Sermon
Fill Your House
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Oh, would extend your hands towards him. Father, we thank you for
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Brian. Lord, we thank you for the friendship and the relationship that we
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have with him. And Lord, I just thank you for what you've laid
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on his heart. And so Lord, we just give him full permission to
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speak everything that you want to speak. Lord, So Holy Spirit, would
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you just have Brian like your clothes this morning? Thank you. Jesus,
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we're listening, and Jesus Mighty name. Amen, Amen, good morning.
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How's everybody doing today? Good? Justin when he made a comment there just
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a minute ago about you know, things happening during the worship, it reminded
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me in that moment of a dream that I had and a dream that Julie
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also had related to that, the move of the Holy Spirit and U.
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And one thing we learned in this dream was the theme of this was you
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can't put the lion on a leash. There was this lion in our neighborhood
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and it was roaring and running all over the place and uh, and so
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we were trying to put it on a leash, and the Lord spoke to
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us and said, you can't put the lion on a leash. So our
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King he loves excellence, he loves order, so those are those are things
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that we value as well. But he also likes freedom, he likes creativity,
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and he gets to do whatever he wants to do because he's the King.
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Um. I love your community here, and so does Julie. You're
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the worship this morning was just amazing in worship. I don't know that i've
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maybe this may be the second time that this has happened to me, But
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in worship this morn, sometimes I get pictures in my mind's eye and when
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I'm not trying so just to see what the Holy Spirit has, you know,
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And I saw a picture of Jesus walking down this aisle right here in
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the in the middle of worship, and we don't want him to leave.
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We want him to stay right here with us. So it's really important that
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we that we have that posture of our heart to say, Lord, we're
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so glad you're here, and we don't want you to go anywhere, stay
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right here with us and lead us. So it's been a lot of fun
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being here with the team for the last few days. And so y'all have
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three values here and in this community, and I really like culture and culture
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is a big deal. And y'all have a specific culture here. Each one
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of your individual families have culture, and so your three values. The very
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first one is servant leadership. And just thinking about your team and the people
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I was talking with, they were naming off several people in the community and
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a lot of servant leaders. So servant leaders put other people first. They
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help other people. That's what our king is really a big that's a big
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thing with him, right, Love the Lord, your God, love your
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neighbor as yourself. If you do those two things, you keep all the
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law, all the commandments, everything, So that's a big deal. The
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second value you have here is honor, and honor means high respect or esteem
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for the gift of God and someone else. And the cool thing about it
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is, I'm going to ask you a question so to make a point.
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Okay, so do you have a gift from God? If you do,
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I want you to raise your hand. Okay, Well, let me tell
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you what the Bible says. The Bible says that everybody gets a gift,
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whether you know him or not. When He created you, he gave you
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a gift from him. So what that means is everybody in the building should
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raise their hands. So let me ask again, do you have a gift
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from God? Everybody raise their hand in the building. You all have a
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gift from God and we honor that and we want to pull that out of
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you. And then the third value you have. I can't remember about this
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second. Try to remember, huh growth? Yeah? Okay? Good?
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So growth now? Does now? Sometimes we get confused with growth. Does
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growth mean more money, more stuff, more buildings, more things. No,
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that's not what growth means in this context. Growth means personal growth.
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So we value personal growth, the development of your relationship with God and Him
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working through your life. That's what gets us excited. And do you know
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what happens when you focus on that kind of growth, then the things and
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the stuff that all takes care of itself and all that all works out.
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So that's why we focus on that personal growth and focus on your heart.
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That's actually kind of what my message is about today. So I asked the
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Lord when we knew we were coming down here, I said, Lord,
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you know what do you want to talk about? What's on your mind?
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There's three questions that you should always ask yourself or the organization that you lead,
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or that you're a part of. And these are those three questions.
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The first one is what is on your mind? Lord? What's on your
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mind? What are you thinking about? The second question is where are you
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going? Where are you going? Lord? And the third question is am
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I going with you? And I ask myself those questions constantly related to the
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business that I lead, as well as the other communities that I help steward
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and am a part of, as well as the family. So people get
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confused about that. They think, Oh, I'm supposed to go over here
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and choose what I want to do on my own and ask the Lord to
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follow me. No, that's backwards from the kingdom. We have a king,
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it's not a democracy. He is the King of Glory. And if
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he says I'm interested in you going to the grocery store today, and I'm
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interested about you talking to the cashier and encouraging that person, then that's what
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that's what's on his mind, and that's where he's going. And we say,
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am I going with you? Yes, I'm going with you, and
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I'm going to go to the grocery store and I'm going to encourage the cashier.
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That's the way that works. It's that simple. I just need to
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open up one thing here. Julie and I we couldn't believe we've gotten some
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rain. We live up in Dallas, so we've had some rain up there
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and things are kind of green, and boy, we drove over the bridge
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down there and I was like, oh my goodness, these people. So
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we're praying for rain. So in this growth idea and really even related to
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your values, servant leadership the big encouragement. And my kids, well they're
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not kids, they're young adults now, but we were talking about this the
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other day and I said, you know what, you need to serve somebody
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that needs to be your m You need to serve somebody. Let me ask
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you a question. Is it convenient to serve people? No, the majority,
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the overwhelming majority of the time, it's not convenient to serve somebody.
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And people think, oh, if I can just feel good, if I
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can just get my life right, then I'll serve somebody. And that's backwards
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too. What you do is you serve somebody and then the Lord shows up
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because action creates attraction. The reason why Jesus showed up right here is because
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we were praising and worshiping him, and the scripture says, he inhabits the
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praises of his people, and so it was our action that created his attraction,
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and so he was attracted to that. You see that, and so
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serve people. That's a part of being in the Kingdom. It's not about
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us, It's about him and his people, and so we draw close to
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him and out of that, other people are changed. So the whole reason
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why I'm here today, guys, is to add value to your life.
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That's what I'm trying. I'm trying to inspire action. If the Lord,
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if the Holy Spirit can move on your heart today and you hear something that
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inspires you to action, that's what we're after. And it's not all about
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you know. Sometimes in the I have different interactions with different churches, and
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in the church world we get a little confused sometimes and we want everybody to
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serve at the local church. Now, that's a big part of it,
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because this is a family and this is a community, and it takes all
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of us to do everything that needs to be done around here practically. But
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the big point also is to serve outside these walls. Okay, So when
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I was asking the Lord, what do you want me to talk about?
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And it's not me. What do you want to talk about through me to
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the people across kingdom? And it was not two seconds and he said the
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word. You don't want to know what the word is. The word was
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furniture. He said, furniture. That's kind of strange, isn't it.
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So not long ago, but I knew what he meant, So not long
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ago. I had a dream And does anybody in here to y'all have,
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Does anybody in here get dreams from God? Yeah? Yeah, that's a
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lot of you. That's fantastic. So you know, I lead a small
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business and I get dreams from God about how to lead the business and decisions
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to making things to do, and not just about that, but other other
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relationships too, And so this is an awesome thing that we want to encourage.
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You know, he's ready. He's more than ready to give you instruction
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and to talk to you. He's speaking constantly. And so in this dream,
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I was flying in a helicopter and I landed at rooms to go.
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Now we know that in God dreams, in dreams, he speaks in metaphors.
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Okay, So Julie and I are actually both in the dream, and
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we walked into the rooms to Go, and these people inside the Rooms to
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Go, we're trying to get us to buy new furniture. They were trying
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everything they could to get us to buy a new furniture, and we wouldn't
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buy it. And so then we went back outside to get in our vehicle,
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and there was a degrading of our vehicle. So the vehicle that we
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showed up in was really really nice. And then once we left the Rooms
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to Go and got back in the vehicle, it was a piece of junk.
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And so I understood. Once I sat before the Lord with this dream,
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and I said, hey, what's the furniture? Okay? Because I
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understood one thing you know about vehicles, that vehicles represent your call or your
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ministry, and what happened to it in the course of the dream it degraded.
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Right, it is really really nice. I had the opportunity to buy
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new furniture that I didn't buy, and now my calling was a piece of
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jump. It was worn and torn, and so I understood that the Lord
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wanted me to buy and get new furniture. Now let's talk about what the
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furniture is, okay. So before we talk about the furniture, we got
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to talk about the house. So let me read you some scripture. Two
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Corinthians, chapter five, verse one says, for we know that when this
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earthly tint we live in is taken down, that is, when we die
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and leave this earthly body, we will have a house in heaven and eternal
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body made for us by God himself, not by human hands. All right,
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So the body is the house because we're trying to figure out what the
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furniture was in this dream and what the Lord was saying to Julie and I,
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because this message isn't just for Julie and I's for you too, And
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so the house is the person. So when you have dreams now and you
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have God dreams, and you know it's your house, it's your life.
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And different rooms in the house mean different things. So what does the furniture
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represent? So I'm going to read several pieces of scripture here because I really
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like scripture, and God also constantly speaks through scripture. So on top of
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having dreams and stuff like that, you want to get into word all the
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time. Proverbs twenty four, three and four. It takes wisdom to build
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a house and understanding to set it on a firm foundation. It takes knowledge
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to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies. All right, the
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Lord is interested in your life having fine furniture and fine draperies. And we're
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gonna so we're trying to figure out what furniture is. Remember Matthew twelve.
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This is Jesus. When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it
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goes through arid places seeking rest, does not find it. Then it says,
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I will return to the house I left. When it arrives, it
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finds the house unoccupied, swept clean, and put in order. Then it
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goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they
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go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse
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than the first. So here the Lord is Jesus is saying. He's using
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the metaphor of a house to represent a person. Okay, so we know
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the house is a person. And in this parable that the Lord is saying,
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he's saying when a person gets delivered of an unclean spirit, that the
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unclean spirit leaves says I'm going to return to that person. And when he
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gets back to that person, what does he find? He finds a house
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that's unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. The unclean spirit got cast
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out of that person. Right, there's nobody in it. That's a problem
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because whenever you get free of an unclean spirit, you want the Holy spirit
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to come occupy you. Right. But what's interesting is is he says unoccupied,
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swept clean and put in order. So if the person's life was empty,
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like think about your house right now. Okay, if nobody was at
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your house and you swept it clean and put it in order, I know
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what that means. That means going over to the couch. And I've learned
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this because I've been married to a woman who does a fantastic job with a
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house. And I know I got to go over and fluff up the pillow
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and then I'm supposed to hit it in the middle on the top, okay,
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to make it all look like it's put in order. Now, the
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problem with what Jesus is talking about here is the furniture that's in because we
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remember, we're still trying to figure out what the furniture is. The furniture
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is put in order. Scripture doesn't say that the furniture is put in order,
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but I would say the house isn't empty because something's put in order,
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right, and so the furniture is put in order, and then the unclean
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spirit brings more with him and they reoccupy that place. Okay, so we're
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finding out what the furniture is. I'm gonna tell you a quick story.
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I listened to Bob Connor a lot, and some of you know who he
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is, so he's a senior leader in the body. He said one time
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that he was praying for someone to get delivered and he takes his hand and
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he goes and he's about to lay his hand on the person's forehead, and
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the Lord arrests him and says, what are you doing? And Bobby said,
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well, I'm praying for deliverance for this person. And the Lord said,
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did I tell you to pray for a deliverance for this person? And
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he says no. He said, this lady wants an upgrade. And let
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me explain what he means by that. She had negative intentions. She wanted
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to be delivered because she understood this principle and she wanted an upgrade and evil
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power. So this is also true. Let me just explain to you how
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it works in the Kingdom. Is we march at his directive in his order,
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even praying for physical healing. Now that sounds crazy to you, but
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or it did to me when I first heard it. You mean, I'm
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not just supposed to walk up to anybody and pray for physical healing. Where's
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the thing. Maybe he doesn't want me to pray for this person. Maybe
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he wants one of his other kids in the room to go pray for that
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person. And if I go pray for that person, I'm just keeping the
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other person from being able. I'm disrupting what he's trying to do. And
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so that's why it's important to get in this rhythm with the Holy Spirit.
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You can't put the line on a leash. We just got to flow and
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do what he wants to do. So Colossians three eight three eight through ten.
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So put to death the sinful earthly things lurking within you have nothing to
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do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires. Don't be greedy,
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for a greedy person is an idolater worshiping the things of this world.
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Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming. You used to
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do these things when your life was still a part of this world, but
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now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior,
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slander, and dirty language. Don't lie to each other, for you have
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stripped off your sinful nature and all of its wicked deeds. Put on your
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new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your creator and become like
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him. That's what we're the man, the son of David, the King.
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We are supposed to become just like him. That doesn't mean that we're
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God. That's not what we're saying at all. There's only one God,
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okay, but in nature he could have just saved us. But he didn't
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just save us. He said, I'm going to save you, and then
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I want to invite you to who partake in the divine nature. So we're
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getting real close here to figuring out what the furniture is. What's this furniture
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that we need to get rid of, and what's the furniture that we need
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to buy. Colossians the last scripture that I read to you, that's written
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to Christians. By the way, Okay, so is this this is Ephesians
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chapter four, verse seventeen. With the Lord's authority, I say this live
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no longer as the gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their minds
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are full of darkness. They wander far from the life God gives because they
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have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against them. They have no sense
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of shame. They live for lust full pleasure, in eagerly practice every kind
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of impurity. But that isn't what you learned about Christ. Since you have
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heard about Jesus. Has anybody heard about Jesus? Oh? Yeah, and
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have learned the truth that comes from him. Throw off your old sinful nature
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and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.
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Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and your attitudes. Put on your new nature,
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created to be like God, truly righteous and holy. The scripture says
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that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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One of the primary attributes of the kingdom is righteousness. And unless you
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have righteousness, you're not going to have much peace and joy. And it's
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not our righteousness, because the Lord sees our righteousness as filthy rags, but
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it's his righteousness, and so we ask him to give that to us and
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to help us with that. So what is the furniture? Come on,
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Brian what is the furniture, can't take it any longer. The furniture is
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aspects of sinful nature, not your human nature, because God created humanity,
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and humanity was created in the image of God. And he said, it's
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good, but it's your sinful nature. And just because you're saved doesn't mean
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that you still don't have stinking thinking or susceptible to bad attitudes desires that are
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anti kingdom, right, And this is something we have to work out with
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the Lord. And so I knew what the Lord was saying to me because
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he was giving this message to Julie and I personally. And he said,
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you know what, Brian and Julie, I mean, I'm kind of you
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know, I'm thinking through what he was saying to us, because he said
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some amazing things to us in this dreaming about the hope and the plan for
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the future, which made me all the more I want to get rid of
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the bad furniture and let me get the new furniture. And he said,
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you know what, this couch over here inside you. I love that couch,
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and that couch you and I I have put that couch inside your house.
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And on that couch, you and I we sit down and we pray,
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and we communicate and we just spend time together. But that recliner over
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there, that's inside your house, whether it's a poverty mindset, or whether
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it's lust, or whether it's whatever it is, that thing's got to go.
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And you have to take an inventory in your life. You don't ever
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get to the point between this moment and the moment you die. You don't
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ever get to a point where everything in your house is pristine. Okay.
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But the point is is that you're taking an inventory of your furniture and that
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over time you're becoming more and more and more and more like Jesus. You
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gotta get in this, okay. So the tavern Le of Moses, and
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by the way, y'all know, we're connected with Streams Ministries. Streams has
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a fantastic teaching on the Tabernacle of Moses. But the Tabernacle is a really
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interesting thing because it's a It was a tent, but it also had a
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lot of furniture in it. And God has he really does like furniture.
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He's the one who created the idea of furniture, and he's got some amazing
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furniture. And just like I was talking about Julie wants me to fluff up
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the pillows and hit it in the middle, so it kind of, you
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know whatever. I'm a guy, so I don't understand that. But I
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see I was hoping some ladies would get it out there and their gigglings,
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so they must get it. I don't know. But the point is is
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God had a strategic plan. He wanted the furniture placed in a particular spot
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in the tabernacle, and he said, I want the tabernacle built because I
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want to come dwell with my people. Well, thank the Lord, we're
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not in a time where we have to go someplace to be near the presence
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of God. The presence of God dwells us. Isn't that amazing? And
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so just like the tavernacle, because he's in dwelling us, we still have
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to He's got the furniture that he wants to put in a certain place.
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He's got a certain kind of furniture, and he's got a specific spot in
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your heart that he wants it to go. And how cool is that because
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it's specialized. Remember I told you you have a gift from God, all
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of you. He has a plan for every one of you. That's the
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thing with God. All his kids get to participate. Let me read you
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this. This is out of Exodus thirty one. Then the Lord said to
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Moses, see, I have chosen Besileel, son of Uri, son of
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her of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the spirit
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of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, with all kinds
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of skills, to make artistic designs for the work in gold, silver,
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bronze, to cut and set stone owns, to work in wood. He
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was an engraver, to engage in all kinds of crafts. Moreover, I
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have appointed a holy ab son of a Hissamac. And doesn't that make you
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just want to It makes me want to smack somebody, you know what I
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mean, like his samac. I don't want to smack that guy every time
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to sign anyway of the tribe of Dan to help him. Also, I
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have given Bezialel ability or done. Excuse me, he says, I've given
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ability to all skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you the tent of
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meeting. Here we go to the furniture, the ark of the Covenant,
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and all the furnishings of the tent, the table it's articles pure gold lamp
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stand, the woven. This guy was an embroider. Okay, he had
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he understood fabric and then they are to make them just as I commanded.
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So he wants his furniture made in a specific way. Now let me tell
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you about this Besiel. Bezileel was the first guy in the Bible that it
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says the spirit of God came upon. Okay, his great grandmother was Miriam.
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So I know you've heard of Moses. Moses had a brother, Aaron,
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and he also had a sister, Miriam. Miriam's husband was Caleb.
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Do you remember the story about the twelve spies and Caleb comes back with So
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that was Bezeleel's great grandfather. Now think about how incredible this Bezileel guy was.
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Okay, he knew how to do work in stone, in gold and
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silver wood, like I said, fabric. Not only that, but he
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had the ability. He understood how to work with other people and lead the
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skilled workers to do things. The scripture says that the Lord wanted the lampstand
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made out of one solid piece. The lampstand the Manora God wanted it made
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out of one solid piece of gold, and Moses didn't understand how to do
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it, but Bezileel did. He didn't piece things together on that manure,
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guys, he pounded it. They're in the middle of the desert. He
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made it out of one piece of gold. They had so much gold in
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this tabernacle, which was a temporary tint. I've done the math. There
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was fifty million dollars worth of gold that they used in this temporary tint.
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And Bezileel. One of the most fascinating things here for me is the Lord
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came on him, the Spirit of God with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
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The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is a sevenfold spirit, or
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he has seven primary aspects, and their wisdom, counsel, knowledge, might
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understanding, the fear of the Lord, and the spirit to the Lord,
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which I think is leadership. Okay, so three of those are at play
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right here. Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. We're coming right back to
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that. So Proverbs twenty four, I've already read this one to you.
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It takes wisdom, understanding and knowledge to build a house, to set it
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on a firm foundation, to fill its rooms with fine furniture. This is
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in Proverbs. This is the same way that Bezalel built all the stuff that
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needed to be built for the tabernacle. Wisdom understanding knowledge, wisdom understanding knowledge.
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Proverbs three says, check this out. By wisdom. The Lord founded
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the earth by understanding. He created the heavens by his knowledge. The deep
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fountains of the earth burst forth. The way that God built the earth and
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the heavens was by wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. So we have this
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pattern and we have this strategy for understanding how to build and how to fill
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your house with fine furnishings. So this is the example we have. So
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I had this dream that was a very personal thing for me, but obviously
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the Lord wants it to be a personal invitation to you. And how are
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you going to know what furniture in your house? And I'm talking about inside
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you, what attitudes, what desires, what things does the Lord want to
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replace with something that is so much better. Well, the way you're going
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to do that is you're going to invite Holy Spirit to come in wisdom,
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in knowledge, and in understanding, and he's going to do it that The
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only thing that we have to do is yield. And I'm not even sure
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that's even a part of the equation. But that's that's that's a lot of
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other theology. But the point is is yield, say Lord, do it
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show me a piece of furniture inside my life. Remember, I'm trying to
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inspire you to action because action creates attraction and I want the spirit of the
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Lord to show up in your life in a very unique way, and he
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will do it. So that's the first piece, is the furniture. I've
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got kind of a two piece part here that as they go together, here's
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what I want to talk to you about in this second piece, and then
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we're gonna then we're gonna merge them. I'm wrapping it up. Three things.
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This is gonna this is gonna hit several of you. I know,
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Change, transition, transformation. What is change? Change is the external event
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or situation that takes place. Change is an external event. Transition the inner
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psychological process that people go through as they internalize and come to terms with the
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new situation that the change brings about. Transformation, a metamorphosis of a person's
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nature into a completely different nature by natural or supernatural means. And that's what
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we're after, That's what the King is after. So this has been many
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years ago. The Lord, he gave me this dream about an old truck.
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So I put a picture of an old truck up on the screen.
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And this old truck I'm in the sign business. And it had this massive
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sign on the back of the old truck. And on this sign it said
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persona like a person's persona, and it had straps holding it on the back
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of the truck. And the Lord went over there and cut all the straps
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and the big sign goes boom and hits the ground. And he told me,
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he said, when I get done with you, at the end of
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your life, your persona is going to be nothing like when you were born.
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Your nature is going to be completely different. People are even gonna see
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you and they're gonna be so confused because they're gonna be like they knew.
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They're gonna know me when I was young, and then see me when when
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I'm older, and they're gonna go, who is this guy? This is
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not the guy I knew. This is like a completely different person. Okay,
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change the external event. So has anybody had a kid a birth,
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Has anybody got married? Has anybody got a new job? Has anybody had
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to go through daylight savings? Time how about Yeah, we just need to
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kill that thing, don't we. How About how about divorce? How about
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death? How about a layoff? How about a graduation? How about housing?
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Have you changed houses? What about this church? Is this church going
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to go through some significant change? These are external things that happen in a
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moment. When a birth happens, it's in a moment. That's the change
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boom. When you get divorced, that's a change in a moment the judge
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signs the paper boom change. When change happens, we're invited into three stages.
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The first stage is endings, the second stage is the neutral zone,
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and the third stage is new beginnings. So remember we said transition is the
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inner psychological process. I'm gonna go back and read it. The inner psychological
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process that people go through is they internalize and come to terms with the new
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situation that the change brings about. Where you're Oh my goodness, I've not
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been married before. I've not had to go fluff up the pillows or and
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know that I'm not. I love the fact that she she keeps the house
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incredible. I mean, it is excellent, you know. So I hope
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you're not misunderstand what I'm saying, I'm making fun of fluffing up pillows.
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But anyway, I'm already in enough trouble. So so transition. Now,
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here's the thing in endings. When you're in endings because of the change,
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you're trying to come to terms with this change that has happened. And sometimes
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it's it's okay, it's more than okay to process and go through what has
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happened. Okay, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, it
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still affects you. Like I said, you can have a birth and it's
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a really great thing, but you're getting used to a new way of life
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and it's messing with you. Well, once you get through the ending phase,
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and this is part of transition, you get into the neutral zone.
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And in the neutral zone, you've come to terms with what has happened,
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the change, but you don't quite see the new and you haven't stepped into
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the new patterns yet. So you're in this neutral zone. And in the
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neutral zone there's all kinds of feelings. There's frustration, there can be anger,
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there can be hurt in pain because you're just in this funk. You're
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in the middle. Well, you're not mourning the thing anymore. But you're
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not in you've not stepped into the new rhythms of life and the new thing
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yet. And personally, I think that those first two stages are what I
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would call transition, the inner psychological process. And sometimes people get stuck in
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just transition and they don't ever come out of it. But what our King
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is amazing at and what the scriptures I just read you his business, his
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transformation and his transformation is when you get out of the neutral zone and you're
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not trying to feel around in the dark where you're at, but you actually
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step into the new that He has for you. And so you've got to
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go through these things. This is a part of life. And my big
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encouragement to you is to engage the transformation, the transformational aspect. What happens
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is used the furniture for a second. Let's say you've got a living room
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full of furniture, and let's say you go through a divorce. Well,
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what do people do to try to cope. They go in their living room
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and they start moving. They read it that the catch was on this side
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of the room, and they just move it to this side of the room,
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and they're moving their pieces of furniture around trying to cope. And that
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looks like drugs, that looks like lust, that looks like eating chocolate shakes
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left and right. That was mine. I really love to eat chocolate shakes.
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And they just they move around the furniture, but it's the same furniture.
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And what the Lord wants is he wants you to bring that brokenness to
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him and say, Lord, I can't handle this. This is tough.
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I can't handle the pain. I don't know how to process this. I
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can't see the new that you have for me. And he just wants us
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to yield, and he wants us to say, Lord, here's my broken
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Would you take this old couch in my living room right here inside of me?
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And would you get rid of it? And would you put your couch
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in here? And do transformation? And transformation makes us more like our king.
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We want to walk in. Do I have the nature of a human?
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Absolutely? I'm standing right here. I'm subjected to gravity. I'm in
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one place, I'm not in two places. Right. I can see people
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in this room, but in my nature, I don't know all of you,
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but I can see most of you. I can't even see everybody right,
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this is human nature. The Lord says human nature is good, he
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says sinful nature. Get rid of your sinful nature. And then he invites
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us to partake of his divine nature. That's either in first or second Peter,
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And do you know what the Lord's nature is, his divine nature,
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Wayne, whenever you get ready, by the way, his divine nature.
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He knows everybody in this room. He knows the day you were born,
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the day you die, or the day you will die. He knows the
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number of hairs on your head. He's all knowing. Number two. He's
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all powerful. Nothing can overtake him. He has all powerful, and he's
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everywhere. He's outside of time, he's inside of time. He's everywhere.
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And that's what he invites me, just as a simple guys, as a
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son in the kingdom, to partake in so I can prophesy to people.
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And when I prophesy to people, and I prophesying out of my human nature
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or my divine, the divine nature, the divine. When Peter walked on
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water, was Peter walking out of his human nature. No, I've never
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walked on water before. Peter was accessing the name nature of our king,
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and he was walking on water when you need healing and you need somebody to
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come pray for you. Do you want Brian's human nature to come pray for
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you? Or do you want the King's all powerful nature to show up and
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pray for you. You haven't got a hope if I show up, but
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you do if he does. Ending Neutral Zone the New Beginning Colossians three.
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Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your creator
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and become like him. I want to release this verse in Isaiah over you,
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the Lord says, for I am about to do something new. See
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I have already begun. Do you not see it. I will make a
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pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in dry Curville. Oh,
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it says dry waste land. I will create rivers in the dry, dry
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wasteland that wild animals in the field will thank me if humans won't. The
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wild animals in the field will thank me. The jackals and the out too
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for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in
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the dry wastel so my chosen people can be refreshed. So I'm going to
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ask the prayer team to come. And if you're in a couple of different
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spots. I want to give you an invitation. We'll see how justin how
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y'all want to wrap up here, But what I want to do is pray
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for some people, and certainly the people in our prayer team prayer team want
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to pray as well. So, if the Lord is working on you in
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this way, if Holy Spirit is showing up and touching your life right now,
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Number one, maybe you're trying to come to terms with an ending and
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you haven't even made it to neutral zone yet, and you're just in the
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ending phase where you're just starting the transition because of a change or something that
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has happened, and you need the Lord to come and his wisdom and his
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knowledge and his understanding and his grace and his power and touch your heart.
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Maybe there's another group of you who are in the neutral zone. Maybe you're
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past, you're no longer mourning the thing that has happened, but now you're
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in this area, this spot where you're frustrated and you're past the old,
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but you can't see the new and you're just having a hard time figuring out
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which what's the new rhythm of life that the Father has for me? And
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so if you're in either of those two spots, I'm going to ask all
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of us to stand, if you would, if everybody would stand, please,
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And then if you're in either of those two places, Julie and I
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and the prayer team here we just want to pray with you and ask the
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Lord to do what he's amazing at, which is transformation. And so while
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Wayne plays, if the Lord starts working on your heart, come forward.
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