WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.439 Thank you for listening to the Kelowna Christian Center Podcast. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.080 Our desire is that today's message will be fresh and encouraging to you. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.599 For more information on KTC and how to connect, visit us at KTC.net. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.160 We are venturing into a new theme, a new season, where we're just gonna dive deep. 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:22.719 Are you willing to dive deep with me today? 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.320 Dive deep into the realm of miracles. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.440 Would you say to your neighbor, we serve a miracle-working God? 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.880 Would you say our God is a miracle-working God? 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:38.159 Amen. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.159 He is a miracle-working God. 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:44.640 A miracle-working God. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.320 This morning I have uh we have the privilege to have Sean with us. 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.280 And uh come on up here, Sean. 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.600 I'm gonna grab a mic when you walk by. 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:56.000 Trish, maybe just pick up a microphone. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.520 Sean, I he was check, check, check. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:00.560 Are you on? 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:03.840 You just want to talk into my mic, or would that make it weird? 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:04.400 No. 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:06.719 We're close, but not. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:11.840 I just asked Sean to come today. 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.560 Man, I get to spend a little bit of time with them. 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:22.640 They've been away a little bit, but before they left, when they came back, and just it's we I know you can't like accommodate everyone into your home. 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:32.640 I know you've tried over the years, but uh we just wanted to hear from you every chance we we get and just uh share with us what God has done and what he's doing. 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:34.079 Okay, sure. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:40.400 Um so just uh for those of you who might not know me, uh my name is Sean. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:54.480 Uh I'm a pastor here, and uh back in December I got diagnosed with uh stage four uh liver cancer, and uh they basically told me to go home and die. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.560 And uh and I haven't yet, thank you. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:10.319 Um but uh yeah, and that's my testimony. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.520 No, so it's been a it's been a roller coaster to say at least. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:38.400 We we got our worst diag well, you know, there's been one of the worst diagnoses so far we got the last time, uh the last report that we got in was that my cancer has spread through my body, and uh but I feel no pain for some reason, and they don't understand why not. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.199 So yeah, thank you, Jesus. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:58.000 So anyway, I uh I wanted to make some memories with my family, and so I was thinking I said to Val, I said, uh, hey, we should go to Disneyland. 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.319 And she's like, I don't think so. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:10.960 And uh as we talked about it, and I said, well, let's just fleece it and see like if God will, you know, do this. 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:17.599 And I I just have a a little scripture I want to share with you because I know you're talking about miracles today, Brody. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:34.719 And uh I was just thinking for me, uh, one thing I can share with you guys is uh in 1 Thessalonians 5.18 it says, give thanks in all circum circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.719 And that's been challenging scripture to me. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.919 Giving thanks in all circumstances. 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:49.120 And so in that context, I was like, well, you know, let's just, you know, try it and see what happens. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:04:03.680 So Val went out that day and uh tried to get passports, and she ended up having a nervous breakdown in the line because the lady uh sent her away, and she came home and she said, you know, it's no, no, it's no go, I don't think. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:04.879 We're not going. 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.479 And I said, I don't know. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:07.199 Well, we'll see. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:08.240 Like, let's just pray. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.759 So the next morning we woke up and we hadn't really told anybody. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:29.439 Our kids had overheard us a little bit talking about it, and uh, and so the next morning at about nine o'clock, somebody texted us, and then by 11 o'clock, they had booked our tickets for us to go in the morning. 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.360 So I was like, Well, I guess we're going. 00:04:32.639 --> 00:05:09.439 And then um uh a Val's homeschool friend heard about it, and that afternoon um uh her husband worked for Club Penguin, and uh they gave us 31 tickets to Disneyland, so we went for four days straight, and then uh and then people kept on, and then all the money came in for our hotel, someone rented us a car, and it just was like one thing after another happened, and uh I I was just amazed. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:17.120 I was just taken back by God and and just thinking, like, you know, giving thanks in all circumstances. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:41.839 I've been trying to really just thank God in everything that He's given me, and uh that's really given me strength and power to be able to overcome this season and uh and actually be able to see miracles um in my life because if you don't recognize the small miracles, then uh how's God supposed to do big things in your life? 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:42.720 Right? 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.839 So we need to start thanking God for those small things. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.800 So I just wanted to give I wanted to say that the time we had in Disneyland was amazing. 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:52.639 They were they treated us like gold. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:59.199 I rented one of those little uh scooters, and uh because there's no way I could walk anywhere. 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:05.040 Like they did, I think, something like 30,000 steps a day, and I did like 2,000. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:16.959 But uh they treated us really well, and uh, and I just want to give glory to God and thank you, Brody, for allowing me to share my testimony. 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:31.920 We're believing for healing for Sean Lalon's, amen? 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:42.720 We're believing for that healing, that miracle, what the doctors say uh and what the Lord says, uh we believe the report of the Lord. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:43.600 Amen. 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:59.519 We believe that to live with an expectation for miracles, to live with an expectation for miracles is to live big, it's to live daring, it's to live believing, and it's to live faith-filled. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:12.079 So we let our expectation for the impossible swallow up small living and swallow up safe living and swallow up cautious living. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:23.199 If you want to live big, if you want to live daring, if you want to live faith-filled, you need to be believing for miracles. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:33.600 Miracles, the miraculous to happen, some on uh on a supernatural level, some on uh a lifestyle level. 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.279 We're not talking about everywhere you go, the sea parts for you. 00:07:37.439 --> 00:08:06.720 That'd be wonderful if all the lights were green, you know, for your life, but we're not looking for for those supernatural all the time miracles, but we're believing that God can do miraculous things day to day, minute by minute, our ears are attentive, our eyes are are perceiving and looking for opportunity for God to do miraculous. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:12.879 How many of you know someone in your life, well, you just do right now, who needs a miracle? 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.720 You need you know someone who needs a miracle. 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:21.600 There it there is this belief, and we just have to address it right off the bat. 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.279 Some people believe that miracles are passed away with. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:33.600 There was something that happened in the Old Testament, there was something that happened in the days of Scripture, but miracles no longer happen. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:41.440 But the the issue is we don't believe in a day of miracles, we believe in the God of miracles. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:55.519 And the Bible says that in Hebrews it talks about this new covenant that we have, and this new covenant, when it talks about this new covenant, it says it's a better covenant than the old covenant. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.919 That we are living in a time where there is better. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:03.120 There is more. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.960 Would you say to your neighbor, there's more, there is more. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.279 Um, there is more for our life. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:31.600 Now, in Corinthians, it actually talks about the body of Christ, that in the church today there are people and there are functions that are happening that people carry, gifts that people carry, operations that the church can operate in that are miracle-working operations. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.519 The word miracle should not be a scary word. 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.519 It should be a word of expectation. 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:50.159 When you hear the word miracle, it should be something that come, there should be something that comes alive in you. 00:09:52.399 --> 00:10:23.120 An expectation, a faith, a belief that this is our God, and our God can do these things, that nothing is impossible for him, that there are things that are available for us that that are beyond our even our own comprehension, that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, or no mind can even conceive the things that God has planned for those who love him. 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:36.240 The church is a place where God intends miracles to occur, a place where the atmosphere of miracles should be thick. 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:39.039 Amen. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.799 Is there a glint in your eye when you're thinking about this? 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:48.159 When you're talking about this, or you're like, oh no, we're going into a theme, a series. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:49.679 We're gonna be talking about miracles. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.360 There's gonna be expectation on us. 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.600 No, there's not expectation on us. 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.200 Apart from God, I can do nothing. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:04.639 Apart from his ability, I can do nothing, but with him, all things are possible. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.039 All things are possible. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:14.000 I'll tell you, everything Jesus died for is available to everyone for whom he died. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:21.919 Everything that Jesus, everything Jesus died for is available to everyone for whom he died. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.720 Uh, they don't belong to just a few. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:40.559 The miracles and the God of miracles is there to operate for you on your behalf in this time, right now, in the season where you're at, not in some future time, but now. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.440 The God of miracles. 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:49.039 Um, God spoke to Jeremiah, and we're talking about this at our small group. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:12:00.480 Jeremiah, who's known as the weeping prophet, he was literally looking at Israel, and he was saying, Israel, they just will not listen. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:10.240 People will not listen, and they just began to weep, and he began to weep, and he went back to God and he said, God, it's what's going on? 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.679 And God he says, I don't think that anything can happen with Israel. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:17.120 It's not gonna change, it's not, they're not gonna turn. 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.000 Their hearts are gonna continue to be hard. 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:29.440 And God looked at them, he says, I don't care what you see, I don't care what you perceive here. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.279 Is there anything that is impossible for me? 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.840 Is there anything that is impossible for me? 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:44.080 And Jeremiah needed to embrace that characteristic of God. 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:49.519 Our God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all able. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:59.600 He is able to do anything, whatever we can think of, he can do. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.840 This is the message to Jeremiah. 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.679 And Jeremiah just had to embrace it. 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:21.759 He says, you know what, despite what I see, despite what I hear, despite these situations and the circumstances around me, I'm gonna choose to believe the word, your word, and who you are. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.159 Can these bones live? 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.440 Can this valley come alive? 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:29.679 Yes, it can. 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:39.120 And it's like the prophet said to Ezekiel, can't can they lit, or God said to the prophet Ezekiel, he said, Can this valley of dry bones, can they come alive? 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:40.639 And I love his response. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.559 He says, God, only you know. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:52.960 Like, apart from me, if it was up to me, no, nothing's gonna happen, but with you, God, it's possible. 00:13:53.519 --> 00:14:05.440 So the first lesson, the miracles we bel we lean on is number one, yes, it's God's intention for the church, and yes, I can't do anything, He can. 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.320 I can't do anything, but he can. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:15.039 We realize a hundred percent dependency on God and Him only. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:21.200 There's nothing that I can do to make a forever change, but God can. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:27.840 John 6, 63 says this it says, it is the spirit that gives life. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.360 The flesh is of no help at all. 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.759 Some of you are like, I knew there was something wrong with it. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.240 I knew there was something broken here. 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:44.879 The flesh is of no help at all, but it's the spirit that gives life. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:59.120 And the spirit comes by by the Lord's Spirit in us, a gift by him to us to fill this body with, make it his temple. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:01.679 The spirit. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:06.480 The first lesson in miracles is that we can't rely on our own flesh. 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:08.480 We don't gather with those. 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:18.320 Uh it doesn't matter if you have people of skill or musicians or or people of money, uh, those people won't help you when you need a miracle. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:23.039 It's God, God is the only one who can do miracles. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.080 He is the miracle-working God. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.360 Apart from him, we can do nothing. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.759 Um there's something that has to shift. 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:41.840 And uh I use the word shift because I know people don't like it when you say there's something that needs to change. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.159 So we're gonna shift. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.879 Shifting is easier, shifting is nicer. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:54.000 Shifting means we move into another gear, we move into another space. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:03.279 But the church and our city and our community and our expectation of God needs to shift. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:17.679 For there to be impact in our community, for there to be impact in in lives, for there to be impact in someone's body, there needs to be a shift. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.519 Something has to change. 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:26.320 In the scripture, there have been 400 years of silence between uh the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:43.919 There was 400 years when uh nothing was said, it was like there was no word from the Lord, and people still remembered the words of the Lord, they still had the recording of the word of the Lord, but nothing was being said. 00:16:44.399 --> 00:17:04.160 And when we look at the scripture, we look at a little clue of a shift that was going to occur, and it was coming in, it came in Luke chapter 3, verse 15, that would help people understand spiritual things and allowing them to move into a space and an atmosphere for miracles. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.960 And the scripture says this in Luke chapter 3. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.680 It says, and the people were in what's this word? 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:13.359 Expectation. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:24.960 And all men mused in their hearts of John, who was the forerunner of Jesus, but they began to expect something different. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:43.759 They began to expect a shift, expect a change 400 years when God was doing nothing, God was saying nothing, God was silent, and then but the people were waiting on God for this change, for this shift. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:18:02.880 And they looked at John and they said, Maybe John is the one, maybe he will be the one that will uh initiate this shift, and he would become the one, but he would be the forerunner to the one who would be Jesus, who would actually create that shift. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:13.680 But the people were in expectation, and it's interesting, the English Bible talks of this translates it this way it says, the people were on tiptoes. 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:20.960 Now there are two places where tiptoes when when someone's on tiptoes happens. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:27.440 Number one, when they're coming in late at night and they were past their curfew. 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.680 Tiptoes is when you don't be seen. 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.079 You're quiet, you're stealthy, don't make a sound. 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:48.559 There's that kind of tiptoes, and then there's the tiptoes when it's like when you're at Disneyland and your kids are like, oh my goodness, there's Mickey or whoever it may be, whoever's exciting at the time. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:53.119 Elsa from Frozen, and they're this tall, and what do they do? 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.160 They get on their tiptoes, everyone wants to see, everyone's looking. 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:09.839 Someone else stands on their tiptoes, and the people behind them are on their tiptoes, and the by the scripture says that the people were on tiptoes, they were expecting God to do something. 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:16.640 And I'm telling you, as the church of KCC, it's the time to get on your tiptoes. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:30.160 It's the time not to be walking around quiet, it's the time to get on your tiptoes and be looking and watching for the move of God, watching for what God is going to do. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.519 It's tiptoe time around KCC. 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:37.039 Get on your tiptoes. 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:42.640 If God is going to do something, he's gonna look for people who are expectant. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:49.440 He's gonna look for someone who's watching, he's gonna look for someone who's on that tiptoe. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.519 It's time that we expect God to pour out his spirit. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:20:02.160 We expect God to do miracles, we begin to believe God for the impossible. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:09.279 We need to start getting on our tiptoes and expect God to do this again and again and again. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:10.799 Amen. 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:14.960 With great anticipation, great expectation. 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.960 We're on tiptoes wondering what God is gonna do in the service. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:31.680 Praise in expectation, pray in expectation, listen with expectation, expect the miracles, expect the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:39.279 The atmosphere for the fire and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is when people are in that place of expectation. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:43.200 Now I know why you come to church today. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:48.880 You come to church because you are expectant, you are waiting. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:57.519 And sometimes I understand, you know, the culture that says, you know, just come to church, make it a tradition, make it a habit, and that's good. 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:04.799 And there are people who like check in online and they're a part of it, and they're connecting from their homes, and that's wonderful. 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:36.400 But the the fact is, we there needs to be a hunger, a drive that comes in our heart that says, you know, I'm not just gonna come to attend, I'm not gonna just come to listen, I'm not gonna just come to sing a song, I'm gonna come to engage, I'm going to come to believe, I'm going to come to pray, I'm going to come and put my faith on the line and risk something and believe for something that is difficult. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.960 Believe for something that other people aren't even believing for. 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.400 Not just for maybe someone else, but for yourself. 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:51.279 I want to announce to you today that there is nothing between you and your and a miracle. 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:54.799 There's nothing between you and a miracle. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.240 The scripture says this, it's very clear in Colossians. 00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.680 It says, God bless. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.680 Blotted out the certificate of debt that you owed. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:06.079 He wiped it clean. 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:14.319 In other words, some people walk into church and they go, Man, I don't believe that I deserve a miracle. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:21.440 What I deserve is the punishment for the way I used to live. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:28.400 The way I used to live has enabled this addiction, and so I've just got to live with this addiction. 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:45.119 No, the Lord says to you today, I've taken that from you, I've put it on myself, and now embrace the miracle that you no longer have to work, you need no longer have to live with addiction. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:52.799 Realize that, man, I live this way, I deserve this debt, I deserve what I'm carrying. 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:58.000 I'm saying today, Colossians says, He took it upon himself. 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:04.160 He took on your debt so that you would become freed from it. 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:07.039 That is the miracle of our salvation. 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:13.519 That is the first miracle that he could translate you from death to life. 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.799 That could take you from death to salvation. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:28.559 He could take away your pain and your suffering and your sin and give you something that's real and worth living for. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:29.440 Amen? 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:30.079 Amen. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:36.480 Make it clear today that you, there is nothing between you and the miracle. 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:40.880 God is already taking care of everything for you. 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:42.799 It was done on the cross. 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:49.759 You can trust in that what he did, you can trust in his sacrifice, you can trust in who he is. 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:51.039 Everything was taken care of. 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:55.920 At that time, it was nailed to the cross, and now's the time to get on your tiptoes. 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:09.680 Expecting for the miracle for the Lalan family, expecting for the miracles that I hear every morning at church that people come and are sharing about the challenges that they're confronted with. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:14.720 And I know that there are those of you in this place who need a miracle. 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:16.960 I'm on my tiptoes for you. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:18.559 Amen. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:25.119 Expect pain to leave your body, expect to be healed, expect to receive your miracle. 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:36.079 And you might say, well, the time, the season, the culture we're in is not very atmospherically prepared for miracles. 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:39.359 And the scripture would say differently. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:43.200 It says, it's time for you to act, Lord. 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:45.599 Your law is being broken. 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:49.759 How many of you know that people are calling evil good? 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:52.960 And they're calling wrong right. 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.519 And there's chaos and confusion in the world. 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:08.480 And my challenge to you and the the heart that I have for KCC is that when the world gets darker, the church has opportunity to shine brighter. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:09.440 Amen? 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:12.000 The church has opportunity to be light world. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:21.119 I just realized like our family was down in or uh was down in Seattle, and the people in Seattle, they're working their tail off. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:23.519 They're just they're working every day. 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:32.480 They're working like, say, Starbucks, where it was started there, and the people at Starbucks are working, working, working, and they're they could work full-time and with all the money that they take in. 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:33.599 They can't find points. 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:41.599 So it leaves them in a place where they're just working, but they're not getting anywhere. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.599 And it's disheartening. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:52.319 But you go to a place where there's a believer working, and the believer lives in a space where that worker doesn't live. 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.480 The believer lives in kingdom economy. 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:06.160 A kingdom economy where there is no recession, there's abundance, there's more than enough. 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:13.920 And that person, when they begin to serve, they serve, and there's something different in that individual. 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:20.960 And the light begins to shine in a space where everywhere else there's darkness. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:26.880 And the fact is, church, the church is the hope for the world. 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:32.000 The church is the hope for our community and for our nation. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:43.279 And they're going to shine bright in a place where the world is dark. 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:48.960 When people are going through tragedy, bring the God of miracles into that tragedy. 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.759 When people are going through pain, bring the God of miracles into that pain. 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:59.920 When people are going through confusion, bring the God of miracles into that place and bring order. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:05.920 The God of miracles is there for you, present for you. 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:14.319 I believe we are inheritors of such a deep and precious promise. 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:22.880 Romans 8 says we're children that are not only heirs of God, but we're also joint heirs with Christ. 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:25.039 We've got this double heirdom. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:28.720 We're double heirs. 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.160 We've got it. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:34.400 We've got a claim to everything that's in heaven because of Jesus. 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:41.839 So let me share with you just an illustration in Scripture of this expectation principle. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:44.559 It starts in Acts chapter 3. 00:27:44.720 --> 00:28:03.920 And it starts at the uh uh any day would start when some of the men in would carry a layman to the front of the gate called beautiful, and they would lay them this man there each day, and he would beg for money. 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:07.359 And a lot of people focused on what Peter and James said. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:15.279 And Peter and James did come by and they said, Listen, silver and gold I don't have, but what I do have I give to you in the name of Jesus. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:16.319 Get up and walk in. 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:18.160 They picked him up and he began to walk. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:19.759 And that was one, that's wonderful. 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:23.039 We understand that there's power in the name of Jesus. 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:30.799 But what happened right before they even began to speak to him, they said, Sir, lift up your eyes. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:33.839 Lift up your eyes. 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:58.559 And the Bible says that it wasn't contingent on Peter and James, but when he called the man to lift up his eyes, the man, the scripture says, He lifted up his eyes, they he lifted up his eyes, he gave his expectation upon them, attention upon him, expecting to receive something from them. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.480 Peter and James, look at me, look at us. 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:16.559 And his heart turned and he gave his attention to them, expecting something from them. 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:27.519 You may be here today, and you may say, you know, I don't have the hope, I don't have the belief, I don't, I don't expect to receive something from God. 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:35.920 And let me say to you today that the battle in your life, the circumstance that you're in right now is not over. 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.880 It is not all over. 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:41.680 In fact, the enemy is concerned. 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:57.759 There is, the enemy is tormented, and it's not tormented by your past, and it's he's not tormented by your present, but he's tormented by what you can be. 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:05.359 Do you realize that what you can be is dangerous to the devil? 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:10.880 It is dangerous to the devil. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:16.319 In fact, 1 John 3, 2 says this, it does not yet appear what you can be. 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:23.039 In other words, that you are sons of God and it does not yet appear to what you can be quite yet. 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.960 It's in other words, you have not grown into your full potential. 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:28.880 There's more for you. 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.720 There is more for you. 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:55.039 The devil isn't afraid of your past, he's not afraid of your present, but uh but because of that, we're not gonna sit back, we're not gonna sit in our seat, we're not gonna just warm a seat, we're not gonna live lukewarm, we're not gonna live in passivity, we're going to go and believe and contend and hope and expect great things. 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:55.920 Amen? 00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:58.480 So this is what we do. 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:04.720 We're on our tiptoes, we're believing for a miracle, and so we look ahead. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:16.319 And when we look ahead, we believe that our bigger the biggest miracles are in front of us, our biggest miracles are ahead of us, and our biggest miracles are still to come. 00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:21.680 So we we move forward and we serve a God with our faith. 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:25.200 We serve a God with our faith. 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.839 And so the question today is are you expecting? 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:30.720 Turn to your neighbor. 00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:32.880 Are you expecting? 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.839 And I said, are you expecting again? 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:37.440 I'm not expecting. 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:39.599 I know how it sounds. 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:45.920 If you hear a yes, then there might be a different story here. 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:49.119 And different miracles in the works, right? 00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:51.839 Are you expecting? 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:57.279 Are you expecting like the man at the gate? 00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.880 Are you looking for something? 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:06.480 Now that man at the gate, he came in and he was expect he was just expecting what he had always received. 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:10.960 He was expecting uh a silver and gold, a get-by blessing. 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:23.119 He was expecting just enough to be able to get by, but what he didn't experience, what he wasn't ex was he, what he wasn't prepared for, was the fact that his life would never be the same again. 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:30.720 The fact is, if we live in a state of expectation, you don't know what God can do. 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:35.039 You don't know when God will do it. 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:53.279 But when we live in a place and we keep our hope up and we keep our faith up and we keep believing and we keep trusting in God and we keep expecting God to do good things and to do great things, God will do great things on our behalf. 00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:54.160 Amen. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:55.599 Amen. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:03.359 So when they set the layman down there, he knew that he his position, he was, he was in difficulty. 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:09.839 He knew he was in challenge, but he left that day walking and leaping and jumping. 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:18.480 So the Bible talks also about another uh person uh in Mark chapter 10, blind Bartimaeus. 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:21.039 Another miracle in Scripture. 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:41.599 And the reason why I'm talking to you about some of these miracles is that if Jesus lived this way, his lifestyle was a template for you and I to also live in, to live the same lifestyle, to live as an example for us today. 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:51.440 And so Jesus was walking down the street, and uh there was a man who was on the side of the corner, and his name was Barnabas. 00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:54.480 He was a beggar and he had a beggar's garment. 00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:07.440 Now, many of us may just pass over the idea of what this beggar's garment was, but a beggar's garment was a um a garment that was given to a beggar by the government. 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:19.360 And so if you were walking down the street and you had money in your hand and you had money to give to those really in need, you wanted to be sure that that person actually was in need. 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.239 And it verified the fact that that person was truly blind. 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.599 They weren't just trying to scam money from you. 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:38.800 And so you could walk by, you could give confidently to that individual, realizing that they truly had a condition that uh would necessitate that money. 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:48.400 But Bartimaeus, as he was sitting there, the Bible says when he heard that Jesus was passing by, this is what he did. 00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:52.880 He said, as he heard Jesus was passing by, he did something amazing. 00:34:53.119 --> 00:35:00.079 He took the garment off of his body and he cast it away from himself. 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.000 Now he's blind. 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:06.000 He cast it away from himself. 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.559 It was his only source of income. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.599 It was only uh livelihood, it was where his livelihood was attached to. 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.760 And what he was saying was, I know I can't see yet. 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:33.840 I know I don't see at this point in time, I know I'm not healed yet, but I'm casting it away, believing that when I go to Jesus and I go run to Jesus blindly, he's going to heal me. 00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.000 And when he ran to Jesus, it was interesting. 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:41.760 Jesus said to him, Bartimaeus, like, blind man, what do you want? 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.840 And Bartimaeus says, I want my sight. 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.800 He says, Your faith has healed you. 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:49.760 And he walked away. 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.679 He began to see again, and he began to see with that vision. 00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:00.719 That that expectation in his heart was there from the very beginning, all in Scripture. 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:12.320 You hear about the when you hear about miracles happening, it happened, they happened when there was expectation in the heart of people. 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:19.920 So, church, expect great things. 00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:24.400 Believe for good and great things. 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.800 Immediately he received his healing. 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:35.280 So when all the people were gathered, they said they came around John and they said, John. 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:44.079 And they began expecting, and they were on their tiptoes, expecting for something great to happen. 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:48.800 John said to them this, he says, Listen, I'm just the forerunner. 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:59.920 I baptize in water, but there's someone who's coming after me who's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost, with the Holy Spirit, and with fire. 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:13.760 God's Father to us, God's the Father's gift to you to us was the promise of eternal life through Jesus. 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.000 And Jesus' gift to us. 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:17.760 He says, I'm gonna go. 00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:22.719 There's gonna be a gift I'm gonna give to you, and it's gonna be this gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:30.239 And the Holy Spirit is one of our most valuable relationships. 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:37.679 It's not something we can buy, it's not something we can earn, it's something that was freely given to us. 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:57.440 But the Bible says to wait on the Holy Spirit, to expect the Holy Spirit, to expect to be filled with his power, to do great things, to live a life that has a testimony attached to it. 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:01.360 So he says he'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.119 And let me just tell you a few things what the Holy Spirit does for us. 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:10.000 His desire for us is number one, he wants to invade you. 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:12.320 This is a military term. 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:26.960 Invasion, when it happens, one army comes in and starts to attack another land, and it wants to invade the air, land, sea, any means possible to occupy. 00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:40.800 The Holy Spirit's role is to occupy every part of you, your language, your thoughts, your intentions, your actions, your relationships, your heart. 00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:45.360 The Holy Spirit wants to invade your life. 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.960 He wants to militantly take over. 00:38:51.360 --> 00:39:01.280 He says, I want to fill you to overflowing joy that's gonna be unspeakable, peace that passes understanding. 00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:11.760 I want you to be completely covered, completely invaded by my spirit, possessed by me. 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.679 Number two, he wants to envelop you. 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:28.639 This word envelope means like you take an envelope and you put that an envelope inside of an envelope and you seal that envelope, and it comes from Ephesians chapter 1, verse 13. 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:35.440 It says that you were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:41.440 When you believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. 00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:52.719 When you were enveloped, you were protected, you were placed inside of something that that no other dirt can get on me, because the Holy Spirit is on me. 00:39:53.920 --> 00:40:00.320 No other, I'm protected, I'm sealed, and I'm delivered to where I need to go. 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.079 The Holy Spirit is that person for us. 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.280 Number three, he instructs you. 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:19.519 Jesus said that this helper, who is the Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, bring all things to your remembrance that I've said to you. 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:23.280 So this instruction is going to come to us. 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.480 And you might say, Man, I don't know how to walk with the God of miracles. 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:30.559 Well, let him instruct you. 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:32.800 Let him teach you. 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:42.480 Uh, I remember one of the simple lessons I learned was uh of instruction, was just to start. 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:54.159 And I would hear the Holy Spirit say, Brody, uh, because I to believe it or not, like some of you may say, well, you know, you chose this job, um, get used to it, you know. 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.039 I was never comfortable as a public speaker. 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:09.199 Like my dad is a great writer, he's a great orator, he's a great, like, he's disciplined in terms of preparation and his all disciplines. 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:19.119 And uh I struggle, and my I've got weaknesses, which allows me to rely on the Holy Spirit to a deeper place, right? 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:25.039 And uh, but I rely on the Holy Spirit and I just say, Lord, I need your help. 00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:27.519 And the Lord just taught me, He just began to instruct me. 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:29.199 He says, just start. 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:35.599 Because I'm up at like four in the morning, I'm like, oh Lord, have I prepared something that people are actually gonna listen to? 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:37.599 There's a lot of ears that are out there. 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:39.039 He says, just start. 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:43.039 And so I start, and the start would be like this like one word. 00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:47.679 I'd be like, and the next word would come. 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:48.880 And thank you, God. 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:59.760 No, no, it's running near the end of this box because of the blue string, but so if it does come to the one has a message that that the service is now closed and over. 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:17.599 But it's like you just keep moving and you just keep Lord, just instruct me, just take me one more step, and you just take the next step, and you keep trusting God that God is gonna continue to work on your behalf and to do the things that you're called to do. 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:32.559 So if you feel that word of encouragement, you feel that word to share with someone, you feel that prayer that you need to pray, you feel that number uh four, the impression to give. 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.039 That's what the Holy Spirit said does to us. 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:43.119 His one of his primary jobs is just to impress on you what is good and what is not good, where you should be and where you shouldn't be. 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.719 Where you're in a place and the Holy Spirit's like, Brody, you shouldn't be here. 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.159 I'm like, okay, I'm out. 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.079 See ya, Brody. 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:53.199 That's enough. 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:54.400 Okay, thank you. 00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:55.280 That's all. 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.480 Impressions. 00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:59.519 Brody, go here, Brody, go there. 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.440 Do this, don't do this. 00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.239 The impression, say something, don't say anything. 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:09.840 Engage, don't engage. 00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:16.880 Like this is this is a walk, it's a journey with the Holy Spirit to move towards miracles. 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.079 Don't just go and think the Lord's gonna do miracles, I'm just gonna go crazy, go out there. 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.360 No, lean in on the Holy Spirit. 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:29.039 Lean in, expecting, Lord, what do you want me to do? 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:30.800