The Eternal Word of God

Okay. Perfect.

So Donna was just sheer kind of a little bit of our story.

Kind of what brought us here and why we're here and because we're

here as a culmination of what God has been doing in our lives

and like all of us, right? And then we love stories and

actually He got saved in high school

through Young Life, High School Ministry and Williamsburg.

I got saved. When I was 12, I was a drop-off

child at church, but I really came into the Lord in college

and we got married in Harrisonburg, you went back to

Williamsburg because his dad was there and we were a part of New

Testament Church for about seven years Church, went through some

things, we were part of a pain. Coastal Church for about seven

years Church. Wednesdays, there is a theme

here but it was actually our boys.

We have six kids, 18 years spread in our children, that

happened to homeschoolers by the way, and our four Sons were

drummers in the coiling for Fife and Drum Corps.

And when that happens, they become employees and we couldn't

get away on the week. It sounded like a house of

woodpeckers. Most.

So we started coming over here, camping.

Been on a whim. We bought a little teeny cinder

block house. So, Holly Beach started coming

there because we could run back in 15 minutes and the Lord just

began to draw our heart to Gloucester County since 2005

2004. Right after Isabel we bought a

house that we had a heart for and came and I was telling the

Angelina, right? And Adam this morning we had

this strategy we were going to visit churches and be there

three weeks or so. Six weeks, we had a whole list

of what we were looking for. And the first Sunday, we were

here, we went to Lighthouse and kin and Holly invited us over to

lunch, and they actually turned our daughter.

Who was 12 at the time and said, what do you love?

And she says, I love dance. I'm in a dance group and kisses,

well, why don't you do that here?

So they freely offered us the church for in his steps and we

were like, this is what we land. So, so thus saith the Lord we

and, you know, Like there's a saying, the grass is greener on

the other side, we really believe with churches.

The grass is green, everywhere, God's doing something and every

church, it's just where you supposed to be.

And I'm sure, you know, we have a lot of friends, we know

friends at churches everywhere, but, but I'll share this with

you all because you all are laying the block of your church.

And it's so amazing to be able to lay a block, a church from

his foundation houses don't do well with that block.

But wait, when we have been at Lighthouse about a month one day

during worship, I just had this picture and Kenan Holly were

feverishly repairing Foundation, removing block, pretty young and

we didn't even know the story of the church, but we felt like the

Lord said to us. You can trust them because

they're restores and actually, I was telling Angelina's morning.

We're kind of that way too. I like old things, I don't I

have a new and the perfect, so we really were actually

restoring a house. Now that was almost condemned

that we're going to downsize to, but we love seeing lives

restored. That's when we get retired right

now. I'm just tired and you know,

Natalie and I've gotten together a few times and honestly, I'm a

Mike's this way to wear a Shades up, you can ask us anything

about our life. And as a mom, I will tell you, I

believe you, give birth to your Your children twice, you have a

physical birth where you burn your kids.

But the real labor is Burly men to Christ and praying for them

and and part of our story when Mike told me, what he's

preaching on this morning. I was like, okay, yeah, I know

is in our marriage. Mike had a group of guys really

lay a firm foundation in his life in college and probably my

kids, most precious monomeric seeing her dad.

Sitting in the chair, reading the Bible.

And at times I resented that as a busy mom, I wasn't the 5:30

wake up person. I was catching the word whenever

I could, but but I can honestly say the word has been what has

really established our home, and how this guy walks the word.

And so he has an encouraging word.

Hopefully if it's if it's not just raise your hands.

It wouldn't really encouraging and what I found to encourage

you mom's there will be a time. Where your house will be quiet

and you can have uninterrupted quiet times and it's kind of

cool because my grandkids especially with two of my sons

wives, my grandkids know, they can tear through the living

room. I was having her quiet time.

They've learned to respect a quiet time.

You know, they've learned that mama is a brighter mom.

A better mom and she's had time in the word when she's had time

and this week. But my daughter-in-law posted,

this really funny Instagram on to share this with you.

She said, this is me with my ear pods on any given school day,

because she homeschools, if I'm listening to the word or

audiobook and everything's flying, but she's fled, and I'm

thankful that we have a lot of different ways.

Ear pods are great too. So, anyway, that just gives you

a little bit about us and we're Thankful to be here.

We love John, Michael and Natalie and yes, it's an honor

to be with you guys. You guys are awesome and so so

that thanks honey so much. You guys are techno savvy have

the stuff. There we go.

Does it have like if I go on too long?

Does it have like a flashing anything that you like, do they

know you're out of here, guys. Time's up, anyway.

So what the Lord put on my heart was to talk about the Eternal

Word of God and his eternal work in our lives.

So there's a I'm going to cover some ground.

Don't feel like you have to turn if you want to.

You can just listen and soak it in.

But the kind of the Cornerstone, the, the pivotal scripture is as

we all know, John 1:1 that says in the beginning was the word

John 1:1

and the Word was with God. And the Word was God, he was

with God in the beginning through him all things were made

without him. Nothing was made that has been

made in him was life and that life, excuse me was the light of

all mankind so they pray, Lord, I Thank You.

Lord, that you your plans and purposes are established that

you've created good. Works that we should walk in

them. Lord that you want to reveal

yourself to us and deeper way Lord.

We pray that you would have mercy on us, that you wouldn't

allow us to walk out of here. The same as we walked in Lord.

But you would be able to take this message and change our

hearts in Jesus. His name.

Amen. So I just this isn't like a

preachy preachy word, you know? And sometimes I do that but I

don't think this is that it's kind of like a just a reflection

just can we kind of just share, kind of Reflections on insights

and things about that. So one of the things that God

made apparent to me, a long long time ago, and it's really every

day. I'm reminded of it.

There's like two less. My life, there's two lists in

your life. One is a very, very, very short

list. I only know of two things on

that list. The other is a very long list

that is just goes on and on and on forever.

So, the short list is what this has to do today.

The short list are the Eternal things, right?

The things that last forever, the things that go on the other

things are temporal, and that's our huge list, right?

Because we got to deal with their stuff, we got to deal with

all the details, all the other stuff, but if we lose sight of

the short list, we've really are missing.

We're really fallen short, right?

So he wants to remind us this morning of the shortlist.

One, is the the word of God last forever.

I mean, that scripture just said that it was from the beginning,

all the way through the end. When Jesus comes back, he has a

sharp sword. Two-edged sword in his mouth.

Say when he comes back, there is no more Mercy.

It's all truth, you know. So right now we can, we can ask

for Mercy, we can ask him to change this and all that.

But when he's coming back, I mean, he is the Living Word of

God. Okay?

So when I think about and the other thing has to do with goes

on in your heart and soul, right?

That's Eternal either accept Christ and you have a lordship

relationship with them where you reject him and live for

yourself, right? So let's be shortlisted today,

okay? Going to be short shortlisted be

mindful of that. So have you guys ever struggled

with having quiet times? This this is like time to be

Honest. Right, you're looking at like

the main struggle or here. I've struggled for years and and

being the leader of my family, it's like got to do devotions

like I never had that grown-up like how do you do that as a

guy? You know, how do you lead in

that way? And to be really honest.

So just really struggled and over time he really started

bringing home to me really who he is in the word so it's not

just reading your Bible. I can tell you, I read my Bible

a lot and I'd fall asleep. Reading my Bible.

That's not a bad thing. It's least you're meditating on

the right thing. Sometimes, we're just like Plum

worn out, right? So, But when you approach it,

I'd like to just to think and this may be really simplistic

but I think in some ways it's a paradox in its profound as well.

So when we think of having a dedicated time to spend time in

the word, think of it as being spending time with Jesus being

the word. So when Jesus walked with his

disciples for three and a half years, he was physically with

them and was constantly speaking the word in their lives, but he

left and Guess what? We have.

We have his word. That's what he's left.

Us his word, he's left us. His holy spirit to guide us to

be our Advocate to help us walk in truth.

So when you, when you sit down, we're going to talk about some

tools and some different things when you do have time dedicated

to the Lord, like, think of him as being your source and

sometimes. So, one of the things like, with

technology, this technology sometimes can be a blessing,

right? And technology sometimes can be

a curse and it's a curse because we got so much stuff coming at

us, right? We got messages, we got

Instagram post, we've got done that, that you got notes, you

got everything that you want. And so, sometimes it may be

good. The disciples didn't have all

that, they could just sit and listen to Jesus, right?

So sometimes it may be good to detach right as a strategy is

like you know, that thing is not really helping me here, you

know. No, I'm just going to put that

on, maybe just turn it off. So it's like, okay, I got it,

you know, it's always going to be coming at you.

Now, the enemy of your soul, he does not want you to approach

the word of God. Like a were talking about this

morning, so he is also the prince of the power of the air,

right? Do you think that he has some

influence over your technology? Absolutely.

So part of a lordship relationship so we can start by

thanking them for being our savior, right?

If you've called on the name of the Lord and you know him and

your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

That is eternal, you're good to go.

But when you're plugging into him and spending time with him

as your Source, think of him as being the source of everything

that Springs up, that's good. So when you draw close to your

Source, he wants to just love on you.

He wants to reveal himself to he'll do that through his word

to do that through his word. So now the Pharisees Jesus was

surrounded by Pharisees. They were always hanging around

him and they're always like challenging.

And I think probably a couple of them got it.

But, you know, the problem with the Pharisees, what was their

problem? They knew the word like crazy.

They knew the law, they knew everything, but you know what?

It His head knowledge, it was a heart knowledge and you need

both, you need you need to increase your understanding of

who he is and the scriptures and and we're going to talk a little

bit about that. But he really wants it to go

beyond your head and into your heart and your life because he's

all about transformation, right? He's all about wanting to

transform us. So that just like I prayed this

morning that we don't walk out of here the same, right?

If you we don't want to just be a have a Monday and Christian

Life, right? We want to get deeper, we want

to know him more. We want him to reveal himself to

us because it's his murse, by his Mercy that he challenges us

is by his Mercy, that he reveals himself is by his Mercy, that he

like gets in her. Right.

And so when you draw close to him and I like it in the morning

because that's before everything is going.

And so I kind of fell into a place, to honor had mentioned,

it of just a rhythm of being able to have dedicated time and

if it's only five minutes, it's okay.

But he will bless whatever you have.

You don't have to like, oh man, I don't have an hour or two like

just spend time of the. Well, I just don't, you know.

So whatever you do, He blesses? Is faithfulness, He blesses,

whatever we have to offer. And in fact, another Paradox in

the scripture is he says, let the weak say I am strong.

So this is an area of weakness is like and I just don't do that

start small and just ask him to bless us, O Lord, I just commit

myself this five minutes or ten minutes.

I want it to be. Distraction-free.

I want it to be just totally dedicated to you for you to do

whatever you want. And he will take that.

It's kind of like your money when he oh, so blessed to see

the little kids like, you know, he will take whatever, we give

him, and grow it and, and multiply it.

And that that's what he wants for us, right?

Because then that's how you can become diligent and faithful by

establishing patterns that are healthy and good, right?

So there's Scripture that says knowledge puffs up, but love

edifies. So the Pharisees, a lot of them

were really puffed, up their knowledge of the word was all

about how people saw them. Oh, you really know a lot of the

Bible. Anyone ever wear?

What you know, on your sleeve like to really impress someone

and it's easy to do, but see what he wants, what what the

Living Word of God wants is he wants to just allow us to draw

close to him as their source so he can bring things up.

So we don't want to miss the Messiah right in front of our

noses like the Pharisees, right? This message is not you ought to

read the word if you're hearing that just shut me out because

that is it's not a not word it's like it's a I believe that God's

heart he has a long to reveal himself he has a longing to love

on you. He is a longing to just affirm

you and encourage you and so our part is is to dedicate time for

that transaction to happen. Amen. so, when we approach the

word, Think of dwelling in him and communing with your creator,

the author and the finisher of your faith, the lover of your

soul. These are all the things that he

is to us, right? And your personal Advocate you

ever feel like you need someone really advocate for you.

He is your Source. He's the one that will do that,

whatever your circumstances, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly just

bring it to him and Beyond it. You know what he, I believe he

really appreciates is honesty. Don't feel like you got to get

your all your act together before you can sit down with

them because if you really try and get your act together,

you'll never do it right. Because I don't know about y'all

my acting together, you know? So.

But what he wants is he just wants us to be who we are, where

we are in the moment with him, but bending our need to him in a

lordship relations. And the lordship relationship is

different than a savior relationship.

A lordship relationship is like okay.

Good. The Bad, the Ugly, whatever I

am, I give it to you. He can handle.

I always always have said this that you and your worst moment

God does not fall off his throne.

There's not a Divine thump, when he sees your sin, your struggles

aren't you? Glad honey, Jesus, man, he knew

our Humanity, he knew our struggles, he knows our

carnality, he knows the things that are coming at us.

He knows the things that are bombarding us and all he wants

is us, just be honest with him. It's like that Lauren.

I'm really struggling. In this area, please help me.

And so that's why you approached him his throne of grace to

obtain. What Mercy, right.

Need mercy. And then, so here's some

professional Reflections on spending time with the word of

God, lean in when you have time to try and hear his heartbeat.

His heartbeat because you know what it is is there and it is

strong but he wants you to hear. The heartbeat is like there's a

scripture that said that, God spoke to Moses face to face, but

he revealed his deeds or his actions to the people.

Now, was that because Moses was really special, nothing Moses,

had a heart to really want to press in.

One of my other favorite scriptures was about Enoch.

You know, what was said, best about Enoch that he Talked with

God and was not. Whoa.

What do you mean? Do you mean he like connected

with his source and and he just loved God and they would walk

together and it's like once you just come with me you don't have

to die in that. Cool that there aren't many

examples like that, David. I mean he was here a lot of

struggles. A lot of things he did right?

What he was really good at is he had a heart after God's Own

Heart. That's what God said about him.

How do you like God to call you his friend?

We know what he is. Is and he calls you his friend.

Jesus said that, I know I call you servants, but I call you

friends. So anyways, so when you lean in

to hear him ask him to whisper to you.

Whoo, you can't hear a whisper. Can you if there's a lot of

other noise, right? Static and believe me.

The enemy wants to throw as much static as you as possible,

because the last thing he wants is for you to hear the whisper

the intimate Whisper of God in your life.

You want to hear something? I didn't really think about this

but Donna said I got saved in North Carolina at a young life

camp and I wasn't really interested in hearing about a

lot of messages. But I had to because I was there

is like a sports camp and the guy who is kind of like the

leader who had been praying with me, praying for me ever since he

met me, he had this huge Bible, Eddie intersecting.

The only time I was really by myself and I was in a In

standing because, hey, you want to take a walk?

And I looked at the Bible go. I'll sure, you know, and we sat

there and I did he ask me questions and all that but he

was making a really cool thing at that Summit.

I reconciled and struggled with some things, but I prayed three

words, I need you. And at that point, the Lord came

into my life and just changed me and started a process.

A relationship where I felt like my place of residence.

He changed that it's not here. It's heaven.

The father win that I had growing up.

Anyone have father wanted, you know.

Yeah, he like filled that to a large extent, a large extent.

So what school? I have to travel a lot for my

work and I was flying back from Chicago.

I think into Charlotte, will you have to go over to the Smoky

Mountains and all that? I look out the window is.

It was late afternoon and the most beautiful wispy clouds were

there never seen. Clouds like that.

I mean they're like I guess cirrus clouds but just as I was

just amazed and and the sun was setting and it was like golden

and just incredible things and it was in August and Lord told

me that's our anniversary of when we met.

And it was right over that spot. And that's the love of God

because I don't deserve that. So, when you hear his Whisper of

affirmation affection and direction, Place yourself under

his authority. As the Eternal Word of God,

think of him as your first love. Give him your first fruits of

time and affection. And then a firm his lordship of

your life. Not just your salvation.

So there are several ministries of the word of God in your life.

And there's through that, I really wanted to focus on one is

the cleansing from the word. One is the Revelation from his

word and the third is the Vitality that he gives from his

word. So, firstly, cleansing the Mind.

Think of the word of God as a waterfall.

Anyone like waterfalls? Picture yourself, there's a time

where it's like, man, I just need to sit under a waterfall

and just get refreshed and if I ever had my ideal property, it

would have a waterfall and I don't think they exist but I

think everyone else is claim them, but I just love that.

And when we came to light house, we were kind of like burnout and

kind of need it. And we needed to place herself

under the waterfall of the word of God, the ministry of the word

of God and clear, hot stuff. So, A waterfall at times.

Will bring refreshing cleansing and specially.

If you're struggling with weariness, you just fatigued.

Just worn out if you're struggling with anxious

thoughts. That a lot of anxiety, struggle

with depression, even filthy thoughts, that washing of the

word will cleanse your mind. Amen.

So there's three things in a lordship relation, it's all

about submitting, bending your knee.

Amen. He wants us to submit to the

teaching of the word he wants us to submit to the preaching of

the word. So what does that mean to submit

to those things as like, okay, I want you to change me.

I just don't want to know more. I want you to change me.

I want you to, like, Light Me Up.

And you know what he did, he didn't need much of an

invitation because he he's like, it's like the the river of the

Living God is Flowing from the Throne of God into our lives.

And so, if you open yourself up, so Lord just cause your word to

flow in my life, he will do that.

And if it's just a trickle, if it could be a Niagara Falls,

maybe you just don't know, you know, but he wants.

He has so much to give you and then so there's some tools that

we have Least and this is not exhaustive down in mentioned it

a little bit. You know what I love to do

sometimes is I have anyone have you version on your phone?

You know that I do that, but I like to hear it sometimes just

an audio and just listen, sometimes I'll read along to but

I'll just like want to get really practical.

It's like what? I need to hear your verbally.

Yeah. Because sometimes I read things

as like. It didn't quite go.

The same way your feel like you get stale sometimes like in your

purse, so sometimes it's good to change.

Get up, right? Anyone here really good at

scripture memorization I balked at that big time.

What I was you know because like I'm not a chapter text in verse

guys like yeah I know I just I just my I don't know, maybe I

had a bad childhood experience, I don't know but I had a hard

time with that now I don't have a problem at all with truth so I

know a lot of his truth from spending time and having his

deposit go in my life. So memorizing the passages and

just seeing him over and over and over again.

It'll start to really sink in Anyone ever have a promise book

you ever use that that was like popular back in the 80s or so

like the Jesus pocket promise book.

I'm really showing my age now. But anyways, he has so many

promises and there. Yea and amen in your life.

So start to do, especially if you struggle with negative

thoughts, doubt fear. You know, that in that realm,

it's like, Lord, I need to know your promise because what it

Will do is, it'll really encourage you to build up your

faith because without faith. It's what impossible to see God,

right? So he wants to build up our

faith. So, that's another thing is to

really meditate on his promises. And when you read them, it's

like, that's not, that's for someone else, think of it as

like, no, thank you, that's for me.

Insert your name in that promise, when you're praying for

a loved one, insert their name, that prop, make it personal

Sometimes I need a big picture approach.

That means reading through the Bible, over a certain period of

time, reading the Old Testament, New Testament.

Psalms and Proverbs there's lots of programs to do that.

That's a good. That's a good method as well.

Last 15 minutes. Oh sorry, was that my cue to?

Alright. Anyways, so the big picture

approach is really and all these.

I mean, there's a lot of different approaches.

Another thing that's really important is to enjoy trying to

establish an anchor list. Anyone know what an anchor list

is anyone? Like the water you ever been on

a boat out, on the water you ever?

If you don't have an anchor, you're in a world of hurt,

right? If so if a nor'easter blows up

and you're out there and I've I have I'm on, when I had a boat,

I was on personal speed, dial with Seto, I was not, I was not

very good, and Donna worried a lot, because we were stranded

many times out of boats. But anyways, an anchor.

So, if you have an anchor, an anchor for your soul, is this,

this is your testimony. This is what God has done that.

No one can argue with no one can refute.

It's an immutable truth in your life.

It's personal to you. Write it down and you know it.

So when you Have a struggling time when you feel like you're

being just battered with the waves and the wind, and the

chaos, and the churn, and all that, go to your anchor, drop

anchor drop anchor by saying. Lord, I Thank you that you saved

me on this day. Lord, I Thank you that you fill

me with your Holy Spirit. Lord, I Thank you for what

you've spoken to me. I thank you for what you've

done. I thank you for and you go to

the zinc, drop anchor. And that's a really important

strategy in being an approach God because then it creates you

start off with being think once to the needy.

A lot of times when we approach the lord it's like I need this.

I need that. Yes.

And we have our list, right? And he understands all that, he

knows what we need even before we ask him but it's just helpful

to be able to approach him from the right context.

So let's talk a little bit about Revelation Spirit of Revelation.

Now John, anyone love John, John was great.

John was the only of the disciples that was not martyred.

They tried. They bought him an oil, can you

imagine that? But he survived it because Jesus

said that he was not going to, that was not his walk, all the

other ones, they gave up their lives as Martyrs.

That's what it means to be an apostle.

Any Apostles in here, guess what?

Yeah. But we are called all called to

be sent ones. We're all called to make an

impact, right? So John was special in a couple

ways. He struggled with position

priority and all that his mom Eagle 2.

That wanted to make sure that James and John were right next

to Jesus, you know, at the resurrection and all that, the

other disciples didn't really care for that too much, but he

was the one that Jesus on the cross, his last dying breath

gave charged his mother. And he said, behold your son to

John job was the only one at the cross.

You know, it was not a popular time to be a follower.

He also was the one that was exiled on the island of Patmos

and received the Book of Revelation.

And I'm so glad for John, but John, the picture of John was,

he's the guy that the other disciples would go to kind of,

get the inside track on what Jesus was thinking.

John had a way of being out of lean into Jesus and hear his

heartbeat. And the picture in the last

supper was, he was reclining. They're all, you know, he was

reclining and he was really close in proximity to Jesus and

Jesus shared like, who was going to betray him.

So was John, had an inside track.

We can be like John So when he asked the Lord, when you lean

into him, ask him to soften your heart and stop your ears and

open your eyes to understand him and see him as he really is.

Amen. And a fission is 117.

This is, this is a great prayer. Says I keep asking that the god

of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Glorious father, may give you

the spirit of wisdom and Revelation so that you may know

him better. You can pray that look, give me

a spirit of wisdom and Revelation so I can really see

you. Reveal yourself.

That's what Revelation means is a revealing.

That's what he wants to do. He wants to reveal himself.

Hmm. The word as a in the area of

Revelation, the word is a seedbed of Revelation in your

life. So as you deposit the word in

your heart and you build up your reserves of the word of God,

think of it. That way, you build up reserves

so that when you need it, it's there.

Okay, he will speak and use that and cause that to come alive,

come alive to you to be able to encourage you but also to use

you in other people's lives. Amen.

So Jesus spoke the words of life to his disciples, he showed them

his ways. And then he taught them how to

use those ways in those words to feed others.

You ever see on the bottom of the like a coke bottle.

Something no deposit, no return. You know, what does that mean?

Yeah, that means you know, maybe if you turn it in, you get

something back. Well our approach to the word is

the same way if we don't deposit.

And get deposits of the word coming into our life and it

becoming something that just becomes a part of this.

There's no return on investment because there's nothing to draw

from you're overdrawn and he wants us to have be rich in the

word. So think of yourself, we have a

lot of kids in here. A lot of women and men.

Think of yourself. Personalizes said, Lord help me

to be A father, the word help me to be a husband of the word

Lord. Help me to be a follower of your

word. Help me to be a daughter of the

word. How many be a son of you and

think of yourself as a person of the word?

That's your identity, you know? So this is a shift, right?

So it's not just about trying to just figure out bits and pieces

of it. It's like, man, I want to be in

your truth. I want to be in that flow.

So when you become a person of the word, you don't, Because you

become more eternally, minded more Kingdom Minded.

Why? Because that's what his word is

all about. And then you're going to be

aligning yourself to his heart and his ways and then yeah, it's

going to be like automatic when he uses you you know it because

there's stuff. It's just going to be flowing

out of you. People say what is it about you?

Why are you so happy obey it? I've got love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness the fruit of the spirit will your roots are

going down in the word. Your roots are going down so

that he can he can do that Eternal work in you.

We don't want to be kind of Christians with a lot of fake

fruit. Right?

You ever try and bite into something that looks good but

it's plastic not quite filling, right?

There's another saying any fisherman in the room Alright,

catch and release. Or filet and release.

I don't know. Catcher to catch and release.

So when you're spending time of the word and you catch something

ask the Lord to show you how to release it.

Like what is that for? Is that for me separate?

So in this in this Fellowship, in this church, The word of the

Lord needs to come in and he's going to do that through you

guys. He wants to activate you also,

there's like that I got to work. Lord, give me wisdom to know how

to release that word. Amen.

So he'll drumset, he'll drop something in your spirit for

someone else, he loves doing that.

He loves to us to be just PVC for his kingdom.

Amen. So my prayer always is Lord.

Just help me get the heck out of the way, you know?

And even today, so read here and meditate on Words of Prophecy.

If you want to the Lord to use you in the prophetic, receiving

Revelation, to be able to share with other people to give life

and other people. I've spent a lot of time

sometimes, like, just Going through the Minor Prophets, The

Major Prophets, and allow that to posit to kind of Bubble Up.

And then, and the audio Bible is really good for that.

So, the third area is in the area of Vitality or Life.

John 6:63 says, the spirit gives life, the flesh counts for

John 6:63

nothing. The words, I have spoken to you.

They're full of the spirit of Life, spirit and Life, John 648,

and John lot of passages from John Wright.

Jesus said, I am Am the bread of life so when you it's not just a

knowledge thing but he wants to be able to just bring to life

vitality and stuff. So it's kind of like Needing CPR

and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

So it's like and he wants to just like we are formed, you

know, Adam was formed by him breathing in the very Breath of

God, in a bunch of dirt, you know, and he wants to do that,

he's available to do that. so when we come in Devotion to him

and submit ourselves to his word, he wants to take, if we

have anxiety, he can translate that to Peace by the Just

speaking and breathing on his word in your life he can he can

change. Worry to Faith confusion to Hope

bondage if you're in any kind of bondage to Freedom, despair to

praise, and the picture really is just the tree of life.

He wants you to be a tree of life, with lots of fruit, that

is, for other people to enjoy, and then Psalm 119, 130 says,

the unfolding of your words gives light, it gives

understanding to the simple. So he wants to take his word and

then fold it. Sometimes we don't get it all at

the same time, right? We don't get a download

immediately of everything he wants to do, but sometimes,

he'll just give us a line, chapter a verse in the book of

our lives. But he wants to expand on it and

then because he knows what we can handle, right?

He doesn't like, give you like a download expect, you understand

everything, 100% all the time because he knows has amen.

So in closing, the passage of scripture that kind of sums all

this up is in Isaiah, 55 10 through 11, the Lord says the

rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it

without watering the Earth and making it bud and flourish.

So that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.

So is my word that goes out from my mouth.

It will not return to me, empty, but will accomplish what I

desire and achieve the purpose. For which I sent it and all

God's people said, amen, we pray for you.

Okay, Lord, I Thank you, Lord, for your Eternal Word but we ask

that you would just help us to Fall in Love with You.

Lord more that you would help us to see you Lord as you really

are, the lover of our soul or the author and finisher of our

faith. Lord, our friend Lord, I Thank

you for these people, Lord, for what you're doing in our lives

and we commit ourselves to you learn, pray that you would have

your way and you work in the it you'd help us to know you.

More in Jesus's name. Amen.

Oh, that's a good word there. Give it here so and and all the

people said good, it's over. Thank you, anyways.

God bless you guys. We're available.

If you guys want prayer for anything, I mean not that we

have answers but we can receive