WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.336 (EXPLOSION) 00:04.336 --> 00:06.339 (ROARING) 00:06.339 --> 00:11.369 - GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. ARE YOU READY TO GIVE 00:11.369 --> 00:16.309 ALL GLORY, ALL HONOR, AND ALL PRAISE TO THE ONE WHO IS 00:16.315 --> 00:20.019 SEATED ON THE THRONE? HOW MANY KNOW THERE IS NO OTHER 00:20.019 --> 00:25.692 NAME? THERE IS NO OTHER NAME THAN THE KING OF KINGS. 00:25.692 --> 00:26.859 LET'S RAISE IT UP TONIGHT. 00:35.368 --> 00:39.872 - COME ON, EVERYBODY. OH, COME ON, YOU CAN DO BETTER 00:39.872 --> 00:41.040 THAN THAT. COME ON. 07:16.769 --> 07:24.110 WHEN I CALL ON THE NAME OF JESUS, WHEN I CALL ON 07:24.110 --> 07:30.783 THE NAME OF JESUS, SEE HE HEARS YOU, HE HEARS 07:30.783 --> 07:37.223 YOU WHEN YOU CALL. DON'T EVER DOUBT, HE ALWAYS HEARS YOU 07:37.223 --> 07:43.797 WHEN YOU CALL. THE BIBLE SAYS, HE NEVER TURNS AWAY YOUR PRAYERS 07:43.797 --> 07:51.004 NOR HIS MERCY FROM YOU. YOU GOTTA CALL, YOU GOTTA CALL, YOU 07:51.004 --> 07:58.478 GOTTA CALL ON THE NAME OF JESUS. SEE, I DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS 07:58.478 --> 08:05.882 LIKE. I DON'T CARE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. I DON'T CARE WHAT IT 08:05.882 --> 08:11.024 SOUNDS LIKE. OH, SOMEBODY GOTTA GET EXCITED UP IN HERE. COME ON 08:11.024 --> 08:15.877 NOW. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE NAME OF JESUS. NOTHING LIKE THE 08:15.877 --> 08:24.649 NAME OF JESUS. ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME 08:24.649 --> 08:31.680 KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM 08:31.680 --> 08:39.921 YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN 08:39.921 --> 08:46.812 ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME KING OF ALL 08:46.812 --> 08:52.711 KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR 08:52.711 --> 09:01.447 MAGNIFICENT NAME KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN ALL 09:01.447 --> 09:07.014 NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME KING OF ALL 09:07.014 --> 09:12.951 KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR 09:12.985 --> 09:20.400 MAGNIFICENT NAME KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN 09:20.400 --> 09:27.355 ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME. KING OF ALL 09:27.355 --> 09:33.155 KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN. ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR 09:33.155 --> 09:40.576 MAGNIFICENT NAME. KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN. 09:40.576 --> 09:46.851 ALL NATIONS PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME. KING OF 09:46.851 --> 09:52.392 ALL KINGS AND FOREVER YOU REIGN. FOREVER YOU REIGN. ALL NATIONS 09:52.392 --> 09:59.274 PROCLAIM YOUR MAGNIFICENT NAME. KING OF ALL KINGS AND FOREVER 09:59.274 --> 10:12.946 YOU REIGN. YOU REIGN FOREVER. FOREVER YOU REIGN. LET EVERY 10:12.946 --> 10:14.279 NAME FADE AWAY. 14:05.845 --> 14:08.847 OH, HALLELUJAH. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT, 14:08.847 --> 14:14.767 FATHER. YOUR NAME, YOUR NAME, YOUR NAME. WE EXALT YOU. 14:14.767 --> 14:22.777 YOUR NAME IS HIGHER. YOUR NAME IS HIGHER. IT'S ABOVE. IT'S 14:22.777 --> 14:29.076 ABOVE EVERYTHING. THERE'S NOTHING HIGHER THAN YOUR NAME. 14:30.157 --> 14:34.147 AND TODAY WE GIVE YOU GLORY. TONIGHT WE GIVE YOU GLORY. WE 14:34.147 --> 14:42.096 MAGNIFY YOUR NAME. WE'VE BEEN ADOPTED INTO YOUR FAMILY AND WE 14:42.096 --> 14:48.486 CAN CRY ABBA FATHER. YOU'VE ADOPTED US IN. EVEN THOUGH WE 14:48.486 --> 14:56.616 STARTED OUT AS SINNERS, WE BECAME RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF YOU 14:56.616 --> 15:00.636 AND WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US. YOU'VE ADOPTED US INTO THE 15:00.636 --> 15:05.976 FAMILY SO WE CAN STAND BEFORE YOU AND YOU SEE US AS RIGHTEOUS 15:05.976 --> 15:12.067 BEFORE YOU. WE'RE CLEAN BEFORE YOU. OH, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK 15:12.067 --> 15:17.767 YOU, JESUS. WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO CALL ON YOU AND RECEIVE YOUR 15:17.767 --> 15:24.667 DIRECTION, YOUR WISDOM. THE WISDOM OF THE CREATOR DWELLS 15:24.667 --> 15:31.746 WITHIN US. OH, HALLELUJAH. WE GIVE YOU GLORY, LORD. WE GIVE 15:31.746 --> 15:35.677 YOU GLORY. THANK YOU, JESUS. JUST LIFT YOUR HANDS AND WORSHIP 15:35.677 --> 15:42.096 HIM. JUST GIVE HIM ADORATION. HE DESERVES IT ALL. IF IT WASN'T 15:42.096 --> 15:47.706 FOR HIM, WE'D ALL BE ON OUR WAY TO HELL WITH NO HOPE. BUT WE 15:47.706 --> 15:53.076 HAVE A DESTINY. WE HAVE A FUTURE. THERE'S A GOOD PLAN FOR 15:53.076 --> 15:57.966 US BECAUSE OF WHAT CHRIST JESUS HAS ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT WE'VE 15:57.966 --> 16:03.304 RECEIVED. THANK YOU, JESUS. OH, HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. 16:04.476 --> 16:10.537 THANK YOU, JESUS. THERE'S A MAN WATCHING OUR BROADCAST, AND I 16:10.537 --> 16:18.157 CAN SEE YOU, YOU'RE WEARING A BALL CAP. AND YOU'VE HAD SOME 16:18.157 --> 16:22.236 HEALTH CHALLENGES IN YOUR LIFE, BUT YOU'VE ALSO HAD FINANCIAL 16:22.236 --> 16:31.356 CHALLENGES. AND THE TWO TOGETHER HAVE CREATED DISTRESS. AND SO 16:31.356 --> 16:35.616 NOW THE LORD WANTS YOU TO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW TONIGHT THAT 16:35.616 --> 16:40.447 THIS IS TURNING AROUND FOR GOOD. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO RIGHT WHERE 16:40.447 --> 16:45.517 YOU'RE AT IS START DECLARING AND CONFESSING GOD'S WORD OVER YOUR 16:45.517 --> 16:50.346 SITUATION AND YOU'LL START TO SEE THESE THINGS TURN. DON'T 16:50.346 --> 16:54.307 TALK ABOUT THE HEALTH CHALLENGES, DON'T TALK ABOUT 16:54.307 --> 16:58.506 YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION, TALK ABOUT GOD'S BLESSING AND HIS 16:58.506 --> 17:02.287 HAND OF GOODNESS TOWARDS YOU AND YOU'RE GONNA START TO SEE THIS 17:02.287 --> 17:07.807 REVERSE COURSE AND YOU'LL SEE A CHANGE. HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU 17:07.807 --> 17:13.686 TO DO. I WANT YOU TO RECEIVE PRAYER FOR THIS. IF CONTROL, 17:13.686 --> 17:18.576 COULD YOU PUT UP THE PRAYER NUMBER FOR THE THE ONLINE 17:18.576 --> 17:22.866 AUDIENCE TO SEE? I WANT THIS INDIVIDUAL TO CALL OUR PRAYER 17:22.866 --> 17:26.707 LINE TONIGHT. WHENEVER YOU'RE WATCHING THIS, CALL THAT PRAYER 17:26.707 --> 17:33.247 LINE. LET THEM KNOW YOU RECEIVED A WORD ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AND 17:33.247 --> 17:35.946 YOU WANT THEM TO PRAY WITH YOU AND CONFIRM, BECAUSE THERE'S 17:35.946 --> 17:38.707 POWER IN THE PRAYER OF AGREEMENT. AND I WANT YOU TO 17:38.707 --> 17:45.517 HAVE THAT CONTACT. SO YOU CAN EMAIL US, OR YOU CAN COMMENT 17:45.517 --> 17:48.517 TO US IF YOU WANT TO, BUT I REALLY WANT YOU TO TAKE TIME 17:48.517 --> 17:51.936 TO MAKE A PHONE CALL TONIGHT AND LET THE PRAYER COUNSELOR KNOW 17:51.936 --> 17:54.997 WHAT'S HAPPENED IN YOUR LIFE AND THAT YOU'RE STANDING IN 17:54.997 --> 17:58.297 AGREEMENT WITH THE WORD OF THE LORD TONIGHT. IN JESUS' 17:58.297 --> 18:02.227 NAME, AMEN. AMEN. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. IS THERE 18:02.227 --> 18:06.463 SOMEONE HERE, AND YOU HAVE JUST SAID TO THE LORD 18:08.646 --> 18:13.086 WHAT YOU'RE BELIEVING FOR IN YOUR FUTURE? I THINK IT'S A 18:13.086 --> 18:17.317 BUSINESS IS WHAT I'M BELIEVING, THAT THIS IS CONCERNING MAYBE A 18:17.317 --> 18:21.037 BUSINESS IDEA THAT YOU HAVE. IT'S SOMETHING THAT GOD'S GIVEN 18:21.037 --> 18:23.227 YOU, HE'S DROPPED IT IN YOUR HEART, IT'S SOMETHING YOU PLAN 18:23.227 --> 18:27.606 TO DO, YOU WANT TO DO, YOU'VE EVEN MADE SOME INITIAL STEPS 18:27.606 --> 18:30.696 TOWARDS IT, BUT IT HASN'T MANIFESTED AS QUICKLY AS YOU 18:30.696 --> 18:35.166 HAVE PLANNED OR THOUGHT IT WOULD. AND GOD WANTS TO CONFIRM 18:35.166 --> 18:41.287 THAT TONIGHT, THAT YOU'RE ON TRACK. IS THAT SOMEONE HERE, AND 18:41.287 --> 18:47.017 YOU SAY, "I'VE HAD SOME TIMES WHERE DOUBT HAS TRIED TO CREEP 18:47.017 --> 18:51.906 IN "AND KEEP ME FROM MOVING FORWARD IN THAT AREA "THAT I 18:51.906 --> 18:55.747 KNOW IS MY DESTINY." IS THERE SOMEONE HERE TONIGHT? ANYONE 18:55.747 --> 19:01.146 HERE IN THE CROWD? OKAY, COME UP HERE QUICKLY. HALLELUJAH, THANK 19:01.146 --> 19:04.807 YOU, JESUS. I HAVE A SCRIPTURE THAT THE LORD'S DROPPED INTO MY 19:04.807 --> 19:10.207 HEART. I THINK IT'S PROVERBS 418, AND I WANNA JUST MAKE SURE. 19:10.207 --> 19:18.967 LET ME LOOK THIS UP HERE. YEAH, OKAY, PROVERBS 418. HERE'S THE 19:18.967 --> 19:25.027 WORD OF THE LORD FOR YOU GUYS. PROVERBS 418. WRITE THIS DOWN, 19:25.027 --> 19:29.616 KEEP IT IN YOUR MEMORY, BECAUSE IT SAYS, MAYBE I'M JUST GONNA 19:29.616 --> 19:34.507 READ IT. "THE PATH OF THE JUST IS LIKE THE SHINING SUN "THAT 19:34.507 --> 19:39.307 SHINES EVER BRIGHTER INTO THE PERFECT DAY." NOW, HERE'S WHAT 19:39.307 --> 19:44.886 THAT'S SAYING. YOU'VE HAD A PERIOD OF NIGHTTIME. SOMETIMES 19:44.886 --> 19:48.457 IT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF DARKNESS THAT YOU'VE HAD TO WALK 19:48.457 --> 19:52.836 THROUGH. IT'S BEEN A PERIOD OF TIME. BUT WHEN THE SUN STARTS TO 19:52.836 --> 19:59.287 COME UP, IT COMES GRADUALLY AT SUNRISE. YOU START TO SEE THAT 19:59.287 --> 20:04.596 PEAK OF SUNSHINE COMING, AND THEN IT MOVES IN OVER TIME TO 20:04.596 --> 20:10.653 THAT PERFECT DAY, WHICH MEANS FULL SUNSHINE. SO GOD'S WANTING 20:10.653 --> 20:14.792 YOU TO GET THAT IMAGE TONIGHT THAT YOU'RE PAST THE NIGHT 20:14.792 --> 20:20.432 SEASON, AND YOU'RE MOVING INTO THAT SUNSHINE BRIGHTNESS OF THE 20:20.432 --> 20:23.643 PATH THAT HE HAS FOR YOU, AND HE'S GONNA GIVE YOU NEW 20:23.643 --> 20:27.873 DIRECTION, NEW GUIDANCE, AND ASSURANCE THROUGH TONIGHT THAT 20:27.873 --> 20:32.373 THIS THING IS TURNING AND IT'S GONNA OPEN UP HIS SUNSHINE, 20:32.373 --> 20:37.292 WHICH IS LIGHT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? IF WE HAVE GOD'S LIGHT IN 20:37.292 --> 20:42.813 THIS SITUATION, THAT'S ALL WE NEED. WHEN HE GIVES US GUIDANCE, 20:42.813 --> 20:46.653 WHEN HE GIVES US WISDOM, THEN THAT'S ALL YOU NEED, BECAUSE YOU 20:46.653 --> 20:50.012 CAN JUST WALK THROUGH IT, AND YOU CAN DO IT CONFIDENTLY. 20:51.333 --> 20:54.182 PASTOR KEITH, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO LAY HANDS ON THESE THREE 20:54.182 --> 20:59.702 TONIGHT AND JUST BLESS THEM AND CONFIRM TO THEM THAT THEY'RE ON 20:59.702 --> 21:03.992 THE RIGHT TRACK AND THE RIGHT PATH AND AGREE WITH THEM TONIGHT 21:03.992 --> 21:07.742 THAT THEY'LL RECEIVE. AND I PRAY FOR SOMEONE WATCHING TONIGHT, 21:07.742 --> 21:13.923 THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN YOU. GOD'S LIGHT, HIS BRIGHTNESS IS MOVING 21:13.923 --> 21:16.923 TOWARDS YOU AND IN YOUR LIFE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE THE 21:16.923 --> 21:20.462 DIRECTION AND THE WISDOM THAT YOU NEED TO MOVE FORWARD IN 21:20.462 --> 21:24.153 EVERYTHING THAT GOD'S CALLED YOU TO DO, AND IT'S GONNA COME TO 21:24.153 --> 21:32.942 PASS. WHEN GOD GIVES YOU A DREAM OR A VISION OR A HOPE, HE WILL 21:32.942 --> 21:38.012 WORK WITH YOU UNTIL IT COMES TO PASS. IT MAY SEEM LIKE IT'S SLOW 21:38.012 --> 21:44.913 IN COMING, BUT THAT NIGHT TURNS TO THE DAWN OF DAY AND SUNSHINE, 21:44.913 --> 21:48.482 AND IT WILL HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE. IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME, WE AGREE 21:48.482 --> 21:52.742 NOW. HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS, PRAISE 21:52.742 --> 21:58.712 GOD. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. I'M JUST WAITING ON GOD 21:58.712 --> 22:03.256 HERE. PASTOR KEITH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING IN YOUR SPIRIT? 22:03.256 --> 22:07.993 (SOFT MUSIC) 22:07.993 --> 22:11.673 NOT RIGHT, OKAY. HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU, JESUS. JUST 22:12.813 --> 22:15.542 WAITING HERE FOR A MOMENT HERE. THANK YOU, JESUS. LET'S 22:15.542 --> 22:40.982 JUST PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) IS THERE 22:40.982 --> 22:45.603 SOMEONE HERE AND YOU'VE HAD, HOW DO I WORD THIS? THIS IS WHAT I'M 22:45.603 --> 22:51.962 FEELING, LIKE A DISAGREEMENT OR A FALLING OUT OR MAYBE EVEN, 22:51.962 --> 22:56.192 EVEN YOU COULD CALL IT STRIFE. AND I'M SEEING IT BETWEEN A 22:56.192 --> 22:59.163 PARENT AND A CHILD OR A CHILD AND A PARENT. MAYBE IT'S YOUR 22:59.163 --> 23:04.413 PARENTS OR MAYBE IT'S YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU ARE BELIEVING 23:04.413 --> 23:10.472 FOR THIS THING TO BE RESTORED AND PUT BACK TOGETHER. AND IT'S 23:10.472 --> 23:15.212 LIKE THE COMMUNICATIONS BEEN CUT OFF. IS THAT SOMEONE HERE THAT 23:15.212 --> 23:18.333 YOU NEED THAT COMMUNICATION RESTORED? DO I SEE ANY HANDS? 23:19.502 --> 23:28.292 OKAY, COME UP HERE. THANK YOU, JESUS. HERE'S WHAT I'M HEARING 23:28.292 --> 23:34.383 GOD SAY IN THIS SITUATION. THIS IS CONFIRMATION THAT, WELL, 23:34.383 --> 23:36.903 FIRST OF ALL, LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. I MIGHT HAVE TOLD THIS 23:36.903 --> 23:43.742 BEFORE. I MIGHT HAVE TOLD YOU THIS STORY BEFORE, BUT IT JUST 23:43.742 --> 23:48.363 IT MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION ON ME. SOMEONE IN OUR CHURCH 23:49.712 --> 23:53.133 FAMILY WAS DEALING WITH A LIFE 23:53.133 --> 23:58.383 -THREATENING HEALTH CHALLENGE, AND THIS WAS A FEW WEEKS BEFORE 23:58.383 --> 24:03.512 HE WENT ON TO HEAVEN, BUT HE WOKE UP THAT MORNING AND HE SAID 24:03.512 --> 24:07.353 TO HIS WIFE, HE CAME KIND OF LIKE BOUNCING OUT OF, WHAT I 24:07.353 --> 24:13.532 PICTURED WAS BOUNCING OUT OF HIS BEDROOM AND SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? 24:13.532 --> 24:21.692 I KNOW THIS. I KNOW I HAVE NO OUGHT WITH ANY MAN. AND HE HAD 24:21.692 --> 24:27.063 THE FREEDOM OF KNOWING THAT THERE WAS NO OUGHT IN HIS HEART. 24:28.653 --> 24:37.083 NO OFFENSE CARRIED. THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. JESUS TOLD US WE HAVE 24:37.083 --> 24:40.893 TO FORGIVE SEVEN TIMES 70. AND WHAT THAT REALLY MEANT WAS 24:40.893 --> 24:43.923 THERE'S NO LIMIT TO HOW MANY TIMES WE HAVE TO FORGIVE IF 24:43.923 --> 24:49.952 WE'RE CARRYING SOMETHING. AND MAYBE YOU THREE, YOU'RE NOT, 24:49.952 --> 24:52.113 YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, I'M NOT CARRYING ANY OFFENSE. MAYBE 24:52.113 --> 24:57.093 YOU'RE NOT, BUT MAYBE THE OTHER PERSON FEELS THERE'S OFFENSE 24:57.093 --> 25:02.853 THERE. AND SO THE HIGHER ROAD IS ALWAYS TO SAY, "I'M SORRY, 25:02.853 --> 25:07.053 FORGIVE ME." THAT'S THE HIGH PATH. EVEN IF YOU DON'T THINK 25:07.053 --> 25:10.502 YOU WRONGED THAT PERSON, IF THERE'S A CHANCE OF IT, DON'T 25:10.502 --> 25:16.952 LET ANY OUGHT STAND IN THE WAY. BECAUSE HERE'S MATTHEW 6, 25:16.952 --> 25:24.333 CHAPTER 14, I BELIEVE IT'S 14 AND 15, EXPLAIN THIS WELL. IT 25:24.333 --> 25:29.313 SAYS THAT IF, BECAUSE GOD'S FORGIVEN US, BUT IF WE DO NOT 25:29.313 --> 25:35.192 FORGIVE OTHERS, HE WILL NOT FORGIVE US. THAT'S VERY STRONG. 25:35.192 --> 25:38.973 THAT'S A STRONG WORD. I MEAN, THAT MAKES ME SHUDDER TO THINK 25:38.973 --> 25:43.532 OF THAT. WE COULD WALK IN A PLACE OF NOT HAVING GOD FORGIVE 25:43.532 --> 25:47.732 US IF WE CARRY OFFENSE. SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING I WANTED 25:47.732 --> 25:50.673 TO SAY TO YOU THREE AND ANYONE ELSE WATCHING OR ANYONE ELSE 25:50.673 --> 25:54.873 HERE IS JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU'VE FORGIVEN AND YOU'VE 25:54.873 --> 25:59.583 COMMUNICATED THAT. AND THAT WILL OPEN THE DOOR, I BELIEVE, FOR 25:59.583 --> 26:05.462 COMMUNICATION. IF YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF, THE BIBLE TALKS A LOT 26:05.462 --> 26:08.583 ABOUT HUMILITY, AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO DO. I UNDERSTAND 26:08.583 --> 26:12.603 THAT. BUT HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD AND BEFORE THAT PERSON 26:12.603 --> 26:17.942 AND SAY, I'M SORRY. PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR WHATEVER MY PART 26:17.942 --> 26:21.093 WAS. AND THEN YOU GO ON FROM THERE AND OPEN THAT 26:21.093 --> 26:24.873 COMMUNICATION UP. AND SO FATHER, I PRAY IN JESUS' NAME THAT THESE 26:24.873 --> 26:28.712 THREE AND ANY OTHERS THAT THIS WOULD APPLY TO AND ANY WATCHING 26:28.712 --> 26:32.373 ONLINE, THAT YOU GIVE THEM WISDOM AND DIRECTION ON HOW TO 26:32.373 --> 26:36.182 APPROACH THIS SITUATION, THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE, AND 26:36.182 --> 26:41.252 THAT COMMUNICATION IS RECEIVED BY THE OTHER PARTY, AND THERE IS 26:41.252 --> 26:49.593 A REUNION, A REUNITING BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS, BECAUSE YOU 26:49.593 --> 26:54.333 DESIRE NO OUGHT. AND LORD, I JUST PRAY THAT WOULD ALSO OPEN 26:54.333 --> 26:59.343 OR PAVE THE WAY FOR A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU ON THE 26:59.343 --> 27:03.153 PART OF THE OFFENDED PARTIES, WHOEVER THAT MAY BE. AND WE 27:03.153 --> 27:06.663 THANK YOU FOR IT AND WE DECLARE IT SO NOW IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF 27:06.663 --> 27:11.583 JESUS. AMEN, AMEN. YOU CAN BE SEATED. PRAISE GOD. THANK YOU, 27:11.583 --> 27:14.442 JESUS. WE'LL DO THIS. TURN AROUND AND SHAKE HANDS 27:14.442 --> 27:16.414 WITH A FEW PEOPLE TONIGHT AND SAY IT'S GOOD TO BE IN 27:16.414 --> 27:18.971 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AMEN. 27:18.971 --> 27:52.672 (GENTLE PIANO MUSIC) 27:52.672 --> 27:55.430 - GLORY TO GOD, THANK YOU JESUS. 27:56.553 --> 28:01.292 - IT IS OFFERING TIME HERE ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AND I'M GONNA 28:01.292 --> 28:06.962 STEP RIGHT INTO IT THIS EVENING BECAUSE THEY CAN PUT THE 28:06.962 --> 28:12.932 SCRIPTURES UP ON THE SCREEN. FIRST, I'M GONNA LOOK AT HEBREWS 28:12.932 --> 28:26.883 13, FIVE AND SIX. WE HAVE THAT? OKAY. WELL, IT SAYS, "MAKE SURE 28:26.883 --> 28:32.883 THAT YOUR CHARACTER IS FREE FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY, BEING CONTENT 28:32.883 --> 28:36.932 WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, 'I WILL NEVER 28:36.932 --> 28:44.073 DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU.'" (SOFT PIANO 28:44.073 --> 28:47.553 MUSIC) SO THAT WE CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY, "THE LORD IS MY 28:47.553 --> 28:54.182 HELPER. I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?" MY WIFE 28:54.182 --> 28:58.712 WAS PRAYING OVER THIS SCRIPTURE RECENTLY IN A UNRELATED MATTER. 28:59.732 --> 29:04.232 AND WHEN I HEARD HER READING IT ALOUD, IT JUST HIT MY SPIRIT AND 29:04.232 --> 29:08.462 SURGED THROUGH MY ENTIRE BEING. SHE WAS READING IT IN THE 29:08.462 --> 29:16.383 AMPLIFIED CLASSIC, AND THAT GOES LIKE THIS, "LET YOUR CHARACTER 29:16.383 --> 29:22.053 OR MORAL DISPOSITION BE FREE FROM LOVE OF MONEY, INCLUDING 29:22.053 --> 29:28.323 GREED, AVARICE, LUST, AND CRAVING FOR EARTHLY POSSESSIONS. 29:28.323 --> 29:31.863 AND BE SATISFIED WITH YOUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH 29:31.863 --> 29:37.113 WHAT YOU HAVE. FOR HE, GOD HIMSELF, HAS SAID, I WILL NOT IN 29:37.113 --> 29:41.012 ANY WAY FAIL YOU, NOR GIVE YOU UP, NOR LEAVE YOU WITHOUT 29:41.012 --> 29:46.833 SUPPORT. I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT IN ANY DEGREE LEAVE 29:46.833 --> 29:52.022 YOU HELPLESS, NOR FORSAKE YOU, NOR LET YOU DOWN. RELAX MY HOLD 29:52.022 --> 30:00.153 ON YOU. ASSUREDLY NOT. SO WE CAN TAKE COMFORT AND ARE ENCOURAGED 30:00.153 --> 30:04.323 AND CONFIDENTLY AND BOLDLY SAY, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER. I WILL 30:04.323 --> 30:08.553 NOT BE SEIZED WITH ALARM. I WILL NOT FEAR OR DREAD OR BE 30:08.553 --> 30:15.923 TERRIFIED. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?" WELL, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING, 30:15.923 --> 30:17.753 OR I'VE BEEN LOOKING, THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES I'VE BEEN UP 30:17.753 --> 30:21.683 HERE, AT WHY PEOPLE ARE HESITANT TO GIVE IN CHURCH. AND WE'VE 30:21.683 --> 30:24.594 SEEN, I THINK, THAT ONE OF THE NUMBER ONE REASONS IS FEAR, 30:24.594 --> 30:28.403 WHICH OF COURSE IS A LACK OF FAITH. AND IT'S BECAUSE THEIR 30:28.403 --> 30:31.763 TRUST IS IN MATERIAL POSSESSIONS. IT'S IN PHYSICAL 30:31.763 --> 30:37.854 WEALTH, RICHES, MAMMON, THAT WORLD SYSTEM THAT INFLUENCES 30:37.854 --> 30:42.294 PEOPLE IN AN EVIL WAY AND DRIVES THEM TO THE LOVE OF MONEY, 30:43.344 --> 30:49.134 GREED, COVETOUSNESS, THE LUST OF THE EYES, THE CRAVING MORE 30:49.134 --> 30:53.544 POSSESSIONS. JUST AS THE WRITER OF HEBREWS IS TELLING US IN THIS 30:53.544 --> 30:58.284 SCRIPTURE, THEIR TRUST IS NOT IN THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE 30:58.284 --> 31:02.753 KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS, AND HIS ABILITY AND 31:02.753 --> 31:08.693 WILLINGNESS TO PROVIDE FOR EVERY ONE OF OUR NEEDS. THE BOOK OF 31:08.693 --> 31:12.413 HEBREWS IN SUMMARY IS AN EXHORTATION TO REMAIN STEADFAST 31:12.413 --> 31:16.794 IN THE FAITH IN SPITE OF TRIALS AND PERSECUTIONS THAT ARE GOING 31:16.794 --> 31:24.023 TO COME AND REMEMBER THAT JESUS IS ALL SUFFICIENT. HE'S SUPREME. 31:24.023 --> 31:30.084 HE'S FULFILLED THE LAW. HE'S PROVIDED US A NEW COVENANT AND 31:30.084 --> 31:33.834 THE WRITER HERE IS WARNING THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS OF THE DAY TO 31:33.834 --> 31:38.753 NOT FALL AWAY FROM THE FAITH. HE REMINDS HIS AUDIENCE AND US AS 31:38.753 --> 31:44.513 WE READ HERE THAT GOD HIMSELF HAS SAID, "I WILL NOT IN ANY WAY 31:44.513 --> 31:49.403 FAIL YOU NOR GIVE YOU UP NOR LEAVE YOU WITHOUT SUPPORT. I 31:49.403 --> 31:54.278 WILL NOT." NOW WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT WE CAN GIVE WITHOUT FEAR 31:55.493 --> 31:59.513 OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH. WE DON'T HAVE TO DREAD LACK OR 31:59.513 --> 32:07.403 INSUFFICIENCY. HE SAYS, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER. I WILL NOT BE 32:07.403 --> 32:12.923 SEIZED WITH ALARM. I WILL NOT FEAR OR DREAD OR BE TERRIFIED. 32:12.923 --> 32:17.392 WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?" WELL, WHERE WE LEAVE THAT OFF IS KIND 32:17.392 --> 32:21.804 OF AN INTERESTING QUESTION. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO US? SO I ASK 32:21.804 --> 32:25.973 MYSELF, WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME? CAN HE TURN OFF MY ELECTRICITY? 32:27.144 --> 32:31.193 CAN HE CANCEL MY CAR INSURANCE? CAN HE DECLINE MY CREDIT CARD 32:31.193 --> 32:34.794 WHEN I'M AT THE GROCERY STORE? CAN HE SEND ME A MEDICAL BILL 32:34.794 --> 32:40.824 FOR AN ASTRONOMICAL AMOUNT THAT I CAN'T AFFORD? CAN HE TELL ME I 32:40.824 --> 32:47.064 HAVE TO TAKE A SALARY CUT? CAN HE LAY ME OFF FROM WORK? CAN HE 32:47.064 --> 32:53.693 REPOSSESS MY AUTOMOBILE? CAN HE EVICT ME FROM MY HOME? WELL, IN 32:53.693 --> 32:56.874 THE NATURAL, THESE ARE VERY REAL THINGS THAT CAN TRY TO COME 32:56.874 --> 33:01.761 AGAINST US, RIGHT? AND I'M NOT GONNA ASK ANYONE IN HERE OR 33:01.761 --> 33:04.374 ONLINE TO JUMP UP AND DOWN AND RAISE THEIR HANDS AND SAY, 33:04.374 --> 33:07.463 "YEAH, I'VE BEEN THROUGH ALL THAT, BUT I KNOW THAT YOU'RE OUT 33:07.463 --> 33:11.693 THERE." AND I'M GONNA BE PERFECTLY VULNERABLE HERE. I'M 33:11.693 --> 33:14.394 GONNA BE TRANSPARENT. I'VE HAD TO FACE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 33:14.394 --> 33:20.094 THOSE THAT I JUST LISTED, BUT GOD. HE SAYS THAT IF WE ARE 33:20.094 --> 33:25.223 FAITHFUL AND WE DON'T DRAW BACK OUT OF FEAR OR DREAD, HE WILL BE 33:25.223 --> 33:29.364 FAITHFUL TO PROVIDE. HE WILL NEVER FAIL US. HE WILL NEVER 33:29.364 --> 33:31.913 LEAVE US HELPLESS, NEVER LEAVE US WITHOUT SUPPORT. HE IS 33:31.913 --> 33:35.963 JEHOVAH JIREH, GOD OUR PROVIDER. WE CAN TRUST HIM AND HE WILL 33:35.963 --> 33:39.294 SUPPORT US AND HELP US OUT IN WAYS THAT WE SIMPLY CAN'T EVEN 33:39.294 --> 33:44.183 IMAGINE AHEAD OF TIME. NOW I SAID A MOMENT AGO THAT I HAD 33:44.183 --> 33:47.753 FACED THIS WHOLE LITANY OF SITUATIONS DESIGNED BY THE 33:47.753 --> 33:52.344 ENEMY TO INDUCE FEAR. AND I'M NOT UP HERE TO READ MY ENTIRE 33:52.344 --> 33:54.263 BOOK OF TESTIMONIES TO EVERYONE, BUT I AM GOING 33:54.263 --> 33:59.364 TO SHARE JUST ONE. BACK 20-SOME YEARS AGO, WE 33:59.364 --> 34:02.574 WERE IN SOME DIRE FINANCIAL STRAITS, BUT NO 34:02.574 --> 34:08.003 MATTER WHAT, WE NEVER BACKED OFF FROM OUR REGULAR GIVING. AND ONE 34:08.003 --> 34:11.393 MORNING WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO DEPART FOR WORK, A CONTRACTOR 34:11.393 --> 34:20.094 PULLED UP OUTSIDE, SHUT OUR ELECTRICITY OFF. WELL, BACK IN 34:20.094 --> 34:25.643 THE DAY, I WAS COMMUTING AN HOUR EACH WAY TO MY FULL 34:25.643 --> 34:29.934 -TIME JOB. AND IF I JUST LEFT THAT SITUATION AS IT WAS, I'D BE 34:29.934 --> 34:33.804 LEAVING MY WIFE AND MY SMALL SON WITH NO POWER ON A BLISTERING 34:33.804 --> 34:38.063 HOT SUMMER DAY. SO I CHASED DOWN THE MAN FROM THE POWER COMPANY 34:38.063 --> 34:41.244 AND I SAID, "HEY, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL?" I 34:41.244 --> 34:43.494 APPEALED TO HIM, "IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL WE CAN DO TO 34:43.494 --> 34:46.673 WORK SOMETHING OUT HERE?" WELL, HE INFORMED ME THAT THE ONLY WAY 34:46.673 --> 34:49.704 THAT THE ELECTRICITY COULD BE TURNED BACK ON IS IF I WERE TO 34:49.704 --> 34:54.623 GO TO THE LOCAL OFFICE, PAY THE PAST DUE BALANCE IN FULL, AND 34:54.623 --> 34:56.873 THEN THEY WOULD SCHEDULE SOMEBODY, PERHAPS WITHIN THE 34:56.873 --> 34:59.063 NEXT THREE DAYS, TO COME BACK AND RE 34:59.063 --> 35:02.423 -POWER EVERYTHING UP. WELL, I DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY I NEEDED 35:02.423 --> 35:05.784 IN MY ACCOUNT. MY BALANCE WAS PROBABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE $20 35:05.784 --> 35:12.233 RANGE AT THAT POINT. AND I SURE COULDN'T LEAVE THINGS THAT WAY. 35:12.233 --> 35:14.304 I NEEDED THE POWER RESTORED RIGHT AWAY. I KNEW I HAD TO DO 35:14.304 --> 35:22.043 SOMETHING. DISCLAIMER HERE, VERY IMPORTANT ONE. I'M NOT TELLING 35:22.043 --> 35:27.684 ANYBODY TO DO WHAT I DID, OKAY? NO, DON'T WORRY, IT WASN'T 35:27.684 --> 35:33.713 CRIMINAL OR UNETHICAL. I'M JUST GONNA SAY, I'M NOT SAYING THIS 35:33.713 --> 35:38.184 TESTIMONY IS TRANSFERABLE TO ANYONE IN THIS ROOM OR ANYONE 35:38.184 --> 35:43.463 THERE ONLINE. SO, DON'T TRY TO MAKE THIS YOUR OWN TESTIMONY. 35:45.744 --> 35:50.213 JUST BASED ON WHAT I'M SAYING, BE LED OF GOD. I'M ONLY SHARING 35:50.213 --> 35:53.813 THIS AS AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE AMAZING, UNEXPECTED, UNIQUE 35:53.813 --> 35:59.603 WAYS THAT GOD WILL ACT ON BEHALF OF THOSE THAT ARE FAITHFUL TO 35:59.603 --> 36:05.003 HIM AND IN THEIR GIVING. SO, I NEEDED SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS 36:05.003 --> 36:10.463 THAT WAS NOT IN MY BANK ACCOUNT, AND I NEEDED IT RIGHT AWAY. GOD 36:10.463 --> 36:13.974 DIRECTED ME TO A LOCAL ATM, AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, THAT'S FUNNY." 36:13.974 --> 36:17.364 BUT I PULLED UP, I ROLLED DOWN THE WINDOW, I INSERTED MY BANK 36:17.364 --> 36:23.153 CARD, AND THEN I POINTED AT THAT ATM MACHINE, AND I SAID, "GIVE 36:23.153 --> 36:29.123 ME X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS IN THE NAME OF JESUS." AND THANKFULLY, 36:29.123 --> 36:35.693 THE ATM KINDLY OBLIGED. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) ONE HURDLE 36:35.693 --> 36:39.563 DOWN. SO NOW I'VE GOT CASH IN HAND, SO I NOW DRIVE TO THE 36:39.563 --> 36:43.463 ELECTRIC COMPANY'S HEADQUARTERS, WHERE I ENCOUNTERED AN UNMANNED 36:43.463 --> 36:47.063 SECURITY GATE THAT TYPICALLY OPENS ONLY IF YOU ARE AN 36:47.063 --> 36:51.083 EMPLOYEE AND HAVE A REMOTE GATE OPENER. HOWEVER, IT WAS OPEN 36:51.083 --> 36:56.393 JUST ENOUGH FOR ME TO DRIVE THROUGH. SO I PROCEEDED TO THE 36:56.393 --> 37:00.623 OFFICE DOOR, WHICH AGAIN WAS SECURED, SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN 37:00.623 --> 37:07.193 ONLY BY EMPLOYEES WITH BADGE READERS, BUT I ENTERED. THERE 37:07.193 --> 37:10.643 WAS ONLY ONE EMPLOYEE IN THAT BUILDING. IT WAS AN HOUR BEFORE 37:10.643 --> 37:13.673 THEY OPENED. IT WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD COME IN AN HOUR EARLY JUST 37:13.673 --> 37:18.324 TO GET A LITTLE EXTRA WORK DONE. BOY, WASN'T SHE SHOCKED. SHE WAS 37:18.324 --> 37:20.903 PRETTY STARTLED BY MY PRESENCE AND RELUCTANT TO TALK TO ME AT 37:20.903 --> 37:23.634 ALL, OTHER THAN TO ASK, "HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU EVER GET IN 37:23.634 --> 37:26.963 HERE?" BEFORE SHE COULD CALL SECURITY, THOUGH, I QUICKLY 37:26.963 --> 37:31.284 EXPLAINED THAT GOD LED ME THERE BECAUSE I NEEDED MY POWER 37:31.284 --> 37:35.844 RESTORED RIGHT AWAY. WELL, SHE LOOKED AT ME QUIZZICALLY AND 37:35.844 --> 37:39.143 PROCEEDED TO EXPLAIN THAT THEY NEVER PULL DRIVERS OFF THEIR 37:39.143 --> 37:43.043 ROUTES AND TURN THEM ABOUT TO GO BACK TO ANY OTHER PREVIOUS STOP. 37:44.483 --> 37:47.034 ONLY THE DISPATCHER COULD REDIRECT THE TRUCK TO DO SUCH A 37:47.034 --> 37:51.539 THING. SO NATURALLY, I'M IN THERE AND I SAID, "WELL, HOW DO 37:51.539 --> 37:54.893 I TALK TO THE DISPATCHER?" AND THEN SHE REVEALED TO ME THAT SHE 37:54.893 --> 38:00.083 WAS THE DISPATCHER. OKAY, SO NOW AT THIS POINT, I THOUGHT, "WELL, 38:00.083 --> 38:02.873 I'M MAKING PROGRESS HERE, BUT THERE'S STILL MORE HURDLES TO 38:02.873 --> 38:07.103 COME." SO I WAS HOLDING CASH THAT HAD BEEN DISPENSED FROM THE 38:07.103 --> 38:11.273 ATM. HOWEVER, THEY DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO ACCEPT CASH. FURTHER, 38:11.273 --> 38:13.523 THEY DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO RECORD A TRANSACTION BECAUSE 38:13.523 --> 38:15.864 THEY'RE NOT OPEN YET FOR ANOTHER HOUR AND NONE OF THE SYSTEMS ARE 38:15.864 --> 38:25.103 UP. I SAID, "WELL, I CAN'T COME BACK IN AN HOUR. "IN AN HOUR, I 38:25.103 --> 38:31.134 GOTTA BE AT WORK IN ANOTHER STATE. "BUT I KNOW THAT THERE 38:31.134 --> 38:34.764 HAS TO BE A WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THIS "BECAUSE GOD LED ME IN HERE 38:34.764 --> 38:38.514 TO TALK TO YOU." AND SHE PAUSED FOR A MOMENT AND THOUGHT ABOUT 38:38.514 --> 38:43.614 THAT. AND THEN SHE HAD TO AGREE JUST BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT THAT 38:43.614 --> 38:46.338 I WAS STANDING BEFORE HER, THAT I HAD GOTTEN IN THERE AND WE 38:46.338 --> 38:49.344 WERE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION, "IT MUST BE THE LORD AT WORK IN 38:49.344 --> 38:55.824 THIS SITUATION." SO, SHE DECIDED TO TAKE THE CASH, GIVE ME A 38:55.824 --> 39:00.264 HANDWRITTEN RECEIPT, ENTER THE TRANSACTION IN THE SYSTEM LATER, 39:01.313 --> 39:04.733 AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS AGAINST CORPORATE POLICY, SHE RADIOED 39:04.733 --> 39:08.423 THE DRIVER, INSTRUCTED HIM TO IMMEDIATELY TURN AROUND AND GO 39:08.423 --> 39:14.358 BACK TO MY ADDRESS. POWER WAS RESTORED IN 10 MINUTES. 10 39:14.358 --> 39:19.403 MINUTES, FOLKS. AND I WAS ULTIMATELY ABLE TO ARRIVE AT 39:19.403 --> 39:25.253 WORK THAT MORNING ON TIME. NOW THAT IS A GOD THAT WON'T DESERT 39:25.253 --> 39:29.094 YOU. HE WON'T ABANDON YOU. HE WON'T FAIL YOU. HE'LL SUPPORT 39:29.094 --> 39:34.764 YOU IN WAYS UNIMAGINABLE TO MOST PEOPLE. SO WE NEED NOT FEAR WHAT 39:34.764 --> 39:40.284 MAN CAN DO TO US, WHAT MAN IS GOING TO DO. WE ONLY NEED TO 39:40.284 --> 39:44.784 REMAIN FAITHFUL, TRUST IN GOD, AND BELIEVE IN MIRACLES WHEN WE 39:44.784 --> 39:50.244 NEED THEM. HE WILL NEVER LET US DOWN. HE WILL NOT, HE WILL NOT, 39:50.244 --> 39:54.623 HE WILL NOT, ASSUREDLY NOT, AS THE SCRIPTURE SAID. LET'S PUT 39:54.623 --> 39:57.054 THE GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREENS, PLEASE. THERE ARE 39:57.054 --> 40:00.893 MULTIPLE WAYS TO GIVE. YOU CAN GET YOUR ENVELOPES IN HERE FROM 40:00.893 --> 40:04.313 THESE KIND USHERS THIS EVENING. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WAY, 40:04.313 --> 40:09.563 WE'VE GOT OUR WEBSITE, LOHCHURCH.ORG, THE MOBILE APP, 40:09.563 --> 40:14.563 MY PERSONAL FAVORITE, TEXT2GIVE. AND SCAN THE QR CODE IS ANOTHER 40:14.563 --> 40:17.684 METHOD. AND THERE'S A MAILING ADDRESS UP THERE, BECAUSE WE 40:17.684 --> 40:20.414 STILL ACCEPT CHECKS AND OTHER TYPES OF PAYMENT THROUGH THE 40:20.414 --> 40:28.873 MAIL. SO SEND THOSE, KEEP THOSE COMING. NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU 40:28.873 --> 40:33.284 USE, HERE'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO. WE NEED TO SOW BIG TONIGHT, 40:33.284 --> 40:39.373 TRUST IN GOD, AND BELIEVE FOR MIRACLES. AND SO IF EVERYONE IS 40:39.373 --> 40:46.693 READY, IF YOU'LL STAND, HOLD YOUR OFFERINGS, AND WE'LL PRAY. 40:48.373 --> 40:53.054 FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I SPEAK BLESSING OVER ALL THAT 40:53.054 --> 40:56.893 THESE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND ALL THOSE ONLINE ARE GIVING 40:56.893 --> 41:00.853 TONIGHT. EVERYTHING THAT'S BEING SOWN INTO THIS MINISTRY TODAY. 41:00.853 --> 41:04.603 WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS, LORD. 41:04.603 --> 41:10.213 YOU'RE THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER. AS THE 41:10.213 --> 41:14.233 PEOPLE GIVE GENEROUSLY IN FAITH TONIGHT, YOU WILL NEVER DESERT 41:14.233 --> 41:17.684 THEM. YOU WILL NEVER ABANDON THEM. YOU WILL NEVER LET THEM 41:17.684 --> 41:21.523 DOWN. YOU WILL ALWAYS PRESERVE THEM, HOLD THEM UP IN YOUR 41:21.523 --> 41:25.903 MIGHTY RIGHT HAND IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE AND IN EVERY TIME 41:25.903 --> 41:29.653 OF NEED. AND WE THANK YOU FOR THIS, FATHER GOD, IN THE MIGHTY 41:29.653 --> 41:34.153 NAME OF JESUS. AND ALL WHO AGREED SAID, AMEN. NOW LET'S 41:34.153 --> 41:37.003 WELCOME PASTOR DOUG BACK TO THE PULPIT. 41:37.003 --> 41:38.664 - AMEN. (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 41:38.664 --> 41:40.021 - GOOD JOB. THAT WAS GREAT. HEY, YOU CAN BE SEATED. 41:43.003 --> 41:49.960 THAT WAS A GOOD TESTIMONY. BUILDS OUR FAITH. YOU KNOW, 41:49.960 --> 41:56.201 AND PASTOR MARK HAD TO HEAR GOD FOR DIRECTION TO KNOW 41:56.201 --> 41:58.844 HOW TO DO THOSE THINGS, AND TO KNOW HOW TO PROCEED, AND WHAT 41:58.844 --> 42:02.534 TO DO. SO HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 42:02.534 --> 42:07.034 ABOUT, AND THE POWER OF THE DEPENDENCY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 42:07.034 --> 42:09.523 AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE ALONG THOSE LINES. AND SPEAKING OF 42:09.523 --> 42:12.583 HEARING, I WANTED TO SHARE A STORY WITH YOU. YOU'VE PROBABLY 42:12.583 --> 42:16.393 HEARD THIS STORY BEFORE, BUT THERE WAS A MAN WHO FELT HE 42:16.393 --> 42:21.554 COULD NO LONGER LIVE WITH HIS WIFE. HE WAS INCREDIBLY TIRED OF 42:21.554 --> 42:26.563 HEARING HER VOICE. IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET AWAY 42:26.563 --> 42:31.514 FROM HER VERBAL HARANGUES. SHE WAS ALWAYS SETTING HIM STRAIGHT, 42:31.514 --> 42:35.143 CONTINUOUSLY SETTING HIM STRAIGHT. AND FINALLY, HE GOT SO 42:35.143 --> 42:40.603 DESPERATE THAT HE DECIDED HE'D BE HAPPIER IN JAIL. SO HE 42:40.603 --> 42:44.684 THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, I'LL ROB A BANK, AND THEN I'LL GO TO JAIL, 42:44.684 --> 42:50.384 AND I'LL FINALLY HAVE SOME PEACE. WELL, HE ROBBED THE BANK. 42:50.384 --> 42:55.063 HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE POLICE. AND THE JUDGE GAVE HIM SIX 42:55.063 --> 43:02.293 MONTHS OF HOUSE ARREST. SO HE LEARNED A LESSON THERE. IT'S 43:02.293 --> 43:10.036 BETTER TO WORK AT GETTING ALONG WITH YOUR SPOUSE. BUT THERE ARE 43:10.036 --> 43:13.514 A LOT OF VOICES THAT SPEAK TODAY, AND IT'S MOST IMPORTANT 43:13.514 --> 43:17.023 THAT WE HEAR GOD'S VOICE. TWO WEEKS AGO, WE DISCUSSED THE 43:17.023 --> 43:22.483 VISION THAT ZACHARIAH HAD WHEN HE SPOKE TO ZERUBBABEL AND 43:22.483 --> 43:26.083 TALKED ABOUT THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND HE SAID IN 43:26.083 --> 43:31.273 ZECHARIAH 4, VERSE 6, "IT'S NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY 43:31.273 --> 43:35.744 SPIRIT," SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. AND WE LEARNED THAT ANY WORK 43:35.744 --> 43:40.543 ACCOMPLISHED THAT'S OF ETERNAL VALUE HAS TO BE DONE THROUGH THE 43:40.543 --> 43:46.153 SPIRIT OF GOD AND NOT BY MANKIND OR HUMAN EFFORTS OR RESOURCES OR 43:46.153 --> 43:50.744 STRENGTH. AND THEN LAST WEEK, WE WENT BACK TO SOME BASICS AND 43:50.744 --> 43:54.914 TALKED ABOUT THE THREE PARTS OF MAN, HOW WE WERE CREATED, BODY, 43:54.914 --> 43:58.153 SOUL, AND SPIRIT. WE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE SPIRIT 43:58.153 --> 44:03.764 MAN IS THE ETERNAL PART OF US, AND THE SPIRIT MAN COMES ALIVE 44:03.764 --> 44:08.474 WHEN WE BECOME BELIEVERS, WHEN WE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS LORD, 44:08.474 --> 44:14.443 THAT SPIRIT MAN WITHIN US IS MADE ALIVE. AND THEN WE TALKED 44:14.443 --> 44:17.114 ALSO ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE SOUL, THE MIND, WILL, AND 44:17.114 --> 44:22.333 EMOTION PART OF US HAS TO BE RENEWED, AND THAT'S RENEWED BY 44:22.333 --> 44:26.233 THE WORD OF GOD. IN FACT, WE USED HEBREWS 4.12, AND WE'RE 44:26.233 --> 44:28.213 GOING TO USE IT AGAIN TONIGHT. IF YOU WOULD PUT THAT UP, 44:28.213 --> 44:33.014 HEBREWS 4.12 SAYS, "FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND 44:33.014 --> 44:35.954 POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED 44:35.954 --> 44:39.313 SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND 44:39.313 --> 44:42.614 SPIRIT." LISTEN TO THAT, "DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND 44:42.614 --> 44:47.833 SPIRIT." THAT MEANS GOD'S WORD SEPARATES BETWEEN THE SOUL AND 44:47.833 --> 44:50.864 THE SPIRIT, THE MIND, WILL, AND EMOTIONS, AND THE SPIRIT OF MAN. 44:50.864 --> 44:54.313 AND IT'S THROUGH RECEIVING THE WORD OF GOD AND BEING RENEWED BY 44:54.313 --> 44:57.704 THE WORD OF GOD THAT WE CAN SEPARATE AND UNDERSTAND, "IS 44:57.704 --> 45:01.304 THAT GOD'S SPIRIT SPEAKING TO ME, OR IS IT JUST MY MIND, WILL, 45:01.304 --> 45:04.153 AND EMOTIONS SPEAKING TO ME?" AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE 45:04.153 --> 45:09.014 DIFFERENCE. SO BIBLICAL REVELATION, OR THE WORD OF GOD, 45:09.014 --> 45:13.094 RIGHTLY DIVIDES OUR SOUL AND OUR SPIRIT MAN. BY RENEWING OUR 45:13.094 --> 45:16.364 MINDS WITH THE WORD OF GOD, WE CAN FOLLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND 45:16.364 --> 45:18.884 I'M KIND OF JUST GIVING YOU A LITTLE REVIEW IN CASE YOU 45:18.884 --> 45:22.454 WEREN'T HERE THE LAST TWO WEEKS OR NEEDED THAT. SO I WANTED TO 45:22.454 --> 45:25.333 TALK ABOUT THAT JUST FOR A MOMENT. BUT TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA 45:25.333 --> 45:28.514 CONTINUE ON WITH HOW TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT AND HOW TO HEAR GOD'S 45:28.514 --> 45:33.134 VOICE IN MAYBE A LITTLE DEEPER WAY, MAYBE SOMETHING THAT YOU 45:33.134 --> 45:36.673 HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT BEFORE OR MAYBE IT'S GONNA BE REHEARSING 45:36.673 --> 45:39.523 THINGS THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW, BUT THAT'S ALWAYS GOOD TOO, 45:39.523 --> 45:44.684 ISN'T IT, JANET? AMEN. SO GOD CREATED US TO BE DEPENDENT ON 45:44.684 --> 45:48.764 HIM. WE ARE DEPENDENT UPON GOD AND HE WANTS TO GUIDE US EVERY 45:48.764 --> 45:51.643 DAY. WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN 45:51.643 --> 45:54.704 DECISION. PASTOR MARK COULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 45:54.704 --> 45:58.514 FOOLISH TO GO SPEAK TO THAT ATM MACHINE. HE COULD HAVE JUST WENT 45:58.514 --> 46:02.324 BACK TO KATE AND SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET 46:02.324 --> 46:06.403 OUT OUR HAND FANS "HERE AND JUST FAN OURSELVES OR SOMETHING." HE 46:06.403 --> 46:10.244 COULD HAVE DONE THAT, BUT HE STOOD ON FAITH AND WHAT HE 46:10.244 --> 46:13.693 BELIEVED HE HEARD. YOU'RE NOT ALWAYS GONNA GET IT RIGHT. 46:13.693 --> 46:16.994 SOMETIMES WE MISS IT. PASTOR MARK COULD TELL YOU THAT. HE'S 46:16.994 --> 46:20.384 PROBABLY MISSED IT BEFORE, BUT WE ALL HAVE. BUT IT STILL 46:20.384 --> 46:23.443 DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU DON'T STEP OUT IN OBEDIENCE WHEN YOU 46:23.443 --> 46:26.353 BELIEVE YOU HEAR, AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET EXPERIENCE IN HEARING 46:26.353 --> 46:29.804 AND TRUSTING THE VOICE OF GOD. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT A 46:29.804 --> 46:34.543 LITTLE BIT TONIGHT. BUT YOU DO HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE AND 46:34.543 --> 46:42.523 MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS, AND SOME PEOPLE DO THAT ONLY, HOW DO 46:42.523 --> 46:46.003 I WANNA SAY THIS? THEY'LL HIT A WALL AND THEN THEY'LL DECIDE, 46:46.003 --> 46:50.353 OKAY, NOW I NEED TO TURN TO GOD. IT'S MUCH BETTER TO TURN TO GOD 46:50.353 --> 46:53.384 IN THE BEGINNING AND BE DEPENDENT UPON HEARING HIS 46:53.384 --> 46:56.773 VOICE. KING SOLOMON WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT AND I'M NOT 46:56.773 --> 46:58.753 GOING TO HAVE YOU TURN THERE TONIGHT OR WE'RE NOT GOING TO 46:58.753 --> 47:01.634 READ THE SCRIPTURE, BUT IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES, YOU CAN JOT 47:01.634 --> 47:06.733 THIS DOWN. FIRST KINGS CHAPTER 3 VERSES 5 THROUGH 10 TELLS US THE 47:06.733 --> 47:11.744 STORY ABOUT WHEN GOD OFFERED TO GIVE SOLOMON ANYTHING HE WANTED, 47:11.744 --> 47:15.884 SOLOMON ASKED FOR WISDOM BECAUSE HE KNEW HE DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE 47:15.884 --> 47:20.443 ANSWERS. AND AT THIS TIME SOLOMON WAS THE MOST POWERFUL 47:20.443 --> 47:25.153 MAN IN THE KINGDOM AND YET HE ASKED GOD FOR WISDOM. HE 47:25.153 --> 47:29.083 ADMITTED, IN OTHER WORDS, THAT HE NEEDED GOD'S HELP. AND THAT 47:29.083 --> 47:33.164 HUMBLE REQUEST FOR WISDOM WAS SOMETHING THAT PLEASED GOD. 47:33.164 --> 47:38.534 ISAIAH 30, VERSE 21 SAYS, "WE'LL HEAR A VOICE SAYING, "'THIS IS 47:38.534 --> 47:44.414 THE WAY, WALK YE IN IT.'" THANK GOD FOR DIRECTION FROM THE HOLY 47:44.414 --> 47:49.094 SPIRIT. THAT'S AN AMAZING VERSE. WE'RE GONNA HEAR A, THAT'S ONE 47:49.094 --> 47:52.063 YOU CAN TAKE HOME WITH YOU TONIGHT. YOU'LL HEAR A VOICE 47:52.063 --> 47:56.083 SAYING, THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT SAYING TO YOU, "THIS IS THE WAY, 47:56.083 --> 48:00.733 WALK YE IN IT." THAT'S DIRECTION FROM GOD. WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW 48:00.733 --> 48:07.317 WHICH PATH TO GO, HE TELLS YOU IF YOU'RE LISTENING. I WANNA 48:07.317 --> 48:10.994 READ THAT VERSE TO YOU IN THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION. IT SAYS, 48:10.994 --> 48:15.704 "YOUR OWN EARS WILL HEAR HIM. "RIGHT BEHIND YOU A VOICE WILL 48:15.704 --> 48:20.143 SAY, "THIS IS THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO, "WHETHER TO THE RIGHT OR TO 48:20.143 --> 48:25.454 THE LEFT." SO WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO GOD'S GUIDANCE AND FOLLOW IT. 48:25.454 --> 48:29.114 GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EACH OF US AND HE WANTS TO LEAD US THROUGH 48:29.114 --> 48:32.173 THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE, THE GOOD TIMES, EVERYTHING THAT WE 48:32.173 --> 48:36.373 GO THROUGH, HE WANTS TO BE THERE TO LEAD US. BY TRUSTING IN HIS 48:36.373 --> 48:41.503 GUIDANCE, WE CAN NAVIGATE LIFE WITH PURPOSE AND WITH WISDOM. 48:41.503 --> 48:47.773 JOHN 16, VERSE 13 SAYS, "WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE 48:47.773 --> 48:52.244 WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH. HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN, 48:52.244 --> 48:56.324 BUT HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT HE HAS HEARD. HE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT 48:56.324 --> 49:01.603 THE FUTURE. HIS WISDOM IS INFINITE. HE SEES BEYOND OUR 49:01.603 --> 49:06.523 LIMITATIONS. HE CAN SEE FURTHER THAN WE CAN SEE. AND HE PREPARES 49:06.523 --> 49:10.184 US FOR WHAT'S AHEAD." YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY BENEFICIAL TO KNOW 49:10.184 --> 49:15.943 WHAT'S COMING. AND GOD WILL SHOW YOU THAT IF YOU SEEK HIM AND 49:15.943 --> 49:19.094 LISTEN. THAT'S THE ADVANTAGE OF HEARING GOD'S VOICE. THE HOLY 49:19.094 --> 49:22.724 SPIRIT'S HERE TO GUIDE US AND SHOW US WHAT'S AHEAD AND THEN 49:22.724 --> 49:26.954 PROVIDE THAT DIVINE DIRECTION TO US. NOW, IMAGINE WITH ME WHAT IT 49:26.954 --> 49:30.914 WOULD BE LIKE IF I PLACED A BLINDFOLD OVER YOUR EYES TONIGHT 49:30.914 --> 49:35.083 AND I ORDERED 200 BLINDFOLDS. I WAS GONNA PASS THEM OUT AND DO 49:35.083 --> 49:38.054 THIS, BUT THEN WHEN I TALKED TO PASTOR MARK, HE SAYS, "NO, 49:38.054 --> 49:41.414 THAT'S PROBABLY NOT WISE TO BLINDFOLD YOU "AND TELL YOU TO 49:41.414 --> 49:44.474 LEAVE THE AUDITORIUM. "YOU'D BE STUMBLING OVER EACH OTHER, 49:44.474 --> 49:48.853 "YOU'D FALL OVER FURNITURE, "AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT GET HURT." I 49:48.853 --> 49:52.844 DIDN'T REALLY DO THAT, BUT I THOUGHT ABOUT IT. BUT IMAGINE 49:52.844 --> 49:56.474 WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE PUT BLINDFOLDS OVER EACH OF YOU 49:56.474 --> 49:59.384 TONIGHT, AND THEN I ASKED YOU JUST TO GO AHEAD AND EXIT THE 49:59.384 --> 50:03.673 AUDITORIUM. IT COULD BE TOUGH TO DO. YOU MIGHT TRIP OVER 50:03.673 --> 50:07.034 SOMETHING AND STUMBLE AROUND. YOU MIGHT RUN INTO ANOTHER 50:07.034 --> 50:12.403 PERSON. IT'S A VIVID PICTURE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN WE DON'T 50:12.403 --> 50:16.829 HEAR GOD'S VOICE. SOME CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE A PERSON 50:16.829 --> 50:20.849 WALKING AROUND BLINDFOLDED. THEY'RE SAVED AND THEY LOVE GOD, 50:20.849 --> 50:24.449 BUT THEY STRUGGLE TO HEAR HIS VOICE. THEY GO THROUGH LIFE 50:24.449 --> 50:30.269 BUMPING INTO OBSTACLES, REACTING TO A CRISIS, OR MAKING DECISIONS 50:30.269 --> 50:35.639 BASED ON TRIAL AND ERROR RATHER THAN DIVINE INSIGHT. THE 50:35.639 --> 50:39.690 CHRISTIAN LIFE ISN'T MEANT TO BE A SERIES OF RANDOM MISTAKES AND 50:39.690 --> 50:43.889 CORRECTIONS. WE'RE NOT MEANT TO WANDER AIMLESSLY AND THEN JUST 50:43.889 --> 50:50.130 SEEK GOD'S HELP WHEN WE GET INTO A JAM. GOD WANTS US TO LISTEN TO 50:50.130 --> 50:55.829 HIM DAILY AS HE GUIDES US CLEARLY AND GENTLY. SO THE 50:55.829 --> 50:59.519 QUESTION IS, HOW DO WE GET BETTER AT LISTENING TO THE HOLY 50:59.519 --> 51:04.170 SPIRIT? WE ALL WANT TO IMPROVE THAT. AND THERE ARE A FEW 51:04.170 --> 51:06.960 PRACTICAL STEPS WE CAN TAKE THAT CAN KEEP US ON TRACK AND 51:06.960 --> 51:10.380 FOLLOWING THE GUIDANCE FROM GOD THAT HE WANTS US TO HAVE. FIRST 51:10.380 --> 51:12.449 OF ALL, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS. THERE'S TWO SOURCES OF 51:12.449 --> 51:15.900 KNOWLEDGE. NUMBER ONE, THERE'S RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE THAT'S 51:15.900 --> 51:20.460 RECEIVED IN OUR MIND. AND THEN THERE'S SECONDLY, REVELATION 51:20.460 --> 51:26.010 KNOWLEDGE THAT'S RECEIVED IN OUR SPIRIT. SO OUR SOUL, WHICH WE 51:26.010 --> 51:28.710 TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK, OUR MIND, WILL, AND EMOTIONS HAS THE 51:28.710 --> 51:33.300 CAPACITY TO SEE AND HEAR AND KNOW INFORMATION THROUGH THE 51:33.300 --> 51:37.409 FIVE SENSES THAT GOD CREATED WITHIN US. AND LEARNING AND 51:37.409 --> 51:40.320 THINKING ARE A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. WE 51:40.320 --> 51:43.230 CAN TAKE IN DATA AND WE CAN PROCESS IT AND WE CAN DRAW 51:43.230 --> 51:47.969 CONCLUSIONS. WE ALL HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THAT. THAT'S OUR 51:47.969 --> 51:52.079 MIND KNOWLEDGE, OUR CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. OUR MIND WILL AND 51:52.079 --> 51:55.679 EMOTIONS RECEIVING THAT. THEN SECONDLY, REVELATION KNOWLEDGE 51:55.679 --> 52:01.170 IS RECEIVED BY OUR SPIRIT MAN. FIRST CORINTHIANS 2.14, PAUL 52:01.170 --> 52:06.360 TALKS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE THAT MUST BE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. LET'S 52:06.360 --> 52:10.409 PUT UP FIRST CORINTHIANS 2.14 IF YOU WOULD. BUT THE NATURAL MAN 52:10.409 --> 52:14.610 DOES NOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, FOR THEY ARE 52:14.610 --> 52:17.909 FOOLISHNESS TO HIM, NOR CAN HE KNOW THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE 52:17.909 --> 52:21.570 SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. THE NATURAL MAN, IN OTHER WORDS, 52:21.570 --> 52:25.619 THAT MEANS AN UNBELIEVER CANNOT KNOW OR RECEIVE THE TRUTH THAT 52:25.619 --> 52:30.329 YOU CAN RECEIVE AS A BELIEVER. THAT'S BECAUSE NATURAL MEN ONLY 52:30.329 --> 52:35.400 RECEIVE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THOSE FIVE SENSES. UNBELIEVERS COME 52:35.400 --> 52:39.150 ALIVE IN THEIR SPIRIT WHEN THEY RECEIVE CHRIST. AND YOU SAY, 52:39.150 --> 52:41.280 "PASTOR DOUG, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" WELL, THE WORD TELLS US 52:41.280 --> 52:43.980 THAT. I'M GONNA PROVE IT TO YOU RIGHT NOW. EPHESIANS 2, WE 52:43.980 --> 52:47.010 LOOKED AT THIS LAST WEEK, BUT WE'LL DO IT AGAIN. EPHESIANS 2, 52:47.010 --> 52:49.920 VERSES ONE THROUGH TWO, I WANT TO READ IT IN THE AMPLIFIED, AND 52:49.920 --> 52:54.269 IT SAYS, "AND YOU, HE MADE ALIVE WHEN YOU WERE SPIRITUALLY DEAD 52:54.269 --> 52:59.760 "AND SEPARATED FROM HIM BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS AND SINS "IN 52:59.760 --> 53:02.670 WHICH YOU ONCE WALKED. "YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE WAYS OF THIS 53:02.670 --> 53:05.820 WORLD, "INFLUENCED BY THE PRESENT AGE IN ACCORDANCE "WITH 53:05.820 --> 53:08.940 THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, SATAN, "THE SPIRIT WHO IS 53:08.940 --> 53:13.980 NOW AT WORK IN THE DISOBEDIENT, THE UNBELIEVING, TO FIGHT 53:13.980 --> 53:20.099 AGAINST THE PURPOSES OF GOD." ONCE OUR SPIRIT MAN CAME ALIVE 53:20.099 --> 53:24.269 WITHIN US, GOD WAS ABLE TO REVEAL THINGS TO OUR SPIRIT THAT 53:24.269 --> 53:28.739 WE COULDN'T RECEIVE PREVIOUSLY IN OUR MINDS OR THROUGH OUR FIVE 53:28.739 --> 53:35.429 SENSES. NOW, MOST PENTECOSTAL INDIVIDUALS HAVE EXPERIENCED 53:35.429 --> 53:39.480 THIS PERSONALLY. YOU UNDERSTAND RECEIVING THROUGH THE SPIRIT. 53:39.480 --> 53:42.570 YOU'VE BEEN AROUND THAT ENOUGH. BUT WE WANT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND 53:42.570 --> 53:45.929 HOW THAT WORKS IN RELATIONSHIP TO OUR SOUL AND SPIRIT AND 53:45.929 --> 53:49.349 BECOME MORE SENSITIVE TO IT. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A CHRISTIAN 53:49.349 --> 53:53.039 CAN DO IN THE LIMITED TIME THAT WE HAVE ON THIS EARTH IS TO BE 53:53.039 --> 53:57.750 ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND DISCERN GOD'S VOICE SPEAKING TO US SO 53:57.750 --> 54:01.769 THAT WE CAN LINE UP WITH HIS PLAN FOR OUR LIVES. SO THAT WE 54:01.769 --> 54:07.110 CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE WANTS TO ACCOMPLISH BEFORE WE MOVE ON. WE 54:07.110 --> 54:12.480 CAN DEVELOP OUR SPIRITUAL EARS THROUGH EXPERIENCE. WE CAN TUNE 54:12.480 --> 54:16.889 OUR EARS JUST LIKE A HORSE PRICKS UP HIS EARS TO LISTEN. WE 54:16.889 --> 54:23.789 NEED TO FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON GOD'S VOICE. PROVERBS 4:20 SAYS, 54:23.789 --> 54:28.949 "MY SON, ATTEND TO MY WORDS, INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO MY 54:28.949 --> 54:35.849 SAYINGS." THAT'S WHAT THAT HORSE DOES. HE PRICKS UP HIS EARS WHEN 54:35.849 --> 54:39.869 HE HEARS A SOUND. HE'S ATTENTIVE. WE NEED TO PRICK OUR 54:39.869 --> 54:44.579 EARS AND LISTEN TO GOD. WE NEED TO BE ATTENTIVE AND INTENTIONAL 54:44.579 --> 54:48.300 ABOUT HEARING GOD'S VOICE. MUSICIANS DEVELOP AN EAR FOR 54:48.300 --> 54:52.590 MUSIC AND THEY HAVE A SENSITIVITY TO DISTINGUISH ONE 54:52.590 --> 54:58.619 KEY FROM ANOTHER. THEIR ABILITY TO HEAR NOTES MORE PRECISELY IS 54:58.619 --> 55:02.460 DEVELOPED BY THE REASON OF USAGE. OF COURSE, THEY MIGHT BE 55:02.460 --> 55:08.489 GIFTED TO DO THAT. MOST ARE. BUT A GOOD MUSICIAN DEVELOPS HIS 55:08.489 --> 55:13.199 SENSITIVITY TO THE SOUNDS OF THE NOTES IN THE SAME WAY WE CAN 55:13.199 --> 55:17.039 DEVELOP OUR SENSITIVITY TO THE SOUND OF GOD'S VOICE IN OUR 55:17.039 --> 55:21.599 SPIRIT. THAT WAY WE CAN MORE PRECISELY DISTINGUISH THAT FROM 55:21.599 --> 55:25.769 OUR OWN THOUGHTS OR ANOTHER VOICE THAT WE MIGHT HEAR. 55:25.769 --> 55:28.679 SOMETIMES WE HEAR GOD IN OUR SPIRIT BUT WE DON'T TRUST OUR 55:28.679 --> 55:32.309 ABILITY TO HEAR ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON WHAT GOD IS ACTUALLY 55:32.309 --> 55:36.224 SAYING AND THAT ISSUE CAN ONLY BE ADDRESSED THROUGH EXPERIENCE. 55:38.489 --> 55:43.230 WHEN PASTOR MARK HAD THAT EXPERIENCE AND WALKED THROUGH 55:43.230 --> 55:46.710 WHAT HE DID AS GOD LED HIM STEP BY STEP THROUGH THOSE THINGS, 55:46.710 --> 55:51.269 THAT BUILT HIS FAITH SO THAT HE COULD LISTEN MORE KEENLY THE 55:51.269 --> 55:57.539 NEXT TIME. IF I FAIL TO ACT ON WHAT GOD IS REVEALING TO ME IN 55:57.539 --> 56:03.809 MY SPIRIT, THEN I'M DEPRIVING MYSELF OF NEEDED EXPERIENCE. HOW 56:03.809 --> 56:08.280 DID YOU LEARN TO RIDE A BICYCLE? YOU MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OTHERS DO 56:08.280 --> 56:11.250 IT. MAYBE YOUR PARENTS OR YOUR SIBLINGS GAVE YOU SOME 56:11.250 --> 56:15.690 INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO DO IT. BUT TO DEVELOP THE BALANCE AND THE 56:15.690 --> 56:19.469 SKILL TO RIDE THAT BIKE, YOU HAD TO DO WHAT? YOU HAD TO RIDE IT 56:19.469 --> 56:23.760 YOURSELF. YOU HAD TO ACTUALLY GET ON THE BIKE. WATCHING 56:23.760 --> 56:28.380 SOMEONE ELSE DO IT DOESN'T TEACH YOU HOW TO RIDE A BIKE. WHEN YOU 56:28.380 --> 56:32.159 FIRST STARTED, YOU PROBABLY HAD SOME INITIAL FEAR OF FALLING OFF 56:32.159 --> 56:36.329 THAT BIKE OR FALLING OVER, BUT YOU DIDN'T LET THOSE FEARS STOP 56:36.329 --> 56:40.679 YOU FROM TRYING. THE MORE YOU TRIED, THE MORE SKILLED YOU 56:40.679 --> 56:44.969 BECAME IN DOING IT. SO BECOMING SEASONED IN SPIRITUAL MATTERS 56:44.969 --> 56:51.059 REQUIRES STEPPING OUT AND THE HUMILITY TO RISK A MISTAKE. WHEN 56:51.059 --> 56:53.429 THE LORD SPEAKS A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE IN MY SPIRIT, 56:53.429 --> 56:57.929 SOMETIMES I THINK OR QUESTION, "IS THAT JUST ME? IS THE VOICE 56:57.929 --> 57:02.429 THAT I HEARD IN MY SPIRIT TRULY THE HOLY SPIRIT?" I'M CONFRONTED 57:02.429 --> 57:08.039 WITH A DECISION AT THAT POINT. I CAN CHOOSE TO NOT ACT ON WHAT I 57:08.039 --> 57:13.568 BELIEVE I'M HEARING OR I CAN STEP OUT IN FAITH AND SHARE IT. 57:15.150 --> 57:18.150 IF IT'S CONFIRMED TO BE TRUE, THEN I'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT 57:18.150 --> 57:24.659 WHAT A TRUE WORD FROM THE SPIRIT SOUNDS LIKE. BUT WHAT IF I MISS 57:24.659 --> 57:28.349 IT? THAT'S A HUMBLING EXPERIENCE, BUT IT'S OKAY TO BE 57:28.349 --> 57:32.519 WRONG. IF WE RESPOND TO OUR MISTAKES IN HUMILITY, THAT'S 57:32.519 --> 57:37.349 OKAY. EVEN WHEN I MISS IT, I'VE INCREASED MY UNDERSTANDING OF 57:37.349 --> 57:40.949 HEARING GOD. I'LL KNOW BETTER THE NEXT TIME WHAT TO DO OR NOT 57:40.949 --> 57:45.900 TO DO. IF I NEVER STEP OUT AND TEST WHAT I'M HEARING IN MY 57:45.900 --> 57:51.059 SPIRIT, THEN I DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP AND HONE 57:51.059 --> 57:56.429 IN ON THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH GOD'S VOICE FROM MY VOICE OR 57:56.429 --> 58:00.659 WHAT I'M HEARING IN MY HEAD. HUMILITY IS VERY IMPORTANT IN 58:00.659 --> 58:03.780 WALKING IN THE SPIRIT. MEN, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LISTEN TO YOUR 58:03.780 --> 58:08.340 WIVES. WOMEN HAVE A NATURAL ABILITY TO BE MORE SENSITIVE TO 58:08.340 --> 58:14.429 GOD IN MANY CASES. THEY HAVE THAT EXTRA SENSITIVE ANTENNA TO 58:14.429 --> 58:19.679 HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD. WHEN EILEEN TELLS ME THAT SHE SENSES 58:19.679 --> 58:24.389 SOMETHING OR HAS AN UNCTION OR DIRECTION THAT SHE BELIEVES IS 58:24.389 --> 58:28.679 FROM GOD, I HAVE LEARNED TO LISTEN. BECAUSE THERE WAS A TIME 58:28.679 --> 58:31.710 WHEN I WAS A SLOW LEARNER AND I DIDN'T LISTEN, AND THEN I PAID 58:31.710 --> 58:39.271 THE PRICE. IT TOOK ME A WHILE. BUT MOST OFTEN, SHE WAS RIGHT. 58:41.579 --> 58:45.000 AND SHE COMMUNICATED IT WITH HUMILITY, AND HOPEFULLY I'M 58:45.000 --> 58:48.750 LEARNING MORE TO RECEIVE THAT. AND THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE 58:48.750 --> 58:54.389 HUSBANDS AND WIVES CAN WORK WELL TOGETHER IN THAT CASE. AND IT'S 58:54.389 --> 58:59.130 IMPORTANT TO DO THAT. AND WIVES, THERE'S TIMES YOU NEED TO LISTEN 58:59.130 --> 59:02.099 TO YOUR HUSBANDS TOO. I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT ONLY GOES ONE 59:02.099 --> 59:05.909 WAY. I'M JUST SAYING THAT IT SEEMS THOUGH, AND I GUESS I 59:05.909 --> 59:08.460 CAN'T REALLY PROVE THIS FROM SCRIPTURE, THAT IT SEEMS LIKE 59:08.460 --> 59:14.489 WOMEN HAVE THAT SENSITIVITY THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO RECEIVE AND HEAR 59:14.489 --> 59:18.269 THE VOICE OF GOD SOMETIMES EASIER THAN SOME MEN CAN FOR 59:18.269 --> 59:23.429 WHATEVER REASON. THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL OBSERVATION, OKAY? 59:23.429 --> 59:29.280 DON'T SAY THAT'S NECESSARILY BIBLE. RICK'S LAUGHING AT ME. 59:30.809 --> 59:35.969 YEAH. EILEEN SAYS, "THAT'S BIBLE." I NEED A VERSE FOR THAT. 59:42.030 --> 59:45.900 AS WE HEAR GOD AND LEARN TO REACT IN OBEDIENCE, WE BECOME 59:45.900 --> 59:49.050 MORE ACCURATE. THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IN OUR ABILITY TO 59:49.050 --> 59:53.010 HEAR. BUT LET'S LOOK AT TWO TESTS TONIGHT THAT I BELIEVE 59:53.010 --> 59:59.730 WILL HELP US IDENTIFY WHAT GOD IS SAYING AND ALSO IDENTIFY IF 59:59.730 --> 01:00:04.019 IT'S FLESH THAT WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO HEAR. TEST NUMBER ONE, DOES 01:00:04.019 --> 01:00:08.309 IT AGREE WITH SCRIPTURE? THAT'S ALWAYS THE FIRST TEST. DOES IT 01:00:08.309 --> 01:00:11.429 AGREE WITH SCRIPTURE? AND THEN TEST NUMBER TWO WE'RE GONNA TALK 01:00:11.429 --> 01:00:17.389 ABOUT IS WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL IMPACT OF WHAT I'M HEARING? THE 01:00:17.389 --> 01:00:21.079 FIRST TEST, DOES IT AGREE WITH SCRIPTURE? HEARING IN OUR SPIRIT 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:27.110 IS SUBJECTIVE AND WE ALWAYS TEST IT WITH THE REVEALED SCRIPTURE 01:00:27.110 --> 01:00:31.911 IN LIGHT OF SCRIPTURE. ISAIAH 820 SAYS, "LOOK TO GOD'S 01:00:31.911 --> 01:00:36.050 INSTRUCTIONS AND TEACHINGS. PEOPLE WHO CONTRADICT HIS WORD 01:00:36.050 --> 01:00:40.820 ARE COMPLETELY IN THE DARK." SO IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU 01:00:40.820 --> 01:00:45.920 SOMETHING THAT IS NOT SCRIPTURAL AND SAYS IT'S FROM GOD, YOU HAVE 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.751 THE ANSWER FOR THAT IMMEDIATELY. IF WHAT WE'RE HEARING IS NOT 01:00:50.751 --> 01:00:53.059 CONSISTENT WITH GOD'S WORD, WE'RE NOT HEARING THE HOLY 01:00:53.059 --> 01:00:58.130 SPIRIT. YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD THESE STORIES OF SO 01:00:58.130 --> 01:01:00.981 -CALLED MEN OF GOD THAT HAVE TOLD SOMEONE TO GO DIVORCE THEIR 01:01:00.981 --> 01:01:04.760 WIFE AND MARRY SOMEONE ELSE OR THINGS LIKE THAT. WELL, WE KNOW 01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:07.666 THAT'S NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE IT'S NOT SCRIPTURAL. 01:01:10.010 --> 01:01:15.530 SO IF THERE'S A GOD-GIVEN PROTECTION FOR DISCERNING 01:01:15.530 --> 01:01:18.349 THE LEADINGS OF THE LORD, LET'S LOOK AT 2 PETER 1, 20 01:01:18.349 --> 01:01:23.539 AND 21, VERSE 20 AND 21. IT SAYS, "ABOVE ALL, YOU MUST 01:01:23.539 --> 01:01:26.420 REALIZE "THAT NO PROPHECY IN SCRIPTURE EVER CAME 01:01:26.420 --> 01:01:31.280 "FROM THE PROPHET'S OWN UNDERSTANDING." AND CONTINUE ON 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.079 IF YOU WOULD. OKAY, I'LL LOOK AT MY NOTES. "OR FROM THE HUMAN 01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:40.460 INITIATIVE. "NO, THOSE PROPHETS WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:01:40.460 --> 01:01:46.221 "AND THEY SPOKE FROM GOD." YES, AMEN. "INCREASING OUR KNOWLEDGE 01:01:46.221 --> 01:01:49.251 OF THE SCRIPTURE "WILL HELP US DISCERN IF THE LEADING'S "FROM 01:01:49.251 --> 01:01:54.710 THE HOLY SPIRIT OR FLESH." AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, I'M GONNA 01:01:54.710 --> 01:01:57.222 READ IT AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SCRIPTURE. 01:01:58.731 --> 01:02:02.599 HEBREWS 4, 12, WE'LL PUT THAT UP AGAIN. "FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS 01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:05.420 QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER "THAN ANY TWO 01:02:05.420 --> 01:02:08.119 -EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING "ASUNDER OF SOUL 01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:11.269 AND SPIRIT AND OF JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF 01:02:11.269 --> 01:02:15.201 THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART." SO BIBLICAL REVELATION, 01:02:15.201 --> 01:02:19.190 AGAIN, THE WORD OF GOD RIGHTLY DIVIDES OR SHOWS US WHAT IS SOUL 01:02:19.190 --> 01:02:23.181 AND WHAT IS SPIRIT. IF WE'RE NOT GROUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD, 01:02:23.181 --> 01:02:27.349 IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOUL AND 01:02:27.349 --> 01:02:31.519 SPIRIT MANY TIMES. SO THE MORE YOU CAN STUDY THE WORD, THE MORE 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:34.670 YOU CAN HEAR THE WORD, THE MORE YOU DECLARE THE WORD, THE MORE 01:02:34.670 --> 01:02:39.079 YOU'RE AROUND THE WORD, YOU'LL GET SHARPER IN YOUR HEARING. 01:02:40.820 --> 01:02:42.889 WHEN WE'RE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO 01:02:42.889 --> 01:02:47.269 SEPARATE OUR SOUL FROM THE SPIRIT. AND BY RENEWING OUR 01:02:47.269 --> 01:02:49.911 MINDS WITH THE WORD OF GOD, WE CAN LEARN TO FOLLOW THE HOLY 01:02:49.911 --> 01:02:54.559 SPIRIT'S LEADING. ROMANS 12, 2, "BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, 01:02:54.559 --> 01:02:59.539 BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU 01:02:59.539 --> 01:03:03.590 MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT WILL OF 01:03:03.590 --> 01:03:07.639 GOD. YOU'LL WALK OUT THE WILL OF GOD AS YOU RENEW YOUR MIND WITH 01:03:07.639 --> 01:03:12.650 THE WORD. THERE AGAIN, YOUR SPIRIT MAN BECOMES ALIVE WHEN 01:03:12.650 --> 01:03:19.519 YOU GET SAVED. IT'S MADE NEW AND FRESH, COMMUNICATING WITH GOD. 01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:23.661 BUT THE MIND, THE WILL AND THE EMOTION HAS TO BE RENEWED. 01:03:23.661 --> 01:03:27.231 THAT'S THE SOUL PART OF MAN. IT TAKES TIME TO DO THAT. IT'S DONE 01:03:27.231 --> 01:03:31.130 OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. SOMEONE THAT'S BEEN SAVED FOR 50 YEARS, 01:03:31.130 --> 01:03:35.300 HOPEFULLY WOULD HAVE MORE OF A RENEWED MIND THAN SOMEONE THAT 01:03:35.300 --> 01:03:40.221 GOT SAVED SIX MONTHS AGO. THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALL WALKING AT 01:03:40.221 --> 01:03:44.030 DIFFERENT STAGES OF MATURITY AND WE HAVE TO HAVE GRACE AND MERCY 01:03:44.030 --> 01:03:50.329 WITH ONE ANOTHER BECAUSE SOMEONE THAT YOU LOVE AND MAY BE SITTING 01:03:50.329 --> 01:03:53.751 NEXT TO TONIGHT MAY NOT BE IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE SPIRITUALLY 01:03:53.751 --> 01:04:00.231 THAT YOU ARE. SO WE ALL HAVE TO HAVE PATIENCE WITH ONE ANOTHER 01:04:00.231 --> 01:04:02.539 AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE THINGS THAT WE'RE MOVING THROUGH IN 01:04:02.539 --> 01:04:06.110 THIS LIFE. THE TRUTH THAT WE HAVE HIDDEN IN OUR HEARTS IS 01:04:06.110 --> 01:04:11.539 WHAT WE CAN USE TO PULL ON TO TEST OUR LEADINGS. YOU CAN PULL 01:04:11.539 --> 01:04:15.677 ON THAT KNOWLEDGE. THEN WE CAN MORE EASILY DETERMINE IF GOD'S 01:04:15.677 --> 01:04:20.539 SPEAKING TO OUR SPIRIT MAN. PSALM 119, VERSE 11. YOUR WORD 01:04:20.539 --> 01:04:26.300 HAVE I HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I MAY NOT SIN AGAINST YOU. THE 01:04:26.300 --> 01:04:28.550 MORE THE WORD'S HIDDEN IN OUR HEART, THE BETTER EQUIPPED WE 01:04:28.550 --> 01:04:31.519 ARE TO DISCERN THAT VOICE AND WALK IN THE SPIRIT. REMEMBER 01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:36.860 WHEN SATAN WAS TRYING TO MISLEAD JESUS. LUKE CHAPTER FOUR TALKS 01:04:36.860 --> 01:04:40.701 ABOUT THAT. SATAN ATTEMPTED TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE TO JESUS, BUT IT 01:04:40.701 --> 01:04:46.251 WAS THE WORD THAT WAS HIDDEN IN JESUS' HEART THAT WAS ABLE TO 01:04:46.251 --> 01:04:50.869 DEFEAT THE DECEIVER. LET'S LOOK AT THAT SCRIPTURE. LUKE FOUR, 01:04:50.869 --> 01:04:56.059 VERSES FIVE THROUGH EIGHT. "THEN THE DEVIL, TAKING HIM, JESUS, UP 01:04:56.059 --> 01:04:59.539 ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN, "SHOWED JESUS ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE 01:04:59.539 --> 01:05:05.181 WORLD "IN A MOMENT OF TIME. AND THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS, 'ALL 01:05:05.181 --> 01:05:10.130 THIS AUTHORITY I WILL GIVE YOU AND THEIR GLORY, FOR THIS HAS 01:05:10.130 --> 01:05:14.181 BEEN DELIVERED TO ME, AND I GIVE IT TO WHOMEVER I WISH. 01:05:15.590 --> 01:05:19.971 THEREFORE, IF YOU WILL WORSHIP ME, OR WORSHIP BEFORE ME, ALL 01:05:19.971 --> 01:05:23.539 WILL BE YOURS.' AND JESUS ANSWERED HIM AND SAID TO HIM, 01:05:23.539 --> 01:05:27.619 'GET BEHIND ME, SATAN, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE 01:05:27.619 --> 01:05:32.809 LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE.' SO JESUS 01:05:32.809 --> 01:05:35.809 RESPONDED TO SATAN'S TWISTING OF SCRIPTURE WITH THE TRUTH OF 01:05:35.809 --> 01:05:40.731 SCRIPTURE. WHEN SATAN CLAIMED, 'IF YOU'LL JUST WORSHIP ME, ALL 01:05:40.731 --> 01:05:44.329 WILL BE YOURS,' JESUS RESPONDED FROM SCRIPTURE AND SAID, 'IT'S 01:05:44.329 --> 01:05:47.840 WRITTEN, YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY 01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:54.170 SHALL YOU SERVE.' JESUS' USE OF SCRIPTURE WAS CRUCIAL AT THAT 01:05:54.170 --> 01:05:58.550 POINT. HE HAD THE WORD IN HIS HEART AND HE USED IT TO EXPOSE 01:05:58.550 --> 01:06:02.661 THE MISUSE OF SCRIPTURE BY SATAN. JESUS USED IT AS A 01:06:02.661 --> 01:06:07.130 DEFENSE BUT IT ALSO WAS A MEANS OF HIM ALIGNING HIS OWN ACTIONS 01:06:07.130 --> 01:06:11.300 WITH THE WILL OF GOD AND GOD'S PURPOSES. SO TIME SPENT GETTING 01:06:11.300 --> 01:06:14.150 GOD'S WORD IN YOUR HEART CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN A 01:06:14.150 --> 01:06:19.460 CRUCIAL TEST THAT YOU MIGHT ENTER INTO. IT'S CRITICAL FOR US 01:06:19.460 --> 01:06:22.820 TO BE ABLE TO DISCERN AND HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD IN OUR SPIRIT 01:06:22.820 --> 01:06:28.099 MAN. YOU MIGHT BE DRIVING SOMEDAY, HEADING SOMEWHERE, 01:06:28.099 --> 01:06:32.329 MAYBE TO WORK, MAYBE YOU'VE GOT AN ASSIGNMENT YOU'RE GOING TO, 01:06:32.329 --> 01:06:36.800 AND YOU HEAR THAT INWARD VOICE SAY, "TURN HERE." "BUT LORD, 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:41.240 THAT'S NOT THE NORMAL ROUTE THAT I TAKE." WELL, YOU HAVE A 01:06:41.240 --> 01:06:44.150 DECISION TO MAKE AT THAT POINT. ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THE HOLY 01:06:44.150 --> 01:06:52.099 GHOST AND TURN? MAYBE YOU'LL AVOID AN ACCIDENT JUST BY MAKING 01:06:52.099 --> 01:06:57.440 THAT TURN. BUT THAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE AND 01:06:57.440 --> 01:07:00.951 LEARN TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD. IF YOU'RE OBEDIENT TO WHAT HE 01:07:00.951 --> 01:07:08.300 SAYS AND YOU DO IT, THEN YOU CAN LEARN FROM THAT. BACK IN 2002, I 01:07:08.300 --> 01:07:13.039 WAS AN ASSOCIATE PASTOR AT A CHURCH IN SIOUX CITY, IOWA, AND 01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.431 I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MENTIONED THIS ILLUSTRATION ANOTHER TIME, 01:07:16.431 --> 01:07:20.001 I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG AGO EVEN IT WAS, BUT JUST FOR 01:07:20.001 --> 01:07:25.068 ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES, I'LL TELL IT AGAIN. IF YOU'VE HEARD IT 01:07:25.068 --> 01:07:30.650 BEFORE, FORGIVE ME. BUT THE SENIOR PASTORS AT THIS CHURCH 01:07:30.650 --> 01:07:36.889 HAD RECEIVED A SMALL INHERITANCE FROM THE PASSING OF ONE OF THE 01:07:36.889 --> 01:07:40.639 PASTOR'S PARENTS. AND IT WAS ABOUT A $10,000 AMOUNT OF MONEY 01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:43.971 THAT THEY HAD TO INVEST. AND THEY ASKED ME ABOUT INVESTING IT 01:07:43.971 --> 01:07:49.039 INTO SOME PRECIOUS METALS, SOME SILVER AND GOLD COINS. AND I 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:53.570 HELPED THEM DO THAT. WE GOT THE COINS SECURED. AND AT THAT TIME, 01:07:53.570 --> 01:07:58.731 THE CHURCH HAD A LARGE SAFE IN THE CHURCH THAT WAS... 01:07:58.731 --> 01:08:03.349 IT WAS A HEAVY VAULT, KIND OF LIKE YOU'D SEE IN A BANK ALMOST. 01:08:03.349 --> 01:08:09.411 IT HAD A THICK DOOR ON IT. AND I MEAN, IT WAS HEAVY TO OPEN. AND 01:08:09.411 --> 01:08:14.539 WE JUST MARKED THAT AMOUNT OF PRECIOUS METALS IN A CONTAINER 01:08:14.539 --> 01:08:17.449 THAT IT WAS THEIR PERSONAL PROPERTY. AND WE WRAPPED IT UP 01:08:17.449 --> 01:08:21.081 GOOD, AND WE MARKED IT THAT IT WAS NOT THE CHURCH'S PROPERTY SO 01:08:21.081 --> 01:08:25.430 THAT WE KNEW THAT IT WOULD BE IDENTIFIABLE IF EVER NEEDED. 01:08:25.430 --> 01:08:30.381 - IF SOMEONE NEEDED TO KNOW WHOSE IT WAS. IT WAS MARKED. AND 01:08:30.381 --> 01:08:38.091 SO WE PUT THOSE COINS IN THAT SAFE. AND ABOUT A YEAR LATER, I 01:08:38.091 --> 01:08:40.791 WAS GETTING OUT OF MY CAR. I CAN SEE MYSELF DOING IT NOW. IT WAS 01:08:40.791 --> 01:08:44.690 ON THE GRAVEL PARKING LOT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THAT CHURCH. AND I 01:08:44.690 --> 01:08:48.501 PUT MY FOOT ON THE GRAVEL, AND AT THAT MOMENT, THE LORD SPOKE 01:08:48.501 --> 01:08:58.070 TO ME AND SAID, "GET PASTOR'S COINS OUT OF THAT SAFE." AND I 01:08:58.070 --> 01:09:00.470 THOUGHT, IT KIND OF TOOK ME BACK. IT WAS KIND OF STRANGE 01:09:00.470 --> 01:09:05.751 BECAUSE I HAD NO THOUGHT OF THAT. THAT I WAS COMING BACK 01:09:05.751 --> 01:09:08.930 FROM LUNCH THINKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT I HAD TO DO THE REST 01:09:08.930 --> 01:09:14.900 OF THE DAY. AND WHEN GOD REVEALED THAT TO ME, I THOUGHT, 01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:20.150 "WHY? WHY AM I HEARING THIS?" AND THAT'S AN... I DON'T KNOW IF 01:09:20.150 --> 01:09:24.739 THIS WILL APPLY TO ANYONE ELSE, BUT IT HELPS ME. MANY TIMES WHEN 01:09:24.739 --> 01:09:30.171 GOD SPEAKS TO ME, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I AM NOT AT ALL THINKING 01:09:30.171 --> 01:09:35.121 ABOUT IN MY NATURAL MIND. IT BOILS UP IN ME AND IT CAN ALMOST 01:09:35.121 --> 01:09:40.699 CATCH ME OFF GUARD. IF I'M THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING AND 01:09:40.699 --> 01:09:44.930 TRYING TO RATIONALIZE IT IN MY MIND, MANY TIMES IT'S NOT GOD. 01:09:45.949 --> 01:09:49.610 BUT WHEN IT JUST COMES UP OUT OF NOWHERE, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 01:09:49.610 --> 01:09:53.180 YEAH, THAT'S WHEN I A LOT OF TIMES KNOW THAT, OKAY, THAT'S 01:09:53.180 --> 01:09:58.820 GOD SPEAKING TO ME. SO I HAD A DECISION TO MAKE AT THAT POINT. 01:09:58.820 --> 01:10:03.801 DO I BOTHER THESE PASTORS, GIVE THEM A CALL AND TELL THEM THAT 01:10:03.801 --> 01:10:06.740 THEY NEED TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO GET THESE COINS OUT OF THE SAFE? 01:10:08.150 --> 01:10:12.320 OR DO I NEED TO JUST WAIT ON THIS FOR A WHILE AND MAYBE IT'LL 01:10:12.320 --> 01:10:15.501 BE CONFIRMED? BUT I FELT AN URGENCY AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 01:10:15.501 --> 01:10:19.010 THEY MIGHT THINK I'M NUTS, BUT I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL 01:10:19.010 --> 01:10:23.390 THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT I HEARD. SO I MOVED FORWARD BELIEVING 01:10:23.390 --> 01:10:26.780 THAT I'D HEARD GOD. I CALLED THEM AND THEY WERE VERY 01:10:26.780 --> 01:10:30.315 RECEPTIVE TO THAT. THEY SAID, "OKAY." SO THE NEXT MORNING WE 01:10:30.315 --> 01:10:34.277 WENT TO THE LOCAL BANK. WE OPENED A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX IN 01:10:34.277 --> 01:10:38.895 THEIR NAME AND WE MOVED THOSE COINS OUT OF THAT CHURCH SAFE, 01:10:38.895 --> 01:10:42.586 GOT THEM SECURED. THEY HAD THE KEYS. WE WERE FINE. I DIDN'T 01:10:42.586 --> 01:10:46.365 THINK ANY MORE ABOUT IT. AND ABOUT A WEEK OR MAYBE IT WAS TWO 01:10:46.365 --> 01:10:50.529 WEEKS LATER, I GOT A CALL ON A SUNDAY MORNING. THE CHURCH HAD 01:10:50.529 --> 01:10:55.155 BEEN BROKEN INTO. THERE WAS A PERKINS RESTAURANT RIGHT ACROSS 01:10:55.155 --> 01:10:59.176 THE STREET FROM THIS CHURCH AND THE THIEVES HAD BROKEN INTO THAT 01:10:59.176 --> 01:11:02.506 PERKINS RESTAURANT THAT NIGHT AND THEY'D ALSO BROKEN INTO THIS 01:11:02.506 --> 01:11:06.886 CHURCH. WELL, THE INTERESTING THING WAS THEY KNOCKED DOWN THE 01:11:06.886 --> 01:11:10.725 DOOR, THE WOODEN DOOR THAT WAS THE OFFICE WHERE THE ACCOUNTING 01:11:10.725 --> 01:11:14.655 WAS AND WHERE THE SAFE WAS. THEY KNOCKED THAT DOOR DOWN, GOT 01:11:14.655 --> 01:11:18.975 THROUGH THERE, AND THEY USED EXPLOSIVES TO BREAK INTO THAT 01:11:18.975 --> 01:11:25.815 SAFE. THEY BLEW THE DOOR OFF THAT SAFE. WELL, EVIDENTLY, 01:11:25.815 --> 01:11:32.895 THESE THIEVES WERE NOT SAVED PROTESTANTS THAT WENT TO CHURCH 01:11:32.895 --> 01:11:35.626 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT DOING THIS ON A 01:11:35.626 --> 01:11:41.326 SATURDAY NIGHT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE OUR OFFERINGS ARE GONE 01:11:41.326 --> 01:11:45.376 AFTER SUNDAY. WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE'D PUT THE SUNDAY OFFERINGS 01:11:45.376 --> 01:11:49.786 IN THE SAFE AND THEN MONDAYS WE WOULD GET THEM SECURELY TO THE 01:11:49.786 --> 01:11:52.786 BANK. AND THAT SAFE JUST HELD THEM FROM SUNDAY NIGHT TILL 01:11:52.786 --> 01:11:55.365 MONDAY MORNING. OR SUNDAY, YEAH, SUNDAY NIGHT TILL MONDAY 01:11:55.365 --> 01:11:59.055 MORNING. THOSE THIEVES DIDN'T KNOW THAT. SO THE ONLY THING IN 01:11:59.055 --> 01:12:02.594 THAT SAFE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF PETTY CASH, WHICH I DON'T KNOW, 01:12:02.594 --> 01:12:06.916 A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS MAYBE, AND THEN A BUNCH OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS 01:12:06.916 --> 01:12:10.605 AND PAPERS. AND THERE WERE PAPERS STREWN ALL OVER THAT 01:12:10.605 --> 01:12:13.756 HALLWAY IN THAT AREA, 'CAUSE YOU COULD TELL THEY HAD JUST DUG 01:12:13.756 --> 01:12:16.456 THROUGH TRYING TO FIND ANYTHING THEY COULD FIND IN THAT SAFE. 01:12:16.456 --> 01:12:19.036 WELL, THEY DIDN'T GET ANYTHING EXCEPT A LITTLE BIT OF PETTY 01:12:19.036 --> 01:12:26.805 CASH, AND THEY MADE A MESS. AT THAT POINT, I WAS THINKING, "OH, 01:12:26.805 --> 01:12:33.435 I'M REALLY GLAD THAT I LISTENED TO THAT AND THAT PASTORS WERE 01:12:33.435 --> 01:12:37.697 WILLING TO GET THAT MOVED," BECAUSE IT WAS A PRETTY GOOD SUM 01:12:37.697 --> 01:12:41.416 OF MONEY BACK THEN IN 2002. I MEAN, $10,000 IS STILL A GOOD 01:12:41.416 --> 01:12:50.481 SUM OF MONEY. BUT TODAY, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE $25,000. SO OF 01:12:50.481 --> 01:12:53.447 COURSE, THE DESTRUCTION THAT WAS TAKING PLACE THERE WAS COVERED 01:12:53.447 --> 01:12:57.225 BY INSURANCE. AND THERE WAS NO INSURANCE ON THE PRECIOUS 01:12:57.225 --> 01:12:59.926 METALS. THEY'RE VERY DIFFICULT TO INSURE BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT 01:12:59.926 --> 01:13:02.626 SERIAL NUMBERED. THERE'S NO WAY TO TRACK THEM, REALLY. IT'S VERY 01:13:02.626 --> 01:13:05.296 DIFFICULT TO INSURE THOSE. SO THEY WOULD HAVE JUST SPENT OUT 01:13:05.296 --> 01:13:10.876 THAT MONEY. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO HEAR, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO 01:13:10.876 --> 01:13:17.086 OBEY WHEN YOU HEAR. PROVERBS 3, VERSES 5 AND 6, I DON'T THINK WE 01:13:17.086 --> 01:13:19.876 HAVE IT ON THE SCREEN TONIGHT, BUT IT'S A SCRIPTURE YOU'RE VERY 01:13:19.876 --> 01:13:23.536 FAMILIAR WITH, BUT IT FITS. "TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL 01:13:23.536 --> 01:13:27.826 THINE HEART, AND LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. IN ALL 01:13:27.826 --> 01:13:32.086 THE WAYS, ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS. IF 01:13:32.086 --> 01:13:36.706 WE ACKNOWLEDGE HIM CONTINUOUSLY, ALLOW HIM TO SPEAK, HE'LL DIRECT 01:13:36.706 --> 01:13:41.296 YOUR PATHS. SO WE HAVE TO LEARN TO LEAN ON GOD'S WISDOM RATHER 01:13:41.296 --> 01:13:45.345 THAN OUR OWN LIMITED PERSPECTIVES. TO BE ABLE TO HEAR 01:13:45.345 --> 01:13:49.036 GOD'S VOICE, WE HAVE TO SET ASIDE TIME AND WAIT IN HIS 01:13:49.036 --> 01:13:52.966 PRESENCE AND ALLOW HIM TO TALK TO US. AND IT'S WHEN WE'RE QUIET 01:13:52.966 --> 01:13:58.305 BEFORE GOD THAT WE CAN HEAR HIM MOST CLEARLY. AND SOMETIMES 01:13:58.305 --> 01:14:00.645 HE'LL JUST SPEAK TO YOU WHEN YOU'RE ON A MISSION, LIKE THAT 01:14:00.645 --> 01:14:04.006 DAY THAT I GOT OUT OF MY CAR, I WAS ON A MISSION TO GO INSIDE 01:14:04.006 --> 01:14:08.326 AND DO SOME WORK. I WASN'T SITTING THERE MEDITATING OR 01:14:08.326 --> 01:14:13.786 TRYING TO LISTEN, IT JUST CAME. AND THANK GOD FOR THAT BECAUSE 01:14:13.786 --> 01:14:16.876 SOMETIMES WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY DAY AND WE NEED DIRECTION 01:14:16.876 --> 01:14:23.265 NOW. WE DON'T HAVE-- I MEAN, YOU CAN'T SIT AND PRAY ALL DAY 01:14:23.265 --> 01:14:26.416 YOU CAN'T SIT AND LISTEN TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE ALL DAY. 01:14:26.416 --> 01:14:28.305 YOU'D NEVER GET ANYTHING DONE OR ACCOMPLISHED IF 01:14:28.305 --> 01:14:32.777 THAT'S ALL YOU DID. THAT'S NOT GOD EITHER BECAUSE 01:14:32.777 --> 01:14:35.956 HE EXPECTS US TO WORK. HE EXPECTS US TO MOVE FORWARD 01:14:35.956 --> 01:14:39.256 AND ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING. SO THERE'S BALANCE IN OUR 01:14:39.256 --> 01:14:42.286 LIVES. THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER SUBJECT. YOU CAN PREACH ON THAT 01:14:42.286 --> 01:14:50.956 ONE SOMEDAY, BOB. OKAY. HALLELUJAH. BUT WE CAN ASK HIM, 01:14:50.956 --> 01:14:55.216 "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING TO ME NOW?" SCRIPTURE TELLS US HOW THE 01:14:55.216 --> 01:14:59.987 PROPHET ELIJAH LEARNED TO HEAR THE VOICE OF THE LORD. IN 1 01:14:59.987 --> 01:15:04.725 KINGS 19, 11 THROUGH 13, GOD TOLD ELIJAH TO STAND BEFORE HIM 01:15:04.725 --> 01:15:08.956 ON THE MOUNTAIN, AND A GREAT WIND BEGAN TO BLOW. BUT THE 01:15:08.956 --> 01:15:12.676 LORD'S VOICE WAS NOT IN THE WIND. THEN AN EARTHQUAKE SHOOK 01:15:12.676 --> 01:15:15.076 THE MOUNTAIN, BUT THE LORD WAS NOT SPEAKING THROUGH THE 01:15:15.076 --> 01:15:18.737 EARTHQUAKE. AND THEN A FIRE BEGAN TO BLAZE AND ROAR, BUT 01:15:18.737 --> 01:15:22.996 GOD'S VOICE WAS NOT IN THE FIRE. AND AT LAST, ELIJAH HEARD A 01:15:22.996 --> 01:15:26.716 STILL, SMALL VOICE. THE VOICE OF THE LORD WAS SPEAKING TO HIM. 01:15:28.065 --> 01:15:31.006 IN OUR FAST-PACED WORLD, WE OFTEN DON'T GET QUIET ENOUGH 01:15:31.006 --> 01:15:35.805 TO HEAR THAT STILL SMALL VOICE. WE DON'T SPEND ENOUGH TIME 01:15:35.805 --> 01:15:37.365 COMMUNING WITH THE LORD TO BE ABLE TO HEAR 01:15:37.365 --> 01:15:41.115 HIM SPEAK. IT'S EASY TO GET IMPATIENT IN OUR PRAYER TIMES 01:15:41.115 --> 01:15:44.416 AND MAKE UP THE ANSWERS OURSELVES, AND THEN DECIDE 01:15:44.416 --> 01:15:48.466 THAT THAT'S GOD'S ANSWER. WE HEAD IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION, 01:15:48.466 --> 01:15:51.586 AND THEN WE WONDER WHY THINGS DON'T GO AS WELL 01:15:51.586 --> 01:15:56.115 AS THEY COULD HAVE. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO SPEND TIME 01:15:56.115 --> 01:16:01.095 EVERY DAY HEARING GOD'S VOICE, QUALITY TIME WITH HIM. TEST 01:16:01.095 --> 01:16:06.166 NUMBER TWO, WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL IMPACT OF WHAT YOU'RE 01:16:06.166 --> 01:16:11.145 HEARING? THAT'S THE SECOND TEST. DOES IT UPLIFT AND MINISTER 01:16:11.145 --> 01:16:18.435 LIFE, OR DOES IT HAVE A HEAVY DEADENING EFFECT? WE APPLY THIS 01:16:18.435 --> 01:16:22.065 TEST TO WHEN WE HEAR WORDS SPOKEN BY OTHERS, BUT WE ALSO 01:16:22.065 --> 01:16:25.786 NEED TO APPLY IT TO WHAT WE'RE HEARING IN OUR HEARTS. WE SAW IN 01:16:25.786 --> 01:16:31.605 LUKE 4 THAT THE DEVIL CAN QUOTE THE WORD OF GOD, EVEN THOUGH IT 01:16:31.605 --> 01:16:37.065 WAS TWISTED. HE TRIED TO QUOTE IT. HE WAS QUOTING TO JESUS 01:16:37.065 --> 01:16:39.826 SOMETHING THAT WAS MISAPPLIED AND HAD TO BE COUNTERED BY 01:16:39.826 --> 01:16:44.055 ANOTHER PASSAGE THAT CORRECTED THE MISAPPLICATION. AND GOD'S 01:16:44.055 --> 01:16:51.166 PLAN FOR US IS NOT DEFEAT. GOD'S WILL FOR US IS VICTORY IN JESUS. 01:16:51.166 --> 01:16:55.576 WE'RE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. AND WE 01:16:55.576 --> 01:16:59.655 NEED TO DISCERN WHETHER THE BIBLICAL TRUTH THAT WE'RE 01:16:59.655 --> 01:17:03.706 BELIEVING WE'RE HEARING IS BEING PROPERLY APPLIED IN THE LIGHT OF 01:17:03.706 --> 01:17:07.966 SCRIPTURE AND WHAT THE IMPACT IT'S HAVING ON OUR INNER MAN. 01:17:07.966 --> 01:17:12.197 AND I SAY INNER MAN BECAUSE SOMETIMES A TRUE WORD CAN BE 01:17:12.197 --> 01:17:20.447 CORRECTIVE OR EMOTIONALLY TOUGH ON THE NATURAL MAN. IT DOESN'T 01:17:20.447 --> 01:17:26.506 MEAN THAT EVERYTHING YOU HEAR IS GOING TO BE FLUFF AND HOW 01:17:26.506 --> 01:17:31.996 WONDERFUL YOU ARE. YOU MAY GET A CORRECTIVE WORD IN YOUR SPIRIT. 01:17:31.996 --> 01:17:38.202 THAT'S OKAY. BUT IT STILL SHOULD LEAD YOU TO A PATH OF LIFE. A 01:17:38.202 --> 01:17:42.784 TRUE WORD WILL NOT DEPLETE YOUR INNER SPIRIT. IT WON'T DRAIN 01:17:42.784 --> 01:17:47.206 LIFE FROM YOUR SPIRIT. EDDIE, YOU CAN COME. WE'RE JUST ABOUT 01:17:47.206 --> 01:17:52.336 READY TO CLOSE TONIGHT. A TRUE WORD FROM GOD WILL STRENGTHEN 01:17:52.336 --> 01:17:57.686 YOU WITHIN. IT'LL BRING LIFE AND VITALITY TO YOUR SPIRIT. 01:17:57.686 --> 01:18:03.744 JESUS SAID IN JOHN 6:63, "THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU 01:18:03.744 --> 01:18:09.154 ARE SPIRIT, THEY ARE LIFE." HIS WORDS ARE LIFE-GIVING 01:18:09.154 --> 01:18:13.515 TO OUR SPIRITS. THEY STRENGTHEN OUR INNER MAN. SO MY 01:18:13.515 --> 01:18:17.447 POINT IS THAT WE TEST WHAT WE'RE HEARING IN OUR SPIRIT. THE 01:18:17.447 --> 01:18:23.115 TESTING CAN HAPPEN VERY QUICKLY. JESUS' RESPONSE TO THE VOICE 01:18:23.115 --> 01:18:26.416 THAT HE HEARD IN LUKE CHAPTER 4 PROBABLY HAPPENED WITHIN 01:18:26.416 --> 01:18:33.105 SECONDS. HE DIDN'T SAY, WELL, NOW, SATAN, I NEED A LITTLE TIME 01:18:33.105 --> 01:18:38.595 TO GO DO A BIBLE STUDY HERE. AND WHEN I FIGURE OUT GOD'S ANSWER 01:18:38.595 --> 01:18:41.716 TO THIS AND FIND SOME SCRIPTURE, THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND HAVE A 01:18:41.716 --> 01:18:46.725 DISCUSSION. HE RESPONDED OUT OF GOD'S WORD THAT WAS WRITTEN IN 01:18:46.725 --> 01:18:52.756 HIS HEART. AND IF WE APPLY THESE TESTS, WE CAN MORE ACCURATELY 01:18:52.756 --> 01:18:56.176 FILTER OUT DECEPTIVE THOUGHTS OR THOUGHTS THAT ORIGINATE IN OUR 01:18:56.176 --> 01:19:01.365 OWN MINDS. AND AS WE DO THAT, WE'LL BUILD CONFIDENCE TO FOLLOW 01:19:01.365 --> 01:19:05.176 THE PROMPTINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE HAVE TO OBEY THE 01:19:05.176 --> 01:19:08.565 VOICE OF THE SPIRIT. IF WE BACK OFF FROM THAT OBEDIENCE AND 01:19:08.565 --> 01:19:12.435 SIMPLY DO WHAT OUR REASON AND EMOTIONS TELL US TO DO, THEN WE 01:19:12.435 --> 01:19:16.725 WON'T GROW IN THAT THING THAT WE'RE CALLING WALKING IN THE 01:19:16.725 --> 01:19:21.076 SPIRIT. WE WANT TO GROW IN THAT. WE WANT TO GET MORE RECEPTIVE TO 01:19:21.076 --> 01:19:27.886 HEARING GOD'S VOICE. AND THAT'S WHY 1 THESSALONIANS 5, 19 01:19:27.886 --> 01:19:31.996 THROUGH 21, INSTRUCTS US IN THIS WAY. IT SAYS, "DO NOT QUENCH, 01:19:31.996 --> 01:19:37.636 SUBDUE, OR BE UNRESPONSIVE TO THE WORKING AND GUIDANCE OF THE 01:19:37.636 --> 01:19:42.435 HOLY SPIRIT. DO NOT SCORN OR REJECT GIFTS OF PROPHECY OR 01:19:42.435 --> 01:19:46.395 PROPHECIES, SPOKEN REVELATIONS, WORDS OF INSTRUCTION, OR 01:19:46.395 --> 01:19:51.765 EXHORTATION, OR WARNING. BUT TEST ALL THINGS CAREFULLY SO 01:19:51.765 --> 01:19:56.836 THAT YOU CAN RECOGNIZE WHAT IS GOOD. HOLD FIRMLY TO THAT WHICH 01:19:56.836 --> 01:20:04.935 IS GOOD. SO HEARING GOD'S VOICE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF WALKING 01:20:04.935 --> 01:20:08.386 IN THE SPIRIT AND LIVING A FULFILLED CHRISTIAN LIFE AND 01:20:08.386 --> 01:20:11.655 ACCOMPLISHING WHAT GOD HAS FOR US. IT DOES REQUIRE SOME 01:20:11.655 --> 01:20:17.355 PATIENCE, PRACTICE, AND FAITH ON OUR PART. BUT AS YOU START TO 01:20:17.355 --> 01:20:24.136 HEAR GOD'S STILL SMALL VOICE, RESPOND TO THAT. BECAUSE YOU CAN 01:20:24.136 --> 01:20:30.306 QUENCH THE SPIRIT ALSO, AND YOU CAN NOT RESPOND, NOT DO WHAT 01:20:30.306 --> 01:20:34.506 GOD'S TOLD YOU TO DO, AND MANY TIMES YOU WON'T RECEIVE 01:20:34.506 --> 01:20:40.447 ADDITIONAL DIRECTION AS QUICKLY WHEN YOU DO THAT. SO IF YOU'RE 01:20:40.447 --> 01:20:44.796 STUCK, GO BACK TO THE LAST THING THAT GOD TOLD YOU TO DO AND 01:20:44.796 --> 01:20:49.537 FULFILL THAT. AND THEN YOU'LL OPEN UP THAT CHANNEL AGAIN FOR 01:20:49.537 --> 01:20:56.287 HIM TO CONTINUE SPEAKING. MAKE TIME EVERY DAY TO LISTEN TO THE 01:20:56.287 --> 01:21:03.067 VOICE OF GOD. IT'LL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE. SOME OF YOU THAT ARE 01:21:03.067 --> 01:21:09.337 HERE TONIGHT OR YOU MIGHT BE WATCHING, YOU DESIRE TO PRESS IN 01:21:09.337 --> 01:21:12.306 MORE, BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO 01:21:12.306 --> 01:21:15.157 LISTEN TO GOD'S VOICE, YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE TIME, AND YOU'RE 01:21:15.157 --> 01:21:20.377 GOING TO BE GROUNDED IN THE WORD. AND AS YOU DO THAT, YOU 01:21:20.377 --> 01:21:28.716 CAN UNDERSTAND THERE'S A GRAVITY, A GRAVITY TO THIS ISSUE 01:21:28.716 --> 01:21:35.827 OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. IT'S SO IMPORTANT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO 01:21:35.827 --> 01:21:42.396 STATE IT ANY CLEARER THAN THAT. IF YOU DON'T LEARN TO HEAR THE 01:21:42.396 --> 01:21:47.377 VOICE OF GOD, YOU CAN STUMBLE THROUGH LIFE AND NOT ACCOMPLISH 01:21:48.846 --> 01:21:55.266 YOUR DESTINY. SO ONCE YOU BECOME A BELIEVER, YOU GET FILLED WITH 01:21:55.266 --> 01:22:00.546 THE HOLY SPIRIT, THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN LEARNING TO 01:22:00.546 --> 01:22:05.407 HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD. AND YOU CAN DO LIKE SOLOMON, WHO HAD 01:22:05.407 --> 01:22:11.766 EVERYTHING. HE HAD RICHES, HE HAD POWER. HE JUST SAID, "GOD, I 01:22:11.766 --> 01:22:16.506 NEED WISDOM." THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WISDOM 01:22:16.506 --> 01:22:20.407 OF GOD IN OUR LIVES, THE DIRECTION THAT HE'LL GIVE YOU, 01:22:20.407 --> 01:22:25.117 BECAUSE IT ANSWERS EVERYTHING. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU STAND WITH 01:22:25.117 --> 01:22:38.167 ME? LET'S DO THIS TONIGHT. I'M JUST GONNA PRAY. YOU JUST STAND 01:22:38.167 --> 01:22:43.476 THERE FOR A MOMENT AND RECEIVE FROM HIM. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, 01:22:43.476 --> 01:22:48.997 JUST ASK GOD TONIGHT. UNDER YOUR OWN BREATH, JUST ASK HIM, LORD, 01:22:48.997 --> 01:22:54.787 GIVE ME THE DIRECTION THAT I NEED. HELP ME TO BE SENSITIVE TO 01:22:54.787 --> 01:22:59.407 YOUR SPIRIT. HELP ME TO RECEIVE ALL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOR ME. 01:22:59.407 --> 01:23:03.936 AND THEN HELP ME TO BE OBEDIENT, LORD, IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE. 01:23:05.046 --> 01:23:10.087 HELP ME TO BE OBEDIENT AND TO QUICKLY RESPOND TO WHAT YOU 01:23:10.087 --> 01:23:14.256 WOULD HAVE FOR ME. FATHER, I PRAY FOR THOSE WATCHING ONLINE 01:23:14.256 --> 01:23:18.157 AND THOSE HERE TONIGHT, AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD. I THANK 01:23:18.157 --> 01:23:25.146 YOU, LORD, THAT YOUR WORD IS A SURE FOUNDATION. AND AS WE CLING 01:23:25.146 --> 01:23:29.917 TO YOU, YOUR WORD, WE BECOME MORE GROUNDED IN YOUR WORD, AND 01:23:29.917 --> 01:23:35.346 YOU DIRECT US BY YOUR SPIRIT. I BELIEVE, LORD, THAT YOU'LL OPEN 01:23:35.346 --> 01:23:40.087 OUR EARS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE IN A GREATER WAY THAN WE EVER HAVE 01:23:40.087 --> 01:23:44.226 BEFORE. TONIGHT WE COME TOGETHER IN FAITH, BELIEVING FOR THAT, 01:23:45.396 --> 01:23:52.056 THAT WE WILL RECEIVE THE IMPARTATION, THE ANOINTING, AND 01:23:52.056 --> 01:23:55.237 THE GIFTINGS THAT WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH EVERYTHING THAT 01:23:55.237 --> 01:23:59.167 YOU'VE CALLED US TO DO. WE WILL REACT APPROPRIATELY AND WE'LL 01:23:59.167 --> 01:24:04.417 RESPOND TO THOSE SO THAT WE CAN GET EVERYTHING DONE THAT YOU 01:24:04.417 --> 01:24:11.136 WOULD HAVE SET BEFORE US, AND WE DO IT TO YOUR GLORY. IN THE 01:24:11.136 --> 01:24:15.247 MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, AMEN, AMEN. WELL, THANK YOU FOR COMING 01:24:15.247 --> 01:24:20.860 TONIGHT. DON'T MISS SUNDAY BECAUSE PASTORS WILL BE BACK IN 01:24:20.860 --> 01:24:24.396 THE HOUSE. THEY HAD A GREAT VACATION, AND NOW WE'RE GONNA BE 01:24:24.396 --> 01:24:30.426 EXCITED TO HAVE THEM BACK, AND IT'LL BE ANOINTED. SUNDAY 01:24:30.426 --> 01:24:34.987 MORNING, 9 O'CLOCK, WITH A REPEAT BROADCAST AT 1130. AND OF 01:24:34.987 --> 01:24:38.707 COURSE, YOU THAT ARE HERE, BE HERE. BRING SOMEONE WITH YOU TO 01:24:38.707 --> 01:24:42.306 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. LET'S FILL THIS PLACE UP, PACK IT OUT. 01:24:42.306 --> 01:24:44.466 THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU. WE'LL SEE YOU 01:24:44.466 --> 01:24:49.088 SUNDAY MORNING. [APPLAUSE]