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SPEAKER_04 0:34

Welcome to the Enthrone Podcast. My name is Solomon and I am with Brother Andrew, and we are here at a bright and early 6 a.m. on a Tuesday. Very excited to come to you live and early. Hope you're ready. Hope you brought your swords and your shields because we're going into battle today again, and we're going with the word. And so I'm just very excited to talk about our topic today. Last week, we talked about the fire of God, and Brother Andrew just brought power. And he just, man, he blew that thing off the roof. And it was so awesome. And I'm thankful for everyone that listened and everyone that shared and commented and liked. Just continue to do so. But I want you to lean in today, because today it's going to be another one another fire one. But it won't be the fire of God. We'll actually be talking about unity, union in the church. And so, and even within ourselves and with Christ. And so I'm really excited to dive deep in this topic. So lean in close and let's get on with it. I'm very excited. And how are you this morning, sir? I'm amazing. It's not my fault. Hallelujah. That's right. Jesus did it. That's right. Absolutely. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm excited. So I'm really excited to talk about this topic. Um, one of the reasons why is because for the last couple of weeks, I was kind of uh listening to different sides in terms of um styles of church, uh different houses is probably the wrong word, but different classifications of church and just kind of church history in general. And it's been very intriguing. It's been a little bit on my heart too, just kind of understanding that more and the differences with that. But all in all, I know that that the peace of God is within me, so I'm not frantic about, oh, where should I go because of the journey that God has brought me to? And so I want to kind of just start with, you know, one of the questions I would always start with is what is unity in the body of Christ? And could you elaborate what that is and if there's a difference between unity and body, unity with Christ? Uh, is there a unity with ourself? So, what is unity?

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Well, I mean, unit unity is really the joining of one perspective, Christo Supreme. So Christ above all. So it if Christ is not above all, there's going to be a breakdown in unity. So there's a difference between unity and union. Um, unity is is speaking about the united, the unitedness of the body of Christ to where union is our unitedness with Christ. And so whenever we think about unity, it's it's one common goal, and that's Christo Supreme. Christ above all, Christ above self, Christ above affiliation, Christ above denomination, Christ above opinions, um, Christ above your your beliefs. It's Christ above all, that Jesus is King and understanding that that He is the primary focus.

SPEAKER_04 3:35

Amen. Absolutely. Yeah. And I think that that can really, I don't want to dive into too quick, but I um that's really awesome to hear that because one of the things that I have been seeing is the differences, the different things that different churches and different belief systems within Christ kind of butt heads with a lot. Yeah. And I and we've, me and you, sir, and you and the team and awaken have had conversations like that and about that. So you'll probably hear one of those again, um, because I think it's something that people really do kind of struggle with. So, for example, one of those things is that uh somebody actually had sent in a question um and they had asked, how do we become unified in Christ, but disagree on denominations and religions as a whole church?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

I mean, all the problems that we have in the church um strive from a union problem. They come from a union problem. So we have a union problem with God. And so because we have a union problem with God, we have a union problem with each other. And uh a lot of times what we have to understand, Solomon, is that union, union is not a go to achieve, it's something to be awakened into. We're not striving to become one with God. We're we're supposed to wake up to the reality that he already delivered us into himself. And so when we have this striving mentality of trying to perform in order to have a deeper relationship with God, in order to be drawn near, in order to step into more presence, in order to have more encounters, we start creating this striving system with one another. So how however our relationship is with God, that will be what manifests between us and others. Because everything that we are and everything that we will be will flow from our presence with him. You know, even your eternity, your eternal, um, your eternal resting place is going to be determined by your union with God. If you've lived separate from him on earth, you'll be separate from him in eternity. If you live close to him on earth, you'll be close to him for eternity. And so everything, so, so, you know, the way that I love my wife is determined by my union with him. The way that I father my children is determined by my union with him. And so the deeper that I go into union with him, the deeper I go into union with them. So my relationships are determined by his relationship with me and my reciprocation of his relationship. So it's me living from him loving me, which will determine how well I can love. And the primary foundation of relationship is love. And so we're going to continue to see a division in the body of Christ because there's a continual division between Christ and the body. God is invited us home. And one of the scriptures that I wrote down here that I thought we might use is is 1 Corinthians 6 17. Um, which he who he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. So that's so deep and so rich. Because he who is joined, he who is, so the ones that choose that, the ones that abide in that to the Lord is one spirit with him. One spirit is this is the manifestation of the way that I'm going to operate when I'm around other people. So if if I'm if I'm easily agitated, then that's a place where I've not allowed his presence to touch. It doesn't mean you're not intimate with the Lord at all. It means you've outlined intimacy and circled certain areas where he's not been able to touch it yet. And the manifestation is a greater revelation of Christ's determination to set you free from your fascination with yourself. Because it all all of the sin, all of the things that are not shouldn't be there, come stems from us elevating self above Christ. Paul says, It's no longer I who live, but Christ that lives in me. You know, Jesus said, if anyone come after me, they must first deny themselves. Self is the primary issue. It's not it's not evil, it's manipulated. Satan came and manipulated creation into becoming selfish. It became about what was good for them, what they could achieve, what they could have. You know, you even go to the Garden of Eden, which we talk about a lot. And the first thing that Satan did was he tempted them into believing they weren't something that they already were. So therefore it put them on a path of trying to achieve something that had already been given. And so we start promoting self. And so it's it's you surely will not die if you eat of this tree. You'll just be like God. They were already like God. But now you need to do something in order to be like God. You need to eat of this, you need to take for yourself what will make you more like him, even though he told you not to eat of it, because I can trick you into believing then you're less than what you are, and now you'll spend eternity trying to prove that you're more than what you're actually, what you actually aren't, and Christ already delivered you to more than what you ever thought you could be.

SPEAKER_04 9:44

Come on. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

And so they eat of the tree of knowledge. She comes and gives it to Adam, and he sees that it's she's it's good for food, but they didn't need more food. Everything around them was good for food. They were they became hungry for that which would not satisfy because they were tricked into believing that they weren't satisfied. So you start going after things that'll never satisfy because you believe that you're not satisfied with him. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_04 10:16

It does, yes. And part of part of it is when I was singing about it, I was kind of curious, wondering, like, why is Adam and Eve probably the most or second most, maybe first most unity driven story. Is that the right does that make sense? Like why why is it when we talk about unity, Adam and Eve pops up first? Now I have an idea, but I've just but I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Yeah, because the the greatest deception of the enemy is separation consciousness. So so he makes us believe that like the the enemy's primary strategy is convincing, convincing sons that and daughters that they're distance from they're distant from the father. But Jesus came and removed every barrier. So so Adam, Adam and Woman, which she didn't, she wasn't even Eve in the garden. That was the only one she's placed out. She didn't have a name. Come on. Her name was Woman because she came from the womb of man. And so it doesn't make her less than. Don't think I'm saying that. That's by no means. Um, she was the only one that was able to actually be a companion to Adam. So that that makes her pretty awesome. The only the only one worthy of receiving the revelation that God was pouring into Adam, there was none like him of which he could deposit into. So woman was created so that Adam could take revelation and pour it into woman. But the reality is he didn't pour the greatest revelation that Christ is enough. God is enough, that the Father is enough. He didn't he didn't pour that in adequately because she was so easily tempted into trying to receive something from a natural state that only a supernatural state could ever fulfill.

SPEAKER_04 11:55

Right.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

But you know, uh I I wrote this scripture down too, John 17, 23. Okay. And it really just it really just shows that that separation consciousness is one of the biggest enemies in the human race, not not even in the body of Christ, because not all are believers, but all are under the deception of the enemy, whether you believe in Christ or not.

SPEAKER_04 12:17

Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

And so the the reality is this separated consciousness, it it burdens and births separation. So just in your natural life. And you you easily see this. Uh most, not all, but most people that are that are not believers, like true believers, they have a problem in relationships because they believe in separation. We we've given so much power to being separate and not given enough power to be in union. And and and Jesus said this really destroys every barrier in John 17, 3. He said, I in them. I I'm I'm not with them, I'm in them. That's how close. I'm not even with you, Solomon. I'm in you. That's what he was saying. And not only am I in you, but you're in me. And because of that, you can be made perfect in one perfection. A lot of times we get people get upset. No one can be perfect, only Jesus was perfect, but he also said, Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. And then we started believing that, and that's the problem. That we start believing that perfection is an outward work of something that we have to achieve.

SPEAKER_04 13:35

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

And by that definition, no one will ever be. But Jesus was only perfect, not because he was God, but because he was one with God. Come on. He walked in union, he walked in step with God. That's what that's what perfection was. It was it was living in union with God. And so what he's saying here is you awakening to the reality that separation has been destroyed, and not only am I with you, but I'm in you, and not only am I in you, but you're in me. And because of that, you're perfect because we are one.

unknown 14:09

Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

So this oneness of this father, I long that they would be one as you and I are one. Father, restore me to the former glory that I knew. He was saying, I I want zero distance. I want to be in you and you and me as we were in the beginning. I want to be locked in that pericuresis, that that triune dance, because even though I hear you, even though I see you, I feel that I'm still farther from you than what I want to be, even though you're closer than a friend. So even Christ, I think, you know, I'll probably get in trouble for this, but I just I just believe it. I think Christ hungered for more of God, even though he was God.

SPEAKER_03 14:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

I think that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they hunger for one another and they all equally hunger for us. And because of that, we're supposed to equally hunger for them. Because it's their hunger for us, to us, through us, and for us that helps us hunger for them. That's union.

SPEAKER_04 15:13

Yeah. That's really deep for for union. Um in general, just being hungry for the lover reversal, I think is really awesome. Um I don't even know where to take off. Hold on. I I have more questions and stuff like that, but I just needed to sit in that for just a second because it's that's a lot for somebody to kind of comprehend and stuff like that, which is why we have it online so people can go back and listen to it over and over. But as somebody that's kind of walking away, leaving religion and walking into the more of Christ, and I don't mean religion in terms of like faith, I just mean like kind of doing habits to try to get a result from God versus knowing that God already loved me. And so as I'm coming to that, how do we kind of stand in that union with him? How do we okay, like I'm waking up tomorrow, I'm like, I'm gonna stand in union with God. Yeah, now he is in me, but how do I recognize that?

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Obedience.

SPEAKER_04 16:15

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yes, sir. Um union, union will transform obedience from duty into delight.

unknown 16:26

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

And so you'll you'll stop uh obeying God to earn his affection, and and you begin obeying because his nature is alive within you. So so obedience, obedience births this delight in union because he is alive in me. His nature is alive in me. You know, his ways are higher than our ways, his mind is different than our mind. You know, he says, I know the plans that I have for you. Like, and and we we're we're in a culture. Well, you mean you got plans for me? I got plans for me. What why are you making no plans for me? I don't need you to make up plans for me. I got my own mind. I can figure this out.

SPEAKER_04 17:14

That's right.

unknown 17:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

And the Lord's like, yeah, so did Adam and Eve. Yeah. So, so, so did so did so did so many others. So, so did Peter. So did James, so did, so did John, so did Samson. They had their own plans. How how well did it work out for them until I intervened? Elijah, Elijah, Elijah had his own plans. He plowing a field. He just doing work. Walk by one day, throw, throw a covering on him, a mantle on him, and now his whole life's transformed upside down. Kill the ox, burn, burn, burn the plow. Come follow me. You know, we that obedience becomes a delight because we're awakened to union. And so Philippians, I think Philippians 2.13 fits here. It's another scripture that I wrote down. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure. So union, union opens this new this new power, this this new dunamis to operate in the nature of God, separate from the nature of the world. You'll be in it and not of it. And so you start to you start to operate, and and you it becomes delight because it's the Spirit of God working in me. It's it's Christ in me, the hope of glory. The only hope for a glory manifestation is the yieldedness of me to Christ in me. Of you to Christ in you, to the listeners to Christ in them. That's the only hope. I want my loved ones to come back to God. Well, then you need to truly give yourself fully to God. No longer I who live. You want people, you want people to come to God, then your life has to lift him up only. It's easy to say, well, my life lifts him up. Does it lift him up only? Is it the only thing that your life is lifting up? It's it's I preached on Sunday, and one of the one of the statements that I had um said was God is looking for a place that wants him more than it needs him. And and so that's we we want we need him, but do we want him more than we need him? If our needs stop getting fulfilled, would our desire for him stay the same? Can you learn to serve God where there's no blessing? It's easy to serve God where there's blessing, but if we're truly in union with God, if we're truly in unity with one another, I don't need you to perform a certain way in order for me to be in unity with you. I need you to have Christ as supreme in your life. If I be lifted up, Jesus said, I'll draw all men unto me. Well, I'm a man. So if your life is only lifting Jesus up, he didn't say, if, if I'm lifted up and the football game, then I'll draw men unto me. Okay. If I'm lifted up and your bank account, then I'll draw men unto me. If I'm lifted up and your marriage, then I'll draw men unto me. If I'm lifted up, if I be lifted up, I shall draw all men unto me. Where is Christ? Christ is in me. That's the union. Okay. But if I'm not only lifting up Christ, how could I expect you to want to be drawn to Christ? How could I expect mine and your relationship to go deeper? How could I expect my loved ones to actually want what I'm carrying? It's because they see at times where we're not only lifting him up. Sometimes we lift our problems up more than we lift him up. And it's not that you can't walk through troubles. He said, in this world you will have tribulation. But he also said, be of good cheer, because I've overcome the world. So we better be lifting up the overcomer, not the problems in the world. Like the tribulations are going to be there. Jesus was tempted at all points. You're going to be tempted. I can't lift up the temptation. It's what we talked about a couple of weeks back about being sin conscious over son consciousness. We wake up so aware of sin and so aware of struggle and so aware of problems, and then we wonder why they're multiplying. But if we lift him up and that's our primary focus, and It's not just in word because we can all do God is good, brother. You know, think house things, well, you know, some stuff's happening, but God is good.

unknown 22:07

Yeah. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

You said, but some stuff is happening. That was what came first. It's first fruits that matter most. Okay. How are you doing? I'm amazing. Cool. But it's not my fault. Jesus did it. Come on. And it can't just be words. I really mean that in my heart.

SPEAKER_04 22:24

Come on.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

And it's it's not that there's not things like I'm running a ministry and many businesses and international things that are happening all the time, and my phone never stops, but like he's still good. Yes. He got the answer. And if I'm in union with him, like it's just a waiting thing. Like, it's not that he doesn't have the answer and he's not going to give it to me. He's waiting for me to be yielded enough to receive it. It'll work out in a minute as long as you don't freak out. If you hold your peace, it'll work out in a minute. But we believe it'll work out in a minute, but I also need to do something to make sure that it works out. And it's like, you know, there is some truth to that, but what we need to be doing is we just need to be continue walking in union with God. That's what we need to be doing. I need to be lifting him up. And in an area where there's where there's there's struggle, where there's trials, where there's persecution, I'm gonna lift him up more. It's it's one of the words the Lord spoke to me a long time ago. And it was whenever the enemy takes you to school, make sure he's the one that learns the lesson.

unknown 23:33

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Because when the enemy starts trying to teach you something new, make sure that he learns what's true. And that's only Jesus, buddy.

unknown 23:42

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

And so whenever the enemy starts coming against me, my family, my ministry, my businesses, I I go, I go into war mode. And that doesn't mean that I'm I'm running around my house and screaming and and all of this. Like, no, no, no. No, no, no. I'm lifting him up more. Come on, yes, sir. I thank you, Jesus. Yeah, you're amazing. I give you glory, honor, and praise, Lord. I thank you for my family. I thank you for the trials, Lord. I thank you for the temptations, Lord. I thank you for the things that you've allowed to come my way, because if I lift you up in them, they will learn they cannot stay. I start magnifying God in the middle of the storm because then that tells the storm that He is the God of you.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

That's absolutely yes.

unknown 24:29

Come on.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

If that darkness, if there's darkness in you, how great is that darkness? It doesn't matter. Start manifesting the light. The light will destroy the darkness. That's right. It can't comprehend it.

unknown 24:42

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

And so it's it's that manifestation of that union that I have with God that that's not just gotten in the mornings. Like that's important. Get up in the morning, spend time with God, read your word early in the morning, give him, give him your first. That's important. But also give him your middle and your last. It's every day. And it's it's caught, you start, you start teaching yourself by by even repetition. It's not behavior modification, it's yieldingness. It's it's it's what we hear in a lot of charismatic circles. Well, God's moving in the room, just lean in. What the what the heck does lean in mean? I don't even know here. I'm leaning in. I'm leaning in. I ain't getting nothing. What does it mean? Exactly. What are you wanting? What'd you what was what was your heartbeat when you came to this conference, when you came to this service? What was it that you woke up this morning that you wanted more of or you wanted God to fix in your life? You're gonna lean into the reality of that manifestation. You're gonna you're gonna live as if it's already happening. It's the same thing. Well, brother, I've but I've been prayed for so many times, and and people always fall around around me. I'm not I'm the one that never falls. Okay, well, fall anyways. I don't want to fake it. Well, you fake it all the time, anyways, in different areas of your life. Like if you don't want to fall, if you don't want the power of God to touch you, make you fall, then don't worry about it. Like God will touch you while you stand. But if you want to encounter God that way, like you want to fall, like when somebody lays hands on you and they say the name of Jesus, just fall. Just fall. And in your heart, let the Holy Spirit know I'm yielded to I believe you move this way. So I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna expect that you're going to encounter me there.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

And all of a sudden, you might be someone that's always fallen. I never was one that fell before, but all of a sudden, I fell one time. And yeah, it it I did it on purpose, but God met me there. Who's upset about that? Like when you come to the altar and you fall on your knees, Jesus didn't make you fall to your knees. You chose to fall to your knees. Was you faking it then? No, you were yielding to something that you believed in. That's all that it is. And so union with God, unity is just that. It's it's just, I believe. I believe that he's for me. I believe that he wants to be with me. And so I'm gonna go be with him. And I believe that I can be with him wherever I'm at, no matter what's going on. And if we truly believe that, now the greatest storm becomes a place of delight because I'm with him. That's that's the that's the whole thing, like with the boat and and the storm. And and you know, do you not care that we're perishing? And you know, wake up and Jesus is like, if you were more focused on being with me than you were the storm, you'd have been all right. Because it was a place to be with me. Yeah?

SPEAKER_04 27:37

Yes, sir. Absolutely. Um, I had another question too, to kind of this is all reality. Like, I just want to just put that out there. Let me just I just want to segue in the story and then I'll bring it into the question. But just I remember because this is I just felt the Lord just kind of brought it to my memory. I don't ever really think about this uh time. It is a very short moment. I remember going to a specific church while I was here for a while, um, just going back and forth in and out, just trying to figure out like uh do I want to go, do I not want to go? And I was still troubled within my you know with with within my own sins and trying to deal with that, trying to patch it up by prayer on Sunday, and then immediately like, I don't want to do this again, but like I know I want to, you know, and so just kind of battling that. But I remember this one Sunday morning uh at a service, and I just remember they were doing like uh it was like an altar call, and you could come up to the altar and just pray. Um and so and I just remember I don't remember if I was, I think I was in the front row, and I just remember just feeling this thing of like, I don't really want to go. I'm I'm not I don't feel like it. But you know what? Let me just walk up here, get on here, and just start praying. And it's not not that the cravings went away, but I just feel I just believe there was this I don't know how to how to I don't know how to say it, but I just felt like there was a place where God moved on my life. He uh He's always been but that in that place there, I just he just moved. It was very quiet, very subtle. And I just think it was just the seeds of obedience coming up there. Sure. And I think that that's what's awesome. And so just just being obedient anyway.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Um abide in me and I and you. And I and you, absolutely John 15, 4. Yes, sir. You know, it's it's it's it's our understanding went up to prayer. That's what you said. Yeah, but it's it's prayer is communion before it's petition. So a lot of times we come to prayer as it's a petition. We're petitioning heaven. Yeah, it's communion first. And so it's union really reveals that that prayer is not getting God's attention. It's it's enjoying the one who never stopped giving you his. And so prayer is just I don't need to get God's attention. I'm gonna step into enjoying that he never looked away. He looked away from Jesus, he never looked away from us. He looked away from Jesus so he never have to look away from us.

unknown 30:18

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

So he never looked away from us. And so abide in me and I in you, he never looked away. I've always had his attention. I've just got to start delighting in his attention. But the issue is we want the attention of so many other things. We just need to delight in the fact that I have his and everything's flowing from that he is looking at me. When when you know, when you you had your addictions, yeah, you had your problems, he still enjoyed looking at you. He wasn't looking at your sin, he was looking at you. But we spend too much time looking at other people's faults, and we definitely spend too much time looking at our own.

unknown 31:03

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

And so because we start looking at our own, we have this separation consciousness because who could love me? Because we're we're saying that based on our performance, based on our sin, based on our how we've fallen short, based on so many things. And and God is going, Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I married myself to you. I'm never looking away. I've always wanted you, I've always desired you. Before you, when you were but yet a sinner, Christ died for you. Or wasn't even born when Christ died. Right. He already saw it. And he still died for you. That's union. That's the light. And then and then living from that union is is understanding that he loves me. Well, but brother, does that mean this this is greasy grace and now I can just continue to sin and grace may abound? No, Paul said, may it never be. But if we live from union, if we live from union, if we live from his love, sin won't be an issue. We won't sin.

unknown 32:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

We just live delight. We live from his is-ness, and and we flow from his love, and then what comes out of us is love, not sin. But if we live from sin and we live from fall, what will come out of us is fall and sin. And so we'll continually live in this vigorous repetition of trying to please a God that we don't think can actually be pleased, because we're trying to please him by performance when his pleasure is in us delighting in him.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

Yeah, yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

You got time for one more, I think.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

Dang, I've got two. You got one. Well, no, I'm trying to battle between these two questions. Um I guess if if you could if we could look in scripture. I feel like we answered that. I'm still gonna ask it. It's cool. If we looked in scripture, what is God's idea of unity? Because we can look and and find it just based on God being in a relationship with other people. But how does how how can we understand God's view of unity if that's even possible?

SPEAKER_00 33:26

By looking at trees. Interesting. When when we look at a tree um in a field, whether it's big or small, whether it's in a pot or in the ground, they all have one thing in common. They're in union with the soil. Whatever soil they're planted in, they're in union with that soil. Now, how well they abide in that soil, now you gotta understand, he doesn't give he doesn't give nutrients as the earth gives nutrients. His his nutrients never run out. Because you could say, well, nutrient in soil, different things, and you know, that that tree may not survive. I get all that. But when whenever we look, John 15, 5, he who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit. So union, union, union to God is us being connected much like the the roots of the tree in the soil to the branches. So we we don't even have to focus on the roots. We focus on the vine. The vine has strong roots. That's Jesus. I am the true vine. He that abides in me bears much fruit. And so we spend too much time pretending like we're the ones that have to control the root system. We worry about the soil. Well, we need to just be worried about the vine. We need to be focused on Jesus. So God, God views union as fruitfulness through the abundance of the abiding nature, not of us, but of Jesus Christ Himself. Because a lot of times we we we read it, John 15, he who abides in me, and I in him bears much fruit. And the part that we hear is I've got to abide in Christ. But the middle is the most important. I'm abiding in you. He who abides in me. And I in him, there's there's co-abiding happening. But the first abiding doesn't happen without you understanding the middle. That he abides in me. He loves me, he delights in me, he longs to be with me, he's connected to me, and he is from which my source flows. So now I'm not I'm not focused on abiding in him. I'm not focused on making sure that the soil's nutrient-dense. I'm not focused on trying to receive, I'm not trying to focus on res or of trying to produce. I'm focused on him. Because he's focused on me. Now we go John 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That word with means eye to eye, nose to nose, and mouth to mouth, looking. So what am I doing? He's gazing upon me. I stopped looking, I stopped looking at the soil, I stopped looking at the roots, I stopped looking around at all the fruitfulness around me. I stopped looking at the branches around me to see if they're bearing fruit. I got lost in his gaze. Because he never looked away. He is constantly mesmerized with me. And when I return that mesmerization, when I live in that communion, when I live in that delight of looking into his eyes, I just bear fruit from a natural state of being locked in with him.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

That's really good. Well, thank you so much. Thank you for just uh spending time and and just sharing all that. That's really powerful. Are you all right to break break us out in prayer? Sure.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Holy Spirit, we recognize you as Lord. We ask you to come and do what only you can. Reveal Jesus to us in a greater manner, Lord, so that we may get more lost in his eyes. So that abiding becomes our natural state of being. And that fruitfulness begins to multiply. And when others look at our fruit, they get lost in his eyes. Lord, I thank you for truth. Lord, I thank you for communion. I thank you for union. I thank you for unity in the body of Christ. I thank you for hungry hearts that are living wholly dissatisfied with the level of Jesus that they know, regardless of how deep they are in you. Lord, draw them deeper. We bless them. We speak healing over their bodies. We speak healing over their lives. We bless them in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_04 38:34

Amen. Thank you so much, sir.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 38:38

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