WEBVTT 00:00:00.702 --> 00:00:02.468 We have a special friend with us. 00:00:02.468 --> 00:00:04.527 Helene has been traveling the world here. 00:00:04.527 --> 00:00:13.865 She flew from Scotland Edinburgh to Vancouver a while ago, spent there she has a really good dear friend there and met with some of our dear friends there. 00:00:13.865 --> 00:00:22.783 And then she got invited to speak in New Zealand and a little uptie in the island called Arama and so off. 00:00:22.783 --> 00:00:33.749 She goes all the way to that side of the world and then comes all the way back here and is now with us and then in a few days well, tonight you're going back to Vancouver and then going back to Scotland. 00:00:33.749 --> 00:00:47.646 She is well traveled and I love to introduce her as the nine-year-old with 85 years of experience, and some of you may not know much about her story because she reminds me of Aunt Tollo. 00:00:47.646 --> 00:00:53.625 For those who remember Aunt Tollo, it doesn't talk a lot about her journey, but we sat with you and it was so fun to listen. 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.706 Married one son, widowed. 00:00:58.706 --> 00:01:06.468 You are not just a grandmother, you're not just a great-grandmother, but you are a great great-grandmother. 00:01:06.468 --> 00:01:09.066 Now you ponder that for a minute. 00:01:09.066 --> 00:01:19.870 That's the equivalent of I'm a grandpa to Emily back there, new baby Emily, and that would mean that Emily would have to have a child. 00:01:19.870 --> 00:01:24.027 Then I'd be a great-grandfather, but then that child would have to have a child. 00:01:24.027 --> 00:01:27.746 For me to be a great-great-grandpa I'm going to have to be around for 120 years. 00:01:27.746 --> 00:01:28.885 I think that's going to happen. 00:01:28.885 --> 00:01:30.685 So you've had so much. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:37.805 This is Helene's fifth visit to this part of the country and we had so much fun. 00:01:37.805 --> 00:01:38.507 I got to tell the story. 00:01:38.507 --> 00:01:48.206 We were coming down from the airport and she was supposed to stay with Robin and Donna, but we prayed that they would get sick and so she'd have to stay with us. 00:01:48.206 --> 00:01:52.549 No, we didn't, and so she stayed with us for the last two nights. 00:01:52.549 --> 00:01:58.125 And I'm driving her down the road and you come from the airport and you can see the mountains and you can see the ski hill. 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:03.028 That's where the 1988 Winter Olympics were and we lived not far from that for many years. 00:02:03.028 --> 00:02:04.284 That's where we started our family. 00:02:04.284 --> 00:02:13.585 Our oldest was in Jen's tummy at the time and I remember and I pointed it out and I said, hey, that's where the jumping happened, the Olympic jumping. 00:02:13.585 --> 00:02:15.205 There was a guy named Eddie the eagle. 00:02:15.205 --> 00:02:18.549 We called him and she went did you watch the eagle on the fly? 00:02:18.549 --> 00:02:20.764 Yeah, you ask her about eagles. 00:02:20.764 --> 00:02:23.127 She'll tell you all about all the references about eagles. 00:02:23.127 --> 00:02:32.806 And she goes oh, your eyes lit up and I said there's a movie it's a true story of Eddie the Eagle and it's on Disney, and could we watch it? 00:02:33.259 --> 00:02:37.145 So we got home and we watched it and I bawled like a baby. 00:02:37.145 --> 00:02:40.169 I was like I don't remember it being this impacted. 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:42.567 If you haven't seen it, watch it. 00:02:42.567 --> 00:02:43.421 It's really good. 00:02:43.421 --> 00:02:45.609 Donna, you going to come up? 00:02:45.609 --> 00:02:51.825 I've asked Donna to, because there's a reason why this day is happening and there's a reason why you guys are all here. 00:02:51.825 --> 00:03:12.865 And part of Helene's story is I don't know if you'll ever get to it, but in Edinburgh you used to reach out to students and kids and children for years and years and years, to the point where so many were affected, hundreds of them, to the point where they couldn't actually fit in, so to speak, into the old style of church, the religious kind of style. 00:03:12.865 --> 00:03:17.903 So she created one, and so that's what I love about her she's just outside the box. 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:39.627 Yeah, so it was just on our hearts to invite Helene here while she was in Canada so she could come with her childlike heart to bless all of us with childlike hearts, but especially you guys sitting in the front rows and some in the further back rows. 00:03:39.627 --> 00:04:03.189 We've been praying for your hearts and we are praying that something will go deep down inside, that something will touch you guys today, that you'll remember this day for a long time, because Helene carries so much love and so much wisdom and we're just feeling so blessed that she can be here with us today to share with you. 00:04:03.189 --> 00:04:08.127 So, welcome here, kids, and we're so glad that you guys sat at the front today. 00:04:08.127 --> 00:04:09.842 Ok, helene. 00:04:11.901 --> 00:04:19.218 Thank you. 00:04:19.218 --> 00:04:21.386 It's beautiful to be here. 00:04:21.386 --> 00:04:23.524 It really is. 00:04:23.524 --> 00:04:37.310 I do not know what is happening to me, but during the worship of amazing grace, I'm in absolute tears and I just want to say that there are different kinds of tears. 00:04:37.310 --> 00:04:40.208 There's tears of pain if you fall down. 00:04:40.208 --> 00:04:51.386 There's tears of healing, but then there's tears of joy and I've realized what I'm crying about are tears of joy, and I cannot believe that. 00:04:51.386 --> 00:04:59.329 The song that was played is one of my favorite songs and it's amazing grace. 00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:06.264 And what I want to talk about this morning is grace, which I find absolutely amazing. 00:05:06.264 --> 00:05:14.399 So I have an extreme passion and that's why, at my age, I still travel. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.274 I want people younger than me to get this. 00:05:17.274 --> 00:05:25.524 I want younger people, which is everybody in this room to go higher and deeper in this revelation of love than I've ever gone. 00:05:25.524 --> 00:05:29.524 This love that we talk about is absolutely incredible. 00:05:29.524 --> 00:05:31.485 It makes you very brave. 00:05:31.485 --> 00:05:49.504 So I just want to and I'm not going to share for very long, but what I want to share is a realisation that our faith in God is not about our faith in Him. 00:05:49.504 --> 00:05:51.872 He's got faith in us. 00:05:51.872 --> 00:05:59.072 It's a totally different way of seeing and for every one of us in this room. 00:05:59.072 --> 00:06:14.355 I believe he's saying to each of our hearts today I have faith in you, and what I want to share today, and what I'm beginning to live in, even at my age, is that it's not about an inner healing ministry. 00:06:14.355 --> 00:06:21.098 It's a revelation that God is our Father and he wants to reveal Himself to us as a Father. 00:06:21.098 --> 00:06:27.918 And when we realise that we are children of God, it leads us into adventure. 00:06:27.918 --> 00:06:43.504 And I, like James Jordan, who's the founder of Father Heart Ministries, he said we're not becoming, we're not the great man or woman of God, we're becoming a people, and I believe that that's very true. 00:06:43.504 --> 00:06:54.297 In the Old Testament God was looking for a man and he found David and in Acts 13, we read that David was a man after God's own heart. 00:06:55.226 --> 00:07:29.853 But in the year 2000, I was listening to a man called Brian McLaren and he was a very popular Christian leader in America and he wrote lots of books and he was interviewing a man called Dr Peter Sanghe who was a system scientist and Dr Sanghe was speaking to a group of about 500 pastors and Dr Sanghe said he was in a bookstore and he asked the manager of the bookstore what are the most popular books selling at this time. 00:07:29.853 --> 00:07:34.935 And the manager said books on the new economy and books on Buddhism. 00:07:34.935 --> 00:07:42.795 So I have a question for your pastors why are books on Buddhism selling more than books on Christianity? 00:07:42.795 --> 00:07:45.290 And I laughed when I heard this. 00:07:45.290 --> 00:07:52.696 Brian McLaren thought if I ask 500 different pastors, I'll get 500 different answers. 00:07:52.696 --> 00:07:59.096 So he turned the question around to Dr Sanghe and he says why do you think that? 00:07:59.096 --> 00:08:03.456 And he said this Buddhism is about a way of life. 00:08:03.886 --> 00:08:17.156 Christianity is about a system of beliefs and at the beginning of this new season that we're living in, I encourage us all to rediscover our Christian faith as a way of life. 00:08:17.156 --> 00:08:22.937 It's not about a whole systems of belief, it's about a way of life. 00:08:22.937 --> 00:08:28.976 And for all of you here, I just want to say life is an adventure. 00:08:28.976 --> 00:08:33.054 Don't be dismayed by things. 00:08:33.054 --> 00:08:38.655 Take the next step and live in what's been revealed and you will find your journey on. 00:08:38.655 --> 00:09:07.293 So I began to think about it, and when we look at ourselves as a group of Christians and that is who we are but often we see that we've presented our faith as a system of beliefs and what we've done is try and compete with one another that I want you to join my church, because I believe it will be better than somebody else's, because my belief system is better and we tend to argue about systems. 00:09:07.293 --> 00:09:15.524 But the problem is in a world of religious violence, we tend to be part of the problem instead of part of the solution. 00:09:16.687 --> 00:09:25.504 So just briefly, I used to go to a high English church, very much dressed in formality and swung in scents. 00:09:25.504 --> 00:09:35.258 Then I went to a Presbyterian church in Scotland and then there was a new pastor and it became very evangelical. 00:09:35.258 --> 00:09:41.504 Then I was asked to be on the leadership of a charismatic church, moving in the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:09:41.504 --> 00:09:49.958 Then I went to Catholic places of retreat and all had a system of beliefs, which I understand. 00:09:49.958 --> 00:09:55.424 But we argue about systems and we can have an argumentative faith. 00:09:55.424 --> 00:10:09.937 But when we look at the life of Jesus Christ, he called on us to himself so that he could reveal the Father to us, not based on a system of beliefs, but drawn to him as a person. 00:10:11.126 --> 00:10:12.450 You know what the Bible is. 00:10:12.450 --> 00:10:14.215 It's a book of stories. 00:10:14.215 --> 00:10:20.477 It's about particular people, a particular time in world history. 00:10:20.477 --> 00:10:27.485 And when we look at the life of Jesus Christ, he did not provide a system of beliefs. 00:10:27.485 --> 00:10:43.014 He came for one reason to reveal God as a Father to us, and when we come to know and move into this beginning of a relationship that Almighty God is our Father, it changes absolutely everything. 00:10:43.014 --> 00:10:45.751 You know what the Bible is? 00:10:45.751 --> 00:10:54.418 It's a book of stories about particular people, about a particular time in world history. 00:10:54.418 --> 00:11:07.691 It's a book of poetry, it's a book of wisdom and I think we've made very small the message of the Kingdom of God coming to earth. 00:11:07.691 --> 00:11:33.616 I wonder if we realize that the ground we're walking on is holy ground. 00:11:33.616 --> 00:11:43.038 I mean, I remember the story of Moses and the burning bush and he took his shoes off because he felt the ground was holy. 00:11:43.038 --> 00:11:50.356 Jacob saw a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with angels going up and down. 00:11:50.356 --> 00:11:55.414 He said surely God is in this place and I never knew it. 00:11:57.345 --> 00:12:04.450 I feel that I don't want to say very much this morning because I want to do something. 00:12:04.450 --> 00:12:30.592 I am so proud of you because I don't think we experience silence enough. 00:12:30.592 --> 00:12:35.201 You agree with me. 00:12:35.201 --> 00:12:40.024 There's a sound in silence. 00:12:40.024 --> 00:12:48.913 Britain's got talent on the television and I watch this every single night. 00:12:48.913 --> 00:12:55.428 One man who stands up, he's 23 years of age and he sings a song. 00:12:55.428 --> 00:13:07.201 The sound of silence, and I would like to encourage every one of us in a moment just to experience the sound of silence. 00:13:07.201 --> 00:13:14.110 Don't worry about a door closing or the wind blowing or anything. 00:13:14.110 --> 00:13:21.110 Silence is incredible and you know silence is so alive with sounds. 00:13:21.110 --> 00:13:56.340 So for a minute, let's experience silence, silence. 00:13:56.340 --> 00:13:58.303 I'm really proud of you. 00:13:58.303 --> 00:14:12.350 We have so many words going on around, so many different sounds, and I was reading the Bible, and in the Bible it talks about David. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:19.732 David was a man after God's own heart, but today he's looking for a people. 00:14:19.732 --> 00:14:21.865 He's looking for people like you. 00:14:21.865 --> 00:14:30.066 In fact, I would like to ask you to stand up. 00:14:30.066 --> 00:14:42.659 Now. 00:14:42.659 --> 00:14:47.769 What I love is, when I said to stand up, I meant the children. 00:14:47.769 --> 00:15:27.265 What I love is that you all stood up, and I don't know if you realize, but what God is looking for today is a family, a family of children who have Almighty God as their father and, like I say, I'm only nine on the inside, but you all are children of Almighty God, and I believe he wants to invite you to a way of life such as you never know who has heard of David in the Bible. 00:15:27.265 --> 00:15:35.529 David was a man after God's own heart, but today, today what day is it? 00:15:35.529 --> 00:15:40.548 Very good that she's right, it's today. 00:15:40.548 --> 00:15:41.844 Let me teach you something. 00:15:41.844 --> 00:15:42.924 What day is it? 00:15:42.924 --> 00:15:45.663 What time is it? 00:15:45.663 --> 00:15:46.740 How? 00:15:46.740 --> 00:15:52.388 It's true and do we realize that this now is a holy moment? 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.510 When God was looking for a man after God's own heart, he found David. 00:15:58.510 --> 00:16:05.587 But today he's looking for a people, not the great man or woman of God, but a people. 00:16:05.587 --> 00:16:24.408 And I believe please sit down and I believe that, as he's beginning to look for a people, it's to walk the way of grace, and this is why I'm so amazed at this song that was sung. 00:16:24.408 --> 00:16:27.304 It means so much to me. 00:16:27.304 --> 00:16:31.788 So what does the Bible mean when it talks about grace? 00:16:31.788 --> 00:16:50.249 Because I believe we need to rediscover the world of grace, where God's love and God himself isn't earned but freely given to every one of us, and the beginning of this way of life is to walk the way of grace. 00:16:52.679 --> 00:17:00.913 In the book of Philippians 1, paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus to all God's people. 00:17:00.913 --> 00:17:04.002 In Christ Jesus, where do we live? 00:17:04.002 --> 00:17:10.010 We think we invite Jesus into our heart, but we actually live in him. 00:17:10.010 --> 00:17:14.949 In him we live and move and have our being. 00:17:14.949 --> 00:17:19.548 So when he wrote the book to Philippi was written. 00:17:19.548 --> 00:17:26.107 It says grace and peace to you from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:17:26.107 --> 00:17:34.143 But listen to this, the book of Romans, to all God's people in Rome grace and peace to you. 00:17:34.143 --> 00:17:36.041 First Corinthians. 00:17:36.041 --> 00:17:38.208 Grace and peace to you. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:50.249 These are all books in the Bible Galatians, Ephesians, colossians 1 and 2, thessalonica 1 and 2, timothy, titus, philemon. 00:17:50.249 --> 00:17:56.289 Every one of these books begins with the words grace and peace to you. 00:17:56.289 --> 00:18:03.368 What if everything we did began with the words grace and peace? 00:18:03.368 --> 00:18:12.307 I talk about it a lot because I want to live in it, but I believe we need to talk about it more. 00:18:12.307 --> 00:18:19.353 Do you know the word grace comes from a Greek word meaning karras. 00:18:19.353 --> 00:18:29.494 This is what it means joy, favour, a pleasure to you, a favour done with no expectation of return. 00:18:29.494 --> 00:18:41.930 There was a Greek scholar, spirio Zodiacchi, and he says of the word karras, grace is the free expression of the love of God to you. 00:18:41.930 --> 00:18:48.635 Peace means shalom, it means harmony, every kind of good. 00:18:48.635 --> 00:18:56.794 Ireni is a Greek word for peace and it's a feminine word. 00:18:56.794 --> 00:18:57.702 I like that. 00:18:57.702 --> 00:19:06.122 Is there anything more beautiful than the free expression of the love of God to you right now? 00:19:08.420 --> 00:19:12.449 Do you know when Paul wrote the letter to the church in Philippi? 00:19:12.449 --> 00:19:13.672 Do you know where he was? 00:19:13.672 --> 00:19:14.943 He was in prison. 00:19:14.943 --> 00:19:16.683 He was chained up. 00:19:16.683 --> 00:19:21.625 He didn't get much to eat, there was no toilet. 00:19:21.625 --> 00:19:23.384 He was never alone. 00:19:23.384 --> 00:19:25.963 He was on his way to his own death. 00:19:25.963 --> 00:19:34.528 And yet he can write this to the church in Philippi Joy favour, every kind of good to you. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:42.750 I don't know about you, but I need grace and peace spoken to me on a regular basis. 00:19:42.750 --> 00:19:45.000 What about? 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.090 Every time we met somebody, we said to them grace and peace. 00:19:49.090 --> 00:19:52.287 It changes the whole atmosphere. 00:19:52.287 --> 00:20:00.452 How would it be when people can keep condemning themselves when they say they're not worthy? 00:20:00.452 --> 00:20:07.131 We interrupt them and say why are you saying this grace and peace to you? 00:20:07.131 --> 00:20:10.665 What about when we make mistakes? 00:20:10.665 --> 00:20:12.643 Have we made mistakes? 00:20:12.643 --> 00:20:19.586 Can we say to ourselves grace and peace? 00:20:19.586 --> 00:20:28.231 We don't want to make mistakes, but his grace is so greater. 00:20:28.231 --> 00:20:33.172 The problem in the Christian church is so many of us have made mistakes. 00:20:33.172 --> 00:20:36.788 We keep beating ourselves on the back because we've done it wrong. 00:20:36.788 --> 00:20:45.451 I remember one day confessing before God wrong thoughts, not being nice to people. 00:20:45.451 --> 00:20:47.884 I said I'm so sorry. 00:20:47.884 --> 00:20:56.932 You know what he said to me, haleen, I don't know what you're talking about, because he keeps no record of wrongs. 00:20:56.932 --> 00:20:58.301 Why? 00:20:58.301 --> 00:21:01.407 Because we're covered in Christ's righteousness. 00:21:01.407 --> 00:21:05.789 Jesus said on the cross it is finished. 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:16.709 I really believe that this generation, which is everybody in this room, will become more and more like the one we focus on. 00:21:16.709 --> 00:21:20.009 Do you know what the root word for grace is? 00:21:20.009 --> 00:21:21.324 Every word has a meaning. 00:21:21.324 --> 00:21:23.685 Do you know what the word grace means? 00:21:23.685 --> 00:21:25.423 It means a gift. 00:21:25.423 --> 00:21:28.467 It's offered to me, to you. 00:21:28.467 --> 00:21:30.203 You don't earn it. 00:21:30.203 --> 00:21:32.566 It's not because you're good enough. 00:21:32.566 --> 00:21:34.525 It's a gift offered. 00:21:34.525 --> 00:21:41.112 The only question is are we able to receive it, to taste it? 00:21:41.112 --> 00:21:59.067 My favourite word in the Bible is in the Old Testament and it says taste and see that I am good If I spoke about chocolate and scientific talks on your taste buds, but if you don't taste it, you don't know what it's like. 00:21:59.067 --> 00:22:06.825 I believe that God is inviting us in this day and hour to taste this love that he's speaking about. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.088 Grace frees us to own our own shadow side. 00:22:11.088 --> 00:22:17.570 We've all got one, but when we own it and admit to it, it loses its power. 00:22:17.570 --> 00:22:24.150 Grace frees us and liberates us to own our true condition. 00:22:24.150 --> 00:22:27.688 We all go through traumas and troubles. 00:22:27.688 --> 00:22:38.423 All of us have made mistakes, but when we face our shadow side, that part of us that we've not shared with anyone, are shame or guilt. 00:22:38.423 --> 00:22:42.786 When we can tell our own story. 00:22:42.786 --> 00:23:03.133 The shadow loses its power and we become aware of the sacred, even in the midst, the same force that made the stars the grace of God to me, and loneliness, when I was struggling with being so alone, which is different from loneliness. 00:23:03.133 --> 00:23:08.838 One of the biggest problems in the world today is loneliness, and it's even increasing. 00:23:08.838 --> 00:23:13.325 That I saw in the news very recently, and you know what loneliness is. 00:23:13.325 --> 00:23:16.067 It's where nobody knows who you are. 00:23:16.067 --> 00:23:22.146 So find a friend, talk to your friend, but let your friend talk to you. 00:23:22.146 --> 00:23:32.932 I believe, the more you what you look for you will find. 00:23:32.932 --> 00:23:40.162 I believe that this generation is going to go so much higher and deeper than I've ever gone. 00:23:42.161 --> 00:23:48.383 There's a acidic tradition that the Bible speaks about and it says everyone has a divine spark. 00:23:48.383 --> 00:23:58.150 It's like when we make a mistake, when we sin, he says you're better than that because you're made in my image. 00:23:58.150 --> 00:24:04.211 In the book of Philippians it says you are made to shine like stars. 00:24:04.211 --> 00:24:09.309 Why do this when you've been made to shine like stars in the universe? 00:24:09.309 --> 00:24:14.329 Grace is a gift of liberation and of freedom. 00:24:14.329 --> 00:24:16.723 How many here want to be free? 00:24:16.723 --> 00:24:22.541 What do you want to be free of? 00:24:22.541 --> 00:24:30.075 Just think about it. 00:24:30.075 --> 00:24:32.608 Don't answer me now, but think about it. 00:24:32.608 --> 00:24:34.242 What do you want to be free of? 00:24:34.242 --> 00:24:42.008 Because grace wants to bring us into a freedom such as we've never known. 00:24:42.008 --> 00:24:47.728 God wants to bring us into the glorious freedom of the sons of God. 00:24:50.099 --> 00:25:01.030 Grace speaks of the vastness and greatness of the universe because it says in the Bible, in Colossians all things were created by Him and for Him. 00:25:01.030 --> 00:25:07.750 He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. 00:25:07.750 --> 00:25:17.682 Grace is where there's long queues at the supermarket and suddenly you become aware of the sacred in the midst. 00:25:17.682 --> 00:25:27.691 When you begin to own your own story, you begin to see the world and people very differently. 00:25:27.691 --> 00:25:48.026 Grace comes when our hostilities overtake us and nothing makes sense, and suddenly a wave of light takes hold of us and says this, which I say to everyone in this room today you are accepted. 00:25:48.026 --> 00:25:51.435 You are accepted in the love of the Father. 00:25:51.435 --> 00:26:00.560 You may not know him, but just take hold of the fact that Almighty God is your Father and he loves you. 00:26:00.560 --> 00:26:10.865 And I would like to pray a prayer, and I don't know if any of you have seen a movie called the Tree of Life. 00:26:10.865 --> 00:26:13.128 I'd recommend it. 00:26:13.128 --> 00:26:26.050 It's Brad Pritt in the movie and he says this, which I love there are two ways of life the way of our fallen nature and the way of grace. 00:26:26.050 --> 00:26:29.221 You have to choose which one you will follow. 00:26:30.565 --> 00:26:33.070 Grace doesn't try to please itself. 00:26:33.070 --> 00:26:42.153 It accepts being slighted, forgotten or disliked, except when somebody insults us or injures us. 00:26:42.153 --> 00:26:46.807 Because our fallen nature only wants to please itself. 00:26:46.807 --> 00:26:49.316 It likes to have its own way. 00:26:49.316 --> 00:26:59.384 It finds reasons to be unhappy while all the world is shining all around and love is shining through all things. 00:26:59.384 --> 00:27:08.469 And it finishes with this no one who loves the way of grace will ever come to a bad end. 00:27:08.469 --> 00:27:10.855 What is grace? 00:27:10.855 --> 00:27:15.124 The free bounty and benevolence of God to you. 00:27:16.988 --> 00:27:51.246 I can't believe how many times in the Bible the word grace is mentioned, and I would just like to say to each one, everyone in this room you know there's still a sound in silence, so maybe close your eyes for one moment. 00:27:51.246 --> 00:27:58.902 Close your eyes, feel the atmosphere of the presence of God that's in this room right now. 00:27:58.902 --> 00:28:06.553 But not only is God in the room, he's in you. 00:28:06.553 --> 00:28:13.911 And not only is he in you, but you're in him. 00:28:13.911 --> 00:28:21.405 When you begin to know that you live in him, it takes away the loneliness. 00:28:24.392 --> 00:28:41.567 Father, shine your grace and pour your love into every part of us, every cell of our body, and may we trust it and accept it, and to have the courage to walk the way of grace. 00:28:41.567 --> 00:28:57.861 We ask in Jesus' name I would like to finish with this that we could sing amazing grace, because his grace is amazing. 00:28:57.861 --> 00:29:06.473 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. 00:29:06.473 --> 00:29:14.009 There is a sound being played today and we need to hear it, so would it be okay? 00:29:14.009 --> 00:29:26.846 I would like you to sing this with every cell in your body, with all of your heart, because his grace and love for you is absolutely amazing. 00:29:26.846 --> 00:29:38.867 There's still a roof on this building. 00:29:38.867 --> 00:29:41.849 Maybe our worship can take the roof off. 00:30:17.853 --> 00:30:18.433 I receive it. 00:30:18.433 --> 00:30:25.364 I don't know if you guys heard that, but that was declaration, right, isn't that true? 00:30:25.364 --> 00:30:37.541 Like as a son, if someone compliments you or gives you something, sons can receive orphans can't so assign your walking in sonship. 00:30:37.541 --> 00:30:43.163 When someone blesses you, you receive it, and it's not because there any better than who you are. 00:30:43.163 --> 00:30:45.691 You're not any less, but you're just receiving love. 00:30:45.691 --> 00:30:46.780 Thank you. 00:30:51.586 --> 00:30:52.909 How many of us see? 00:30:52.909 --> 00:30:58.355 Did you see on the screen the bird flying? 00:30:58.355 --> 00:31:00.622 Do you know what that bird is? 00:31:00.622 --> 00:31:11.711 It's an eagle and you know the word eagle is mentioned in the Bible over 30 times and it talks about flying like an eagle. 00:31:11.711 --> 00:31:19.684 There's a the book of John, there's a symbol against the book of John in the Bible, and it's an eagle. 00:31:19.684 --> 00:31:20.688 Do you know? 00:31:20.688 --> 00:31:23.598 An eagle flies higher than any other bird. 00:31:23.598 --> 00:31:40.208 An, an eagle flies, and when it gets to 40 years this is a particular type of eagle when it gets to 40 years, it goes into hibernation, picks all its feathers off, waits five and a half months. 00:31:40.208 --> 00:31:46.607 Then, when the feathers grow back, he starts to fly again for another 30 years. 00:31:46.607 --> 00:31:53.945 So I don't know about you, but I want to fly like an eagle and I want my spirit to soar. 00:31:53.945 --> 00:32:04.077 But it's absolutely amazing that an eagle flies higher than any other bird and the book of John is symbol is an eagle. 00:32:04.077 --> 00:32:10.210 So may we fly higher and may our spirits soar higher than we've ever known. 00:32:22.210 --> 00:32:26.414 Let's, can we give Helene a big hand. 00:32:26.414 --> 00:32:33.548 Amen, amen. 00:32:35.852 --> 00:32:36.532 Can we, can we? 00:32:36.893 --> 00:32:38.896 honestly, helene, can you come up here? 00:32:38.896 --> 00:32:50.121 Can we, can we honor this amazing woman of God and just can we stand her feet and just thank her, just give her, give her a little bit of applause. 00:33:02.207 --> 00:33:24.613 You know, it's rare to have A gift that comes all the way from the other side of the world with all the experience and exposure in life, and then, when it comes together, we get the privilege of unwrapping a gift that comes from him through her, and hang on to this. 00:33:24.613 --> 00:33:45.769 This is recorded, just like other things are recorded, but if you need to be reminded when you face some of those storms, you know last night, as Helene was sharing with us, about the two wings, the wing of beauty and the wing of pain, and you can't fly with just one either one. 00:33:45.769 --> 00:33:47.901 And there's going to be some challenges. 00:33:47.901 --> 00:33:55.402 But I love that promise I'll never allow you to be tempted or tested beyond what you can bear. 00:33:55.402 --> 00:34:07.701 I'll always give you a way of escape, and the way of escape is coming up, looking up, not looking down, not trudging around, looking up and finding out how to fly in this. 00:34:07.701 --> 00:34:12.478 And then he puts us in the flock, so to speak. 00:34:12.478 --> 00:34:18.521 You're never alone with him and he intersects us into our lives. 00:34:18.809 --> 00:34:22.860 So we're grateful, helene, for all that you have woven in. 00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:29.753 You know, sometimes you're like, oh, I don't even remember when I was here last time, but I'll tell you. 00:34:29.753 --> 00:34:33.789 There's words that are in people's hearts that will never go away, because he wrote them there. 00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:36.097 So, thank you, amen. 00:34:36.097 --> 00:34:45.081 Do me a favor, do yourself a favor, if you haven't met someone that's around you or said something to them, but just bless them. 00:34:45.081 --> 00:34:50.201 Sometimes we often we come in with great needs, but it's great when it comes out of us, too. 00:34:50.201 --> 00:35:00.876 Say hi or bless them or just say God be with you, smile at them, find out their birthday, their middle name or something unique.