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What Do You See?

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  1. Good job, y'all.

  2. You gotta first time you do this stuff. It's nerve wracking.

  3. I've said this before. I got a d N speech

  4. class at Pensacola Christian College because I was terrified to

  5. be in front of people.

  6. True story.

  7. In fact, it was I After that semester, I pretty

  8. much talked myself out of being called to be a

  9. minister because I was like, there's no way that I

  10. can do this and be in front of people, because

  11. I was literally terrified. I mean you talk about the fear,

  12. I mean I was physically shaking when I would get

  13. in front of people because I was so nervous and

  14. full of anxiety. And now, look, you can't shut me up.

  15. I just said that for my wife, since she's not sitting.

  16. There right now.

  17. Man, this morning has been awesome, y'all.

  18. So uh, if some of that stuff was strange to

  19. some of you. Responding to invitations, it's it's in the

  20. midst of us gathering together and worshiping the Lord. There

  21. is also divine listening, listening to what he's wanting to

  22. do in the moment where he's wanting to go what

  23. is the next invitation? And sometimes it almost feels like

  24. spiritual surfing, like you catch a wave and then it

  25. kind of lands and it's a lull and you're waiting

  26. for that next wave to come. And what my my

  27. heart is to equip to y'all is to learn to

  28. grow in the sensitivity to see what He's doing. So

  29. in the in the in the beginning of that the

  30. worship time, I felt an angel walk up next to

  31. me and I lit up like I saw it in

  32. my eyes and felt the presence of the Angel.

  33. And I don't know if you all behind me.

  34. When I grabbed my brother and put him in the

  35. in the hot spot was because I intentionally put him there.

  36. And then the fire of God started. Who all was

  37. getting hotter in a paint? Yeah, And so there there

  38. there are some themes in this hour that the Lord

  39. is doing. And one is the fire of God, fresh

  40. baptism of fire, and and obviously the fire of God.

  41. He is the fire of God. It's not a separate thing.

  42. Does that make sense?

  43. And so.

  44. I was I was doing a video with John Thomas

  45. and Justin Allen, which gets confusing when he's trying to

  46. navigate with two justins and try to carry on a conversation.

  47. And but we were talking in the conferences that we're

  48. doing this spring. It's UH fire conference, but it's purity,

  49. power and zeal. And I want to tell you that

  50. in this hour, the fear of the Lord. We talked

  51. about this last year and the fear UH starting last year,

  52. but the fear of the Lord has been missing in

  53. the body of Christ. The fear of the Lord is

  54. the beginning of wisdom. And the first thing that has

  55. to happen is that we depart from evil. So you

  56. cannot say that you fear the Lord of your living

  57. and sin.

  58. I don't care how much.

  59. You say you love him.

  60. If you refuse to repent, you do not fear him.

  61. Are you with me?

  62. I know you're welcome, You're so welcome.

  63. But I woke up Wednesday or Thursday morning out out

  64. of my dream state and I and I was hearing this,

  65. What do you see? What do you see?

  66. And I want to give you an eye exam this morning,

  67. not just natural sight, but spiritual sight.

  68. And I want to encourage you to allow the Lord

  69. to show you your blind spots because we all have them. Right,

  70. look at the person next to you and say, sometimes

  71. I'm dull, but.

  72. That's not God's heart.

  73. So and Jeremiah one eleven is sixteen. It says in

  74. the Word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah,

  75. what do you see? Jeremiah was the symbols prophet. If

  76. you look all through the book of Jeremiah, he was seeing,

  77. you know, he sees the almond branch, he sees the

  78. melting pot, he sees, you know, the boiling pop. You

  79. have all these symbols that he's seeing. And he says,

  80. what do you see? And this is Jeremiah, And I said,

  81. I see an almond branch. Then the Lord said to me,

  82. you've seen one. Well, for I am watching over my

  83. word to perform it. The Word of the Lord came

  84. to me a second time, saying what do you see?

  85. And I said, I see a boiling pot, facing away

  86. from the north. And then the Lord said to me,

  87. out of the north, disasters shall be let loose upon

  88. the inhabitants of the land.

  89. Now let me pause there.

  90. Sometimes we see things the Lord's showing us things. And

  91. if we pause there and then lean on our own

  92. understanding for the interpretation, then we're going to have the

  93. right revelation wrong interpretation, and therefore the wrong application.

  94. Hey, crust, are you with me?

  95. The one that gave you the revelation is the one

  96. that gives you the interpretation. And it's only when those

  97. two pieces line up correctly will you actually have the

  98. correct application for your life. Too many times we'll get

  99. a revelation and then go, oh, I know what that means,

  100. and we just fill in the blank instead of stopping

  101. and asking the Lord.

  102. It's like, uh.

  103. In this one conference, the prophet saw musical notes dancing

  104. over this guy's head and began to give him a

  105. prophetic word about being a musician and and all this,

  106. and it all sounded great. The problem was he didn't

  107. play a musical instrument. He owned a music store. So

  108. our opinions can keep us from revelation, Our opinions can

  109. keep us from the understanding of revelation.

  110. Are you all awake?

  111. Yeah, I'll tell you what, boy.

  112. You're in trouble. I'm all jacked up on caffeine.

  113. Not mountain dew. In case you're wondering, he says, the

  114. word of the Lord came he a second time, he

  115. sees the boiling pot. He says, disasters coming out of

  116. the north, and interestingly, in one eleven which, by the way, I'm.

  117. Gonna share this with you.

  118. But for you folks like Chay Spencer who loves numbers, when.

  119. You see one eleven at yeah, I know.

  120. Kother how everybody's numbers two and all these hands are

  121. flying up one eleven, Jeremiah, one eleven. Now I'm gonna

  122. share something, and I believe that there are times when

  123. you see one eleven on the clock, not always looking

  124. for a number, because you're gonna be twice, right, twice

  125. every twenty four hours, right, one eleven PM, one eleven am.

  126. Are you with me? When you're always looking for something,

  127. nothing means anything. But when you're not looking for it

  128. and the Lord draws your attention, that's when it means

  129. something that was free wisdom too. You're welcome, okay. The

  130. almond tree was known as the awake tree because it

  131. was the first tree to.

  132. Bud in the new year. It's a symbol of watchfulness.

  133. The Hebrew word for almond branch is shaka or chakad.

  134. It can also be.

  135. Translated as a rod or branch.

  136. It's a word play on the verb chakad, which means

  137. to watch or be alert. Because the almond tree is

  138. one of the first to bloom in the spring. So

  139. it may just be that when you're seeing this issue

  140. of one to eleven, that it may be telling. It

  141. may be the Lord telling you to watch for something

  142. that he's spoken to you in your life to begin

  143. to take place, to manifest, to bloom, to be watchful.

  144. Are you all picking this up?

  145. But shaked is the noun for the almond tree and

  146. is used for the branch, obviously in Jeremi's vision. And

  147. what's interesting the only difference between shaked and chicag shaked

  148. one is spelled s h a q e d.

  149. The other Hebrew word is shaq a d.

  150. So there's a play on words that the Lord's using

  151. with Jeremiah this moment. And I've said this before. If

  152. you're not careful, there are play on words. There are

  153. there are riddles and rhymes and not ties and parables,

  154. all of.

  155. These things throughout scripture.

  156. And too many times we lose in translation from the

  157. like the play on words from Hebrew to English, because

  158. then there's no it no longer really is a play

  159. on word because of the translation.

  160. Do you understand what I'm saying?

  161. So when you look at that for face value, you're

  162. like you're kind of like stretching your head for a

  163. second unless you understand it's the same Hebrew sounds like

  164. the same, right, and that right philm Okay, I want

  165. to say something about the issue of zeal. I said

  166. this towards the end, but I want to say this

  167. now that in our difficult times, us trying to see

  168. what's going on and navigating our paths during the storms

  169. of life and turbulent times and a thousand year flood.

  170. And by the way, as a side note, we have

  171. a pop up shop that's going to be opening up

  172. that is full of all brand new clothes with tags

  173. on it that will be given away, not sold, and

  174. which is the old Taco shop. There were somebody reached

  175. out to us from Frisco, Texas, and we're going to

  176. be doing a toy drive with them in December to

  177. help people out that are in hard times in the

  178. flood victims as well. And then I'm meeting with a

  179. nonprofit December third. Can't give you much detail, but it

  180. sounds like we will have a pretty good chunk of

  181. change again to sow into small businesses and the rebuild.

  182. So exciting things about that. But this issue with us

  183. keeping this fire because there is a theme of the

  184. fear of the Lord and the fire of God right

  185. now in this hour, and you're gonna begin to see

  186. it increase and and even this next year, because I'm

  187. little fires are beginning to pop up throughout the country,

  188. not just throughout the country. I was talking to Mark

  189. DuPont two days ago and firming up a date for

  190. him to come in January so we can start the

  191. year off right. And he just got back from Switzerland

  192. or Germany anyways, he's been all over the globe in

  193. the last couple of months, and he was sharing with

  194. me what the Lord's doing in England and Germany and

  195. and the amount of young people that are coming back

  196. to church and getting on fire. Even in France, there's

  197. there's a fire taking place in a move of God.

  198. So I don't believe all the crap that's on TV.

  199. Right So, because in case you had figured out, the

  200. Lord doesn't always, I mean, the enemy doesn't always want

  201. all of this stuff publicized because he wants to demoralize you.

  202. He wants to undermines you, demoralize you and then take

  203. you out and again he wants to twist your vision

  204. of what the truth is, right, And if you don't

  205. have eyes to see, and you're looking with natural eyes,

  206. you're gonna miss so much of what the Lord's doing

  207. in this moment because of all the other voices that

  208. are competing to get a hold of your ears and

  209. therefore get a hold of your mind and your heart.

  210. But Phineas, the son of Eliezar, son of Aaron, the Priest,

  211. has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel,

  212. and that he was jealous with my jealousy among them.

  213. So I did not consume the people of Israel my jealousy.

  214. One man's zeal for the Lord, stop the wrath of

  215. God over a nation. We were talking about this, actually,

  216. John pulled that scripture up because we were talking about

  217. the theme of power, purity, right, the fear of the Lord,

  218. the zeal of the Lord. Because the fire of God

  219. is God. It's not just something about him. He is

  220. a all consuming fire, and so he's intentionally, sovereignly setting

  221. fires all over the place. And what's going to happen

  222. is all these little fires are going to culminate into

  223. one big fire, and that's going to be what we've

  224. been looking for. And so we're saying, Lord, we're pressing in.

  225. Anthony was saying earlier to me some themes about pressing

  226. in and breakthrough. And then Chris started singing prophetically about

  227. pressing in, and this is an hour to lean into

  228. the Lord, not be offended, give up the question marks,

  229. give up your right to be right, and go on

  230. the journey of destiny that he's inviting us into. Right

  231. now when I'm teaching, if the only thing I can

  232. do is stir hunger inside of you, equipped you to

  233. be able to study for yourself, then I'm doing well.

  234. If you leave, even if you don't remember a word

  235. I say, if you leave here more in love with Jesus,

  236. hungry to spend more time with him and to be

  237. in his word, than I'm accomplishing, feeding and leading. I

  238. don't care what you remember about me. I want you

  239. to remember the King and Genesis twenty one seventeen to

  240. twenty Man, I feel a rumbling Ah. And Genesis twenty

  241. one seventeen to twenty one, we see something remarkable take place,

  242. the spiritual realm actually coinciding alongside the natural realm.

  243. See y'all.

  244. Too many times we think of the spiritual realm up

  245. here out there like the third Heaven, and we don't

  246. realize that the spiritual realm is all around us and

  247. it coincides with us. You ever, any of you, all

  248. ever see flashing lights out of the corner of your eye,

  249. and like you turn, then you.

  250. Don't see anything.

  251. You know why because you didn't turn in faith. You

  252. turned in unbelief. You didn't believe what you just saw.

  253. And as you actually increase your faith to be able

  254. to see the unseen, then those things which are off

  255. to the side, you'll actually begin to see in front

  256. of you. That was a free see your tip, so

  257. we see something remarkable take place. Hagar pulls her provision

  258. into the natural. When the Lord opens her eyes, Hagar's

  259. there with her son. She sets him off, she didn't

  260. want to watch him die, And all of a sudden,

  261. the Lord opens her eyes to a well that is

  262. there the entire time in the spiritual realm. The Lord

  263. opens her eyes to that well. She goes to the well,

  264. pulls water out of the well, and literally in the natural,

  265. takes that water and gives it to her son and herself.

  266. I only I only do what I see the Father

  267. showing me. The son can do nothing of himself. He

  268. said to us, you can do nothing of your of yourself,

  269. but only what I show you. We're doing a whole

  270. lot of stuff, but it's not always what he's showing us.

  271. A lot of times when we're just doing a uh

  272. a uh hail Mary.

  273. But not in the context of what I just said.

  274. You know. Never mind, Remember she's not co redeemer. And

  275. thank goodness, the Vatican clarified that publicly for those of

  276. you that were reading the news. And second King six seventeen,

  277. Elisha prayed for his servant's eyes to be open to

  278. see that the number with them was greater than the

  279. number against them, even though up until this point he

  280. could only see what was in the natural. And this

  281. is where we're at right now. It feels like we're

  282. literally surrounded by the enemy. He's trying to take out

  283. our country. He's trying to do all this stuff on

  284. the earth. The anti Christ spirit is running rampid everybody.

  285. I mean, everything's been in turmoil, and the enemy would

  286. love nothing more than for you to just keep your

  287. natural eyes and be overwhelmed by gross darkness covering the people,

  288. because it's already prophesied. Gross darkness is going to cover

  289. the people. Anybody are we there? Can we all agree

  290. on that Gabe come back to Earth. But on the

  291. flip side of that, the knowledge of the the glory

  292. of the Lord is going to cover the earth as

  293. the waters cover the sea. What side of that coin

  294. you choose to sea and focus on is going to

  295. determine your success in the kingdom? And I might say

  296. that it will determine whether or not you have perseverance

  297. and longevity in your walk with Jesus. And Psalms one,

  298. nineteen eighteen, David prayed open my eyes that I might

  299. see that I may see wondrous things from your law.

  300. Psalms one forty six eight.

  301. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, both spiritually

  302. and naturally. Acts twenty six eighteen says to open their

  303. eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light

  304. and from the power of Satan to God, that they

  305. may receive for giveness of sins and an inheritance among

  306. those who are sanctified by faith in me. If you

  307. want to be a good leader, you have to view

  308. people not just where they're at, but in the light

  309. of where they're headed.

  310. If you think it's prophetic to see the dirt. You're wrong.

  311. Anybody can see the dirt in somebody. We're all in process.

  312. There are areas of our lives that are not sanctified

  313. in all the way growing up yet, And it'd take

  314. about three minutes to hang out with somebody before your

  315. process is bump into each other.

  316. Are you with me? So you can both say, oh man, we're.

  317. Still in process, or you can puff up with pride

  318. and judge the other one and act like your crap

  319. doesn't smell? Was that a clear, you know, illustration that

  320. wasn't a parable so much a knot tie or a riddle,

  321. but literal. Maybe some of you should be more offended

  322. by your sin than the fact that I just said

  323. crap in church, Yeah, I mean that in the most

  324. pastoral way possible then, Isaiah forty two seven. It says

  325. to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison,

  326. those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

  327. Isaiah sixty one.

  328. He came to heal the broken heart, set the captive free,

  329. open the door of the prison. Do you know why

  330. you go into captivity because of rejection?

  331. Not dealt with someone rejects you.

  332. You don't properly deal with the rejection, and guess what happens.

  333. You go into captivity, and in that place of captivity

  334. of unforgiveness, you choose rebellion to try to protect your

  335. heart with the unforgiveness, and then that puts you in

  336. a prison and your eyes are blinded because of the unforgiveness.

  337. I was doing a prayer ministry session this week. Lisa

  338. and I were ministering to somebody, and it became pretty

  339. clear at that moment that this individual needed to really

  340. focus on forgiveness. Now, how many times in church have

  341. you been taught that, you know, imagine that person and

  342. then just say, Lord, I forgive that person for offending

  343. me or whatever, and you just do this nice, beautiful

  344. prayer and you feel really good for about sixty seconds

  345. until the next time you see them. Anybody been there,

  346. That's not how this works. You take an account of

  347. the debt because you may have genuinely forgiven that person

  348. of something in that moment. But the problem is the

  349. other debts get stirred when you see them again, and

  350. and that's exactly what unforgiveness is. Like you're like, let

  351. me go, let me go, and it's holding on for

  352. dear life. But in that preer, Thank you Lord. But

  353. in that process, that's an awesome illustration. You can't make

  354. that up.

  355. Bless him and bless the worker's Lord.

  356. And so I was with this person and I said, okay,

  357. write that person's name down, and write down every single

  358. thing that comes to your heart. And I said, do

  359. not think about this person. Feel your way through when

  360. you're thinking about this person, because your emotion is the

  361. bridge back to your belief. And that's what the Lord's after,

  362. because he wants to bring renewing of the mind, not

  363. just here but in the spirit of your mind, so

  364. that true transformation takes place. Are you with me? And

  365. so as we dug into this, then we invited Jesus

  366. into the first debt and we're like, Lord, show me

  367. the lies, because unforgiveness is hard only because of the lies.

  368. You believe.

  369. This is amazing.

  370. The sound effects, like, I mean, I gotta start paying

  371. these people to do that. So I'm having fun now, y'all.

  372. No tell them what will happen.

  373. But some weird fire alarm phone or something going off

  374. during worship. I'm like, that's why the fire's here. We

  375. got a fire. And so.

  376. Back to the forgiveness.

  377. Jesus comes in, and all of a sudden, this person

  378. found themselves in a whole different place, dealing with lies

  379. that were upholding unforgiveness in the current circumstances, but had

  380. nothing to do with them. So, in other words, your

  381. current circumstances are not the true source of your pain.

  382. They just simply triggered your belief system. So all of

  383. a sudden, all this healing's taking place. And then after

  384. they after they were renewed in the spirit of their

  385. mind from the lies, then that unforgiveness became effortless to forgive.

  386. Are you with me?

  387. The only way you live in total forgiveness is if

  388. you get rid of the stinking thinking, the lies you

  389. believe that's holding that thing in place because it's not truth.

  390. Are you all having fun yet? Don't get offended? Film

  391. I have yet to start.

  392. Isaiah six.

  393. I'm sorry. Yes, it's both John twelve. I believe in

  394. Isaiah he has blinded their eyes and hardened their lest

  395. they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand

  396. with their hearts. In turn, So once it say there's

  397. a blinding that and a hardening that comes over the heart,

  398. you know when it comes to.

  399. Spiritual sight. Everybody has spiritual sight. Are you with me?

  400. Just shake your head, Jesse, even if you don't know

  401. what I'm saying, No, because Hebrews clear, Hebrews is clear

  402. that we're to exercise our spiritual senses.

  403. So eyes, ears, knows, taste, and see. The Lord is good.

  404. All all of our natural senses parallel our spiritual senses.

  405. And you don't have to be a seer or see

  406. your prophet to perceive or see things. It just comes

  407. through a different pathway. You'll sense, feel, get an impression.

  408. It doesn't And and I want to make clear that

  409. that is no less important if the Lord's speaking to

  410. you through that way, as if somebody says, do you.

  411. See the Angel? Are you with me?

  412. Because in the spirit philled arena, we have a we

  413. have a tendency to grade gifting.

  414. And then we go, oh, they're spiritual. Well you know what.

  415. Paul Kane was prophesying his butt off while he was

  416. getting hammered and living in a homosexual lifestyle.

  417. But his gift worked.

  418. That's that that That is why I sound like a

  419. broken record and will sound like a broken record forever,

  420. because the gifts and callings are irrevocable, and God is

  421. not impressed with the gift he gave you. Don't be

  422. so quiety. But David had a seer name Goad, and

  423. it was said many times, like in First Samuel nine

  424. to eleven, when they went to draw water, they asked

  425. for a seer.

  426. David had.

  427. Goad. Amos was a seer, Idoh Hannah, and I asaf

  428. he Man. Anybody knew he Man was actually in the

  429. Bible before it was a cartoon and juthan. But all

  430. of these guys there were prophets and seers together Isaiah

  431. twenty nine ten. For the Lord has poured out on

  432. you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes,

  433. namely the prophets, and he's covered your heads, namely the seers. Y'all,

  434. it's so important in this hour that we have clear sight,

  435. that we don't allow the things to harden our heart

  436. to blind us to it.

  437. At first, John.

  438. Says that if we have hatred in our heart towards

  439. our brother, we're not walking in the light, but we're

  440. actually walking in darkness.

  441. It's set right here.

  442. Whoever says he's in the light and hates his brother

  443. is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother, abides in

  444. the light and in him, there is no cause for stumbling.

  445. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and

  446. walks in the darkness and does not know where he

  447. is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. So,

  448. if you want to improve your spiritual sight and you

  449. have understanding and you're seeing your path that you're called

  450. to walk on, make sure that you're not holding on

  451. to unforgiveness.

  452. I said this first service.

  453. If all I could do when I'm doing a prier

  454. ministry session with someone is to simply get them to

  455. forgive totally and wherever they need to repent, repent. That

  456. is the very foundation of inner healing. And I can

  457. promise you that if you live in total forgiveness, eighty

  458. five to ninety percent of your issues would instantly disappear, guaranteed, guaranteed.

  459. But the problem is we tend to numb out in

  460. order to deal with things that we feel like aren't

  461. worth forgiving because we're convinced they're not going to change.

  462. There's a way that seems right on a man, but

  463. in the end it leads to what to death. There

  464. there is such an invitation in this hour to know

  465. the Lord and experience him in ways that we've never

  466. even dreamed of, because he's a good father, longing to

  467. walk with his kids. He loves you exactly the way

  468. you are, even when you feel like others around you

  469. may not. He loves you exactly the way you are.

  470. But he loves you too much to leave you this

  471. way because he's looking at Jesus, and he looks at you.

  472. And you're in him, and he goes yep. Let me.

  473. Anybody feel the pruning lately? Be thankful because without chastening,

  474. then you're not his son or daughter who feels like

  475. they can't get away with anything. Give thanks, Be thankful,

  476. I'm serious, Be thankful that you can't get away with

  477. anything that's evidence of your salvation and that he's dealing

  478. with you. So for the last or for the next

  479. two hours, I want to focus on blind spots. Just joking.

  480. Blind spots are caused from strongholds in your life that

  481. you're completely blinded to and how it affects your life.

  482. I think I've said this recently, but who do you

  483. have in your life right now that you trust enough

  484. to say, Hey, what do you believe you're seeing that

  485. I'm not seeing in my life how many of you

  486. legitimately have a relationship like that, and you're genuinely willing

  487. to open up to that degree.

  488. Of vulnerability.

  489. Remember, not that long ago I talked about the difference

  490. between transparency and vulnerability. Right, I can be completely transparent

  491. about my past life and yet not have any vulnerability

  492. with the person in front of me.

  493. Big difference.

  494. But now if I'm transparent about my life and then

  495. I'm vulnerable about what I'm going through in the moment,

  496. then that's different. And I'm not saying that you open

  497. your heart to the entire world.

  498. That's not wisdom. But I'm saying that you have to

  499. have people.

  500. You need people at least one person in your life

  501. that can come to you and say, hey, you're acting

  502. like a moron.

  503. Stop. It may not be that harsh or direct, but

  504. you get the point, right. But like.

  505. They come to you and say, Now, spouses may do

  506. that and they'll get away with a little bit more,

  507. but for the you know. But but somebody comes to

  508. you and just says that you really trust.

  509. I remember Danny Silk.

  510. He came to Chris Vallatin one time and said, hey,

  511. I don't have a lot of time to talk about this,

  512. but you're prideful and you're arrogant, and you're hurting people.

  513. And I remember Chris years ago sharing this story and

  514. he was offended with Danny for saying that at first,

  515. but then you know, he shares the whole story, and

  516. Danny was right, and he was had a blind spot,

  517. didn't see it. Y'all, there are things in this hour

  518. as we are being pressed, pruned, shaken. Anything that can

  519. be shaken is going to be shaken. And we gotta

  520. have covenant friendships. We gotta have covenant friendships. When when

  521. I meet, when we have elder meetings, i may be

  522. the overseer, but I'm an equal among the table. I

  523. don't tell them what to do, and we open up

  524. to each other and pray for each other and talk

  525. about each other's process because it's there's no lone rangers.

  526. And especially with everything that's been going on in our

  527. own backyard and everything we're processing and going through, I

  528. promise you for those that have had some tune ups

  529. because of the flood and the trauma and everything, you're

  530. gonna find some more layers as you process through this.

  531. It's the way that trauma works, and you're not doing

  532. anything wrong by dealing with trauma. Like you're not a

  533. bad person for having trauma. Does that make sense, Like,

  534. don't feel like you're sinning and you're a horrible person

  535. because you have trauma to process, Allow the grief, Allow

  536. the grief to come up, give voice to that loss,

  537. because grief is unspoken loss. But a Greek word for stronghold,

  538. which I'm not going to pronounce in this moment because

  539. I'm not going to do a great job of it,

  540. but it means a fortress or strong defense. I remember

  541. having a dream one time and I was in this

  542. yard and there was a castle, and I'm guarding this

  543. castle and I have a sword, and the dream zooms.

  544. Out where I see myself at one point.

  545. And by the way, when you have a dream and

  546. it's from the Lord and it zooms out and then

  547. you see yourself third person, there's one of.

  548. Two things going on.

  549. One there can be disassociation and you don't want to

  550. deal with that, so you pull out of it. Two,

  551. it can be the Lord trying to give you a

  552. different perspective of that situation that he's trying to deal

  553. with you on and in this dream, I'm guarding a

  554. stronghold and there's woods all around me, and I'm literally

  555. on guard. I'm like circling because it was like a circle.

  556. I'm circling this area to keep people out of this castle.

  557. And if you don't know what that means, you're a dull,

  558. don't plan. That's what Bob Jones would tell people. But

  559. I was guarding this stronghold. We guard our strongholds. You

  560. know how I can prove it the very moment someone

  561. pokes that stronghold, say hello to my little friend, and

  562. all of a sudden, a sudden, you got your sword

  563. out because you're gonna guard that stronghold because that stronghold

  564. has helped you, it's protected you, it's kept you safe.

  565. Nobody else was there when this stronghold was there, and

  566. you don't need anybody. You just need this stronghold. Don't

  567. you touch this stronghold and you end up with a

  568. ten ton response to a one ton issue, and that

  569. sh that you have a stronghold that needs to come down,

  570. and you cannot pull that thing down yourself.

  571. You've got to petition the Lord to pull it down.

  572. Blind spots, these strongholds are not demons, but mental fortresses

  573. built by lies that cause cycles of defeat. This causes

  574. blind spots on our walk. It blinds our vision to

  575. be able to walk with the Lord, hinders our ability

  576. to truly submit and walk in righteousness. If you have

  577. been spending so much of your life guarding your heart,

  578. I want to exhort you.

  579. To let Jesus have a shot at it.

  580. If you're exhausted from guarding your heart, I want to

  581. encourage you, let the Lord try it. If you're exhausted

  582. from looking over your shoulders constantly thinking no one has

  583. your back, Let the Lord have your back. He's your

  584. rear guard. The time is short, y'all. There is urgency

  585. for us to grow up, to set childish things away,

  586. because we need maturity in this hour. I don't know

  587. about y'all, but as the Lord seems to be lighting

  588. a fresh fire with us, I want us to steward it,

  589. don't I don't want for it to go out and

  590. then we need to be revived again. I want to

  591. be revived and stay revived so that we can burn

  592. bright for him. John eight thirty one to thirty two.

  593. So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him.

  594. If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

  595. and you will know the truth, and the truth will

  596. set you free. This Greek word a lithia that has

  597. translated truth. It's not merely truth is spoken truth of

  598. an idea, but reality, sincerity, truth, and moral sphere, divine

  599. truth revealed to man's straightforwardness. So, in other words, reality.

  600. So where's your spiritual sight twisted up this morning that's

  601. caused your reality to be skewed? Where are the shadows

  602. that are cast onto your eyes keeping you from being

  603. able to see truth clearly this morning? Let me reread

  604. this another way, So Jesus said to the Jews who

  605. had believed in him, if you abide in my words,

  606. you're truly my disciples, and you will know the reality,

  607. and the reality will set you free. So the enemy

  608. comes in twist truth. He twist reality, and you're walking

  609. in darkness with a twisted perspective of reality. You invite

  610. him in, You get the deception and the lies ripped out,

  611. and all of a sudden your reality changes. Wait a minute,

  612. they were just doing the best they can. Hey, folks,

  613. do you need to forgive mom or Dad?

  614. More? Than likely. They were probably doing the best they

  615. can with the tools they had. Does it negate.

  616. If they send against you, No, but they were legitimately

  617. doing the best they could. There's one of many things

  618. that my wife is amazing at, and one is putting

  619. herself in other people's shoes. My wife is the first

  620. to put herself in somebody else's shoes to try to

  621. see their perspective from where they're coming from from way

  622. quicker than I am. I live by the theme rebuke

  623. first and ask questions later. So where are you this morning?

  624. Where are you having a hard time seeing clearly? See

  625. these I didn't need these stupid things that long ago.

  626. I'm getting a little age on me and I get

  627. a little clearer the blurriness. Where are you blurry in

  628. your sight this morning?

  629. Do you understand? Whether we like it or not?

  630. And I'm including myself into this. Every single person in

  631. your life. God knew was going to be in your life,

  632. it says an Acts seventeen. He orchestrated the very moment

  633. in history you would live and the boundaries of your

  634. life everywhere you would step. Your destiny is in people,

  635. It's not in something right. How are you viewing those

  636. around you. Are you only viewing them in the light

  637. of where they're at? Are you also viewing them in

  638. the light of where they're headed, so that you can

  639. continually call out the gold in them and say, Hey,

  640. this isn't who you are, this is what you're called

  641. to be, this is where you're headed. That's healthy accountability, y'all. Hey,

  642. stop this. He dealt with this. The blood speaks a

  643. better word. This is where we're headed because there's no

  644. condemnation in Christ. Isn't that good news? It's impossible to

  645. be condemned, if you know Jesus. I mean, yeah, that's

  646. worth a clap. What'd you say? Was that another good

  647. ad lib? Like when Santana who was here? When Santana's

  648. little boy that one time years ago, I said, when

  649. you get squeezed and the Lord's squeezing you, I said,

  650. what's gonna come out? And it was dead silent, and

  651. all of a sudden, you hear this little two year

  652. old voice, go co ca.

  653. And we were live streaming.

  654. Remember that Santana were yet Oh dude, I was in stitches.

  655. Oh of course, the rest of the room was too. Okay,

  656. I'm going to begin to land. This for those of

  657. you that are hungry or wanting to watch football. I

  658. feel your pain, but I'm going to be packing up

  659. my jeep after this, and I will be sitting in

  660. a deer blind this evening.

  661. And if you're not excited for me, repent now.

  662. I'm putting Ephesians one sixteen to twenty three. I do

  663. not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in

  664. my prayers, that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

  665. the Father of Glory, may give you the spirit of

  666. wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of him. Having

  667. the eyes of your hearts enlightened. And that word light

  668. and literally is the Greek word is photos, which literally

  669. we get the word photo. What happens with the camera, well,

  670. not these phones, but the regular cameras. What happens that

  671. lens opens up for light, that the eyes of your

  672. hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope

  673. to which he has called you. What are the riches

  674. of his glorious inheritance in the saints, And what is

  675. the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe

  676. according to the working of his great might, That he

  677. worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead

  678. and seated him at his right hand in heavenly places,

  679. far above all rule and authority, and power and dominion,

  680. and above every name that is name. Not only in

  681. this age but also in the one to come. He

  682. has put all things under his feet and gave him

  683. as head over all things, to the church, which his body.

  684. The fullness of Him who fills all in all his heart.

  685. Is that the eyes of your heart.

  686. Would be enlightened, that his light would penetrate you, because

  687. you are children of light. And as his light penetrates

  688. you on a deeper level, then you actually begin to

  689. radiate greater light, because what you abide in you release.

  690. I had somebody come up first service and say, I

  691. just it's so hard.

  692. I feel people and if they're full of anxiety, and

  693. then I feel their anxiety then and I end up

  694. taking that anxiety with me. That's called burden bearing, and

  695. it is a realm of discerning of spirits. It's just

  696. that when that happens, you're doing that in your soul

  697. and not your spirit. Because he said, come to me,

  698. all you who are heavy laden, and I will give

  699. you rest. And so when we're burden bearing, bearing one

  700. another's burdens. That means when we recognize somebody's burden, we go, oh, hey,

  701. this is already taken care of.

  702. Here you go Jesus.

  703. And so when I'm talking to someone and I'm picking

  704. up and discerning what they're carrying, I internally am saying, Lord,

  705. I just lift their anxiety to you. Right now, Lord,

  706. I lift this because it's not my job to carry it.

  707. The job of saviors taken. So for those of you

  708. that are really sensitive, highly sensitive burden bearers, it's not

  709. your job. What holds those burdens on you is because

  710. you begin to identify them, identify with them because they

  711. are familiar to the things that you've personally struggled with.

  712. For where your treasure is there, your heart will be

  713. also guard your heart, for out of it flow the

  714. issues of life. For those of you that were taking notes,

  715. there's eight blind spots that I would have gone over

  716. if I had another hour and a half. Don't worry,

  717. I'm closing it. Some of y'all just started getting real nervous,

  718. But it was pride. Pride's a blind spot we can't

  719. see because of our pride, The pride of life fear, unbelief, lies, anger, control,

  720. doctrine right in the last days, seducing spirits, doctrines of demons,

  721. they blind you to the truth, and unforgiveness. Those aren't

  722. everything that blinds you, but those are eight important blind spots. Again, pride, fear, unbelief, lies, anger, control, doctrine,

  723. and unforgiveness. Why do I say anger because it says

  724. that the anger of man does.

  725. Not produce the righteousness of God. Be angry and don't sin.

  726. So y'all go to the Great physician. Let him do

  727. an eye check. Is it twenty twenty or you got glaucoma?

  728. You need him to do some spiritual eye surgery. It's

  729. okay to have a little sense of humor, y'all. In fact,

  730. if you have eye issues right now, like legitimate eye issues,

  731. would you stand up. I want to pray for you

  732. as we're closing, And if I could get Micah, is

  733. Mike ish still here or is he gone? Can I

  734. get you on the keys? And can I get the

  735. prayer team to come up?

  736. Mike is here? All right?

  737. If you need healing over your eyes, raise your hand, okay,

  738. all right? So Father, right now, and the mighty name

  739. of Jesus. Lord, I ask that you would heal spiritual

  740. sight and natural sight. Lord, I ask right now for

  741. those that have physical eyesight issues. Father, would you touch

  742. their eyesight right now, and the Mighty name of Jesus,

  743. would you remove any spirit of infirmity that would be

  744. hindering them from walking in health and having the sight

  745. that you've called them to have. Lord, right now, all

  746. infirmity lift in Jesus' name. All eye infirmity lift in

  747. Jesus' name right now, And Lord, I asked that you

  748. would heal their eyes. Lord, heal their physical eyes right now,

  749. the Mighty name of Jesus. Now, what I want you

  750. to do is check if you can, if you're in

  751. a place where you can check your eyesight real quick,

  752. check it and then wave at me if there's been

  753. a if there's a change, or or you're healed. Anybody

  754. you feel a difference, okay, put your hand up high.

  755. If there's a difference, okay, have you still feel blind?

  756. Does all get out? Put your hand up. We're gonna

  757. pray for you too. So Lord, we're praying again. Father,

  758. right now, the Mighty name of Jesus, I ask for

  759. physical healing.

  760. Of the eyes.

  761. Lord, right now, in the mighty name of Jesus, Lord,

  762. I asked that you would heal their eyes. In fact, Lord,

  763. I specifically asked that you would take trauma that came

  764. through the eyegate. Lord, take the trauma out of them

  765. that came through the eye gate. And Jesus' name, Lord,

  766. right now, heal remove the trauma. Lord, remove the trauma

  767. from the one that says, I don't want to see anymore.

  768. I don't want to see this pain anymore. I can't

  769. deal with this anymore. Lord, heal that in the mighty

  770. name of Jesus. Lord, right now, all over the room,

  771. I asked that you would just move in a mighty way,

  772. that you would glorify the name of Jesus. Lord, that

  773. you would get your reward for what you paid for

  774. by your stripes. We are healed, and healing is the

  775. children's bread. Lord, I asked that you would raise the faith,

  776. that you would raise our expectation for what you.

  777. Want to do in this hour and in this moment.

  778. In the mighty name of Jesus and Lord, right now,

  779. I ask that you would begin to touch hearts from

  780. the things that you brought up to these people. During

  781. the time of blind spots, Lord, that you would begin

  782. to bring healing over places they need to release debt

  783. and forgive for or that you would be just that

  784. you would cause your extravagant grace to pour out in

  785. this moment Lord, and earlier in the in the service.

  786. I don't they could be gone by now. My preaching

  787. drives people away at times.

  788. No, I'm planned.

  789. I felt like somebody was struggling with nerve damage and

  790. it manifests where like you like, your nerves feel like

  791. they're on fire, and it was and it was is

  792. that who's that? Well, there you go and does does it?

  793. Does it affect your legs too? That's specifically where I

  794. felt it. So Father, right now, in the name of Jesus,

  795. I just thank you for bringing complete healing over Britney's nerves.

  796. Lord, and I speak to the grief and the buried.

  797. Trauma, Lord to come up now and release and Jesus'

  798. name trauma, release her nervous system right now, and the

  799. mighty name of Jesus. And I thank you Lord right now,

  800. right there, right there, right there, Lord, heal, heal, heal, heal,

  801. Lord more more, Lord more, Lord, fill her up. Lord,

  802. right now. I ask for a baptism of your love

  803. into that place, right now, just your fiery love, right now, Lord,

  804. that you would just do spiritual surgery over her in

  805. this moment. Healer nerves, Lord, and I just say again

  806. to you, it's safe to come back. It's safe to

  807. come back. So come home, come home, Come home. You

  808. feel that over your heart, you feel that over your heart,

  809. there's blue light. The Holy Spirit's ministering to your heart

  810. right now. Lord, I thank you, Holy Spirit. I bless

  811. what you're doing. In the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, Lord, healer, Lord,

  812. mark her, mark her bloodlined. Make a name for yourself. Lord,

  813. then Jesus Mighty name. Okay, y'all. If you need prayer,

  814. come on up. They just opened right back up. If

  815. you need prayer, come on up. If you need to

  816. linger for a couple of minutes in the presence of

  817. the Lord, feel free to we bless y'all your loved

  818. Thank you, it's been it's been amazing. Thank you, Jesus.

  819. Amen who well.

  820. I trust that you were blessed by the Lord today

  821. and we look forward to seeing you online next Sunday.

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