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Fill Your House

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  1. Oh, would extend your hands towards him. Father, we thank you for

  2. Brian. Lord, we thank you for the friendship and the relationship that we

  3. have with him. And Lord, I just thank you for what you've laid

  4. on his heart. And so Lord, we just give him full permission to

  5. speak everything that you want to speak. Lord, So Holy Spirit, would

  6. you just have Brian like your clothes this morning? Thank you. Jesus,

  7. we're listening, and Jesus Mighty name. Amen, Amen, good morning.

  8. How's everybody doing today? Good? Justin when he made a comment there just

  9. a minute ago about you know, things happening during the worship, it reminded

  10. me in that moment of a dream that I had and a dream that Julie

  11. also had related to that, the move of the Holy Spirit and U.

  12. And one thing we learned in this dream was the theme of this was you

  13. can't put the lion on a leash. There was this lion in our neighborhood

  14. and it was roaring and running all over the place and uh, and so

  15. we were trying to put it on a leash, and the Lord spoke to

  16. us and said, you can't put the lion on a leash. So our

  17. King he loves excellence, he loves order, so those are those are things

  18. that we value as well. But he also likes freedom, he likes creativity,

  19. and he gets to do whatever he wants to do because he's the King.

  20. Um. I love your community here, and so does Julie. You're

  21. the worship this morning was just amazing in worship. I don't know that i've

  22. maybe this may be the second time that this has happened to me, But

  23. in worship this morn, sometimes I get pictures in my mind's eye and when

  24. I'm not trying so just to see what the Holy Spirit has, you know,

  25. And I saw a picture of Jesus walking down this aisle right here in

  26. the in the middle of worship, and we don't want him to leave.

  27. We want him to stay right here with us. So it's really important that

  28. we that we have that posture of our heart to say, Lord, we're

  29. so glad you're here, and we don't want you to go anywhere, stay

  30. right here with us and lead us. So it's been a lot of fun

  31. being here with the team for the last few days. And so y'all have

  32. three values here and in this community, and I really like culture and culture

  33. is a big deal. And y'all have a specific culture here. Each one

  34. of your individual families have culture, and so your three values. The very

  35. first one is servant leadership. And just thinking about your team and the people

  36. I was talking with, they were naming off several people in the community and

  37. a lot of servant leaders. So servant leaders put other people first. They

  38. help other people. That's what our king is really a big that's a big

  39. thing with him, right, Love the Lord, your God, love your

  40. neighbor as yourself. If you do those two things, you keep all the

  41. law, all the commandments, everything, So that's a big deal. The

  42. second value you have here is honor, and honor means high respect or esteem

  43. for the gift of God and someone else. And the cool thing about it

  44. is, I'm going to ask you a question so to make a point.

  45. Okay, so do you have a gift from God? If you do,

  46. I want you to raise your hand. Okay, Well, let me tell

  47. you what the Bible says. The Bible says that everybody gets a gift,

  48. whether you know him or not. When He created you, he gave you

  49. a gift from him. So what that means is everybody in the building should

  50. raise their hands. So let me ask again, do you have a gift

  51. from God? Everybody raise their hand in the building. You all have a

  52. gift from God and we honor that and we want to pull that out of

  53. you. And then the third value you have. I can't remember about this

  54. second. Try to remember, huh growth? Yeah? Okay? Good?

  55. So growth now? Does now? Sometimes we get confused with growth. Does

  56. growth mean more money, more stuff, more buildings, more things. No,

  57. that's not what growth means in this context. Growth means personal growth.

  58. So we value personal growth, the development of your relationship with God and Him

  59. working through your life. That's what gets us excited. And do you know

  60. what happens when you focus on that kind of growth, then the things and

  61. the stuff that all takes care of itself and all that all works out.

  62. So that's why we focus on that personal growth and focus on your heart.

  63. That's actually kind of what my message is about today. So I asked the

  64. Lord when we knew we were coming down here, I said, Lord,

  65. you know what do you want to talk about? What's on your mind?

  66. There's three questions that you should always ask yourself or the organization that you lead,

  67. or that you're a part of. And these are those three questions.

  68. The first one is what is on your mind? Lord? What's on your

  69. mind? What are you thinking about? The second question is where are you

  70. going? Where are you going? Lord? And the third question is am

  71. I going with you? And I ask myself those questions constantly related to the

  72. business that I lead, as well as the other communities that I help steward

  73. and am a part of, as well as the family. So people get

  74. confused about that. They think, Oh, I'm supposed to go over here

  75. and choose what I want to do on my own and ask the Lord to

  76. follow me. No, that's backwards from the kingdom. We have a king,

  77. it's not a democracy. He is the King of Glory. And if

  78. he says I'm interested in you going to the grocery store today, and I'm

  79. interested about you talking to the cashier and encouraging that person, then that's what

  80. that's what's on his mind, and that's where he's going. And we say,

  81. am I going with you? Yes, I'm going with you, and

  82. I'm going to go to the grocery store and I'm going to encourage the cashier.

  83. That's the way that works. It's that simple. I just need to

  84. open up one thing here. Julie and I we couldn't believe we've gotten some

  85. rain. We live up in Dallas, so we've had some rain up there

  86. and things are kind of green, and boy, we drove over the bridge

  87. down there and I was like, oh my goodness, these people. So

  88. we're praying for rain. So in this growth idea and really even related to

  89. your values, servant leadership the big encouragement. And my kids, well they're

  90. not kids, they're young adults now, but we were talking about this the

  91. other day and I said, you know what, you need to serve somebody

  92. that needs to be your m You need to serve somebody. Let me ask

  93. you a question. Is it convenient to serve people? No, the majority,

  94. the overwhelming majority of the time, it's not convenient to serve somebody.

  95. And people think, oh, if I can just feel good, if I

  96. can just get my life right, then I'll serve somebody. And that's backwards

  97. too. What you do is you serve somebody and then the Lord shows up

  98. because action creates attraction. The reason why Jesus showed up right here is because

  99. we were praising and worshiping him, and the scripture says, he inhabits the

  100. praises of his people, and so it was our action that created his attraction,

  101. and so he was attracted to that. You see that, and so

  102. serve people. That's a part of being in the Kingdom. It's not about

  103. us, It's about him and his people, and so we draw close to

  104. him and out of that, other people are changed. So the whole reason

  105. why I'm here today, guys, is to add value to your life.

  106. That's what I'm trying. I'm trying to inspire action. If the Lord,

  107. if the Holy Spirit can move on your heart today and you hear something that

  108. inspires you to action, that's what we're after. And it's not all about

  109. you know. Sometimes in the I have different interactions with different churches, and

  110. in the church world we get a little confused sometimes and we want everybody to

  111. serve at the local church. Now, that's a big part of it,

  112. because this is a family and this is a community, and it takes all

  113. of us to do everything that needs to be done around here practically. But

  114. the big point also is to serve outside these walls. Okay, So when

  115. I was asking the Lord, what do you want me to talk about?

  116. And it's not me. What do you want to talk about through me to

  117. the people across kingdom? And it was not two seconds and he said the

  118. word. You don't want to know what the word is. The word was

  119. furniture. He said, furniture. That's kind of strange, isn't it.

  120. So not long ago, but I knew what he meant, So not long

  121. ago. I had a dream And does anybody in here to y'all have,

  122. Does anybody in here get dreams from God? Yeah? Yeah, that's a

  123. lot of you. That's fantastic. So you know, I lead a small

  124. business and I get dreams from God about how to lead the business and decisions

  125. to making things to do, and not just about that, but other other

  126. relationships too, And so this is an awesome thing that we want to encourage.

  127. You know, he's ready. He's more than ready to give you instruction

  128. and to talk to you. He's speaking constantly. And so in this dream,

  129. I was flying in a helicopter and I landed at rooms to go.

  130. Now we know that in God dreams, in dreams, he speaks in metaphors.

  131. Okay, So Julie and I are actually both in the dream, and

  132. we walked into the rooms to Go, and these people inside the Rooms to

  133. Go, we're trying to get us to buy new furniture. They were trying

  134. everything they could to get us to buy a new furniture, and we wouldn't

  135. buy it. And so then we went back outside to get in our vehicle,

  136. and there was a degrading of our vehicle. So the vehicle that we

  137. showed up in was really really nice. And then once we left the Rooms

  138. to Go and got back in the vehicle, it was a piece of junk.

  139. And so I understood. Once I sat before the Lord with this dream,

  140. and I said, hey, what's the furniture? Okay? Because I

  141. understood one thing you know about vehicles, that vehicles represent your call or your

  142. ministry, and what happened to it in the course of the dream it degraded.

  143. Right, it is really really nice. I had the opportunity to buy

  144. new furniture that I didn't buy, and now my calling was a piece of

  145. jump. It was worn and torn, and so I understood that the Lord

  146. wanted me to buy and get new furniture. Now let's talk about what the

  147. furniture is, okay. So before we talk about the furniture, we got

  148. to talk about the house. So let me read you some scripture. Two

  149. Corinthians, chapter five, verse one says, for we know that when this

  150. earthly tint we live in is taken down, that is, when we die

  151. and leave this earthly body, we will have a house in heaven and eternal

  152. body made for us by God himself, not by human hands. All right,

  153. So the body is the house because we're trying to figure out what the

  154. furniture was in this dream and what the Lord was saying to Julie and I,

  155. because this message isn't just for Julie and I's for you too, And

  156. so the house is the person. So when you have dreams now and you

  157. have God dreams, and you know it's your house, it's your life.

  158. And different rooms in the house mean different things. So what does the furniture

  159. represent? So I'm going to read several pieces of scripture here because I really

  160. like scripture, and God also constantly speaks through scripture. So on top of

  161. having dreams and stuff like that, you want to get into word all the

  162. time. Proverbs twenty four, three and four. It takes wisdom to build

  163. a house and understanding to set it on a firm foundation. It takes knowledge

  164. to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies. All right, the

  165. Lord is interested in your life having fine furniture and fine draperies. And we're

  166. gonna so we're trying to figure out what furniture is. Remember Matthew twelve.

  167. This is Jesus. When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it

  168. goes through arid places seeking rest, does not find it. Then it says,

  169. I will return to the house I left. When it arrives, it

  170. finds the house unoccupied, swept clean, and put in order. Then it

  171. goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they

  172. go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse

  173. than the first. So here the Lord is Jesus is saying. He's using

  174. the metaphor of a house to represent a person. Okay, so we know

  175. the house is a person. And in this parable that the Lord is saying,

  176. he's saying when a person gets delivered of an unclean spirit, that the

  177. unclean spirit leaves says I'm going to return to that person. And when he

  178. gets back to that person, what does he find? He finds a house

  179. that's unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. The unclean spirit got cast

  180. out of that person. Right, there's nobody in it. That's a problem

  181. because whenever you get free of an unclean spirit, you want the Holy spirit

  182. to come occupy you. Right. But what's interesting is is he says unoccupied,

  183. swept clean and put in order. So if the person's life was empty,

  184. like think about your house right now. Okay, if nobody was at

  185. your house and you swept it clean and put it in order, I know

  186. what that means. That means going over to the couch. And I've learned

  187. this because I've been married to a woman who does a fantastic job with a

  188. house. And I know I got to go over and fluff up the pillow

  189. and then I'm supposed to hit it in the middle on the top, okay,

  190. to make it all look like it's put in order. Now, the

  191. problem with what Jesus is talking about here is the furniture that's in because we

  192. remember, we're still trying to figure out what the furniture is. The furniture

  193. is put in order. Scripture doesn't say that the furniture is put in order,

  194. but I would say the house isn't empty because something's put in order,

  195. right, and so the furniture is put in order, and then the unclean

  196. spirit brings more with him and they reoccupy that place. Okay, so we're

  197. finding out what the furniture is. I'm gonna tell you a quick story.

  198. I listened to Bob Connor a lot, and some of you know who he

  199. is, so he's a senior leader in the body. He said one time

  200. that he was praying for someone to get delivered and he takes his hand and

  201. he goes and he's about to lay his hand on the person's forehead, and

  202. the Lord arrests him and says, what are you doing? And Bobby said,

  203. well, I'm praying for deliverance for this person. And the Lord said,

  204. did I tell you to pray for a deliverance for this person? And

  205. he says no. He said, this lady wants an upgrade. And let

  206. me explain what he means by that. She had negative intentions. She wanted

  207. to be delivered because she understood this principle and she wanted an upgrade and evil

  208. power. So this is also true. Let me just explain to you how

  209. it works in the Kingdom. Is we march at his directive in his order,

  210. even praying for physical healing. Now that sounds crazy to you, but

  211. or it did to me when I first heard it. You mean, I'm

  212. not just supposed to walk up to anybody and pray for physical healing. Where's

  213. the thing. Maybe he doesn't want me to pray for this person. Maybe

  214. he wants one of his other kids in the room to go pray for that

  215. person. And if I go pray for that person, I'm just keeping the

  216. other person from being able. I'm disrupting what he's trying to do. And

  217. so that's why it's important to get in this rhythm with the Holy Spirit.

  218. You can't put the line on a leash. We just got to flow and

  219. do what he wants to do. So Colossians three eight three eight through ten.

  220. So put to death the sinful earthly things lurking within you have nothing to

  221. do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires. Don't be greedy,

  222. for a greedy person is an idolater worshiping the things of this world.

  223. Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming. You used to

  224. do these things when your life was still a part of this world, but

  225. now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior,

  226. slander, and dirty language. Don't lie to each other, for you have

  227. stripped off your sinful nature and all of its wicked deeds. Put on your

  228. new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your creator and become like

  229. him. That's what we're the man, the son of David, the King.

  230. We are supposed to become just like him. That doesn't mean that we're

  231. God. That's not what we're saying at all. There's only one God,

  232. okay, but in nature he could have just saved us. But he didn't

  233. just save us. He said, I'm going to save you, and then

  234. I want to invite you to who partake in the divine nature. So we're

  235. getting real close here to figuring out what the furniture is. What's this furniture

  236. that we need to get rid of, and what's the furniture that we need

  237. to buy. Colossians the last scripture that I read to you, that's written

  238. to Christians. By the way, Okay, so is this this is Ephesians

  239. chapter four, verse seventeen. With the Lord's authority, I say this live

  240. no longer as the gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their minds

  241. are full of darkness. They wander far from the life God gives because they

  242. have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against them. They have no sense

  243. of shame. They live for lust full pleasure, in eagerly practice every kind

  244. of impurity. But that isn't what you learned about Christ. Since you have

  245. heard about Jesus. Has anybody heard about Jesus? Oh? Yeah, and

  246. have learned the truth that comes from him. Throw off your old sinful nature

  247. and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.

  248. Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and your attitudes. Put on your new nature,

  249. created to be like God, truly righteous and holy. The scripture says

  250. that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  251. One of the primary attributes of the kingdom is righteousness. And unless you

  252. have righteousness, you're not going to have much peace and joy. And it's

  253. not our righteousness, because the Lord sees our righteousness as filthy rags, but

  254. it's his righteousness, and so we ask him to give that to us and

  255. to help us with that. So what is the furniture? Come on,

  256. Brian what is the furniture, can't take it any longer. The furniture is

  257. aspects of sinful nature, not your human nature, because God created humanity,

  258. and humanity was created in the image of God. And he said, it's

  259. good, but it's your sinful nature. And just because you're saved doesn't mean

  260. that you still don't have stinking thinking or susceptible to bad attitudes desires that are

  261. anti kingdom, right, And this is something we have to work out with

  262. the Lord. And so I knew what the Lord was saying to me because

  263. he was giving this message to Julie and I personally. And he said,

  264. you know what, Brian and Julie, I mean, I'm kind of you

  265. know, I'm thinking through what he was saying to us, because he said

  266. some amazing things to us in this dreaming about the hope and the plan for

  267. the future, which made me all the more I want to get rid of

  268. the bad furniture and let me get the new furniture. And he said,

  269. you know what, this couch over here inside you. I love that couch,

  270. and that couch you and I I have put that couch inside your house.

  271. And on that couch, you and I we sit down and we pray,

  272. and we communicate and we just spend time together. But that recliner over

  273. there, that's inside your house, whether it's a poverty mindset, or whether

  274. it's lust, or whether it's whatever it is, that thing's got to go.

  275. And you have to take an inventory in your life. You don't ever

  276. get to the point between this moment and the moment you die. You don't

  277. ever get to a point where everything in your house is pristine. Okay.

  278. But the point is is that you're taking an inventory of your furniture and that

  279. over time you're becoming more and more and more and more like Jesus. You

  280. gotta get in this, okay. So the tavern Le of Moses, and

  281. by the way, y'all know, we're connected with Streams Ministries. Streams has

  282. a fantastic teaching on the Tabernacle of Moses. But the Tabernacle is a really

  283. interesting thing because it's a It was a tent, but it also had a

  284. lot of furniture in it. And God has he really does like furniture.

  285. He's the one who created the idea of furniture, and he's got some amazing

  286. furniture. And just like I was talking about Julie wants me to fluff up

  287. the pillows and hit it in the middle, so it kind of, you

  288. know whatever. I'm a guy, so I don't understand that. But I

  289. see I was hoping some ladies would get it out there and their gigglings,

  290. so they must get it. I don't know. But the point is is

  291. God had a strategic plan. He wanted the furniture placed in a particular spot

  292. in the tabernacle, and he said, I want the tabernacle built because I

  293. want to come dwell with my people. Well, thank the Lord, we're

  294. not in a time where we have to go someplace to be near the presence

  295. of God. The presence of God dwells us. Isn't that amazing? And

  296. so just like the tavernacle, because he's in dwelling us, we still have

  297. to He's got the furniture that he wants to put in a certain place.

  298. He's got a certain kind of furniture, and he's got a specific spot in

  299. your heart that he wants it to go. And how cool is that because

  300. it's specialized. Remember I told you you have a gift from God, all

  301. of you. He has a plan for every one of you. That's the

  302. thing with God. All his kids get to participate. Let me read you

  303. this. This is out of Exodus thirty one. Then the Lord said to

  304. Moses, see, I have chosen Besileel, son of Uri, son of

  305. her of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the spirit

  306. of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, with all kinds

  307. of skills, to make artistic designs for the work in gold, silver,

  308. bronze, to cut and set stone owns, to work in wood. He

  309. was an engraver, to engage in all kinds of crafts. Moreover, I

  310. have appointed a holy ab son of a Hissamac. And doesn't that make you

  311. just want to It makes me want to smack somebody, you know what I

  312. mean, like his samac. I don't want to smack that guy every time

  313. to sign anyway of the tribe of Dan to help him. Also, I

  314. have given Bezialel ability or done. Excuse me, he says, I've given

  315. ability to all skilled workers to make everything I have commanded you the tent of

  316. meeting. Here we go to the furniture, the ark of the Covenant,

  317. and all the furnishings of the tent, the table it's articles pure gold lamp

  318. stand, the woven. This guy was an embroider. Okay, he had

  319. he understood fabric and then they are to make them just as I commanded.

  320. So he wants his furniture made in a specific way. Now let me tell

  321. you about this Besiel. Bezileel was the first guy in the Bible that it

  322. says the spirit of God came upon. Okay, his great grandmother was Miriam.

  323. So I know you've heard of Moses. Moses had a brother, Aaron,

  324. and he also had a sister, Miriam. Miriam's husband was Caleb.

  325. Do you remember the story about the twelve spies and Caleb comes back with So

  326. that was Bezeleel's great grandfather. Now think about how incredible this Bezileel guy was.

  327. Okay, he knew how to do work in stone, in gold and

  328. silver wood, like I said, fabric. Not only that, but he

  329. had the ability. He understood how to work with other people and lead the

  330. skilled workers to do things. The scripture says that the Lord wanted the lampstand

  331. made out of one solid piece. The lampstand the Manora God wanted it made

  332. out of one solid piece of gold, and Moses didn't understand how to do

  333. it, but Bezileel did. He didn't piece things together on that manure,

  334. guys, he pounded it. They're in the middle of the desert. He

  335. made it out of one piece of gold. They had so much gold in

  336. this tabernacle, which was a temporary tint. I've done the math. There

  337. was fifty million dollars worth of gold that they used in this temporary tint.

  338. And Bezileel. One of the most fascinating things here for me is the Lord

  339. came on him, the Spirit of God with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.

  340. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is a sevenfold spirit, or

  341. he has seven primary aspects, and their wisdom, counsel, knowledge, might

  342. understanding, the fear of the Lord, and the spirit to the Lord,

  343. which I think is leadership. Okay, so three of those are at play

  344. right here. Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. We're coming right back to

  345. that. So Proverbs twenty four, I've already read this one to you.

  346. It takes wisdom, understanding and knowledge to build a house, to set it

  347. on a firm foundation, to fill its rooms with fine furniture. This is

  348. in Proverbs. This is the same way that Bezalel built all the stuff that

  349. needed to be built for the tabernacle. Wisdom understanding knowledge, wisdom understanding knowledge.

  350. Proverbs three says, check this out. By wisdom. The Lord founded

  351. the earth by understanding. He created the heavens by his knowledge. The deep

  352. fountains of the earth burst forth. The way that God built the earth and

  353. the heavens was by wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. So we have this

  354. pattern and we have this strategy for understanding how to build and how to fill

  355. your house with fine furnishings. So this is the example we have. So

  356. I had this dream that was a very personal thing for me, but obviously

  357. the Lord wants it to be a personal invitation to you. And how are

  358. you going to know what furniture in your house? And I'm talking about inside

  359. you, what attitudes, what desires, what things does the Lord want to

  360. replace with something that is so much better. Well, the way you're going

  361. to do that is you're going to invite Holy Spirit to come in wisdom,

  362. in knowledge, and in understanding, and he's going to do it that The

  363. only thing that we have to do is yield. And I'm not even sure

  364. that's even a part of the equation. But that's that's that's a lot of

  365. other theology. But the point is is yield, say Lord, do it

  366. show me a piece of furniture inside my life. Remember, I'm trying to

  367. inspire you to action because action creates attraction and I want the spirit of the

  368. Lord to show up in your life in a very unique way, and he

  369. will do it. So that's the first piece, is the furniture. I've

  370. got kind of a two piece part here that as they go together, here's

  371. what I want to talk to you about in this second piece, and then

  372. we're gonna then we're gonna merge them. I'm wrapping it up. Three things.

  373. This is gonna this is gonna hit several of you. I know,

  374. Change, transition, transformation. What is change? Change is the external event

  375. or situation that takes place. Change is an external event. Transition the inner

  376. psychological process that people go through as they internalize and come to terms with the

  377. new situation that the change brings about. Transformation, a metamorphosis of a person's

  378. nature into a completely different nature by natural or supernatural means. And that's what

  379. we're after, That's what the King is after. So this has been many

  380. years ago. The Lord, he gave me this dream about an old truck.

  381. So I put a picture of an old truck up on the screen.

  382. And this old truck I'm in the sign business. And it had this massive

  383. sign on the back of the old truck. And on this sign it said

  384. persona like a person's persona, and it had straps holding it on the back

  385. of the truck. And the Lord went over there and cut all the straps

  386. and the big sign goes boom and hits the ground. And he told me,

  387. he said, when I get done with you, at the end of

  388. your life, your persona is going to be nothing like when you were born.

  389. Your nature is going to be completely different. People are even gonna see

  390. you and they're gonna be so confused because they're gonna be like they knew.

  391. They're gonna know me when I was young, and then see me when when

  392. I'm older, and they're gonna go, who is this guy? This is

  393. not the guy I knew. This is like a completely different person. Okay,

  394. change the external event. So has anybody had a kid a birth,

  395. Has anybody got married? Has anybody got a new job? Has anybody had

  396. to go through daylight savings? Time how about Yeah, we just need to

  397. kill that thing, don't we. How About how about divorce? How about

  398. death? How about a layoff? How about a graduation? How about housing?

  399. Have you changed houses? What about this church? Is this church going

  400. to go through some significant change? These are external things that happen in a

  401. moment. When a birth happens, it's in a moment. That's the change

  402. boom. When you get divorced, that's a change in a moment the judge

  403. signs the paper boom change. When change happens, we're invited into three stages.

  404. The first stage is endings, the second stage is the neutral zone,

  405. and the third stage is new beginnings. So remember we said transition is the

  406. inner psychological process. I'm gonna go back and read it. The inner psychological

  407. process that people go through is they internalize and come to terms with the new

  408. situation that the change brings about. Where you're Oh my goodness, I've not

  409. been married before. I've not had to go fluff up the pillows or and

  410. know that I'm not. I love the fact that she she keeps the house

  411. incredible. I mean, it is excellent, you know. So I hope

  412. you're not misunderstand what I'm saying, I'm making fun of fluffing up pillows.

  413. But anyway, I'm already in enough trouble. So so transition. Now,

  414. here's the thing in endings. When you're in endings because of the change,

  415. you're trying to come to terms with this change that has happened. And sometimes

  416. it's it's okay, it's more than okay to process and go through what has

  417. happened. Okay, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, it

  418. still affects you. Like I said, you can have a birth and it's

  419. a really great thing, but you're getting used to a new way of life

  420. and it's messing with you. Well, once you get through the ending phase,

  421. and this is part of transition, you get into the neutral zone.

  422. And in the neutral zone, you've come to terms with what has happened,

  423. the change, but you don't quite see the new and you haven't stepped into

  424. the new patterns yet. So you're in this neutral zone. And in the

  425. neutral zone there's all kinds of feelings. There's frustration, there can be anger,

  426. there can be hurt in pain because you're just in this funk. You're

  427. in the middle. Well, you're not mourning the thing anymore. But you're

  428. not in you've not stepped into the new rhythms of life and the new thing

  429. yet. And personally, I think that those first two stages are what I

  430. would call transition, the inner psychological process. And sometimes people get stuck in

  431. just transition and they don't ever come out of it. But what our King

  432. is amazing at and what the scriptures I just read you his business, his

  433. transformation and his transformation is when you get out of the neutral zone and you're

  434. not trying to feel around in the dark where you're at, but you actually

  435. step into the new that He has for you. And so you've got to

  436. go through these things. This is a part of life. And my big

  437. encouragement to you is to engage the transformation, the transformational aspect. What happens

  438. is used the furniture for a second. Let's say you've got a living room

  439. full of furniture, and let's say you go through a divorce. Well,

  440. what do people do to try to cope. They go in their living room

  441. and they start moving. They read it that the catch was on this side

  442. of the room, and they just move it to this side of the room,

  443. and they're moving their pieces of furniture around trying to cope. And that

  444. looks like drugs, that looks like lust, that looks like eating chocolate shakes

  445. left and right. That was mine. I really love to eat chocolate shakes.

  446. And they just they move around the furniture, but it's the same furniture.

  447. And what the Lord wants is he wants you to bring that brokenness to

  448. him and say, Lord, I can't handle this. This is tough.

  449. I can't handle the pain. I don't know how to process this. I

  450. can't see the new that you have for me. And he just wants us

  451. to yield, and he wants us to say, Lord, here's my broken

  452. Would you take this old couch in my living room right here inside of me?

  453. And would you get rid of it? And would you put your couch

  454. in here? And do transformation? And transformation makes us more like our king.

  455. We want to walk in. Do I have the nature of a human?

  456. Absolutely? I'm standing right here. I'm subjected to gravity. I'm in

  457. one place, I'm not in two places. Right. I can see people

  458. in this room, but in my nature, I don't know all of you,

  459. but I can see most of you. I can't even see everybody right,

  460. this is human nature. The Lord says human nature is good, he

  461. says sinful nature. Get rid of your sinful nature. And then he invites

  462. us to partake of his divine nature. That's either in first or second Peter,

  463. And do you know what the Lord's nature is, his divine nature,

  464. Wayne, whenever you get ready, by the way, his divine nature.

  465. He knows everybody in this room. He knows the day you were born,

  466. the day you die, or the day you will die. He knows the

  467. number of hairs on your head. He's all knowing. Number two. He's

  468. all powerful. Nothing can overtake him. He has all powerful, and he's

  469. everywhere. He's outside of time, he's inside of time. He's everywhere.

  470. And that's what he invites me, just as a simple guys, as a

  471. son in the kingdom, to partake in so I can prophesy to people.

  472. And when I prophesy to people, and I prophesying out of my human nature

  473. or my divine, the divine nature, the divine. When Peter walked on

  474. water, was Peter walking out of his human nature. No, I've never

  475. walked on water before. Peter was accessing the name nature of our king,

  476. and he was walking on water when you need healing and you need somebody to

  477. come pray for you. Do you want Brian's human nature to come pray for

  478. you? Or do you want the King's all powerful nature to show up and

  479. pray for you. You haven't got a hope if I show up, but

  480. you do if he does. Ending Neutral Zone the New Beginning Colossians three.

  481. Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your creator

  482. and become like him. I want to release this verse in Isaiah over you,

  483. the Lord says, for I am about to do something new. See

  484. I have already begun. Do you not see it. I will make a

  485. pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in dry Curville. Oh,

  486. it says dry waste land. I will create rivers in the dry, dry

  487. wasteland that wild animals in the field will thank me if humans won't. The

  488. wild animals in the field will thank me. The jackals and the out too

  489. for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in

  490. the dry wastel so my chosen people can be refreshed. So I'm going to

  491. ask the prayer team to come. And if you're in a couple of different

  492. spots. I want to give you an invitation. We'll see how justin how

  493. y'all want to wrap up here, But what I want to do is pray

  494. for some people, and certainly the people in our prayer team prayer team want

  495. to pray as well. So, if the Lord is working on you in

  496. this way, if Holy Spirit is showing up and touching your life right now,

  497. Number one, maybe you're trying to come to terms with an ending and

  498. you haven't even made it to neutral zone yet, and you're just in the

  499. ending phase where you're just starting the transition because of a change or something that

  500. has happened, and you need the Lord to come and his wisdom and his

  501. knowledge and his understanding and his grace and his power and touch your heart.

  502. Maybe there's another group of you who are in the neutral zone. Maybe you're

  503. past, you're no longer mourning the thing that has happened, but now you're

  504. in this area, this spot where you're frustrated and you're past the old,

  505. but you can't see the new and you're just having a hard time figuring out

  506. which what's the new rhythm of life that the Father has for me? And

  507. so if you're in either of those two spots, I'm going to ask all

  508. of us to stand, if you would, if everybody would stand, please,

  509. And then if you're in either of those two places, Julie and I

  510. and the prayer team here we just want to pray with you and ask the

  511. Lord to do what he's amazing at, which is transformation. And so while

  512. Wayne plays, if the Lord starts working on your heart, come forward.

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