WEBVTT 00:00:01.102 --> 00:00:03.708 A quick few scriptures here, praise the Lord. 00:00:03.708 --> 00:00:14.787 And I wouldn't do this, except I woke up this morning with these scriptures and I gave some of them this morning in the first service. 00:00:14.787 --> 00:00:18.862 But I'm going to give you just a couple of more. 00:00:18.862 --> 00:00:31.065 And I got a lot of this from Dad Hagan, kenneth E Hagan and I have a lot of his messages downloaded on my cell phone. 00:00:31.065 --> 00:00:43.530 So used to you'd have to carry cassette tapes and CDs and nowadays I just put them all on my cell phone so every morning I can listen to him teach the word a little bit. 00:00:43.530 --> 00:00:44.332 Amen. 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.649 He's going on to be with the Lord, but I still get just as blessed listening to him teach. 00:00:48.649 --> 00:00:57.689 And so you know, one of my favorite messages that he teaches is called Hold Fast to your Confession. 00:00:57.689 --> 00:01:03.130 Yes, sir, yes sir, hold on tight, don't turn loose of it, the importance of your confession of faith. 00:01:03.130 --> 00:01:11.590 But this morning, another message that he preaches calls knowing God as your Father. 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:25.230 And so I think there's three or four messages in that series, and years ago I listened to him probably 50 times each. 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:34.626 I might be a slow learner, but I stick with it until it sinks in Knowing God as your Father. 00:01:34.626 --> 00:01:37.683 So when I woke up this morning, the Lord. 00:01:37.683 --> 00:01:39.227 I woke up at 4.30 this morning. 00:01:39.227 --> 00:01:40.951 The Lord spoke a couple things to me. 00:01:40.951 --> 00:01:48.233 One he said you will not fly tonight because we had to call it before 9 am. 00:01:48.233 --> 00:01:50.709 So the Lord called it at 4.30. 00:01:50.709 --> 00:01:52.338 Amen. 00:01:52.338 --> 00:01:55.447 So we're not flying tonight but we'll fly tomorrow. 00:01:55.447 --> 00:01:57.322 Amen. 00:01:57.322 --> 00:02:02.409 And then the Lord began to talk to me about that Hagan's message. 00:02:02.409 --> 00:02:06.409 And if you can get those messages, you can knowing God as your Father. 00:02:06.409 --> 00:02:20.847 And so I listened to him over and over and he talked about God as your Father, knowing God as your Father. 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.826 And one of my favorite scriptures is in John 10, 29,. 00:02:25.826 --> 00:02:31.841 That says my Father is greater than all. 00:02:31.841 --> 00:02:36.306 You just got to know who your Daddy is. 00:02:36.306 --> 00:02:47.704 And so when Jesus said my Father is greater than all, he said no man can pluck you from my Father's hand. 00:02:47.704 --> 00:02:52.227 My Father is greater than all. 00:02:52.227 --> 00:03:06.328 When he says pull you from my Father's hand, other translates as no one can take you from the Father's care, amen. 00:03:06.328 --> 00:03:11.870 And so Jesus and Matthew talks about the Father's care. 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:19.143 But in the Gospel of John you'll really get the best picture in the Gospel of John that God refers. 00:03:19.143 --> 00:03:27.801 The Gospel of John refers Jesus even referred to God as His Father or the Father. 00:03:27.801 --> 00:03:46.507 125 times in the Gospel of John, jesus said whatever you ask the Father in my name, woo, come on, you get to know God as your Father. 00:03:46.507 --> 00:03:49.467 Amen, that he loves you. 00:03:49.467 --> 00:03:53.068 The scripture says the Father Himself loves you. 00:03:53.068 --> 00:04:00.848 Because I used to think Jesus loved me because he died for me, but God was just kind of mad at you all the time. 00:04:00.848 --> 00:04:09.050 Then Jesus died for you to kind of keep the Father from killing you, because people have these ideas about God. 00:04:09.050 --> 00:04:10.544 But you know Jesus loves you. 00:04:10.544 --> 00:04:22.245 He died on the cross and you're like I don't know me and God, I don't know how close we are, but I love Jesus, but I never really knew God as my Father. 00:04:24.060 --> 00:04:27.988 Now, you know we used to do like 30 different prisons every month. 00:04:27.988 --> 00:04:41.125 We have thousands of our books distributed in prisons all across and so we give them way free and then we preach and give them all free and they say what is it like? 00:04:41.125 --> 00:05:00.322 97% of everyone that's in prison had either no father or a bad father, an absentee father, or no father, a bad father, so not knowing. 00:05:00.322 --> 00:05:08.985 Come on, regardless of the experience you had with your daddy, but everybody had that experience. 00:05:08.985 --> 00:05:11.382 I know with Trina. 00:05:11.382 --> 00:05:14.449 Her dad is like a saint or something. 00:05:14.449 --> 00:05:15.932 We hang out with him. 00:05:15.932 --> 00:05:16.942 He's almost 90. 00:05:16.942 --> 00:05:20.709 And Trina and him, they'll be singing gospel songs all the time. 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:23.291 My daddy was a pastor of a church. 00:05:23.291 --> 00:05:31.744 He was a great daddy, but I mean we still had some dysfunctional years when I was a teenager he was gone a lot. 00:05:31.744 --> 00:05:34.026 So I got in trouble, you know. 00:05:34.026 --> 00:05:39.778 Well, he was working for the Lord, working for the church, right, and I got in trouble with them. 00:05:39.778 --> 00:05:43.670 They say preachers, kids have trouble because they hang out with deacons, kids. 00:05:43.670 --> 00:05:55.495 So I had some good times with my dad, but I had some rough times with my dad, you know. 00:05:56.581 --> 00:05:58.406 And as I got older the Lord blessed me. 00:05:58.406 --> 00:06:00.946 So I would bless my dad. 00:06:00.946 --> 00:06:03.285 I would say your Honor, your father and your mother. 00:06:03.285 --> 00:06:07.012 Come on, be a long life, be well with you. 00:06:07.012 --> 00:06:09.687 So I said Lord, I want to honor my father and my mother. 00:06:09.687 --> 00:06:14.050 So whatever kind of car my dad wanted, I bought it for him. 00:06:14.050 --> 00:06:16.305 I had a couple of preacher friends. 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.028 I said y'all, on the end we did the same thing for Trina's dad. 00:06:19.028 --> 00:06:24.185 You know, the Lord blessed me enough just to buy my dad whatever kind of car he wanted, and my mom bought her. 00:06:24.185 --> 00:06:24.968 Whatever kind of car. 00:06:24.968 --> 00:06:26.485 I bought my dad's suit. 00:06:26.485 --> 00:06:27.725 I said get the best ones. 00:06:27.725 --> 00:06:33.351 I remember being in the suit store and you know they put out this suit, shirt and tie. 00:06:33.351 --> 00:06:38.088 Then the guy put out another one and I said, dad, which one do you want? 00:06:38.088 --> 00:06:40.052 And he said I don't know. 00:06:40.052 --> 00:06:42.588 I said why don't you just get both of them? 00:06:42.588 --> 00:06:51.235 Because he was used to getting those, those JC Panay suits, you know, two for $100. 00:06:51.235 --> 00:07:00.505 Right, amen, what a blessing that is, you know, to have to have a good time, to have your parents around, that you can do things for them. 00:07:00.505 --> 00:07:02.471 You know that you just couldn't do. 00:07:02.471 --> 00:07:05.841 I said, lord, bless me, enough I can. 00:07:05.841 --> 00:07:08.699 I can bless my dad, amen. 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:10.084 Same thing with dad. 00:07:10.084 --> 00:07:12.947 Hey, so so we did that. 00:07:13.220 --> 00:07:22.774 But, boy, you know, me and my dad had some rough times and so when my dad passed away, I was like man, I really, I really broke down. 00:07:22.774 --> 00:07:25.348 I just broke down for days. 00:07:25.348 --> 00:07:26.362 I just break down. 00:07:26.362 --> 00:07:32.911 If I walked into a restaurant and saw somebody that even looked like my dad, I just break down immediately. 00:07:32.911 --> 00:07:34.543 Because you haven't. 00:07:34.543 --> 00:07:38.312 We had like regrets, you know, things you didn't do or you should have done. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:47.622 I remember leaving the house and my dad sitting out in the front yard with a in a lawn chair and I was pastoring. 00:07:47.622 --> 00:07:59.307 So I had to go back to Louisiana and I tried to go back a day early so I'll be ready for church, and my dad said, couldn't you just stay one more night? 00:07:59.307 --> 00:08:02.562 This year? 00:08:02.562 --> 00:08:04.187 I still think about that in tears. 00:08:04.187 --> 00:08:09.668 Come to my house and I could have stayed one more night. 00:08:09.668 --> 00:08:19.225 So I had all these things, you know, regrets and dealing with my dad, and I had real rebellious years. 00:08:19.225 --> 00:08:23.343 My dad, you know he'd say something, so I went through whatever that. 00:08:23.343 --> 00:08:24.769 So that would be my experience. 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.668 But different people have even worse experiences. 00:08:27.668 --> 00:08:30.483 I mean Darcy, testified she. 00:08:30.483 --> 00:08:34.952 She had just one of the worst experiences with her dad. 00:08:34.952 --> 00:08:38.522 I have ever heard of what her dad did. 00:08:38.522 --> 00:08:41.801 I mean the way. 00:08:41.801 --> 00:08:45.431 I would think you should just shoot him. 00:08:45.431 --> 00:09:12.410 Dad Hagen, who did the series on knowing God as your father, his dad left his mom when they were just children and his dad went out to become an alcoholic and his dad went out married you know different women and never gave one dime to the family he and his brother. 00:09:12.410 --> 00:09:14.475 You've heard about Dad Hagen's brother. 00:09:14.475 --> 00:09:15.878 What was his brother's name? 00:09:15.878 --> 00:09:17.746 Dub. 00:09:17.746 --> 00:09:22.918 Dub was a truck driver and they agreed when they were teenagers. 00:09:22.918 --> 00:09:26.855 We're gonna hunt our dad down and kill him. 00:09:26.855 --> 00:09:32.085 So he had a really bad you know experience with his dad. 00:09:33.668 --> 00:09:41.505 All right, so you can have all kinds of experiences with your dad, but there's something supernatural happens, amen. 00:09:41.505 --> 00:09:53.537 When you switch from your natural dad to knowing God as your daddy, come on, your father, you get to know God as your father. 00:09:53.537 --> 00:09:55.264 You know Jesus is your Lord. 00:09:55.264 --> 00:09:57.014 You know you're redeemed by the blood. 00:09:57.014 --> 00:10:03.905 But when you can say, father, you're my very own father, you're my very own father, come on. 00:10:03.905 --> 00:10:12.990 And even your natural dad, being limited in what he can do for you, even emotionally, you're heavenly father. 00:10:12.990 --> 00:10:22.870 So Jesus said he had the closest fellowship with his father 125 times my father, my father. 00:10:22.870 --> 00:10:31.620 And think about what Jesus experienced when the father said you are my son and whom I am well pleased. 00:10:31.620 --> 00:10:36.777 Wow, think about those words coming from your father. 00:10:36.777 --> 00:10:38.168 Come on. 00:10:38.168 --> 00:10:45.731 And some fathers don't realize the the effect that that could have on the son or daughter. 00:10:45.731 --> 00:10:47.647 Amen. 00:10:47.667 --> 00:10:54.773 Somebody said they loved very much but not very well. 00:10:54.773 --> 00:10:58.607 We all still hear. 00:10:58.607 --> 00:11:04.427 In other words, you can love, but you're not very good at communicate. 00:11:04.427 --> 00:11:10.609 So your kids come on, your family, and so my dad. 00:11:10.609 --> 00:11:13.096 You know I don't know what kind of relationship he had with his father. 00:11:13.096 --> 00:11:15.370 So you can't get mad at your dad. 00:11:15.370 --> 00:11:17.076 You might want to get mad at your dad's dad. 00:11:17.076 --> 00:11:20.369 You know what I mean. 00:11:20.369 --> 00:11:24.254 And so what you have to do is turn all that over to Jesus. 00:11:24.254 --> 00:11:35.563 Come on and say thank you, lord Jesus, I'm washing the blood and now, lord, you have brought me into closest fellowship with the Father God. 00:11:35.563 --> 00:11:36.586 Amen he's. 00:11:36.586 --> 00:11:39.813 We're so close that I call him daddy. 00:11:39.813 --> 00:11:41.197 He's my father. 00:11:41.197 --> 00:11:43.269 Hallelujah, my father. 00:11:43.269 --> 00:11:46.058 God is greater than all. 00:11:46.058 --> 00:11:47.945 Come on, he's my father. 00:11:47.945 --> 00:11:49.808 Amen. 00:11:49.808 --> 00:11:52.937 My dad was a pastor, great pastor, now great preacher. 00:11:54.105 --> 00:11:56.914 But the time came in my life when I was about 17. 00:11:56.914 --> 00:12:12.251 I said I am no longer BB's son, I am a son of God, I'm a child of God. 00:12:12.251 --> 00:12:17.053 So sure, he's my dad, my natural parent, and I will honor him. 00:12:17.053 --> 00:12:22.105 But I am no longer limited to what my natural dad could do. 00:12:22.105 --> 00:12:26.113 I no longer live with an emptiness Come on now. 00:12:26.113 --> 00:12:28.639 Regret of what could have happened or didn't happen. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:29.330 Come on now. 00:12:29.330 --> 00:12:31.644 Or his ability or lack of ability. 00:12:31.644 --> 00:12:38.065 But when I came to Jesus, come on, he brought me into the presence of the Almighty God. 00:12:38.065 --> 00:12:39.288 Come on now. 00:12:39.288 --> 00:12:40.953 And he's not just a God. 00:12:40.953 --> 00:12:41.876 Way up here on the throne. 00:12:41.876 --> 00:12:43.923 My dad is sitting on that throne. 00:12:43.923 --> 00:12:46.133 Baby, my father's on that throne. 00:12:46.133 --> 00:12:51.548 Whoo, praise the Lord. 00:12:51.548 --> 00:12:54.328 Praise the Lord. 00:12:54.328 --> 00:12:55.995 That's my father. 00:12:55.995 --> 00:12:57.809 That's my father. 00:12:57.809 --> 00:12:58.813 Come on. 00:12:58.874 --> 00:13:01.625 I got refothered when I made Jesus my Lord. 00:13:01.625 --> 00:13:03.232 I've been refothered. 00:13:03.232 --> 00:13:05.162 I'm a child of God. 00:13:05.162 --> 00:13:06.547 Hallelujah, amen. 00:13:06.547 --> 00:13:08.309 That runs in my family. 00:13:08.309 --> 00:13:09.332 My father, god. 00:13:09.332 --> 00:13:12.259 I'm an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. 00:13:12.259 --> 00:13:19.336 My father is greater than all. 00:13:19.336 --> 00:13:22.750 Alright, let's try that one more time. 00:13:22.750 --> 00:13:24.515 This is one of my favorite scriptures. 00:13:24.515 --> 00:13:29.953 My father is greater than all. 00:13:29.953 --> 00:13:35.509 Whoo, well, you know. 00:13:35.509 --> 00:13:36.532 Thank God for Mom. 00:13:36.532 --> 00:13:37.274 You know what I mean. 00:13:37.274 --> 00:13:39.739 You know, if you watch TV, everybody says hello Mom. 00:13:39.739 --> 00:13:45.452 You just can't find hardly anybody says hello Dad. 00:13:45.452 --> 00:13:49.190 I mean they ought to say Hi, mom, you're like. 00:13:49.190 --> 00:13:50.513 Well, what about me? 00:13:50.513 --> 00:13:51.615 I had to work all my life. 00:13:51.615 --> 00:13:56.167 You know, take care of yourself, amen. 00:13:57.725 --> 00:14:05.591 So in the plan of redemption, the father and his family, right. 00:14:05.591 --> 00:14:21.339 So I read the book 17, by E W Kenyon called the father and his family, and so it's changed the way I saw God and I started seeing him as my father. 00:14:21.339 --> 00:14:26.634 He loves me, he cares for me. 00:14:26.634 --> 00:14:31.059 I can actually cast all my cares on him. 00:14:31.059 --> 00:14:33.899 He says I'm going to turn loose of him. 00:14:33.899 --> 00:14:42.690 He says I got him, boy, he can take care of it for you, all your worries, all your anxiety, to know God as your father. 00:14:42.690 --> 00:14:49.022 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory to God. 00:14:49.022 --> 00:14:51.149 That means El Shaddai. 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:56.369 We all might of God, creator of the heavens and the earth. 00:14:56.369 --> 00:15:00.559 That's my daddy man, that's my father, that's my father man. 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:02.308 That's my father. 00:15:02.308 --> 00:15:03.769 That's my father. 00:15:03.769 --> 00:15:05.750 I know who my father is. 00:15:05.750 --> 00:15:08.414 Yes, sir, because I've been re-fathered. 00:15:08.414 --> 00:15:13.214 Come on, quit accepting what everybody says runs in your family. 00:15:13.214 --> 00:15:15.645 That's right. 00:15:15.645 --> 00:15:16.288 That's right, that's right. 00:15:16.288 --> 00:15:22.532 And then you say my father is greater than all, hallelujah. 00:15:23.830 --> 00:15:39.368 So now in Dad Hagen's series he comes to Hebrews, chapter 10, verse what, 14 through 22. 00:15:39.368 --> 00:15:41.099 Y'all know 22. 00:15:41.099 --> 00:15:48.369 So I'm not going through all the scriptures now because it's getting a little bit late, but Hebrews 10, 14 through 22. 00:15:48.369 --> 00:15:49.663 All right, how many know where that goes? 00:15:49.663 --> 00:15:51.466 That talks about your blood. 00:15:51.466 --> 00:15:53.605 The blood of Jesus cleans you from sin. 00:15:53.605 --> 00:15:57.386 God sees you through that blood, come on. 00:15:57.386 --> 00:16:05.549 And Colossians 1, it said he sees you holy, unblameable and unreprivable. 00:16:05.549 --> 00:16:08.984 Come on. 00:16:08.984 --> 00:16:12.255 He created you for fellowship and he redeemed you for fellowship. 00:16:12.255 --> 00:16:21.830 And when I call it how to have a meeting with God, he's going to be a great man. 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:24.965 But how to have a meeting with God. 00:16:24.965 --> 00:16:28.909 Wow, come on, ladies and gentlemen. 00:16:28.909 --> 00:16:29.812 And nobody. 00:16:29.812 --> 00:16:34.740 Brother Hagen said it this way Nobody can get closer to God than you can. 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:38.195 No TV preacher come on now. 00:16:38.195 --> 00:16:47.177 Whether they lay on hands or blow, no TV preacher Can't get closer to God than you can. 00:16:47.177 --> 00:16:54.842 Come on, they got a gift and a calling, but nobody can get closer to God than you can. 00:16:54.842 --> 00:17:03.909 So when he taught on Hebrews, chapter 10, it says let us come boldly to the throne of grace. 00:17:04.952 --> 00:17:09.744 Now, when I was 17, I thought if I can just get in there. 00:17:09.744 --> 00:17:14.630 That's the way my little brain was working. 00:17:14.630 --> 00:17:26.970 I thought if I can just have a meeting with God, I thought if I can just get in there. 00:17:26.970 --> 00:17:37.390 So in my mind I thought I would kind of have to sneak in Behind Kenneth Hagen or Roberts. 00:17:37.390 --> 00:17:39.946 I thought I could sneak in behind them. 00:17:39.946 --> 00:17:40.410 You know, billy Graham. 00:17:40.410 --> 00:17:43.049 I thought sneak in behind them. 00:17:43.049 --> 00:17:55.181 And when they got in I'd go hello Jesus, and he'd say what you doing in here, anyway, but you don't have to sneak in behind no preacher, come on. 00:17:55.201 --> 00:18:06.285 I said you don't have to sneak in behind nobody when you know about the blood of Jesus and God is called the father of spirits in Hebrews 12, 9. 00:18:06.285 --> 00:18:09.170 What does that mean? 00:18:09.170 --> 00:18:10.452 What does that mean? 00:18:10.452 --> 00:18:38.079 Your spirit can fellowship with God in his presence, and that's the only thing that will satisfy you, no matter what you are good at, no matter how much money you got, no matter how many rose roses you got we saw a bunch of them down there, people driving up in all kinds of fancy cars but when you fellowship with God, yeah, oh, amen, whoo. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:49.556 So here's your invitation Come boldly, come on by the blood of Jesus, come on into the holiest. 00:18:50.650 --> 00:18:52.174 How to have a medium of God? 00:18:52.174 --> 00:18:58.626 Listen, moses did Study Moses meeting with God. 00:18:58.626 --> 00:19:02.971 When he had a meeting with God, he said show me your glory. 00:19:02.971 --> 00:19:06.521 God said just a minute, let me put you in a place in the rock. 00:19:06.521 --> 00:19:08.308 I'm gonna show you my glory. 00:19:08.308 --> 00:19:18.519 Imagine if you just ask God that and say Father, god in your presence, I'm asking you right now show me your glory, yes, glory. 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:23.346 When you see his glory, you know you'll never lack for anything else the rest of your life. 00:19:23.346 --> 00:19:26.066 Show me your glory and just show it. 00:19:26.126 --> 00:19:29.826 In the back parts, there the Bible says we are changed. 00:19:29.826 --> 00:19:36.266 Changed, I mean, although there's some things you'll never change except in his presence. 00:19:36.266 --> 00:19:38.743 Why Praise the Lord? 00:19:38.743 --> 00:19:41.444 All right, so let me try to finish this here. 00:19:41.444 --> 00:19:42.247 What time is it now? 00:19:42.247 --> 00:19:43.130 8.25. 00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:45.785 I don't know if the game's over, but it don't matter now, does it? 00:19:53.751 --> 00:19:55.354 So we're writing another book, a trend of helping. 00:19:55.354 --> 00:19:56.883 It's called how to have a Meeting with God. 00:19:56.883 --> 00:20:05.121 So we start going through in the book all the different ones who had a meeting with God man. 00:20:05.121 --> 00:20:09.423 It's all a tarsus, apostle Paul. 00:20:09.423 --> 00:20:14.263 Huh, come on, think about that. 00:20:14.263 --> 00:20:15.820 Did you know? 00:20:15.820 --> 00:20:27.161 It says in Genesis that Abraham got up early every morning and went and stood at the place that he was meeting with God man. 00:20:27.161 --> 00:20:28.767 That's just the old covenant. 00:20:28.767 --> 00:20:32.048 You've got a better covenant by the blood of Jesus. 00:20:32.048 --> 00:20:34.867 Amen to go right in there, have a meeting with God. 00:20:35.180 --> 00:20:37.107 And somebody said well, what do you call that? 00:20:37.107 --> 00:20:40.549 I mean a hunger for prayer, to fellowship with God. 00:20:40.549 --> 00:20:46.625 And when you come out of there, woo, come on, you're filled up again. 00:20:46.625 --> 00:20:48.965 Come on, got a smile on your face. 00:20:48.965 --> 00:20:56.107 Amen, that God is the Father of mercy. 00:20:56.107 --> 00:21:03.461 Think about His mercies, the Father of mercies, come on. 00:21:03.461 --> 00:21:20.926 So if you don't feel like you measure up or whatever, you have fallen, you just go to God and say Father, you are my Father, you're the Father of glory and you're the Father of mercies, and you're my very own Father. 00:21:20.926 --> 00:21:27.419 Ha ha, ha ha. 00:21:27.419 --> 00:21:30.268 And he says I see you through the blood. 00:21:30.268 --> 00:21:34.028 No matter what's happened, I'm still going to bless you. 00:21:34.028 --> 00:21:36.423 Come on in and make people mad. 00:21:36.423 --> 00:21:40.705 How much God blesses you when you know the mess that you have been. 00:21:40.705 --> 00:21:43.604 Ha ha, ha ha. 00:21:43.604 --> 00:21:46.489 He's the Father of mercies. 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:50.347 So it goes on down to Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 22,. 00:21:50.347 --> 00:21:51.463 And I'm going to read this for you. 00:21:51.463 --> 00:21:53.500 Y'all ready, y'all got this. 00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:54.006 So here's what it says. 00:21:54.006 --> 00:21:57.065 And I'm going to have to end with this, but I got like whole page of notes. 00:21:57.065 --> 00:21:59.623 Here's what it says. 00:21:59.623 --> 00:22:03.326 Let us draw near. 00:22:03.326 --> 00:22:06.282 What an invitation. 00:22:06.282 --> 00:22:17.144 I don't like to call it prayer because people immediately got one idea of prayer, so I like to call it. 00:22:17.144 --> 00:22:19.663 People say what you're going to do today. 00:22:19.663 --> 00:22:34.913 You say I have a meeting with someone who's extremely powerful, knows everything, extremely rich and really likes me. 00:22:34.913 --> 00:22:43.327 Come on, everybody don't have to like you, you just need the right person to like you. 00:22:43.327 --> 00:22:44.945 Ha ha, ha ha. 00:22:44.945 --> 00:22:48.585 Everybody don't have to like me, I just need the right person. 00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:55.730 I was preaching on the Word network, you know, and I launched out to go into a new channel. 00:22:55.730 --> 00:23:06.823 It cost me $20,000 a month, plus making the program and paying people to make the program Probably double that Every month. 00:23:06.823 --> 00:23:08.123 So I told the Lord. 00:23:08.123 --> 00:23:17.086 I said well, lord, you know, I'm going to throw out the net to reach some new people with the Word of faith you know and who you are in Christ and the blood. 00:23:17.086 --> 00:23:23.038 I'm going to reach some new people, but it's going to cost me $40,000 a month. 00:23:23.038 --> 00:23:24.885 I'm going to pay the time and pay the people. 00:23:24.885 --> 00:23:27.224 So I need an extra $40,000 a month. 00:23:27.224 --> 00:23:33.964 Well, I had one preacher, pastor, friend come up to me, said I want to pay for the first three months. 00:23:33.964 --> 00:23:37.423 I said, well, that's a start. 00:23:37.423 --> 00:23:42.464 How long does it take before that station actually supports itself? 00:23:42.464 --> 00:23:45.923 And it's not coming out of my regular expenses. 00:23:45.923 --> 00:23:52.367 Three months, three months, I went by and he paid some more. 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:55.144 Then I had a guy from New Jersey. 00:23:55.144 --> 00:24:07.205 Never met him before and he watched the Word network and he saw one of my program where I was talking about wasabi. 00:24:07.205 --> 00:24:13.002 I was talking about wasabi how the Word hit your brain like wasabi. 00:24:13.002 --> 00:24:18.826 So he passers up in New Jersey and he sent me $100,000. 00:24:18.826 --> 00:24:22.750 The Lord said you said that thing, that'll help you. 00:24:22.750 --> 00:24:24.828 I said that helps a lot. 00:24:24.828 --> 00:24:28.288 So I got really happy about that. 00:24:28.288 --> 00:24:31.622 And then he sent me another hundred thousand. 00:24:31.622 --> 00:24:40.961 Every time he had sent me a hundred thousand he'd say wasabi, yeah, yeah, I mean somebody I don't even know right. 00:24:40.961 --> 00:24:43.690 So we found out who he was. 00:24:43.690 --> 00:24:44.275 I gave him a call. 00:24:44.275 --> 00:24:46.775 I said I just want to thank you for being such a blessing. 00:24:46.775 --> 00:24:47.520 And he goes. 00:24:47.520 --> 00:24:49.454 I watched you on the Word Network. 00:24:49.454 --> 00:24:57.246 That wasabi man changed my whole life, my whole church, and he said and all of our staff watches you every week, wow. 00:24:57.246 --> 00:25:00.201 So then I went wasabi. 00:25:00.201 --> 00:25:07.320 Then he sent me another hundred thousand, then another hundred thousand, then another hundred thousand. 00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:09.292 Then he sent me another hundred thousand. 00:25:09.292 --> 00:25:11.201 He sent me seven hundred thousand dollars. 00:25:12.296 --> 00:25:19.019 I said my father, god always take care of me in grand style. 00:25:19.019 --> 00:25:25.541 My father, you only really need one caller when they do that. 00:25:25.541 --> 00:25:29.160 I just need one call. 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:32.317 Are y'all still here? 00:25:32.317 --> 00:25:48.982 How many believe your father God can arrange your blessing and arrange your harvest, that he cares for you so much that he's got angels that'll work overtime for you, even while you're asleep at night. 00:25:48.982 --> 00:25:54.027 Come on, your father, god is taking care of you in grand style. 00:25:54.027 --> 00:25:58.460 Come on, my father, and guess what? 00:25:58.460 --> 00:26:10.942 We cry our father, daddy, god, and God has sent forth the Holy Spirit himself to live on the inside of you, to bring you into closest fellowship with the father, god. 00:26:10.942 --> 00:26:25.317 My father, extremely powerful, knows everything. 00:26:25.317 --> 00:26:33.277 He's my father, very rich. 00:26:33.277 --> 00:26:38.540 He's my father Come on, he's my father. 00:26:38.540 --> 00:26:39.417 That's who my father is. 00:26:39.417 --> 00:26:41.660 Do you know who your father is? 00:26:41.660 --> 00:26:45.156 Come on, you got to know who the baby daddy is, my father. 00:26:45.156 --> 00:26:50.477 I know who my father is, my father. 00:26:53.595 --> 00:26:55.920 So what Abraham did with Isaac? 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:01.941 What did Abraham do with his son Isaac? 00:27:01.941 --> 00:27:10.720 He took him up the mountain and said we will go up the mountain and we will worship and then we will come again. 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:12.098 What did Isaac say? 00:27:12.098 --> 00:27:13.799 Where's the sacrifice? 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:15.479 What did Abraham say? 00:27:15.479 --> 00:27:17.718 God will provide. 00:27:17.718 --> 00:27:21.442 So what happened up there on the mountain? 00:27:21.442 --> 00:27:28.059 Abraham, come on, showed Isaac, introduced Isaac to Jehovah. 00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:44.461 Jireh, come on, when the natural father come on, takes your family up to the mountain and says I'm not enough for you, but I'm going to introduce you to somebody who's more than enough for you. 00:27:44.461 --> 00:27:48.285 I want to make sure you know that I'm not just your father. 00:27:48.285 --> 00:27:54.479 You have a father, god, and he's the father of your spirit, woo, and he had care for you. 00:27:54.479 --> 00:28:02.566 And so you approach God with the most intimate terms. 00:28:02.566 --> 00:28:21.878 So when I woke up this morning, 4.30, the Holy Spirit said your father is taking care of you and I just felt his presence. 00:28:21.878 --> 00:28:25.039 It's like the Holy Spirit just filled me up. 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:35.479 My father, you're my father, you're my very own father, amen. 00:28:35.479 --> 00:28:50.217 You're the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you're the father of glory, you're the father of mercies, you're the father of the whole family, you're the father of spirits and you're my father. 00:28:50.217 --> 00:28:55.954 Come on. 00:28:55.954 --> 00:28:57.421 So he says now put that back up there. 00:28:57.634 --> 00:28:58.256 Hebrew 10.22,. 00:28:58.256 --> 00:29:06.476 Let us draw near Apparently. 00:29:06.476 --> 00:29:07.358 You can get closer. 00:29:07.358 --> 00:29:09.518 Here's your invitation. 00:29:09.518 --> 00:29:13.117 So that's what Draw near. 00:29:13.117 --> 00:29:13.539 With what? 00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:18.506 A true heart, in full assurance of faith. 00:29:18.506 --> 00:29:23.384 Our heart is sprinkled from a guilty conscience. 00:29:23.384 --> 00:29:27.582 Other translates from an accusing voice. 00:29:27.582 --> 00:29:39.803 Our heart is sprinkled by the blood, so there's no guilt and no shame and our body is washed with pure water. 00:29:39.803 --> 00:29:46.500 Come on, come on, you can go in there. 00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:49.019 I said you can go in there. 00:29:49.019 --> 00:29:52.683 You come by the blood and you draw near. 00:29:52.683 --> 00:29:55.442 And so other translations say it this way. 00:29:56.295 --> 00:30:03.903 One of my favorites here is Doddridge translation, and it says let us not stand at a distance. 00:30:03.903 --> 00:30:14.116 Whoa, yeah, yeah, come on, let us not stand at a distance. 00:30:14.116 --> 00:30:42.395 He says Do not stand at a distance, as if God was inaccessible, but, on the contrary, let us draw near with a sincere and affectionate heart, in full assurance of faith, supported by such consideration as these, which will embolden us to make our approach unto God with the most cheerful expectation of His blessing. 00:30:42.395 --> 00:30:43.919 Wow, all right. 00:30:43.919 --> 00:30:48.009 Now here's my favorite one. 00:30:48.009 --> 00:30:49.240 You ready Love? 00:30:49.240 --> 00:31:00.945 It's Translation says Let us, as members of His family, exercise our right of access and press closer and closer to the Father. 00:31:00.945 --> 00:31:04.167 All right, let's try this one more time. 00:31:04.167 --> 00:31:16.144 Let us, as members of His family, exercise our right of access and press closer and closer to the Father. 00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:29.633 Come on, you went from believing for healing to walking into the holiest presence of the healer. 00:31:29.633 --> 00:31:34.160 Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir, glory to God. 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.884 He's not just the Word of God, he's the God of the Word. 00:31:36.884 --> 00:31:39.926 Come on now and you go right into the presence of God. 00:31:39.926 --> 00:32:01.803 Come on, and the Holy Spirit was set for the purpose of living on the inside of you and taking everything that Christ has done for you, translating that to your victory, and to bring you closer to the Father. 00:32:01.803 --> 00:32:07.230 So imagine what happens when you begin to pray in the Holy Ghost. 00:32:10.144 --> 00:32:10.967 I was 17,. 00:32:10.967 --> 00:32:12.550 I got filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:32:12.550 --> 00:32:37.680 So I prayed in the Holy Ghost for two hours until I stepped out of the natural, went into the supernatural and God said there's a place by me in my presence and you are welcome anytime. 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:44.250 I like what Wigglesworth said there's a place in God where the devil dare not come. 00:32:44.250 --> 00:32:55.944 Come on, he might follow you around, come on now for a day or two, but there's a place in His presence where the devil said I ain't going in there. 00:32:55.944 --> 00:33:00.630 Come on, I'm in the blood of Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit. 00:33:00.630 --> 00:33:05.708 You can be filled and satisfied in His presence until you're going. 00:33:06.028 --> 00:33:08.333 Oh God, you are my God. 00:33:08.333 --> 00:33:10.242 Early will I seek you. 00:33:10.242 --> 00:33:18.911 My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is to see your power and your glory. 00:33:18.911 --> 00:33:20.967 So have I seen you in the sanctuary? 00:33:20.967 --> 00:33:21.560 He says. 00:33:21.560 --> 00:33:25.931 But your loving kindness is better than life. 00:33:25.931 --> 00:33:34.859 Praise God, praise the Lord. 00:33:34.859 --> 00:33:40.900 How to have a meeting with God, whew. 00:33:40.980 --> 00:33:50.759 And it seemed like Jesus disliked self-righteousness more than unrighteousness. 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.787 Do you know what that means? 00:33:53.787 --> 00:34:00.019 It seemed like he could get along better with people that weren't so religious. 00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:01.482 People of self-righteous He'd go. 00:34:01.482 --> 00:34:17.030 I'm a bunch of Pharisees, you know, but when you come with a true heart through the blood and you say Father, god, I'd like to press in closer and closer to know you. 00:34:17.030 --> 00:34:20.846 Wonder what you created me for. 00:34:20.846 --> 00:34:29.047 Come on, wonder what you put in me, wonder what kind of a destiny that I have. 00:34:29.047 --> 00:34:33.128 You'll never find that except in His presence. 00:34:33.128 --> 00:34:46.530 When you go into His presence by the blood and you press closer, then the Holy Spirit will say I got a place for you by the Father. 00:34:46.530 --> 00:34:52.728 Once you find your place by the Father, then you can find your place in life. 00:34:52.728 --> 00:34:55.134 Let's try that again. 00:34:55.134 --> 00:35:01.601 I said until you find your place by the Father, you'll always struggle to find your place in life. 00:35:01.601 --> 00:35:08.112 Come on, so you got to press press. 00:35:09.282 --> 00:35:19.047 So when we fly in to private jet airports, you know and the FBOs and people pick me up from the church, 90% of them don't know how to get out of there. 00:35:19.047 --> 00:35:22.266 You get a code to get in but you can't get out. 00:35:22.266 --> 00:35:29.590