Unseen Realm Pt. 5 // Guest Pastor Chad Dedmon

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Talk about the unseen realm.

I remember being a little kid when I was about four or five, I started seeing angels and demons.

Thank God I see a lot more angels than I do demons.

And it's always intriguing when I get around people that see a lot of demons.

And they say they, you know, based on their experiences, they're always seeing demons.

And I'm kind of, that's my pastoral side comes in and goes, hey, you probably should be seeing a lot more angels than demons.

Just mathematically, that makes sense.

Which I'm not gonna camp here, but I'll just kind of uh trigger some of you.

You know, God's the creator of the universe, right?

He creates things.

And he introduced free will.

You know, we get to see this uh moment before man being formed where he gives the angels an opportunity of free will with Lucifer and saying, hey, you could leave with Lucifer and one third left.

And you think that God stopped creating angels?

Come on.

I don't know if the math is still correct, one-third left and two-thirds stayed.

I think there's a little bit more now up there with with the Lord.

But, anyways, sorry, that that that is um I'm not willing to die on that theological milestone.

I just know he's the creator of the universe, and that wouldn't surprise me that he's created some more angels.

But but my point is this is that what you focus on is what you become.

And well, we'll just make this a biblical meeting.

John 10 10.

I love this Jesus talking here, and this is the Passion translation.

Uh John 10 10, a thief has only one thing in mind.

He wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy, but I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect, life in its fullness until you overflow.

Now, when we talk about the unseen realm, and we're talking about the spirit realm, and we're talking about the second heaven, Paul says, Hey, there's a first heaven which we see the sky, we see the heavens.

That would be the first heaven, and then the second heaven is the spirit realm where there are you know demons and angels, and you know, uh Daniel doing his Daniel fast, and then Michael or Gabriel comes in and says, Hey, I've been hung up with uh battling the Prince of Persia for the last 21 days.

That battle was going on in the second heaven.

And then Michael's gonna come and you know and help us out and the whole deal.

And so that was a battle going on in the second heaven.

Now, what's amazing is we are called to live, as Paul says, you are foreigners, you are aliens, you are your home is heaven.

It says that we're uh seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, Ephesians 1.

I think that's 16, 17, somewhere.

I don't know.

It's in the first chapter.

But we're seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

That is the reality.

That salvation is the beginning of eternity.

We don't get saved and we white knuckle it until we get to heaven.

We get to experience the benefits of eternity the moment we ask Jesus to come into our life.

And we are now rooted and grounded in love, which he, you know, we have a good example of this in Psalms 2.

He who sits in the heavens and laughs over the plans of the enemy.

So that is the Father positioning himself that any attack from the enemy, it's laughable.

Gods never have ever felt threatened by the devil.

Devil is very, very small, God is very, very big.

Yes, I like it too.

But you have to understand the devil wants your attention because attention is worship.

But Psalms 2, he who sits in the heavens and laughs over the plans of the enemy.

And this is this is where we can kind of get tripped up.

Is he knew the plans of the enemy, that's called intel.

Anyone that understands war and strategy, that is intel.

That is getting the enemy's plans.

You want that.

So we need to be aware of the enemy, but not consumed by the enemy.

That's the difference.

And then you begin to partner with the Lord, who, if he is for you, who can be against you?

That you could be in front of giants and be like, oh, God's totally giving these giants.

Like giants, their destiny is to give glory to God, is to fall.

This is perfect.

God's gonna get glorified in this situation.

Because if he is for me, who can be against me?

So the enemy likes to get really big, the enemy likes to get really loud, and usually when he likes to get really big and loud is when that's when he gets really nervous.

That's a sign that the enemy is nervous.

When the enemy gets really intense in my life, I'm like, oh, he's he's scared.

Jesus.

But I'm telling you, there's a lot of intercessors that they find their identity or they are consumed with living in the second heaven when they were never.

That's a great place to visit, not to live.

Jesus.

Okay, well, that's just let me just hit another thing on intercession and this whole deal of the unseen realm.

Is I went through a crazy deal.

I was in a crazy car accident in 2018, and I was ejected from my sunroof, which, you know, 72% of those that get ejected through the sunroof end in fatality.

And uh I met God, like he I felt his fingers go across my body and then the forming of a palm, which was like a cocoon.

And so, you know, he's my strong tower, like is legit.

Like I had a moment when he like protected my life.

And the Lord, uh, I had to walk out some PTSD and walk out trauma and then discover sleep and began to build this well of him being the Prince of Peace and Him being the God of hope.

And I discovered how important sleep was, and I began to do a lot of research into sleep and how Jesus is the Prince of Peace.

Okay, let me let me hit this, let me let me preference this.

You can only give away what you have, first off.

So you have to go through certain situations to grow in authority to discover the nature of God, and then you begin to give that away to others.

But again, understanding the plans of the enemy, that if you understand the enemy is coming like a flood, but that he always releases an anointing and a heavenly solution that evicts the enemy, that takes out the enemy because the enemy's focus is to steal, kill, and destroy, as we have this in John 10:10.

John 10:10

And so, how is the enemy attacking my generation?

Well, it's suicide, like Time magazine in 2019 before COVID, came out with a study that they did for several years where we have dipped in life expectancy as Americans for the first time in 70 years.

And the two leading contributing factors is drug overdose with fentanyl and uh suicide among 14 to 30 year olds.

Is it an all-time high that's never as they've done the stats, uh the history of stats for Americans, that no generation has had this much uh suicide among young people.

So there's a need of a mental health healing wave.

Sleep is the number one trigger, sleep deprivation is the number one trigger for mental health issues.

And so in 2019, I learned the importance of sleep.

I learned that, oh, Jesus was always doing what the Father was doing.

He's in the boat in a storm, the disciples are freaking out.

They wake him up and says, Do you even care if we live?

Which is a crazy accusation to the Savior of the world.

And Jesus says, Hey, it is me.

Like, do not be afraid.

You don't, like he addresses there's a spirit of fear that's consuming you.

You are being consumed by the enemy.

You are being consumed with the spirit of death that you're thinking you're gonna die in the storm with the wind and the waves.

And what was Jesus doing?

Because I've heard so many messages about Jesus' authority and how he said, peace be still.

Oh my gosh, this is what we're all called to have to, you know, release peace in the storms.

But I think it's important that we recognize where was Jesus during the storm.

And so I began to learn how important sleep was, and then we had COVID, which I was like, oh, this is one big storm for all of us, and I believe that he's trying to teach us as intercessors how to sleep, being connected to the Father in the storm.

Oh, Jesus.

You will go in if you stay up all night rebuking the storm, you will be going into striving mode because that's not what the father is doing.

He's trying to teach us how to operate in that, you know, under the Prince of Peace.

Peace that surpasses understanding.

Maybe that's one of the other issues why a generation is dealing with so much mental health.

It's because we, as some of the people in the church, have been trying to give understanding when we're supposed to be giving peace that surpasses understanding.

Maybe you wouldn't have as many much deconstruction going on.

Sorry, that was just another one to just kill.

Jesus.

Okay.

Well, that's enough of that.

Peace.

So that is one of my points is that you recognize what the enemy is doing, it's intel, and then you begin to ask the father for ammunition to give you heavenly solutions on how to displace the enemy.

Now it's important that when we understand about binding and loosing, which I think that a lot of one of where we've been tripped up is we've been consumed with binding and not consumed with loosing.

Oh, Jesus.

It's really easy.

Sometimes it's a trap from the enemy to be consumed with the binding, meaning that, oh, we got to know what the enemy is doing and the history and the dates and the Freemasonry and the timelines and the bloodlines and the whole different deal when we should be consumed with what does the father want to establish in this region?

Because if we clean out the house but we don't fill it, it's gonna be seven times worse.

Why do you think that's just individual uh deliverance?

That's also corporate, that's also for regions.

Oh, Jesus.

Let me give you an example.

So I'll talk, and I've talked, I think it was just several years ago.

I was here and I talked about prayer paddling and all of our crazy prayer paddles.

And you know, I love that we've got Gary.

Gary's around here somewhere.

There's there's yep.

And uh uh Gary came with us to do a prayer paddle, which I'll talk about in a second.

But we I I started doing these prayer paddles in February 2021, and I discovered a year later that witches are doing witch paddles all over our country.

They're not doing bike rides, they're not doing walks, they're doing paddleboarding like curse paddles.

They curse the region, they put spells in the region.

So I was like, no, that's not gonna, you know, not on my watch.

Like, that's that's my assignment.

God told me to pray uh by way of paddleboarding, you know, which, gosh, let's just stay there for a second.

Some of you are like, whoa, you just took a total left turn.

But first of all, I'm from California.

I've been a surfer my whole life, and us surfers, and it's really hard to translate.

Maybe it would be like in the skiing, you know, you ever see those guys with the snow blades?

You know, they've got like the single blade and they're sitting down and they're going in the little snow blades.

You guys ever seen those?

Yeah, they're not very many of those riding on snow blades, right?

And some people maybe would crack some jokes about them.

Yeah, okay, there you go.

Some people are being honest and vulnerable in this.

Well, I was a surfer, and stand-up paddleboards kind of came out in like 2007, and we would tell them you just keep paddling, like you're a snowblader.

Like you can't you can't ride here, you can't surf here, you've got to keep going.

Like, we did not like paddleboarders.

So I don't know if that really translates because I know like people paddleboard on the lakes here and the whole deal, like, no, we're in the ocean, and the paddleboarders can get the waves before us surfers, which we don't like that, and they can't really ride the wave the way that we would ride the wave, and so we get really upset at them.

But it's like a total deal of you know, Isaiah 42 and 43, forget the former things, behold, I do a new thing.

Do you perceive it?

And I'm telling you, one of the ways that you know that God's doing new things is you get offended by them.

Seriously.

And it takes some humility to be like, oh, I need to humble myself.

God's telling me to prayer paddle, like to go on a paddleboard, something that I do not like.

I do not like these people.

And so God gives me a dream, January 10, 2021, and says, go on this paddleboard.

Where I went in February, uh, the Lord told me the dates, February 2nd to the 6th, and I paddled 42 miles with two other people in five days.

It was really, really, really, really difficult.

Fell so many times, it just, you know, was sore.

And it was very much Luke 10, 27.

Love your Lord God with all your heart, mind, and strength.

How do you know when you love God with all your strength?

You're probably cramping, you're dehydrated, it's hard to move, mental fortitude.

Those are great worship services.

And on the last day of our prayer paddle, first one, uh, you know, our my government uh officials, my elected officials gave us the feedback in California that we as ministers and priests are not essential business.

We were told that during COVID and churches were shut down.

We were not essential.

Which I thought was great feedback from my elected officials of like, oh wow, we've been essential, like the Levites have been essential for you know thousands upon thousands of years, and wars and famines and you know, the bubonic plague.

Like, we've been essential.

So I'm like, okay, well, we need to become essential again.

But the last day of our prayer paddle, the Supreme Court overturned Governor Newsome's orders that we got to go to church the day after my first prayer paddle.

The Supreme Court overturned the last day.

I'm in the water, and the day after my first prayer paddle assignment, I got to go to church for the first time in 11 months.

Yeah, I was excited about that.

And a year later, I find out the witches are doing these curse paddles.

And I'm like, wait, what?

So I'm not being consumed by the enemy.

I am doing my assignment, being consumed by the father.

What is the father asking me to do?

Me being connected to him.

He's like, hey, take the land this way, pray this way.

And I'm like, okay, sweet.

I'll I'll go out and pray.

And it was just, it was amazing.

I mean, I saw all kinds of crazy stuff.

You know, was praying for the uh Azusa Street Revival.

That was the second prayer paddle.

And I've and if you understand or know the history of Azusa Street Revival that started in 1906 with William Seymour in Los Angeles, praying, God, you know, do it again.

You're the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I'm reminding you of what you've done in my land.

Do it again.

And we find a shipwreck, and I go and and it was on a military base, Camp Pendleton, which is illegal to go on the beach, but I saw a shipwreck, and I just felt this wooing, like, you know what, I want to check out the shipwreck.

And so I do, and the boat says Bonnie B, which if you know about Assusa Street, it the baptism of the Holy Spirit were first beginning uh to be outpoured was in a little house called the Bonnie Bray House.

And here is the boat, Bonnie B.

And I'm like, okay, yeah, I think we're onto something.

So I love it where you're following God and you're understanding, okay, the enemy is trying to like put cards on the table and say, oh, that's great intel, but I'm not going to be consumed by it.

And so we went to Portland, Oregon, where there were 500 witches, 18 different covens, coming together to curse the land.

We took communion in the parking lot.

We're praying, and here we are talking about the unseen realm.

And like, you know, yeah, like there is another level.

When I'm sitting in my prayer chair at home with my Bible and my favorite coffee mug, it's easy for me to read and say, Greater is he that's living in me that he is in the world.

But when you get around 500 witches, it becomes a different reality and a different level of understanding and a different level of confidence in God.

Where I just like, where I'm like, some of my team was a little nervous because they're seeing 500 witches and they're on their witch garbs and pentagrams on their foreheads and all that fun stuff, and and you know, cats dressed up and the whole deal.

And and I'm like, you know, I need to prayer walk.

So I just prayer walk speaking in tongues, and I could just feel the hand of God on my life, but I don't feel it the same way when I'm like in the living room.

And I'm just telling you that there is an element, if you want to start seeing like the unseen realm, then you gotta get out into the dark places.

But you're anchored in him.

That's the big deal.

Is your default and your understanding is oh, God's got my back, and you are in sync with God.

That's a fun one.

That takes a lifetime journey of being in sync, being in rhythm, not being ahead of him.

Oh man, now we're getting into evangelism stuff, which I absolutely love.

And sometimes I get triggered around certain people that are evangelists that their default is conversion.

Their default is how do I get this person to recognize they're a sinner?

That that's that's their default.

Because when if that's your default, you will begin to get ahead of the Holy Spirit and trying to bring sin in people's life up when the spirit of conviction is not moving yet.

If the spirit of conviction isn't moving yet and you get ahead of the Holy Spirit, it comes out and gets perceived as condemnation, which is judgment.

And the world's giving us some feedback that we come in a lot of judgment.

Oh Jesus, am I you want to be in sync with the Holy Spirit?

How was Jesus friends to sinners?

How you know he who saw Zacchaeus goes, Zacchaeus, salvation is coming to your house.

I'm gonna eat with you.

And how big was eating with someone?

That's who you're associating with, that's who you're breaking bread with, that's who you're sharing your life with.

It's so important.

Jesus would be able to sit with drunkards, sit with prostitutes, sit with tax collectors, and just let the Holy Spirit move.

And he would say, if you see me, you see the Father.

That's how he did evangelism.

It was different every time.

The woman at the well, the you know, Zacchaeus.

It wasn't, he didn't have a default setting of, oh, what how do I get my angle into getting them to recognize they're a sinner and get them into like, oh, you you know, you're going to hell.

You get you need you need to say yes to Jesus so you can get out of jail free card and you can just white knuckle it until you get to heaven.

What a bummer.

The focus has got to be relationship, connection.

And the best way to do that is to model your connection with the Father.

And then you're in sync with the Holy Spirit and you're like, oh, the Holy Spirit's here with conviction.

And what's amazing is people that you are ministering to, you'll know certain ways that the Holy Spirit's working when they just start putting cards on the table.

Jesus.

In sync with the Holy Spirit.

I know I've got I have great friends that are evangelists, but sometimes I'm a little perplexed because I feel like they're just really good at sales.

And I have to have real talks with them and uh in, you know, just me and them, which is great because I'll be like, man, I don't think that person got saved.

And they're like, well, what are you talking about?

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, you're saved.

And I'm like, yeah, but out of your heart, your mouth speaks.

And that person was perturbed.

That person wanted to get out of this conversation, and they were willing to say and do anything to get out of this conversation.

I don't think they got saved.

And it's just a conversation where we're having, but I'm just saying it's about our default.

That it's like, oh man, the goal is to get this person to say a prayer.

And then see you later.

I love the belonging piece.

I love the discipleship piece.

I love the let's eat together.

Like Jesus, he was accused of being a drunkard because he was hanging out with drunkards.

He was a friend of sinners, not so they could get the angle point of recognizing they're a sinner, but because he actually loved them.

Like, whoa! So my point is that, oh, let me just hit this whole witch paddle deal.

So so the Lord says, Hey, I want you to go to Portland.

Uh Chris Overstreet uh is an amazing friend of mine, and he lives in Portland, and he's like, Hey Chad, you know what the witches do?

I was speaking at a conference in January 2022, so a year into the prayer paddle thing, and he goes, Hey, you know what the witches do every October?

They do these curse paddles.

So I'm like, oh, I'm going there.

So I went October 2022.

I went to, you know, Portland, Oregon.

But before I did that, I went to North Carolina, to Charlotte and Wilmington.

And I was doing a prayer pedal in the Atlantic.

And I woke up in the middle of the night throwing up.

And I was throwing up like a lot.

And then my team wakes up, no one else is sick.

We all ate the same food for lunch and dinner.

And I'm like, oh, this isn't food poisoning.

This is spiritual warfare.

I'm being cursed by like, you know, a coven.

And so I'm like, in that case, I'm doing the prayer paddle.

If it was food poisoning, I would let other people do the prayer paddle.

But if it's spiritual warfare, game on, I'll go out there in a paddleboard on my knees and threw up every now and again in the Atlantic, you know, and but just going through it.

It was a six-mile prayer paddle.

So that's always fun.

Um, you know, it's you have to understand that some of the two very big pathways, not the two only pathways or the biggest pathways, but two big pathways to connect to the Father is through the spirit of offense and the and inconvenience.

When you're inconvenienced, because complaining will be one of the quickest ways to shut down the Spirit of God flowing through your life.

Complaining.

And yet we're good with it a lot in the church.

Jesus.

It does, it shuts that down.

But you understand when there's moments of great inconvenience, if you can lean in and move in the opposite spirit, because that's the deal with the unseen realm, is the ability to see what's going on, but then to move in that opposite spirit, to see what the enemy is doing, but be so connected to the Father and to move in the opposite spirit that the world sees a valley of dry bones, a bunch of people that died, but Jesus in the Lord sees an army.

To see how he sees.

That's what we're talking about.

You have the unseen world, but you're gonna have the enemy trying to get a lot of attention, but we need to be consumed with God, consumed with the Father.

Jesus.

Okay, let's keep it going.

So I do the prayer paddle in the afternoon, the the spiritual attack stuff lifts, feel great.

And I'm doing a meeting that night, and the Lord says that there's two witches that uh have been cursing you, and they'll be at the meeting.

So I called them out.

I said, Hey, there's two witches here.

You need to come find me afterwards.

You've been cursing me.

I have uh a prophetic word for you.

And so one of them comes up to me and says, Hey, I'm one of the witches that's here to curse you.

And I'm like, Oh, great.

I flew across the country to bless you, and I put my hand on her jawline, and she just goes, No, no, no, no, no.

And I'm like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

And she goes flying back, and and the Lord starts downloading that she was uh abused when she was eight years old, and she's had a uh like a spirit of self-protection that she's had to protect herself, and that's been this whole deal of the kingdom of darkness is to get more powerful, more big, more able to protect so that she cannot be abused.

And so she's abusing others so that she can't, you know, she's still dealing with that ASES, which is an adverse, you know, childhood experience.

But that's where she opened the door to the enemy.

And so I'm like getting words of knowledge about ages and the whole thing, and she's crying, saying, Yeah, that's true.

And I said, You need to close the door of self-protection, and you need to repent and ask the Father to forgive you and that you would put him back in that place of being your protector.

And so I take her through that whole journey, she's crying, she's getting wrecked.

And then I, a week later, I'm at this witch paddle with 500 witches, and the Lord said, Hey, don't drop in to the paddle when they drop in, like they went in at 10 o'clock.

I'm like, I waited for them to all go, and then we that's when we took communion in the parking lot, and and we kind of went in with like the stragglers, those that were, you know, not the covenant leaders and all that stuff.

But what's good is they were doing an out and back.

So when we were going out there, we could see all the witches, which like you know, kind of was the opposite spirit type of paddle of meaning we're going upriver, they're going downriver.

But more importantly, I saw their faces.

I mean, I'm like, oh my gosh, these are human beings made in God's image.

And they're all like deceived, and you could see the oppression, the possession, the torment.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, God, you want these people.

You love these people.

I get to see their faces and the intercessors that I would tell people I'm doing, I'm going to these witch powers.

Like, oh, you can't go out there, you gotta go out afterwards.

And I'm like, no, I gotta be there with them.

Like that something about seeing them breaks my heart with compassion.

Because if you want to grow in authority, if you want to grow in the unseen realm, then you have to begin to grow in compassion.

It's got to be love that motivates you.

Oh man, my heart breaks for these people because I'm telling you, there is an attack from the enemy, which I love in the opposite spirit, is there is an amazing anointing in the church that the Holy Spirit is pumping right now for the spirit of unity.

And it's so intriguing when I watch the opposite spirit and I see the division among churches, but the division in the in the world, and and how the the there's been this thing of the of the world like having this narrative of the church of it's us and them, where the church has demonized people.

Where I'm like, oh, where's the demonized people?

I want to I need to hug them.

Because the Holy Spirit is living inside of me and he's contagious.

The Old Testament was all about sin and separation from God.

You saw a leper, you walked across the street screaming, leper, leper, leper.

And Jesus, he hung out with the lepers, he touched the lepers, knowing that what he's carrying is more powerful than sin.

He was teaching us to be a light in the world, to be a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.

And let me just hit let me just hit this whole other thing with the evangelism deal.

Is yes, we need to recognize and have a moment when there needs to be a recognition of sin and shedding off and coming into opening the spiritual door of Jesus and giving him your whole life.

But I'm telling you, there needs to be a shift in the way we do evangelism.

I don't think when Moses came in front of the whole, you know, in the invitation to meet with God, that when he took off his sandals, he didn't have like a three-day seminar of how to take off his sandals.

He knew that there was a shedding, there was a giving up of certain things.

There was, I need to remove these things in order to meet with God.

But he was consumed with meeting God.

And I think we need to do evangelism where we are reconnecting people to the glory.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory, Jesus has reconnected us, has become the door so that we could be Hebrews 10, sprinkled by his blood, going into the throne room of grace with boldness, with confidence.

And we wish we did evangelism like that, meaning we were consumed with that.

I'm telling you, we that is flipping, but we need to have models that show us the flipping, meaning that we could go out to witches.

But you definitely want to be smart.

You don't want the spirit of stupid.

That's that being in sync with the Holy Spirit.

And you have your defaults of okay, I'm here to love, I'm here to be connected to the Father.

That's my defaults, that's my origin point.

Isn't here to save people because he's not looking to raise up saviors.

He already did that.

That do we trust God?

Oh, Jesus, that's a whole other message.

Okay.

I love it because I asked my team, I had 20 people on that prayer paddle, and I said, all right, guys, make declarations.

I have the GoPro, and I'm like, make declarations over Portland.

And no one, like, we're around 400 witches, and no one is addressing that we're around witches.

They're like, make this the most joyous city.

We pray for healthy families.

We pray for like each one has a different, you know, declaration.

And they're consumed with what the Father wants to establish in Portland in the midst of all the witches.

Oh Jesus.

I feel like a lot of other prayer places would be consumed with all the enemy stuff.

Can you be in the presence of the enemy and still be consumed and connected to the Father the way that Jesus was?

If you see me, you see the Father.

We're one.

I'm just about my father's business.

Whether I'm around witches or I'm watching the Buffalo, you know, Colorado guys beat up on another team.

Pray for Deion Sanders.

Jesus.

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I know, I'm just hitting on a.

Yeah, the the prayer paddles have been significant.

I'll do one more, and I think I've shared this story in here already, but it's worth repeating.

Is um, you know, again, you have to know, like, okay, what it where's the enemy attacking, you know, and and where am I supposed, what's the strategy?

And so the Golden Gate Bridge, I was just waiting on the Lord, and the Lord's like, hey, it's time to do the Golden Gate Bridge, and and I'm doing my research, and the Golden Gate Bridge was the number one, I love that it was, the number one place of suicide for our country.

Geographically, that was the number one place of suicide.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

So uh this was September of 2021.

God's like, hey, I want you to.

I've been able to take the Golden Gate Bridge all uh four different directions since, you know, uh since this prayer battle.

But this was my first uh attempt and my first go at the Golden Gate Bridge.

And so doing my research, find out that you know, number one place of suicide in our country is there.

And Wednesday is the prayer paddle's on Saturday.

Wednesday, the pastor from San Francisco who I'm partnered up with, he calls me and says, Hey, uh, we had a kid in our local high school commit suicide.

It was the two-year anniversary of his older brother committing suicide.

And so, you know, the gravity of like, wow, like people are taking their lives weekly, like a like a geographical principality is wooing people in this region.

This is where you come to end your life.

So I'm like, all right, let's go.

We need to prepare ourselves for spiritual warfare.

Now, you guys understand, like, there's many ways for warfare and it's worship.

But to understand that there's different sounds and acts of worship.

Never limit worship to songs and instruments.

We need to learn how to be worshipers 24-7.

That we worship with our giving.

We worship by healing the sick.

You know, let your light shine, that you would do good deeds.

That is due to this in Matthew 5, that it may glorify your father.

That is a worship service.

Dudemus, the power of God, is a worship service.

Blind eyes, opening is a worship service.

Can I do a story within a story?

This is like Inception.

If you've never seen Inception, maybe don't watch it.

But, anyways, we're gonna get back to the Golden Gate Bridge, and I just want to hit this thing with the whole deal of suicide, but um, and this kind of hits on my point of inconvenience.

Uh, we were on our way to Australia, my wife and I, and I'll get back to the Golden Gate Bridge, but uh we were going to Brisbane, Australia, and we had to fly from San Francisco to Sydney back to Brisbane, and the pilot goes, Hey, there's severe fog in Sydney, so we're gonna have to divert everyone to Brisbane.

And I'm thinking, oh, that's perfect.

Yeah, thanks a lot.

Like, thank you, Lord.

We don't even need to go to the stop.

We go directly like this is a this is a non-stop flight now to Brisbane, my designation.

And I'm speaking that night at a conference in Brisbane, and we get in at like, you know, nine in the morning, and they're like, hey, you can't get off the plane.

Like, we're waiting for the fog to clear, and then we're gonna take off.

And and I'm like, Are you kidding me?

Like, we're right here, and an hour into sitting there, the air conditioner uh stops, and it's summertime, and it's extremely humid and hot, like 90 degrees Fahrenheit with like 80% humidity.

And so we're just sweating in this airplane.

And now I'm like going, just let us off the plane.

Like, like I don't even need my bags, just let me on the tarmac.

Like, I don't believe in purgatory, but if there was like a definition of purgatory, like this is supposed to be my final designation, and I can't get out.

We're stuck on the plane for four hours, and then they fly us into Sydney.

I left my origin, like that that's my destination.

I'm leaving.

And so obviously, all your plans are changing.

Usually I have a whole system when I'm traveling international of like a little, you know, 45-minute nap, a workout, you know, all that stuff to get you on the right time zone.

But, you know, Sydney was all stacked up.

We don't, we're not gonna land until 7 p.m.

And I have to speak at 7 p.m., meaning, well, they're gonna do worship first, so I'm speaking at 8.15.

But but it's we're cutting it close.

So 7 o'clock, we get to the jet bridge, and we're like, we're standing up, we're waiting in eager expectation to like finally step foot in Brisbane, and the jet way bridge breaks.

And so I go into complain mode in this little prayer time of like, oh, you gotta be kidding me, God.

What else can happen?

I'm never gonna make it into Brisbane.

And this older gentleman behind me goes, son, it's all gonna be worth it.

And it just like hit my spirit of I'm being prophesied to by this older, you know, gentleman.

I need to like, I'm in complaint mode, and I need to understand that God is getting ready to do something.

Like, I need to get my expectation.

I need to move in the opposite spirit.

So I'm like, oh God, it's all gonna be worth it.

Like this guy just told me this prophetic word, it's all gonna be worth it.

What is the worth it look like?

What does the redemption look like?

And I hear the father say, Chad, you are gonna see the spirit of suicide bow before me, and you're never gonna speak it out one time.

I do not want you to address it.

I do not want you to call it out as a word of knowledge.

I want you to see me release an anointing over you to break the spirit of suicide.

And we watched, my wife and I watched seven different people in different scenarios get completely delivered of suicide.

To the point that the last message I spoke on a Sunday night, I'm it was an amazing night, incredible, three-hour service, healing, deliverances, and we're walking out in the parking lot with the pastors, walking after the car.

This guy comes in between the car and us and throws down this giant knife and says, I had a spirit telling me the whole time you were speaking to kill you, to cut you at least 50 times, to stab you at least 50 times.

That was my number, 50 times.

To kill you, stab you 50 times.

And so I left because I didn't want to kill you.

And I lived 45 minutes away, and I was almost all the way home driving like 30 minutes, and I suddenly realized this voice that's been plaguing me for the last seven years that have been telling me to take my life, kill other people, this voice, this spirit is actually terrified of you, and you might be carrying the answer for me getting delivered.

That's what he said.

He got on his knees.

And I'm like, thank you for not stabbing me.

And then we went into deliverance mode.

And so now we're at the Golden Gate Bridge, and we are addressing this whole spirit of suicide.

And I'm just here to tell you, too, when we're talking about the unseen realm, we're talking about spiritual warfare, that we're all growing.

Like we're all in like this boot camp of the Holy Spirit.

And what's amazing is God has set you up for success.

He didn't set you up for failure, he set you up for success.

But his presence is the safest place, but that doesn't translate to being comfortable.

He's invited us to take risks, to step out of the boat as he invited the 12 disciples, but only one took the invitation.

But Peter learned valuable lessons that the other 11 disciples didn't get to learn, to understand, to have no condemnation, to understand that the Holy Spirit wants to teach you.

And he likes to teach you on the road.

He likes to teach you on the fly.

He likes to teach you through demonstration.

I remember when I first started speaking, I would lay my head on the pillow and the Holy Spirit would take me back to the meetings, and I would have like, you know, like I'd be there like in the third person with the Holy Spirit, and then suddenly the Holy Spirit would be like, oh, that person had a neck injury.

Oh, that person had cancer.

Oh, that person needed to get set free from this addiction.

And in the first like nine months, I'd almost like get a little bit of like shame or condemnation, like, oh man, I missed it.

But the Holy Spirit, every time, would be just laughing, going, No, Chad, I'm teaching you.

And it's very intriguing that you could be in the same situation and have two different spirits knocking on your door.

The spirit of condemnation that leads to shame and death, or the spirit of conviction that leads to transformation in life.

But to actually, you know, you have to recognize that the enemy doesn't come to me and says, hey, Chad, this is Lucifer.

I want you to steal that thing.

He comes sometimes in my own voice.

And then I have to discern, wait, that's not the nature of my father.

That's not the nature of a son.

That's not the nature of someone who's a new creation, who's a saint, who has that nature that he's set me up for success.

That it's one of the best, tag your it scriptures, John 14, 12.

Those that believe in me will do the same works as I do, and even greater works shall see because I'm going to be with the Father.

Tag your it.

But he's given you the like the this oh man, the Spirit of God lives inside of us.

Do you realize how crazy that is?

I know I haven't even finished the Golden Gate Bridge, but can we just like can we just grab a hold of the significance of the time that we are living in?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Let's just take this is worth the intermission right here.

Like you gotta, you gotta understand, before planet Earth was formed, before man was made in God's image, the Trinity would be hanging out, Jesus, Holy Spirit, and the Father.

And they'd be like, oh, ho ho ho.

We're gonna make man in our image and Holy Spirit, you get to live inside of them.

Then we had a little thing with Adam and Eve and two different trees, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which basically was hey, you get to take from this tree, and it violates intimacy, it violates relationship, it violates dependency.

Walking with God in the garden in the cool of the day, what took relationship, it violated to get on their own merit, to get on their own effort, which is such a bummer.

But that was the journey that Adam and Eve and mankind took.

And so the Holy Spirit would be limited and restricted on resting on people for an assignment.

Then we'd have to leave.

John the Baptist was the greatest in the Old Testament.

But we get the Spirit of God living inside of us.

And we think about Acts 1.

Jesus is coming to them for 40 days, giving them many convincing proofs he is the Savior of the world, resurrected Jesus, and it says he ate with them, which is another whole other deal.

But, anyways, resurrected Jesus eating fish tacos for 40 days.

Like, think about that.

Like, that's pretty crazy.

Like, you know, the spear in the side and he's eating right next to him.

I mean, just take a moment to chew on that.

But but the deal is, is he's telling them, you know, the last thing he says before getting ascending into heaven, hey, in a few weeks, in a few days, the Holy Spirit is going to come and live inside of you.

We've been waiting for this before the foundation of the planet, for the Holy Spirit to live inside of mankind.

I'm just, I'm just think about how excited they were.

And think about like we are living in the residue, the benefits of that moment of Jesus being resurrected and saying, now the Holy Spirit can live inside of us.

I mean, that is a game changer.

We've been set up for success.

Oh Jesus.

Golden Gate.

No, you guys, I feel like this is something that the Lord really wants to teach you.

Because the Holy Spirit is our teacher.

If I can impart hunger, that you know, how do you get unoffended?

Like, you know, understanding that offense is actually a huge pathway to connect with God or get an upgrade with God.

And how you stay unoffendable is making sure your hunger levels are far above any places of offense where it could take root.

My hunger for Him, my hunger for connection, relationship, that that it's something that I'm protecting, something that I'm stewarding, something that I'm saying yes to.

And that there's no condemnation.

If I have, you know, if for some reason you, you know, you you you messed up on the test, it's an open book, and you get to keep taking the test.

You just gotta learn.

Well, there's no condemnation, but that's how we learn by taking risks.

And I just feel like the Lord wants to really like rest on you guys and invite you into the reality that Jesus is your big brother.

That I remember getting ready to speak at Bethel one night, and I had this crazy open vision of I was back in high school uh Friday night game night playing basketball, and it was Friday night, they were like calling out the starting five, my name was in there, and I go running in the gym, break the tape thing, and everyone's screaming, and the whole gymnasium is full, and then I see these banners, and Jesus Christ, most points scored a game, Jesus Christ, state champion, you know, four years running, most rebounds in a game, all the different records.

Jesus Christ.

And then there's Jesus in the bleachers with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and he looks at me and he goes, It's your turn.

I don't know if anyone played sports in here, but I played sports and I didn't have a big brother or a big sister, but I would, you know, get around certain coaches and they'll be like, go to certain players and go, Oh, you're so-and-so's little brother.

Oh, we're gonna coach you up because your big brother broke records.

You you you know, Jesus played the game, he broke records, but now we're playing the game.

And he's cheering us on.

He's our great intercessor.

He's done, he's been through every challenge and tribulation that we've gone through.

He fully understands the journey and he knows the roadmap of success, and he is setting this up with the Holy Spirit, setting us up for success.

That's that's really amazing.

That's very good news.

Okay, now Golden Gate Bridge.

That was all context for this.

So, so uh I read the Lord wakes me in the middle of the night, uh, you know, after hearing this news about this teenager who committed suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge.

And the Lord wakes me up and says, This is Ezekiel training.

So I read the book of Ezekiel and I get the valley of dry bones, and it's just like screaming at me.

And so I'm like, okay, the Lord's teaching me how to move in the office of spirit, how to co-labor with the Father.

You prophesy, son of man, you speak to the four winds.

And so, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm learning, I'm in the, you know, this is Ezekiel training.

That's what he would have me do.

Sometimes he would like wake me in the night and say, Hey, this is this training, that training.

And so, you know, I would uh I'm just asking the Lord for direction.

And then Friday, the day before the prayer paddle, the Lord says, Hey, I want you to move in the opposite spirit the way Ezekiel did, and I want you to go and surf with uh your swim trunks and not a wetsuit.

Santa Cruz, it's like 56 degrees Fahrenheit, and I want you to basically cold plunge, and I want you to only catch party waves.

So again, I know this doesn't translate, uh, but surfers are little selfish.

You usually only see one surfer per one wave.

And so if someone tries to jump on our wave, we have many different signals and ways to tell people, no, this wave's already taken.

And so usually the one that's the the they we call it, you know, um the deepest, we're those are the those are the ones that have the wave, and we'll usually go, you, yeah, yeah, you, you know, like give them little hoots, give uh sometimes, you know, real words of encouragement to get them off of the wave.

And um, and so but the Lord's like, hey, I want you to get party waves only.

So it's like a very opposite deal to get people on your wave.

And so I look at my buddy who's as crazy as me, and I go, hey, God calls us out in twos.

And the Lord just said, hey, to go out there with just our swim trunks.

And he's like, All right, let's do it.

So we paddle out there, and and we're cat we're calling people to get on the wave with us.

And then this guy goes, Man, thanks for bringing the party vibes out here.

These two guys were arguing, cussing at each other.

There's teenagers around, they almost got into a fight.

They're telling, they're, you know, let's go to the beach and duke it out and the whole deal.

And you guys are bringing the party.

What are you saying?

He's saying you're changing the atmosphere.

And I'm and I and he and he and he and I look at him like party vibes.

Oh, you you mean party Jesus?

Because the Jesus that I serve, he's the he parties.

He had more joy than any of his companions.

And so we're getting people to get party waves with us because we're we're we serve the party vibe Jesus.

And he goes, Really?

I I I would go to that church and I look at him like, well, we're at church.

Do you want to you want to get to know party vibe Jesus?

Do you want to ask him to reveal himself and to walk with him for the rest of your life?

He goes, Yeah, I want to know party vibe Jesus.

And so I put my hands on him, pray for him, and I see a wave come like I think this is our wave, and we're catching waves together.

And then the next day at the prayer peddle, we uh we we start going up, you know.

So you have to understand the Golden Gate Bridge is such a uh uh a narrow passage, a narrow keyhole, as you would call it, where it's such a big, massive uh body of water.

And in the bay is tagged, meaning there's more, but there's tagged 270 great white sharks.

And we've got like a lot of elephant seals that are like 10 feet, you know, uh long at least.

And so a lot of good things in the bay, and you have to time things for the tides.

The tides are very crucial.

A lot of people have been killed by the tides.

So you have to know, you have to, yeah, you have to know.

And I'm leading, but I'm so so happy that we've had over a thousand people do prayer paddles with us.

We've gone over 5,500 miles through biking, uh paddleboarding, and prayer walks, and um, we haven't lost one person.

Very thankful.

I've taken a lot of people that had no business on a paddle board, and we've made it.

So there's 18 of us going on this prayer paddle journey, and the wind is so strong at our face that we have to get on our knees, which I love because I just start laughing, going, hey, this is the paddle of humility.

You know, intercessors before us have fought battles on their knees, and we're on a stand-up paddle board, and we have to get on the our knees.

And so, so, anyways, we're paddling with the wind in our faces.

It's like 20 miles an hour.

And we get to the goal under the Golden Gate Bridge.

There's like elephant seals all around us, and I suddenly start declaring it to be the John 1010 Bridge.

And and uh, and so um the wind shift, and I said, guys, let's start praying for resurrection power.

And I started seeing that uh the valley of dry bones in America are those that are dealing with suicidal ideation and those that are dealing with drug addiction.

That's the valley of dry bones.

That's we oh, you know, Sarah's dealing with heroin, it's only a matter of time before she's dead.

Oh, Tim's dealing with suicidal ideation.

He's already like attempted suicide once.

It's only a matter of time, you know, only a matter of time before he's gone.

That's the Valley of Dry Bones.

And I just started just declaring that this would be the abundant life bridge and that people would find Jesus as they come on this bridge.

They would have an awakening of Jesus.

Well, the the I and I start prophesying and praying for the four winds to come.

Well, the winds, we have a drone that's like the Mavic 2 Mini.

It could have like uh uh withstand 35 mile an hour winds.

The wind uh takes the drone and throws it against the Golden Gate Bridge, was a worthy sacrifice.

We lost the drone, but um but it showed us the winds were over 35 miles an hour and they were coming four different directions.

So I'm like, guys, we're in an Ezekiel moment, and so that was amazing.

And then the next day I'm preaching at church on Sunday, and this 12-year-old kid's getting ministered to, and I go over to him, and I suddenly have this vision of him being uh 10 years old, climbing, I knew he was 10, climbing up on the father's lap, and the father in heaven was healing him of abandonment.

And I'm like, was breaking off this band?

He just starts wailing when I bring up abandonment, and I find out that his dad was taken by ice when he was 10 years old.

And you know, so he's dealing with this hurt, this loss, this, you know, man, my dad is in Mexico and I miss my dad.

And the father's just healing him.

And I'm like, hey, you know, have you ever asked Jesus to come into your life?

And he goes, No, I've never invited Jesus to come in my life.

And I'm like, Well, would you like to?

And he goes, Yes.

And I go, Well, what's your name?

Oh, my name's Ezekiel.

That's when you know you're in Ezekiel training.

And I love that I know that I've shared this story before a few years ago when I was here last.

But what I love is I got a text message about three days, four days ago from my buddy Caleb, who's pastors, pastors Ezekiel.

This was 2021.

Now he's uh a senior in high school, and he um he uh or no, he's a junior in high school, and he's one of the leaders of the football team, and he led the whole football team into a prayer.

Which is amazing.

He's led missions and trips to the Dominican Republic.

Ezekiel is on fire.

I love it.

That's not the end of the story, it just keeps on unraveling.

My prayer is that you get just blown up with the idea that God wants to co-labor with you, that he wants to teach you how to pray.

Prayer is really, really fun.

Evangelism is really, really fun, and that he wants to marry prayer and evangelism, that he wants to open up your eyes to the unseen world as you had uh Elisha's servant, that he was all freaked out, and then his eyes opened and he saw that the heavenly army far outweighed that earthly army.

That God's got you, he's protecting you, but it's you getting out in the dark places where you begin to realize and have that understanding that he's got your back.

And so uh the Lord asked me to bike, and I was biking the Golden Gate Bridge, and I noticed these, you know, this is November, so a couple months, you know, after my prayer pedal in September, and I there's a police station at the Golden Gate Bridge on the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge.

There's a police station.

So this cop is walking his feet, and I say, Excuse me, officer, there's this steel rod here, or this like beam.

What's this beam?

What are these beams shooting out?

He goes, Oh, for 10 years, the city of San Francisco has been in a stalemate of what to do, how to tackle uh solutions that prevent people from committing suicide.

And for 10 years, they've had this plans to have these censored nets.

And so many people, they've done studies.

Will it really be a deterrent?

All these millions of dollars spent, will it really deter people from suicide?

And they were in a stalemate for 10 years.

The cop is like telling me this.

And we they voted in October that they they gave the green light to have the sensor nets, and and you know, now that is no longer the number one place of suicide in our country.

It's dropped suicide by 70 some percent.

It's crazy that we did the prayer paddle in September.

In October, they finally broke out of stalemate.

10-year holding pattern.

That makes me really excited.

So I'm gonna end with this.

This is 11:49.

I know that you guys are hungry spiritually and physically, but but it, you know, I just want to uh just share about what we've been doing going into music festivals.

And, you know, I'll just you guys good for like 10 more minutes?

Just 10 more minutes, then I'll land the plane.

But I have had the privilege of being a missionary uh my whole life, really.

And I went to Indonesia in 2002.

I went to the biggest Muslim population after 9-11.

The Lord said, Hey, I want you to go to Indonesia, and I want you to only stay with Muslims.

And so I stayed with Muslims for over four and a half months, went to 30 islands, and I had the privilege of bringing Jesus to villages that have never heard Jesus.

And there is another level of privilege and honor to be the first point of contact to bring Jesus into places.

And Mozambique, you know, my wife and I have been ordained since 2008 from Iris uh ministries and been to Mozambique a bunch of times and been able to go into the bushbush.

And you know, in 2015, God says to me, Chad, there's another Jesus movement getting ready to happen in America and around the world.

And the first place, the first assignment I want you to go and pray is to go to this music festival, Coachella, that's in Southern California.

And it's 150,000 people coming together.

And I went, I brought soil from the prayer chapel at Bethel and threw it on the Coachella fairgrounds and prayed that people would have encounters with God.

But I began to understand, oh wow, like I saw 50,000 people dancing to this EDM music, which I never really knew what EDM music was in 2015.

But I was like, wow, the enemy has overplayed his hand.

It's raising up this whole generation to dance.

But when God gets a hold of them, we're really gonna be a David generation that we're gonna dance undignified, we're gonna let it all go and dance in freedom.

The dancers who dance upon injustice, like it's one of the craziest acts of intercession is dancing.

And look at these 50,000 young people dancing like crazy.

And I'm like, oh, this is perfect.

So I began to just study music festivals and understand, you know, that God's doing, and then there's a language to learn.

Well, 2019, I have a radical dream that I'm in the throne room of heaven and I see the Father, and the Father says to me, Chad, I commission you to spread the stoke.

And then he breathes on me, and out of his breath are these translucent waves, and they travel and they hit my spirit, and I can feel the anointing, I can feel the presence of God, I can feel electricity, I can feel fire.

And I look down and I'm wearing a monk outfit, but it's not a Francescan monk outfit, it's not a brown monk outfit, it's a monk outfit that has all the colors of the rainbow, and it's like tie dyes.

And then I wake up from my dream shaking in the presence of God in my bed.

And so I go in the living room, it's three in the morning, and I'm like, God, are you talking to me in my surfer language?

Like to spread the stoke, like us surfers, when the waves are perfect, the conditions are perfect, and you're catching all the waves, you're always in the right place at the right time.

You're like, I'm stoked, this is amazing.

So I'm like, God, are you talking to me as like my surfer language?

He goes, Chad, I've commissioned you to for John 10, 10.

That is one of your mandates, is is to understand that I gave my life so that you could found life and have life more abundantly.

To be stoked is to live abundant life.

And I'm like, okay, yeah, I'm down with that, but how do I implement that?

Do you ever have dreams that are just crazy and you're like, how do I implement that?

Or I'm just gonna shelve that.

Because I was like, do I show up to look out church with a tie-dye monk outfit and like start preaching?

Like, like, I don't know.

Like, I'm gonna shelve that, you know, like, and so in 2023, the Lord says, Hey, I want you to go to Red Rocks, which I love that we're down the way from Red Rocks.

And I want you to invite a couple of friends and attempt the monk of Stoke, you know, robes.

So I speak at Bridgeway Church and I speak on Isaiah 43.

He's call us into Babylon.

And then the whole deal of, you know, forget the former things, behold, I do a new thing.

Do you perceive it?

And so, you know, I'm like, all right, I preach on that.

I go to Red Rocks, they're doing a concert, we're taking communion in the parking lot, you know, we're we're tailgating, and um we're just just worshiping Jesus and the Jeep next to us, the license plate says Babylon.

I've never parked next to Babylon before, but that morning I preached God's called us into Babylon, and then there you go.

We're at like a license plate that says Babylon.

Like I love how he's captain obvious.

And so I took the grape juice and I threw it on the license plate, and I'm like, all right, the blood's over Babylon.

And we walk into Red Rocks, and all these people are like, oh my gosh, I love your vibes.

Where did you get these robes?

Why do you why are you making this?

You know, you could even put a picture up uh of some of the stuff that we're doing.

You can put the picture up.

But um, yeah, that's us praying for a guy.

That's us in our monk of stoke robes.

And uh, and and I'm like, people are asking me, like, why are you wearing this?

And I'm like, oh, I had a dream that I met the God of Stoke.

He commissioned me to spread the Stoke.

I've discovered that the greatest monk of all time is Jesus Christ.

He had more joy than any of his companions.

And if you follow the greatest monk of all time, he'll lead you to the God of Stoke.

Would you like a blessing from a monk of Stoke?

And they're like, yes, I want the blessing.

People getting delivered, people getting saved, people getting uh uh uh healed.

It's been crazy.

Yeah, you go on to the next one.

That's that's a cup, that's a crew that we prayed for, and uh we do these things called celebration tosses, um, which we might have the video.

Oh, there we go.

So we did that to about uh 500 people at Asa City Limits.

We did that to 700 people at Coachella.

What we do is we'll go up to people and be like, hey, do you want to be celebrated?

And they're like, yeah, because everyone, God has put that in our yeah, that's one of the guys that got rocked.

Man, me and him got rocked together.

I got so rocked, I think I headbutted him and was bleeding.

But uh that's the that's the after picture, I think, right, Maximus?

That was the after.

Yeah, yeah, it was really crazy.

There's me praying for that lady saying, uh, she would know it's not religion, it's relationship, and that's what I'm saying.

There you can hear me.

That God so loves her and is receiving her heart.

And that they were just in friendship with you.

I just prayed for a moment, or maybe she's all the phone, or she'd have to breathe.

We literally get to pray for anywhere from 700 to a thousand people.

Do you guys understand that?

Like, like, like there, they at Coachella, the first year we went, they had a Tower of Babel.

And I was like, Oh, this is perfect.

We are definitely like hanging out here.

So it's a communion, we celebrated people.

This one lady walks in and goes, There's a new king, there's a new king, there's a new king.

And when uh another friend comes over to her and goes, Hey, you know who that new king is, right?

She's like, I don't know what you're talking about, I don't know what you guys are doing.

But the moment I walked in here, I keep hearing this phrase in my head, there's a new king, there's a new king.

And he goes, Yeah, his name is Jesus.

He wants to live inside of you, he wants to know you.

Do you want to invite him into your life?

Yes, I do.

I want to know this new king.

We had a line of 20 people waiting to be celebrated.

This was this Coachella this year.

This guy jumps the line.

He's 240 pounds, a beard down to his chest.

He's like 30 years old, he's never been to church once.

He jumps in the line and goes, I'm next! I never knew my father, show me the way.

And I'm like, Okay, yeah, that's that's the the Easy button.

That's uh uh you're gonna meet your heavenly father.

The the when you get to the heights of you being thrown in the air, you're gonna feel God's arms wrap around you.

And so we throw them, we go, Father, son, holy spirit.

And then we catch him and he's like, Daddy, I want to know you.

And I'm just releasing the spirit of adoption over him.

And I'm just like, hey, you really want to know your father for all eternity.

You need to get to know your big brother Jesus, who gave his life so that you can be reconnected to your dad.

I want Jesus, never been to church.

He's never heard Jesus before.

It's always been derogatory, a swear word, and never knew that Jesus loved him, died on the cross for his sins, and wants to be reconnected to his life, that he wants to know the savior of the world and his best friend.

One more.

This lady comes up and she's like 23 years old, and she goes, Hey, I've been watching you celebrate people.

I've been struggling with suicide my whole life.

I've attempted it twice.

She pulls down her sweatshirt, she's got scars and cuts all over her forearm and rest.

And I'm like, Hey, listen, this is the great exchange.

When we throw you in the air, you need to give the great of the universe all of your self-hatred, all of your depression, all of your suicidal ideas, all of your anxiety that you've given to him, and he's gonna exchange that for it.

He's gonna give you his peace, his hope, his love, his acceptance.

So we're going, Father, son, holy spirit, we jump her in the air.

We catch her in this big EDM said really loud, and I go, bye bye self-hatred, bye bye depression, bye bye suicide, hello love, hello acceptance, hello, you know, and my team starts picking up what what I'm doing.

And we get to hello hope, and we're all declaring hello hope, with her included.

We're jumping up and down.

We said hello hope twelve times with tears going down her face with the biggest smile.

And then she pulls off her defining that like half of the cigars have already disappeared.

It is crazy to be in our country, America.

I'm in my mid-40s, and we start recognizing wow, like the thirty-year-olds and the twenty-year-olds and the teenagers.

Over half of them have never been in the church.

And it's like, you know, very like you know, Babylon.

We're the most celebrated there, and you can see that we're covered from our heads all the way down with our hands in our faces, and we're the most celebrated, and yet we're the most modest.

People are hungry.

This one will this is what's wrecked me.

There's so many other expressions of evangelism, which I love.

We all have different lanes of evangelism.

As long as people are bringing them into the love of God, I'm I'm totally good.

But they're all outside of the festival.

Like, I'll meet guys that have flown from Colorado and from Tennessee, and they're like, oh, we're here.

And I'm like, you guys are outside the festival?

Like there, you there's 150,000 people in here, and no one is bringing Jesus.

And it's kind of a shocker to me because I'm still having it's all assumption of why they're not in there.

Meaning, do you not value these people enough to pay the money?

Because it costs us to go into this festival, but to understand this is where the fish are.

Like they are looking for an encounter, they're opening all these spiritual doors.

I'll go up to people and they're about ready to take some drugs, and I'm like, oh, you're opening spiritual doors.

We're opening spiritual doors too, but we've got the greatest door, Jesus.

You know how many people come up to us and go, hey, you guys have got to have the best drugs of all the Coachello.

What are you guys on?

And I'm like, we're on Jesus.

And then they'll get sober and then they get like saved, and then they get like drunk in the Holy Spirit.

But I'm telling you that we are a light.

The Holy Spirit lives inside of you.

You are contagious, and God wants to give you creative ways on how to be a light.

As long as the default is I am in connection with my father, and me and the father are one, that I would ooze that in all of my evangelism prayer in life, my lifestyle would ooze that place of connection that you would know with conviction the world is longing to be connected to a father that loves them.

So just put your hand on your heart, Lord.

I thank you that you're opening up our eyes, our ears to the spirit realm.

But Lord, let it be built on top of the foundation of love.

That that would be our default of receiving love from you, Father.

That was day one we learn to be receivers.

And the more we receive of your love, the greater our capacity grows to love you back.

That as we love one another, the world will know we're your disciples and how we love one another.

Let there be a spirit of unity in the church that we would love one another, that it may glorify our Father in heaven, Lord, that we begin to shine our light in the dark places, not to be right, not to prove that our God is better than yours, but to ooze love, to ooze salvation, to ooze awakening to the reality that He is the God, the King of glory, that He's a jealous God, that He wants to be in relationship with mankind.

So Lord, I just pray.

Lord, I pray for Joshua's and Caleb's in this room.

Lord, I pray for a spirit of courage.

Lord, I pray that there would be a double barrel shotgun this morning of courage and connection with you.

Be strong and courageous was another installment of courage.

And that Joshua stepped into the river Jordan and then it parted.

That ability to step in the river before there's any supernatural activity, before the unseen realm is being unlocked.

That ability to be courageous and to step into the river.

Lord, teach us with obedience to step out of the boat, to step in the river.

That we would teach us to co-labor with you, to be connected with you.

But give us courage that's filled with compassion.

That we would get around people that are opening other spiritual doors, that we would be confident of saying, open up the spiritual door of Jesus.

So wreck us this morning.

I just feel like the Lord is wanting to encourage you that he is forming a grace that that takes time, that takes seasons.

There's seasons of laying down by the river, and there's seasons of stepping into the river.

But I pray, Lord, that you would resurrect dreams.

And I actually was talking with Maximus on the way here about horses.

And I feel like there's even people here that have had a dream about uh with horses and working with uh at-risk people.

I feel like there's actually multiple like people with horses that you're gonna bring healing through horses, you're gonna bring redemption through horses, and and Lord, I just pray for wineskins that have to do with horses that advance the kingdom of heaven.

But Lord, that there would be ministries birthed out of this community that would bring in the new thing.

Another wave of your spirit that there was an uh another person this morning who told me about a uh, I think it was a vision they had of waves crashing through the front ranges.

You know, and I have a ministry called Catch the Wave, and the reason why I named it Catch the Wave was Heidi Baker had two dreams about a spiritual tsunami hitting the west coast, and everyone was running in fear, but she saw me in the dream, both of them, grab my surfboard and paddle out and catch the tsunami wave, screaming to everyone, don't be scared, get the surfboards and come catch the wave with me.

And so, Lord, thank you that there's a wave of your spirit that's crashing in on the front range, that's crashing in the boulder.

Lord, teach us to catch the wave.

But right now I pray for the expectation.

I feel like some of you have dealt with Proverbs 13, 12.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire realized is the tree of life, that you would begin to know that God doesn't give us dreams to tease us.

He gives us dreams to invite us into relationship with him.

And Lord, I just pray that you would break disappointment, you would break disillusionment, you would break off the lies of shame and condemnation of I stepped out of the boat and I fell in.

And I just want to tell you all of heaven is celebrating you.

That's what success is, is in the kingdom is taking risks, is stepping out of the boat.

That you would begin to align yourself with the desires of your heart.

That I pray, let the winds blow again, that there be resurrection wind.

I know we're just, these guys are doing great.

We're gonna we're gonna close here in a second, but I feel like that redemption.

My dad was radically saved in the Jesus movement, and then he began to heal the sick as a 17-year-old teenager and an 18-year-old teenager, and did this for about a year and a half, and then prayed for a lady with cancer, and she died.

And he thought, Oh man, I don't have the healing anointing.

If anything, I've got the anointing for death.

Like, I'm not gonna pray.

I just that's not my gift.

And he became a pastor in the vineyard movement.

He he he began to uh he pastored for you know over a decade, and then God started talking to him about the cross and and resurrection power and healing.

And I remember watching the Los Angeles Lakers in 1998 in my living room, and my dad and I are watching the Lakers, and our roommate who was like in uh mixed martial arts came in the door screaming in pain and saying, I hurt my back, I've had a back issue, spine, all stuff, begging my dad to pray for him.

And my dad's like, No, you don't want me to pray for you.

The last person I prayed for died.

And the guy's like, please, you're my pastor.

Like, please, and my dad's like, All right.

So he prays for him and he says, Amen, and the roommate stands up and he gets come, he realizes he's completely healed.

He's doing these kicks, like up, like past his head and doing all, and my dad's just staring at his hands, like, no way did that happen out of my hands.

And I watched my dad just grow in healing, like jump in the deep end.

And Bill Johnson says that he's one of the most creative healing anointings he's ever seen with was is in my dad.

And I'm telling you, that is so God.

It's like my dad, like the years the locusts have eaten, that dormacy for 20 years not praying for the sick, and my dad got like streamlined like it never, he never stopped.

And I feel like some of you are have been dealing like your own like little like like condemnation prison of oh, I I don't deserve to go.

I haven't, I I I sabotage that anointing.

I uh that anointing didn't work out for me.

That anointing's not me.

Like, if that is going on, I want you just to say, uh, Holy Spirit, let the winds blow again.

That I will, I'll take another shot, I'll take another walk off the boat to walk with Jesus.

And so, Lord, I just pray for that.

That you would break condemnation, that we would begin to connect with the desires that you have authored, that you have placed, that it connects us to the tree of life, which is Jesus.

But we just say, let the winds blow again.

Amen.

Bless you guys.

Let's stand together.

Let me just pray one collective prayer over us.

And listen, as he Chad, he spoke about so many things.

Can you can you guys thank Chad with me?

Come on.

Listen, we're gonna have our prayer ministry team on the sides of the room after we kind of officially end here in a bit.

He brought up a lot of things, and maybe you're here today.

You need prayer for boldness to do what God's called you to do.

Maybe you're here today and you've had just these thoughts, the kind of like suicidal ideation like he's talking about.

Some of you have just been just been hammered just like over and over in your thought life for different things, and and you need freedom from that.

We want to pray with you and for you.

So when we end, look for somebody with a tag on the side uh that's around their neck.

Do not leave here without getting prayer, okay?

But let's together, let's just receive what God has.

God, I thank you today.

I thank you for the word that you brought to us today.

I thank you for this, even this last little word about being Joshua's and Caleb's, God.

That we would step into the land that you've given us and that we would push out who doesn't belong, God, in that land that you've given us.

And I thank you that you have not given us a spirit of fear, you have not given us a spirit that shrinks back, but what the one that steps forward into the callings and the assignments that you have for us.

So I bless us, Lord God, as this community to receive this word, to step into what you have for us in full obedience and the spirit of love, the spirit of life, that you would send us where you want to send us, God.

We say yes, Jesus.

Come on, everybody say yes.

We say yes, Jesus, we want to go.

We are you're leading us.

We thank you, God.

And it's in your name, it's in your name of Jesus.

We pray together.

Amen.

Amen.

Give it up for Jesus today.

Come on.

So I want to bless you to go.

I'm I'm gonna ask her for four or five volunteers.

Anybody with muscles, I'm not assuming it's all men, but uh maybe probably a lot of men.

We're gonna we need some help on the stage after the service, okay, to lift some things.

But I want to bless you if you're a guest with us.

We'd love to meet you in the back.

If you have kids, go do a light job down to go get them and uh have an awesome day.

Love you guys, be blessed, go Broncos.