Monday’s w. The Monk E3: Light On The Mountain

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Welcome And A Slower Faith

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Welcome. Welcome to Mondays with the Monk on a Buddy Ford Jr. show. All right, everyone. This isn't this is an invitation to slow things down where we don't rush to answers. This is where we learn to see, hear, and discern God in the middle of real life. Remember, I'm not a pastor. I hold no theology degree. I'm a guy in what I call the Jesus gym, working out, sweating, dropping weight on my feet. But I'm getting back up. And the monk, he's here to help. Me, you, he's here to help us unpack and sit with scripture, not just reading it, but how to listen, not just react, but how to build a system for our faith that actually holds up when life gets heavy. This isn't a lecture, it's a conversation. So take a breath. Let's begin. Brian, welcome. Appreciate you here.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

So good to be back.

Reading The Bible As Meditation

SPEAKER_00 1:15

What do we got going on today? What do you unpack?

Jesus On Mount Tabor

SPEAKER_03 1:18

Well, we we've been having a conversation about reading the Bible. And for me, this idea is it's it's a different way to read the Bible. It was the idea of reading the Bible is Jewish meditation literature. And part of reading the Bible is Jewish meditation literature, is what we're what we're looking for is every character in the Bible from the very beginning in the book of Genesis to the very end in the book of Revelation, uh, has one of the things that one of the things that they all have in common is they've all had an experience of God. So in our first conversation on this theme, we talked about Adam and Eve experiencing God in the Garden of Eden, the place of easy intimacy with God. And then in our second conversation, we talked about King David and his experience of God and being taken back to the garden, encountering the tree of life from Psalm 1. Um, but then in Psalm 27, when he entered in through into heavenly realms, even in the midst of very difficult times, he was actually able to transition from an earthly state of mind, an earthly consciousness to a heavenly consciousness. And so we're gonna pick up today our story, started with Adam, then talked about David. Today we're gonna look at how Jesus himself experiences God. What what's we we have a we have a re record of one of Jesus' prayer meetings. He invited Peter, James, and John to go with him for a prayer meeting with the Father. You know, many times he would wake up early, he'd go pray in the mountains by himself, and we don't have a record. We know that he went. It's recorded that he went, and that this was his custom. Many times he would go to the mountain and pray. You know, so if he's going to the mountains many times to go and pray, how much more important is it for us to go at least to that spiritual mountain and pray? Amen. And on one of those times that he went to pray, he brought some witnesses, Peter, James, and John. And this is the story of the transfiguration, the mountain that it's uh that it happened on is Mount Tabor. So Mount Tabor and the transfiguration, transfiguration. And for those who are just hearing about this now, um, what happens is Jesus undergoes a transformation and his divine nature is revealed and shines out through his human nature, and it says that his face shone like the sun, and that his garments glisten like lightning. And then the Peter, James, and John they fall to their faces, and then they hear a voice, the voice of the father says, This is my son in whom I'm well pleased, which is the same language that we hear at Christ's own baptism, when the voice of the father is heard. This is this is the father's forever posture over his son Jesus. This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. And when, you know, in our last episode, we are emphasizing the importance of Jesus. When we find our life in Christ, then we don't just find a new life in Christ. We find that that declaration of the Father, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased, this is my beloved child in whom I'm well pleased. That is our, that is now over us. That's the open heaven that is open over every believer. And so I thought we would explore that, yeah, that experience of Christ through the witness of well, Peter, James, and John were all there, but in the second letter of Peter, Peter talks about it in detail. So that's why I'd like to invite people to open their Bibles, open their Bible apps, and come and join us in 2 Peter. 2 Peter, 2 Peter chapter 1. And the line that I buddy, you're great at giving the context for these things. And I tried to give a quick summary of the transfiguration. Is there is there anything else you think we should say to provide context for this encounter with Christ?

SPEAKER_00 5:51

No, I I I I want I I can't wait to learn about it. Like you got my full attention. I I don't recall the details that you just brought us through.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

So I'm excited. I don't know how I missed the disciples falling down, which makes sense because they can't, you know, they can't even fan the sight of God. Like they can't look at him because it's he couldn't handle it.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

So God obviously took God appeared, it sounds like, right?

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Yeah. So this that's called uh a theophany or an epiphany. And when Christ is at the center of it, you could also call it a Christophany, but the heavenly realm, um, you know, we were we were saying about how David entered into heavenly courts, into different realms, and and that's where their oh, I was gonna say that their response of falling to the ground face down, that is a historical response of people who experience the the revelation of God's majesty is hit the deck. It's like, why this is so much bigger than I am, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Like if he if he came, we would lay down and face down. I I remember somewhere in the book during COVID, I was reading, that's when I really dove into studying the Bible, and I remember laying on a yoga mat praying, like laying face down. Somewhere in there, that's how prayer was back then, and it was profound, like it had a big impact on me, laying down as if God was in my presence, because I wouldn't stand, I wouldn't kneel, I lay at his law. So I probably couldn't handle it, right? Isn't that what they say?

SPEAKER_03 7:31

That's right, that's right. The uh buddy, uh just there's an anointing right here right now, and I just want to I want to name it. Your your background is so prophetic because it gives us our two essential elements. And the the first line I'm gonna read you is about a lamp shining in a dark place. So, and I'm looking right over your shoulder there. If you move your hand a second, everybody else could see it. The lamp, other side there. There's the lamp. So the lamp, lamp shining in a dark place until the first rays of dawn arise in our hearts. Now remember, the way that transfiguration of Jesus was described was his face shone like the sun. So, what I what I want to make a radical proposal to people is that wasn't just, just like I said, easy intimacy in the Garden of Eden wasn't just for Adam and Eve then, it's for us here now. Entering into heavenly realms for King David wasn't in his in his culture of prophetic worship, wasn't just for him then, it's for us here now. And even Jesus, when he's manifesting the the radiance of the Father through him, that wasn't just for Jesus then, it's for us right here, right now. And Peter is initiating us, inviting us to this, and and so that we could be so that we could be invited and initiated into experiencing God's glory.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

That's so good. And as you say that, I'm coming out of my skin because I just had this thought. So here these three apostles are with Jesus on the mountain, who appe who God appears to them. They're writing about it, and in between them writing about it and experiencing it, Peter denies Jesus three times. So there's so many things going on in my head. Like, even though they were in the awe of God in the presence of the Almighty that they could not contain or describe, and they fell on their face, they still deny, he still denies Christ.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Which shows you, even though they walk in Jesus, they saw God, they still screwed up. And so, I mean, how much we screw up? We, and I know you'll you'll say, Yes, we do, we do walk in the presence of Jesus. Yeah, we don't walk in them. I say we aren't because that's where I go to my head, but I receive that we are. So I'm gonna beat you to the punch there.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Yeah, pitching and catching, blocking and ducking.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

So just I'm trying to work this out here in real time. So we do, but however, worldly, we have a hard time believing that we're walking with Jesus. They physically walk with the creator of the universe, yeah. It's still screwed up, but here's what's even here's what's awesome. They tell the truth, yeah. They write the book, like they were the author, like the Lord's the author.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yeah, at some point, they could have done something with this book to not look like such profound idiots, yeah. That he would deny Jesus three times. They couldn't look down the fact that he was on a moron.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

They don't hide the fact that they're idiots. So good, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

They don't hide the fact that they're idiots. That's what's hidden right now. Peter does not hide the fact that he's a moron because he denied Jesus three times. And he was told he was gonna deny him, and he said there's no way, and he still denied him, and he could have just edited out the mountain experience, but it's all there raw in the flesh, and in human human condition, and it's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

In fact, buddy, when you look at the timeline when that transfiguration encounter happens, that's the moment at which Christ begins his journey to the cross. So they say from the Mount of Transfiguration, Christ is now on his way to the Mount of Calvary, and so Peter sees God's glory and still abandons him at the at Calvary.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

If that's not permission for us to just get rid of all of our baggage and have no excuses, yeah. Like God still love Peter.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Yeah, still shows Peter, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

And he's still screwed up, like we're gonna screw up.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

I'm still forget about my own. And when we screw up, it like we feel like we're disqualified, right? But God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies those who he calls.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Wow. And I love the saying that I hear pastors on a platform saying, it's not shame on you, it's shame off of you through the power of the cross.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

I love it. So good, buddy. So let's take a look at this.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Um I didn't mean to get you off track there, too.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

100%. This is exactly it. This is it, this is it, buddy. And so I would just want to that lamp that's sitting on one shoulder and then the sun on the other. I feel like that's a prophetic image of Jesus' prayer time. Like right now, if we're looking at Jesus is in those mountains and he's praying to the Father, and his face is shining like the sun. I know we're seeing the sun shine over there, but isn't that? Remember, all of creation is the father's meditation on his son. So the sun rising over the mountain, that's God the Father talking to us about God the Son in personal prayer time.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Wow, that's so heavy and light at the same time.

SPEAKER_03 13:15

And and when we catch ourselves in the act of being generated, which you wouldn't have made it your backdrop if you your your virtual background, you wouldn't have made it that unless something was generated. Like that's the father saying to you that this isn't just for my son, then it's for you as my son and my daughter right now. Yep. Um, I'm gonna add one more piece on it there. Why did Jesus' face shine like the sun? We become like the God that we behold. So in the letter of John, in uh one of the Joannine letters, it says, uh, yeah, we will become like him, for we shall see him as he is. So what we behold, we become. So Jesus the Son is in his personal prayer time beholding the glory of God the Father. And so now Jesus in his human nature is manifesting that to Peter, James, and John. And so he's shining like the sun. But that's the same, it's not just for Jesus, it's for us. He's saying, Come and behold my Father with me so that you can shine like me.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Which is why we have to be careful of what flows through our heart, because everything flows through it. It's just all connected.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

Oh, and and check this out, buddy. This is when Jesus says, Um, if the eye is single, the whole body will be filled with light. So that call to be filled with light. However, if the eye is dark, how great the darkness will be. So are we looking with an eye for what's a blessing and what's beautiful and what's good, or are we looking for, are we looking with judgment? And once you look with judgment, then you look with accusation and then condemnation and then shame on you, and you go down that darkness.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yep, yep. Boy, that sounds familiar.

A Lamp In A Dark Place

SPEAKER_03 15:10

All right, so here we go. This, this uh I'm I'm first I'm gonna read 2 Peter chapter 1. I'm gonna read the end of verse 19, but then I'm gonna go back so that people can appreciate that what I'm saying this is saying, that it's actually saying. Um, but I just want to get this thing. It says the prophetic message that we carry is something utterly reliable. So, right now, for for three weeks, really four weeks, because even our message on worthiness, this is the same thing from all of our talks are exactly the same talk, just framed in different places in the in the journey. Um, I'm saying it's a prophetic message and it's utterly reliable. That's the exact words that Peter's using here. You, buddy, you and I right now, and Saint Peter and Saint Paul, um we the prophetic message we carry is something utterly reliable. And it says, you do well to pay attention to it, like a lamp shining in a dark place. So there's a little lamp over your shoulder, you know, and even if you're in the darkness, even if you're in your own rebellion or uh other people are tearing everything you built down, or or you're tearing down everything built God built for you, uh, whatever type of darkness, whatever type of winter you're in, uh, God's word to you right now is no winter lasts forever. Every winter's followed by spring. No night lasts forever, every night's followed by morning. And so so Peter's telling us the prophetic message that we carry is utterly reliable. Pay attention to it like a lamp shining in a dark place until the dawn and its morning star rises in your hearts. That's catch yourself in the act of being generated because that same Jesus that revealed his divinity to them then is gonna appear in our hearts as we contemplate this prophetic message, even when we're in darkness, something's gonna rise and be experienced. Like until listen to that language again, until day dawns and the morning star rises in your heart. This is for everyone, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

This is for everyone. Well, so good.

SPEAKER_03 17:37

So now I want to uh go back. So that's verse 19, but now I want to go back to verse 17 so that we can see that Peter is actually remembering to us what he experienced in Tabor. And and like you said, he experienced the glory of God on that mountain, and there was a there was a cloud, and out of the majesty there was a voice, and they fell face down, his face shone like the sun. So, all those details, that's what Peter's remembering. And after that, then he goes and abandons him, denies him three times, and doesn't show up for the cross. He's a no-show. So our our whole life, it's I think about it like this, buddy. It's either the switch is on or the switch is off. It's either I believe and I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus, 100% alive in Christ Jesus, or the switch gets flipped off and I go dark and I'm 100% dead in Adam. But the good news is all I have to do is flip the switch back on. When I think like the new man, I access the new reality. When I think like the old man, I go back to the dark. Think like the new man, I go up the mountain.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

That's so good.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

So here we go, verse 17. So you can come with you can follow me in your Bibles and your Bible apps. Second Peter verse chapter one, second Peter chapter one, verse 17. So he, meaning Jesus, now I'm gonna back up another verse. Let's go to 16. Uh, we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So this is Peter telling you about the coming of Jesus, the coming of our Lord Jesus, Christ in power. But we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Now I'm proposing to you that that's the eyewitness on Mount Tabor when he saw Jesus transfigured, described it as his face shone like the sun and his garments glistened like light. And in one of the gospels, I think it's Luke, says, glistened like lightning. I love that. It says, He, Jesus, received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the majestic glory, saying, This is my son whom I love, with him I am well pleased. We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven, and we were with him on the sacred mountain. Now, okay, good for Jesus, right? Good for Jesus, but what Peter's initiating is he's inviting us to be initiated into that when he then says what we previously read, but I'll reread again. This prophetic message is something utterly reliable. You do well to pay attention to it like a lamp shining in a dark place until the dawn and the morning star rises in your hearts. Because this wasn't just for Jesus then. It's for you and I right now. Even if you're in a dark place and you feel like you're far, it's as simple as a flick of a switch.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

And then watch God do a new thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

There's no words. I never read this in that context. That's powerful, Brian.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

And and buddy, I mean, do you have that experience? I know, like when I'm camping and if I if a fire is burning, I could look into the fire all night. You know, whether I'm outside at a campfire or indoors and there's a fire, or it's a lamp flame flickering. I just something won't I'm saying catch yourself in the act of being genuine. That's God reminding you this story that we might be reading for the first time is somehow deeply familiar. And yeah, and and God's beckoning us, say, Do you like this? Do you want more of this? And I just want to say yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Yes. I like it. I mean I'm speechless. I'm speechless. I didn't pick this up. Uh I have no notes on and like wow, is that notes all over it? I had I I had no notes on on the scripture. I missed it. Thank you for that.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Yeah, so so often we're in the gospel, so often we're in in Paul. Um, this is one of Peter's letters, you know. Yeah, yeah. Paul was he was a highly educated teacher of the of the law, Jewish law, yeah, right. Yeah, and so he writes with all this eloquence, but here's Peter, doesn't have an education, he's a fisherman. And if you read his letters, like, wow, this guy was getting heavenly downloads. That's a word for you, you and I.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Yeah, I'm gonna go back over that over this tonight. Yeah, I mean, uh, I mean, you say Paul. I mean, Paul's a that's an easy conversation to pick up, right? Because Paul was the number one author of the New Testament. He was a hunter of Christians, he persecuted Christians.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Yeah, there's that same dynamic, right? From the lowest places to the highest places.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

And he was a genius, like he was scholarly, it's a template of what we go through. He was of the scholar order, he was an experienced, considered expert in a Torah, but of course, that would parlor into the coming of the Messiah. So if anyone we let's go get these Christians, that's not the Messiah, he's a false prophet. He was so convinced of that, and he was so anxious and like excited to be put on this crew this this mission to go kill Christians, the early converts, which were Jewish, his people. And then on the road to Damascus, he gets blind and he becomes the number one author of the Bible, and he never saw God in the flesh. Yeah, he only saw Jesus in the divine in the vision, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

And yet he becomes the number one, he wasn't doubting Thomas, like this guy was all over it.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Yeah, buddy. I'm so glad you told the story about Saint Paul in the Road to Damascus, because that's where he encountered the transfigured Christ.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Oh, yeah, yeah. Sounds a lot like Paul and Peter. I think this connects them.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

That's it does. And I never saw that before, but you're a hundred percent right. That's a heavenly down. Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you, buddy, but your father in heaven, that's so prophetic.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Well, thank you for your thank you for the help and and guiding me through that because this is Peter's road to Damascus. Yeah, this is Second Peter chapter one, verse what, 12 through 20, 21. Can I give you another can I give you another cool link? What's that?

Renewing The Mind Transfigures Us

SPEAKER_03 24:50

Can I give you another cool link with Jesus' transfiguration that wasn't just for Jesus then, it's for us now. Um, and this one's in St. Paul, it's in the letter to Romans and chapter 12. He says, Be transformed by the renewing of your minds. Now, the word, the Greek word that he uses there is metamorphosize, which is the same word that's used to describe Jesus' transfiguration. So, what Paul is telling us is when we change the way we think, we will be transfigured like Christ, which is the same message that Peter's just giving us this prophetic message. Keep your eye on it, like you would a lamp shining in a dark place. It's utterly reliable. It will bring about the transformation of character. So, once again, to echo that the gut the proposal of the gospel is not about behavior modification. I'm gonna try harder to be a better person. I'm sorry, mom, I'll try to be good. You know, that's not what the gospel is. It's not about behavior modification, it's about character transformation through focusing on this prophetic message. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That transform there in Romans 12 is be transfigured. When you think differently, you will experience transformation.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Man, that is so good. And I my podcast that I'm working on right now for my for my Wednesday show is the hardening of the heart. And this ties into it. This Romans be transformed. That is how we gotta stay away from the hardened hearts. And it's so amazing because what we're going through today, like I find myself when I'm online getting annoyed with people cutting people off because they think differently than I'm like, you're if you think this is okay, you're not my wife. Like you're like my cousin is saying that's not mine, and I love with my whole heart. Wait a minute, because I think differently than you, you're gonna harden your heart towards me, and then anyway, then you go back to hear the scripture and transforming your character, that's getting you away from hate. Yeah, and it's just so relevant to what we're going through today, and I and that's and I'm not gonna go political, but the bottom line is the the anecdote to what if you're hating someone online and describing a certain bucket of people because they think differently than you do, and then in turn, if I hate them for that post, yeah, that's not the Bible.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Yeah, right?

Gossip Versus Gospel Identity

SPEAKER_00 27:37

That's hatred, that's the devil. And to be transformed is to transcend the current earthly situation and get into the word. So yeah, this is very this is so good.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Yeah, uh, and buddy, that's um, you know, the word gossip and the word gospel sound alike. They're both about talking, you know. And one of the things I like to say is that the problem with gossip isn't that it says too much. The the problem, no, yeah, the problem with gossip, you know, yeah, isn't that it says too much, is that it doesn't say enough. Because gossip says what somebody may have done. Do you know what she did? Do you know what he did? You know, so you're you're trying to turn somebody against somebody else with gossip. The problem with gossip isn't that it says too much, is that it doesn't say enough. It says what you did, it doesn't say who you are. And that's what the gospel does is it says who you are. The father never calls us out on what we did, he reminds us of who we are. And so that's where you get that freedom in Christ Jesus. There's no condemnation, free from guilt, free from shame, shame off, like you like to say. Shame off. And then that message, that prophetic message, is what when I believe it, I walk in a new identity. I walk in my identity in Christ Jesus, and nothing of the former remains.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Praise God for that. I'm so glad I'm in this word. I'm not there. I'm a work of Jesus Jim, but I'm looking forward to getting there.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Yeah, I mean, and it's both, buddy, because it's the gospel of grace and finished work of the cross. When Jesus says it's done, I'm gonna go with him on that one. You know, if if if I say it's not done and he says it is done, I'm gonna go with him on it.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Okay, man, I always get caught up in that. I love that that that biblical men and women for that matter call me out when I talk like that. I have one, I have uh my my pastor's wife, she'll say something. I'm like, Well, why are you like you're paying way too much attention? Like, she's like, wait a minute, last week you said why are you paying so many attention?

SPEAKER_03 29:47

Yeah, yeah, and that's a good one. That paying attention, that's actually notice that's the language that's used about the lamp. The prophetic message that we carry is something utterly reliable. Pay attention to it, like you would a lamp shining in a dark place. That pay attention, that's actually an expression of worship. So worship, what we pay the most attention to is what we truly worship. So if you want to pay attention to somebody's faults and failures and things that they've done wrong, again, the gossip, you can pay attention to that. But that I would say is um the if the eye is dark, how great the darkness it will be, because you look with judgment, then with accusation, then with condemnation. Now here's the darkness. But if you look with, if you pay attention to the gospel, to the good news, now if the eye is single, the whole body's filled with light. I just see what I see. A good God's doing a good thing in a good way, a beautiful God's doing a beautiful thing in a beautiful way, and that's what I'm focused on. That's my issue.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Man, I did not think you're gonna blow my mind today. Nothing against you. I just I didn't know I was gonna be floored. I did not come into this podcast thinking I'd be floored. You floored me on the second Peter.

unknown 31:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Well, uh, buddy, you you've got God-given stamina here. And but with this, we're I'm gonna suggest that we wrap up in prayer. Does that work for you?

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Yeah, it does. Thank you. Yeah, any any words before you might need an ask after this one.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Yeah, any words before we wrap up.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Yeah, um, thank you. I I did have words, but I'm so stunned over Second Peter. I've lost my train of thought for the closing. I'm just gonna thank everyone for joining us. Encourage them to follow you on mission one uh 129.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

1249.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

1249, mission 1249. And follow us on Instagram. My Instagram is buddy4y junior, and I'm gonna put that picture that Brian has described that's on my screen, my backdrop, on my Instagram account at Buddy4Y Jr. Hey buddy, do you have an Instagram?

SPEAKER_03 32:03

I do.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Oh, what's your Instagram account?

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Yeah, uh Brian Metzger Mission.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

I'll put that in the show notes below. Yeah, awesome. So give us a follow. So yeah, Brian, close us in prayer so I don't keep that one.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

Yeah. Yeah. So Father God, wow. Ha ha ha. Thank you, Father. Father, thank you for that revelation that when we smile, the kingdom works better. And that when we laugh, that you share secrets with us. Thank you, Father God, that even in this session that we've been receiving heavenly downloads, Father, that you yourself have been communicating directly from your spirit to our spirits. And we just want to celebrate that. We want to, we want to say, Father, you are worthy of all worship. Father, you are so good. Thank you for the gift of your son Jesus. Thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for the living word of God. Thank you for this prophetic message. And Father God, thank you that you're, yeah, we can feel it growing in us, this conviction that the garden is real, that the garden is for us, and that the that the that the book of Psalms and the culture of prophetic worship is real and the and that the heavenly places that David visited are real and that they're not just for David, then they're for us now. And and Father God, thank you for the thank you that for all the days and all the nights that you called Jesus into prayer and solitude in the mountains, and they were many. Thank you that there was one, there was one day, there was one night when you invited Peter, James, and John to go with them so that we'd have eyewitnesses of what Jesus' prayer time was like, so that we would know the type of prayer that you're inviting us to live in every day. And that as we learn to pay attention to this prophetic message that's utterly reliable, Father God, we just want to say yes to that word being planted in our hearts, being planted in our minds, being planted in our spirits and growing to full, full fruitfulness, that that tree of life. Yeah, Father God. Thank you, Father God, that yeah, that you make repentance so beautiful, Father God, that you that you that you set us free from the trap of understanding repentance of feeling bad for what we did, and invite us to a new experience of repentance, of turning away from the darkness and turning toward the light and experiencing, encounter you, not behavior modification, but character transformation through encounter with you, Father, through seeing your face, through seeing your smile, through hearing your voice, and a voice that's not hidden in some distant realm, but that surrounds us in every day. Every day that the sun rises, every day that the sun sets, every night that the that the stars that hover above us again, and every night when we rest and every morning when we when we wake, that that every aspect of every day is the manifestation of your word and your life and your love, that we never have to look far for proof that you're here because we woke up and the proof is there again. We got out of bed and the proof is there again. Our heart is beating and the proof is there again. You testify to us and you speak to us and you surround us with these heavenly messengers. Yeah, so Father God, we just want to say yes to a a Mount Tabor lifestyle. We want to say yes to the grace of trend transfiguration, that our old ways would be destroyed by the power of the cross. And that that that you would show us the the way of the easy yoke to walk in this way of your son Jesus. As our as our hearts burn within us, even like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, who didn't recognize Jesus' presence at first, but little by little that that lamp that flickered then became a morning star that rose in their hearts. We feel that morning star rising in our hearts, and we just want to say thank you, Father. We want to say yes and amen. We just want to say, Yay, God, thank you, Jesus, more Lord. And we pray all this in Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Amen.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

Amen. Amen. Buddy, you're shining like the sun. I'm seeing it.