WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:11.679 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Cole. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:15.839 Because sometimes what God's doing is not what we expect. 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:18.800 God's ways are not our way. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:26.160 When I was growing up as a new believer, I remember people telling me Jeremiah 33.3 is God's telephone number. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:29.280 God's telephone number was Jeremiah 33.3. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.280 Call to me and I will answer you and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know. 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.719 So watching is for God to show us things we do not know. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:47.200 At The Road, our vision is to raise up wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.759 For more information on the road, visit theroad.org. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.119 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:29.760 The vision of the road is to be a part of, and I and I always say this, I try to say this as humility, Bill Bright with Campus Crusade, which was a big part of my life, as many of you know, got saved through Campus Crusade at University of Georgia, and then was on the mission field for 10 years with Campus Crusade, used to say that our ministry is a leaf on the twig of the branch of the limb of the big tree of the body of Christ. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:40.239 So when I say a part of bringing a kingdom revolution, I don't want anybody to misunderstand me and think that somehow we think we've got this revolution we're gonna start. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.159 I believe what we are, we're a leaf. 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.799 We're a leaf that is on the twig of the limb of the branch of the trunk of the body of Christ. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:55.120 And so we have as a vision to be a part of what God's doing around the world to bring a kingdom revolution. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:58.400 A kingdom revolution I'm gonna start next week talking about. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.319 We're gonna look through the book of Matthew. 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.280 If you want to read ahead, read Matthew chapter one. 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.120 You'll be amazed at the genealogy in Matthew chapter one. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.439 Believe me, I'll move through that very quickly. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.400 But but but we're gonna talk about a kingdom revolution from the book of Matthew. 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:22.639 As a mission of our church, we believe that only happens through empowering people to change the world. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.719 In other words, if we don't empower people in this fellowship, there's no way a kingdom revolution is gonna happen. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.280 And we believe it's all ages, starting from the very, very youngest. 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:49.360 Steve Hasselt before her, and now Liz My Wife is directing children's ministry with a great team because we really want to see young people who know how to preach the gospel, that know how to open the word and read the word. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:56.400 My prayer is that in the days ahead, your kids are gonna be instructing you as parents about why'd you do that? 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:57.759 That's not godly. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.240 Wouldn't that be awesome? 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:07.919 And I know of situations in the past where our young people have been catalytic for parents getting saved. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:12.879 Because they came, and the parents, oh, you know, a kid is six years old, or he's four years. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:14.479 We've got to give him a Christian education. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.039 So he starts coming to church for the first time. 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:21.280 And then the kid gets saved, and the kid gets his parents saved. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:23.120 Isn't that awesome? 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.439 Well, you know, that's the way it works sometimes. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.000 So I don't care if it's up, down, or all around. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:38.319 The reality is God wants us to empower the saints with the kingdom of God that we might change the world. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:50.479 And when God gets in the business of building something, he often builds from the perspective of men and women, the body of Christ, working together. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.439 And in Nehemiah's time, I shared this last week. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.159 That he sent Nehemiah, the cupbearer of the king, back to Jerusalem to build the walls, to rebuild the walls. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:07.280 And the way they rebuilt the walls in Jerusalem is it was a genius idea from God to Nehemiah, to the people. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.599 Here's what I want you to do, Nehemiah. 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:15.840 Get everybody to start working on the section of the wall, which is the back of all their houses. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:22.879 Because all the houses were built with their backs up against the walls, and nobody would work, especially the rulers. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.040 Remember that part in Braveheart where William Wallace is trying to get the rulers of Scotland to do something? 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:35.600 Well, it wasn't that different for Nehemiah because these guys are rich, they're fat, and they're sassy. 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:36.560 They don't care. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:37.920 I mean, they're fine. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:43.680 He says, No, we got to care about everybody here in Israel, and we're gonna rebuild these walls. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:54.399 And the way he came up, the idea was if you can imagine if your house was against this wall and the and the three sides of the house come out from this wall, and this is the wall over Jerusalem, and it's all crumbled down. 00:04:54.480 --> 00:05:00.480 He said, I don't care about you building Isaiah's over here, build your wall right there. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.680 And so God also gave us this illustration in Isaiah. 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:16.959 So turn in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 62, and we started last week talking about a kingdom revolution wall of prayer. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:28.079 And our goal here at the road is today, today, we'd get all 168 hours of every week covered in prayer. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:49.439 That you would be challenged enough, invigorated enough, motivated enough, empowered enough to take one hour, just one hour, out of 168 hours in a week to pray for revival, reformation, and revolution in our city. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.839 In your family first, in your job. 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.639 God, make me a kingdom revolutionary. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.720 God use me in a mighty way to bring the kingdom of God to the Rocky Mountain region. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.720 123 people have already signed up. 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:13.199 Even on that interesting day last week, where this place was like a third full. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.439 Almost everybody signed up. 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.000 And so you look at the wall, look around the sides. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:22.079 You can see the days of the week and see the hours, all 168 hours represented. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.480 123 are already taken. 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.079 Isn't that exciting? 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:32.240 So if we could get the next 40 today, but look at Isaiah 62, it's a case in point. 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.079 Isaiah's gonna talk about Zion. 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:37.439 He's gonna talk about Jerusalem. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:42.959 I want you to kind of plant in the idea of Zion Colorado Springs. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.600 For Colorado Springs' sake, I will not hold my peace. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:56.959 And for Colorado Springs' sake, I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns. 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.879 The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, all kings your glory. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.240 Wouldn't that be awesome? 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:06.160 If people said, hey, I was just in Colorado Springs. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.240 The glory of God's there. 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.680 Crime is dropping, abortions are dropping, homelessness is dropping. 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.879 I was just down at the Springs Rescue Mission. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:25.759 I think by the in the next few years, the Springs Rescue Mission will be state-of-the-art, one of the best in the United States. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:26.800 Awesome. 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.600 Working with these folks, giving them a Christian education right there, right off the streets. 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.319 I met one guy, he said he came from Miami. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.399 I said, What are you doing here? 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.199 Do you realize there's a storm coming tonight? 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:40.399 It's gonna be ten below? 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:41.680 This was like three weeks ago. 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.639 And he goes, Yeah, and I said, Don't you wish you were in Miami? 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:46.720 He said, Sort of. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:48.959 I said, then why did you come here? 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.800 He says, because I heard that the Springs Rescue Mission was so good. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:57.600 Now I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit there and quibble with him about why he's homeless or anything. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.800 I'm gonna say that we ought to have compassion and love for everybody. 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.879 You know, I'm not here to judge what the motivations are. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.800 I'm here to build and equip people to change the world. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:10.560 And you never know. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.000 You never know what's inside a man like that. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.519 There's gold down there deep inside somewhere. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.079 And he probably never had parents that cared, probably never had every school teacher that cared, probably never had a coach that cared. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:25.839 Why can't we care? 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.079 Why can't we be different? 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.279 Instead of looking at the dross, let's look for the gold and the silver that's down in there. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.200 That's what Jesus did. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.360 You know it's interesting when you look at Jesus, Jesus never had a problem with a sinner. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.360 Never had an issue with a sinner. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:47.279 His issue was religious people who thought they knew everything. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.639 And isn't that our problem? 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.559 Sometimes we think we know everything. 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:56.799 When we quit knowing everything and we start loving everything, God's gonna show up. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:02.080 And so, and so that man, I don't know, you know, he looked to me like he was about 40. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.399 There was a lot of years left in that guy. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.519 So I love what Springs Rescue Mission is doing down there. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:12.480 You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name. 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:19.440 You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:28.879 You shall no longer be termed forsaken, nor shall your land anymore be termed desolate, but you shall be called Hespa, and your land Beulah. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.600 And that means the next two lines, for the Lord delights in you, Hespah delights in you. 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.919 Your land shall be married, that's Beulah. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:40.080 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.679 And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride. 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:45.519 And guess what, men and women? 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.639 The bridegroom rejoices over the bride. 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:56.720 The bridegroom, capital B, Jesus rejoices over you, loves you, loves the church. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:57.759 We're the church. 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.039 The church is us, the church is not a building. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.919 The church is you and me in this room living for the kingdom. 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:07.840 And he rejoices over us. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.039 That's pretty cool. 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:11.360 Your God rejoices over you. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:23.200 But here's the part about prayer that has been part of the motivation for us to build a wall of prayer, 168 prayer warriors for 168 hours. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:29.440 Verse 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem. 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:33.200 I have set watchmen on your walls, oh Colorado Springs. 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:38.720 I have set watchmen on your walls, O road at Chapel Hills. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.919 They shall never hold their peace day or night. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.320 So that's 24-7, men and women. 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:48.080 That's a hundred and sixty-eight hours. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.279 Okay? 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.039 That's day or night. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.720 People are crying out to God, God, do something in our time. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.159 God, move in a mighty way. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:00.720 God, change our city. 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.039 God, drop the crime rate. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.200 Lord, use me in my business. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.919 God, I dedicate my business. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.000 I dedicate my paint business. 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.120 I dedicate my auto service business. 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:19.360 I dedicate my legal practice to you to bring a kingdom revolution. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.679 Now speak to me how to do that. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:25.200 Show me how to do that in whatever I do. 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.039 You guys realize we're citizens of the kingdom? 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:31.360 You're not members. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:32.960 I'll talk about this. 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:34.799 I'm sorry, I'm so fired up for next week. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.120 I might even, there might be a little bit of runover. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.519 But but you know, you're members of the Rotary Club. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.200 You're members of a football team. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:52.159 You're members of a club, but in the kingdom, you're not a member, you're a citizen. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:57.679 And when you're a citizen, you become an ambassador when you go to another country. 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:10.399 And when you're a citizen, you bring, you don't actually bring the king with you, you bring the culture of the king with you. 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.200 So guess who wins? 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.440 Guess who wins? 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.440 The culture that's the strongest. 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:25.279 You say your kids are struggling in school, guess which culture is stronger? 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:31.440 Either the culture you're training them in at your home or the culture they get at school. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.320 It's really simple. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:48.240 So if you're equipping, developing, and building kingdom children, they will win and dominate in their school and the rim they're in unless that culture's more dominant than their culture. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.639 That's next week. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:52.639 Sorry. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.000 You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent. 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:57.039 24-7. 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:10.879 Give him no rest till he establishes and till he makes Jerusalem, or he makes Colorado Springs, or He makes your home, or He makes the Holt home, or He makes the road at Chapel Hills a praise upon the earth. 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:18.480 So he's talking about, he's using a metaphor here of watchmen on a wall as prayer warriors. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.279 So last week I talked about six points. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:28.000 And I say all this to set you up for the next part. 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:30.480 Stand up with me. 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:37.279 And if you want to be a part of a kingdom revolution, I want us to say what we said last week. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.120 So I mean, well, I didn't know I wasn't here last week. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.039 Okay, look at the first line. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:49.120 If you would agree with that, then I want you to hold up your Bible and let's say it together, even if you don't know what this means. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:53.200 Like, I don't know what he means about a kingdom of God revolution. 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.799 Well, then trust me. 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.120 And I'm gonna download it next week, big time. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:00.320 Big time. 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.559 All right, say it after me. 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.440 I want to be a part of a Kingdom of God revolution. 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.720 God can use me to change the world. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.879 I believe God can move mountains in my life and in the lives of those around me. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:34.639 I will build up my faith with God's Holy Word. 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.679 I will come alive in the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:47.519 With Jesus, nothing will be impossible. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.039 So, Father God, we say this because we believe it. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.480 Some of us don't believe it 100% yet, but that's okay. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:06.960 God, I believe you take mustard seed faith and you grow it into a massive tree. 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.960 A tree where all the birds of the air come and land in it. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:12.879 It's like yeast. 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.200 It's like yeast in that dough, and it takes over everything. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:25.840 So, God, take our little bit of yeast and our little bit of seed faith and grow it, Lord, in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.240 In your most holy and precious name we pray. 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:29.120 Amen. 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:38.159 Alright, let's look real quickly at um, I started last week, the six characteristics of Kingdom Revolutionary Watchmen. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:45.279 And at the end of this message, men and women, we're gonna, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to go and sign up for a place. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:50.639 Now let me just say this: 12 people last week signed up, but they didn't put their email. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.559 So what you're seeing right now does not have the email anymore because we have those. 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:01.679 But if you signed up last week for an hour, one of these hours, put in, be sure to put in your email, okay? 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:03.679 Because that's the only way we can communicate with you. 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.679 So everybody so far, except for 12, we have their email. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.200 So um, so make sure you do that when we uh sign up. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.519 First quality we talked about last week was a watchman worships. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.000 A watchman worships. 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:23.840 It's the best place to start as we talk about prayer is being a worshiper. 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.639 Worship is warfare. 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:31.679 Praise and worship moves mountains in our life. 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:38.320 You show me a man or a woman who's a worshiper, and I'll show you a man or a woman that's a warrior. 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.240 Because when we worship, you're inviting the presence of God. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:49.120 And men and women, when the presence of God comes, it always pushes back darkness. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.519 If you're in that situation, many of us are often, God, I don't know what your will is. 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:54.799 Should I buy this house? 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:56.320 Should I take this job? 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.360 What should I do? 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:03.919 And you're not sure, and God's not spoken to you clearly, maybe from his word or from wise counsel, worship. 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:06.319 Worship. 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.000 Because when we praise the Lord, we come into the presence of God. 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.559 When we worship him, the presence of God, we're inviting heaven down on the earth. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:26.960 And matter of fact, that's really a good idea to understand for next week when I talk about the kingdom, because the kingdom of God is really about bringing heaven to earth. 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:33.519 When we're told to pray, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:40.240 When we become a kingdom carrier, men and women, we're bringing heaven wherever we go. 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:50.480 So to start with worship is to get ourselves in a place in our heart as we gaze upon God so that we become a heavenly man. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.519 We become a heavenly woman. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:55.279 God changes you. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.039 So that's first, we talked about that last week. 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:57.759 Number two. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:59.599 Second quality. 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.160 A watchman, this is really, everybody get ready for this one. 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.759 A watchman watches. 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:18.079 Okay, what I meant last week is that in prayer, watching for what God's doing is huge. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.920 Because sometimes what God's doing is not what we expect. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.960 God's ways are not our ways. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:32.160 When I was growing up as a new believer, I remember people telling me Jeremiah 33.3 is God's telephone number. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.440 God's telephone number was Jeremiah 33.3. 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:42.000 Call to me and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know. 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:47.440 So watching is for God to show us things we do not know. 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.440 How many of you raise your hand if you you don't know everything? 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.039 Alright, there you go. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:53.440 See? 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:57.200 So you gotta watch to know what God's saying. 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.480 Turn to the person next to you and says, I don't know everything. 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.079 And if it's your spouse, they say, Well, it's about time. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.319 A watchman watches. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.119 Number three, and it kind of dovetails into the second one. 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:13.519 Third quality is a watchman waits. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:15.359 A watchman waits. 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.039 Psalm 136. 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:19.680 My soul waits for the Lord. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:22.799 More than those who watch for the morning. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.480 Yes, more than those who watch for the morning. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.599 It's waiting on God and watching for God. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.400 So waiting and watching go together. 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:51.279 And sometimes when I'm prayer walking and I go out and kind of my SOP, my standard operating procedure with prayer walking has been I go and I tell God, I speak to God, the stuff that's on my heart, and then at that point where I'm going to turn around and come back, all I do is wait. 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:54.240 As I walk, I just listen. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.359 And I've got my phone with me. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:01.920 And in my phone, I've got this section called Notes. 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:03.839 You know that part where it says notes? 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:05.200 And I push that thing. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:06.160 God speaks to me. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.440 A lot of times I'll just stop in my tracks and I'll jot that down. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.759 You know who gave me that idea? 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:13.680 Jonathan Edwards. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.279 Jonathan Edwards. 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:16.960 He had an iPhone. 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:18.400 No. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:23.279 Jonathan Edwards used to go out on horseback and pray to the Lord on his horse. 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:30.000 If you know who Jonathan Edwards was, the author, the key, the key preacher to the first great awakening. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:35.440 And he had all these pieces of paper, they say, that would be pinned to his coat when he got back. 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:37.680 And those were things God told him to do. 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.960 Because he was waiting on God even as he walked with God. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.400 You know, you can be waiting on God as you walk with God. 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:53.680 One time I was fly fishing up around Winter Park, and um, and I was waiting on God while I fly fish. 00:20:54.480 --> 00:21:05.359 I know that sounds kind of crazy, and don't everybody start leaving on Sundays to go fly fish because you can say, well, Pastor said that he waits on God when he fly fishes, and I can do that really good fly fishing on Sunday morning. 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:07.119 Okay, you're not allowed to do that on Sunday morning. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.200 No, I'm only kidding, but you can go on Sunday morning. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.680 You just won't get as blessed out there as you do here. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:12.640 But that's okay. 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:14.160 I mean, whatever, you know. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:16.480 You either want part of it or you want all of it. 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:17.200 It's up to you. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:17.599 No. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:22.559 But I was fly fishing, and um, and I really was waiting on God. 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:37.119 I was praying about some stuff at the beginning, and then it just got super quiet up on this stream, and the Spirit of God came and told me something about Mountain Springs Church, which I was a pastor there at that time. 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.960 And it was not good. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:45.680 It was of a demonic spirit that had entered the church and was up to no good. 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.759 And it was through one of my staff. 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:59.839 So I got in my truck and I drove back and started making phone calls on the way, and one thing after another came to be true of what the spirit had downloaded to me. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.240 And we got in there and we took care of it. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.599 And God moved in a mighty way as a result of that situation. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:09.359 But it wouldn't have happened. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:16.160 I'm convinced it could not, he could not have spoken to me if I didn't take time to wait on watch on him. 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:23.759 So, men and women, when we go into, when I talk about prayer and being a watchman, there's a waiting part of it too. 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:29.119 And sometimes you're going to get in that chair in your house, and this is your hour of revolutionary prayer. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:31.200 And you, and sometimes you worship. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.759 I would say start with worship, but then you may just want to wait on him. 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.839 Just wait on him. 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:40.000 Just get really super quiet. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:41.680 God, what are you saying? 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:43.279 Take your journal, be ready. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:45.599 Have your Bible there, be ready. 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:56.480 Hundreds of times, hundreds of times, God has told me a passage to go to about something I never would have thought of. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:02.240 But do you understand that could only happen because I'm in the word. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:04.799 Does that make sense? 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:15.759 So it'd be like if I said to the quarterback on the football team, we're gonna go with a 699 deep on two. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.000 And he says that to me. 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:23.759 699 deep on two. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:25.279 I got the on two part. 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.000 699 sounds like something to do with the Antichrist. 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.759 I mean, I don't know what he's talking about. 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.240 Because I don't know the playbook. 00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:36.960 Do you know the playbook? 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:43.039 In other words, men and women, you limit two-thirds of what God can say to you if you don't even know his word. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:48.960 So if you're not regularly in his word, how can God speak to you because there's not a lot of material to work with in your brain? 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:53.759 I'm sorry. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:01.599 If you read the word only on Sunday when Pastor Steve is preaching, he ain't got a lot to work with. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:07.279 Partly because I'm your pastor and I know what he's got to work with over here, and ain't that much. 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:13.519 But secondly, because out of the other 168 hours, you're spending one hour in God's Word. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:20.960 He's got one hour's worth of data to work with because you won't know what the heck he's talking about if he speaks to you. 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:29.839 So when I got saved, I started hanging around all these all these fired up campus crusade young people that knew the word inside and out. 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:33.039 And let me tell you, folks, I was intimidated. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:37.839 I was intimidated because there were a lot of pretty girls there. 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:41.920 And I wanted to get to know some of them. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.759 And I was an idiot. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:47.519 And I looked around and I go, I wouldn't be interested in me. 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:53.119 So whatever your motivation is, get into the word, man. 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:54.319 Get into the word. 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:56.640 So there you go. 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:58.160 Fourth quality. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:00.960 A watchman wars. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:06.720 When we sign up to follow Jesus, we enter a war. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:14.640 Demons hate your guts because you're following Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:22.079 You just entered into a demonic warfare with an enemy that knows his craft well. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.599 He's been working out his strategies for millennia. 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:38.160 So when we start to know God's word, and when I was that new believer, I began to read God's word and read it every day, sometimes two, three hours a day, because I had a lot of catching up to do. 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:41.359 I got around these 18 and 19-year-old young people. 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:42.240 They knew God's word. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.680 They'd grown up in really strong Christian homes and they had been reading the Bible, and you'd say something. 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.920 I remember someone said to me, You know what I'm talking about from John 3.16. 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.200 I had to know what the heck he meant by John 3.16. 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:57.599 What is John 3.16? 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:02.480 Is that the phone number or is that the room number of a guy named John? 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.119 And so I began to read and study because I had a lot of catching up to do. 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.839 And because I was in that war. 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:20.400 As I got around those non-believers on my gymnastics team, and we began to, you know, I didn't know what to say about why I didn't want to go out and smoke and drink and party with them anymore. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.079 I just didn't want to. 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:24.000 And I didn't know what to say. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.759 I didn't have a good apologetic. 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:26.960 I didn't know the right words. 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:28.559 I just was trying to obey God. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:35.039 And so as I began to study God's Word, I had a little more information, had a little bit more ammunition because it's a war. 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:37.680 It's a war, folks. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.000 You are in a war. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:42.400 Your kids are in a war. 00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:50.400 There's so much stuff coming down the tube in our colleges today, in our high schools today. 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:56.319 Some of it's beautiful and good because I believe our teachers want to do the right thing. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.000 But some of it's just not, it's just not right. 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:02.640 And so, how do we change that? 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:08.160 We change that by equipping at home kingdom revolutionaries. 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:10.559 We help them renew their minds. 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:12.400 We help them grow. 00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:15.440 That's what your citizenship is all about. 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:16.960 That's your country. 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.519 Your country is always first your home. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:24.720 I've always said I'm every time I've been planting a church, I'm always planting two churches at the same time. 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:32.000 One church was Mountain Springs before, the road now, but it's always been the whole family church. 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.039 Again, Jonathan Everett said, every home is a little church. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.559 What kind of church are you building? 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:56.000 A battling church, a battling people, or those who can agree with David who said in Psalm 144, Blessed be the Lord my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. 00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:59.759 God trains us in spiritual battle. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:13.680 I don't do it as much as I probably should, as I did earlier, but there was a period there for about 10 years in a row where I put on the armor of Christ every day based off Ephesians 6. 00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:21.359 So after I had my quiet time, my devotional time, my war time with the Lord, I said, Lord, I put on the helmet of salvation today. 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:23.279 God, renew my mind. 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:25.519 God, may my thoughts be your thoughts. 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.680 May your thoughts be my thoughts. 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:29.759 Keep me focused, Lord. 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:32.319 Lord, I put on the breastplate of righteousness. 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.160 May my motives be pure. 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:35.839 God, I take the shield of faith. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.599 God, would you increase my faith and the sword of the spirit with the word of God? 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:42.480 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.240 God, I put on the belt of truth. 00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.400 I'm not gonna listen to the lies of the enemy. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.480 I'm not gonna listen to the lies of the culture. 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:56.720 I'm gonna believe truth, and truth is found here in your constitution, your covenant book, the Bible, and then I'm gonna shod my feet with the gospel of peace. 00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.839 So, God, wherever I go, might I be a peacemaker? 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:02.559 That took about two minutes. 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.559 I challenge you to do that. 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:12.559 Start at the top, as a part of your warfare prayer, as a part of being a watchman on the wall, is you wore by first getting dressed. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.480 I put on this coat today. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.799 I put on this shirt today. 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.000 Put on the armor every day. 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:21.519 Put on the armor every day. 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:24.319 Just like you get dressed, get dressed with the armor. 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.480 Fifth quality: a watchman warns. 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:39.519 In ancient times, the primary focus of a watchman was to warn the people that bad things, foreboding things were coming, or an enemy could be seen way off. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:47.119 I love that in Lord of the Rings, when they start to light the fires on those mountaintops, those were warning fires that they would start. 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:53.359 The prophet Ezekiel said, Son of man, I've made you a watchman for the house of Israel. 00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:58.000 Therefore, hear a word from my mouth and give them warning from me. 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.759