Day 18 (2011)

Communing through a Worship Song

0:30 - Commune with God through a worship song - Paint Your Picture - Julie Myer

3:40 - When you find a song like that shut everything else off and just let that play and you’ll be amazed how you become what you are singing about. Grace meets faith.

4:50 - When you shut everything off that is total faith, because you are either out of your mind and wasting your time or you are meeting with Him.

5:20 - I pray through songs a lot of times. I hear what it is saying and I express my own heart to God in faith. I don’t just let the song sing for me. It’s good to speak it out. With your heart you believe and with your mouth you make confession unto salvation. Rom 10:10

Grace meets faith through that communing - You just need the "want to" - Faith is rising to God and grace is coming down and those hands she was singing about are forming and shaping the Father in you. That is just how it works. It’s that simple.

6:00 - You just have to have the “want to” in this Christian life and get alone and release faith and the “want to.” Grace does the work. Nobody is self made. You can’t just get that through knowledge.

6:25 - Knowing a lot without becoming a lot can bring on self-condemnation - One of the biggest mistakes - we know a lot of stuff and then we feel pressured to try to fulfill it all and become it all. In time, so much knowledge can end up producing self-condemnation because you knew so much and then you looked at your life and saw that you know so much but you are not so much. Your knowledge can work against you because it doesn’t have an experience - a life attached to it. So it is just speaking what you are not, in light of what you ought to be. That can push you into striving. For people who are sincere that can be a heavy thing.

Communing in Response to a Teaching

7:40 - Commune as you listen to a teaching - Respond to the Father - Get personal - As something is convicting your heart. Don’t just listen to the word and realize that it is a word for you. RESPOND to the Father. Get personal. One of the greatest things we lack in the church is this kind of communing with the Lord and believing He is there and real.

8:30 - Father, You are amazing. That is so true. That is so Your will for me. And I'm saying yes. My heart is Yours. It's in Your hand Father. And I thank You that You are molding and shaping me according to Your desire. You and I are one and all that You desire is all that I desire. Thank You for having this vision for me.

9:05 - Communing like that will transform your life - God becomes more real. He dispels other things because the more you continue in truth, the more you are transformed by making you free. You see who you are. You see who He is.

9:20 - Truth is your best friend - Not good feelings - Don't focus on ministering to feelings - Impart truth - I can minister to you and you can feel better but if you don’t get truth into you, you are going to need me to minister to you in a week or two when adversity hits. I am more of a truth guy than a ministry guy.

9:50 - Ministering truth - This past week end - physically abused lady - sleep meds - traumatic - freedom from insomnia - felt need to tell her story - This is not who you are. You are not a victim. He doesn’t have the power to change the truth of who you are. Peace, slept all night. One little bit of truth in tender love.

15:50 - Lady in Mississippi - catatonic - lost 6 years - ministered to often by all these people - REPLACE LIES WITH TRUTH -It’s the devil that is lying to her not the devil that is possessing her that needs to be dealt with. - I’m a minister of truth - He’s the Spirit of Truth - “I’ve lost God and I can’t find Him.” - You can’t lose God because He is not running away. - Condemnation - God’s love is greater than your mistakes. Truth applied to the lie.

21:45 - Lady in Ohio - words of knowledge help people see that it is God at work - You are not next in line - truth applied to the lie.

23:20 - Lady 32 yrs old - scoliosis - a lot of metal in her body - Please help me - I’m going to do my best. And I promise you that Jesus already did His best - dancing crazy.

25:25 - Catatonic lady continued - You saved my life. - It’s the truth that saves our lives. And that’s all I gave you that day.

26:00 - The more you believe a lie - stronghold of the lie strengthens.

Commune What Touches Your Heart

26:25 - Commune what touches your heart in this school - Otherwise you just end up with more knowledge - Let everything that is touching your heart in this school and commune it with the Lord. Otherwise you’ll just leave here with a whole lot more knowledge. I want you to BE that masterpiece - that picture (song earlier). I want His signature in you - the clay. And the way that happens is that you commune to God everything that touches you.

Faith Rises above Feelings of Fear

27:10 - What do you do when fears come into your life? -

We don’t live by how we feel - Let faith rise above fear. Sometimes when fear comes into our life we think we have a problem. No, it’s only if you don’t let your faith go bigger. The fact that you are feeling fear should just make a draw on faith. Fear isn’t God, so you respond in faith. Fear ought to provoke faith. Declare why you have no need to be in fear. Speak the finished work of Christ - the accomplishment of the cross - the love of God - the faithfulness of God. It’s not just praying so you don’t feel fear but seeing why you don’t need to be afraid. Your life isn’t your own - it’s in the hand of God.

28:50 - Fear is self-oriented - my welfare.

Fear & The Devil

29:30 - Fear of the devil - vulnerability to the devil - put that away. The devil is mad period. He’s mad because you have the potential of the kingdom of God in you. He’s mad at people whether they are serving Christ or not. He loves blinding, robbing, deceiving.

29:50 - The devil is out to get you - Don’t get into the mentality that because God is using you, the devil is out to get you. God doesn’t raise your rank and then give you less covering. If He gives you increased revelation He is going to back it up. He’s not throwing you to the dogs.

30:20 - Suffering / persecution

30:30 - Vulnerability to the devil - when you fear that the devil is after you, you are saying come and get me. I am subject to be overtaken. No. When crisis arises you respond in faith / truth. Where does fear and worry for yourself ever come in?

31:25 - When you "diagnose" the presence of an evil spirit - Have the decency to help them get free of it - If you are going to tell someone that they are being harassed by a demon, have the faith to get them free. What are we telling each other these things for? If you just diagnose a problem - demon / curse - they leave with more fear. They go home with the identity, I’m cursed - I’m oppressed. Of course the devil is ticked off. He was ticked off before we came to Christ. It’s just not where your focus should be.

32:50 - The gospel (& water baptism) are not just magic lamps that make all of your problems go away. No this is a war you are in. It’s a moving forward in truth. It's faith and grace.

34:05 - This is why we think that everybody needs deliverance. As soon as we feel something, we believe it. As soon as we feel fear we believe it - (that we are vulnerable). As soon as that happens...

34:15 - Fear - Father, I thank You that I have given myself to You, even in water baptism - not just confession but believe and baptize. I am removed of all sin in Your sight. You see me pure and holy. And I thank You, I am not afraid. What can anything do to me? If you are for me, who can possibly be against me. I am Your son and I am redeemed. I am not a target. I am not a sitting duck. I am not a problem waiting to happen. I am Your child and You live in me mightily. God, I worship You... There is a response in truth... And...

34:50 - Respond in truth - Flip it - every time that thing comes. Let that thing provoke you TO Him. Let it be the devil’s fault that you know God so well. We are waiting for God to do things and we have to take it by faith.

35:50 - Water baptism - old passes away. New comes. [Meaning of baptism - heaven's perspective of what happens]

36:20 - Submit to God - Resist the devil - When an old challenge arises, attack it and crush it by submitting to God. You are not in a fight with the devil. Submit to God. If you fight the devil you will just get tired and you will think what you are doing is not working. We’re taught to rebuke and bind. I don’t teach that stuff because as you submit to God, you’ll know God and the lies will be seen clearly for what they are. They will lose their voice and power. That's what it means to submit to God. It’s a one step process: submit to God and you are resisting - one is the same as the other. If you resist before you submit you are just fighting the devil with head knowledge and principles. But if I submit to God, I am growing in revelation and understanding. Submitting to God is your resisting of the devil.

37:40 - There is no time limit on faith - Don’t put a time limit on responding in faith to see if it works. 30 day money back guarantee. You’ve given your life to Him - You live by faith. Don’t complain, backtrack, say, “It’s not working.” You are reducing it to a method when it is a relationship of unfailing love.

38:30 - Yak-yak - Flip it and rejoice. We are listening too much to the devil’s yak-yak.

38:50 - Fear cast out - we are perfected in love - in that relationship with God, fear is cast out. You have not been given a spirit of fear… sound mind. 2 Tim. 1:7 Sound mind - only sound if it is grounded in truth.

39:10 - At work - Brainwashed - My brain has been thoroughly washed. - reading - talking to the Lord - I’m not talking to myself - either he’s nuts or it’s real - they want it not to be real so they don’t have to respond - guy looking through the rack - carpal tunnel.

41:45 - Church where many had arthritis - sounds of authority.

42:50 - Carpal tunnel cont.

43:20 - Lady with abscessed tooth healed - powerful faith - living in joy - chain smoker quits - supervisor calls - never seen anything like it - lady came running - put Dan’s hand on jaw.

51:10 - If I wasn’t in strong relationship / communing with God, wouldn’t I be encroached on with other thoughts - settling into mediocracy - half believing - not flourishing - because I’m believing everything I’m hearing / feeling apart from His love. I can’t afford to live there. Don’t just accept what you hear.

52:10 - Fear wants to paralyze you, own you - but love casts out fear - so we are going to grow in communing. If you feel fear, raise your faith above it. Let it locate faith. How can both faith and fear be there? Fear is not coming out of your own heart. It is being suggested, interjected. Let your heart faith come up and crush it.

53:00 - Participant's comment on fear. Fear and faith in the workplace.

55:50 - People should see / will see God in your everyday life - the fact that you are in love. People mock what they don’t understand. They feel like they need to have an opinion.

56:00 - We value our opinions. “Well, what do you think?” We are very proud that way.

56:15 - Don't project your faith on people - Just love them as good as you can - Projecting on people v. loving people - People who try to project their faith, or make people see something - really get into trouble - then they are contesting. No, just be the best you. You have a greater foundation than what they don’t see or understand. If you are trying to project on people, when they don’t accept, you will feel like you are not doing a good job. This is why I preach relationship all the time, because out of your relationship life flows all the time. And people see and are attracted and even if they don’t understand there is a level of honor. “Wow, you really believe this.” You’re not TRYING to win them, it’s just your life. That’s pure. People see it’s for real and consistent. It doesn’t mean everything is going your way.

Attacks of the Enemy - It's Not Personal

57:40 - How do we cover our kids in protection on a consistent basis? Kids waking up screaming - something is not right.

➡ 59:40 - Attacks by the enemy are designed to stop the kingdom - The message we preached YESTERDAY is really supposed to protect us from reacting like mere people - to where we are taking trials so personally - where it is just an assault on me or my kids. No, it’s about the kingdom.

100:00 - With young children, bring up Jesus openly and all the time and not the devil at all. Most people talk about the devil so much. No. It's alright, honey. Jesus is our King.

100:15 - [Example of comforting kids who are scared]. You are showing no fear.

100:25 - They get to see that you are not moved at all (from faith). Don’t do prayer because you feel vulnerable. Pray because you are in covenant.

101:10 - Take authority - Father, I thank You that none of these things that have tried to get on my children have any access or right. We put our faith in You. We bless this home...

101:20 - See bigger than the crisis in front of you - Love casts out fear - A lot of people go through the motions because they are scared - doing all these Christian things. As you grow in relationship, love casts out fear. You see bigger than the crisis in front of you. Keep Jesus high in all this.

101:40 - Flip it - Let adversity drive you to God - Adversity is trying to break us down. But it is running the risk of establishing us in revelation. Even in repetitive situations, stand firm in faith. [Example of how to comfort kids]

102:50 - Teach kids from a young age that fear - freaking out - is not normal. “Oh, my God.” But that there is a place to stand. Grow in a revelation that God is for us, who can be against us.

103:05 - Kids waking up depressed on Sunday morning - bickering.

103:40 - Whole house creaky and unrestful - coughing - darkness is encroaching your home - worship me - worship.

104:10 - I don't understand the theology of all that. And I don't need to understand it. We get caught up in the mystery of all of that.

105:35 - Focus on the answer - Don't empower the problem by giving it undue attention - I am an answer conscious guy. I do not troubleshoot. (I know that people disagree with me on that. And that's ok. We can agree to disagree.) That night I didn’t even address darkness, I addressed light. And light shone all around me. And light is greater than darkness.

106:15 - Empowering the problem - The biggest thing: You have to protect your soul from becoming perplexed and going on some witch hunt (goose chase). Sometimes we talk to too many people about the problem and you are actually empowering the problem by giving it so much attention. Getting opinions on what they would do - paradox on both ends. As you keep sharing your scenario, your fear increases - your sense of vulnerability increases. You actually empower what the devil is doing every time you go into your scenario. No, approach from faith. Never fear.

107:15 - David Hogan story - spirit grabs son - witch doctor - we did everything we knew to do and it didn’t work - it drove him to God - child is the target because it makes the parent so vulnerable - confrontation with witch doctor - witch doctor runs away.

112:00 - Avoid striving - Especially when you know what should be happening - When you get into striving - knowing what the Bible says should be and it’s not happening - Get rooted and grounded in love and get back in a place of revelation so he could have authority to move. Rather than call all you friends - prayer team. What we are actually saying is, “The devil is amazing. He is so amazing.” (Reacting in fear, when we should be standing in faith.)

112:50 - What is the “assault” in Matthew 11:12? - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. -

Don't take adversity personally - It is coming to stop the kingdom - It could be a lot of things. You have to realize that it is coming to stop the kingdom. If it can get you to take it personally, it will do a great job of stopping the kingdom. If you see it as personal then there is a lot of fear - a lot of vulnerability. Realize that it is a demonic war against the kingdom of God. Assault - sicknesses, symptoms... accidents...

114:40 - Truck wreck - with kids - first responders didn’t believe Dan was the driver - gash in head - not wearing seat belt - obey the law - just a little cut - mercy received.

123:10 - violence / assault - can be anything that is coming against you - anything that is coming against the kingdom.

123:25 - We are forcefully advancing - The kingdom is advancing - and the violent take it by force - We are forcefully advancing. We need to be violent - We need to see what we are a part of - recognize the adversity - not take it personal - take the gospel personal - and move forward the kingdom. We are violent in that we won’t back off.

125:00 - Questioning because of adversity reveals to the enemy that you don't understand who and why you are - That wreck happened after starting a small group and preaching. If you don’t understand what I have been preaching, when the wreck happens - “Why did this happen to me and my kids? Why didn’t God protect me? All we are trying to do is start a home group and advance the kingdom - you would think you could watch our backs.” All kinds of mentalities and questions that we allow because we don’t understand. I don’t have a grid for any of those questions / mentalities. Those questions reveal to the enemy that you don’t know who or why you are.

127:00 - When the accident happens I can’t try to apply a sermon. I have to be that sermon.

127:20 - We need right perspective - So that we don't take adversity personally - But if you don’t have a right perspective on your life and you don’t understand who you are and why, you are in big trouble when that stuff happens. You’ll just take that stuff personal. And then you are just setting yourself up for more personal assault - saying, “I’m a target. I can be struck.”

128:00 - After 2nd wreck for about two months crazy things were happening driving wise - trying to get into my head - starting to make me feel like a target - strategy of the enemy - declarations - no close calls since.

False Impressions

129:40 - Impressions of bad things happening are not necessarily warnings from God - God wants us to stand and fight - the mistake we make is saying that God showed us that - it’s trying to get in your head and set the table for that thing happening - where you expect it - and say, "God was warning me." No it's a demonic thing.

130:45 - Todd dreams that Dan was killed in car accident.

131:15 - If that stuff gets into your head long enough it starts seeping into your heart. Then you start talking about it. That’s when it’s got you. Dreams...

131:40 - Christian books on how God showed me how my spouse was going to die and got me ready. That’s not God. God gives you every reason to believe and hold on and stand. It’s a familiar spirit that is taking the sword out of your hand and laying your shield down - it’s undressing your armour. And then it is stealing, killing and destroying. You are accepting it as God and it nullifies the Bible - the book of His faithfulness. It is lies from hell.

133:05 - If God shows you something tragic (senseless death) before it occurs, it’s to get you to intercede.

133:20 - We think that every time that we have a dream or get an impression that it's God. But if it doesn’t promote life and increase life it’s not from God.

133:45 - When people yield to that kind of deception it’s difficult to minister to them because if they accept what you are saying it means they let their loved one go without a fight. They become very defensive.

134:10 - Yes and Amen gospel - You are called to hold a shield that quenches all the fiery darts of the devil. His promises are yes and amen. No mixing of the two. Anything less is of the evil one.

134:45 - The reason that we have yes and no doctrine is because of our experience. But the life of Jesus lived should settle that thing forever.

135:00 - Many, many people have been scammed by false dreams and impressions. Then we begin to expect and accept what is dreamed.

135:45 - Language of the fall - “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” We are being destroyed by what we don’t understand. “Don’t get your hope up.”

136:35 - BREAK