Day 5 (2011)

Sacrament of Communion

1:05 - The meaning of communion - A remembering - the Bible says as often as you do it - 1 Cor. 11:26 - you don't have to wait for a church service. There are some people that believe that this becomes the literal body and blood of Jesus and I think that is incredible (amazing) that people believe that. I heard Randy Clark once say, "I wish I could believe that. That's beautiful." It's not something to debate over. One thing I do know is it's a remembering of what Jesus did and accomplished until He comes. That I know.

1:55 - Communion as a contact point of faith - Let it be a contact point of faith for you. Cheerios and milk. You can do this without element but just an awareness of the presence of Jesus and what He did for us. The elements just point you in this direction. It's a heart thing. But you can do this wherever you are.

2:30 - A season of daily communion - There was a season in my life where I received communion every day until it seemed like that season had passed. The accomplishment of the body and blood to me - to my own heart - my own life got really, really big. It wasn't just head knowledge because I was receiving it with Him alone when you weren't there.

3:00 - And it was communion. I was coming into union with the finished work of Christ. I was having fellowship with what He accomplished. So I was like, Father I just thank you that you sent your Son... It was communion (God and me). And I did that every day for a long time.

3:20 - The revelation of the body got really, really big - so powerful - scriptures would come. And I remember it being 40 minutes before I ever put it in my mouth. And I thought, man, if I keep doing this, I'll have to get up at 4 in the morning to receive communion because I've got to get in to the office.

3:45 - Then I would take the blood and start over in a sense. The body accomplished something and the blood accomplished something. It would bring me into a place of oneness and unity with Him.

3:55 - All that is mine is yours - All that is yours is mine - Another aspect of communion is all that is mine is yours and all that is yours is mine. You didn’t hold anything back. You gave me your whole self. You gave your body and blood that I could have life. And if I come after you, I deny myself, pick up my cross and follow you (Luke 9:23). You gave everything. And then there is a committal. There's a place of giving yourself. Water baptism has that same connotation.

4:45 - Communing with God through the sacrament of communion -

4:50 - The body - Just thank God for Jesus - for the body. Reflect on whatever you know about the body. Thank Jesus that He really did come. He was beaten, bruised. He gave His flesh. Surrendered, sacrificed, put Himself on the cross. Faced and conquered death so that you never have to die. He was separated from the Father so that you could be forever joined with Him. Thank God that He died for you because He loves you - because your life is worth living - because He sees value to your destiny and to your purpose... And you made it possible. One died that all could live. You were the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Your innocence was yielded and given up so that my guilt could be moved away.

6:10 - It's amazing. He rose, literally from the dead in this body. He came up with a brand new body - first born from the dead - first born among many. And when you raised, I was justified. I was made clean and pure and right. I have every right to life because you live. Thank you.

6:55 - Beaten beyond description - He was beaten beyond description. You couldn't even tell who He was when they finished. He yielded His flesh to the place of being unrecognizable. That's amazing. They beat Him and beat Him. He was marred more than any of the sons of men - Is. 52:14. When sin got done with Adam and Eve in the garden, they didn't look anything like they were created to be. They lost their appearance. They lost the glory of God. They lost the image of God. Jesus came and was beat beyond recognition and lost His appearance so that we could be restored back to what we looked like at the beginning. You wonder why did the beating have to be so brutal? Because sin was so brutal. We all died through one man's disobedience but much more... much more - Rom. 5:15. You see what Jesus did so crushed sin and the effects of sin - much more - through one man's obedience we are made righteous.

8:05 - Father we just hold this up and we thank you for the body of Jesus Christ. We've taken time. We've pondered in our hearts. We've personally thanked you and we have appreciated the sacrifice. Let it grow in revelation and understanding and even in appreciation. Let our eyes see what Jesus accomplished more than ever before. And as we enter into this communion time and this school, we dedicate this time to you and we say, even as You gave all that You are, as best we understand, we give all that we are to know You and to become more like You - to manifest You by the Spirit of God. So we take this and we thank You that we are in covenant. And all that is yours is ours. And all that is ours is yours. And we thank you for for the body of Christ. In Jesus' name.

9:00 - The blood - Take your cup. Just thank Him for the blood. The blood was given to forgive us of all sin - every act of sin ever committed.

9:10 - The act and effects of sin - sin removed - The blood was give to remove the act of sin. The body was given to remove the effects of sin. Where do the effects of sin reside? Usually in the body - somewhere in the soul - in the mind - in the flesh. So Jesus was made to be sin and everything that sin was and brought. Was put on Him so that it could be taken off of us. He cursed sin in the flesh by making His Son to be sin on the cross. Anything hanging on a pole is cursed by God - Deut. 21:23. And sin shall have no dominion over us - Rom. 6:14. You are not under the dominion of sin. Righteousness rules and reigns in our hearts. ➡ And we have been talking about that (righteousness) all week long.

9:55 - So take this blood and thank God that you are forgiven. Sin has lost it's power. Death has lost it's sting. That you are not ruled by yesterday - by mistakes - by failures. You stand in the presence of God because of the accomplishment of the finished work of Jesus Christ. You have a high priest who has passed through the heavens and you have access to the Father. You can receive His love, His grace, His mercy, His power. You stand righteous because of the blood that was shed. The blood is on the mercy seat in the holy heavenly tabernacle and it speaks mercy over your life. You go free. That's amazing.

10:40 - Thank Him personally. Thank God that He loves you, forgives you, made you completely clean, completely pure. Thank Him that you are spotless - holy, blameless and above reproach. That's blasphemy. No, that's Col. 1:22. Thank you for your word God. Your word was made flesh. You came and dwelt among us. You manifested who you are and who we are called to be. Thank you for the blood that was shed that made us right - that revealed to us so much that we are learning and growing in. We honor You. We receive the blood of Jesus Christ right now. And we stand clean and righteous because of your goodness and your justice. In Jesus' name.

Get Real with God

11:50 - Be real with God - Interact from the heart - I kept that real and low key because I want us to learn to activate our hearts and just get real - you and God. We are always being led into things and following and it is just real good to take time... And I don't care if it's quiet... Just make sure your heart is responding to God at some level.

12:10 - Camp in thoughts and the word until it becomes real in your life - Some people have more capacity to respond at a big level. Others have just one or two thoughts that are becoming alive to them. You camp there until they live in you and then another one will grow.

12:25 - I don't want to know the whole Bible. I want to become that word. I don't want to read it so that I can quote it at the coffee table or during a spiritual conversation. I feel like I am in the conversation because I know what the Bible says. No, I want to become the word.

12:50 - Crossroads Christianity - I told you about that last week. Just becoming the word and not having a fork in the road and not having multiple choice and options.

➡ 12:55 - Get rooted and grounded - That’s one reason we’re having this school so that we can be rooted and grounded in love and be formed in Christ by the Spirit of God.

Ongoing Sickness

13:40 - Email from online viewer - She has had diabetes for 14 years and she is only 27. - How do you keep an ongoing sickness from becoming your identity, your lifestyle? - People say that diabetes is a lifestyle not a disease. You have to get used to dealing with it.

14:35 - Don't take on the identity of what you are going through - Sickness - There are a lot of things like this in peoples' lives - people that are sincere and growing in Christ. And they have physical things that try to hold them back or certain mental things... And you can let that identify you easily. You can let what you are going through become your identity because it's real. It has ramifications to it. It has feelings (associated with it).

15:00 - Some people get so identified by sickness that they feel like if I'm feeling that, I can't pray for the sick - because I'm sick. Why? Because you are taking on the identity of that sickness and now you are disqualified to move by the Spirit. You're not seeing yourself for the Spirit (what the Spirit can do through you). You're seeing yourself for what you are going through.

15:20 - Stand in faith despite sickness by praying for the sick - I tell people that one of the greatest things that you can do is go pray for the sick even when you're not feeling that good. When you go pray for them it's not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is wearing a mask - play acting. Hypocrisy isn't praying for the sick when you have sickness in your body. People say to me, "Well that would make me feel like a hypocrite." Why? No, you are saying, "Look I know that this has not been my experience but the word is way above my experience. I haven't felt it in my body yet but God says that He loves us and He heals us and I believe it. That's why I'm praying for you. And this thing is going to happen." Or you are just going to sell short by say, "Well, I feel like a hypocrite."

16:15 - Hypocrisy - A hypocrite is a play actor. It's saying one thing and meaning another. It's saying I love you and not loving you at all. It's just fitting in. It's playing a part to get something.

16:30 - Praying for the sick when you are sick is actually faith. "I believe the word of God above what I am experiencing right now. And none of this is going to eat my lunch because Jesus is Lord and I am pressing in."

16:50 - Stand firm in His love despite ongoing sickness - The greatest thing you can do when you are going through ongoing sickness... Here's the temptation. Your mind wants to get hit by a thousand questions. "Well, why am I not healed? Why is this happening? Well if God... then how come...?..." and none of that builds you in relationship - none of that takes the sickness away. It just confuses your mind and troubles your heart. You are rooted and grounded in love - Eph. 3:17.

17:30 - Rooted and grounded in God's love - I tell the testimonies of some things (sicknesses) that I've been through a few things that were serious and they tried to eat my lunch for a little while. And if I didn't have what I am telling you down and understood, I would have scrambled, groped, grabbed, struggled and sold out my identity four or five times along the way. No, you are rooted and grounded in God's love. Bottom line - God loves me - period. We've settled that because He died on the cross.

17:50 - Don't waste time questioning His love - His love is not challenged because I am going through an experience in my flesh. "Well if God loves me how come I'm still going through this?" Please throw away the right to even ask that question. If God didn't love you, He would have never put Jesus on the cross. We're in a spiritual war. We're growing and learning. We're getting healed and set free even in our souls - our mind and emotions. That's where the battle is any way.

18:10 - Salvation of your soul - There are two places in the Bible where it talks about the "salvation of your soul (Heb 10:39; 1 Peter 1:9). - Your spirit is saved and born again but your mind and emotions are what’s being redeemed from the fall as you grow up in Christ. You start to think more like God thinks - feel more like God feels. We need salvation of the soul because we get into fear and self-consciousness and seeing things for the flesh - in the natural. That's the way that we were trained for our whole lives.

18:50 - Salvation of the soul - The healing of your mind and emotions - Both times the phrase "salvation of the soul" is used it has to do with believing and stepping forward. Why? ➡ Because you’re not living by what you see. You’re not living sensual - like we covered all last week. You’re living by faith. And the end result of your faith is the salvation of your soul - the consummation - the finished work of your faith - is the healing, delivering, setting free of your, making whole of your mind and emotions. Well isn't that the thing that goes bonkers on people?

19:50 - So you have a physical condition - ongoing illness - And as time goes by, the mind says, "Well it's been 2 weeks. If I was doing things right this would be gone by now." And then you start groping and looking for answers. I promise you that receiving the love of God and being rooted and grounded in love and not letting your heart and mind shift is the greatest thing you can do.

20:30 - Questions that contest your faith - I had times where I thought I was going to die. And most people, the best they could say to me was, "Yeah, but Dan this doesn't make sense. If you understood righteousness how come it's touching you in the first place?" So it's this contradictory question that's not even producing life. It's more of a contesting. And we reserve the right in the human intellect to even ask those questions. "Are you kidding, I can't even answer that question. I just know that I'm in a war and Jesus loves me and lives in my spirit and my flesh is going to say, "Yes sir!" in a minute. That's all that I can tell you."

21:15 - Ongoing sickness doesn't determine God - God determines the situation - I know that when I wake up in pain, I never give that ongoing sickness the right to determine who God is. I always let who God is have the right to determine what is going on in my body by staying here and receiving love. Father, You love me...

21:35 - We come up with theologies to explain what isn't happening - When you've been prayed for by Spirit filled believers and nothing changes, your mind tends to say, "If God wanted me healed He would have healed me by now." That's what the church does and then we create theology based on what is and isn't happening. And now we answer the thing (the perplexing lack of healing). We write a new book.

22:10 - Lady called crying in a van - Was taught man's doctrine regarding tongues - Lady called crying - parked by the side of the road - NC - disheartened - wants to receive praying in tongues but told can’t receive Holy Spirit until clean - starts hearing how He loves her - Oh my goodness. You do love me. It’s faith, not intellect.

24:50 - Ongoing sickness is not who you are - Sickness is the same way, you start identifying with the thing that is not in order and it starts marking you. That's your biggest challenge when you are going through something like ongoing sickness. It wants to try to get in. That's why we really have to get free from self-consciousness, self-centeredness stuff. Even though this ongoing sickness is real, you have to be careful not to let it become who you are because who you are is in Christ - period. So that is your fighting point. You wake up in the morning...

25:20 - Standing firm in the face of ongoing sickness - Father, I'm in You. You love me and I am blessed. Your Spirit is upon me. Father, Your favor is towards me. And I thank You for the blessing of this gospel on my flesh. Thank You for life in my body. Father I know that my life is worth living - that your mark is upon me. You love me because the blood of Jesus was shed... And you just keep going like that - You love me...

25:50 - We're going to stand in faith and not cave in to "Yeah buts" - As time goes by (with no change) you will face more "Yeah buts". No, I'm telling you all we know is this (relationship with God). We’re growing up in all thing into Him and all of these other things (yeah buts) are going to iron out and make sense. We’re not going to look back or draw back.

The Gospel is Simple - Not Complicated

26:05 - Don't get over complicated in your thinking - If there is a real issue God will shine light on it - It's not, "You don't have enough faith" or "You are doing something wrong." Because if there is a thing like that that would seem to be empowering this thing (ongoing sickness). If I am doing this (communing) in relationship and He loves me and I am growing in that who knows that as a Father, He is going to nurture me and open that up (help me understand).

26:35 - Don't think that anything can keep Him from you - We give that stuff so much power and we're saved by grace through faith and the best we know, out hearts are sincere and we want to do right. We're not subject to all of this craziness like people think. There is not some crazy thing behind the scenes (hurts from the past?, unforgiveness?) binding up my life when I am sincere like a child and just want Jesus. I just want Jesus. And now you are making it really difficult in your theology, thinking that all of these other glitches are in the way. No, I just want Jesus. I'm not going to let any rational mindset keep me from Him. So I don't have a grid for all of that stuff having power and being in the way. You're not going to stop this thing now. He's come and I am here - Yay!

27:15 - It's not complex - Don't make things that seem to stand in the way powerful - It's just not that technical and difficult. But if you believe that it is, you are going to get weird and mystical on some thinking... When I say weird I mean outside of simplicity. Complex is a better word. You are going to stretch truth outside of the parameters of truth. And start making things have power. You have what you believe in the gospel.

27:45 - It's a simple gospel - If it's simplicity then it's simple. I'm concerned for you that as Eve was deceived by the serpent, you too have been removed from the simplicity that's in Christ - 2 Cor. 11:3. This thing is simple.

28:35 - I was lost. He came and died and set me free. He put all that He is in me and gave me His kingdom. Yay! I'm free. I'm out of darkness and into light. I'm sanctified. I'm in the kingdom of the Son of His love. I was lost, now I'm found. I had no covenant, now I do. I was estranged, now I'm not. Yay! I'm in. I'm delivered from the power of darkness - Col. 1:13.-

Walk by Faith - Not by Feelings / Deliverance

29:25 - We're already delivered - We're not vulnerable - I have been delivered. There is so much talk about needing deliverance. It's because we don't believe we are delivered. And then everything that we are afraid of an vulnerable to says, "Ahah!" and grabs you and chokes you. You're not choking me or holding me. You don't even have a right to me. I'm filled with the Spirit of God and I'm righteous. My heart is pure.

30:00 - Now if I violate my conscience - if I start living in secret sin, I look in the mirror and see less than Christ sees and I start feeling all of this stuff and believing all of this stuff, then stuff will eat my lunch. But you are not coming and eating my lunch. You're not even sitting with me at the table.

30:15 - Jesus finished the work - I am delivered - I've been talking like this for 16 years. If I was on a tangent (if what I was saying was not true), I would have be crushed (by the enemy) a long time ago. And all I know is that I am more passionate than ever before. The longer I am around, the more that I see and understand that a lot of times we don't see and understand. Jesus finished the work and I am delivered.

30:40 - Declare deliverance - The devil is not my issue - When you are all alone... Thank You Father for Your deliverance. Thank You that Your Spirit is enough. And I am free and no matter what door I opened - no matter who opened what - no matter who said what / did what - if I am forgiven, I am free. If it's removed and forgotten, it can't bite me. It has no voice. It has no authority. In fact you've given me all authority - all authority in the power of Your name over all the power of the devil. He is not my issue. Growing in You is my issue and receiving Your love and saying thank You for life is my issue...

31:15 - Express faith in truth - Live by truth - Don't live according to your feelings - But we’re not believing we are feeling. "Yeah, but it doesn’t seem that way to me." That's carnal. Then we cater to that and try to help you by some other way than the truth - that makes you free. If you continue… in my word... - not your feelings - not somebody's idea - not another persons' experience - that's a big one... But if you continue in my word, you will know the truth and the truth will make you free - John 8:31-32. That's what's wrong with me right now. It's overwhelming me. The truth has made me free.

32:30 - Don't subvert truth because of feelings - It's the truth that sets you free. And I'm not going to sell cheap when feelings are a dime a dozen. I've been purchased with a price. I'm not even my own. Old things are passed away, behold all things are new - 2 Cor. 5:17.

32:50 - "Well, they sure don't feel new brother." That's our response. "Well, I don't seem free. I don't know. Pray for me." And then because we love each other we pray for each other, we pray for each other. But we don't pray in the light of this truth. We pray, "Come and help!" And God is saying, "I've done everything. You've got to believe." Because if you don't believe then you'll be ruled by feeling and "it seems" and sensual and intellect. They are still going to rule. And the way that seems right to man is going to be laced all through this amazing life giving gospel. And it's going to sell it short.

33:35 - The way that seems right but it doesn't produce life - Prov 14:12... Then we debate over this stuff and we hold up each others testimonies - "I had all these problems and then one day I realized that this thing (evil spirit) had me all the while." But if you get alone with God...

33:50 - Declare freedom, salvation, deliverance - Get alone with God and by faith... You have made me free. You have saved my life. And You are showing me what that means. Holy Spirit, I welcome You because You made me fit to live inside of and You have come to make Your home in me. I am Yours and You are mine. And You love me with unfailing love. I have been delivered from life, from the world, from the devil and the flesh. I am Yours. You get real and start talking like that and you will come out changed. You will come out knowing that the gospel is real.

34:45 - Walking by truth is what makes me different - It's not a special gift or grace - Then all along the way people will tell you, "You are really different. You're an enigma. God has put a special grace on your life - a special gift in your life." I say, "No, no, no." We're either doing this school because we (you and I) think it's a good idea or Jesus has me standing here. If Jesus has me standing here, does He have me here teaching something that you can't have? Then is it a special gift or grace? Or is it simply walking in truth?

35:30 - Living by faith vs. Living sensual - Maybe we have just had a hard time defining truth because we have been very sensual and intellectual. We've used our heads more than our hearts. With the heart a man believes, not his head - Rom. 10:10. ➡ Last week we hit it so hard - the sensual v. the faith thing.

35:50 - Most Christians have not gotten alone with God and declared freedom, salvation, deliverance. We call each other for prayer because we feel like we need deliverance. And we’re living sensual.

36:15 - Deliverance ministry is valid and has a place - But don't chase that - I'm not bashing deliverance ministry. There's a place. I've seen people delivered - things manifest - there is story after story. But I don’t believe that everybody has to have a hidden issue. I don’t chase that. But the need for deliverance ministry does happen. When it does, Holy Spirit is there.

36:35 - Get alone with Him - He can deliver without you even realizing it - But I know one thing, when I get alone with Him... I believe that when you commune with God, God can take care of that stuff - slip them out of you (evil spirits) - without you even knowing it. Because God doesn't want hurdles on the track of your identity. You don't even need to know that stuff. You just need to know that He is good. He's more than enough. And His love never fails and He's amazing and you're amazing in Him - period. All that other stuff (evil spirits / deliverance) - why do you even need to know that?

37:10 - Salvation includes deliverance - Some say, “Well, you’re saved but now you need to be delivered.” Where does Jesus say that? I hear it in the church all the time. Show me where Jesus said that you're saved but not delivered. Salvation is all inclusive - saved, healed, delivered, protected, preserved, made whole and kept safe and sound.

37:40 - There is a vulnerability that sneaks in and all of the sudden we believe that everybody has to have their closets - everybody has to have a hook in them. If that's true I am an enigma.

37:55 - Don't accommodate living by feelings - Exalt faith - You say, "Dan you are exalting your experience above others (the experience of others?). No, I'm exalting faith and the revelation of knowing that God can make you free. I won't accommodate you if you say, "Well, I just can't believe that." "Yes, you're called to that and every man has been given a measure of faith." Don't say, "Well, Dan, I can't believe what you are saying because I feel this..." I won't come up with a way to help you. I will just keep preaching the gospel to you and you'll either get frustrated and walk away or you'll begin to believe and feel free. I'm not going to accommodate that (walking by feelings). The just live by faith - Rom. 1:17.

38:35 - We have to come to Him by faith - "Dan, what you are preaching is fine but you have to understand that not everyone can believe what you're preaching." "Well that's a shame because that's what Jesus preached. And He called us to faith and said that those who believed shall be saved." So faith - believing Him - and my heart being clean and pure and surrendered brings me into freedom. And all of the sudden everything that was keeping me from Him is our of my heart - out of my life and He comes on me.

39:15 - Salvation experience recap...and then walking in Christ ever since then. And I don't know of one time looking back. But He taught me faith in that place.

39:50 - People call me out of the blue to pray because they know me as a man of faith. But that's normal. You call on Jesus. You know where He is. You know who He is going to be.

40:10 - If He said, "Follow me," and Christ is in us, that same consistency, that same revelation, that same light can come on... In His light we see light - His word is the entrance way of light. We can know can't we? We can forever know and be free. Is that possible? Is that true?

40:30 - If you don't believe that's true, it's probably the reason life seems so up and down. That's how serious faith is. That's how serious it is to get alone with God by faith and just say what He's saying and say yes to every yes that He says.

40:45 - ...back to question - This is all coming out of this question (@13:40). So when you are suffering like this you can't let continuing illness overtake who you are even though the symptoms are real. So it's not time to criticize healing. It's time to keep growing in love.

41:15 - 3rd witchcraft episode - Crystal waterfall - I thought I was dying - standing in faith - crystal waterfall.

42:45 - Running after manifestations - I don’t teach about manifestations / experiences (like the experience just mentioned) much because manifestations are not the basis for our faith. I don't talk much about what I have experience because we have such a need for tangibility that we run after that stuff instead of running after Him. You have no idea how concerned I am about that topic.

43:10 - Crystal waterfall (cont.) - poured over my head. It was amazing. Everything the devil did helped to form Christ in me so much more than He was ever formed before. It I don't understand then, "What am I doing wrong? This is the third time.". And I would be talking myself, by natural wisdom, right into a mess. I don’t have the answers for all of this but I know one thing - He loves me - He's for me - He paid the amazing price - His Spirit is in me - We're not looking back or down. We're looking up from whence comes our help and we're going to win - period.

44:25 - In my mind I'm not expecting to die. But even if I don't get off the floor, I still haven't lost. But I don't want to open that door to wide - to where people are conceding to death - because I believe it's all about life and living and running your journey and leaving a legacy and not getting taken out by something that's not God. I'm not talking about just yielding to death and giving up.

44:50 - Crystal waterfall (cont.) - crystal waterfall and preaching for 10 minutes afterward in my house - preached the glory of Christ and the finished work of Christ. Lord are we even ready for this kind of strategy - this warfare? We get our eyes on how intense it is. And the situation is much bigger than we have grown in understanding.

46:20 - Be identified by truth and nothing else - So in a situation like the email question (@13:40) no matter what it is in your life, don’t ever let what doesn’t measure up to truth identify you, dishearten you, discourage you. In fact if anything, seek God all the more because you know that this is not who you are.

46:35 - Prayer for student's healing - email question - diabetes.

Correcting

47:35 - Do I need to intervene in a wrong situation and how does that fit with love / forgiveness? - Intentional wrong toward a child.

48:05 - Sometimes we need to address situations - Be sure you know that something is intentional. Don't overlook incompetency. [Incompetency scenario - medical] It's not a lack of love to address a situation. It's not judging a person as much for the sake of the child. Give the person every chance to do right. You monitor the situation.

49:40 - We can address situations without being hateful - Intentional wrong - [caretaking situation] If it is the detriment of the person being cared for you simply make a decision. You may have the wrong caretaker. That's not a lack of love to have that person removed and someone else come in that is going to look after them properly. You can make changes without getting hateful.

50:00 - Don't correct from being offended - We're so used to getting overtaken by the situation and becoming a product of the wrong, that you can't ever address stuff. There are times that you have to correct - children - in the church - leadership. The key is to address if from uprightness. You don't do it from a heart that's offended, hurt or rubbed the wrong way because there is no grace on that. That will only go as far as flesh will take it. And usually it creates a mess.

50:40 - Disciplining children - There are times that you have to discipline children. But you don't line up your children to truth just because "you've had enough" and because "they ought to know better by now." Not out of frustration and anger. No, we are growing to a capacity of love that even when I have to discipline I have to know that it's coming out of my heart for the sake of the person - for their sake and the long run.

51:05 - Keep your motive clean and clear - Sometimes you have to make decisions and take action - just make sure the “why” is clean and clear. In this specific case if it is intentional you have to address it. Dealing with it in mercy is just not dealing with it in the flesh. Address it by all means. Keep the well-being of your son intact.

Growing up into Him

52:15 - You said the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us? What Spirit is that? - In other words, is there a specific spirit that's assigned to raise Jesus from the dead? He's simply talking about the Spirit of God - the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of the Lord. He lives in us and how much more if He lives in us will He quicken our mortal bodies - Rom. 8:11. Christ in us - the Holy Spirit. Why does He live in us? So we can do the same thing. Now listen to her next question...

53:00 - Why should I be able to do what Christ did? Isn’t that what makes Him stand out?

That's a common thought - that Jesus came to reveal His deity...

53:15 - Jesus is our model - He said "Follow Me" - Jesus on the earth - in the flesh modeled the life we were created to live and He said, “Follow me.” He wouldn’t have said that if it couldn’t happen. He modeled a life I was created to live and gave me the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead to live in me. Jesus, on the earth, doesn’t want to stand out. He’s showing you what you are created for. He’s showing you what Adam was designed to walk in and live and be. Jesus is the last Adam. Jesus fulfilled what the first Adam failed in. Now He puts His Spirit in us and says, "Follow me." The things I do, you’ll do if you believe - John 14:12. See it all goes back to believing. That's why our identity is so huge - because self-consciousness, fear, vulnerability, frustration - all these things get moved out of us as we keep our eyes on Him and keep growing. We are growing up in Him in all things - Eph. 4:15.

54:20 - Enjoy the growth process - It takes time - So don't fret. Don't get intellectual. "Well, God said He would do all things and heal and I haven't seen..." And we get intellectual and we stop growing. [Growth from a seed] Growth take time. It grows into big, mature tree. Don't stop that growth. Enjoy the process of growing up in all things into Him. Calm down and enjoy growth.

55:55 - We get anxious for results now - to see healing now. Just pray for one. Start somewhere.

56:25 - If the things that He did we can do if we believe... What are we growing in? We’re growing in believing and understanding. We're growing in a revelation of Christ. That’s why communion and union is so important. It's going to branch out and affect every area of our lives like the manifestation of love, power, the working of miracles, prophetic.

56:45 - Prophecy - God can tell Himself anything - A lot of us want to prophesy - above all desire prophecy - 1 Cor. 14:1. Just let your heart become one with God and you will start to hear so clearly. God can tell his heart - Himself - anything. So it's not, "I need a word." No, be sincere and see God’s love for the person. And just let what happens happen and flow.

57:35 - Prophecy - Camouflaged - We have to do it in a form and a certain way and style. A friend said to me, "You hear God a lot more when you are praying for people than you let on. You kind of cover up prophecy. Why do you cover up prophecy?" "Because people are crazed over it. So I cover it up and tie it into my prayer and I camouflage it completely." I've been doing that for years. I do it on purpose. Because of where a lot of us are.

58:20 - If you start prophesying and it's not under cover, then there is this long line and everybody just wants a word. Wants you to just know stuff. Just get alone with Him. A lot of times that is what He is saying. Seek me and you will find me - Jer. 29:13. Draw near to me and I will draw near to you - James 4:8. When you pray, close your door. I will see you there - Mt. 6:6. Come unto ME all you who labor - who are heavy laden… - Mt. 11:28.

59:05 - It doesn't say come to a service but come to ME. Now we can go to a service to get directed to Him hopefully. Come unto Me. And who is going to give you rest? He said I will. That's intimate...

59:30 - See...Feelings are OK. Feelings can be fun. You just don’t live by them.

59:40 - God wants you to stand out and look like Him - Back to the question (@53:00)... Why should I be able to do the same? Isn’t that what makes Him stand out? He wants us to stand. He wants us to stand out as Christ in you. Colossians says that Paul went preaching everywhere until Christ in us was formed - Gal. 4:19. Christ in me the hope of glory - Col. 1:27. Glory - the manifest attributes of God. The Christ in me is the hope of manifesting God. So why is He in me? So I can look like Him. So I can do what He did. So He didn't want to stand out in His earthly ministry and for us to say, "Well, that was Jesus." Jesus was first born among MANY… - Rom. 8:29.

Paul's Thorn

100:10 - What about Paul’s thorn in the flesh (2 Cor. 12:7)?

100:30 - The "thorn" refers to persecution - Not to sickness - People bring this objection up all the time. In the preceding chapter (2 Cor. 11) he talks about all of the suffering and persecution he has experienced in his ministry. Infirmity - not sickness but human weakness - weakness of flesh. Infirmity and weakness used interchangeably in that passage. Not talking about physical sickness - but about persecutions and suffering.

101:25 - God promised Paul persecution and suffering - Did God promise healing in the Bible? Yes. Did He promise suffering and persecution for living Godly? Yes. He promised both of those. I'll show you the things you must suffer for my name - Acts 9:16. Paul was asking God to remove something that God promised Paul would experience. God is not obligated to remove what He has promised unless He sovereignly chooses to. However, how can God sovereignly choose to override His word? When His word is the integrity of who He is and it's higher than His name - He won’t go back on His word.

102:00 - God keeps His word - God honors His word above His name (Ps. 138:2). Example - promises to children - If you promise them one thing and then change mind when they accomplish the goal - you teach them to not trust your word.

102:35 - The devil loves when we get loose with God’s sovereignty. And imply that God is just free to break His word. The word is God - John 1:1. Then you will never know what to believe. Keeps us confused - we won’t know what to believe - and you’ll never be a person of faith and every promise is to the believer. That’s a problem. God is not fickle.

103:00 - God promised healing - But sickness was not Paul's issue - If God promised healing and Paul was sick, and God shifts and says, I know I promised healing but my grace will get you through. You could never trust His word again. You could never believe His promises.

103:30 - Paul was asking God to remove what God had promised - Here's the deal: Paul was asking God to remove something that God had already promised that Paul would encounter. I’m not going to remove what I promised, just know that my grace is greater than what you are going through - what you are feeling right now. My grace is sufficient - 2 Cor. 12:9.

104:00 - Paul’s thorn is not sickness. There’s nowhere that it says sickness. Buffet - blows to the flesh. Beatings. Stoning. Whips, rods. [Extended discussion of Paul's suffering]

106:00 - People bring up this objection on the street - well, this is just my thorn. Let’s just pray anyway…

106:30 - Prayed for person - God only heals if it’s His will. Healed. Obviously, it was His will and His time. They didn't relate the healing to believer priesthood, prayer of faith. They just kind of pushed that to the side. Well, God healed because He wanted to - it was His timing.That's such a bummer mentality. God shows up and does this cool stuff and we don't appreciate it's significance. Asked God to bless the person and reveal Himself.

Narrow Way

➡ 108:00 - We are loved by God - We are righteous in His sight - Don't be identified any other way - LAST WEEK - we hit hard on righteousness - your identity in Christ being righteous - you’re loved by God - and a lot of tangents. We camped in: You’re holy, blameless and above reproach if you continue in faith - Col. 1:22. In the next chapter of Col. - As you received Christ so walk in Him (faith) - Col. 2:6. By faith - rooted and grounded, established in faith. Don’t let yourself be cheated - hold you captive by man’s ideas, the world’s ways & the world’s wisdom. Don’t let anything identify you as other than in Christ - the way. We think that is so (narrow)...

110:10 - Lady doing thesis - Universal peace and unity - When it comes to the things of God I am open - but when it comes to my pursuit of God and my access to God I might be as narrow as any man you’ve met. Preached Jesus and she got angry. See how surface your "peace" thing is? You hate me for what I believe. It's so surface and shallow. The reason Jesus came was for what is spewing out of you right now. You can talk the talk but you have no capacity to walk the walk.

114:10 - The narrow way - Narrow, confined is the way and few are those who find it - Mt. 7:14. That's the total liberty and freedom through the one way - the way - where their whole identity is in Christ and Christ alone. So many other things that make the way broader than it really is - ideas, feelings, motivations, things that identify us, sources of esteem, need for love. We don't realize how much our esteem, our security is hinging on other things - what people say and don't say to us is huge.

115:25 - The broad place on the other side - The kingdom - The door is narrow but the place (the kingdom) on the other side is broad, big, wide. The Psalmist said that He set me in a broad place - Ps. 18:19. The broad place is the kingdom. The door is so narrow why would you ever try to weasel back out? That's kind of how truth is. It makes you free.

Recap of Romans 5

➡ 117:00 - We are reconciled - Made friends - Now He is restoring us who He created us to be - LAST WEEK - we looked at Romans 5. Recap - showing how while we were yet sinners God sent His Son - Rom. 5:8. While we were still sinners - at nature, at heart. God said I see better for you. Reconciled - to be made friends. How much more shall we be saved by His life - Redemption and restoration. [Extended recap and reading of Romans 5] There’s a whole lot more than just praying that prayer to go to heaven. There's a redemption of emotions, mindsets, where you live from. I just want you to see righteousness in this. It is a big deal for you to know that God has made you reconciled and friends. I no longer call you servants, I call you friends - John 15:15. I’ve revealed the will of the Father by coming. So He lets us in on it - we're not just serving the Lord. We’re not living for God. We’re living through (from) God - manifesting who He is - 1 John 4:9. There is a big difference - Living for God - you get weary and wonder if you’re living good enough. Living through God - exciting and you are already acceptable through Christ.

119:40 - Romans 5 v.11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. -

There is a place for me to rejoice in being made friends with God - most people don’t understand that they are made friends with God - right with God - reconciled.

120:45 - Pray from a place of having been reconciled - Not many people pray that way. We are so self-conscious that it takes us 20 minutes to get past ourselves and then it’s time to leave the room any way. Troubleshooting instead of rejoicing in reconciliation.

Ministry Crazed - Trust the Word - Trust the Spirit

121:45 - Raised by the Masons - Todd’s lunch with some men - raised by Masons - they kind of freaked out - they make so much of it that it becomes bigger than God - ever had deliverance? - Todd just learned Truth. I’m a new creation - 2 Cor. 5:17. Yes, yes that's what you are supposed to say but the reality is that you aren't free. You also need to be delivered. What if I really do believe that scripture? What if the blood is enough? What if I am a new creature and it's not ever about looking back? And they said unless you do this one thing, you'll never make it. Todd called me about it. We ride our experiences instead of trusting His word. We diminish His word and elevate our experiences.

124:45 - Stand in the truth, His word - We honor other things by our reactions - We rely on experiences rather than trust in God’s word - to the point where if you declare His word you are just hyper-spiritual and in denial. You find that when you are in a service and you mention something like the Masons or witchcraft you'll get a bigger response than if you say that Jesus is Lord. People react because those things mean something to them. That's the devil's plan - that these things would gain notoriety and gain power in your soul to where you begin to honor it in weird forms. Just fearing it is honoring it. By your reaction you are saying,"You’re awesome. You're amazing. And if God doesn't intervene right now... We've got to get God to come." It's a twisted form of honor.

126:45 - We trust our experiences - But we should stand on His word - I want you to think about what we do from our heads. And what gives the mind substantiation is because we have so many stories, experience.

127:00 - But my heartcry is always, "Who is really believing the word? Who is really alone with God and declaring truth and walking in communion?" That's what we are called to do. Jesus says we’re free. So if I’m not experiencing freedom, I need to keep pursuing Jesus because freedom is mine. I just need to follow Him. Along the way if Holy Spirit needs to intervene...

127:30 - Counseling session - Why do I see a boy crying? - Holy Spirit show me a boy. Why do I see a 12 yr old boy on the streets of NYC crying for mommy? Mom abandoned him. She died. Follow the direction, leading of the Holy Spirit.

128:30 - Follow Holy Spirit in each situation - Don't try to make Him a method - We follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. If I try to make how He leads into a method it won't end well. Don’t be asking the Holy Spirit to follow you. Don’t take the gift of the Holy Spirit (a Person) and make Him into a method of ministry. That leads to mistakes. Holy Spirit loves people and knows things about people that you don’t know. You have to have confident in HIS ministry.

129:20 - Why do I see a boy crying? (cont.) - When the wife heard the story, mercy rose in her heart and marital difficulties were addressed. But it was straight up working of the Holy Spirit.

129:40 - Trust the ministry of Holy Spirit - Holy Spirit loves people and knows things about people that you don’t know. You have to have confident in HIS ministry.

129:50 - Honor the word - And honor the word above everything in your life. Who you are is found in that book. You look amazing to the Lord. He so love the world that He gave the Word.