WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:08.560 We just want to come in here and reverence to the fact that God is moving and we come in 00:08.560 --> 00:15.560 in a way of honor always. So we're in a spot where we're like ready to make weighty our 00:15.560 --> 00:20.920 praise to Him, ready to make weighty our statements to Him. And even our prayers, you 00:20.920 --> 00:26.980 know, you can go ahead and be seated. Even your prayers can be light prayers, right? 00:26.980 --> 00:33.980 If we're not careful, it's not that we're being weighed down by prayer. What I'm talking about is 00:33.980 --> 00:39.400 honor does this thing where what comes out of your mouth, every word counts. That's when it's heavy, 00:40.380 --> 00:44.820 right? You ever do those prayers? You're like, yes, Father, yes. And you know, you do the thing 00:44.820 --> 00:48.520 and it's kind of light because you don't know where you're going. But eventually it needs 00:48.520 --> 00:55.510 to become heavy before Him. Well, it's hard to have something become heavy before Him if we 00:55.510 --> 01:01.110 don't know the direction we're going. If we haven't yet gotten, I guess, time with Him, 01:01.770 --> 01:07.250 it's hard to make heavy something and really have a potent just like, boom, when we pray, 01:07.630 --> 01:13.910 if we're not sure what the word says about it. And I think that is really why a lot of times 01:14.410 --> 01:19.650 there's a, you know, I've been to everything from the city prayer meetings, 01:20.230 --> 01:23.750 been a part of that. People have their little thing they read or whatever. 01:24.390 --> 01:30.170 And however eloquent they put it together is about as far as the weightiness of it goes. And you 01:30.170 --> 01:36.630 can go, well written, nice, right? Those are the kind of prayers that come forward. But to actively, 01:36.730 --> 01:42.290 like, know the will of God, know what the word is for the day, for the moment, and what you're 01:42.290 --> 01:48.990 going to release on a city. Ooh, that's heavy prayer. A lot of times places like that, 01:48.990 --> 01:54.610 they can't handle it. So it's, we had the privilege of going down to the Capitol and praying. 01:55.570 --> 02:01.330 Those were some weighty prayers. People were in the shoot already knew this is what God wants to 02:01.330 --> 02:06.910 unleash different than like the flowery. We're moving it around. There's a scripture the 02:06.910 --> 02:14.630 Lord told me to go over today that very simple, very much, I could quote it, you know, but I 02:14.630 --> 02:21.310 want to read it different from the amplified. It's the scripture that talks about seeking the kingdom. 02:21.670 --> 02:29.250 Luke 12, 31 talks about that. And the amplified says, but strive for and actively seek his kingdom. 02:29.550 --> 02:34.950 And these things will be given to you as well. Well, what things we probably would have to 02:34.950 --> 02:38.470 go back and read that I'm not going to take the time to do that. But you always pay 02:38.470 --> 02:42.910 attention to if they're referring somewhere back, you better go back and figure it out. 02:43.470 --> 02:50.090 At the same time, I like how the amplified breaks it down, but strive for and actively seek. 02:51.570 --> 02:57.390 Reminds me of there was a young lady in our foster home and she lost something. 02:58.290 --> 03:03.010 And I can't find it. I just can't find it. And I was like, well, have you looked here? 03:03.250 --> 03:08.410 And have you looked there? Well, yeah, but she didn't really actively seek anything. 03:08.550 --> 03:12.430 And then she was sitting on the couch feeling bad that she had lost the thing. 03:12.430 --> 03:15.770 And she's never going to find it. And everything was about how she's never going to find it. 03:16.250 --> 03:22.270 And I'm like, looking at her like, you're not really seeking. And so what she was trying to do, 03:22.410 --> 03:28.050 it was through the emotion without her knowing it just was a habit of manipulative behavior. 03:28.350 --> 03:35.330 It's kind of like, if I sulk enough, if I feel bad enough, then you, as my parent, should go 03:35.330 --> 03:41.490 find it. And so there's things in the kingdom I've already found. And I can even relay those to 03:41.490 --> 03:49.330 to a person. But until you find it personally, until it lights up your world, then it's always 03:49.330 --> 03:54.330 going to be the thing of like, well, I cried and nobody noticed. And I was upset and nobody came 03:54.330 --> 04:01.970 running, right? So there's that. So we need to be strived for and actively seek his kingdom. 04:02.170 --> 04:07.970 You've heard me say before the word kingdom means his domain, his rulership, his ways of 04:07.970 --> 04:15.370 doing things. The sphere of his rule is another one. I like that one. And when God moves, he moves 04:15.370 --> 04:23.910 tornadic, the sphere of his rule. And we're supposed to seek that. And so it's so simple. 04:24.030 --> 04:29.390 And we'll go, yeah, yeah, we know that. We know that. We'll seek it. But at the same time, 04:30.070 --> 04:39.050 when it says ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you, seek and keep on seeking and you 04:39.050 --> 04:44.910 will find. Knock and keep on knocking and the door will be open to you. So we'll use you quote the 04:44.910 --> 04:59.370 King James Version, which is shorter. But the word picture and the amplified is that you're not 04:59.790 --> 05:05.730 doing. I looked under the couch already. I never saw anything. It's not on the counter. 05:07.010 --> 05:12.310 So it's that knock that's like, you ever ripped the whole house apart trying to find your keys? 05:13.550 --> 05:16.530 First you're like, I don't want to make anything a mess, but after a while you don't care because 05:16.530 --> 05:20.090 you've got to get to work. You're like ripping it and you're just trying to find where is 05:20.090 --> 05:25.450 my keys. But there's a strive for and there's a keep on asking and it'll be given to you. 05:25.450 --> 05:30.530 So if you seek and keep on seeking, then you will find. Knock and keep on knocking and the door 05:30.530 --> 05:37.450 will be open to you. So revelation comes across the pulpit right on things that the Lord has 05:37.450 --> 05:44.090 showed us that we found. Like we were seeking and we found and we want to show you how to 05:44.090 --> 05:53.190 find the same thing. Really it's not you sitting there and we say we found and you're 05:53.190 --> 05:59.290 as we hired the pastor. I don't need to actually read or whatever. No, you need to hear about it, 05:59.350 --> 06:05.930 become curious and go find it for yourself. Amen. So the reason the Lord helped me bring 06:05.930 --> 06:08.790 this up is we're going to pray on some different things here this morning. 06:10.250 --> 06:16.750 And we're going to actively strive for and seek how the kingdom deals with this, right? 06:17.530 --> 06:23.790 So we have different things going on both in mission 61 and just an outreach and stuff 06:23.790 --> 06:28.610 where people are in heavy need. There's cars needed, there's baby clothes needed, 06:29.190 --> 06:33.030 there's finances needed, people are coming out of prison and going, where do I go? 06:33.270 --> 06:38.330 People are, there's all kinds of things, right? And so my eyes are always seeking, 06:38.490 --> 06:43.550 Lord, where do you have that? It'll be the craziest places. Maybe it'll be far away 06:43.550 --> 06:47.270 from the church. Somebody will come up to me and say, do you want of these? And I'm like, yes, 06:47.310 --> 06:52.710 we do. And so, but that comes from seeking. And if I don't look, it could be right in front of me 06:52.710 --> 06:58.330 and I won't find it. See, so there's something about the training of the eye, even looking in 06:58.330 --> 07:02.750 the saying, right? When people are talking, sometimes I'll just all of a sudden, I'm zoned 07:02.750 --> 07:06.450 into what they're saying because it's connecting to the thing the Lord told me and I'm just 07:06.450 --> 07:14.990 waiting for them to say, I feel led to and sure enough they do. But I feel that so strongly about 07:14.990 --> 07:20.410 what he told me and about what I'm standing on, that I'm seeking it, even in what people are saying. 07:21.470 --> 07:27.310 Where are you? Blessing of God, where are you? How is this going to get filled? Where are you? 07:27.310 --> 07:36.490 So we have four people dealing with cancer, you know, and we have to stay on that. Not that God 07:36.490 --> 07:40.770 doesn't answer, not that they haven't already received, but you keep the pressure on it. 07:41.130 --> 07:46.930 And so for them, the encouragement is, keep seeking his will, his ways, his precepts, 07:46.970 --> 07:52.770 his commands. Seek first the kingdom. We don't seek the doctor first, we seek the kingdom first, 07:52.950 --> 07:56.490 and then if we need to approach a doctor, we will. But we're approaching them with what 07:56.490 --> 08:01.490 we already heard from the kingdom. So we're coming to the doctor with rulership already happening, 08:02.190 --> 08:05.350 like he's ruling this puppy. I'm going in there and talking to the doctor, 08:05.610 --> 08:10.350 but you've already been ruled inside. It's a better way to go, right? Nobody wants to 08:10.350 --> 08:13.810 all of a sudden end up in the ER and you're like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know 08:13.810 --> 08:18.010 what God's saying to everybody in that spot. You're like, ah, give me a minute. But sometimes 08:18.010 --> 08:24.090 there is no minute. It's always better to have the kingdom having been disclosed to you 08:24.090 --> 08:29.350 beforehand so that it's right there ruling. And when you go in and you operate, 08:29.530 --> 08:35.710 you're operating out of the kingdom. We have to seek that first. Seek that first. 08:37.210 --> 08:43.030 It's a habit for most people to talk about a situation. Let's say something shows up in 08:43.030 --> 08:46.590 the mail, it's a bill, it's something you didn't expect. Somebody's accusing you of something, 08:46.710 --> 08:52.890 whatever. I've seen all of the above. And you see that in the first thing your subconscious 08:52.890 --> 08:58.290 does is protection mode. Must try to figure this out. We've got to get ahead of this. I don't know 08:58.290 --> 09:04.030 what I'm going to say. And then that's part of fear, but subconscious is trying to protect you. 09:04.670 --> 09:09.090 And then it'll use your experience from the past and it'll use what's happened to other people 09:09.090 --> 09:12.450 and use all this because we're going to try to figure this puzzle out. And we haven't yet 09:12.450 --> 09:17.210 sought the kingdom. See, those things might matter, but most of the time they don't. 09:17.810 --> 09:24.370 And they waste a lot of time. I know we had this little hot tub in our basement in Colorado 09:26.350 --> 09:33.250 and we put the kids to bed and sneaked down there because we wanted to have some alone time 09:33.250 --> 09:38.410 just to talk with all the kids and everything. And so we'd get down there and we're just going 09:38.410 --> 09:42.930 to have a conversation about something. And when we didn't hear from the kingdom, 09:42.930 --> 09:48.450 that conversation would go on for hours. And you wake up the next day exhausted, you still 09:48.450 --> 09:54.930 haven't figured it out. And I've learned over the years it's like, all right, well, 09:55.030 --> 09:59.470 we need to stop everything and seek the kingdom. What would God say about this? 09:59.610 --> 10:03.650 How would he approach this? What is his character regarding this? 10:06.310 --> 10:11.150 Just part of his character, for instance, he will never leave us or forsake us. So 10:11.150 --> 10:15.110 if we have abandonment stuff coming up, it's like, well, I know I'm not going to be alone. 10:15.270 --> 10:22.610 Here's his character. I will stand on who he is. Right? You might not know exactly where the 10:22.610 --> 10:27.530 verse is found, but you know he's that God. You've known him enough to know he's not going 10:27.530 --> 10:32.630 to leave me or forsake me. So his very character can sustain you in that moment. 10:33.250 --> 10:36.990 And it's like going to the chiropractor when your head's on crooked and all of a 10:36.990 --> 10:41.810 sudden you come out, you feel taller and as you know, hi, I'm walking straighter, right? 10:41.970 --> 10:45.110 But when it's on crooked, it's like you just only see things this way. 10:46.610 --> 10:51.470 And he wants you to look to the future a certain way, right? And then we're able to 10:51.470 --> 10:58.550 prophesy to something that we call things that are not as though they were. Here we're in the 10:58.550 --> 11:02.690 situation. How do you get out of the situation? Well, we know future is going to come either way, 11:02.690 --> 11:06.990 right? Like you can't stop. Like future, stop. I'm trying to work in the now. 11:07.590 --> 11:11.450 You know, we just moved into the future again and again and again in this moment. 11:11.670 --> 11:16.890 So it's not going to, future's not going to go away. So it's best to seek the kingdom in the 11:16.890 --> 11:24.690 now and prophesy toward the future so that as you've prayed through it, you speak his character, 11:24.890 --> 11:31.610 his love, his ways of doing things, his rulership over it. I just walk into the future. 11:33.430 --> 11:36.850 See, this is a reminder. A lot of you know this, but it's a reminder we're kind of, 11:36.930 --> 11:42.270 all right, look at me. If you've been discussing stuff for way too long, trying to figure it out 11:42.270 --> 11:46.870 in your brain, stop and seek the kingdom. Amen?