Embracing God As Your Father!

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

We hope you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter. Lisa,

not my Lisa, that Lisa. I know it's not easy.

We were when we flew back this past Tuesday from England.

Cole took off to Paris by himself, and I'm I

was having a hard time letting him go this trip.

And one day he was at a church and wanted

to stay and pray, pray at this church. And we

were going to go to the High Claire Palace where

they did doubt and abbey for all these ladies. And

because I if I would have said that about the men,

you would have looked at me like a deer in

a headlight. And and he wanted to stay back, and

I said, no, you tell him, we're we're going to

that church. We're getting him. He's going with us at

Lista's like Justin, he's not a little boy anymore. You

can't tell him what to do. And next thing you know,

I'm flooded with tears running down my face. Driving on

the wrong side of the car, on the wrong side

of the street. It's not easy. I know, it's not

my goodness. Okay, Oh, one last thing. If you're on

the worship team, don't forget about the worship fellowship luncheon

at our house right after service. So musicians, singers, don't

forget about that. Yeah, did you forget? Yes? The wife,

the elder's wife can come, all right. Kylie did a

phenomenal job last week on the Orphan Spirit. And I

had a few things brewing in me while we were out,

and I thought I was actually going to end up

landing in a different place. But I kind of want

to follow somewhat in that same vein, and I want

to talk to you about embracing God as your father.

And we're living in the most fatherless generation right now.

And a big reason why the church is in the

mess that it's been globally is because you have leaders

that are orphans raising up orphans. And hopefully that'll make

a little more sense here in a couple of minutes.

If it doesn't, just smile and pretend like you understand.

Are you all awake? Thus? Saith? Frank? Where's Frank? Oh?

Frank was here at first servers? You know, the Bible

uses the term father for God approximately one hundred and

sixty five times in the four Gospels and over forty

times in the Pauline Letters. But it's interesting in the

Old Covenant, Father is used fifteen times total in the

Old Covenant, and a lot of times in the Old

Covenant where you see the term sons of God. Actually,

every time you see the term sons of God in

the Old Covenant, it is actually referred to the benai Elohem,

like in Genesis six, the sons of God. There may

be there may be a couple references, but it's not

baniol Ohem. Every time you see baniol Ohem, it refers

to the sons of God which came down on Mount

Herman and took the daughters of men in marriage, and

then you have the offspring, the Nephelum. Anybody watched The

House of David that series, I have to be honest

with you. After I learned how they did their camera

trick to make that guy was seven foot two, they

made him eleven foot tall in the film, Goliath was

about nine foot six. He wasn't eleven foot tall, so

they exaggerated his height a little bit. But they have

found some fifteen I mean King Aug's bedstead was fifteen

feet iron bedstead. I mean, he's just a little bit

bigger than my bed, not much, and but it's but

they do a camera angle, so I had I took

pictures while we were in England. I made Lisa and

Cole stand back and I got up on a ledge

and I did my camera just right where it made

me look like I was four feet taller than them.

I felt very proud of myself for a moment. But

the reality is something very intentional shifts in the New Covenant.

The very first thing God wants us to know is

that we are to bond with him as his children.

We are to have an intimate connection with him as

our father. And coming out of a fatherless generation who

came out of a broken home just out of curiosity,

whose parents are still married or even if they're past,

they stayed married until they graduated. So about that's more

than I would I ah, wow, that's more than I thought.

And when you grow up in a broken home and

you have, especially if you've had you know different abuse

that took place in your home, the hardest thing in

the world for you, honestly is to feel anything when

you think of God as your father. I remember being

seventeen years old. I'd just given my life to Jesus.

And I was in my bedroom right before bed one night,

and I was praying, and I said, Lord, I can

relate to you as my savior. I feel a connection there.

I can relate to you because my friend. I feel

that friendship with you, Jesus. I said, But God, when

I say Father, I am numb. I don't feel anything.

And so I began this journey of recovering what Father

really means and beginning to establish a connection with him. Y'all,

you will never step into a place of maturation. You'll

never grow up in Jesus, You'll never come off the

milk and onto the meat and actually be in a

place where you can be considered a teacher. If you're

still trying to figure out if he really loves you, well,

he really take care of me, you know. Scripture says you,

wherever your treasures are, your heart will be also. So

when we sow physically, you know, so financially, so resources,

so relationships where our treasure is, we're leading our heart.

The orphan spirit operates out of insecurity and jealousy. The

spirit of sonship functions out of love and acceptance. You understand,

jealousy is ugly. Jealousy is the fear that someone's going

to take what you have, and it's a nasty thing.

Jealousy can lead to. Just ask Saul, because he knew

as long as David was alive that his bloodline was done.

In fact, RT Kendall says this about jealousy. Jealousy oftentimes

manifests as fear or resentment of another's success. See, you're

never gonna celebrate another person's victory if you're too worried

that they're gonna take yours. And so you're gonna live

as an orphan rather than a son. And you'll never

be a spiritual father or mother if you don't first

learn sonship, because you have to become a son and

a daughter before you mature into a spiritual father and mother.

Speaking against the person going on at vendetta to hurt

their credibility, them from being admired, or actually engaging in

a conspiracy to kill their public image, and this is

all out of jealousy. I shared a post I want

actually I didn't read this for service. I want to

read this to you. I don't post a whole lot

on social, because when you post on social it's apparently

an invitation for everyone and their uncle to tell you

what they think about your life. And so I've I've

grown in wisdom a little bit to uh uh, you know,

not post as much. But I did post. And this

was from Jeremiah Johnson. Don't you crash on me? My

app crashed? Hallelujah. Here we go. Wow, apparently we got

some demon grimblings in here because it keeps crashing. Thus

sayth Justin, I bet you I can fix it. Show

me Jack with my laptop. I'm gonna have you. In

Jesus' name. I love you so much, So here we go.

This is what he said when an older generation of

David's refused to address sexual abuse with justice, it forces

a generation of Absaloms to take matters into their own

hands with vengeance and occupy positions of influence and authority

that God never gave them. Both generations were wrong. I

continue to pray for Godly leadership to emerge with justice

to address the abuses of our day. But I must

also continue to warn against a rising Absalom generation and

who is blinded by their desire for vengeance and not

doing the Lord's work. We're living in very sad, dangerous

and sobering times in the body of Christ. There's so

much tears, tongues in travail needed to discern rightly in

this hour we need to We need so much less

social media and much more carpet time crying out between

the porch and the altar. You know, I was pondering

some of these things the other day, and you understand

when you come under attack from a Leviathan spirit, the

gateway till Leviathan spirit is pride. He's the king of Pride,

and so then he's also the twisting and fleeing spirit.

So he'll come in, twist what you said and tell

it twisted to other people, and then flee. And you

don't have half the time, you don't even know. The

Absalom spirit always comes in from a father wound, and

the Absalom spirit will always attack fathers. Are y'all with me?

Paul said, don't be naive of the schemes of the enemy.

We don't focus our time on darkness and inferior power,

but we also, in the same breath, do not want

to be naive of the traps or the schemes that

he sets y'all with me, so I'm glad you're all

are with me. The orphan spirit is jealous of the

success of his brothers. The mature son is committed to

the success of his brothers. You understand that there's a

huge difference between being in management and being a leader.

Bosses will push people, but leaders will get out front

and pull them. So leaders will cast a vision and

cast a mission and say, hey, the train's about to leave,

let's go. And those that don't get on the train,

it's not the leader's fault because they're focused on what

God's called them to. And the one thing that we

as a leadership will never ever ever let go of

is the very mission of cross Kingdom. We are on

a mission to see the greater vision over this region happen.

And I don't care, come hell or high water, I'm

going and I'm gonna have my sword out, and I'm

gonna have fasting and prayer and pleading and humility and love.

But the train's going, y'all, And we have to understand

the times and seasons we're in. We have to understand

what time is it, because seasons change, times change, and

we can't be naive because things are accelerating in this hour.

Things are accelerating significantly, and I think time is way

shorter than what we recognize. The orphan spirit serves God

to earn the Father's love. The mature son serves God

out of a sense of divine acceptance and favor. The

orphan spirit, he tries to medicate his deep internal alienation

through physical stimulation. The mature son walks in the joy,

in the presence of the Lord for comfort. So what

are you looking to to comfort? If you're not leaning

in and trusting God as your father, then your comfort's

gonna be addictions, whether it's food, drugs, sex, pornography, you

name it. You're going to numb out through these vices

because you don't feel comfortable coming to the Father and

actually getting comfort from him as your dad. The orphan

spirit is driven by the need for success. Let me

tell you something. One of the most dangerous things in

the world is if you crave spiritual success. If you

have a need you have to have success, that points

to an orphaned spirit. Because you're over here trying to

prove something, and if you don't deal with that, the

only thing you're going to prove is a train wreck.

It success God's determined our God's definition of success is

not our definition period. If he tells you to go

to work at Walmart, be a greeter, oh sorry. If

he tells you to go to Walmart, be a greeter,

guess what. Then you go to Walmart and you become

the best greeter Walmart's ever seen. Maybe we can praise

some more cashiers in there. Anyways, a little side rabbit there, okay.

But the spirit leads the mature son into his calling

and mission. The orphan spirit uses people as objects to

fulfill their goals. So all of a sudden, now people

around you, it's no longer about relationship over assignment. It's

about what can you do? And you use and abuse,

and then you have spiritual abuse kind of looks like

this one aspect of spiritual abuse as well. The Lord

told me, using God as a trump card to manipulate

people's behavior for your own advantage. Spiritual abuse is a

real thing, y'all, and it's in the church and God

is dealing with it. This is why I say all

the time, especially for those that went through the class,

we don't say thus saith the Lord. We say, this

is what I believe the Lord's saying, we don't prophisy marriages, funerals, babies.

I don't do prophetic dating, none of that nonsense. No, sir,

it's abuse, it's manipulation. It's an orphan trying to get

its way. But mature sons serve people to bless the kingdom.

Let me tell you something. You want resources to flow

in your life. I'm talking resources, not finances. Resources relate.

If you want all of these things to flow, if

you want to prosper, this is how you have to

hold all of your resources open handed. It's all his period.

You want to see finances flow through your life, then

you better understand. Don't don't submit to a spirit of mammon,

which is the love of money, the love of the world.

You don't submit to that. We live open handed, and

to the degree that you live open handed is going

to determine how much you can be entrusted with. And

I promise you you're not going to go very far if

you're over here hoarding and protecting because you did this.

You got here. Nobody helped me. I pulled myself up

by my own bootstrap. Nobody was there. I did this,

Come on, I remember that I thought it was my

will that stopped in the less station that I went

through as a kid, because I remember the moment at

that age when I said, something's not right here, this

is done. I'm done, and I never went to my

uncle's house again. And then the Lord showed me years later,

I'm the one that strengthened you in that moment to

make that choice. Every good and perfect gift comes down

from the Father of lights. You know why you haven't

received the answer to some of your prayers because he's

not gonna give you something he's got to turn around

and judge you for. So he's waiting for you to

come into a place of maturity as a son and daughter,

so then he can give you that and you can

actually stewart that and not bring judgment upon yourself with

a gift. And then some prayers haven't been answered because

he wants to protect you, and you need to stop

pouting like little kids over the fact. Well, I it'sked

him for five years for this. Well some of that stuff.

Do you like that? That's probably how we sound, you know,

and it gets up there. But the reality is we

need to thank the Lord for unanswered prayers. At times, y'all.

He is good. He's better than we think. He is sovereign,

he really is. I never thought i'd see Lisa again.

I didn't. There was like a year and a half

when back when we were like nineteen years old. I

didn't say our twenty something like that. I hadn't seen

her for at least a year and a half. I

was trying to date this other girl named Leah. She

is anyways, don't need to expound on that. That goes

south in a hurry. I just saw the I just

saw my grave in front of me. See even a

fool's considered wise when he doesn't open his mouth. And anyways,

all of a sudden she comes back. I get a

phone call out of the blue in August of nineteen

ninety eight, and I pick up the phone out here, Hey, dork, Hello,

I didn't even know who it was. And I was

down here in October Halloween weekend in nineteen ninety eight.

We started dating, got engaged in March of ninety nine,

and married in December ninety nine. And that was over

twenty five years ago. So yep. And if you can

be in full time ministry together with a church and

a nonprofit and not kill each other. You got a

pretty good relationship and that right jayres John, you didn't

kill him, did you? If you're watching online, I love you, John. Okay,

moving on for I get in trouble. The orphan spirit

repels their children. The spirit of sonship attracts their children.

The orphan spirit has issues with anger and fits of rage.

The spirit of sonship rests in the father's ability to

control and guide their future. So in other words, Lord,

I trust you. Any door you shut, no man can open.

Any any door you open, no man can shut. And Jesus,

I thank you for closed doors, and I thank you

for open doors. I thank you that the world doesn't

revolve here. It's not the gospel of Me, it's the

gospel of Jesus. The orphan spirit is always in competition

with others. The spirit of sonship is always blessing others. Friday,

I was roaming about the Kerr County and sewing into

some things and blessing people.

We were and.

I heard the Lord say very clearly, we're in a

season of sewing. So pay attention. We're in massive transition

right now. Anybody notice things are accelerating like the moment

you kind of settle into a season, it's like whoa, whoa, whoa,

what's that? Oh, it's a new season. Wait a minute,

I just settled into this thing yesterday. But understanding the

times and seasons, it's Ecclesiastes chapter three. There's a time

for this, and a time for this, and a time

for this and a time for this. And Ecclesiastes three

is a hallmark chapter if you want to have a

mantle of understanding, like the Sons of Izakar. And it's

a time to sew. We're in massive acceleration in the

body of Christ. We're beginning to see an awakening on

the college campuses. God's beginning to move cross denominationally, and

we're at a tipping point of this move of God

that we have been tarrying for forever that's been prophesied

over one hundred years ago. There's even a prophecy out

right now, Saint MALKI I believe it is, and it's

about Peter the Roman, the next pope potentially, and it's

a very interesting prophecy. I can't I can't say that

I can get behind it fully because I haven't studied

or prayed into it much. But there was a prophecy

by an old Catholic mystic. I don't remember exactly what year,

but essentially that eleven hundred that this next pope would

be Peter the Roman, and the Roman Empire would implode

under him. He would be the last pope we'll see.

But I know things are getting interesting. I know that

when we started this new season of election cycle that

we we would absolutely see end times things happening at

an accelerated rate. And we are. Things are increasing, birth

pains are increasing, and I happen to believe that we're

going to rule and rain for a thousand years literally literally.

If you're a millennialist and you think that's metaphoric, I'm sorry,

but I want my money back. The last comparison the

orphan spirit receives, and I wasn't trying to, uh take

from the orphan spirit teaching last week, Kylie, the orphan

spirit receives their primary identity through material possessions, their physical

appearance and activities. You know, it's like all the selfies

bam bam, bam bam with a glory app so that

way you look thirty five years younger than what you are,

and then it's you. And then if you're on the

dating app dating website, you get there and you're like,

what the heck just happened? What is that? Oh? That

was me with the Glory app. The spirit of sonship

has their identity grounded in their sonship and their father's affirmation.

So in other words, y'all, we're here for the audience

of one. Do things in secret, and let God be

the one to promote you and bless you openly trust him.

It says no good thing will he withhold from those

who walk up rightly. So, like Jeremiah, ask for the

ancient path, ask for the highway of holiness. Say Lord,

show me your way so I can actually know you.

We've lived far too long with a with a Western

spirituality that knows a whole lot about God but doesn't

know him very well. We can tell you all sorts

of things about Him, but there's not a whole lot

of people moving in the power of God. And I'm

telling you right now we're entering into a time whereas

you call on your God and I'm gonna call on mine.

And the one that answers by fire, he's God. And

if you're an orphan. You're not gonna have that boldness

on you because you're still trying to figure out whether

or not you're actually forgiven. Does he really love me

or does he just tolerate me? In fact, a real

sign of maturity is when you fall flat on your

face and you do something really stupid, and you hop

back up and you go, Lord, thank you or forgive

me for doing that, and I thank you that I'm forgiven,

and hole in you and you start walking back in

the same measure of love and affection and affirmation with

him as you did before you bit the dust. Because

the orphan is gonna go, oh no, oh no, I

got to hurried up and go do a bunch of

works so I can work my place, work myself back

into that place of intimacy with the Lord, because I

blew it. Come on, we've all been there. We've all

been tempted to start trying to do things for the Lord,

thinking somehow we'll get a little more favor from him,

sadd Grifthian six eighteen. And I will be a father

to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me,

says the Lord, Almighty man. The disciples the first thing

they said, Jesus teach us to pray, and he says,

what our father. The very first thing you gotta nail

down step one is that you are a son and

a daughter. Now you're no longer an orphan.

Your prayers.

Are going to go from pleading and begging to thankfulness

and praise, even before it happens, because all of a sudden,

now you're connected to God as your father, not just

as a friend or a savior or someone who will

help you when you screw up. All of a sudden,

now your relationship goes from a transactional relationship to actually

a relationship of abiding and resting and trusting and feeling

the fullness of joy and Him, because the creator of

the universe is smiling over you because you are in

him and He is in you. And then you can

be like David, charge the battlefield, tell Goliath to pound

sand and if his brothers want to talk, smack, I

got four more stones. Because they didn't have covenant with God.

You do.

So if the blood speaks a better word, and the

old covenant is inferior to the new covenant with what

we have with God, where's the slingshots today? Where's us

pouring water over stone and it gets set on fire.

Where's our heart posture? Like in the Psalms where he's

waiting for fire to fall on the morning sacrifice led

by a pillar of fire, And fast forward that pillar

of fire divides into tongues of fire, and all of

a sudden rest upon every single believer. There's so much

more for all of us. Do not be like them.

For your father knows what you need before you ask him. Y'all,

stop acting like orphans. Stop getting on social media pleading

and begging for everybody to fund your life. He has you.

He's a good father, he loves you. He's not gonna

withhold anything from you. I can set here for hours

and share testimonies of things. I prayed to the Lord privately,

never said a word to anyone, and he answered me.

I prayed for a vehicle for over a year because

we couldn't afford a second vehicle, never told a soul,

and a year later I have a vehicle given to me. Y'all,

he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek after you. Now,

let me give a cavea out for some of y'all.

Get your button a knot. There's nothing wrong with doing

like a GoFundMe for missions and stuff like that, So

don't please don't twist my words. If you have any complaints,

email my brother. He'll handle them for you. Are y'all?

Are y'all with me? Though? Because it's it's our heart posture?

God is faithful, remember open hands. Are you an orphan?

Or you a son or a daughter? Is he your father?

Or is he a taskmaster? Are you one hundred percent forgiven?

Does his blood speak a better word? Are we just

pretending that we've been forgiven? Are we pretending that Jesus

is the desire of the nations and he is inside

of us? I'm telling you, true authority only flows from

you understanding your identity in Him, And you'll never grow

up to be a sage in the kingdom if you

don't nail this sonship thing down, Because if you are

put into a position of influence among people, then you're

gonna reproduce after your own kind, and we're gonna have

another cycle of orphans as leaders, and then we're gonna

have a whole nother cycle of leaders getting exposed for

all this stuff because they don't go to their father

for comfort Isaiah sixty four to eight. But now, oh Lord,

you are our father. We are the clay. Susan did

the potter and the clay with the hand, and you

are our potter. We are all the work of your hand.

You know.

The beautiful thing is in the kingdom. You just get

to retake tests. It's called going around the mountain. Anybody

tired of going around the mountain on some of your tests.

Anybody think after about the fifth time around, somehow maybe

something is not right with your thinking. Maybe it's not

the Lord. You know, we while we were gone across

the pond. I'm telling you it was the stone cold

reality that my oldest son that he's not a kid anymore,

and I'm over here trying to parent him like he's

still We're It's like I told Lisa. Lisa and I

got in an argument. We're driving in that wrong side

of the car, wrong side of the road, and I'm

just over here going stay left, stay left, stay left,

stay left. Don't go into the right lane. You're gonna

have a head on And and and calls over at

some church praying, and he decides he's not gonna go

with us to the palace. I was like, yes, he's going,

I said, Lisa, text him, we're going to that church.

And he's get in the car and we're gonna have

a family day. And and Lisa's over there texting back

and forth. I gotta keep my eyes on the road

because the lanes about one tire with wider than the

vehicle there. And and she's over and then I hear

her go, fine, we're leaving. I said, no, we are not.

But I said it like this, No we are not.

And she goes, justin, you can't tell him what to do.

He's not a little boy anymore. And then I'm over

here grieving because my boy grew up. But wouldn't it

be weird if he was like, Dad, we wipe my butt, like,

acting like he was still a little kid. Dad, I

just went to the bathroom. Would you help me? Like,

wouldn't that be a little ridiculous, y'all? But that's what

we do with God. We I probably said, have eased

into that illustration a little bit more. Oh Lord help me.

But think about it, like we're over here. We expect

God to treat us like little children in so many

ways when we've been walking with him for ten or

fifteen years, and we freeze in an orphan moment to

where we're scared to do the wrong thing because he's

gonna punish us. And he's like, son, I trust you.

You're not a little boy anymore. And some of y'all

need to realize that he doesn't desire to treat you

like a five year old. He actually trusts you to

make some wise decisions because you've grown up. He knows

that he's at the end of all those decisions. And

sometimes you got a choice to make, and he's behind

either one of them because they're both righteous. Wouldn't he

be weird? Like my earlier illustration, my twenty year old

son comes to me, Dad just went to the bathroom.

Why are you telling me? Just like you're like, why

did he just do that? Illustration? Hebrews were in this

very place. The Hebrews were there, whoever what we're up,

whoever wrote the Book of Hebrews said, I have much

to tell you about about who Milkzedek, But you're a

heart of hearing. By now. You should be on meat

and teachers, but instead you're on milk. So I can't

tell you the deeper mysteries of the kingdom because you're

still sucking on a bottle, y'all. It's time for us

to grow up like It's time for us to stop

looking exactly the same way today two years from now.

It's time for us to grow up. It's time for

us to truly trust him as a good father and

to allow him to bring us into a greater revelation

of the abundant life in Jesus. It's time for us

to realize that he's not punishing us. Most of the time.

It's just us reaping what we sowd y'all. You don't

like your heart, you don't like your your harvest, change

your seeds. Don't blame him because orphans are victims too.

It's everybody else's fault. No self responsibility. Where a son says,

all right, Dad, what do you need done today? Let's

go do it together. All right, So I'm gonna I'm

gonna start the land. We're gonna land on time, no turbulence.

Maybe a couple more amazing illustrations if if the anointing

hits me right, but we'll see. But sons and daughters

live by the voice of the Lord. When we are

truly being fathered by God. We are literally it says,

as many are led by the spirit of God or

the sons of God, we're being led by His spirit.

And he doesn't always just say go here, go there.

Sometimes it's a nudge. I was in a session this

past week and I just had a little nudge too.

Venmo some funds to this person and without going into

any details or anything, that it was a mom and

a daughter, and I felt nudge to Venmo the mom

to take the daughter to go get her nails done.

And then I found out that the daughter, all the

week before, all she wanted to do was go get

her nails done. In the two days before, mom was

trying to figure out how to get her to go

get her nails done. And I said, isn't that amazing?

God even cares about your nails women. I figured I'd

have a whole lot more hallelujahs and amen from the women.

But even the small things. The father's heart towards David,

after the midst of adultery and murder, is I did

this for you. I did this, I pulled you out

of here, I did this, and I did this, And

had it not been enough, all you had to do

was ask me, and I would have given you more.

So y'all stop buying the lie of the enemy that

he's gonna withhold anything good that you need, because that's

a lie. No good thing is he gonna withhold from

you when you walk with him. My sheep hear my voice.

I know them, and they follow me. I give them

eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will

snatch them out of my hand. You deal with abandonment,

the fear of abandonment. That's your scripture. Nothing can pluck

you out of his hand. Nothing. My Father, who has

given them to me, is greater than all, and no

one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

I and the Father are one. So what is Jesus saying.

He's standing in front of the disciples and saying, do

you see my hands? Nothing can pull you out of them.

If we would spend more time beholding, abiding solitude and

just letting the reality of who He is with us

wash over us, so much of the nonsense that we

freak out about because the enemy is asked shadows on

these issues to make them twice as big as they

really are. I heard this, said the other day. You understand,

when it comes to spiritual warfare, God and Satan are

not in a fight. Y'all know that, right, not even

a contest. Satan's fight is with us. He's attacking the

one thing that he knows God holds dearly. And the

moment when we feel tempted to act like orphans, all

you gotta do is go back and look at the

cross that price was for you. And if the Father

has heaven go bankrupt and God becomes a man and

he pays that price, do you think getting your bills

paid is a big deal. Yeah. We work for such

temporal stuff so much of the time because we are

thinking in earthly terms and not heavenly, and then we're

getting earthly results. And then we're doing it with an

orphan mindset and our own strength, and then wondering why

we don't see Heaven fall down and explode over what

we're doing because we're doing it. We are acting like orphans,

and we're getting an orphan result. Genesis three, man bites

the dust man, begins to live their life based on

their perspective of good and evil, and no longer the

voice of the Father. Now they begin to live their

life based on of avoiding punishment, rejection, abandonment, fear of man,

fear of betrayal, fear of rejection, fear of loss. And

then they can't hear. They no longer hear the voice

of the Father. What did he do on the very

cusp of sin entering into humanity? What was the father's reaction?

He didn't burn the garden down. He came in the

same exact time and the cool of the day. Adam,

where are you? They were hiding, just like when we

get sent in our lives, we hide from church, we

hide from people that love us. We actually hide from

the one that wants to set us free, which makes

no sense. And then we sow our own fig leaves

of shame to cover our sin because we forgot that

we're actually a son and a daughter that's eternally forgiven

by the blood of Jesus, and that he was the

lamb slain before the foundations of the earth. He's dealt

with your sin, now he's dealing with righteousness. When we

live from the tree of knowledge of good and evil

rather than the voice of the Father, we become the

judge of what is right and wrong, and soul leads

us number two, living in the love and security of

the father. First on four, There's no fear in love.

Look at the person next to you and say, there's

no fear in love. So why do we try to

parent our kids with fear? Why do we use fear

to parent our kids? Why do we want them to fear? Listen?

God does not punish immaturity, He corrects it. He punishes

rebellion massive difference. He will punish rebellion, but he corrects immaturity.

Could you imagine I'm you know, Cole, he's like six'. Three,

Now i'm, like you're gonna listen to. Me but when

he was on his bicycle in the training wheels and

we take the training wheels off and he's riding his

bike and all of a sudden he falls over on the. Bicycle,

MAN i can't believe you. Fell get your butt, Up

now do it? Again and, no what do we do

as as as parents when our kid there they fall

off the bike because they're learning to do something they've

never done. Before we're, like, man that's, awesome let's do it.

Again and we father. Them we mother, them we encourage.

Them we don't break their spirit because they it's like

When peter, Says lord of, you command me to come. Out.

Listen he's the only disciple that had the hutzvah to

get out of the, boat, Right and he's walking To

jesus and it says the waves were, contrary but he

was walking to, Him and what's it say that says

all of a sudden he he starts to doubt why

because he would See jesus on the top of the,

wave and that he wouldn't see him between the. Waves

then he would see him on the top of the.

Wave and it's in our immaturity when we're between the

waves and we can't see him the way we, want

where he's actually establishing faith in that, moment because what

is seen is not. Faith faith is the vehicle to

get you. There and when you're on the top of the,

wave you don't need. Faith he's. There but when you're

between the waves and you're in the storm and the

other disciples are peeing their pants because they're scared to

death and you're on the, water do you Think jesus

was mad when he, Said, peter why'd you? Doubt, No he's,

like you were doing, amazing, man why'd you? Doubt he

wasn't angry at. Him but yet when we start doing

something new That he's called us, to when we, fumble we,

fall we mess, up something doesn't go. Right we're over

here fearing. Punishment When god's Going you're doing, Awesome get,

up let's go do it. Again fear keeps us in

hiding rather than. Abiding fear's. Voices voices is. Accurate fear's voice,

says you will be punished if you go To. God

fear is the absolute driving force behind an orphan, spirit

and love is the driving force behind. SUNSHIP i prayed

for six or at least two, months that The lord

would speak To coal over some theological. ISSUES i wasn't

happy with that he was. Pursuing and we're. Arguing cole's really,

sharp like too. Sharp the boy would try, to like

theologically argue his way out of getting in trouble as a.

Kid and uh and and When john and And Mark

dupot and all These bonnie and all these people, Come

cole set there at the table and carry on deep

theological conversations with. Them and So i'm, Like, lord speak to,

him give him a, dream give him a. Vision, lord

he'll hear, you he'll listen speak to, him you know what.

Happened you want to know what happened on our. Trip

The lord doesn't speak To. Cole he Gives dad a

dream and Gives dad wisdom on how to parrot coal

and and and corrects me in the. Dream the interpretation

of the dream was he doesn't need a, profit he

needs the father's heart and you got to build a

bridge of. Grace See i'm really good at holding the pump, line,

right that's my. Vein but he's, like, yeah, ANYWAYS i

would go into the, dream but it's too. Late but.

Yeah it was like there was this bridge built AND

i touched the. Bridge Chris vallas had built the bridge

in the, dream AND i touched it and it went

into pieces AND i, thought, oh, MAN i, Said, Chris i'm.

Sorry he's, like, oh, no big. Deal and he pulls

this thing at all locks the bridge locks back together

and then there's five pieces, missing and he, Goes i'll

let you put those. In five is the number of.

Grace the father's heart builds a bridge of grace for.

Connection and there are times that it's not about. Being

you can be right to the point where you have no.

Connection are you with me to having, board it's, like,

OH i hear, You, LISA i feel. You y'all hear.

This you can be right to the point of no.

Connection you can win an, argument but what's the. Price

we can get so laser focused on things in this,

life and we can begin to think that certain things

are so important that we're willing to lose the relationship

to prove or. Right and that's not what The lord.

Did that's not what he. Does do you understand there's

no one in this building right now that when you

get To heaven and stand Before, jesus he's gonna go

your theology was. Flawless, no every one of. US i

Think i'm right a lot of times on the iological, issues, Right,

LIKE i study, hard And i'm, like, OH i know

that we're all gonna be surprised at what we thought

we knew in different. AREAS i promise, you you, know

just like he's gonna you're gonna get to have any.

Man i'd never seen a gift of prophecy like. That. Ever,

no he's not impressed with what he gave, us. Y'all

he gave you those, gifts and some of y'all are

afraid to use your gift because you're afraid to mess.

Up and that's also not understanding your identity as a

son and a. Daughter some of y'all need to get

out of the. Boat can you hear the waves saying

walk on. Me it's time we're Hitting daniel? Eleven, y'all

those who know Their god are going to do great.

Exploits you call on Your, god And i'll call on.

Mind and the one that answers by, fire He's. God

we are getting into those. Days we will get into

those days in this. Nation you will have showdowns in

the streets Of. America And god's power is going to

be on. Display. Period and even though the prophetic movement

is in shambles right, Now god's raising up another generation

of prophets that will carry The father's, heart have, integrity

and preach the word Of god with authority and. Accuracy

and those words will come to, pass and you'll see

a generation of prophets rise up in the near future

that they will carry the fear of The lord to

such a degree that when they, come you will feel

the fear of The. Lord and he is in the

midst of pruning his. Bride and SO i, say cut, Me,

LORD i want to look like. You let's, Stand, michael

can you hop on the? Key the keys more than, one?

Preferably all? Right, Uh i'm, sorry. Y'all three minutes, past

but that's the number of The, Trinity so that's. Good,

okay should have gone eight new. Beginnings, okay Now i'm

really gonna land the. Plane, no can you unmute the? Keys?

Dale oh you're. Good, okay come, on, maestro there you.

Go all, right if the prayer teens will come, forward

not everybody can come at.

Once.

Okay you don't want to put too much pressure on, you.

Y'ALL i just want to challenge you this.

Morning there's no doubt that when we hear messages like

this from whoever's teaching, them we all have areas that

we're learning to be sons and daughters. In SO i

want to encourage, you if, not if as the as

The Holy spirit moved on your hearts during this, time

come up for, prayer that we don't have these prayer

teens up here just to look good.

Like they want to work for the.

Kingdom they want to, Pray they want to get in

agreement with, you and there's this isn't a walk of.

Shame coming up for prayer is not a walk of, shame.

Y'all and you don't have to, be you, know fearful Or,

oh what's so and?

So who gives a? Fly and? Flip what so and so?

Thinks it's your relationship With jesus that you care, about

that you're, cultivating that you're wanting deeper intimacy.

With and if you don't know him this, morning don't.

Leave don't leave not knowing, him.

Because you'll never have a shot at walking with him

as your father if you.

Don't it's so, important y'all that the.

Fullness of what The lord desires of us can never

be lived out when we're still trying to figure out

if we really belong to, him does he really love,

us does he really really? Care is he really as

good as he says he?

Is, father you are.

Good we can trust you with our. Kids we can

trust you with our, finances we can trust you with our,

careers we can trust you with our, Health we can

trust you in every way because you are. Good, lord

forgive us for all the times that we have acted

like orphans instead of your, kids when we've taken matters

into our own hands to bring about our own promotion

or bring about our own, Breakthrough, lord at the expense of. Others,

JESUS i thank you that if we've seen, you we

have seen The. Father there is no. Difference So, father

would you touch each one of us? Again would you

pour out your spirit afresh again over? Us? Lord would

you move inside of? Us would you bring order where there's.

Chaos would you bring healing where there's. Wounds would you

bring love where there's. Fear would you bring light where there's.

Darkness would you bring sight where there's. Confusion would you

give us eyes to see and ears to, hear a

heart that, receives that you would knock the calluses off our,

souls that you would pull down our, strongholds that you

would just infuse us with your heart for others In jesus'.

Name some of y'all just need to come up and

let go. Stuff some of y'all literally need to come

up and surrender things that you've been holding. Onto some

of you all got fleshly pacifiers that you need.

To exchange this.

MORNING i just want to wait here for a. MINUTE

i don't want TO i don't want to pass up this.

Invitation M.

Hm, jesus would you break the fear off of every

one of, Us.

Lord.

The fear of, man the fear of, disappointment the fear of. Failing,

lord you, said deep pries under deep at the roar

of your. Waterfall, father we want your. Heart we want

to see you. Move we want to see you move

in our. Schools we want to see you move in our.

Region we want to see you move in this. State

we want to see you move in this. Nation, lord

we want to see you move like we have never

seen you move. Before, lord that you would stir a

holy hunger inside of us that cannot be fulfilled by the,

world that cannot be fulfilled by anything this world has to. Offer,

lord we are calling to. You we are asking that

you would move on our. Behalf that you would move

mightily among our Midst, lord that you would cause your

name to be remembered in this. Place that you would

cause your name to be remembered in our. Families, lord

that you would restore, Relationships that you would restore. Family,

lord that you would bring salvation to. Households that you

would break. Through, lord that you would break in and

break through and where people have lost. Hope that you

would restore hope where people have been, depressed, bound chained.

Up that you would come in right Now lord and.

Begin to, break to begin to release the breaker.

Anoints me over this house right.

Now, lord that you would cause a hunger to stir

up in this.

Community, lord that can only be.

Thank you for.

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