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  1. Kevin O'Dea: Come on. Come on. Come on. Give him praise. Hallelujah. Yeah.

  2. Kevin O'Dea: And you have access to that God. You have

  3. Kevin O'Dea: access to that God. Man, God has been so good. If you have, if

  4. Kevin O'Dea: you've been in attendance to the conference in any shape, any of the days,

  5. Kevin O'Dea: would you just lift your hand? You've you've been a participant. Has it been a

  6. Kevin O'Dea: good week? Has it been a good week? Good. Good. I'm so

  7. Kevin O'Dea: glad, and I'm so thankful to, everyone who has,

  8. Kevin O'Dea: come and all of the work that has gone behind the scenes.

  9. Kevin O'Dea: The worship team has done a phenomenal job leading us. All of you

  10. Kevin O'Dea: people up in the loft that have been working behind the scenes in the tech

  11. Kevin O'Dea: areas, we so appreciate you. All of the volunteers

  12. Kevin O'Dea: who have worked with our kids and our teens all week

  13. Kevin O'Dea: long have done a phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal

  14. Kevin O'Dea: job. All of the people manning the tables, the ministries,

  15. Kevin O'Dea: we are so just so grateful. It takes an army to be able to

  16. Kevin O'Dea: do, what we did this week, and I'm so grateful. I do want

  17. Kevin O'Dea: to recognize a few key individuals,

  18. Kevin O'Dea: that I believe really just, there would be no conference

  19. Kevin O'Dea: without without these with the without these people. So if you are

  20. Kevin O'Dea: Joshua McLeod, would you come? If you are Dustin Theater

  21. Kevin O'Dea: individuals, have been here, you know, of course

  22. Kevin O'Dea: the paid staff is here through the week working on things, but these these

  23. Kevin O'Dea: guys have just been laboring behind the scenes,

  24. Kevin O'Dea: tirelessly, very joyfully, tirelessly,

  25. Kevin O'Dea: tying balloons, blowing balloons, cooking dinners, getting things organized,

  26. Kevin O'Dea: saying God this way, that way, and stay here, and don't do that, and do

  27. Kevin O'Dea: this, and all of those things. And, what I

  28. Kevin O'Dea: love so much about this group is that if we

  29. Kevin O'Dea: didn't do this moment, your treasure would've been in heaven and

  30. Kevin O'Dea: you're totally fine. But I believe that the word says, render honor

  31. Kevin O'Dea: where honor is due. And you guys, we just honor you. I thank you for

  32. Kevin O'Dea: making helping make the vision of All Access Conference come to

  33. Kevin O'Dea: fruition, for putting up with my shenanigans, and all of the all of

  34. Kevin O'Dea: the staff and working with us. You guys are the

  35. Kevin O'Dea: best. Would you guys show your appreciation and love for this team?

  36. Kevin O'Dea: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  37. Kevin O'Dea: God is good and God saves the very best right now and I don't wanna

  38. Kevin O'Dea: take any more time from our guest speaker. Would you please welcome Tim

  39. Kevin O'Dea: Hooper?

  40. Tim Hooper: Love you.

  41. Tim Hooper: God is good, amen? Come

  42. Tim Hooper: thou fountain of every blessing, prone to

  43. Tim Hooper: wander, Lord, I feel it. It's so good to be in this place, but you

  44. Tim Hooper: know, we are in a broken world.

  45. Tim Hooper: We're in a broken world. It's so good to be reminded of who God

  46. Tim Hooper: is. Amen? Did they do a good job or what? Wow.

  47. Tim Hooper: Every book of the Bible, God is something to us. In

  48. Tim Hooper: our relationship with him, the spirit relating and speaking to

  49. Tim Hooper: us speaks into the moment who God is for us

  50. Tim Hooper: in that moment. And there's no way

  51. Tim Hooper: I can take any of what I've written scribbled and chicken scratch and crossed

  52. Tim Hooper: out and added to and said, God, maybe this direction or maybe that direction. There's

  53. Tim Hooper: no way that I can take that and apply it to this group

  54. Tim Hooper: today. So I pray, pour it out and

  55. Tim Hooper: God would you just fill this pray, would you come meet with us today?

  56. Tim Hooper: That's our prayer in Jesus' name. So praise God

  57. Tim Hooper: for everything that's already happened in the conference. Barby was

  58. Tim Hooper: preaching last night and said, the 3rd day wonderful things

  59. Tim Hooper: happen. And it was funny because as I was reading back through theatre

  60. Tim Hooper: text for today, there was a 3rd day in there. And I was

  61. Tim Hooper: like, Wow. And then it said in on the 4th pray. And so we're God

  62. Tim Hooper: get to that. So you are here on the 4th day. Can I get an

  63. Tim Hooper: amen? You're here on the 4th pray. It's been amazing. And

  64. Tim Hooper: I don't take for granted being put at the tail end of anything.

  65. Tim Hooper: I come from a big family and we pray that,

  66. Tim Hooper: that you exercise faith being at the tail end of the family because the

  67. Tim Hooper: Hebrews says, you know, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the

  68. Tim Hooper: evidence of things not seen. And, if you were at the tail end of the

  69. Tim Hooper: family, that was the platter of meat. It was the substance of things hoped

  70. Tim Hooper: for on that end of the table. And when it got down to you, it's

  71. Tim Hooper: was the evidence of things not seen. So, you know, being at the tail

  72. Tim Hooper: end, I don't take for granted, but if you were not able to hear some

  73. Tim Hooper: of the messages. I got to sit in Kevin's house yesterday

  74. Tim Hooper: afternoon and he just poured his heart out about the Spirit

  75. Tim Hooper: of don't pray in the hallway, God's door is wide open

  76. Tim Hooper: and oftentimes we've built the hallway all access to Him.

  77. Tim Hooper: And then he Holy me about, he said, if you get the chance to go

  78. Tim Hooper: watch Justin's message about putting our entire yes on the table,

  79. Tim Hooper: just everything, all in. And I will tell you

  80. Tim Hooper: that that is probably the battleground in all of our hearts,

  81. Tim Hooper: because right here in this moment, I'm all in. Are we all in this

  82. Tim Hooper: morning? Yes. We're all in. But the battle

  83. Tim Hooper: is real. We walk out that door, the battle is real. There is

  84. Tim Hooper: warfare, spiritual warfare, and somebody in the

  85. Tim Hooper: enemy's kingdom is saying, oh, pray. What's going on at

  86. Tim Hooper: Springhouse Church this morning? And they're God be on the lookout, they're gonna be

  87. Tim Hooper: looking for every opportunity to distract us. And then Barbee came on

  88. Tim Hooper: the 3rd day and talked about the veil being torn from the

  89. Tim Hooper: bottom down. It's funny. We're getting on a plane. My son Jeremy is here with

  90. Tim Hooper: me this morning. We're getting on a plane, first time on a commercial airline.

  91. Tim Hooper: And we were Ghost looking out the window waiting for our pray, there were several

  92. Tim Hooper: delays, and we were looking at the fin on the top. And I said, How

  93. Tim Hooper: thick do you think that thing is? Because we were looking at the wheels, and

  94. Tim Hooper: you know, we all think an airplane wheel is about this big, but then I

  95. Tim Hooper: was looking at the ground coordinator with the thing and it's up to here on

  96. Tim Hooper: him. So, I stood up in the terminal and I'm like, dude, that's like a

  97. Tim Hooper: tractor tire. Like, these wheels are massive. I said, how thick do you

  98. Tim Hooper: think that that that fin is? And then Barbie got up here and talked

  99. Tim Hooper: about horses couldn't even tear. If you tied 2 horses on either side of

  100. Tim Hooper: that veil, it could not have been torn. But God tore it from

  101. Tim Hooper: the top down. Only God can tear

  102. Tim Hooper: the veil of our heart open of the Holy of Holies and give us

  103. Tim Hooper: all access because of Christ and his finished work on the 3rd

  104. Tim Hooper: day. And then Kevin got out this morning and literally cut

  105. Tim Hooper: to the heart of our disappointments.

  106. Tim Hooper: Our disappointments. And I want to pick up right there where

  107. Tim Hooper: God and if you didn't get a chance to attend because of work or life

  108. Tim Hooper: or schedule, please go back. They're right on the line. Watch

  109. Tim Hooper: from start to finish. Go binge All Access because I

  110. Tim Hooper: think God does not want us to forget that we have

  111. Tim Hooper: access. There's only one power in this earthly kingdom

  112. Tim Hooper: that wants us to forget that we have all access to the throne,

  113. Tim Hooper: and that is the enemy, and he's a defeated enemy. His days are

  114. Tim Hooper: numbered, ours are eternal, and if he can just get us to be

  115. Tim Hooper: distracted from the all access posture we

  116. Tim Hooper: have, then he can win

  117. Tim Hooper: some of the battles, because he's already lost the war. So,

  118. Tim Hooper: go back and binge it. But he talked about the disappointments.

  119. Tim Hooper: And it was so funny because as I prayed about what to preach, I was

  120. Tim Hooper: considering John 11 and near to the heart of God, which

  121. Tim Hooper: you just completely did church a fantastic job with this morning.

  122. Tim Hooper: It's amazing. But what God gave me was,

  123. Tim Hooper: Tim, I want you to share the message on where am I

  124. Tim Hooper: looking? All of us can ask ourselves that question this morning,

  125. Tim Hooper: where am I looking? And we'll go to the word of God.

  126. Tim Hooper: In Psalm chapter number 25 verse 15, I'll read this out

  127. Tim Hooper: of the, NIV version, it's on the screen. If we could all stand, we'll read

  128. Tim Hooper: this together, and then we'll pray and then get into the message. But

  129. Tim Hooper: in Psalm chapter number 25, verse 15, David

  130. Tim Hooper: writes, and we'll read it together, My eyes are

  131. Tim Hooper: ever on the Lord, for only he

  132. Tim Hooper: will release my feet from the snare. Let's read it one more time.

  133. Tim Hooper: My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only

  134. Tim Hooper: he will release my feet from the snare. You may be seated.

  135. Tim Hooper: Let's pray. Father, our eyes,

  136. Tim Hooper: Our eyes, God. Will you just show

  137. Tim Hooper: us, Lord, like Joshua just got up here and said, Lord,

  138. Tim Hooper: the complainers and the those

  139. Tim Hooper: me, the complainer, me, the one who forgets to

  140. Tim Hooper: worship in the suffering, God, my eyes

  141. Tim Hooper: quickly are shifted off of you to

  142. Tim Hooper: the waves around me. Lord, would

  143. Tim Hooper: your spirit just lovingly and mercifully point out in our hearts

  144. Tim Hooper: where our eyes are, God. And

  145. Tim Hooper: will you just help us to shatter all of the

  146. Tim Hooper: lives of the enemy. All of the

  147. Tim Hooper: fear that he has spoken

  148. Tim Hooper: into our lives through maybe the lives of others,

  149. Tim Hooper: maybe through past hurt, maybe through the disappointments,

  150. Tim Hooper: but he has caused us to be fearful

  151. Tim Hooper: of looking up into your loving,

  152. Tim Hooper: matchless, wonderful face. Would

  153. Tim Hooper: you shadow those lies? Would you show us where our eyes are this morning?

  154. Tim Hooper: In your name, your precious name of

  155. Tim Hooper: Jesus. Amen. So in Psalm, David writes

  156. Tim Hooper: this, and I thought about our eyes. Scientists tell us that our vision, the sense

  157. Tim Hooper: of our vision, takes 50% of our brain.

  158. Tim Hooper: It's it's the it's the Ghost engaged sense is our

  159. Tim Hooper: eyes, our vision. And you know, our eyes do

  160. Tim Hooper: not see. Some people say, and I'm going to ask all of us, where are

  161. Tim Hooper: we looking? Some people say about faith, about God, about belief in God,

  162. Tim Hooper: they say, well, I'll see it when I believe it. Anybody ever hear that? I'll

  163. Tim Hooper: see it when I believe it. Well, that's actually a myth, and I'll tell you

  164. Tim Hooper: why. We bought this old house in Virginia, and

  165. Tim Hooper: we bought this old house, and it's from 19 thirties. And so, you know, big

  166. Tim Hooper: massive oak trees, the leaves have fallen, the soil, they've turned to soil, and

  167. Tim Hooper: the ground, you know, over time, the ground builds up. So the ground has raised

  168. Tim Hooper: a good foot over the last 80 years. And so the garage

  169. Tim Hooper: we we we dug it out a little bit and we put pavement in the

  170. Tim Hooper: garage but the garage, the eaves of the garage hang down just

  171. Tim Hooper: enough Ghost enough to where a 5 foot, you

  172. Tim Hooper: know, 10 guy or gal would clear just fine.

  173. Tim Hooper: But this 5 foot 11 guy doesn't clear just fine. The

  174. Tim Hooper: problem is my eyes are about 5 foot 7, somewhere in

  175. Tim Hooper: here. And that 5 foot 11, that little point of my head

  176. Tim Hooper: is right here. So I come out of the garage and I'm looking down.

  177. Tim Hooper: Pray I say I was looking? Oh, yeah. Down. So I'm looking down, I come

  178. Tim Hooper: out of the garage, trying to answer a few texts before I'm in the house.

  179. Tim Hooper: I walk out of the garage and Ghost BAM! Right into this little

  180. Tim Hooper: point of the eave. It's just BAM! I'm like you know? I

  181. Tim Hooper: didn't see that coming. But see, that's the myth. I'll see it.

  182. Tim Hooper: I'll believe it when I see it. No. I believe it and I didn't see

  183. Tim Hooper: it. Like, I believe it hit me right there. But here's the thing. Right? Where

  184. Tim Hooper: were my eyes? My eyes were down. I was looking down. You

  185. Tim Hooper: know, in life, we look down a lot. You know, it's it's

  186. Tim Hooper: part of it's just just here like, gravity.

  187. Tim Hooper: We have gravity that is called the little g. You know, gravity. You know, I'm

  188. Tim Hooper: a runner and people always say, oh, that little Jesus God catch up to you.

  189. Tim Hooper: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know. It will. Right? Generosity. Gravity. What does it

  190. Tim Hooper: do? It pulls us down. The weight of this life

  191. Tim Hooper: pulls us down. The things that maybe just entered into

  192. Tim Hooper: our life by surprise, the diagnosis, the news, the

  193. Tim Hooper: relational issue, they pull us down, they weigh us

  194. Tim Hooper: down. It's not any of our fault, but it is

  195. Tim Hooper: a problem that each of us live with. It's the reality. This

  196. Tim Hooper: thing body have a phone on in their pocket somewhere on them? Yes. How do

  197. Tim Hooper: we live without this thing anymore? Somebody said when phones had cords,

  198. Tim Hooper: people were free. They came unplugged and now we're tied

  199. Tim Hooper: up. But, so we're always looking down. Right? And

  200. Tim Hooper: it's just this posture. And I think whether

  201. Tim Hooper: it's by choice or just by default,

  202. Tim Hooper: our gaze has shifted downward.

  203. Tim Hooper: But see, our eyes don't they're not really what sees, it's our brain. In

  204. Tim Hooper: Ephesians, Paul calls them the eyes of our heart. And in our

  205. Tim Hooper: life a lot of times I know our physical eyes may be looking down

  206. Tim Hooper: but the eyes of our heart have shifted downward.

  207. Tim Hooper: Discouragement. Disappointment. They've

  208. Tim Hooper: shifted our eyes downward. I was driving home from,

  209. Tim Hooper: from, not Nashville. That's past life. I was driving

  210. Tim Hooper: home from D. C. Back to Central Virginia,

  211. Tim Hooper: considering some of the diagnoses and things my wife had been through on her 2nd

  212. Tim Hooper: round of cancer, and I was just

  213. Tim Hooper: downcast. And I was driving and, you know, kind

  214. Tim Hooper: of weaving in and out of the lanes, trying to make it home as best

  215. Tim Hooper: I can, just in the hubbub of life,

  216. Tim Hooper: just driving back. And it was a long day, a great day, nothing was

  217. Tim Hooper: incredibly wrong. There were some diagnosis things we had to deal with, nothing major at

  218. Tim Hooper: this moment in time. She was working through Ghost towards the end of

  219. Tim Hooper: her treatments, but I was just discouraged. It's been a long 3

  220. Tim Hooper: years, second round of cancer. I'm just

  221. Tim Hooper: discouraged. And I'll never forget, I

  222. Tim Hooper: was just looking and you know how a truck will pass you as you're Holy

  223. Tim Hooper: in traffic? It passes you this way, then it passes you that pray, and you

  224. Tim Hooper: feel like you're going backwards, because it's going faster than you are. I had

  225. Tim Hooper: one of those moments of, like, woah, a little equilibrium loss. And so I looked

  226. Tim Hooper: over, I'll never forget, it was one of Lauren Daigle's buses. And it

  227. Tim Hooper: just said, Look up, child. All plastered across

  228. Tim Hooper: the side. And I'll never forget in that moment the Holy Spirit whispered and

  229. Tim Hooper: said, don't forget to look

  230. Tim Hooper: up. It's just a simple reminder. My my mom, I I God to

  231. Tim Hooper: go speak at her church in Cedar Rapids. They had just lost

  232. Tim Hooper: her pastor, 56 year old, healthy, runner,

  233. Tim Hooper: fit, diagnosed with brain cancer, and within a year, gone.

  234. Tim Hooper: And I was going to fill the pulpit and I said, God, what do I

  235. Tim Hooper: say to a church who just lost their dearest

  236. Tim Hooper: friend?

  237. Tim Hooper: And he said, just what I told you on the interstate.

  238. Tim Hooper: Just look up. And if we could

  239. Tim Hooper: end this conference just remembering

  240. Tim Hooper: to look up to the throne room, where we

  241. Tim Hooper: are seated with Christ, heirs to Christ. If we can

  242. Tim Hooper: remember, we're not there yet,

  243. Tim Hooper: but we will be and we are spiritually seated with Christ, if I can

  244. Tim Hooper: just remember to look up. Not because I got it

  245. Tim Hooper: all right first, not because I got all of it together

  246. Tim Hooper: Ghost. Now, I'm ready. Daddy's God to be pleased. No, he's

  247. Tim Hooper: already pleased. I can just remember to look up.

  248. Tim Hooper: Kevin was talking about letting him have the final say.

  249. Tim Hooper: And I thought about some of the reasons I don't look up. I'm

  250. Tim Hooper: afraid. I'm afraid it's God be no again because I told

  251. Tim Hooper: him it was a no when really it's a no now cause there's a greater

  252. Tim Hooper: yes coming. I love the line of the song that says, if it's not

  253. Tim Hooper: good, then He's not done with it yet. I love that,

  254. Tim Hooper: because I can come looking up in confidence, in steadfast

  255. Tim Hooper: hope that He gets the final say. I can look up, I

  256. Tim Hooper: can overcome my fear that I'm not good enough, and daddy's not

  257. Tim Hooper: pleased, or father king, father God almighty. And I love what Barbie

  258. Tim Hooper: said. We need to raise our vision, our view, our the eyes of

  259. Tim Hooper: our heart and how mighty God is. The demon is in front of us,

  260. Tim Hooper: but the mighty army of angels, go back and listen to this morning's message.

  261. Tim Hooper: The mighty army of angels. Joshua, thank you for the vision. The

  262. Tim Hooper: mighty army of angels standing behind us. He looks ferocious

  263. Tim Hooper: because he's scared, and we're scared of him till we turn around and realize God

  264. Tim Hooper: is fighting for us. We need to look up. We need to see mighty

  265. Tim Hooper: King God on our side, and we have all

  266. Tim Hooper: access to Him because of Jesus and His blood.

  267. Tim Hooper: Look up, child.

  268. Tim Hooper: So the garage taught me that I gotta look up. Something else

  269. Tim Hooper: taught me to look up. I was driving to Roanoke to speak Roanoke, Virginia to

  270. Tim Hooper: speak. And, I'm driving over there and I'm talking to our senior vice president.

  271. Tim Hooper: I'm like, yeah. I'm headed over to Roanoke to speak. And and he said, oh,

  272. Tim Hooper: I bet you, you're gonna go see the star. I'm like,

  273. Tim Hooper: the star? The star do we have the picture of the star? Is

  274. Tim Hooper: it in the slides? There we go. He said, I bet you we're going to

  275. Tim Hooper: go see the God star. I was like, what's the star? Now, I had just

  276. Tim Hooper: moved from Nashville to Virginia. I wasn't totally accustomed to all the natural

  277. Tim Hooper: wonders and man made wonders, but this is the largest man made star in the

  278. Tim Hooper: world. I was like, wow. So he said, the star.

  279. Tim Hooper: He said, you don't know what the star is? I was like, no, I've never

  280. Tim Hooper: heard of the star. He said, you need to go see the star. So he

  281. Tim Hooper: gave me a little rundown. Well, I got up to speak. I was speaking to

  282. Tim Hooper: all these people from Roanoke about how to market their business and sales and

  283. Tim Hooper: whatnot and all this. And and I and I brought it up. It was it

  284. Tim Hooper: fit into the story. So I, like, brought it up. So I was driving out

  285. Tim Hooper: here this morning, and this guy told me, I need to go see the star.

  286. Tim Hooper: He asked me if I knew where the star Holy. I said, no. And the

  287. Tim Hooper: whole room gasped. Whatever. So I went

  288. Tim Hooper: so afterwards, I got done speaking. My buddy came up, Scott. He said,

  289. Tim Hooper: he said, Tim, do you have some time? Do you have to rush out anywhere?

  290. Tim Hooper: I'm like, no. I don't. He said, could I drive you up to see the

  291. Tim Hooper: star? So he drove me. We got in his truck. We drove up

  292. Tim Hooper: this little winding road, bikers coming up and down. The ones that were

  293. Tim Hooper: going up, I was like snickering. I was like, how on the, you know, these

  294. Tim Hooper: guys with the cabs, like, you know, let's pick us up. And I was like,

  295. Tim Hooper: dude, I mean, they're going to see the star. I mean, it's this windy, steep

  296. Tim Hooper: pray, and we're getting up there to the top. And I was asking him on

  297. Tim Hooper: the way. I was like, so, like, how big is it? He's like, oh, it's

  298. Tim Hooper: massive. Well, I've never seen it. Can you see it from Interstate

  299. Tim Hooper: 81? He's like, yeah. Can you see it from this? And I've been on those

  300. Tim Hooper: highways. We came down pray 81 every trip

  301. Tim Hooper: over to Virginia from Nashville. I'm like, how did I not see

  302. Tim Hooper: the star? And the answer is pretty

  303. Tim Hooper: obvious. I wasn't looking up. I was looking

  304. Tim Hooper: at my GPS. I was looking in the back at the 4 kids. Maybe I

  305. Tim Hooper: was looking down, hopefully not texting and driving. Maybe I was looking at the

  306. Tim Hooper: speedometer. Maybe there was a police car behind me and I was checking that just

  307. Tim Hooper: right, you know how you just keep your eyes around, speedometer. I don't know

  308. Tim Hooper: what it was, but there was something, all those trips, that I didn't look

  309. Tim Hooper: up to see the

  310. Tim Hooper: star. I want to go to scripture and read a passage

  311. Tim Hooper: and then just make some correlations. Hopefully, practically, leave us

  312. Tim Hooper: with a few things we can leave here. And

  313. Tim Hooper: in our life, when it's chaos or

  314. Tim Hooper: confusion or our spirit we can't hear because the noise of the storm

  315. Tim Hooper: is so loud, we can go back and say, but here's

  316. Tim Hooper: where I stand. Here's what I do. Here's what I

  317. Tim Hooper: remember to look up. So in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 20 if you

  318. Tim Hooper: have your Bibles, it's a longer passage, it won't be on the screen, but I'll

  319. Tim Hooper: read through. It says, 2nd Chronicles, chapter number

  320. Tim Hooper: 20. Jehoshaphat, he's faced with a

  321. Tim Hooper: situation. And I'll just read through and we'll make some practical application, then

  322. Tim Hooper: we'll wrap up. After this, the Moabites and Ammonites,

  323. Tim Hooper: and with them some of the Mennuites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

  324. Tim Hooper: Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, a great multitude is coming against you from Edom

  325. Tim Hooper: and beyond the sea, and behold they are in right at the gate, basically.

  326. Tim Hooper: And then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set

  327. Tim Hooper: his face to seek the Lord. Then

  328. Tim Hooper: Josh was afraid. I want to stop right there. Have you ever

  329. Tim Hooper: had news come to you? He was not expecting these men to come to him

  330. Tim Hooper: and say, there's a prayer. The enemy's at the gates. Would you, by show of

  331. Tim Hooper: hands, tell me, have you had a problem? Have you had something come into your

  332. Tim Hooper: life recently? A bill, a diagnosis, some sort of

  333. Tim Hooper: news that just took you by surprise? By a show of hands,

  334. Tim Hooper: yes. We're human. It happens. We're in a broken

  335. Tim Hooper: world. And here we are. A battle has been waged against

  336. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat. Secretly, they're all ganged up on him. They're

  337. Tim Hooper: at the back door and he is

  338. Tim Hooper: afraid. He's afraid.

  339. Tim Hooper: So we see Spirit away, there's a problem. It's unexpected.

  340. Tim Hooper: It's a surprise. He's that, this word, pray,

  341. Tim Hooper: means alarmed. He's alarmed by it.

  342. Tim Hooper: He's fearful. Now

  343. Tim Hooper: in chapter number 19, Jehoshaphat was

  344. Tim Hooper: busy. In 19, he's busy. He's fortifying

  345. Tim Hooper: the army. He's building walls. He's building cities.

  346. Tim Hooper: He is restoring God's house. In 19,

  347. Tim Hooper: he's busy fortifying the kingdom. He's

  348. Tim Hooper: been doing all the right things. And sometimes, some of us have

  349. Tim Hooper: this in our heart to say, God, why

  350. Tim Hooper: me? I've been doing all the right things.

  351. Tim Hooper: I'm sure in that fear, he had that alarm,

  352. Tim Hooper: that question, why me?

  353. Tim Hooper: But it says, just down here, it says, then Josh, if I was afraid and

  354. Tim Hooper: set his face to seek the Lord. I love this. He

  355. Tim Hooper: was afraid and he set his face to seek the

  356. Tim Hooper: Lord. We see right there, we see a prayer, but then we see a priority.

  357. Tim Hooper: And I think this is where Tim misses the boat

  358. Tim Hooper: so many times. I start going to my own wisdom. I

  359. Tim Hooper: start figuring out a solution or I go to chat g p t No. I'm

  360. Tim Hooper: just You're going we're going to find an answer

  361. Tim Hooper: elsewhere. But Jehoshaphat's pray. He sets

  362. Tim Hooper: his face toward the Lord. He makes it a priority

  363. Tim Hooper: that the word set means a resolve, a firm resolve

  364. Tim Hooper: to seek the Lord. Matthew 633

  365. Tim Hooper: says, seek first the kingdom. How many times is that

  366. Tim Hooper: 5th or 7th or 21st for me? Because Ghost, I was

  367. Tim Hooper: seeking my own counsel, online counsel,

  368. Tim Hooper: complaining to my friend's counsel, complaining more to my friend's

  369. Tim Hooper: counsel, arguing with my friend's counsel. Right?

  370. Tim Hooper: And then finally, in surrender, I come to God. But he said, he was

  371. Tim Hooper: afraid and then number 2 Spirit. You say, Tim, I'm failing.

  372. Tim Hooper: Like you, Tim, I'm failing in the priority.

  373. Tim Hooper: Well, let's rewind to chapter 18, because

  374. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat in chapter 18 also was failing in the priority.

  375. Tim Hooper: Pray? He learned from failure. Failure is the greatest

  376. Tim Hooper: teacher. And besides, you have

  377. Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. I was told at breakfast this morning, you have nothing to feel

  378. Tim Hooper: theatre fear, because we're all going to fail. Just let let that be know,

  379. Tim Hooper: we're all going to fail. But, we have an advantage being sons and daughters

  380. Tim Hooper: of God, because when we fail, he redeems our failure.

  381. Tim Hooper: Can I get, wow? When we fail he redeems our failure. We have

  382. Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. But in 18, Jehosh

  383. Tim Hooper: phat fails. Why? Because Ahab comes to him and says, hey, body.

  384. Tim Hooper: How would you like to reunite the kingdom, buddy? I'm going to war

  385. Tim Hooper: against these guys, and I would love for you to be along. Just tag along

  386. Tim Hooper: and, help me out. We'll reunite the kingdoms. He

  387. Tim Hooper: paints this grand vision. Ahab is a great politician. And he Oh, did I

  388. Tim Hooper: just say that? I'm sorry. But, anyway, we're God to do this. And

  389. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, he's been the king to

  390. Tim Hooper: pursue the Lord, but he thinks this sounds really good. He kind of

  391. Tim Hooper: gets his pursuit of discipleship and following Christ mixed

  392. Tim Hooper: with politics here. He really does. And he

  393. Tim Hooper: says, sure, Ahab. Well, then that ego of

  394. Tim Hooper: reuniting the kingdom blinds him so much to the fact

  395. Tim Hooper: and I read this in EMT. I'm like, how in the world did

  396. Tim Hooper: Ahab convince him to do this? Ahab says, I'll tell

  397. Tim Hooper: you what you do. You dress up like me,

  398. Tim Hooper: so everyone won't think you're the king. How did you like,

  399. Tim Hooper: how? So then, sure enough, he gets into the

  400. Tim Hooper: war. He gets singled out.

  401. Tim Hooper: God commander of the enemy army says, don't go for anybody else but the king.

  402. Tim Hooper: They see the king's clothes and they're after Jehoshaphat, and he's running

  403. Tim Hooper: for his life. Ahab gets killed in the

  404. Tim Hooper: battle, as prophesied by the Lord, by a pure accident.

  405. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat barely makes it out, dressed as the king.

  406. Tim Hooper: And so here he is, rebuilding the

  407. Tim Hooper: army, doing all the right things, problem comes and he

  408. Tim Hooper: sets a priority. He says, I learned from my mistake. I learned

  409. Tim Hooper: from my failure. I set a priority. I'm God look

  410. Tim Hooper: up. I am gonna first look up. Not second, 3rd, First

  411. Tim Hooper: look up is God be my priority. If you're failing in that today,

  412. Tim Hooper: contrast it. Just contrast it to what you've done before and say,

  413. Tim Hooper: God, help me to remember to look up. He will

  414. Tim Hooper: redeem.' Here's here's just a

  415. Tim Hooper: practical solution too. So I wear

  416. Tim Hooper: contacts in Nashville. And I don't live here anymore. But when I was

  417. Tim Hooper: in Nashville, I wore glasses more because in the spring, right about now, the

  418. Tim Hooper: pollen count goes from 0 to 96. Right?

  419. Tim Hooper: And, the sneezing starts happening. It was always

  420. Tim Hooper: horrible being at work and then the contact's in the back of my eyeball. And

  421. Tim Hooper: the rest of the pray, I'm like fighting, trying to get that contact out of

  422. Tim Hooper: the back of my eyeball. So, I just wear glasses a lot. Well, so anyway,

  423. Tim Hooper: I would wake up in the morning and the first thing I would reach for

  424. Tim Hooper: was my glasses. Without my glasses

  425. Tim Hooper: on my face, I was stumbling around, because I'm blind as a bat. So I'd

  426. Tim Hooper: be stumbling around the bedroom. And sometimes they'd fall between the thing, or the kid

  427. Tim Hooper: crawled in bed and cracked them in half or whatever, so you're trying to make

  428. Tim Hooper: them work. Right? That's happening. So you're going around without your glasses,

  429. Tim Hooper: you're stumbling. You're tripping. You're stubbing your toe. So practical application is

  430. Tim Hooper: I'm God to ask this. What is the first thing you pick up in the

  431. Tim Hooper: morning? What is the first thing you look at? I

  432. Tim Hooper: talk to executive teams all the time. You know how high percentage look at

  433. Tim Hooper: their inbox, their email very first in the morning? Some of

  434. Tim Hooper: us, social media, first thing in the morning. TikTok, first thing in the

  435. Tim Hooper: morning. Where are we looking? Where are you looking?

  436. Tim Hooper: Ghost priority. What am I going to determine when

  437. Tim Hooper: I lay my head down is going to be on my phone first thing.

  438. Tim Hooper: Maybe I'm God to text myself some lyrics to a song. Maybe I'm

  439. Tim Hooper: gonna text myself a Bible verse, the verse of the day. What am

  440. Tim Hooper: I looking at first? Is the priority there? Well, then

  441. Tim Hooper: we see the priorities there. He says, he set his face towards the

  442. Tim Hooper: Lord, and then he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

  443. Tim Hooper: And I love this because there's a problem. He makes a priority, but

  444. Tim Hooper: then he's, he has a proclamation. He has a

  445. Tim Hooper: proclamation. He proclaims a fast throughout all of

  446. Tim Hooper: Judah and he assembled to seek help from the Lord. All

  447. Tim Hooper: the cities of Judah, and they came to seek the Lord. And

  448. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord,

  449. Tim Hooper: before the new court and said, and he lifts up his voice to pray.

  450. Tim Hooper: So before the prayer, there's a proclamation. We are going to fast.

  451. Tim Hooper: I love all the leaders across this stage today and yesterday, I'm sure

  452. Tim Hooper: in the Ghost few days of this conference that proclaimed,

  453. Tim Hooper: come up here. This is all access. There's no special pass here.

  454. Tim Hooper: Come claim what God has for you.

  455. Tim Hooper: You say, Tim, I'm not the king. I can't proclaim

  456. Tim Hooper: a fast for all of Smyrna, all of Murfreesboro, all

  457. Tim Hooper: of Rutherford County, all of Nashville, all of Richmond,

  458. Tim Hooper: Virginia, wherever you're at in the world. I can't proclaim a fast, but let me

  459. Tim Hooper: tell you in here, you're a mom. You've got 2 kids.

  460. Tim Hooper: You're a teacher. You have a classroom. You're a worker

  461. Tim Hooper: with you have a team. You're a father who

  462. Tim Hooper: has a family. When's the last time I've proclaimed

  463. Tim Hooper: something to my family? I've proclaimed a word of the

  464. Tim Hooper: Lord to my family. I've pulled the Bible out, dusted it

  465. Tim Hooper: off, and read and said, we are going to I'm sorry, family. I'm

  466. Tim Hooper: sorry. I take the responsibility for having not

  467. Tim Hooper: led in this department, but I am not perfect. I am bought

  468. Tim Hooper: with the blood. I have access to the throne. I'm going to

  469. Tim Hooper: proclaim for my family that we're God to follow

  470. Tim Hooper: Christ. I'm going to make a proclamation. I'm going to make a

  471. Tim Hooper: proclamation, we're going to pray together. I'm going to make a proclamation that we're going

  472. Tim Hooper: to love differently. That I'm going to treat your mother differently. I'm

  473. Tim Hooper: going to make a proclamation for my team that it's going to be the

  474. Tim Hooper: golden rule, treat others like we'd want to be treated. I'm going to make proclamations

  475. Tim Hooper: that are kingdom minded proclamations. This is what Jehoshaphat was doing.

  476. Tim Hooper: You don't have to be a king to make a proclamation. But what I'll tell

  477. Tim Hooper: you about the proclamation is, there is freedom

  478. Tim Hooper: from fear in the proclamation. He was

  479. Tim Hooper: afraid. He made the priorities seek help from the Lord. And then

  480. Tim Hooper: he said, I'm God to proclaim a fast.' There is freedom. When the

  481. Tim Hooper: proclamation's out, it is out body. There's no taking it

  482. Tim Hooper: back. Somebody now knows. The enemy wants us in isolation.

  483. Tim Hooper: The enemy does not want anybody to know.

  484. Tim Hooper: Proclaim the promises of God. Make a

  485. Tim Hooper: proclamation. And even if you don't know the word to proclaim, proclaim a

  486. Tim Hooper: Ghost, proclaim prayer, proclaim repentance,

  487. Tim Hooper: proclaim humility, a humbleness of heart. The sign of this

  488. Tim Hooper: was brokenness in the Holy Testament, was rendering of the clothes like Barbie

  489. Tim Hooper: talked about with Esther, and putting ashes on the head. You didn't have to

  490. Tim Hooper: know what to do in that moment. You just had to say, I'm

  491. Tim Hooper: here. I'm proclaiming I'm here till I hear it. It's like Jacob.

  492. Tim Hooper: I will not let you go until you bless me. He didn't even realize what

  493. Tim Hooper: that meant. It meant a limp and it meant a lot of things that

  494. Tim Hooper: he never planned on, but he made a proclamation, I will not

  495. Tim Hooper: let you go. Who needs to make a proclamation

  496. Tim Hooper: today to God and to your family, to your team, to

  497. Tim Hooper: your siblings, to somewhere in your life that

  498. Tim Hooper: there's something here I don't know, I'm afraid of, but I'm making

  499. Tim Hooper: a proclamation over this area. You don't have to

  500. Tim Hooper: be a king to make a proclamation.

  501. Tim Hooper: I love the song that says, I will speak to my

  502. Tim Hooper: fear and I will preach to my doubt that you were

  503. Tim Hooper: faithful then and you'll be faithful now. And I don't even know what that looks

  504. Tim Hooper: like, but I will speak to my fear and I will preach to my

  505. Tim Hooper: doubt. Make the proclamation. And then we see the prayer.

  506. Tim Hooper: And the prayer says this, O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God

  507. Tim Hooper: in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations.

  508. Tim Hooper: In your hand are power and might. Amen? Amen?

  509. Tim Hooper: He is our Father God because of Christ. But you

  510. Tim Hooper: have an enemy out there who wants to destroy you.

  511. Tim Hooper: He is our warrior king. Amen. And we don't

  512. Tim Hooper: have to fear that warrior king anymore because of Christ, but all of

  513. Tim Hooper: our enemies must fear that royal king. And we have

  514. Tim Hooper: access, all access to his power and

  515. Tim Hooper: his might, so that none is able to withstand you. And then

  516. Tim Hooper: he puts heaven on notice. He says, did you not our

  517. Tim Hooper: God drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people,

  518. Tim Hooper: Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your

  519. Tim Hooper: friend? I love the question here. He's putting heaven

  520. Tim Hooper: on notice. Did you not?

  521. Tim Hooper: And they have lived in it and have built for you in a sanctuary for

  522. Tim Hooper: your name, saying, if disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,

  523. Tim Hooper: pestilence, famine we will stand before this house and before you, for your

  524. Tim Hooper: name is in this house and cry out to you on our affliction. And

  525. Tim Hooper: you will hear and save. And

  526. Tim Hooper: now behold, this great multitude has come against us to invade us,

  527. Tim Hooper: to destroy us. And

  528. Tim Hooper: then he ends his prayer. He says, oh, our God,

  529. Tim Hooper: will you not execute judgment on them for we

  530. Tim Hooper: are powerless.

  531. Tim Hooper: For we are powerless. I want

  532. Tim Hooper: to stop right there. We are powerless.

  533. Tim Hooper: In chapter 19, Jehoshaphat has built an

  534. Tim Hooper: army of 1 point 2,000,000

  535. Tim Hooper: fighting men. He

  536. Tim Hooper: is not a wimp. He knows what war looks like.

  537. Tim Hooper: He's been willing to fight before. He has a

  538. Tim Hooper: massive army and yet the humility

  539. Tim Hooper: here to say, we

  540. Tim Hooper: are powerless. I want to say

  541. Tim Hooper: this, he he he prays. There's the prayer,

  542. Tim Hooper: he has a priority to seek God first. He makes a proclamation and

  543. Tim Hooper: then he prays. And in his prayer, I realize a few things. He

  544. Tim Hooper: has reflection. He goes to the journal. He goes to the stone

  545. Tim Hooper: of Ebenezer. And he says, did you not? Did you not?

  546. Tim Hooper: But then there's humility. He says, we have

  547. Tim Hooper: no might. It reminds me of the verse that says, not by

  548. Tim Hooper: might nor by power, but by my

  549. Tim Hooper: Spirit, says the Lord.

  550. Tim Hooper: By my spirit. I

  551. Tim Hooper: believe that humility. We are powerless.

  552. Tim Hooper: I am refusing. I am absolutely saying

  553. Tim Hooper: no to my own counsel, God. I'm saying

  554. Tim Hooper: no to my own resource, God. He had a

  555. Tim Hooper: 1,200,000 fighting men.

  556. Tim Hooper: But, Tim likes to look at my bank account and say, can we or

  557. Tim Hooper: can we not?

  558. Tim Hooper: I like to look at my time and say, do I have the

  559. Tim Hooper: time or do I not?

  560. Tim Hooper: Jesus said, you can't serve God and man and money. And and Jesus

  561. Tim Hooper: said that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. He created time.

  562. Tim Hooper: He is a star breather, like Kevin reminded us. He is timeless.

  563. Tim Hooper: We are time bound. But see, that's our counsel.

  564. Tim Hooper: He says, we are powerless, oh Lord. He says,

  565. Tim Hooper: I refuse to rest in my own

  566. Tim Hooper: sustenance. I want you to be our sustainer.

  567. Tim Hooper: There's a humility in that. There was also a public prayer here. I believe

  568. Tim Hooper: there is time for pray, in the closet

  569. Tim Hooper: prayer. But I believe that our church, like Jesus said in the New

  570. Tim Hooper: Testament, he said, we've made his house a house of commerce

  571. Tim Hooper: and we've turned it away from being a house of prayer. And I

  572. Tim Hooper: will tell you, this is where I sin the most. This is

  573. Tim Hooper: the sin that so easily clings to me and besets me in my pray,

  574. Tim Hooper: is a prayerless life. God is

  575. Tim Hooper: calling his people in this age of apostasy.

  576. Tim Hooper: He's calling his people to pray. He is asking he is

  577. Tim Hooper: just looking for a community of believers to gather in public

  578. Tim Hooper: prayer to say, Holy spirit, blow on the embers. Holy

  579. Tim Hooper: spirit, do something. Do a new work through us.

  580. Tim Hooper: So many of us grapple with how do we be Christ in this generation.

  581. Tim Hooper: We don't know how to be Christ in this generosity, and the church

  582. Tim Hooper: has lost its salt in this generation. We need a breath from heaven

  583. Tim Hooper: to say, Holy spirit, show us how to be the church.

  584. Tim Hooper: We have to gather in prayer again. Jehoshaphat

  585. Tim Hooper: proclaimed, then he prayed in a public pray. And he

  586. Tim Hooper: ends his prayer with this. He says, we do

  587. Tim Hooper: not know what to do. Have you ever

  588. Tim Hooper: stopped praying because you didn't know how to pray? Or you didn't know what words

  589. Tim Hooper: to say? Come on. Right? Come on. Somebody else

  590. Tim Hooper: prayed so eloquently and you said, I have nothing to say. I want you to,

  591. Tim Hooper: next time that thought comes into your mind, proclaim, God, I

  592. Tim Hooper: don't know what to say. That is one of the most powerful prayers you can

  593. Tim Hooper: ever pray. And it will shatter fear. It shuts the enemy up because

  594. Tim Hooper: he's God to push that button all day long. Yeah, you don't know what to

  595. Tim Hooper: pray. Or you're going to look stupid when you try to say

  596. Tim Hooper: something. They're God to laugh and he's going to tangle you in fear

  597. Tim Hooper: not to open your mouth and proclaim in prayer the goodness of God.

  598. Tim Hooper: So, Jehoshaphat, the king who's supposed to have all the answers,

  599. Tim Hooper: we do not know what to do, but our eyes are

  600. Tim Hooper: on you.

  601. Tim Hooper: Here we stand. Our eyes are on you.

  602. Tim Hooper: There's the star. Now, every time I drive through Roanoke,

  603. Tim Hooper: there's the star. I just need somebody to tell me, remind me, there it is,

  604. Tim Hooper: and by the way, look up. And every time I drive through Roanoke, I'm like,

  605. Tim Hooper: I'm God see the star because I'm looking for it. I'm looking

  606. Tim Hooper: up. And Jehoshaphat Ghost reminded the entire congregation, I I'm the

  607. Tim Hooper: king. I don't know what to do. God, I don't know what to do. We

  608. Tim Hooper: don't know what to do. But our eyes are on you. And when we pray

  609. Tim Hooper: that in humility, guess what happens? Go to the next church. Because once

  610. Tim Hooper: he drove me up there oh, man. I was like, oh, there's

  611. Tim Hooper: the airport over there. I took my son to that Roanoke airport. And, oh, what's

  612. Tim Hooper: that big building? That's the hospital. Did you know Roanoke's known for its hospitals? I

  613. Tim Hooper: said, I didn't know that. I was like, man. Look at those Blue Ridge Mountains.

  614. Tim Hooper: Aren't those beautiful? And I just stood up there. I took a panorama. I took

  615. Tim Hooper: a selfie. I did everything. It was so beautiful. The view

  616. Tim Hooper: was totally different. And you know what happens when we turn

  617. Tim Hooper: our eyes to pray to God and when we start seeing

  618. Tim Hooper: him and oh my goodness his face is lovely. He's

  619. Tim Hooper: not looking at me in anger. He's looking at me in acceptance and love. And

  620. Tim Hooper: oh my goodness he says that the verse before in Psalms

  621. Tim Hooper: that God read that whole Psalm 25. But the verse before says

  622. Tim Hooper: that those who are committed to God set their face towards God.

  623. Tim Hooper: He is a friend. He's he's used the word fellowship. And that word friendship means

  624. Tim Hooper: he gives the secret counsel to. He gives the secret counsel

  625. Tim Hooper: to. See, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look

  626. Tim Hooper: at change. Wayne Dyer said that quote, but you know what? So powerful about that

  627. Tim Hooper: quote from a spiritual perspective, God changes the way we look at things. We

  628. Tim Hooper: don't have to change the way in our own power. God does the work, brings

  629. Tim Hooper: us to his vantage point, and lets us see his secret counsel.

  630. Tim Hooper: He knows the beginning from the end. He may not show us the end, but

  631. Tim Hooper: he's God to give us the hope and the belief that this is not the

  632. Tim Hooper: end. I have the final say and it's going to be beautiful.

  633. Tim Hooper: If it's not good, it's not done. And then

  634. Tim Hooper: Ghost right after this, I'm going to summarize this, but Jahaziel stands up. Jahaziel

  635. Tim Hooper: is the Levite. Jahaziel stands up, full of the Spirit,

  636. Tim Hooper: says the spirit move into Jahaziel. And Jahaziel

  637. Tim Hooper: says, stands up, and he says this, he says, King, I have a word from

  638. Tim Hooper: the Lord. And he says, I have a word and here's the pray.

  639. Tim Hooper: You are going to be delivered. Who says, that's a good promise right

  640. Tim Hooper: there? I'm going to be delivered. I have access to the king. I am going

  641. Tim Hooper: to be delivered. I have a promise. And he said, and

  642. Tim Hooper: here is the plan. And Jahaziel gives him the plan. Now, let me ask you

  643. Tim Hooper: this. Jahaziel was around 2 chapters earlier. Jahaziel

  644. Tim Hooper: saw Micaiah, who stood up as a prophet, told

  645. Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, do not go with Ahab, and they had him thrown in jail.

  646. Tim Hooper: I want to ask, who are the Jehazials in the room who are fearful right

  647. Tim Hooper: now? Because Jehaziel had to be a little scared to get up and give the

  648. Tim Hooper: word of the Lord to the king.

  649. Tim Hooper: Who is a friend in this room right now, who the Spirit of God

  650. Tim Hooper: is moving, giving you a word and you are to give that word to

  651. Tim Hooper: body? You are to prophecy over somebody's life. You are to speak in

  652. Tim Hooper: and edify somebody's life, or come alongside and encourage somebody's

  653. Tim Hooper: life. Jahaziel, not by his own might, he said the Spirit of

  654. Tim Hooper: the Lord moved because of the humility of the king, because of the prayer

  655. Tim Hooper: in public. The Spirit of the Lord moved, and Jahaziel stood up and gave

  656. Tim Hooper: the plan and the promise to the king.

  657. Tim Hooper: And the worship team can come out, because we're wrapping this thing up. Because guess

  658. Tim Hooper: what happens. The plan is get all your mighty chariots

  659. Tim Hooper: together. Get all your horsemen. Get all the 1,200,000 that you've

  660. Tim Hooper: amassed. And we're God to engage in this valley. We're going to set traps.

  661. Tim Hooper: We're going to Ghost crush the enemy. Yes? No.

  662. Tim Hooper: This was not the plan at all. The

  663. Tim Hooper: plan was can you just step forward with me?

  664. Tim Hooper: The plan was can you just walk like forward? I'm going to walk behind you.

  665. Tim Hooper: The plan was that the soldiers were going to walk behind the Levites.

  666. Tim Hooper: And these people were going to walk into battle. These

  667. Tim Hooper: people who are hopeless against the spear, helpless

  668. Tim Hooper: against the sword, were God to lead the army into

  669. Tim Hooper: battle. You can back up Ghost for now, so you have to stand right at

  670. Tim Hooper: the edge. They're God to lead. This is bizarre.

  671. Tim Hooper: This is unconventional. This is what we call the upside down

  672. Tim Hooper: economy. This is God math, not ours.

  673. Tim Hooper: God miracles, not our plan. God,

  674. Tim Hooper: star breather, master of all the universe, who sees the beginning from the end,

  675. Tim Hooper: says, guess what theatre God to do? Now, they weren't just walking. Guess what they're

  676. Tim Hooper: gonna do? They're gonna praise. We are gonna

  677. Tim Hooper: praise Yahweh. Yeah. Capital l, capital o, capital

  678. Tim Hooper: r, capital d, Yahweh. We're gonna sing praises to Yahweh. Do you know

  679. Tim Hooper: they never lifted a sword? Do you know that Moab Moab turned about and

  680. Tim Hooper: said, they killed each other. When they came up over the hill into the

  681. Tim Hooper: valley, everything was a dead body. Gone.

  682. Tim Hooper: Because the Bible says God inhabits the praise of

  683. Tim Hooper: His people. And so, in the devastating

  684. Tim Hooper: moment, in the problem, in the fear, in the alarm,

  685. Tim Hooper: in the time where you do not know what to do, to pray,

  686. Tim Hooper: God, my eyes are on you, and I am God choose to

  687. Tim Hooper: pray? He said, it was a loud praise. They went

  688. Tim Hooper: out loudly praising. I love the song that says, you have a

  689. Tim Hooper: lion in side of your lungs, so get

  690. Tim Hooper: up and praise the Lord. You might not know what to

  691. Tim Hooper: say, just praise the Lord. Let

  692. Tim Hooper: your vocal speak. When you're a baby, you don't know how to put a

  693. Tim Hooper: word together and all you say is, oh, and mama and

  694. Tim Hooper: daddy come running, just praise the Lord. Just

  695. Tim Hooper: make noise to the Lord. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all

  696. Tim Hooper: ye lands. You talked about Paul and Silas. This is written right

  697. Tim Hooper: here. So Paul and Silas, they're in their tomb. They pray, the earth shattered.

  698. Tim Hooper: Peter saw the waves, but Jesus was reaching down his hand. And then

  699. Tim Hooper: Paul in Hebrews saw a great cloud of witnesses. He pray. He saw

  700. Tim Hooper: when the praise happened, the provision came. Elijah saw what no one

  701. Tim Hooper: else could. He saw the the the the armies

  702. Tim Hooper: of God surrounding him. In the praise, what are you gonna

  703. Tim Hooper: see? How are you gonna praise? It happens when our eyes look to

  704. Tim Hooper: the king, when our eyes look to all access and say,

  705. Tim Hooper: God, I need you. I'm God praise you. I'm

  706. Tim Hooper: gonna praise you anyway. I'm gonna end with

  707. Tim Hooper: this, Job and when Job was plagued with all of these,

  708. Tim Hooper: his kids were lost to the plagues and his animals, his herds, everything

  709. Tim Hooper: gone. And then the boils, he's church with boils. He's sitting

  710. Tim Hooper: there and he says, when I'm tried and

  711. Tim Hooper: purified, I'll come forth as gold.

  712. Tim Hooper: And I always thought that was such a beautiful verse. And then when Jen was

  713. Tim Hooper: going through her 2nd round of cancer, I became very, very

  714. Tim Hooper: bitter. I became disillusioned.

  715. Tim Hooper: The Ghost time made sense second time, like, why God? Why are you doing this?

  716. Tim Hooper: And why to her? And God, the Holy Spirit and I wasn't, I wasn't bitter

  717. Tim Hooper: towards him. I was bitter at the circumstance. And the Holy Spirit said, I want

  718. Tim Hooper: you to read Job. And I got to the end of Job. I'm going to

  719. Tim Hooper: read this first because it's so powerful. But the end of Job, in Job chapter

  720. Tim Hooper: 42, this is after God has spoken to Job. After

  721. Tim Hooper: Job put God on trial, then God came and spoke to Job and showed His

  722. Tim Hooper: power and might. And Job said this. He

  723. Tim Hooper: said, therefore I have uttered what I did not

  724. Tim Hooper: understand, Things too wonderful for me church I

  725. Tim Hooper: did not know. He said this. He said, I had

  726. Tim Hooper: heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

  727. Tim Hooper: but now my eyes see you.

  728. Tim Hooper: And, I'll tell you that sometimes I want gold.

  729. Tim Hooper: I want to believe that there's gold on the other side of this trial.

  730. Tim Hooper: When I'm tried and purified, I'll come forth as gold. And I believe that's pray

  731. Tim Hooper: promise. But sometimes my gold is tomorrow or next

  732. Tim Hooper: year, and it's not maybe on my timetable.

  733. Tim Hooper: But Joe gets to the end and as he praises, as he sees who God

  734. Tim Hooper: is, as he lifts his eyes, he says, I had heard of you before.

  735. Tim Hooper: I had heard of you with my ears. I heard of the goodness, he said,

  736. Tim Hooper: but now I see you.

  737. Tim Hooper: And it changed everything for him. His circumstance changed,

  738. Tim Hooper: yes, but sometimes we just have to set our eyes on God. Just look up

  739. Tim Hooper: child and say, now I see you.

  740. Tim Hooper: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His

  741. Tim Hooper: wonderful face. And the things of earth,

  742. Tim Hooper: they grow strangely dim in the light of his glory

  743. Tim Hooper: and grace. Church, I just wanna encourage you, let's

  744. Tim Hooper: assemble, let's encourage, let's

  745. Tim Hooper: remind each other that we have all access, when

  746. Tim Hooper: we simply just look up and say,

  747. Tim Hooper: almighty God, here I am.

  748. Kevin O'Dea: Stand with me this morning. As we close this

  749. Kevin O'Dea: out, we're God to proclaim a song that we've been singing for many,

  750. Kevin O'Dea: many weeks here. We trust in God and let's testify

  751. Kevin O'Dea: this morning of the goodness of our Lord. Let's, let's worship.