Wave Of Hope | Chad Dedmon

Wow. Wow, Wow, what a privilege to be here this weekend.

We've had an amazing time. Friday nights, we we saw all kinds of

healings and prophetic words, and people's legs were growing out and activating the kids

praying. It was awesome. And then Saturday we got to go into the

city, the Tacoma Mall and uh and the casino and we did prayer and

communion on top of the parking structure overlooking the whole city and it was just

a beautiful time. And and uh and this morning was already very very precious

and uh, you know, you guys have an amazing leadership team. You

guys have an amazing staff And uh yeah, go ahead, like that's that's

that's worthy of honor because I see your leaders where they're just like constantly serving,

they're constantly loving people. And it's it's so beautiful, and it's so

beautiful to be a part of a community that's going after prayer, put a

stake in the prayer, having you know, so many different dimensions of prayer,

and and it really is refreshing to come into a community that that has

that heartbeat to go after prayer and to really take ownership to to break off

that escapism that really kind of came into the church with with you know,

really Catholicism, and and you know what he was hitting on this morning of

the you know, rescue me out of here, Get me out of here

where the Lord is anointing us to to be his light, to be salt

to you know, Christ in you, the hope of glory. And so

it's so good to pour into you guys. And yeah, I've been a

part of Bethel Church since two thousand and two. I've been running with low

Ingle and Cheon since you know, two thousand. I used to go to

Monauditorium and get blasted by God. I know all the different sections of Modernatorium

where I've had crazy encounters and you know, so I just love that you

guys are you know a house that's that's running with Bethel and him and my

parents are actually living down in southern California and working with Jay On and working

with Jay Coopman who is planted a harvest rock in Orange County where my parents

live. And you guys are getting ready to have Tony Kim, who I've

known for fifteen years and that guy is a reformer and so it's so cool

that you're having you know, Tony come in and then Steve, I remember

when he was pastoring in Weaverville. I'd go visit him in two thousand and

two and two thousand and three, and man, that guy is just like

one of the greatest revelations of joy. That that is not just a message,

it's his lifestyle, it's what he lives out. He is one of

the ultimate encouragers and bringer bringers of joy and changing your mindset. So what

a rich time. And then I've known Brian since two thousand and four when

he was pastoring in Connecticut, and so it's so cool that you're having the

crew come in and man, what a what an amazing time, And you

know, it's just so good to be here. Like Dwayne was saying,

we're going to different nations, we're pouring into different places. We leave for

Ecuador and uh just a couple of weeks and uh like a week and a

half, and they're pray for us because they're in a pretty crazy time,

which I love that I get to go in too. You know, the

battlefields, the war zones like and you know they're in military lockdown right now.

They're curfew. They're in a mandatory curfew, and so what a privilege.

I talked to the pastor and it's like, should we cancel them.

I'm like, no, this is the perfect time for me to come in.

If they will let me come in, I am coming in. Yeah,

And then yes, we're going to We've we've been going into Hawaii really

my for the last twenty years, but there's been an uptick since really twenty

nineteen. And then you know, to see how you know, they responded

with COVID and just seeing the mental health that's that's that's gone on, this

amount of suicide that's happening there and drug addiction. And then we had the

fires and I came. I was working with Afghan refugees August with Franz.

Franz was with me and and then the fires broke out in Maui and my

heart broke and the Lord said, you need to go to Mali, and

you need to go now, because if you're going to have if you're going

to have any authority to transition them from grieving to joy, you need to

be with them in the grieving. And so I went there eleven days after

the fire. And we've gone now five times and we're we We've done different

projects of building four hundred bikes for kids. We've we've given out over like

three thousand meals. We're known as the Pancake Pastors in a number of parks

and beaches. We've done all kinds of different outreaches and worship and you know,

bringing people, being able to be there when people come in and go

to their house for the first time and sift through the ashes. We've been

able to sift to the ashes with people. We were with this one family

where she was asking God, I want my jewelry back, I want my

jewelry back, and we went and took communion and we worshiped on their property

and we're sifting through the ashes and one of our team members finds a necklace

that says her name, Jesus, sign me up for more of that.

So we go Ecuador to Malli, which is going to be fun and yeah,

I'm excited. And so we have if you want to just stay connected

to us, and we love it having prayer support where you know some of

us. You can't go to Ecuador with us or Maui, but you can

know when we're going there and you could be covering us in prayer. You

could follow us online or you know, there's a here's a connection piece right

here. You can just take your phones out and the amazing QR codes and

and uh oh yeah, so it says catch the wave, uh dot org,

catch the wave global dot org and that's our website and uh and then

also we're putting on I love that you guys are going after prayer and and

I love intercession. You know that that's one of the things that God has

called us to is to intercede for you know, our land and for you

know, going into different places. We've done per paddles and seven different countries

and and uh and and all over on the East Coast and the Atlantic and

I cannot wait. I've done the border of Mexico and California, and I

got to do the border one of these days of Washington into Canada. And

uh but that will happen soon, hopefully. And but but we are doing

a school of intercession online that is like go at your own pace. You

get videos, they'll be lives. We have Heidie Baker, Michael Miller,

my mom, my beautiful wife, Julia justin Stunball and and we just begin

to just equip on intercession, how to be an intercessor, how to stand

in the gap, how to be someone who's connected to the Father, connected

to Heaven, and also connected to your city, connected to your land.

And it's very much a joshua One model of intercession. Wherever your feet tread,

I give you that land is your inheritance. And it's so important that

we have that in the go of the Gospel and in how prayer and evangelism

work together. And I love, you know, talking with Dwayne about all

the different prayer assignments that you guys have been stewarting and going after and and

you know, I love just taking communion every prayer assignment. Communion is one

of the best places of intercession because the blood of Jesus. We always take

a little bit of the blood. When we poured into the water, we

poured into the land, and we asked the Lord to heal the land.

And it's been so amazing to see scalable prayer that you know, we I

shared this in our evangelist some prayer activation. But I'll sometimes get before per

assignment. The Lord will wake me up mid night and say, hey,

this is Ezekiel training, or this is Isaiah training. And we were going

to go prayer paddle the Golden Gate Bridge. And so the Lord said,

hey, this is Ezekiel training. And I read the Book of Ezekiel and

the valley of dry bones really stood out to me, and and and I

went. It was the Wednesday before the prayer paddle, and this pastor in

San Francisco caused me and says, one of our youth just committed suicide off

the Golden gate Bridge. And so I'm like, all right, there's a

territorial spirit there that is wooing people. This is where you come geographically in

this location. If you're dealing with suicide, you know, suicidal thoughts,

dealing with depression, this is where you come to end your life. And

I said, okay, this is where we're going to take the blood of

Jesus and we're going to pray in the opposite spirit the way that Ezekiel did

that the circumstances, there's a valley of dry bones. But what does God

see and how to co labor with him, how to move in that opposite

spirit, and how to begin to prophisy over the land that I see an

army that I am seeing what the Father is seeing and releasing the four winds

of heaven. And so the day before the pur paddle, I went surfing

in Santa Cruz and the Lord says, hey, like Ezekiel, moving in

the opposite spirit. I want you to go out there with just swim trunks,

which it's freezing. Everyone's got wet suits and booties and hoods and gloves.

And the Lord's like, I want you to go out there in the

opposite spirit, like Ezekiel, and paddle out with just your swim trunks and

and only catch party waves, which us surfers were sometimes a little selfish.

You usually only see one surfer per one wave, and if someone tries to

hop on your wave, we're usually screaming at them and hooting and hollering at

them to get off the wave. And the Lord's like, no, I

want you to catch waves and invite people to jump on the wave with you.

And so, you know, the Lord sends people out in two.

So I looked at my buddy and I said, hey, I feel like

this is Ezekiel training. That's all good. That's good to both go in

swim trunks. And he's like, all right, this is crazy and we

ended up. You know, we're calling people into our waves. And this

guy goes, wow, thanks for bringing the party vibes out here. Before

you paddled out, there was these two guys yelling. They started, you

know, they were they almost started fighting. And you have all these teenagers.

They were cussing, you know, like all his bad language, all

his anger. Thanks for bringing the party vibes here. What is he saying?

He says, you're changing the atmosphere. And my buddy goes, all

party vibes. Jesus is like the king of party vibes. He had more

joy than any of his companions, you know. And the guy goes,

hey, man, I'll go to that church. And I look at him

like, well, we're at church, and I laid hands on it,

and I'm like, let him experience the party vibe gee, you know,

the Jesus party. And then this wave comes like this is our wave,

and we all catch the wave. And then the next day we do the

we do the prayer paddle and we have winded our face like like you know,

and it's called stand up paddleboarding, so we call this the paddle of

humility. When there's a lot of wind, and we got to get on

our knees, and I say, this is perfect. We're in a prayer

service on our knees. This is how intercessors fought battles way before us.

And you know it's it's supposed to be a stand up paddleboard, but here

we are on our knees fighting the wind. And then we get under the

Golden Gate Bridge and there's all these currents and we have video footage of these

elephant seals that are like eight feet ten feet, which you've got even bigger

animals that are hunting those guys. But anyways, we were in there and

the wind was at our face, and then we just started prophisying with this

open vision where I saw people that were struggling with suicide, struggling with depression,

that the Lord was going to anoint them, deliver them, and that

they would be the next Lonnie Frisbees, the faces of the Jesus People movement,

because you could only give away what you have. And we're seeing in

our country an epidemic of anxiety and mental health issues and suicide. So the

Lord will always bring an annoying that breaks the yoke of the enemy that we

actually have land. You know, it talks about injustice and the blood,

and the land cries out that's where we come in as intercessors Jesus. So

so we started promising. I I just started declaring that UD be the John

ten ten Bridge, that people would come here to end their life, but

then they would find it that John, you know, Jesus said, hey,

I gave my life so that you could find it and have life more

abundantly. And so we're promising, and then suddenly the winds shift where they're

still at our face, but now it's in our back. Now it's at

our sides. And I look at my team and like we are in an

Ezekiel moment. The four winds of Heaven are here. And what was kind

of a bummer is we had a drone, the Mavig two many that can

withstand thirty five an hour winds, and we have the footage that's connected to

our phone where you see the winds shift and it takes our drone and hits

it against the Golden Gate bridge and ping pongs around and drops in the water.

And I'm like, wow, that was a worthy sacrifice for the resurrection

power of God to come manifest. But The next morning, I'm preaching at

this church in San Francisco, and I minister and I see, you know,

during ministry time, and I see this teenager and I start praying for

him, and I, you know, I can I know that he's at

least thirteen fourteen years old, And I said, I see you as a

nine year old boy, and you're climbing up on your heavenly father's lap and

he's holding you, and he's breaking off abandonment and like rejection, this whole

abandonment that he starts wailing, starts crying. He begins to tell us that

his father was deported by ice, so he's not like his father left him

willingly, abandoned him willingly. He was separated from his dad. And the

father is healing and it is setting him free of this abandonment issue, in

this identity of being abandoned and wiping it away, saying I'm your heavenly father.

And I could tell, like, you know, he like there's something

missing, And I realized, oh man, I should ask him, do

you have do you know Jesus, do you have you asked you to live

in your heart? And he goes, no, I've never done that I'm

going, well, hey, what's your name? Ezekiel. So it's really

good when you're in Ezekiel training. When Ezekiel gets saved and set free.

He later got healed of a back injury. But this is twenty twenty one.

He's like still in this church. He's brought his family in there.

He went and led a mission trip to Dominican Republic this last year. You

know, the pastor's sending me videos of him being baptized, and I'm like,

wow, that is amazing fruit and you know, and it continues to

go where you have to understand, prayer is scalable. So I went on

had this whole bike like assignment and I biked the Golden Gate Bridge and I'm

and this is in you know that the prayer paddle was September twenty twenty one.

And then in February twenty two, I'm biking over the Golden Gate Bridge

and I noticed these beams shooting now and I see this cop walking by and

I'm like, hey, officer, I see these beams. I was here

like a few months ago and I didn't see these beams. What are these

beams? Go? Oh? We In October, we voted as a city

to come up with prevention solutions for the suicides. Golden Gate Bridge is the

number one suicide the number one bridge for suicide in our country, and they

came up with a solution to have censored nets so that when you jump,

you land in these nets and it alerts the authorities. They have a police

station on the end of the Golden Gate Bridge and it takes the average person

ten minutes to get out of these nets, so it gives enough time for

their first responders to intersect these ones that are committing, that are attempting suicide.

And I'm like, this is the answer to our prayers. I just

would encourage you, like you would not despise the day of small begins and

to not be discouraged. If you pray, you know, and then nothing

you feel like is happening, that is a lie that there are things happening

and changing in the spirit realm, and the spirit realm will will begin to

dictate and begin to influence the natural realm. Before the natural realm influences the

spiritual realm, the prayer is scalable. Jesus, Okay, that's not what

I'm preaching on. Wow, Okay, good, It's not that late.

So I'm going I feel like, as you guys have been in this Daniel

Fast, I've been just interceding and praying for what the Lord has really giving

you guys as a community. And the Lord really quickened me that there is

in this you know, region of the Northwest, that the God of Hope

is getting ready to crash in, and that there is a mental health healing

wave that is in the beginning form over this land, and that the God

of Hope is encountering those that are dealing with anxiety, depression, suicidal thought

PTSD. And this just jump into Romans fifteen thirteen, which is one of

the lifeline scriptures for me as I was building a well of hope and building

a well of peace. May the God who gives you hope fill you with

great joy. May you have perfect peace as you trust in him. May

the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope that is very good.

Yes, and amen. You know that He gives you all joy, all

peace, And those that trust in Him, that you have to understand one

of the greatest worship services is trust. That it's almost like you got to

go through the doorway of trust to encounter the God of Hope, the room

where the God of Hope lives, so that you can partake that not in

just some joy, not in most of the joy, but all joy and

all peace are given to you. You know, I was very fortunate to

be with Bill in two thousand and two, and in two thousand and three

his dad got pancreatic cancer, and for a year we contended for healing and

you know, as a community, we would see cancer abow to Jesus,

and Bill would make these decrees that we live in a cancer free zone,

that that those that walk through the Sanctuary of Bethel that are dealing with cancer,

that cancer would bow to Jesus. And then his dad gets picreatic cancer,

and you know, me and Chris Overstreet would hang out at Earl's house

and pray, you know, through late in the night. We took him

to Santa Maria healing rooms. Like we contended together as a community for Earl's

breakthrough. And then Earle graduated to be with the Lord about a year into

this battle, into this journey, and Bill began to go through this grieving

process where Bob Jones said, you need to cancel all your speaking engagements.

You should not speak at Bethel on Sunday mornings. You should, you know,

cancel all speaking engagements. So he canceled first year and he said,

you know what the second year students, those are our my family. Like

then there's only forty of us in the second year. This is two thousand

and three, which was so awesome that we, you know, we would

meet in a fifth grade classroom. We'd sit on a couch with Bill,

the forty of us, and he would just cry, he would just weep.

He would just you know, process with us his journey. And I'll

never get a couple of months into this, he said, I'm learning to

worship again. You know, I'm getting all these emails from you know,

spiritual leaders like you know, greater levels, greater devils, like if you

make decrees like cancer free zone, be prepared that you're going to take hits,

you know, if you want to grow in that kind of authority.

And he was processing, like you know theology and that in that place of

God. I know you're the healer, but my dad died of cancer,

especially when you see so many others healed of cancer, and that's always a

tricky one for us, that's going after healing and that healing annoying. Sometimes

you'll you know, you'll have two people and you'll be like, oh,

you know, like it might be someone that's you know, like maybe both

people are blind, and somebody's like in their eighties, and then there's like

a nine year old. And sometimes you're like, oh, man, that

nine year old. I want that nine year old to get healed. And

then the eighty year old gets healed. You're like, God, I want

that nine year old. And it's like you have to process and you take

that with you in your prayer. Clauset ammunition of like I need to grow

in this healing annoying. So Bill was going through that of like, God,

why did you not heal my dad? And he begins to tell us

in this fifth grade classroom, I'm learning to worship again that the Lord his

nature is the healer, and that when I'm in heaven I'll understand everything.

But I get an opportunity here on the planet that I get to use to

worship him, choose to trust him and releases a fragrance to the throne room

that will never have the opportunity to do when we're living in heaven. And

it's trust that opens the door for the God of Hope to encounter the God

of Hope. And it's it's you know, sometimes sad to see spiritual leaders

in this time where there's been a demand by a generation of I demand understanding.

You know, this whole deal of deconstruction and this whole deal of you

know, like they're just throwing out the mystery. Well, you know,

I don't understand, like how can someone really be swallowed up by a whale?

Which I don't know if you saw this, but just like a year

ago, there was a guy that was actually swallowed up by a whale.

It got spit out. I think he broke a rib or something like that.

But anyways, there's been this demand for understanding when we weren't as spiritual

leaders. We are not responsible for understanding. We were responsible for releasing peace

that surpasses understanding. Yeah, Jesus, I went through a pretty crazy time.

You know. My twenties were amazing. My wife and I we traveled

around the world. We were a part of the Vineyard, we were a

part of Bethel. We were running around with Heidi Baker, my wife and

I ordained through Bethel Church and Irish ministries in two thousand and eight, and

so it's been this wild adventure and then my thirties or thirty four, I

just hit this season where there was like all these pain points, and you

know, we lost We lost seven family members. I lost my grandparents.

My wife lost all of her grandparents. We had a miscarriage, I had

three surgeries. I had dislocated me. I had a shattered clavical I had

hernia surgery. You know, I went through all these This lady stole twenty

grand from us. Like there was a number of injustices or trauma points,

and I was just doing everything I knew to do to like fight the good

fight that you know, Hey, I'm tenacious, I'm going to keep going.

And then I had this severe car accident in twenty eighteen where I should

have died, and I discovered the prince of peace. I got the opportunity

to build a well of hope and peace. And I've always been a very

hopeful person, like optimism and positivity. But I lost hope and I realized

how valuable hope was once I lost it. So this is a video that

I did right after my car accident, and then I'll explain the accident,

but This is a little selfie video that I did. Hi, everybody,

this is Chad. It was my fore Runner gone. These guys are kind

enough to help me freaking crazy, so I'm very concussed in that video.

I had a pretty bad head injury. I flipped five times. What happened

was I was ministering on the Central Coast in Monterey and then I was in

a meeting the next day with Heidi Baker and Will Hart in reading at nine

am. So it's a five hour drive, but if you have traffic,

it could become a seven hour drive. So I woke up super early at

three am and drove through the Bay Area traffic, and then I had a

fore Runner, so I was like, all right, I could just sleep

in the back of my fore Runner. Once I get to Vacaville, which

from Vacaville to Ready and there's no traffic. So I was like, all

right, I just got to get through the Bay Area and I'll get some

sleep. I slept for forty five minutes. I'm driving another hour and I

start falling asleep and then I pull over wisely and I'm like, all right,

I've only got fifteen minutes window to you know, to kind of like

not fall asleep anymore while I'm driving, and I don't really fall asleep,

and the alarm goes and I'm kind of groggy, get into the car,

forget to put my seatbelt on, hit cruise controls seventy five miles an hour,

and I fall asleep at the wheel and I had my hands off the

wheel. I woke up, you know, doing this, and I'm going

right towards a concrete like bridge, you know, like footing, and so

I pulled the wheel onto the highway five and obviously you know what's going to

happen. As I pull on to the asphalt, the tires catch and I

start flipping, and I felt fingers go across my legs, my torso,

my chest, my head, and then the forming of a palm where there

was like a cocoon, like I was completely protected by God. And the

highway patrolman that you saw there, they were across the five fruit and they

said, we washed you roll five times and you be ejected from the sunroof.

You bounced off the five and then you got taken back into the car.

When the cops came. When the high patrolman came to me, I

went to go talk to him, and I couldn't talk. There were stuff

in my mouth. I thought it was my teeth and it was rocks,

meaning I was doing this. I had, you know, scratches, I

have scars on my back of going on to the five and they say,

the doctors told me that seventy percent of those that get ejected from the sunroof

and in a fatality, They're like, somebody up there must really really love

you. So I survived, Yeah, thank you Jesus. He's our strong

tower, he's our protector. And you know, I had a really bad

headed injury. I could. I had like a head migraine. I couldn't.

I could. I was sensitive to light. I was I would have

anxiety attacks that put on like the borne identity and be a car chase and

all this, like you know, panic attacks would be happening, and you

know, I would have night terrors. I'd be in the accident again.

And so I had severe PTSD. I begin to learn, I begin to

educate myself of like, oh, my corsoal levels are jacked. And it's

so strange too, because like I've been in twenty eleven, I was in

a plane with Roland Baker and we flipped upside down tailspin and we dropped two

thousand feet and we almost you know, we we we almost died. And

I was like, you know, it took me a day or two to

recover, but then I was fine. You know, I've had times where

I've almost died and several different things, and I didn't have like crazy PTSD.

But this time I couldn't recover. And it's always fun, like when

you're at the airport and you're stretching and you're doing all this stuff and people

are like, oh, what are you doing, you know, like you're

stretching on about gals in a severe car accident. You know, I was

objective for the center. Oh you didn't have your seatbelt. Huh. I'll

bet you never do that again. I love it when people like put the

shame on you, you know, like, but that's the great thing is

if you know, sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. And I

made a poor decision that could have had consequences. I had a three year

old and a four month old, and I could have had the consequences of

my actions of pushing through, you know, where I should have listened more

to my body and all stuff, and I didn't have my seatbelt on that

that could have been a consequences that would have left my kids without their natural

dad. Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. But when you take

care of that, when you begin to do the work and begin to forgive

yourself, and you don't put your pain and you shove it down, that

you are present in your pain, you invite God to come where you have

pain and trauma. Then you begin to have authority and you begin to have

that place where shame cannot be put on you. Jesus, is it is

it quiet in here for a reason? Yeah? So important that we begin

to understand the power of forgiving yourself. And so I had this PTSD and

and uh, I was about a month in of just like the lords,

that I want you to meditate me as the God of Hope and as the

Prince of Peace for three hours in the morning. So I'd wake up at

six and I would just build this well of peace. And I've been I

was a month in. I was at the pra Chapel and reading a Bethel

and I and the Holy spirits. Is I want to take you on a

journey and I went to the valley floor of your and there was an art

easel. In the Holy Spirit, I want you, he says, I

want you to do art again. I had not done art since I was

like a little boy. And you understand my family history. My grandma,

my mom's mom, was a professional artist, and she used to teach me

how to do art when I was five and six, and she could sometimes

be a little critical. Then I had some art teachers that were even more

critical when I was like seven and eight, and so I began to sabotage,

have this self sabotage that I am not creative, that I'm not an

artist, to the point that I was in high school and I flunked ceramics

high school. You have to work hard at flunking high school ceramics. But

here I am at thirty seven, in the Holy Spirit says, I want

you to pick up art. And I enrolled myself in our local college and

art class, and I would have to fight these thoughts if I don't belong

like here, I am thirty seven ers through twenty year olds are way better

than me. That whole comparison thing just breaking off, breaking it off,

and then suddenly I would lose myself in the art and I would find wholeness.

I would find healing, I would find therapy as I began to do

art, and I didn't even realize they've done studies at Harvard that their actual

art therapy heals PTSD. But it was something that came down my family line.

It was something that God gave me as a kid, and I began

to sabotage that place that actually were keys to break through for my journey of

stepping into wholeness. This was my first art. I don't know if they

have that picture, but this was my first art piece and it was the

valley floor of Yosemite, And yeah, that was a fun one. There's

Julia and I. So the Lord has giving you, guys keys, and

he hasn't. Some of you are stuck in your trauma or stuck in PTSD.

And I'm telling you, I could say with confidence, God is giving

you keys. He's given you arrows, and some of them he gave you

to you as a kid or down your family line, and he's inviting you

to pick it back up that it's not too late. And it's intriguing to

me that we are dealing with anxiety and depression. And the number one trigger

for mental health issues is sleep deprivation, and they say that over sixty percent

of Americans are dealing with some form of sleep deprivation. You know that if

you don't sleep for twenty four hours, you have body chemistry that is equivocal

to you being intoxicated with alcohol. You know that, And it's it's really

intriguing with you're dealing with anxiety or PTSD or trauma, and then you're dealing

with your trauma, so you can't sleep, and then you you're you can't

sleep because you're dealing with trauma, and then you have more trauma because you

can't sleep. It's a very intriguing deal. But it's so interesting that God

said, I want you to build a well of peace and discover me as

the Prince of peace. And then you have Jesus in Mark four where he's

sleeping on the boat in the midst of a storm. Here we go,

a wild storm came up, waves crash over the boat. It was about

to sink. Jesus was in the back, sleeping on a cushion. The

disciples will come up, teacher, don't you care if we drown? What

a crazy accusation to the savior of the world. He got up in order

the wind to stop. He said to the waves, quiet, be stilled.

Then the wind died and it was completely calm. And he said to

his disciples, why are you so afraid? Don't you have any faith at

all? Yet they were terrified. They asked each other, who is this?

Even the wind and the waves obey him? And I've heard it preach

and it's a great principle, and it's totally you know, there is that

Jesus was maybe frustrated or disappointed or bombed that Peter, and that Peter didn't

realize or the disciples didn't realize that they had authority to calm the storm.

But Jesus always did what the Father was doing. And what was Jesus doing

He was asleep. See rest is a manifestation of uh. I mean,

sleep is a manifestation of rest, and rest is a manifestation of peace.

And and he I think he looked at the disciplines, goes, guys,

you didn't realize that you could sleep in the storm. See, some of

us will go through storms, and then we're like, you know what,

I'm going into intercession when an active intercession is actually sleeping. Oh Jesus,

you know, I love just you this whole like mental health awareness and you

know education. You know, it's so important that when you're dealing with pain

that you become curious, that you begin to understand that you might have physical

ailments that come up that are actually communicating you are dealing with stuff in the

soul. Maybe you get the shingles, maybe you break out in hives,

Like there's many different things you have, like a panic attack, it's your

soul saying hey, like, if you don't take care of this, you're

gonna have physical issues going on. So don't have condemnation when that's happening.

Don't have shame when that's happening. Become curious. And so I love the

Brene Brown and I love all of the stuff. Where the one thing that

I have seen though, is, you know, especially I'm a tweeter,

so I'm a gen xer and a millennial. So some of us millennials are

like in this place of gung ho of like it's all about wholeness and mental

health, and I gotta take care of me before I could take care of

others. And it's like no no, you don't understand one of the keys

to wholeness, one of the keys for getting breakthrough of your soul is by

helping others, serving others. Jesus, it's so important that we do not

get on an island where we become introspective and it's all I got to get

my breakthrough first. That it's sometimes your breakthrough won't come until you contend for

someone else's breakthrough. And I was going through this time of like PTSD killing

the giant PTSD. I loved it. I love that I have this education

to build that well. And it was about two months after my car accident,

this woman contacted my wife, who my wife's a real turn reading and

say, hey, I want to buy an investment home, but I want

to meet with you and your husband. I was in a meeting months earlier

where your husband spoke and I went into an open vision. We're going to

share the video in just one second, kid, so but you could you

could play in there. It was like so crazy because I got present,

kind of took a pause there you go. I know this will We're gonna

show this video in a second, but I just want to paint. I

just want to get the foundation, right is this woman said, I had

an open vision that you took my husband's surfing. You're gonna hear the story

of this crazy car accident, this uh or this guy was run over by

a drunk driver and he has a brain injury and he can't move, he

can't and his two youngest sons, he was a surfer. He never took

his two youngest kids surfing. And my heart broke that this guy should take

his kids. So I'm gonna help him take his kids out surfing. But

his wife says, I had an open vision that you took him surfing.

And I'm like, oh wow, I can't do that right now. Like

I look at her and say, when I am better, I'll take him

surfing. And it was months later building this of hope and peace that that,

you know, it was like nine months after my car accident. It

just worked out. It was just like this crazy intersection just easy. Grace

did not have to work for it at all. That it just like I

was already instid of the California and I'm like, and it worked out for

me to take him surfing. And I took him out, got him three

waves. We loaded him in the Van. I look at the ground while

he's pulling away, and I suddenly remember the conversation we had in December where

I said I will take him out surfing when I get better, and I

look down, I'm like, I guess I'm better. And so it's so

important that we serve others in our community, even when we have trauma that's

coming up, that we begin to take care of that trauma by helping other

people get breakthrough, to get you know, healing. And so this is

the story of us taking him surfing on Father's Day with his five sons.

We're taking a dad. I was his sons on Father's Day in that Yeah,

I mean he would be able to do it if we didn't show up.

And to be a part of that, it's pretty special and that's love.

I'm Laurie Shankeenberger and my husband Steve Schakeenberger, and we have five amazing

boys. Steve is addicted to surfing. Surfing is his passion. He wanted

to live in Nicaragua for surfing Indonesia. He would take these guys out surfing

when they were one years old. I was in the hospital having our second

kid, and he would take him out surfing with a pasifier in his mouth.

Steve's accident was four years ago on February fifth, twenty seventeen, and

he was mountain bike riding and he got hit by a drunk driver, which

was a hit and run. They ended up figuring out who hit him,

and there was a long journey of forgiveness and healing and friendship with the guy

who hit him and inviting him to go to church with us, and him

rededicating his life to the Lord. And I was just blown away by what

God was doing in this whole accident everything else surrounding it. Being out there

in the water with all his boys, that's what Steve would have wanted to

have done on Father's Day. We just got to ground zero to Dahety.

We're taking Steve out and Laurie and their sons and we're going to get some

party waves on Father's Day. You know, this is for all the fathers

that are out there that amy circumstances conditions where they can't take their kids out

on ride a passage journeys. As a father to a son or daughter,

that it's a privilege to be a part of the community to help those that

need assistance. To you know, you still breathe them. There's still a

dad, and we get to take them out surfing. And this is the

kind of stuff that I was alive for. Is to help your neighbor,

to help your community step into your fatherhood. That's just all gather together and

just but celebrate. Steve is a dad, That dad is. His greatest

identity is to being a son and a dad that he is not. His

identity is not handicapped. His identity is a dad. Yeah. And so

we bless you, Steve on Father's Day, and we bless you to catch

waves with your sons, to go and have fun with your sons on Father's

Day. And so Lord, we just pray for a hedge of protection.

We thank you for all the servers out here watching and making sure he's all

good. But Lord, we think of that there's angels here to protect him

as well. And Lord, we just pray Lord for just the heart of

a father to connect with his kids. Lord. Here we are together as

a community to rally around Steve and Laurie and Lord in their household. And

we just pray Lord that they would have epic times with you gone. You

would have epic times as it down. See if we just say that you

are an amazing down this is where you would be before this trauma happened.

Then this is where you would spend time with your sons. And so here

we are today June twenty, in twenty twenty one, to spend time to

be with you as you enjoyed catching waves with your kids. It's good you

learn than I had of. Sometimes you never call the horse. We always

kid every game saving Yeah, we ran him over. What a privilege.

Steve went to be home with his father in heaven in October twenty twenty one,

just four months after that. That's why we're not supposed to be stuck

on an island. Herope that if I would have said, oh no,

I need to do more counseling. Oh I need to do more stuff,

I need to work on myself. I'll take Steve out when I am.

You know, another time, I would have missed the opportunity for his two

youngest sons that never went surfing with their dad to now that narrative is completely

changed, that those two boys will forever have that moment on bother's day with

their dad. So I would just just put your hand on your heart.

Lord, we just pray for the God of Hope to be established in this

community. Lord, that these guys would be hope ambassadors. Lord, that

they are building a well of hope and a well of peace. So Lord

crash In has the Prince of peace. Lord, heal anyone in this room

that are feeling stuck paralyzed in their pain. Lord, that you'd give them

people to serve, to contend for, that you would give them steves in

their life. So Lord, right now, I just ask that you would

heal trauma, that you would begin to illuminate, and that there'd be a

spirit of revelation of what are the different arrows and the different keys that God

has given me to build a well of hope, to build a well of

peace. We just break off hopelessness, We break off depression, we break

off shame and condemnation. That you would know that you're a part of a

community that cares, a community that wants to fight for your breakthrough. That

you would break off loneliness and isolation. Lord, that you would give us

courage to be vulnerable. So Lord, we pray that you would just crash

in in this hour, that you would establish a well of hope, in

the Northwest. Lord, that you are evicting the enemy of suicide, anxiety

and depression. And Lord, I pray for anyone that struggles with sleep.

Lord, that you would begin to give us dreams about our destiny, dreams

about our heavenly father, dreams. That you would break off night terrors,

and that we would wake up jumping out of bed Betty to seize the day.

Lord, that you would begin to remove weariness. We'd break off the

lie that you're stuck. We break off the lie that this is your reality,

this is your crutch to bear, this is your identity. We break

that off. That you would feel connected to the God of Hope, that

your hope levels would begin to arise. So Lord, we just thank you

that you are the God of the breakthrough. There would be a breaker annoying

this morning, that hope is arising, that the Prince of Peace wants to

encounter you wreck us. God. Amen, all right, I went a

little long. Kids are probably waiting in the children's ministry. We'd love to

pray for you. I'll have a team here to pray if you just you

know, want another level of breakthrough of just the God of Hope crashing in

thank you guys again so much for having us. What a privilege, what

an honor. I love you guys. To say to Y