't mean that
00:19:08it is the absence of chaos. And
00:19:10it doesn't mean that, you know,
00:19:12when the peace of God comes,
00:19:13everything is going to be
00:19:14beautiful. But it's
00:19:16transcending. That beyond what
00:19:18you know, this is going to work
00:19:19out for good. So there are
00:19:21those that have this sense,
00:19:23this ability, and this is for
00:19:24all of us, but for some, maybe
00:19:26it's more heightened. Then
00:19:27there are others who are called
00:19:28the knowers. Right? This is
00:19:30when you have this instinctive
00:19:32understanding of what you ought
00:19:34to do. No one told you. You
00:19:37don't know how to explain it.
00:19:39It doesn't make sense to you,
00:19:41but you know this is what you
00:19:42have to do. This is when the
00:19:44Bible talks about how, you
00:19:45know, that one of the fruits of
00:19:47the Holy, not fruits, one of
00:19:48the gifts of the Holy Spirit
00:19:50rather, is the gift of faith.
00:19:52This is when you have the
00:19:54ability to share in the faith
00:19:55of God. You just know
00:19:57everything about you is just
00:19:59amplified to do a thing. You
00:20:02see, when Jesus, when he
00:20:03would encounter the disciples,
00:20:05there's a moment when he
00:20:06encountered two of the
00:20:07disciples and they were
00:20:08fishing. And he literally
00:20:09tells them, you know what,
00:20:10drop your nets and follow me
00:20:12and I will make you fishes of
00:20:13men. And instinctively, before
00:20:16they even could recognize
00:20:17Jesus as the savior, they
00:20:20dropped their nets and
00:20:21followed him because there
00:20:23was a knowing so God can
00:20:25speak through your knower.
00:20:27And then there's also, you
00:20:29know, how many people have
00:20:30had what a thing called
00:20:31deja vu experiences? You see
00:20:34deja vu experiences are also
00:20:36connected to your inner
00:20:37knower. You see, when you
00:20:39have a deja vu experience,
00:20:41you know, sometimes people,
00:20:42this is where, you know, you
00:20:43have where false doctrine
00:20:45starts to come in and this
00:20:47deceitful thing about, is it
00:20:48from your past life? No,
00:20:50there's no past lives here.
00:20:52You know, you were not a
00:20:53butterfly in your past life.
00:20:58Deja vu experiences, it has
00:21:02nothing to do with your past
00:21:03life. It has to do with a
00:21:05known one, a known life before
00:21:07God. You see God in his all
00:21:10knowing nature, there are
00:21:12moments where, because a
00:21:14deja vu moment it's like, and
00:21:16oftentimes it's so random.
00:21:18It's not something that is
00:21:19always like this big moment.
00:21:20It's like you're at the
00:21:21grocery store and you're
00:21:22buying watermelon. And then
00:21:24it dawns on you like, wait, I
00:21:25feel like I've worn this
00:21:26before and I've been here
00:21:28before and I saw that person.
00:21:31And it's always sometimes in
00:21:33this the most random things
00:21:35that you're doing and it's
00:21:36like, whoa, that feels like a
00:21:37deja vu moment. What is it
00:21:39that God is communicating to
00:21:40you? It's an inner knower for
00:21:42you to realize that even though
00:21:44your life may feel random right
00:21:46now, even though it may feel
00:21:48like things are not working
00:21:49out, this season of your life
00:21:52is actually in alignment with
00:21:53what God knows. You see, there
00:21:58was something that David said
00:21:59in Psalms 139 verse 16. He
00:22:02says, your eyes saw my
00:22:04unformed body. All my, all the
00:22:07days ordained for me were
00:22:08written in your book before one
00:22:11of them came to be. So before
00:22:13I even stepped into my day,
00:22:15Lord, there was something you
00:22:16knew about my day. And
00:22:18sometimes as believers, we
00:22:20only think that our life is
00:22:22glorifying God when it's this
00:22:24glorified moment, when it's
00:22:26this big thing and you don't
00:22:28realize that even in the
00:22:29mundane, that that is also
00:22:32written in your story. You
00:22:34see, David's story did not
00:22:36start when he became king.
00:22:39When he was a shepherd boy
00:22:41cleaning up the sheep chasing
00:22:43after them, that was also
00:22:45written concerning him. And
00:22:47there are times where you need
00:22:48a little encouragement to know
00:22:50that what may feel like mundane
00:22:52and belittling and you feel as
00:22:54though God, do you see me? Do
00:22:56you hear me? You know, what is
00:22:58my life right now? He reminds
00:23:00you this moment, this season is
00:23:03actually in alignment. I saw
00:23:06this even before you came into
00:23:08this day. And that is why it's
00:23:10often very random. And it's
00:23:12like, wait, I feel like I've
00:23:14been here because you have
00:23:16there. It was written
00:23:18concerning you. And so the
00:23:20Lord begins to share what he
00:23:22knows about you with you in
00:23:24that moment. And then we call
00:23:26it a deja vu. Now, there are
00:23:28those who are, you know, the
00:23:30hearers and the hearer, they
00:23:32experience God through a voice,
00:23:34or inwardly. In the Old
00:23:36Testament, you know, it was more
00:23:38common for people to hear the
00:23:40audible voice of God because the
00:23:42Holy Spirit was resting upon
00:23:44people. He had not come in
00:23:46them. And so when he's upon
00:23:48you, your, you know, your
00:23:50natural senses are more
00:23:52heightened. When he's within
00:23:54you, your spiritual senses are
00:23:56more heightened. And so that is
00:23:58why sometimes, you know, when
00:24:00people talk about, you know,
00:24:02because the Lord can speak to
00:24:04you through, you know, a
00:24:06thought or a series of thoughts,
00:24:08and that is how it's translated
00:24:10to your soul because when
00:24:12spirit-to-spirit speaks, then
00:24:14your spirit translates that to
00:24:16your soul as thoughts. That's
00:24:18why I don't know how many people
00:24:20were here. There was a demonstration
00:24:22I did with Pastor Ebenezer. You
00:24:24know, if I'm speaking to you in
00:24:26the natural, when I'm speaking
00:24:28to you, I'm speaking to you
00:24:30as a thought. In the spiritual
00:24:32realm, if you've ever had an
00:24:34encounter with an angel or things
00:24:36like that, they don't speak with
00:24:38words. It's spirit-to-spirit.
00:24:40And then your spirit
00:24:42translates that to you
00:24:44through your thoughts. So then
00:24:46there are these ideas that come
00:24:48up in your mind. That is why
00:24:50the Bible, there is always this
00:24:52warfare concerning the mind
00:24:54because this is the language of
00:24:56spirits. So even when the
00:24:58angel speaks to you, he can't
00:25:00read your mind, but he can send
00:25:02a word to you, but then you're
00:25:04receiving it as a thought, but
00:25:06you think it's your own, but it's
00:25:08not. That is why you must
00:25:10have a guard over your mind.
00:25:12You have to think about what
00:25:14you're thinking about to know who
00:25:16put it there. Because God
00:25:18did not create you to be against
00:25:20yourself. And the enemy
00:25:22does not speak in ways that he
00:25:24will say, hey guys, I'm Satan.
00:25:26His greatest
00:25:28tactic is to masquerade
00:25:30himself as you.
00:25:32So when he's speaking to you, he's speaking
00:25:34in first person.
00:25:36So that you would think you're
00:25:38the one thinking it.
00:25:40There's sometimes that you start telling
00:25:42yourself like, man, I'm so depressed, I'm
00:25:44so lonely, I'm so this. That
00:25:46is him speaking to you.
00:25:48That's why you have to catch and say, oh
00:25:50no, I rebuke you, Satan.
00:25:52I am not the one thinking
00:25:54about myself.
00:25:56And so when spirits speak,
00:25:58they speak and it's translated
00:26:00to us in our flesh as our
00:26:02thoughts. Translated to your soul
00:26:04rather as your thoughts. And so
00:26:06those are the hearers. And then we
00:26:08have the seers. This is
00:26:10where natural and spiritual side comes
00:26:12in. You see in the natural,
00:26:14not everything you see is
00:26:16as it is.
00:26:18Even right now, there are angels
00:26:20in the room. But there are times
00:26:22when God will permit you to
00:26:24or he will give you the permission
00:26:26for your eyes to be open because
00:26:28there's a purpose in you seeing it.
00:26:30If you've never seen the supernatural
00:26:32in the natural, it does not mean
00:26:34that your walk with God is any less.
00:26:36But everything God does is with
00:26:38intentionality. So if there is
00:26:40a purpose for you to see it in that
00:26:42moment, then he can
00:26:44open your eyes, especially when you're
00:26:46surrendered. It's not
00:26:48just random that you're living your life anyhow
00:26:50Just open my eyes. No. When you're
00:26:52surrendered, then if you're a vessel that
00:26:54is needed for that moment, God
00:26:56can open your eyes to see in the natural
00:26:58things that are beyond
00:27:00the general natural
00:27:02side. That was what happened
00:27:04even if you remember with the prophet
00:27:06Elisha. When they surrounded
00:27:08him and the servant
00:27:10is panicking and the
00:27:12servant is like, you know, my father,
00:27:14my father, the chariots are
00:27:16here. And what does he do?
00:27:18He prays. He says, Lord
00:27:20open his eyes because
00:27:22Elisha could already see
00:27:24what was happening. What was
00:27:26surrounding them that look
00:27:28you think these men are surrounding us.
00:27:30You have not seen the angels
00:27:32surrounding these men
00:27:34and because of that, if they try
00:27:36to touch us by God's command,
00:27:38they could wipe them out all right now.
00:27:40So Elisha prays and
00:27:42his eyes are opened. But then
00:27:44there is spiritual sight
00:27:46and something I would also say about
00:27:48natural sight is, you know,
00:27:50when God opens
00:27:52your eyes, you can also
00:27:54see the dark side of things
00:27:56and I just feel that's important
00:27:58to say because I just sense that there's
00:28:00someone listening and
00:28:02you know, there are things that
00:28:04your sight is activated
00:28:06and but it scares you
00:28:08and actually not
00:28:10even that it's activated. It
00:28:12was activated and then you saw a lot
00:28:14of things that were in the demonic
00:28:16and you were like, God, I don't want it anymore
00:28:18and it literally and he shut it down.
00:28:20But what I want to encourage
00:28:22you, I don't know who that person is for, but the
00:28:24Holy Spirit just interrupted there. I want
00:28:26to encourage you that whatever
00:28:28God allows you to see
00:28:30that is governed by the Holy Spirit.
00:28:32Not when you start doing
00:28:34weird stuff to seeing the spirit.
00:28:36Okay, that's a different
00:28:38spirit allowing you to do that and
00:28:40it wants access. But
00:28:42and the Holy Spirit governs
00:28:44your ability to see whatever
00:28:46you see cannot harm you.
00:28:48But
00:28:50God is allowing you to
00:28:52see it for there is an information
00:28:54he's sending to you. There are things he wants you
00:28:56to see so that you know how to war and prayer
00:28:58differently. You know how to
00:29:00intercede differently. Not that it
00:29:02can harm you. No.
00:29:04But that you know a strategy.
00:29:06There's a strategy that you begin
00:29:08to walk in because he starts showing
00:29:10what things look like in the spirit.
00:29:12I remember one time there was
00:29:14I went to this
00:29:16Airbnb and I
00:29:18just felt like choked.
00:29:20You know like it didn't make sense
00:29:22and I started feeling sad and depressed
00:29:24and I didn't even realize
00:29:26it was a very interesting time in my life. So I didn't go into
00:29:28the Airbnb started praying on you know
00:29:30praying over the place. No, I was just tired
00:29:32in that season of my life.
00:29:34And I remember I just felt
00:29:36so depressed in that place and I was like
00:29:38Oh my God. Oh, this place is choking.
00:29:40I want to leave and he tells me stay
00:29:42and I was so angry. I remember
00:29:44calling one of my best friends and I was crying. I'm like
00:29:46why would God tell me to stay here and
00:29:48this place is choking me up.
00:29:52And then immediately God opens
00:29:54my eyes and I see
00:29:56this demon and he
00:29:58was massive just
00:30:00like I mean
00:30:02there's this figure I'm trying to remember
00:30:04I don't know what movie he was in but
00:30:06there's this really like
00:30:08enormous being
00:30:10disgusting looking and
00:30:12like fat is not the word
00:30:14you know fat can sound offensive but
00:30:16who he was huge. Okay
00:30:18and I was like
00:30:20what is happening and the Lord said
00:30:22that is what the spirit of depression
00:30:24looks like and
00:30:26when you don't realize it when
00:30:28you submit to it, it
00:30:30takes up more space and more
00:30:32space and more space
00:30:34and that is why there are times that you might be experiencing
00:30:36depression. You go out
00:30:38everything is fine. The moment you go back home
00:30:40it's right there it says hi
00:30:42because the more you surrender
00:30:44to it then the place feels
00:30:46choked up and I'm like but God what is
00:30:48happening here? He says the person who
00:30:50owns this, this is what they're
00:30:52dealing with and
00:30:54so without you even knowing
00:30:56you walked in you didn't even pray all of a
00:30:58sudden you felt sad and you agreed with
00:31:00the sadness and it took over the space
00:31:02little by little little by
00:31:04little but this spirit
00:31:06looked disgusting. It
00:31:08was not to scare me. It was
00:31:10for God to say now you have insight on how
00:31:12to pray. First of all come out
00:31:14of agreement you are not depressed
00:31:16there is a spirit occupying
00:31:18this place space
00:31:20now secondly cast it out
00:31:22it's not to scare you
00:31:24it's to equip you. Amen
00:31:26now
00:31:28when
00:31:30we talk about spiritual
00:31:32sight this is where we talk about
00:31:34dreams and visions
00:31:36now I recently taught about
00:31:38I taught on you know activating your spiritual
00:31:40senses and we talked about how
00:31:42visions are when there is visual
00:31:44imagery that is used to reveal mysteries
00:31:46while you're awake while dreams is
00:31:48the same thing but that happens while
00:31:50you're asleep. Now the book I
00:31:52wrote on the power of your dreams the
00:31:54reason that the Lord began to
00:31:56show me to emphasize
00:31:58the dream realm there are many
00:32:00things that I talk about in the book but there are three
00:32:02key reasons that I want to share with you today
00:32:04and number one is because
00:32:06your spirit never sleeps
00:32:08you see your body
00:32:10needs rest but your
00:32:12spirit is always awake
00:32:14and your spirit always has the
00:32:16ability to commune with God
00:32:18and so even when your body
00:32:20is resting the Holy Spirit
00:32:22can continue to commune with
00:32:24you and you receive it as
00:32:26that is why in the
00:32:28word of God you know let's look at Solomon
00:32:30for example when God
00:32:32encounters Solomon in a dream he's
00:32:34encountering Solomon's spirit
00:32:36because he's having a real conversation
00:32:38with Solomon he meets
00:32:40Solomon, Solomon is king and he says you
00:32:42know what Solomon what is it that you would want me
00:32:44to do for you and Solomon
00:32:46says give me a wise and understanding
00:32:48heart that I may know
00:32:50how to govern this people so great
00:32:52that was his real response
00:32:54his body is asleep
00:32:56but his spirit is not
00:32:58and so in the dream
00:33:00now he's having this conversation
00:33:02with God and God
00:33:04says you know what because this is
00:33:06what you asked for you didn't ask for your enemies
00:33:08you didn't ask for any of this I will give
00:33:10you that and so much more and everything
00:33:12else you did not ask for
00:33:14Solomon wakes up because this is a kind of dream
00:33:16you call an impartation dream
00:33:18it has already been imparted it is
00:33:20done Solomon wakes up
00:33:22and all of a sudden
00:33:24his understanding changes
00:33:26when matters are brought before him
00:33:28he has a different wisdom and intelligence
00:33:30about it because the Lord has
00:33:32imparted wisdom and then
00:33:34all of a sudden things are happening his
00:33:36wisdom is causing increase in
00:33:38his life and people he just
00:33:40he became so wealthy
00:33:42why a word has gone
00:33:44forth the word was
00:33:46released in a dream but it was in the spirit
00:33:48realm and because that
00:33:50word was released increase
00:33:52was attracted to Solomon
00:33:54there was a favor on his life
00:33:56that drew in abundance
00:33:58the same thing God can give you
00:34:00a warning dream there are things
00:34:02where it could feel
00:34:04like a parable of a kind
00:34:06you know where they're like you're looking
00:34:08at images and you're like God this doesn't make sense
00:34:10but it is a spirit encountering
00:34:12your spirit and it's the
00:34:14same with how Jesus will sometimes speak in
00:34:16parables but then in the place of
00:34:18intimacy he would explain the parable
00:34:20that's why the
00:34:22word of God says it is a glory
00:34:24of the Lord to hide a thing
00:34:26and it is a glory of kings
00:34:28to search it out sometimes
00:34:30it is the pleasure of God to give
00:34:32you a message that is coded in
00:34:34something else because as you
00:34:36search it out in the place of intimacy
00:34:38not only do you understand
00:34:40the message but you grow in your walk
00:34:42with God so he's not
00:34:44hiding it to confuse you
00:34:46he's not hiding it to play hide and seek
00:34:48he's hiding it for your
00:34:50good and for your growth
00:34:52that as you come in his presence
00:34:54the revealing of the message
00:34:56also brings out of you
00:34:58it builds you up in him
00:35:00and so dreams
00:35:02are powerful because one
00:35:04your spirit never sleeps
00:35:06number two you get to redeem time
00:35:08something that shocked me
00:35:10was the average amount of time
00:35:12that a person sleeps
00:35:14research actually says you sleep
00:35:16the average person sleeps for 26
00:35:18years of their life
00:35:20some of you right here are not even up to 26
00:35:22can you
00:35:24imagine for 26
00:35:26years of your life
00:35:28outside of the word of God
00:35:30what kind of
00:35:32life would you be living
00:35:34because his word is your manual
00:35:36his word is your guide
00:35:38so 26
00:35:40years outside of his word
00:35:42so this is what allows you to
00:35:44redeem time
00:35:46that even as I'm asleep Lord
00:35:48commune with me
00:35:50reveal things to me if there's a path that I'm
00:35:52walking that you did not send me on
00:35:54expose it
00:35:56you see Abraham Lincoln when he was
00:35:58president
00:36:00before he was assassinated
00:36:02he had a dream of being told
00:36:04that he was assassinated
00:36:06but if he had a Daniel
00:36:08in his camp
00:36:10someone that understood the power
00:36:12of dreams they would have told him
00:36:14Mr. President cancel everything
00:36:16you have going on this week
00:36:18but he has the dream he talks about
00:36:20the dream he's like literally in the dream
00:36:22he's walking he's hearing people mourning
00:36:24and he's like why
00:36:26are they mourning
00:36:28and then when he goes and he's like hey what's going on
00:36:30they tell him the president has been
00:36:32assassinated that was a warning
00:36:34dream from God
00:36:36because could it be that
00:36:38in the Lord's in the perfect
00:36:40will of God he desired for him to stay
00:36:42longer in that seat
00:36:44but then there was a
00:36:46threat against his life and the Lord is trying
00:36:48to bring a warning to him
00:36:50but there was no reverence for it
00:36:52so he continued
00:36:54his activities as usual
00:36:56and that week he was assassinated
00:37:00you see there are things that when you start to take
00:37:02it serious dreams are not just this random
00:37:04thing in your dreams
00:37:06the Lord is communion with you
00:37:08it's communication
00:37:10sometimes it's God starting the conversation
00:37:12or continuing one with you
00:37:14and the third thing family
00:37:16is that dreams and visions are
00:37:18a language of the last days
00:37:20Acts 2 17 says
00:37:22in the last days God says
00:37:24I will pour out my spirit
00:37:26on all people
00:37:28your sons and daughters will prophesy
00:37:30your young men will see visions
00:37:32your old men
00:37:34will dream dreams
00:37:36now what is so fascinating about
00:37:38this now the last days was marked
00:37:40by the outpouring the release of the Holy
00:37:42Spirit but it says because
00:37:44of the release of the Holy Spirit
00:37:46now you'll be able to prophesy
00:37:48to prophesy is to speak
00:37:50forth the mind of God
00:37:52but then the two key streams
00:37:54it follows up with is dreams
00:37:56and visions
00:37:58because when it says your young men
00:38:00shall have visions and your old men shall dream
00:38:02dreams this was not about age
00:38:04there was a mystery in this that I believe
00:38:06that we would even be able to unpack
00:38:08maybe for the sake of time of the second
00:38:10service but there was a mystery
00:38:12in this that through
00:38:14dreams and visions there is a prophetic
00:38:16stream that allows
00:38:18the mind of God to be revealed
00:38:20to you and that
00:38:22this will be heightened through the power
00:38:24of the Holy Spirit
00:38:26do you know that the book of Revelation
00:38:28is not actually called Revelation
00:38:30it's called the Revelation
00:38:32of Jesus Christ
00:38:34and that is a
00:38:36book that was revealed through
00:38:38a vision
00:38:40that the Revelation of Jesus
00:38:42Christ was given to an
00:38:44apostle named John through a
00:38:46vision and so this is why
00:38:48there is such I
00:38:50recognize the emphasis that
00:38:52God places on the seeing realm
00:38:54but here is the key thing that
00:38:56the Lord wanted me to touch on
00:38:58and the problem is
00:39:00but how do I discern his voice
00:39:02because God speaks
00:39:04you will be shocked how much
00:39:06God is speaking to you
00:39:08but that the problem is you don't
00:39:10discern when he speaks
00:39:12and this is what the Lord showed me
00:39:14that often times
00:39:16people are practicing intimacy
00:39:18as a formula
00:39:20and not a lifestyle
00:39:22intimacy
00:39:24is not
00:39:26every third week
00:39:28or every third week of the month
00:39:30I'm going to fast
00:39:32but then the rest of the month
00:39:34I just do life how I choose
00:39:36intimacy is not
00:39:38this formula
00:39:40intimacy is a life
00:39:42separated onto God
00:39:44it is your life
00:39:46it is not the
00:39:48things I do to hear from God
00:39:50because there are some of you
00:39:52and you're like God I've been praying
00:39:54and fasting I can't seem to
00:39:56hear your word because you're
00:39:58treating it like a formula
00:40:00but it is a life
00:40:02separated onto God
00:40:04you see one of the things that marked
00:40:06the life of Noah
00:40:08was that Noah walked
00:40:10with God so when the
00:40:12word of God came to him it was so
00:40:14fluid God sees
00:40:16he's like you know what there's violence and corruption
00:40:18on the earth boom the scripture goes
00:40:20and God said to Noah
00:40:22Noah walked with God
00:40:24one of the biggest problems that we're
00:40:26seeing today in the life of
00:40:28Christians is that they are
00:40:30treating their relationship with God
00:40:32through the perspective of a formula
00:40:34you see 2nd Corinthians
00:40:36617 says therefore
00:40:38come out from them and be
00:40:40separate says the Lord
00:40:42touch no unclean thing
00:40:44and I will receive you
00:40:46where there is separation
00:40:48there is restraint
00:40:50I remember always
00:40:52wondering you know God why
00:40:54would you put the tree of the knowledge
00:40:56of good and evil in the garden
00:40:58as a kid I'll be
00:41:00honest with you I said God I think I think I should
00:41:02blame you
00:41:04because if that tree was never there
00:41:06we would not be in this problem
00:41:08I think you're playing with us
00:41:12when the Lord began to show me
00:41:14that there is no true
00:41:16intimacy
00:41:18without restraint
00:41:20and so even in the
00:41:22garden of Eden
00:41:24that tree was symbolic
00:41:26to restraint
00:41:28that if I am going to be separated
00:41:30onto God there must be
00:41:32something that I'm that even
00:41:34when my flesh desires it
00:41:36I can yield to the
00:41:38restraint of the Holy Spirit
00:41:40it's not everything
00:41:42that seems good is something that you should
00:41:44just do
00:41:46let's not even go to the things that we know
00:41:48are bad the things
00:41:50that we know that Lord I need to
00:41:52walk away I need to repent from
00:41:54this but your lifestyle
00:41:56is there
00:41:58restraint in how you live
00:42:00does your life
00:42:02represent that you know what that there is
00:42:04something that governs how
00:42:06I walk how I live how I talk
00:42:08the decisions I make
00:42:10there is something beyond me that governs
00:42:12it and that is my relationship
00:42:14with God
00:42:16that you don't just make decisions because
00:42:18you can but that
00:42:20you seek first the counsel of God
00:42:22that before you make
00:42:24a move about your life you're seeking
00:42:26his counsel
00:42:28that even though you are tempted to do
00:42:30something that feels good in your flesh
00:42:32you're like you know what Lord I
00:42:34belong to you
00:42:36so I'm going to yield
00:42:38because there are moments where the Holy
00:42:40Spirit is literally restraining
00:42:42and it's telling you don't do that
00:42:44don't go there
00:42:46don't get involved with this
00:42:48but then because we're just like you know what
00:42:50we have this formula mindset
00:42:52we don't call it that but that is
00:42:54what the fruit is
00:42:56we're like you know what I'm just going to dabble
00:42:58and then I'm going to come to God and I'm like
00:43:00God this is the last time I'm sorry
00:43:02but you don't realize
00:43:04that you're not fooling the Lord
00:43:06God cannot be mocked
00:43:08oftentimes the people
00:43:10the person we're deceiving is
00:43:12ourselves
00:43:14because if and that's why Jesus
00:43:16would even say if you love
00:43:18me keep
00:43:20my commandments
00:43:22Jesus did not say if you love me
00:43:24shout it to the world
00:43:26if you love me let everybody in your
00:43:28neighborhood know he said no no no
00:43:30because you can give lip service
00:43:32and then if they
00:43:34copy your lifestyle it will not lead them
00:43:36to where you think you're going
00:43:38so Jesus says
00:43:40if you love me
00:43:42keep my commandments
00:43:44to keep his commandments means there are other things
00:43:46that you may desire to do but you are
00:43:48restrained
00:43:50you see what God began to show me
00:43:52is that we have to be people
00:43:54that yield to the restraint
00:43:56of the Holy Spirit
00:43:58there were times that even the apostles
00:44:00want to preach somewhere
00:44:02and the Holy Spirit will restrain
00:44:04them the Holy Spirit
00:44:06will tell them no you cannot go there
00:44:08preaching is a good thing
00:44:10it's a beautiful thing but the Bible says
00:44:12you know spread the gospel to the ends
00:44:14of the earth and here we are trying to go
00:44:16preach the gospel and the Holy Spirit says
00:44:18no but you yield
00:44:20to it because Lord
00:44:22my life is not my own
00:44:24I belong to you
00:44:26when you begin to see
00:44:28intimacy as separation
00:44:30unto God
00:44:32that I cannot live a life that everybody
00:44:34else is living if the
00:44:36counsel of God is not for me to do those
00:44:38things when you begin
00:44:40to see that that's when the
00:44:42scripture becomes your reality
00:44:44when it says that the secret
00:44:46things belong to those
00:44:48who fear God
00:44:50there are things that God
00:44:52wants to show you
00:44:54but you have no reverence for him
00:44:56and so you have not
00:44:58arrived at the place
00:45:00where secret things are revealed
00:45:02secret things are not
00:45:04just revealed because we have we pray
00:45:06we do things and then we're like God please show me
00:45:08show me show me secret
00:45:10things are revealed because there is a reverence
00:45:12we have for God
00:45:14and it is from that reverence
00:45:16we know how to yield to his restraint
00:45:18when you have
00:45:20respect to fear the Lord is not like
00:45:22this you know fear that brings
00:45:24anxiety no no no it's a fear
00:45:26that Lord I respect you
00:45:28I see you you
00:45:30are the priority of my life
00:45:32and because I see
00:45:34you in that manner Lord God
00:45:36yes there are things that I would like to do but
00:45:38because your word says no I
00:45:40will yield to the
00:45:42restraint of the Holy Spirit
00:45:44I'm not called to just
00:45:46do anything
00:45:48I'm not called to just be everywhere
00:45:50and I'm not the one
00:45:52I'm not called to just live in my flesh
00:45:54because
00:45:56the flesh there is you know there's a
00:45:58scripture this blew my mind
00:46:00when the Lord said
00:46:02to Adam about eating the fruit
00:46:04of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
00:46:06he says in the day you eat it
00:46:08you shall surely die
00:46:10and I was like
00:46:12man but God they didn't die
00:46:14but when you study that word
00:46:16it says in dying you
00:46:18shall die what was God
00:46:20speaking about that the
00:46:22flesh that the day you eat it that is
00:46:24when you become flesh
00:46:26and flesh is the lowest
00:46:28level of man
00:46:30to live in your flesh is already
00:46:32one layer of death
00:46:34that is
00:46:36why the word of God was said the flesh
00:46:38profits you nothing
00:46:40so you cannot say that
00:46:42man I'm a child of God
00:46:44but you have no restraint
00:46:46you give into every temptation
00:46:48every appetite
00:46:50you give into it
00:46:52that is not how we walk as kingdom people
00:46:54when the Holy Spirit
00:46:56is tugging at your heart
00:46:58you yield
00:47:00because here is the thing I'm learning about
00:47:02obedience to God
00:47:04obedience is a step
00:47:06when there is an
00:47:08area of your life that you're
00:47:10playing with
00:47:12when there's an area of your life that you're just like
00:47:14God I could do it later I could do it here I could do it
00:47:16there no matter what
00:47:18progress looks like in the natural
00:47:20in the spiritual realm you're
00:47:22not obedient
00:47:24because obedience is a step
00:47:26when you do what the
00:47:28Lord says you should do that is when you have
00:47:30movement in the spirit
00:47:32and that is why because you see family
00:47:34this is so critical because your life
00:47:36the Bible talks about you know for everything
00:47:38there is a time and a season
00:47:40your life is locked up in times
00:47:42and seasons
00:47:44it's not just through the things you do day
00:47:46by day no there is a season
00:47:48that is marked concerning your life
00:47:50there are seasons marked and there are things
00:47:52that you should step into in different seasons
00:47:54of your life
00:47:56but obedience is what opens
00:47:58the door from season to season
00:48:00and when you
00:48:02are dancing around and doing
00:48:04things your way because you're
00:48:06just like well God I'm just going to come back and say
00:48:08Lord I'm sorry and then you do the same
00:48:10cycle over and over again
00:48:12that is not repentance
00:48:14because repentance it's a mind
00:48:16shift is that in your
00:48:18in your mind you're like God
00:48:20I'm dropping this
00:48:22that even if you do it you're shocked
00:48:24at yourself
00:48:26but then we find ourselves doing
00:48:28things and we're not we don't even feel
00:48:30convicted we're like man God trust me
00:48:32it's my last time
00:48:34there's no
00:48:36care because
00:48:38it's just a habit
00:48:40but when you truly repent you come
00:48:42before God and you're like you know what I'm done
00:48:44because I want to be really
00:48:46serious about this walk with you
00:48:48you see it is to those
00:48:50people that
00:48:52secret things would be revealed
00:48:54they would become the
00:48:56light of the world that Jesus
00:48:58calls you to be
00:49:00you are called to be separated
00:49:02you're not called to be of
00:49:04the world but to be
00:49:06separated I want to
00:49:08encourage everyone to study
00:49:10the life the lineage
00:49:12of Cain and study the
00:49:14story of Cain it would
00:49:16really open your eyes to realize
00:49:18that from the very beginning
00:49:20this was always about
00:49:22representing an image
00:49:24that sometimes
00:49:26what you think is just casual
00:49:28fun and just
00:49:30doing you that is under
00:49:32a kingdom and not
00:49:34the kingdom of God
00:49:36Cain literally
00:49:38the Bible says and Cain came left
00:49:40the presence of God and
00:49:42he went and built a city
00:49:44and that city began to expand
00:49:46expand and a whole
00:49:48civilization was born
00:49:50and that civilization
00:49:52is what we know as the world
00:49:54be separate
00:49:56from the world
00:49:58there are things God wants to show you
00:50:00there are things that God wants to tell you
00:50:02God speaks to you
00:50:04but you have to discern his voice
00:50:06and so
00:50:08family I want us
00:50:10to pray but
00:50:12even as you stand with me
00:50:14I want this to be
00:50:16a very sober and honest moment
00:50:18for you
00:50:22you see there are many
00:50:24things that while I was in the place of
00:50:26prayer the Lord
00:50:28began to show me
00:50:30and my prayer
00:50:32one of my
00:50:34my primary prayers when it
00:50:36comes to our community
00:50:38is that God show them who they are
00:50:40in you
00:50:42open their eyes to see
00:50:44to see themselves
00:50:46like you do
00:50:48that they would not fall
00:50:50into deception I pray that
00:50:52for myself too
00:50:54you see I'm telling you things
00:50:56that I'm also learning to walk in
00:50:58these things don't come
00:51:00easy it's not
00:51:02like oh my gosh this is easy for some
00:51:04no it's about
00:51:06dependency
00:51:08it's about knowing that Lord
00:51:10even when it feels hard
00:51:12to say no
00:51:14what gives me
00:51:16the power to walk away
00:51:18is that my eyes are on Jesus
00:51:24and so you cannot look at intimacy
00:51:26as this formula you create when you
00:51:28need a word
00:51:30and then you get frustrated when the word
00:51:32doesn't come
00:51:34because your life
00:51:36separated unto God
00:51:38your life
00:51:40everything about you
00:51:42should be separated unto God
00:51:44the decisions you make
00:51:46how you live your life
00:51:48the things you do
00:51:50seeking the counsel of God before you
00:51:52take a step
00:51:54God are you in this with me
00:51:56the places
00:51:58the areas of your life that you struggle
00:52:00with temptation
00:52:02that's why some things I've said this
00:52:04before some things is not that it's
00:52:06an irresistible impulse
00:52:08it's an impulse
00:52:10it's just not resisted
00:52:12the moment the impulse
00:52:14comes you give in
00:52:16but there is the power to resist
00:52:18but you don't want
00:52:20to yield to that power
00:52:22because you are more
00:52:24you have more
00:52:26you know experience
00:52:28with the taste of that thing
00:52:30like just this one more time
00:52:32not realizing
00:52:34you're shutting off your ability
00:52:36to discern his voice
00:52:38you're disconnecting yourself
00:52:40to the source of life
00:52:42because every time you live
00:52:44according to the flesh
00:52:46the spirit takes a back seat
00:52:50God wants you
00:52:52to live separate
00:52:54unto him
00:52:56and what I want to pray for in this moment
00:52:58is true
00:53:00repentance
00:53:02if you realize that
00:53:04you are one who it's like
00:53:06when you do the thing the thing that you
00:53:08told the Lord you wouldn't do again
00:53:10the next time you did it
00:53:12you had no shock
00:53:14you were just like oh man here we go
00:53:16Lord forgive me
00:53:18that's not
00:53:20it was never repentance in the first
00:53:22place it was lip service
00:53:24it was religious activity
00:53:26true
00:53:28repentance is when in your heart you're like
00:53:30God this is it
00:53:32I don't
00:53:34want to live a life of deception
00:53:36I don't want
00:53:38to live a life of death
00:53:40living according to the appetite of your
00:53:42flesh is death there is nothing
00:53:44that profits you there
00:53:46you don't represent
00:53:48you're not represented as the light
00:53:50of the world that you should be
00:53:52that is why
00:53:54I say amen my people because there are
00:53:56people who have said yes to Jesus yet
00:53:58they're living in ignorance
00:54:00of what it means to walk with Jesus
00:54:02so God is like
00:54:04my people perish that is
00:54:06that is a dangerous word
00:54:08perish
00:54:10and why for lack
00:54:12of knowledge
00:54:14because they started and they stopped
00:54:16and all right
00:54:18I have my salvation badge
00:54:20but they don't
00:54:22what it means to walk with God
00:54:24to walk with God is a life separated
00:54:26onto God that's
00:54:28why Noah in a time that
00:54:30the Bible literally talks about the whole
00:54:32world was filled with violence
00:54:34the whole earth
00:54:36but in the midst of that
00:54:38Noah was a blameless
00:54:40man
00:54:42how is the whole earth filled
00:54:44with violence but Noah
00:54:46was blameless why
00:54:48he was separated
00:54:50he knew
00:54:52I'm in this world but I'm not of y'all
00:54:54I'm of the kingdom
00:54:56he knew
00:54:58what it meant to live a life
00:55:00separate unto God
00:55:02that regardless of the influence
00:55:04and the temptation in the air
00:55:06he was living separate
00:55:08you see in every territory
00:55:10there is something that rules over
00:55:12that territory that wants to
00:55:14get you to live according to the world
00:55:17but if you don't have the
00:55:19consciousness of separation
00:55:21you wouldn't even know when you gave in
00:55:23I was in New York
00:55:25yesterday and I remember we were talking
00:55:27to you know the people we were
00:55:29with and there was this gentleman who
00:55:31literally you know he left
00:55:33New York and he moved to Dallas
00:55:35and he was like man this is the
00:55:37best decision I've made and I
00:55:39asked him a question because people in New York were
00:55:41telling me they were like man in New York everybody
00:55:43has like at least two jobs
00:55:45because they're trying to keep up
00:55:47with the cost of living
00:55:49and because they're working
00:55:51so much they don't have enough time
00:55:53to spend with the Lord I said no this is
00:55:55a problem and
00:55:57when we talked to the guy we were like yo how
00:55:59was it when you lived out here he was like man I had
00:56:01two jobs just
00:56:03to keep up and my relationship
00:56:05with God suffered
00:56:07and I'm like wow
00:56:09because what was
00:56:11over the territories everybody it was work
00:56:13that's why New York everybody's going going
00:56:15going I mean sometimes you're like where are we going
00:56:17you know we're all
00:56:19going to meet the same train
00:56:23but there is this hustle
00:56:25mentality
00:56:27but it's what is ruling in the air
00:56:29if you don't have the
00:56:31mindset of separation
00:56:33you will fall into it without knowing
00:56:35and then you start making excuses
00:56:37but then he moves
00:56:39to a different city and he says then
00:56:41he realized
00:56:43that what he was doing
00:56:45he didn't have to do it that way
00:56:47but when he was in it he couldn't
00:56:49see himself
00:56:51because you fall under the ambience
00:56:53of that spirit
00:56:55in LA for example
00:56:57there is this thing with spiritual
00:56:59fluidity
00:57:01I love Jesus but I also
00:57:03do X Y and Z
00:57:05it's everywhere
00:57:07you go to a bookstore
00:57:09they're selling sage
00:57:11what does sage have to do with books
00:57:15I saw it
00:57:17I said wow this is different
00:57:19if you don't have a
00:57:21consciousness of separation
00:57:23you wouldn't realize when you
00:57:25start to dabble in
00:57:27let me try this out a little bit
00:57:29if you don't have a consciousness of separation
00:57:31you don't realize when you start to lose your
00:57:33integrity for a stage
00:57:35because there is
00:57:37something ruling in the air
00:57:39that says by all means
00:57:41necessary pursue your dream
00:57:43LA is where
00:57:45dreams come true
00:57:47so whatever it takes for your dream to come
00:57:49true get it girl
00:57:51then you
00:57:53don't realize
00:57:55where you stop living according to the will of
00:57:57God because you were pursuing
00:57:59a dream and you were after that
00:58:01dream coming true you started to
00:58:03sell yourself
00:58:05without giving glory to God
00:58:07because you didn't have the mindset of separation
00:58:11you're called to
00:58:13separate yourself from the world
00:58:15and live a life
00:58:17that is under the
00:58:19government of God's council
00:58:21you just don't
00:58:23do things because everybody else
00:58:25is doing it
00:58:27so if you know you're in the house
00:58:29and you're like God
00:58:31truly
00:58:33I come before you in
00:58:35repentance I want to
00:58:37be separate
00:58:39I don't want to live my life
00:58:41just because everyone else is
00:58:43doing it because it's in the air
00:58:45if you don't have a separation mindset
00:58:47you just start falling victim to things
00:58:49that you're just like wait how did I even get here
00:58:51that was never your lifestyle in
00:58:53the beginning
00:58:55and you just found yourself dabbling in
00:58:57stuff because you didn't
00:58:59have the understanding the consciousness
00:59:01I'm in it
00:59:03but I'm not of it
00:59:05so if you're like God I truly want to
00:59:07separate myself onto you
00:59:09this is where your spirit and your soul
00:59:11not even your spirit when you're a believer
00:59:13the Holy Spirit takes residence in your spirit
00:59:15but this is when your soul becomes
00:59:17still when you live
00:59:19a life of separation you are so sensitive
00:59:21to the voice of God
00:59:23that when God sees the chaos in the
00:59:25world he can easily jump shift and just
00:59:27talk to you and be like
00:59:29hey I need you to do this
00:59:31tomorrow
00:59:33and you can discern his voice
00:59:35you will discern what is taking place
00:59:37in the times
00:59:39there are things that you don't even need to search
00:59:41do you know that Noah wasn't searching things out
00:59:43Noah did not
00:59:45it's not like wow there's something different happening there
00:59:47God just found him and said
00:59:49hey Noah you know we've been talking
00:59:51I need you to do this because I'm about to send a flood
00:59:55separate yourself
00:59:57so if you know
00:59:59that's you just lift up your hands
01:00:01thank you Jesus
01:00:03thank you Lord
01:00:05thank you Lord
01:00:07thank you Lord
01:00:09there is more to you than you know
01:00:11there is more to you
01:00:13than you know
01:00:15your life is not found in the flesh
01:00:17it is in the spirit
01:00:19when you're living a life that
01:00:21only serves the appetites of your
01:00:23flesh you haven't started
01:00:25it's in the spirit
01:00:27thank you Lord
01:00:29and if you're in the house
01:00:31and you want to give your life to Jesus
01:00:33you dabble in so many things
01:00:35because you're just under the ambience
01:00:37of what is ruling the town
01:00:39ruling in the air
01:00:41and you're like God I'm going to throw all that
01:00:43stuff away and really
01:00:45focus on you
01:00:47if you're serious about your walk with God I also
01:00:49want you to just lift up your hands
01:00:51thank you Jesus
01:00:53thank you Lord
01:00:55we're going to pray
01:00:59thank you Lord
01:01:01and first I just want you to repeat after me
01:01:03Heavenly Father let's do this together
01:01:05Heavenly Father
01:01:07we thank you
01:01:09Lord Jesus
01:01:11on the cross
01:01:13you put my sins to death
01:01:15and when you were
01:01:17raised up
01:01:19I was raised up with you
01:01:21free and victorious
01:01:23I confess you as
01:01:25my Lord and Savior
01:01:27now Holy Spirit
01:01:29come into my life
01:01:31and make my heart your home
01:01:33thank you
01:01:35Jesus
01:01:37now Heavenly Father I thank you for your
01:01:39sons and daughters in this room
01:01:41and I thank you for those who are tuning in
01:01:43from all around the world
01:01:45I thank you oh Lord that as they say
01:01:47yes oh God that Lord
01:01:49I'm playing with this thing called repentance
01:01:51but truly I come before you
01:01:53to say God I want to be
01:01:55separate I want to come out
01:01:57from amongst them I don't want to
01:01:59live my life as everyone else is
01:02:01living their lives in the world
01:02:03Lord God I started with you
01:02:05and I want to continue with you
01:02:07I don't want to live a life in the flesh
01:02:09Lord I pray
01:02:11where they need to be empowered empower
01:02:13them that they would know
01:02:15that you have already given them the
01:02:17authority and the power to walk
01:02:19over that which tries
01:02:21to subdue them
01:02:23to rule that which tries
01:02:25to rule over them
01:02:27and so Heavenly Father
01:02:29I pray that you would open their eyes
01:02:31to see life for
01:02:33what it truly is
01:02:35and from that place of separation
01:02:37Lord God that they would be more sensitive
01:02:39to the leading of your voice
01:02:41they would discern your
01:02:43voice when you speak
01:02:45Thank you Lord Jesus
01:02:47for that which you are doing
01:02:49in Jesus mighty name
01:02:51Amen Amen Amen
01:02:53We love you family
01:02:55and we'll see you next Sunday
01:02:57God bless you