WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.380 Let's turn our Bibles here this morning to Second Timothy. 00:10.280 --> 00:16.680 And we're going to go over something that I spoke probably two years ago. 00:16.780 --> 00:20.660 Might have been in 2020. I don't know, I lose track of time, but... 00:20.660 --> 00:22.480 because we were dealing with fear. 00:23.080 --> 00:26.060 And we've been talking about climbing the tower, 00:26.620 --> 00:31.260 getting on the wall for the references as an intercessor. 00:31.940 --> 00:35.600 You have to be able to be up higher to see the things that are higher 00:35.600 --> 00:39.740 and to see farther out when we're like the saying, 00:39.820 --> 00:41.820 you're too close to the woods to see the trees. 00:42.120 --> 00:45.920 It's like you can't see past those things. 00:46.100 --> 00:47.740 You have to climb to higher ground. 00:48.640 --> 00:51.900 And it's very important that we know how to do that. 00:52.320 --> 00:53.200 True, right? 00:53.200 --> 00:55.400 And that's the move of God right now. 00:55.560 --> 00:56.440 Very much prophetic. 00:56.720 --> 00:58.980 And it's been that way for a few years. 00:59.180 --> 01:02.900 The wave of the prophetic has come in a stronger way. 01:03.040 --> 01:05.500 Because it seemed like it was almost forgotten there for a bit. 01:06.060 --> 01:08.880 And then it came back around like a wave. 01:10.020 --> 01:13.240 But spiritual growth still has to happen 01:13.240 --> 01:17.220 when you look at the spectrum of how God is moving. 01:17.900 --> 01:20.700 Just even in our spiritual growth, you can say, 01:20.700 --> 01:22.400 I am a believer, we've talked about that, 01:22.520 --> 01:24.520 which can mean that you just know there is a God. 01:24.760 --> 01:27.100 That's the lowest level of belief. 01:27.280 --> 01:28.840 It doesn't mean you're even born again, 01:28.940 --> 01:30.520 but you can say, I believe there is a God. 01:31.060 --> 01:34.160 And then way over here, you have such intimacy with him. 01:34.320 --> 01:37.380 You're like throne room happening type of things are happening. 01:37.780 --> 01:39.560 And there's a whole spectrum in between. 01:40.180 --> 01:44.080 So we're to go from a believer to a follower. 01:44.460 --> 01:48.420 We believe enough that we start following what he indicates to us, 01:48.500 --> 01:49.640 what the word brings alive. 01:49.640 --> 01:53.580 And then we go from a follower in order to follow in any consistency. 01:53.580 --> 01:57.760 It's going to require discipline, which is the disciplined one is a disciple. 01:58.280 --> 01:59.920 That's what that means, a disciplined one. 02:00.500 --> 02:02.420 And so what are we disciplined to? 02:02.640 --> 02:05.580 We're disciplined to the word of God and to the spirit moving. 02:06.420 --> 02:09.540 And so spiritual growth works like that all the way up to, 02:09.920 --> 02:11.580 and you've heard this many times, 02:12.100 --> 02:14.500 the martyr who was seen and heard at all cost. 02:15.480 --> 02:18.420 You know, they're way over here and they're like, 02:18.620 --> 02:20.360 I'll die today if I have to. 02:21.200 --> 02:23.320 I will not deny Christ. 02:24.100 --> 02:26.100 I will do what he asked me to do. 02:26.180 --> 02:28.800 I'll be where he asked me to be and if I die, I die. 02:29.700 --> 02:32.500 It's so sold out. It's so... 02:33.140 --> 02:34.920 I'd like to think I'm there, 02:35.200 --> 02:38.400 but I never had a sword to my neck. 02:40.260 --> 02:41.460 I'm just saying, right? 02:41.940 --> 02:44.840 All of us are like, yeah, I'm headed toward martyr state. 02:44.900 --> 02:46.780 But if you've never had a bullet, you know, 02:46.800 --> 02:49.840 someone pointing at you with a gun, telling you to deny Christ, 02:50.180 --> 02:53.640 you first find out what your flesh, you know, would say. 02:54.260 --> 02:57.520 And so there is a finding out of who we are and the follow. 02:57.840 --> 03:01.200 You are that believer and you start to find out where he wants you to go 03:01.200 --> 03:03.920 and you start following and it brings your flesh out. 03:04.360 --> 03:06.780 We like to look at it more like, 03:07.480 --> 03:10.100 when I start to follow, I just get so blessed. 03:10.680 --> 03:13.240 Everything's wonderful. There is that part to it. 03:13.280 --> 03:15.120 It's like, whoa, the heavenlies have opened. 03:15.340 --> 03:17.720 I have rainbow words. I'm following all this stuff. 03:17.780 --> 03:22.140 But your flesh is then going to really show itself. 03:23.980 --> 03:25.620 That's what makes it a narrow way. 03:26.480 --> 03:29.380 We don't get the wide way and it's just so fun. 03:29.860 --> 03:32.280 And then on certain subjects, it's a narrow way. 03:32.380 --> 03:33.620 It's the narrow way all the way. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.100 Right? And so to follow, we have to be able to... 03:38.100 --> 03:40.460 And I'm just repeating some of the things that I've said. 03:41.620 --> 03:46.060 You know, to go the narrow way, I can't fit into just any narrow thing. 03:46.760 --> 03:49.780 You know? And that means something has to fall off of me. 03:50.420 --> 03:53.020 I can't just squish through something that's narrow. 03:53.340 --> 03:55.100 And that's the dying to self. 03:55.660 --> 03:59.700 And then we can't hold on to the things that he's asking us to let go of 03:59.700 --> 04:01.920 and think that we can pull them into the narrow way. 04:02.460 --> 04:05.640 We have to be willing to be so dead that we'll just drop anything 04:05.640 --> 04:07.400 at any time he asks us to. 04:10.140 --> 04:13.560 Now, we can make up our mind to do that. 04:13.660 --> 04:15.600 Have you ever done the mind thing where it's like, 04:15.700 --> 04:17.060 I make up my mind. 04:17.760 --> 04:20.220 And Roman said, set your mind. 04:20.900 --> 04:22.920 He tells you, well, I set my mind on doing this. 04:23.300 --> 04:26.020 Well, your mind you've set, right? 04:26.160 --> 04:28.540 Doesn't mean your body and everything is going to want to follow. 04:29.160 --> 04:31.340 So the war becomes in the mind. 04:31.460 --> 04:34.380 It becomes any strongholds that you have in the mind. 04:34.380 --> 04:35.840 And now this word stronghold, 04:37.020 --> 04:39.960 one of the bigger meanings for it is a way of thinking. 04:40.620 --> 04:43.460 A fortress of a way of thinking. 04:44.400 --> 04:47.400 It's the way you problem solve. 04:47.580 --> 04:48.780 It's the way you approach things. 04:48.920 --> 04:49.980 It's a way of thinking. 04:50.640 --> 04:54.500 And many times we think we're coming up against the demonic or whatever. 04:54.920 --> 04:56.620 Well, if there's something demonic there, 04:56.880 --> 04:59.220 it's built on or has permission to be there, 04:59.480 --> 05:00.980 built on the stronghold of our mind. 05:02.840 --> 05:05.520 That's what causes us to be open to it or whatever. 05:05.900 --> 05:09.120 But he's the mighty fortress and we get under him. 05:09.280 --> 05:10.600 We're in his high tower. 05:11.360 --> 05:12.420 I love that. 05:12.740 --> 05:15.760 And he's our refuge and our high tower 05:15.760 --> 05:18.000 and our strength and all of those different things. 05:18.340 --> 05:21.860 But when we get under him, we realize we don't match. 05:22.100 --> 05:23.720 And so then we have to be changed. 05:23.900 --> 05:25.060 That's all basic gospel. 05:25.760 --> 05:28.820 So what happens when we live on the mainland, right? 05:28.820 --> 05:31.800 You get born again and you're in the spectrum of over here believing. 05:32.580 --> 05:34.080 And you're still in the mainland. 05:34.380 --> 05:35.620 You haven't really climbed the tower. 05:35.740 --> 05:37.320 You saw something that you didn't see before. 05:37.480 --> 05:38.720 You saw your need for Christ. 05:39.620 --> 05:41.660 You saw that you need a life change 05:41.660 --> 05:45.260 when you got in his presence as he's moving on the mainland. 05:46.880 --> 05:48.200 That's just what I'm calling it. 05:48.260 --> 05:50.360 So you know that it's not up on the tower. 05:50.480 --> 05:51.380 It's just on the mainland. 05:51.560 --> 05:54.700 And you can be saved and die and go to heaven. 05:54.920 --> 05:57.040 Having lived on the mainland your whole life, 05:57.040 --> 06:00.300 you know, you won't experience all these other things 06:00.300 --> 06:01.460 and you still go to heaven. 06:02.500 --> 06:03.820 It's a rough life. 06:04.460 --> 06:08.300 Because the victory he's promised us comes when we climb the tower. 06:09.040 --> 06:11.580 It comes by learning how to navigate the mainland 06:11.580 --> 06:15.760 and then going higher than the very situation that it is. 06:16.380 --> 06:19.560 So the main thing, someone had asked a question. 06:19.700 --> 06:21.440 I spoke in Anoka last night 06:21.440 --> 06:25.020 and then quickly ran back to watch the last part of 06:25.020 --> 06:27.380 a Brisfinatus testimony at TBO. 06:27.680 --> 06:30.980 But one of the questions that was there 06:30.980 --> 06:34.220 is, so then in the mainland, what is your main enemy? 06:34.720 --> 06:36.260 Well, if it's between our ears, 06:36.680 --> 06:39.440 it's strongholds that are based in unbelief and fear. 06:40.920 --> 06:43.500 Unbelief in any area causes fear. 06:43.700 --> 06:47.000 When we have faith you can face something really tragic 06:47.000 --> 06:49.660 and your body will tremble, 06:49.720 --> 06:51.340 but your heart and your spirit, 06:51.520 --> 06:54.340 your soul is like, I am secure in who he is in me. 06:55.840 --> 06:56.340 Right? 06:56.640 --> 06:58.260 You might have a physical reaction, 06:58.380 --> 06:59.660 you might cry tears or whatever, 06:59.660 --> 07:02.620 but you know who you believe in and that he's able. 07:03.420 --> 07:04.680 You just know it. 07:05.400 --> 07:05.920 It's faith. 07:07.400 --> 07:11.180 And so to be in unbelief in any area, 07:11.460 --> 07:11.880 there's fear. 07:13.500 --> 07:16.280 I don't really believe that I'm going to be taken care of. 07:16.280 --> 07:18.440 I don't really believe that I'll be loved in the end. 07:18.540 --> 07:20.700 I don't really believe that I'm heard. 07:20.920 --> 07:22.640 I don't really believe that I count. 07:22.640 --> 07:25.460 I don't really believe that I have anything together 07:25.460 --> 07:26.500 and I'm kind of a loser. 07:26.660 --> 07:29.100 I mean, you can go down that type of thing. 07:29.160 --> 07:32.480 It's not just I don't believe that his word is true. 07:32.660 --> 07:35.840 It's like, I don't believe in any of his love toward me 07:36.400 --> 07:37.920 and what he could do through me. 07:38.080 --> 07:40.840 I don't really feel like I believe in that. 07:41.940 --> 07:43.560 Then when a battle comes 07:44.560 --> 07:45.480 on the mainland, 07:46.180 --> 07:49.040 which is mostly between your ears to begin with, right? 07:49.160 --> 07:50.160 It's your way of thinking. 07:50.160 --> 07:52.360 And it's the things around us, 07:52.400 --> 07:53.720 like we live in this wicked world 07:53.720 --> 07:56.280 that are the things set up around us 07:56.280 --> 07:58.180 to trigger the strongholds in our mind. 07:58.540 --> 07:59.980 That's how the demonic works. 08:00.940 --> 08:03.780 You know, sometimes we think they're just really, you know, 08:04.400 --> 08:06.740 interesting and so powerful or whatever. 08:06.980 --> 08:09.440 And it's like, they're just working off of what we believe 08:09.440 --> 08:10.820 or our unbelief. 08:11.580 --> 08:13.100 That's what they work off of. 08:13.460 --> 08:15.460 Because Jesus rendered them powerless. 08:15.860 --> 08:17.720 He made an open spectacle of them. 08:17.940 --> 08:18.960 And so our brain says, 08:18.960 --> 08:21.340 well, if he did that, then why do I suffer this? 08:22.060 --> 08:24.840 Because the strongholds and ways of thinking 08:24.840 --> 08:25.900 we have to change. 08:26.000 --> 08:27.480 So we've gone over this before. 08:28.620 --> 08:32.640 Second, Timothy says this in chapter one, verse six. 08:34.820 --> 08:37.260 That is why I would remind you to stir up, 08:37.460 --> 08:39.000 rekindle the embers of, 08:39.480 --> 08:40.900 fan the flame of, 08:41.160 --> 08:44.640 and keep burning the gracious gift of God, 08:45.140 --> 08:46.900 the inner fire that is in you 08:46.900 --> 08:49.240 by means of laying on my hands 08:49.240 --> 08:51.700 with those of the elders from your ordination. 08:52.160 --> 08:53.640 He's talking to them specifically 08:54.140 --> 08:56.640 that a fire was given to them. 08:57.380 --> 08:59.260 And here, you're on the mainland. 08:59.660 --> 09:02.400 How do you keep in a victorious mode 09:02.400 --> 09:03.860 before you ever climb a tower? 09:04.020 --> 09:06.100 It's like, I gotta fan the flame of what he already gave me. 09:06.760 --> 09:09.400 What do you have that you didn't have before you knew Christ? 09:10.600 --> 09:13.380 We fan that flame, right? 09:14.340 --> 09:16.220 And we go back to the basics of the gospel 09:16.220 --> 09:17.360 and we fan that flame. 09:18.080 --> 09:21.500 And then they laid hands on the people. 09:21.680 --> 09:23.080 That's what he's referring to. 09:23.520 --> 09:25.580 And that extra fire was there for sure. 09:26.380 --> 09:28.540 So how many of us have ever had that happen? 09:28.840 --> 09:30.260 Leaders of the church, each other, 09:30.360 --> 09:31.240 you pray for each other, 09:31.320 --> 09:33.260 and there's a fire that comes on you. 09:33.720 --> 09:35.900 Pretty much all of us have had that happen one time. 09:36.260 --> 09:38.040 So we come up against a new problem 09:38.040 --> 09:40.660 and we're like, well, give me some new fire. 09:40.940 --> 09:43.120 And he's like, go back and rekindle 09:43.120 --> 09:44.240 what you already have. 09:44.240 --> 09:47.180 You have enough right there to burn down the house. 09:48.020 --> 09:49.100 Like, go get it. 09:49.360 --> 09:52.200 Stir it up inside of you. Remind yourself. 09:52.840 --> 09:55.840 And so there's something interesting about people of prayer, 09:57.160 --> 09:59.640 especially when you're moving into intercessory prayer, 10:00.220 --> 10:01.960 you remind the Lord of what he said, 10:02.360 --> 10:03.540 and you remind yourself. 10:03.960 --> 10:05.840 It's just a trait you're like, Lord, you told me. 10:06.260 --> 10:08.240 And this is what happened on December 19th 10:08.840 --> 10:09.840 in that prayer line. 10:09.880 --> 10:10.600 And I got lit. 10:10.940 --> 10:13.260 And I just rekindled that fire right now. 10:13.260 --> 10:15.620 And I speak the word that was prophesied over me. 10:15.700 --> 10:18.180 Seeing that you go back, you already have the tools. 10:18.860 --> 10:20.740 We're not asking for something new 10:20.740 --> 10:22.980 as much as we're like, let's rekindle it. 10:23.680 --> 10:25.680 So we forget to do that though sometimes. 10:26.120 --> 10:28.340 But you'll know if you hang around with intercessors, 10:28.540 --> 10:29.340 they do it all the time. 10:30.720 --> 10:32.560 They go back into that. 10:32.860 --> 10:37.280 And I like to remind the Lord what he said, 10:37.760 --> 10:40.140 both in the Word and what he personally told me. 10:40.140 --> 10:41.880 And then he goes on and says, 10:42.000 --> 10:44.140 for God did not give us a spirit of timidity. 10:44.420 --> 10:46.500 Now the Amplified breaks that down. 10:46.680 --> 10:50.760 Of cowardice, of craving, and cringing and fawning fear. 10:50.940 --> 10:53.340 So some of you remember this from when we went over it 10:53.340 --> 10:55.560 in 2020, 2021. 10:56.700 --> 10:58.740 So let's take those words apart. 10:59.680 --> 11:03.080 The spirit of timidity or fear. 11:03.680 --> 11:04.260 Or of cowardice. 11:04.900 --> 11:09.280 The word cowardice means lack of purpose or courage. 11:11.320 --> 11:13.160 You forgot your purpose. 11:13.680 --> 11:15.700 So then courage goes right out the window. 11:17.460 --> 11:21.960 See, when I stood against cancer, a big thing wasn't like, 11:22.020 --> 11:23.320 oh, please Lord, let me live. 11:23.460 --> 11:25.260 You know, I got grandchildren or whatever. 11:25.800 --> 11:29.400 No, it was like, you called me and you said I'm supposed to. 11:30.060 --> 11:32.600 And that gave me courage to address the thing like, 11:32.680 --> 11:33.400 I ain't going anywhere. 11:34.080 --> 11:35.780 I am not done yet. 11:36.260 --> 11:37.560 See, then I can announce that. 11:37.560 --> 11:41.380 In such courage, you know, and you don't question like, 11:41.600 --> 11:42.080 well, I don't know. 11:42.180 --> 11:43.260 Is he wanting to take me home? 11:43.280 --> 11:45.040 Then why did he tell me these other things? 11:46.700 --> 11:49.260 He told me and revealed those other things to me. 11:49.360 --> 11:51.960 And so therefore I come up into a courage. 11:52.080 --> 11:55.800 But when you're cowardice, you lack the firmness of purpose. 11:56.520 --> 11:57.420 That's what it means. 11:57.580 --> 11:59.020 You lack the firmness of purpose. 11:59.340 --> 12:01.400 And so then courage can't operate. 12:02.180 --> 12:03.320 So all right. 12:03.520 --> 12:05.620 So then rekindle the embers of. 12:05.620 --> 12:09.640 And we go back and he's taken care of cowardice. 12:09.940 --> 12:10.820 Of craven. 12:11.560 --> 12:15.500 And craven means, it says craven and cringing and fawning fear. 12:15.720 --> 12:20.360 Craven means lacking the least bit of courage or being faint hearted. 12:22.760 --> 12:26.380 How can you tell when you're being brave, 12:26.760 --> 12:29.260 the test of this when something comes against you 12:29.260 --> 12:32.460 and you still keep going even though you're shaking inside? 12:33.020 --> 12:33.500 That's courage. 12:34.280 --> 12:37.820 Your body will always react a certain way. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.220 But the thing is you keep heading in the direction that he told you. 12:41.400 --> 12:42.840 Doesn't matter what it looks like. 12:43.040 --> 12:44.080 Doesn't matter what you feel. 12:44.640 --> 12:47.320 But the faint hearted will just go, 12:47.600 --> 12:48.840 I have this craven fear. 12:49.020 --> 12:49.780 I'm just, I'm out. 12:50.680 --> 12:51.200 Done. 12:52.360 --> 12:54.120 And we'll be faint hearted. 12:54.720 --> 12:58.420 Cringing is a whole other kind of fear that it talks about. 12:58.560 --> 13:02.580 And it means to shrink or to recoil and distaste. 13:02.580 --> 13:04.940 Like, I don't want to participate in this. 13:05.660 --> 13:07.840 I'm pulling back. That's too much. 13:08.240 --> 13:10.000 What he's asking us to do, I mean, 13:10.460 --> 13:12.220 you know, he asked me to go up to red. 13:12.380 --> 13:14.420 Like, do you know that could be dangerous up there? 13:15.540 --> 13:16.580 And then you cringe. 13:17.840 --> 13:19.620 Anywhere can be dangerous, by the way. 13:20.420 --> 13:23.440 But you cringe and you pull back from the very will of God. 13:23.740 --> 13:24.640 That's fear also. 13:25.280 --> 13:27.100 And then he says the last one, 13:27.300 --> 13:30.680 which I enjoyed finding out because I've never heard of fawning fear 13:30.680 --> 13:31.880 until I saw it in the Amplified. 13:32.540 --> 13:35.300 Fawning fear means that you're literally in a spot 13:35.300 --> 13:40.080 where you seek approval or favor by means of flattery. 13:40.240 --> 13:42.520 To either get out of something or get into something. 13:42.920 --> 13:43.740 That's fear-based. 13:44.680 --> 13:46.200 Manipulation is fear-based. 13:46.600 --> 13:49.200 If I have to pull those tactics to, you know, 13:49.280 --> 13:51.560 start flattering a person, so don't hurt me. 13:51.720 --> 13:52.640 You know, you're so wonderful. 13:53.420 --> 13:55.860 You know, and I have to use compliments 13:55.860 --> 13:58.680 and everything to address that situation. 13:58.680 --> 14:00.280 I'm in fawning fear. 14:01.080 --> 14:04.300 So these are the different types of fear that it named there. 14:04.620 --> 14:07.900 But he has given us the spirit of power and of love 14:07.900 --> 14:10.320 in a calm and well-balanced mind. 14:10.800 --> 14:12.920 A calm and well-balanced mind. 14:13.280 --> 14:15.260 A calm and well-balanced mind. 14:15.400 --> 14:17.580 So calm is that stillness. 14:18.140 --> 14:22.140 Well-balanced is you're not on all or nothing way of thinking. 14:22.980 --> 14:25.140 If you battle something and you really find out 14:25.140 --> 14:27.840 that your mind is out of balance, you're dysregulated. 14:28.620 --> 14:31.220 And how you know is, before you went to bed, 14:31.300 --> 14:32.380 you were way over in this stitch. 14:32.720 --> 14:35.360 When you got up in the morning, your emotions were way over in this stitch. 14:36.260 --> 14:37.800 You're either a superhero or a loser. 14:38.120 --> 14:40.580 You either got to save the day or you're not going to do anything. 14:41.260 --> 14:42.400 God is in the middle. 14:43.060 --> 14:46.840 And anything that can upset us to the point that we're just, you know, 14:47.260 --> 14:50.360 we're pendulum swinging is not of God. 14:51.640 --> 14:54.180 So he calls us to a well-balanced mind 14:54.680 --> 14:56.480 and discipline and self-control. 14:57.760 --> 15:01.840 So let's say that we just took those two scriptures 15:01.840 --> 15:04.880 and now whatever you're coming against right now, 15:05.040 --> 15:08.820 and the mainland, just, the mainland has everyday problems 15:08.820 --> 15:10.560 like, what am I going to do with my finances? 15:11.660 --> 15:13.760 My child is rebelling. 15:14.520 --> 15:16.300 You know, the car broke down. 15:16.540 --> 15:17.200 That's the mainland. 15:17.840 --> 15:19.720 That's where we practice our faith 15:19.720 --> 15:22.840 so that we can house the anointing 15:22.840 --> 15:25.080 when we get up closer on the tower 15:25.080 --> 15:26.280 and we're climbing this thing 15:26.280 --> 15:28.080 and we're seeing the deep things of God. 15:28.120 --> 15:31.380 We have to have the capacity to operate in that, 15:31.520 --> 15:33.600 to house that type of anointing. 15:33.900 --> 15:37.580 And we can't skip practicing our faith in the mainland. 15:38.780 --> 15:40.600 Coming up against certain things. 15:41.220 --> 15:43.180 Because you'll find that if you skip, 15:43.360 --> 15:46.960 you can just skip learning about giving and prosperity. 15:47.260 --> 15:48.020 Let's take that one. 15:48.560 --> 15:50.300 You're like, well, I'm not really into that or whatever. 15:50.680 --> 15:51.900 I'm doing alright on the mainland. 15:52.240 --> 15:54.140 But I'll go up and I'll see the things of God 15:54.140 --> 15:56.940 and he'll start assigning me bigger things than where I'm at. 15:57.700 --> 15:58.260 Well, guess what? 15:58.380 --> 15:59.340 You got to have prosperity. 15:59.660 --> 16:02.280 You have to understand that he is the blessing 16:02.280 --> 16:04.120 in order to go to that higher thing 16:04.120 --> 16:05.180 and to be able to house it. 16:05.820 --> 16:08.840 So we still need all the areas of the gospel 16:08.840 --> 16:12.920 to mature us so that we can, when we climb this thing, 16:12.960 --> 16:15.340 it's like, now I have the capacity 16:15.340 --> 16:17.380 to house this type of anointing. 16:18.120 --> 16:21.700 So it's very important that we're not sucking up to people. 16:21.940 --> 16:23.180 That's the fawning fear. 16:23.180 --> 16:27.380 That we don't cringe back or recoil and distaste toward anything. 16:27.720 --> 16:30.720 And we're not craving, lacking the least bit of courage 16:30.720 --> 16:33.400 or faint hearted or cowardice, 16:33.540 --> 16:37.240 which is really on a lack of firmness of purpose. 16:38.640 --> 16:42.520 So when the enemy comes against you on the mainland, 16:42.580 --> 16:45.560 maybe you've climbed some of the tower 16:45.560 --> 16:46.740 and you've seen some things 16:46.740 --> 16:48.720 where he's calling you to something higher, 16:49.080 --> 16:51.620 then the first thing you have to do is make that firm. 16:54.560 --> 16:56.700 Because it's like, you know, like they say, 16:56.800 --> 16:58.940 all hell breaks loose when you go to do a new thing 16:58.940 --> 17:00.060 that God's asked you to do. 17:00.880 --> 17:03.260 Okay, well, probably held and break loose. 17:03.400 --> 17:05.120 Probably the things that were already there, 17:05.120 --> 17:06.540 especially in your own mind, 17:07.020 --> 17:08.400 are going to challenge you now. 17:08.840 --> 17:10.860 And so you have to, your job then 17:10.860 --> 17:13.840 is to firm up what he told you to do. 17:15.720 --> 17:18.280 So in the firming up of what he told you to do, 17:18.360 --> 17:19.820 you've got to go back to his word. 17:19.820 --> 17:21.440 And then like he just said, 17:21.960 --> 17:24.240 how do you rekindle what he told us 17:24.240 --> 17:25.440 and taught us to begin with? 17:25.880 --> 17:28.240 The fire that's already there to begin with. 17:28.480 --> 17:30.360 We have to go back and revisit those things. 17:30.480 --> 17:31.920 But this is what fear does. Fear will go, 17:32.320 --> 17:33.040 I need something new. 17:33.780 --> 17:36.300 I got to go to a conference and hear some other word. 17:36.840 --> 17:39.760 I've got to, you know, have someone speak over me. 17:39.800 --> 17:42.080 I got to fall down at least five times 17:42.080 --> 17:44.860 in the power of God before I can get this short up. 17:45.020 --> 17:47.800 No, you go back to what he already told you 17:47.800 --> 17:48.980 and what he's already given you. 17:48.980 --> 17:51.700 And if you never had any of those experiences, 17:51.940 --> 17:54.780 then go back to your experience with knowing him 17:55.860 --> 17:57.040 and kindle that. 17:57.200 --> 17:58.940 This is what I know about my God. 17:59.060 --> 18:00.220 I am not going to fear. 18:00.840 --> 18:02.840 Because salvation means to take the limits off. 18:03.000 --> 18:04.980 So just because I can't see where I'm going 18:04.980 --> 18:06.300 and there's limits in the way, 18:06.600 --> 18:08.640 doesn't mean that I'm going to stay in that 18:08.640 --> 18:12.480 because I have revelation that comes through the mind of Christ. 18:12.720 --> 18:15.620 I have the ability to walk in the things 18:15.620 --> 18:18.120 that he's asked me to do through salvation power. 18:18.120 --> 18:18.980 See, that's so basic. 18:19.940 --> 18:21.560 See how I'm fanning it. 18:22.200 --> 18:23.920 Whoo, I could pray on that for an hour. 18:26.860 --> 18:31.020 Sometimes we run out of things to say in prayer, you know, 18:31.420 --> 18:33.920 and then sometimes we'll just randomly pray in tongues, 18:34.080 --> 18:36.300 but it's kind of not the same power type 18:36.300 --> 18:38.360 tongues that edify your spirit. 18:38.480 --> 18:39.060 We're just rambling. 18:40.140 --> 18:41.240 I don't know what to do. 18:41.440 --> 18:44.020 I just feel faint hearted. 18:44.720 --> 18:45.680 You know? 18:46.900 --> 18:51.160 But we don't have an expectation that that same fire 18:51.160 --> 18:52.800 that came on us to begin with 18:52.800 --> 18:55.040 or the fire that we've never experienced 18:55.040 --> 18:58.260 will come on us now and that we will rekindle that. 18:58.980 --> 19:01.700 Like put another log on the fire, same fire. 19:03.200 --> 19:05.480 Put another log there, take the Word of God, 19:05.660 --> 19:08.940 put it on and stir up that gift within you. 19:09.560 --> 19:12.020 But we forgot what we received already. 19:14.540 --> 19:18.320 We used to go over this with Jim and my husband 19:18.320 --> 19:19.980 when we'd come out of open heavens. 19:20.140 --> 19:21.780 It'd take about two months and it's like, 19:21.920 --> 19:24.000 did we already forget what we received? 19:24.580 --> 19:26.480 There was intense stuff that happened. 19:26.800 --> 19:29.180 You have to go back, watch the video, do the thing 19:29.180 --> 19:30.940 or whatever, like, oh, that's right, that's right. 19:31.220 --> 19:33.660 That's why we're into what's happening right now. 19:34.000 --> 19:36.520 I have to stir up what we received then. 19:37.820 --> 19:40.440 When you stir that up, he'll add to it. 19:40.560 --> 19:41.680 That's when you get the newness. 19:42.200 --> 19:43.660 That's when you get that new thing. 19:43.800 --> 19:45.680 He's like, here, now that you stirred that up, 19:45.760 --> 19:47.340 let me add this little bit of extra, 19:47.900 --> 19:49.860 little something, something there for your thank you. 19:50.000 --> 19:51.540 That's the next part of the story. 19:52.080 --> 19:54.500 That's the next part of where I'm supposed to go. 19:54.980 --> 19:57.860 But if we're experiencing fawning fear, 19:58.480 --> 20:02.000 you know, or the inability to firm up our purpose. 20:02.660 --> 20:05.100 Man, when your purpose is firm, 20:05.740 --> 20:07.860 ain't nobody going to tell you you can't go there. 20:08.900 --> 20:10.940 If I can talk to you out of it in two minutes, 20:11.220 --> 20:11.940 it's not firm. 20:14.320 --> 20:15.240 It's just not firm. 20:16.820 --> 20:18.880 Like, you would try to talk me out of Red Lake 20:18.880 --> 20:20.520 or different places that I'm called to 20:20.520 --> 20:22.900 and I'd be like, I'm sorry, but I got all day. 20:23.260 --> 20:23.800 I ain't moving. 20:25.340 --> 20:28.820 I ain't moving, because it's so firm inside of me. 20:28.920 --> 20:30.240 It has to be firm. 20:30.560 --> 20:32.840 Whatever you're called to has to be firm, 20:32.920 --> 20:33.980 or you will peter out. 20:33.980 --> 20:36.840 You will stop doing what needs to be done. 20:36.980 --> 20:39.440 And the enemy, the first attacks that will come against 20:39.440 --> 20:41.720 in this mainland, we're still operating here. 20:42.600 --> 20:45.340 In that, we'll talk you out of just about anything. 20:45.960 --> 20:48.440 Everything will just get really hard and there's no hope. 20:48.500 --> 20:50.400 And what is hope but the fuel to your faith? 20:51.440 --> 20:52.820 It's like you ran out of gas. 20:55.680 --> 20:57.680 I should prophesy over this church 20:57.680 --> 21:00.340 that we'll always have a full gas tank. 21:01.260 --> 21:02.840 That hope is a priority. 21:03.500 --> 21:07.120 That the joyful, confident expectation of something good 21:07.120 --> 21:09.520 according to what he already has promised us 21:09.520 --> 21:11.080 dwells in this house. 21:11.400 --> 21:12.740 It dwells in our temples. 21:12.960 --> 21:14.720 It is there and we just fan it. 21:14.940 --> 21:17.000 We just get the flame higher. 21:17.260 --> 21:18.920 Let's go. Let's get it higher. 21:20.300 --> 21:21.960 But if you came in this morning 21:21.960 --> 21:24.140 and you had something happen in the mainland, 21:24.420 --> 21:26.140 you're like, I can't believe they said that to me. 21:26.200 --> 21:27.300 I can't believe that happened. 21:27.520 --> 21:29.380 I can't believe I got a paycheck cut. 21:29.860 --> 21:31.240 You know, all of these different things. 21:32.300 --> 21:34.220 And you start dwelling on that. 21:35.280 --> 21:36.380 You'll run out of gas. 21:37.200 --> 21:39.340 And so then we'll come and we'll say, 21:39.460 --> 21:40.880 hey, let's climb the tower. 21:41.720 --> 21:44.020 Let's believe God that we're going to get up on the wall 21:44.020 --> 21:46.680 and he's going to give us some real supernatural stuff. 21:47.280 --> 21:48.980 Not if we petered out in the mainland. 21:51.680 --> 21:52.120 Right? 21:53.160 --> 21:55.560 I'm just giving you basics of how this works. 21:56.340 --> 21:57.620 And so then the other one 21:58.980 --> 22:01.020 that we have to watch out for 22:02.160 --> 22:06.080 is first Thessalonians chapter five. 22:06.600 --> 22:08.100 I've mentioned this before too, 22:08.220 --> 22:09.540 but I'm bringing us back 22:09.540 --> 22:11.920 so that we've got a good running start here. 22:13.480 --> 22:14.900 Even for warfare, 22:15.920 --> 22:17.700 we go into like say, 22:17.760 --> 22:19.780 praise takes us into warfare this morning 22:19.780 --> 22:23.100 or prayer takes us into warfare this morning. 22:23.680 --> 22:25.480 It won't be based on like, 22:25.520 --> 22:26.620 we just saw a new thing 22:26.620 --> 22:29.080 as much as it'll be based on the fact like, 22:29.380 --> 22:31.980 I'm standing for what I'm already called to. 22:32.440 --> 22:35.400 I have stirred up the gift of God in me. 22:35.820 --> 22:38.660 That whole thing, I'm not going to stand for fawning 22:38.660 --> 22:39.980 for all of those different things. 22:40.200 --> 22:42.300 And we're already in the belief moment. 22:42.440 --> 22:45.300 We're moving along like, I will follow no matter what. 22:45.640 --> 22:46.560 It's getting pretty narrow. 22:46.720 --> 22:49.040 I don't care. I'm going to squish my way through there. 22:49.420 --> 22:50.660 He'll make me fit. 22:51.820 --> 22:52.340 Right? 22:53.660 --> 22:55.620 And so then it's different. 22:55.620 --> 22:58.120 It's a different approach than help is Jesus 22:59.180 --> 23:00.480 in our hour need. 23:01.420 --> 23:02.900 And we get stuck there 23:03.600 --> 23:05.260 waiting on Him to help us. 23:05.340 --> 23:06.580 And if He just would help us, 23:06.660 --> 23:07.920 we could get up and do something. 23:08.440 --> 23:11.560 You can get up and do something about anything right now. 23:11.940 --> 23:14.520 Just by going back to what He already gave you 23:14.520 --> 23:16.180 and remind the devil of that 23:16.180 --> 23:17.420 and remind yourself of that. 23:18.420 --> 23:20.740 I was born for such a time as this. 23:23.240 --> 23:24.720 That's what you announced, right? 23:25.500 --> 23:26.600 Prayer will start coming out. 23:26.620 --> 23:28.700 I was born for such a time as this. 23:29.040 --> 23:30.720 Greater is He that is in me 23:30.720 --> 23:32.200 than He that is in the world. 23:32.620 --> 23:35.480 Therefore, Lord, I remember the day that You told me. 23:36.340 --> 23:37.980 See, now we're entering intercessory prayer. 23:38.220 --> 23:39.080 You can go there right now. 23:39.720 --> 23:41.300 You can start addressing things right now. 23:41.560 --> 23:43.160 Unless you're waiting for the thing 23:43.160 --> 23:45.100 that's in front of you to change. 23:46.120 --> 23:47.640 And it's just not changing. 23:47.840 --> 23:49.320 And I'm about to run out of gas. 23:49.320 --> 23:51.200 I have no fuel for my car. 23:53.060 --> 23:54.900 If that's how we look at it, 23:54.900 --> 23:56.840 then there's no way to refuel. 23:58.200 --> 24:01.060 Because you'll be in such doubt in your lack of hope 24:01.060 --> 24:04.100 you won't see the new thing if it was right in front of you. 24:04.540 --> 24:06.380 He could reveal something so supernatural 24:06.380 --> 24:07.620 and you'd be like, meh. 24:07.960 --> 24:09.240 It'd go right over your head. 24:09.980 --> 24:13.640 We're able to see it because we're standing there for 24:13.640 --> 24:16.360 in the fire that He's already given us. 24:16.360 --> 24:18.960 That's what opened our eyes to begin with, right? 24:20.020 --> 24:23.480 And so, there's 1 Thess chapter 5. 24:24.660 --> 24:28.480 He talks about in verse 16, 24:28.680 --> 24:30.420 be happy in your faith and rejoice 24:30.420 --> 24:32.100 and be glad-hearted continually. 24:32.600 --> 24:34.240 Always. Be happy in what? 24:34.460 --> 24:35.200 In your faith. 24:36.460 --> 24:38.340 It isn't just be happy. 24:38.520 --> 24:39.820 It's be happy in your faith. 24:39.960 --> 24:41.540 What is it that you believe? 24:41.960 --> 24:43.800 Anything that you're trying to overcome, 24:43.800 --> 24:45.960 anything you're trying to help someone else overcome, 24:46.320 --> 24:48.000 always comes down to, hey, 24:48.100 --> 24:49.140 what is it that you believe? 24:49.260 --> 24:51.020 When we go to hospital calls 24:51.540 --> 24:54.180 and we show up, I don't want to show up 24:54.180 --> 24:55.480 and just be like, I have faith. 24:56.120 --> 24:57.620 I want to know what that person believes. 24:58.520 --> 25:00.340 I'm not there to overtake them. 25:00.480 --> 25:01.320 I'm not there to... 25:01.320 --> 25:03.120 I'm so powerful in my faith. 25:03.260 --> 25:04.200 I'll just run you right up. 25:04.440 --> 25:05.540 Hey, if they don't believe, 25:05.680 --> 25:07.160 then that's where we need to start. 25:09.260 --> 25:09.620 Right? 25:10.240 --> 25:11.620 So we determine that, right? 25:11.620 --> 25:14.260 So we're happy in our faith 25:14.260 --> 25:16.480 and we rejoice and be glad-hearted 25:16.480 --> 25:17.800 continually, always. 25:19.100 --> 25:20.440 Yeah, but I'm going through something. 25:20.680 --> 25:22.260 I know, but I rejoice in the Lord. 25:22.420 --> 25:24.140 See, you had joy before, so rejoice. 25:27.220 --> 25:28.280 Rejoining takes faith. 25:29.020 --> 25:30.520 You're like, I'm just going to step out 25:30.520 --> 25:31.620 and rejoice right now. 25:31.880 --> 25:33.280 I don't care what this looks like. 25:33.560 --> 25:35.280 I'm going to rejoice in the Lord always. 25:35.520 --> 25:36.880 And again, I say rejoice. 25:37.680 --> 25:39.600 All right, be happy in your faith. 25:39.600 --> 25:40.860 Verse 17 says, 25:40.940 --> 25:42.100 Be unceasing in prayer. 25:42.720 --> 25:44.000 Praying perseveringly. 25:44.200 --> 25:45.560 You will not do that 25:45.560 --> 25:47.160 without being happy in your faith. 25:48.140 --> 25:49.660 That just sounds like a chore. 25:51.100 --> 25:52.060 Okay, fine. 25:52.280 --> 25:53.580 I guess we got to pray constant. 25:54.680 --> 25:56.820 I barely make it past five minutes 25:56.820 --> 25:58.340 and I'm just like, help Lord. 25:58.840 --> 26:00.500 And then we'll just stay quiet 26:00.500 --> 26:02.260 because we have nothing else to say. 26:02.860 --> 26:06.260 You start praying in what he's already told you 26:06.260 --> 26:07.760 and what he's already done for your life. 26:07.760 --> 26:09.540 You haven't even moved on to the problem yet. 26:10.080 --> 26:11.820 An hour will pass and you're like, 26:11.900 --> 26:12.920 oh, yeah, there's this thing. 26:13.620 --> 26:14.800 Let me get back to this. 26:14.920 --> 26:16.480 This is originally why I came to you, Lord. 26:17.700 --> 26:19.960 But there's a whole thing you can say 26:19.960 --> 26:21.480 before you ever get to that. 26:21.740 --> 26:22.940 Thank God in everything, 26:23.180 --> 26:24.980 no matter what the circumstance is. 26:25.280 --> 26:26.480 Remember the word circumstance? 26:27.260 --> 26:28.240 I've taken it apart. 26:28.380 --> 26:30.340 I don't know if the dictionary allows me to do this. 26:30.480 --> 26:33.380 But what are you succumbing to? 26:33.540 --> 26:35.600 What stance are you succumbing to 26:35.600 --> 26:36.660 right now in the mainland? 26:38.340 --> 26:39.760 What's coming against you 26:39.760 --> 26:41.040 that you're going to succumb? 26:41.280 --> 26:43.720 It has a stance that's coming against you. 26:43.820 --> 26:45.020 Are you going to succumb to that? 26:45.240 --> 26:46.320 That's why when we say, 26:47.600 --> 26:49.640 there's some circumstances going on. 26:49.880 --> 26:52.260 Well, don't succumb to the stance of it. 26:54.900 --> 26:56.620 Surr up the gift within you. 26:56.880 --> 26:58.240 Surr this up again, right? 26:59.000 --> 27:01.960 And so what the circumstance may be, 27:02.060 --> 27:03.480 be thankful and give thanks. 27:04.120 --> 27:06.480 Don't thank him for, you know, 27:06.480 --> 27:08.940 like I've brought up before, don't thank him for the cancer. 27:09.460 --> 27:11.440 He doesn't need the cancer to teach us anything. 27:11.700 --> 27:13.180 He doesn't need these different things. 27:13.420 --> 27:15.460 He doesn't borrow from the devil's kingdom. 27:15.460 --> 27:17.940 But you thank him for what he's done. 27:18.540 --> 27:22.300 There's the fact and then there's what he does about the fact. 27:22.480 --> 27:24.980 There's the truth about the fact and that comes from him. 27:25.360 --> 27:26.960 For this is the will of God for you. 27:27.060 --> 27:27.760 Oh, I didn't know that. 27:27.900 --> 27:29.460 I didn't know what the will of God was for me. 27:29.620 --> 27:30.420 He just told us. 27:31.280 --> 27:33.500 The other thing that is the will of God for you 27:33.500 --> 27:34.360 is to get to know him. 27:35.620 --> 27:37.640 So you don't really have to search like, 27:37.780 --> 27:39.180 I'm just praying for his will. 27:39.600 --> 27:41.820 God just told me open up the heavens 27:41.820 --> 27:43.680 so that I can get into this big thing. 27:43.800 --> 27:44.860 Am I a missionary? 27:45.420 --> 27:47.580 Hey, just do these things 27:48.300 --> 27:49.620 and get to know him 27:49.620 --> 27:51.200 and it will be revealed to you. 27:52.180 --> 27:53.460 All right, we're going, 27:53.640 --> 27:54.800 we're trying to climb the wall 27:54.800 --> 27:56.860 when we have to take this ground 27:56.860 --> 27:57.720 in the mainland. 28:00.140 --> 28:02.460 All right, so thank God and everything 28:02.460 --> 28:04.200 no matter what the circumstances may be. 28:04.240 --> 28:05.220 Be thankful and give thanks 28:05.220 --> 28:06.940 for this is the will of God for you 28:06.940 --> 28:08.260 who are in Christ Jesus. 28:08.420 --> 28:09.360 Well, I'm in Christ Jesus. 28:09.500 --> 28:10.440 I'm in the anointed one 28:10.440 --> 28:13.060 in his anointing with salvation power, 28:13.220 --> 28:16.640 the revealer and the mediator of that will. 28:17.160 --> 28:18.820 Then it says, do not quench, 28:19.060 --> 28:21.340 suppress, or subdue the Holy Spirit. 28:21.780 --> 28:23.600 We've talked about this before. 28:23.760 --> 28:25.800 The word quench is to withhold 28:25.800 --> 28:29.160 from circulation or expression 28:30.300 --> 28:33.880 to cut off the voice of or the breath of. 28:36.020 --> 28:37.300 Now, my brother and I, 28:37.320 --> 28:39.480 my brother Joe and I had this really weird game 28:39.480 --> 28:40.080 that we would do, 28:40.280 --> 28:41.140 mostly in the barn, 28:41.520 --> 28:42.560 would chase each other 28:42.560 --> 28:44.820 and throw water at each other 28:44.820 --> 28:47.480 from the cow tanks and all this stuff. 28:47.980 --> 28:50.140 But we had a choking game that we'd do. 28:52.400 --> 28:53.000 I know. 28:53.620 --> 28:55.040 But you could only use one arm. 28:55.280 --> 28:56.300 And if you got a hold of the person 28:56.300 --> 28:57.260 or whatever you could choke him, 28:57.260 --> 28:59.120 I just happen to have a longer arm than him. 28:59.220 --> 29:01.220 But he was stronger than me, right? 29:01.940 --> 29:03.360 But I remember standing there. 29:03.400 --> 29:04.200 We'd chase each other. 29:04.500 --> 29:05.640 We'd be choking each other. 29:05.720 --> 29:06.620 It's a weird game. 29:06.920 --> 29:08.200 Okay, we did weird stuff. 29:08.380 --> 29:10.000 We did punching games, all kinds of stuff. 29:10.340 --> 29:11.060 But, you know, 29:12.300 --> 29:15.460 we had energy apparently and no supervision. 29:16.840 --> 29:19.280 So as we, as we were choking each other, 29:19.360 --> 29:20.160 I remember he, 29:20.380 --> 29:21.700 I just put my head back like this, 29:21.740 --> 29:23.960 but he still, he still had a hold on me. 29:23.960 --> 29:27.000 And what it's like to start losing your breath. 29:28.020 --> 29:31.000 If you ever wrestle and somebody takes you, 29:31.440 --> 29:33.060 puts their arm around and all of a sudden, 29:33.120 --> 29:34.220 you can pass out like that. 29:34.560 --> 29:38.220 Well, to withhold from circulation or expression 29:38.220 --> 29:42.860 to cut off the voice or the breath of the Holy Spirit, 29:43.880 --> 29:46.220 we have to make some choices in that. 29:47.240 --> 29:50.360 Which means we would probably go opposite 29:50.360 --> 29:52.280 of what the gifts of the Spirit would say 29:52.280 --> 29:54.000 because it goes on and it says also, 29:54.480 --> 29:57.200 do not spurn the gifts and utterances of the prophets. 29:57.440 --> 30:01.020 Do not depreciate prophetic revelations 30:01.020 --> 30:02.920 nor despise inspired instructions 30:02.920 --> 30:05.160 or exhortations or warnings. 30:05.820 --> 30:07.620 Now we're going to test and prove all things, 30:07.920 --> 30:09.440 but how do we do that? 30:09.820 --> 30:12.440 How do we come against like prophetic things 30:12.440 --> 30:12.820 and all that? 30:13.080 --> 30:14.840 You have an experience with God here, 30:15.100 --> 30:17.000 then life in the mainland gets hard 30:17.000 --> 30:19.760 and you totally disregard that he already gave you something. 30:21.460 --> 30:23.080 You just take the breath right out of it. 30:24.460 --> 30:26.320 That's not going to circulate into my now. 30:26.480 --> 30:27.160 I need a new thing. 30:28.060 --> 30:29.820 I need Jim to pray for me. 30:29.920 --> 30:30.560 I need this person. 30:30.900 --> 30:32.840 Has any already told you something? 30:33.760 --> 30:37.280 Has any already gifted you with something? 30:37.940 --> 30:38.980 What does the Word, 30:39.280 --> 30:41.340 even if you never had a prophet speak over you, 30:41.740 --> 30:43.700 this Word prophesies over you. 30:44.820 --> 30:46.640 So we go back to the same thing. 30:47.280 --> 30:47.760 Stir it up. 30:48.800 --> 30:49.860 Stir it up. 30:50.040 --> 30:50.840 Stir it up. 30:51.320 --> 30:51.660 Hallelujah. 30:52.180 --> 30:53.660 So we're not going to quench or suppress 30:53.660 --> 30:54.980 or subdue the Holy Spirit. 30:55.080 --> 30:56.820 So once again, quench or stifle 30:57.340 --> 30:59.840 is another way, another word for it, 31:00.120 --> 31:03.180 to withhold from circulation or expression. 31:04.280 --> 31:05.460 You know how a church can do that? 31:05.840 --> 31:09.440 It's been 15 minutes of praise already. 31:12.420 --> 31:15.040 They just went 12, 10 already. 31:15.040 --> 31:17.580 I might just die of starvation. 31:19.880 --> 31:21.580 Oh, you're about to choke that thing out. 31:22.600 --> 31:23.040 Right? 31:23.440 --> 31:24.280 He wants to move. 31:24.620 --> 31:26.760 He might be just gearing up to say, 31:26.900 --> 31:28.680 I want to see who's going to follow me. 31:31.060 --> 31:32.740 And we just start choking it out. 31:32.820 --> 31:34.820 No, I don't really want that much circulation. 31:35.020 --> 31:36.980 Just enough to keep the heart rate going. 31:37.120 --> 31:39.080 But I don't want that much circulation 31:39.080 --> 31:40.120 of the Holy Spirit. 31:41.940 --> 31:42.880 See how this works? 31:43.460 --> 31:45.320 These are keys in the mainland 31:45.320 --> 31:48.040 before we ever get the big instructions 31:48.040 --> 31:50.960 from the Lord, where I saw over this city 31:50.960 --> 31:52.880 and I saw governmentally. 31:53.660 --> 31:55.060 Because that's what happens to the higher climate. 31:55.300 --> 31:56.900 You see governments of the world. 31:58.120 --> 31:59.900 Here we're supposed to govern ourselves 31:59.900 --> 32:00.800 and our family. 32:01.700 --> 32:04.260 Then it goes out more influence and more influence. 32:04.520 --> 32:06.600 And you start peeking over the tower 32:06.600 --> 32:08.520 and it's still operating here. 32:08.640 --> 32:09.600 You're taking land. 32:10.880 --> 32:13.100 It's very important that we know that in prayer. 32:13.640 --> 32:15.580 So what am I saying by saying all this? 32:15.880 --> 32:17.220 When we stir up the gift, 32:17.680 --> 32:19.900 if you, all of a sudden, 32:20.040 --> 32:21.340 your breath just ends 32:22.480 --> 32:24.760 because we're more looking to see something 32:24.760 --> 32:27.500 than we practice the prayer of something, 32:27.780 --> 32:30.480 then we have to go back to the main thing 32:30.480 --> 32:31.860 and do the main thing. 32:32.960 --> 32:34.640 Like for instance, sometimes 32:34.640 --> 32:36.840 Pastor will say, let's just pray in the Spirit. 32:37.000 --> 32:38.640 Well, pretty much everybody does that. 32:39.060 --> 32:40.220 Never used to be that way. 32:40.260 --> 32:41.420 So we have had growth. 32:42.240 --> 32:45.000 But let's just pray spiritually. 32:45.780 --> 32:47.600 Now that doesn't mean you're praying in tongues. 32:47.940 --> 32:49.640 But we're going to deal with this subject. 32:49.900 --> 32:52.020 And all of a sudden I want this side to deal with this, 32:52.120 --> 32:53.360 this people to deal with this, 32:53.420 --> 32:56.740 and they'll usually be one or two people in the group 32:56.740 --> 32:57.660 who just pray. 32:59.040 --> 33:00.040 I'm just being honest. 33:00.620 --> 33:01.940 And then there's a whole bunch of people 33:01.940 --> 33:03.820 that you run out within a minute 33:03.820 --> 33:05.300 or all that comes to you as a phrase. 33:10.230 --> 33:12.250 I'm just maturing the saints, okay? 33:13.010 --> 33:13.610 Is that okay? 33:14.370 --> 33:15.890 I have to do it either way. 33:16.270 --> 33:17.210 But anyways, 33:19.650 --> 33:21.030 there's something about 33:21.030 --> 33:23.630 when Holy Spirit starts circulating 33:23.630 --> 33:25.730 and you allow him 33:25.730 --> 33:27.590 to speak through you 33:27.590 --> 33:29.770 on yourself first. 33:30.050 --> 33:31.390 You practice on yourself first. 33:31.810 --> 33:33.930 A lot of times churches taught, prophetic churches, 33:34.090 --> 33:34.970 especially we're taught like, 33:35.290 --> 33:36.570 we don't say anything about ourselves 33:36.570 --> 33:38.730 and we really don't speak over our family. 33:39.090 --> 33:40.710 But I have a word over the government. 33:42.130 --> 33:43.710 I was like, well, you didn't practice 33:43.710 --> 33:44.970 on the main ground. 33:45.090 --> 33:46.870 I wouldn't be going and taking that on right now. 33:47.630 --> 33:49.610 I'm just saying, that's how it works 33:49.610 --> 33:50.730 in the spectrum of things. 33:52.110 --> 33:53.790 So, let's stand this morning. 33:58.680 --> 34:00.440 This is why when 34:02.060 --> 34:04.260 when they said Jesus, you know, 34:04.400 --> 34:05.880 did Jesus teach us to pray? 34:07.420 --> 34:08.880 He gave a format 34:09.440 --> 34:10.580 to help us out. 34:11.520 --> 34:13.100 Right? We've prayed this here before. 34:13.240 --> 34:14.560 Our Father who art in heaven. 34:15.820 --> 34:18.340 Well, address yourself first. 34:18.540 --> 34:20.220 We're not going to have time to do all this this morning, 34:20.220 --> 34:21.820 but I want you to practice this at home 34:21.820 --> 34:24.660 in the secret place where you're addressing yourself first. 34:24.800 --> 34:26.340 Father, and I'll just give you an example. 34:26.520 --> 34:28.360 Father, in the name of Jesus, I just thank you 34:28.360 --> 34:30.600 that you have rented my heart for you. 34:31.280 --> 34:33.080 That I claim that over myself 34:33.080 --> 34:34.520 and I ask forgiveness for anything 34:34.520 --> 34:36.020 I've participated in 34:36.020 --> 34:38.700 or that I have thought that's outside of your kingdom. 34:38.820 --> 34:39.800 See, I'm going to keep going. 34:40.440 --> 34:41.820 I can keep going, right? 34:42.320 --> 34:44.660 I'm not climbing the wall for anything just yet. 34:44.900 --> 34:46.580 I am talking to myself. 34:47.000 --> 34:49.520 My flesh will follow where the Spirit goes. 34:49.860 --> 34:51.560 And so, line me up, Holy Spirit. 34:51.740 --> 34:54.180 Line me up so that I'm regulated with you. 34:54.460 --> 34:55.920 I have the DNA of Christ. 34:56.140 --> 34:57.620 I have the mind of Christ. 34:57.940 --> 35:01.380 I am fully armored and the weaponry is on me. 35:01.380 --> 35:04.340 See, and I could go on for a long time on that. 35:04.720 --> 35:06.860 If you have not practiced praying 35:06.860 --> 35:08.500 that type of prayer for yourself, 35:09.120 --> 35:10.800 it will feel so odd 35:10.800 --> 35:12.500 and you'll run out of things to say. 35:13.940 --> 35:16.280 I could take a whole session of time 35:16.280 --> 35:17.260 just to pray over me. 35:17.960 --> 35:18.640 I need it. 35:20.700 --> 35:21.300 I need it. 35:21.660 --> 35:24.120 I'm not going before God and begging him for stuff. 35:24.940 --> 35:26.800 I'm addressing my heart. 35:28.360 --> 35:30.160 And Lord, I just ask that you 35:30.160 --> 35:32.080 stir up the gift of God in me. 35:32.320 --> 35:34.220 Those gifts that were put into me 35:34.220 --> 35:35.600 in my mother's womb. 35:35.960 --> 35:38.480 Lord, that you would stir over those gifts 35:38.480 --> 35:41.160 right now, causing them to come forward. 35:41.340 --> 35:44.320 More and more sanctified by you. 35:44.740 --> 35:47.260 And Lord God, as I am justified in you, 35:47.380 --> 35:48.760 those gifts will take place 35:48.760 --> 35:50.600 and I will be following your Spirit. 35:51.460 --> 35:53.220 See, I'm prophesying to myself 35:53.220 --> 35:55.260 and making announcements about myself 35:55.260 --> 35:56.500 and to where myself is going. 35:58.720 --> 36:00.220 I say, intercessory prayer. 36:00.460 --> 36:01.660 Well, I haven't gotten to the people 36:01.660 --> 36:02.620 or the nation or anything. 36:02.760 --> 36:04.800 I know. We have to practice 36:04.800 --> 36:07.400 getting the mainland and then moving in. 36:07.960 --> 36:08.480 Right? 36:08.940 --> 36:10.840 And then you first address your family. 36:11.820 --> 36:13.700 Then you first address your job 36:13.700 --> 36:15.200 and your surroundings or whatever. 36:15.480 --> 36:17.320 Because none of those things will matter 36:17.320 --> 36:19.160 if our heart is not right. 36:20.380 --> 36:22.260 If our heart isn't in there. 36:22.400 --> 36:23.940 And then if we're really out of place, 36:24.060 --> 36:25.840 we're like, I'm about out of fuel, Lord God. 36:26.400 --> 36:29.060 My car of faith just about to run out of hope. 36:30.200 --> 36:31.140 I got to stop. 36:31.340 --> 36:32.420 I got to pull over 36:33.060 --> 36:34.920 before we're going to try to do something big. 36:35.180 --> 36:37.340 We're going to pull over and refuel. 36:37.720 --> 36:40.240 So then you speak to yourself. 36:40.780 --> 36:41.120 Hope. 36:43.120 --> 36:45.320 You confess things like, I do. 36:45.660 --> 36:47.440 I have a joyful, confident expectation. 36:47.780 --> 36:48.720 Something good is going to happen. 36:49.300 --> 36:52.020 I disregard the feeling of my soul 36:52.020 --> 36:54.420 and I come up into the things of the Spirit. 36:54.420 --> 36:56.120 And this is where praying in tongues. 36:56.720 --> 36:57.540 Then what does it do? 36:57.820 --> 37:00.520 It edifies your spirit and makes you strong. 37:00.680 --> 37:01.360 How does it do that? 37:01.660 --> 37:03.520 It brings spiritual things forward 37:03.520 --> 37:05.560 and where you lost hope in your soul 37:05.560 --> 37:06.480 that goes in the background. 37:07.320 --> 37:09.460 And your body just has to shut its pie hole. 37:10.640 --> 37:11.780 Like body, you're just coming with 37:11.780 --> 37:13.540 where the spirit's going, so get back there. 37:14.500 --> 37:16.280 See, we're putting things in order. 37:16.500 --> 37:18.220 So let's pray in the spirit here just a little bit. 37:18.560 --> 37:19.400 I'll have the band come. 37:23.380 --> 37:24.920 You see, I'm fired up already. 37:25.160 --> 37:26.720 Just praying that little bit as an example. 37:32.920 --> 37:35.680 Wherever Lord God, we have missed the mark. 37:35.900 --> 37:38.320 Lord, get us back on to the target. 37:38.460 --> 37:41.260 We are asking for that in our hearts right now. 37:41.620 --> 37:44.400 Wherever unbelief has spoken loudly to us. 37:44.600 --> 37:44.780 Silence. 37:45.500 --> 37:46.400 Be quiet. 37:46.820 --> 37:49.360 We hear the voice of the Lord only. 37:49.360 --> 37:51.780 And I've renounced that over ourselves. 37:52.100 --> 37:53.320 As we go into worship, 37:53.560 --> 37:55.060 we will not quench 37:55.060 --> 37:57.380 or cause the circulation 37:57.380 --> 37:58.880 of the move of the spirit 37:58.880 --> 38:01.100 to be stopped by limits. 38:02.480 --> 38:04.160 I resist that. 38:04.720 --> 38:06.420 I cast that down 38:06.420 --> 38:07.480 within myself. 38:07.760 --> 38:09.720 That's flesh. Flash, you listen to me. 38:10.020 --> 38:11.440 We're going into the things 38:11.440 --> 38:12.860 of the spirit this morning. 38:14.060 --> 38:15.700 You will not be 38:15.700 --> 38:17.440 participating and coming 38:17.440 --> 38:19.720 against the circulation of the Holy Spirit. 38:20.380 --> 38:21.820 Father, if we yield it 38:21.820 --> 38:23.080 to our flesh in any way 38:23.080 --> 38:24.800 before we ever got here, forgive us. 38:27.480 --> 38:29.440 I have a high expectation 38:31.420 --> 38:33.220 that people come through the doors. 38:33.440 --> 38:34.980 They're going to be cut to the heart 38:34.980 --> 38:35.740 and changed. 38:36.580 --> 38:39.000 I have a high expectation, Lord. 38:39.140 --> 38:41.500 God, I'm speaking to my soul. 38:42.040 --> 38:43.440 Listen up. No strongholds. 38:44.180 --> 38:46.180 No strongholds will speak louder 38:46.180 --> 38:47.780 than the Word of God. 38:49.480 --> 38:50.360 The same spirit 38:50.360 --> 38:52.100 that raised Christ from the dead 38:52.100 --> 38:54.000 dwells in me, and it's 38:54.000 --> 38:56.740 quickening my mortal body right now. 38:57.440 --> 38:58.640 Body come alive 38:58.640 --> 38:59.860 in the spirit. 39:00.260 --> 39:02.060 Soul come alive to the 39:02.060 --> 39:04.300 spiritual things. We set our mind 39:04.300 --> 39:05.540 on the spiritual things. 39:05.740 --> 39:08.200 We set our mind on the truth of your Word. 39:08.400 --> 39:09.980 We set it. We set it. 39:10.120 --> 39:10.760 We set it. 39:12.540 --> 39:13.480 I remember that. 39:15.300 --> 39:16.740 Wherever we've lowered 39:16.740 --> 39:18.300 the standard, we raise it 39:18.300 --> 39:19.440 and set it high. 39:20.520 --> 39:22.100 Our expectation is high. 39:23.580 --> 39:25.340 Our expectation is high. 39:25.920 --> 39:28.300 Those that are suffering things in your body 39:28.300 --> 39:29.500 reset your expectation. 39:31.460 --> 39:33.440 Don't set it for just making it. 39:33.640 --> 39:34.640 Set it for being healed. 39:35.420 --> 39:36.380 Set it for it's done. 39:37.000 --> 39:38.060 Set it for it's over. 39:38.620 --> 39:40.060 Set it high, high. 39:40.060 --> 39:42.460 Climb up into that thing. 39:43.100 --> 39:44.540 And speak the Word.