SPEAKER_00: How's everybody going?
SPEAKER_00: We had a good Friday, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: Amazing Friday.
SPEAKER_00: Just the presence of God was so strong.
SPEAKER_00: It's all about the presence, really.
SPEAKER_00: If we don't have Jesus, what's the point?
SPEAKER_00: If we don't have his presence.
SPEAKER_00: I feel like you know one of the greatest defeats of my life would be if I lived my whole life but never connected with Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: That would just be the biggest failures of my life.
SPEAKER_00: I believe we are moving into a season of seeing some incredible breakthroughs.
SPEAKER_00: Things that we have not seen, things that we haven't experienced.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the biblical principle.
SPEAKER_00: Such things God has prepared for those who love him.
SPEAKER_00: Things that hasn't even entered into the mind of man.
SPEAKER_00: The last few days, the Lord had this little verse in my mind, and it was just swirling around.
SPEAKER_00: And it's that place in Hebrews where the writer of Hebrews says that by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.
SPEAKER_00: So my immediate reaction to that was, well, it's fascinating that it is not possible to actually come to terms with how the worlds came into being intellectually.
SPEAKER_00: It is not possible.
SPEAKER_00: Because the Bible says, by faith we receive the understanding that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.
SPEAKER_00: And it's not talking about the writer of Hebrews, it's not talking about just the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Because he uses the word worlds.
SPEAKER_00: So the entire universe, everything that we can see, everything that we experience, everything that is in the cosmos was framed by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: The word framed is the word eon in Greek.
SPEAKER_00: When you consider periods of time, eon is the largest amount of time.
SPEAKER_00: I've got a little breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: I think it's it's it's hundreds of billions of years.
SPEAKER_00: Can be aeon.
SPEAKER_00: And then there are other smaller periods of time.
SPEAKER_00: When we say smaller, I mean we're still talking billions of years, and then a few hundred million years, and then hundreds of millions of years.
SPEAKER_00: And then you the the smallest is an age.
SPEAKER_00: But I've got a lot of content to cover here, so I don't want to go into the definition of uh portions of time that much.
SPEAKER_00: But the word eon is the largest amount of time, it can have up to 450 billion years.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, it's fascinating.
SPEAKER_00: If you if you if you look at that verse, it says in in Hebrews chapter 11.
SPEAKER_00: Let me just get this.
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews chapter 11, verse 3, and it says, by faith we understand.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that we believe, but by faith we understand.
SPEAKER_00: So faith has an effect over our minds that gives us the capacity to come to terms with something.
SPEAKER_00: By faith we understand.
SPEAKER_00: That means our minds are somehow renewed.
SPEAKER_00: So we get a renewed mind by faith.
SPEAKER_00: Faith has an effect over our minds, and we can now understand that the worlds, it's not just the earth, but but the whole universe, every everything that we see, we're framed.
SPEAKER_00: Now that word framed is the word eon.
SPEAKER_00: As I said, it's a fascinating choice of words, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: It's like, you know, people say, Well, how far is uh orange to Sydney?
SPEAKER_00: And people say, Oh, it's it's it's just over three hours.
SPEAKER_00: If you think about it, we've started to define space with time, or we started to explain distance with time, and it that's an important concept to understand this verse.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna break it down just now.
SPEAKER_00: By faith, put that verse up and leave it on, thank you.
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
SPEAKER_00: You guys do great with you know putting these verses up and find it because we don't give them these these scriptures, they just uh look it up themselves and put it up, which is fantastic.
SPEAKER_00: By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed, eoned.
SPEAKER_00: How do we understand that?
SPEAKER_00: How far is it from Sydney to Orange?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, just over three hours.
SPEAKER_00: Where it's 300 and some kilometers, but we define it by time, and it's important to keep that in mind.
SPEAKER_00: By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed, were eoned, were put in a time frame by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: Fascinating to me.
SPEAKER_00: So, what this is actually saying is that the word of God didn't just create physical things, the stars and the skies and all the planets, the life that we know on earth, every green thing, every creature, every animal, every person was created by the word of God, but not just created, but put into play, put into a process, and that's why they use this word eon for framed.
SPEAKER_00: And it's not just putting into process, but releasing every bit of resource, every bit of capacity, every bit of requirement, every everything that we need or the universe needs to fulfill its destiny is released in that word frame.
SPEAKER_00: Everything that the planet that we can't even get to needs to be itself.
SPEAKER_00: The time, the resources, the physical energy, the the thing that uh makes it, the physical structure of it, everything the Lord released into time, this physical stuff is being released to go do your thing.
SPEAKER_00: This is where a little bit of knowledge or a little bit of understanding of space-time would be fascinating because then you just fully grasp what the word framed means.
SPEAKER_00: Albert Einstein came up with this theory of special relativity in 1905.
SPEAKER_00: The difference between special relativity and general relativity is that general relativity takes account of gravity.
SPEAKER_00: So the four dimensions of, and there are four dimensions that tie space and time according to the theory of relativity, which is the three are our dimensions.
SPEAKER_00: So your height, depth, and width.
SPEAKER_00: The fourth dimension is time, so how time behaves with the effect of gravity and other things.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want to go into it too much, but here we see the word framed is releasing God's creation into the space through time.
SPEAKER_00: Go do your thing, and that applies to you and I as well.
SPEAKER_00: That's why we exist in time.
SPEAKER_00: Angels don't exist in time, but we exist in time because we've been put through with a call on our lives, with a requirement on our on ourselves, with a with something released, everything that we need for godliness and holiness, the Bible says, has been given to us in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: But how do we access it?
SPEAKER_00: And we will we'll get to it in just a minute.
SPEAKER_00: How do we access it?
SPEAKER_00: We need to break down this verse a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews chapter 11, verse 3.
SPEAKER_00: By faith we understand nothing else but faith, and we celebrate everything else that God has put in us, our capacities to learn, our capacities to communicate, our capacities to physical abilities to do things, to be able to speak, to be able to walk, to be able to handle things, to be able to be creative with our hands, to have the feelings in our hearts.
SPEAKER_00: All of that is amazing.
SPEAKER_00: It's part of human, part of being human, it's part of how God has created us.
SPEAKER_00: And different people have different areas in our lives that are heightened or lowered.
SPEAKER_00: Some people are very emotional, others are not.
SPEAKER_00: Some people are highly creative, others are not.
SPEAKER_00: Some people are very intelligent, and others may be different in other areas.
SPEAKER_00: And it's it's all great and worth celebrating.
SPEAKER_00: But when it comes to understanding godly ways and godly things, the Bible says, by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
SPEAKER_00: That means they did not just come about, they were put into play by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: So the word actually created substance from nothing, and that is something that we need to remember.
SPEAKER_00: Those two things.
SPEAKER_00: One is the context of space and time, and the other fact that so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
SPEAKER_00: That means they were made of things which were invisible, and we know the first part of the verse was framed by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: God's word was able to create reality and put it into play that it can now go through time and sometimes hundreds of billions of years, but it will fulfill its course.
SPEAKER_00: Everything, by the way, is fulfilling its course through the universe except humans.
SPEAKER_00: That's why we are continuously, continually pressing in for more of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Because without him, we cannot be in our flow.
SPEAKER_00: Without him, we can't be in that process, released to do what the call on our lives are, what the purposes of heaven for us are.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is one of the points, one of the major points of focus in this verse.
SPEAKER_00: Faith.
SPEAKER_00: Then we the other thing that we see is the origin of the universe, the whole universe coming into play, framed by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: The origin of the universe is right there.
SPEAKER_00: The nature and reality of everything that we see as real, natural world around us, was spoken into play by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: Everything emerging, everything in the universe emerging from the spoken word.
SPEAKER_00: By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the will of God.
SPEAKER_00: Scientifically, most understanding depends on proof.
SPEAKER_00: Can it be proven?
SPEAKER_00: Can we measure this?
SPEAKER_00: I was listening to a talk a few months ago, and there were some big physicists all around the world.
SPEAKER_00: They were talking about, is there a soul?
SPEAKER_00: And one of them says, very prominent, I really like this guy, but he got it wrong in this.
SPEAKER_00: He said, he said, I'm pretty confident there is no such thing as a soul, because if there was, we would be able to measure it.
SPEAKER_00: At a subatomic level, we know that there are particles that hold each other together, like molecules, atoms, and there's an invisible force that just keeps them bound together.
SPEAKER_00: And scientists know that, and they they don't know what it is, but they know the effect of it.
SPEAKER_00: That it keeps different material into their form, but they don't believe in the soul.
SPEAKER_00: And this is where the difference comes in.
SPEAKER_00: By faith, we understand.
SPEAKER_00: In the natural world, things have to, we need proof, we need uh verifiable results to to agree that that's this is this is true.
SPEAKER_00: But in the in the things of the spirit, in the things of our faith, things we understand things by faith.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is not blind faith that I'm trying to get you to turn into.
SPEAKER_00: This is not just because I say so.
SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna get to it in in in through, I want to rush through this a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: I've got so many points, and I'm I just don't want to miss any of these points and um fail on establishing the truth that I want to establish here.
SPEAKER_00: So faith is required for the shaping for us to have a capacity to understand.
SPEAKER_00: Many times in the New Testament, when people came to Jesus, they said, You know, heal me, Lord, or would you heal my boy, or would you heal my son, or the woman with the issue of blood came and touched his garment.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, Your faith has made you whole.
SPEAKER_00: Somehow, before getting accessing that healing, they were somehow convinced in themselves that if I do this, I'll be made whole.
SPEAKER_00: Definitely, two or three of those instant instances you will see, particularly the woman with the issue of blood, the Bible says that she purposed in her heart that if I only touch the hem of his garment, I will be made whole.
SPEAKER_00: That understanding comes by faith.
SPEAKER_00: So that is faith already working in that person.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that when they touched Jesus, they did that and accessed faith.
SPEAKER_00: No, faith was already transforming their mind, they were getting a renewed mind to expect certain realities happening before them, and that's what's needed here.
SPEAKER_00: We can't fully grasp this concept unless faith starts to work in us.
SPEAKER_00: But when it does start to work in us, we get so much more than just the understanding of this verse because that word framed starts to flow like a river in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: It picks us up and takes us through into a journey that's beyond our control.
SPEAKER_00: It's like the river that Ezekiel talks about in chapter 47.
SPEAKER_00: He says, And the angel measured a thousand cubits, and he walks up to the to where the angel was, and the water was ankle deep, and the angel measured another thousand cubits, and the water was knee high, and the angel measured another thousand cubits.
SPEAKER_00: So he's continuing to flow into a certain direction, guided by a heavenly being.
SPEAKER_00: Now, all of us may not have an angelic encounter, but we have what we call the word of God, the Bible, that we if we fill ourselves with this word that framed the whole understanding, everything that we see, touch, feel, experience all around us was framed by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: If we fill ourselves with this word, I'm telling you, it's going to be like a river when the angel finally measured another thousand cubits, and Ezekiel says, Now it became a river that could not be crossed, but fit enough for a person to jump into, for the river will take you wherever it wishes.
SPEAKER_00: Now that is being in the will of God, where He just starts to take you and carry you across, and it becomes easy in that place because now we're getting framed, we're just being released to be our things.
SPEAKER_00: We're now being fulfilled, we suddenly become equipped to do all that God has called us to do.
SPEAKER_00: Our destiny, stepping into our destiny, we find it here, but we've got to have a renewed mind to subdue ourselves under that word.
SPEAKER_00: We have to have a renewed mind, our history of walking with the Lord, where he has come faithful every time.
SPEAKER_00: We have to develop this kind of character that when he doesn't, or when it feels like he's failed us, we still believe that he is good.
SPEAKER_00: This understanding, this renewing of mind comes by faith.
SPEAKER_00: The other thing that uh Psalms 33, verse 6, it's an incredible verse, establishes the same truth.
SPEAKER_00: Psalms 33, verse 6 by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all of the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.
SPEAKER_00: Very important, these two things.
SPEAKER_00: This is not just songs, somebody's just written songs, they're feeling really great, they're standing under a tree, nice breeze is blowing, so they're they're in a happy heart, so they just write this song.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: This every word in this book has a reason.
SPEAKER_00: And if it says here, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth, we gotta understand that there is a reason why the Bible says that.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just a novel, so everything was formed by the word of God, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth, he just spoke things into creation.
SPEAKER_00: If you can't breathe, you can't speak.
SPEAKER_00: I want to point out to you that when God fr created man, the Bible says that he breathed into his nostrils, and man became a living soul, and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.
SPEAKER_00: And he created you and I, and he breathes into man, and man became a living soul.
SPEAKER_00: What did we breathe in?
SPEAKER_00: To become alive.
SPEAKER_00: God's breath.
SPEAKER_00: We are the only other creature apart from God Himself who has the breath of God in us.
SPEAKER_00: That means that we are appropriately positioned to speak his word too, because we have his breath in us.
SPEAKER_00: We have his breath in us.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to stay in a defeated position, we don't have to stay, remain in turmoil.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to continue to suffer, we don't have to agree with the sickness, we don't have to stay in brokenness, we don't have to stay, you know, tormented by the devil.
SPEAKER_00: Because he has equipped us with his breath.
SPEAKER_00: Right from day one when he created, he brings Adam in front of him and he breathes into it.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, and man became a living soul.
SPEAKER_00: Now suddenly I have a soul that is alive.
SPEAKER_00: Why is it alive?
SPEAKER_00: Because it is breathing, inhaling and exhaling the breath of God.
SPEAKER_00: Everything God did, he spoke into it.
SPEAKER_00: You and I have the capacity to speak his word, but we've got to have his word.
SPEAKER_00: We've got to have his word in us.
SPEAKER_00: We have the capacity because he's breathed into us.
SPEAKER_00: And can you can you even imagine the capacity that we have?
SPEAKER_00: The worlds were framed by his word, and that same word and the same breath he's put in you and I.
SPEAKER_00: The kind of things that we can do.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not talking about weirdness, you know, go spar start speaking to stars or skies or you know, all that I there are people out there who do that, and I and I'm not suggesting that.
SPEAKER_00: What I'm suggesting is you create your own life, you form your own city, you speak life over your children, you speak life over your friends, you speak life over your brothers and sisters, you speak life into the situation that you walk in, you speak, but you've got to have those words.
SPEAKER_00: We have been given the capacity, yes, we know.
SPEAKER_00: I'll find the verse.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter 2, verse 7.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord God formed man, again, that same word.
SPEAKER_00: Formed.
SPEAKER_00: There's a difference between the word made and formed.
SPEAKER_00: Made is to physically shape something and give it physical form.
SPEAKER_00: Formed is to put it in its destiny, however long it takes.
SPEAKER_00: For humans, Paul says 70 to 80 years, the Lord put a boundary on human life, and he says, Man shall live 120 years.
SPEAKER_00: So near about that.
SPEAKER_00: That could be the length of our journey as we go from the day we get set on to this task, this process in physically, in physical form, going through time, getting affected by a whole bunch of things, and to the degree that we allow and subject ourselves to the word of God and continue to seek his word is to the degree that we will fulfill our life's calling.
SPEAKER_00: I once asked the Lord, I said, Lord, is our callings, is calling really the limit of our lives?
SPEAKER_00: And the Holy Spirit said to me, No, you can increase the calling on your life.
SPEAKER_00: If you really come to me in prayer and intercession and say, Lord, I really want to do this.
SPEAKER_00: He gives us the desires of our hearts.
SPEAKER_00: So if there are areas of life, if there are careers, if there are areas in the world that interests us, the Lord will equip us and release us in those areas.
SPEAKER_00: He will increase us to do greater things than what we can ever imagine.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, No, you can you can bring a calling on your life.
SPEAKER_00: Faithfulness is the tool that enables us to step into a greater place of calling.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter 2, verse 7, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
SPEAKER_00: The King James Version says, and man became a living soul.
SPEAKER_00: What is a living soul?
SPEAKER_00: In my opinion, a living soul has the capacity to speak because we are created in the image of God.
SPEAKER_00: A living soul has the capacity to feel God's heart, a living soul has the capacity to connect with God, a living soul has the capacity to behave exactly like God, and that's why the calling on our lives to be more like Jesus, to be transformed from glory to glory into the image of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Because if it was not possible, God would never expect it.
SPEAKER_00: But it is possible because we've been made like Him, we've been given His breath, He's spoken over us.
SPEAKER_00: All we need is His Word, all we need is His Word to dwell in us, His Word to shape us, His Word to give us a renewed mind.
SPEAKER_00: So we start to understand things differently.
SPEAKER_00: Notice the fact that the Bible says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say that faith comes just by hearing the text being read out.
SPEAKER_00: Faith comes by hearing.
SPEAKER_00: So as we listen to that word, it does something.
SPEAKER_00: In us, and now we've got access to faith.
SPEAKER_00: By the way, one of the things that I felt just a few days ago was faith.
SPEAKER_00: Having faith is not the absence of doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Because as fallen creatures, we will always have doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Having faith just means that Sarah pointed out last Sunday, I think, or sometime.
SPEAKER_00: But the Holy Spirit said to me, the presence of faith is so that you don't let doubt win.
SPEAKER_00: Don't let doubt win.
SPEAKER_00: Doubt will always be there.
SPEAKER_00: But we hold on to faith.
SPEAKER_00: No, Lord, but I believe in this.
SPEAKER_00: And that belief cannot be ungrounded.
SPEAKER_00: This is where the distinction comes in.
SPEAKER_00: The difference between imagination and fantasy.
SPEAKER_00: Fantasy is just nothing.
SPEAKER_00: Imagination can be very powerful if God puts that image in your heart and you know that this is from the Lord, then it is grounded.
SPEAKER_00: And having faith, just saying this is what I'm believing for, it better be grounded.
SPEAKER_00: That's when I quickly run.
SPEAKER_00: The other thing that I want to point out from Hebrews chapter 11, verse 3, is the fact that he says, by faith we understand.
SPEAKER_00: Not everyone, you and I, a certain select group of people, we're the ones who understand.
SPEAKER_00: Others can come in, but they have to be part of that we.
SPEAKER_00: It's the redeemed, it's the people who know Jesus, it's the people who are pursuing him.
SPEAKER_00: The writer of Hebrews says that as a collective message over the righteous, by faith, we understand.
SPEAKER_00: And it's a real privilege to be part of the we.
SPEAKER_00: We could be out there in the darkness, lurking around in the shadows.
SPEAKER_00: David has so many psalms that talk about of this concept that I'm not in the shadow, I'm in the light.
SPEAKER_00: I'm standing in his light, the light of his word falling onto me.
SPEAKER_00: That's the person who has the capacity to gain an understanding of how life works.
SPEAKER_00: And once we get that, we get this capacity to shape our reality, starts to shape who we are, start to be the person that God wants us, you and I, to be.
SPEAKER_00: Start changing the whole fabric of our existence.
SPEAKER_00: Again, the word framed is used purposefully.
SPEAKER_00: It means to be shaped, to be sustained by that word.
SPEAKER_00: The other thing that I want to point out that you and I are capable of hosting God's word, having God's word in us, is because the word himself became flesh and dwelt among us.
SPEAKER_00: These are huge concepts I'm bringing.
SPEAKER_00: Generally, I I don't have these kind of messages, but this time, today I have.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord's been talking to me about this.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in John chapter um John chapter 1, verses 1 to 3.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read this.
SPEAKER_00: In the beginning was the word.
SPEAKER_00: We know that.
SPEAKER_00: In the beginning was the word, because the word framed everything.
SPEAKER_00: And the word was with God, and the word was God.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, the word was God.
SPEAKER_00: He was in the beginning with God, and all things were made through him.
SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
SPEAKER_00: And without him, nothing was made that was made, as we saw in Hebrews, that nothing came about from things that are visible.
SPEAKER_00: Same thing, same parallel.
SPEAKER_00: John starts his this book by this incredible concept.
SPEAKER_00: In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
SPEAKER_00: He was in the beginning with God.
SPEAKER_00: All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.
SPEAKER_00: In him was life.
SPEAKER_00: So the word had life in him.
SPEAKER_00: But there is a transition between verses 1 to 3 and 4.
SPEAKER_00: 1 to 3, he's referring to that word as the word.
SPEAKER_00: From verse 4, he's starting to refer to the word as him.
SPEAKER_00: Incredible.
SPEAKER_00: And in him was life, and the life was the light of men, the light of men.
SPEAKER_00: And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
SPEAKER_00: The word did not means cannot.
SPEAKER_00: If you look into that the Greek word there, the word did not mean cannot.
SPEAKER_00: The darkness has no capacity to comprehend it, to come to terms with it.
SPEAKER_00: That word comprehend means to get a handle on.
SPEAKER_00: The darkness does not have any capacity to control in any way.
SPEAKER_00: It is beyond that darkness.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here, verse 14 is where I want to go to.
SPEAKER_00: And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
SPEAKER_00: The other day I was I was just sitting with the Lord, and suddenly I thought that there's so many instances.
SPEAKER_00: There are a handful of times in the in the in the New Testament where the Bible talks about that angels came and ministered to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And suddenly it occurred to me, we the church, is the body of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: We should be having heavenly encounters, heavenly visitations.
SPEAKER_00: Heaven should be breaking out in our lives all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Because we're the body, he's the head now, we're the body.
SPEAKER_00: But when he was here in physical form as a human, the Bible says angels came and ministered to him.
SPEAKER_00: That's just, I believe, that the same principle, God never changes, he's still the same.
SPEAKER_00: So we should be expecting heavenly realities breaking out.
SPEAKER_00: We should be expecting the cloud to go before us.
SPEAKER_00: We should be expecting the fire to be going before us before any meeting, before any interview, before any situation, before any circumstance that we are about to face.
SPEAKER_00: We should be expecting the fire of God to go before us and change it.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have this capacity, we should expect this.
SPEAKER_00: And a fascinating truth here, God not only used his word to create everything that is around us, including not us, he formed us out of the dust of the earth, he says.
SPEAKER_00: But he not only just spoke those words to to create the entire creation, but then he embodied that word and came to us in flesh.
SPEAKER_00: Why could he do it?
SPEAKER_00: He could do it because he breathed into man the breath of life.
SPEAKER_00: That was the only reason he could do it.
SPEAKER_00: If he hadn't breathed into man in the Garden of Eden, Jesus could have never come, never came.
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
SPEAKER_00: In that moment, when God breathed into man the breath of life, the breath of his nostrils, the breath of his mouth, he breathed into it.
SPEAKER_00: He made it possible that his word now can take flesh form.
SPEAKER_00: And that is why the Bible still expects us to be changed from glory to glory into the image of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: It's not a poetic, hypothetical change, some kind of intellectual exchange.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: There has to be a physical change because it is possible.
SPEAKER_00: Am I stretching your minds too far out?
SPEAKER_00: Is it creating excitement?
SPEAKER_00: Is it like I like this?
SPEAKER_00: It was like that with me.
SPEAKER_00: When I saw this, I was like, this is amazing, God.
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
SPEAKER_00: The only reason Jesus was able to take physical form was because God breathed into the creature that he made in Genesis.
SPEAKER_00: He breathed into him the breath of life.
SPEAKER_00: Just take it.
SPEAKER_00: And that person became alive, breathing the breath of God in him.
SPEAKER_00: And the fact that you have the breath, you can speak the word.
SPEAKER_00: Everything he created, he created because of his word.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore the word can take, the word can now become flesh because God made it possible.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible is full of these concepts.
SPEAKER_00: Now that I've seen it, it's become so clear.
SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 3 16 says, Do you not know?
SPEAKER_00: That means it's possible for our people to not know this.
SPEAKER_00: Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't this now have a different meaning?
SPEAKER_00: It had a different meaning for me when I first saw it.
SPEAKER_00: Like, wow, I can actually host that same spirit, the spirit of God, dwell in me.
SPEAKER_00: Because he's put in me the breath of his mouth, the same breath that created everything, given me the capacity to speak his word, of course, he's going to fill you with his word.
SPEAKER_00: Of course, Christ will dwell in you.
SPEAKER_00: And what's the limitation then?
SPEAKER_00: No limitations.
SPEAKER_00: The only limitation is to the degree that our minds are transformed and renewed.
SPEAKER_00: How far can we think?
SPEAKER_00: How far can we imagine?
SPEAKER_00: And if you consider, you know, Albert Einstein came up with this theory of relativity.
SPEAKER_00: How did he think that through?
SPEAKER_00: He just had a mind who that could just imagine.
SPEAKER_00: God's given us everything that we need to go through that flow and come out on the other side, fulfilling our life's destiny.
SPEAKER_00: All we are missing is his word, because it is his word that creates.
SPEAKER_00: It's his word that frames.
SPEAKER_00: It is his word that shapes.
SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 19.
SPEAKER_00: But do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own, for you were bought for a price.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians 6, 16, for you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among them.
SPEAKER_00: Fascinating.
SPEAKER_00: I will dwell in them and walk among them.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 2, verse 22, 21, and 22.
SPEAKER_00: We're being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Hosting the presence of God is the most important task that we can ever learn.
SPEAKER_00: Hosting his presence.
SPEAKER_00: We are designed to host his presence.
SPEAKER_00: We're designed to cultivate an atmosphere where God comes and changes us, transforms us, gives us a renewed mind.
SPEAKER_00: Zimi was singing at home yesterday this song.
SPEAKER_00: And one of the lines is when he speaks, a thousand failures disappear.
SPEAKER_00: And I was I was sitting spending time with the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: When he speaks, why do a thousand failures disappear?
SPEAKER_00: It's not that he's punishing you or anything like that, or there is a there is a repercussion.
SPEAKER_00: If you do something, he's gonna smack you.
SPEAKER_00: That's not what he's doing.
SPEAKER_00: So when he speaks, if you can hear his words, if you can just hear what he's speaking over you, doesn't matter what you've done.
SPEAKER_00: Because suddenly you are in that flow, that flux between space and time, with everything that you need, the way you were created, shaped and framed by him, on your way to fulfill the calling on your life.
SPEAKER_00: That is the reason nothing else matters anymore.
SPEAKER_00: That's the reason nothing nothing has any effect on us because when we hear his word, it puts us into an original design.
SPEAKER_00: We're now free to just be taken by this river of his word and just taken into where he wants to take us.
SPEAKER_00: And it comes down to the degree of our submission and yielding to his word.
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of times we can't desire this.
SPEAKER_00: We don't even know how to desire this.
SPEAKER_00: What do we do?
SPEAKER_00: We build an atmosphere in our lives of worship and prayer and spending time in his word, just pure discipline.
SPEAKER_00: What will this do?
SPEAKER_00: This will create a safe place.
SPEAKER_00: And safety is a precondition for desire.
SPEAKER_00: Safety is a precondition for desire.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants to stay in a place if it is unsafe.
SPEAKER_00: But it's a safe place, you remain there.
SPEAKER_00: And we build that atmosphere by by just surrounding our lives with with things that we do out of discipline, which is spending time with the Lord, having a time to read the Bible, worship, pressing into Him, staying away from things that may contaminate our heart or our thinking, and it'll start to feel safe.
SPEAKER_00: And as I said, safe is a precondition for desire.
SPEAKER_00: Safety is a precondition for desire.
SPEAKER_00: And then you come to this incredible concept that I've titled the relationship impact.
SPEAKER_00: Suddenly we are in a relationship with Jesus because we're spending time in the Word.
SPEAKER_00: He's showing us new things.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit can now do other things.
SPEAKER_00: He can take you into passages, he can show you scriptures that that the Lord wants to talk to you about.
SPEAKER_00: And before we know, the flow now becomes our walk.
SPEAKER_00: This is this becomes who we are.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to run through quickly.
SPEAKER_00: I've got two minutes, one minute.
SPEAKER_00: I want to stay on time.
SPEAKER_00: I like to stay on time.
SPEAKER_00: I would like to invite you all into this fresh place of having a renewed, passionate relationship with Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Kathy talked about this book from Joy Dawson.
SPEAKER_00: I remember as an 18-year-old growing up in India, and somebody gave me that book by Joy Dawson.
SPEAKER_00: It says Intimate Friendship with God.
SPEAKER_00: And I took that book.
SPEAKER_00: The moment I grabbed it, I could feel something happen to me.
SPEAKER_00: I want to pray that the same thing happens to each and every one of us at a new level.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to live in past memories.
SPEAKER_00: It threw me that title of the book.
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even open the book for for weeks because just the title impacted me so much.
SPEAKER_00: Intimate friendship with God, and I was like, this is even possible.
SPEAKER_00: It is possible.
SPEAKER_00: Because we are made in his image.
SPEAKER_00: We're made like him.
SPEAKER_00: We have the breath in him, his breath, the same breath that he used to sound the sound to create the entire creation.
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews 11:3.
SPEAKER_00: By his word, the worlds were framed.
SPEAKER_00: This is an incredible thing in Genesis chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: I want to finish with just these two verses.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter 3, this is the place where man made the mistake, sinned against God.
SPEAKER_00: But it gives us a glimpse into the life that was there in the garden before this moment.
SPEAKER_00: Now this is Adam and Eve.
SPEAKER_00: They've realized that they've made a mistake.
SPEAKER_00: They've realized the impact of their sin on them physically.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 8, chapter 3, verse 8, Genesis chapter 3, verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: And they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
SPEAKER_00: Now it's not it's not guaranteed that the Lord always came in the cool of the day, but it is agreed upon, and there's a widespread agreement that the cool of the day actually does not mean a specific temperature, it means a defined moment.
SPEAKER_00: So there was a defined moment, a set aside time when God would come and fail talk to Adam face to face.
SPEAKER_00: That's fellowshipping with the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's friendship with God.
SPEAKER_00: And I will establish that just a little bit more.
SPEAKER_00: That cool of the day is what we can create out of discipline in our lives where we set aside time and we don't let anything encroach on it or encroach over it, in it, whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing is allowed to impinge on that time because that becomes our cool of the day.
SPEAKER_00: There is this concept in the Bible that when you go to pray, Jesus says, Shut the door and be alone in that place.
SPEAKER_00: That's the cool of the day.
SPEAKER_00: Creating a space for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus chapter 33, verse 7 to 11.
SPEAKER_00: This is fascinating.
SPEAKER_00: I love this.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus chapter 33, verses 7 onwards.
SPEAKER_00: And it says, And Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp.
SPEAKER_00: That's creating a space for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's creating something.
SPEAKER_00: So he had no disturbances.
SPEAKER_00: So he had no interruptions.
SPEAKER_00: He wanted to be away from the camp so he can't hear all that noise.
SPEAKER_00: It's the noise of life.
SPEAKER_00: Children running around, people cooking, animals, people doing things, repairing things.
SPEAKER_00: Just the sound of a city.
SPEAKER_00: And Moses took his tent and pasted it outside the camp, far from the camp.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that he didn't like the camp, but he just wanted to create that space, the cool of the day place with God, and called the tabernacle of meeting, and called it the tabernacle of meeting.
SPEAKER_00: And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting, which was outside the camp.
SPEAKER_00: So he created this space that anybody could come there.
SPEAKER_00: You and I can create a space that anybody could come into that space.
SPEAKER_00: So it was this is amazing.
SPEAKER_00: Whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because something incredible used to happen every time Moses used to go there.
SPEAKER_00: The glory of God would come down on the temple.
SPEAKER_00: So the people used to come out of the tents and they were watching Moses as he's going because they would also see the glory of God coming down.
SPEAKER_00: For what?
SPEAKER_00: And it came to pass when Moses entered the tabernacle that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord talked with Moses, and the people saw the pillar in a different translation somewhere in the New King James Version.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that version is.
SPEAKER_00: They've taken out the my the bit that I love the most.
SPEAKER_00: It's in the New King James.
SPEAKER_00: It says, So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face.
SPEAKER_00: As a man speaks to his friend, as a man speaks to his friend, that's the friendship that is available to you and I.
SPEAKER_00: Guaranteed.
SPEAKER_00: We just gotta make that space.
SPEAKER_00: Just make the space.
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter what you're going through in your life, doesn't matter what the circumstances are, doesn't matter what situation you're feeling, doesn't matter what you have done, it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_00: All that matters is do we have that cool of the day space in our lives?
SPEAKER_00: Because it'll transform you, it will frame you into God's idea, and He will put you through into that process, and you will fulfill your destiny.
SPEAKER_00: The only reason I'm bringing this word because I feel like there is a grace from the Lord in this moment, in this time, this year, there is an opening at a new level.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to pray.
SPEAKER_00: Is Zimi here somewhere?
SPEAKER_00: If he can play.
SPEAKER_00: If you don't mind, man, please.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord showed it to me a few weeks ago.
SPEAKER_00: He says, There are seasons in the Bible that it talks about, for example, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible talks about Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He says, and at the fullness of time, Christ was revealed.
SPEAKER_00: And these fullness of time, these marked moments, exist in God.
SPEAKER_00: And most of the times we have no idea.
SPEAKER_00: And we hit one of those moments, and something, something drastically changes in a good way.
SPEAKER_00: And it's possible that we hit one of those moments.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord showed it to me.
SPEAKER_00: He says that we have just hit one of those moments.
SPEAKER_00: We've just hit one of those moments.
SPEAKER_00: It's just one of those moments.
SPEAKER_00: One of those places, one of those milestones, just marked there.
SPEAKER_00: And we've just gone past it.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord is saying, You have no idea what is in store and available for you to have in this season.
SPEAKER_00: There is an opening.
SPEAKER_00: As far as heaven's concerned, there is an opening available right now for us to step into a new place of relationship and friendship with Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: A couple of weeks ago, the Lord says that I am releasing a season of breakthrough that it will come across as if the enemy didn't even exist.
SPEAKER_00: You will go through the enemy lines with such ease.
SPEAKER_00: You will just break through.
SPEAKER_00: So I want to speak, Father, this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I want to speak over every life that's in this place right now, every heart that's in this place.
SPEAKER_00: That we step into that place of breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: Holy Spirit, come and do a great thing in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Come and do an amazing thing.
SPEAKER_00: Take us into that place where we just smash through the enemy as if he never existed.
SPEAKER_00: It's like it's like David coming, bringing some cheese and crackers for his brothers.
SPEAKER_00: And there is a Philistine champion shouting away, send in your strongman, strength, send me one of yours to fight.
SPEAKER_00: And if he defeats me, we will be your servants.
SPEAKER_00: And if I defeat him, you will be our servants.
SPEAKER_00: And David's there holding the basket, and his hand gave it to his brothers.
SPEAKER_00: And then he hears this shout.
SPEAKER_00: He goes, Who is that?
SPEAKER_00: I can defeat him.
SPEAKER_00: And somebody overheard the conversation, ran to Saul and said, There is a man there.
SPEAKER_00: He says he can defeat this Philistine champion.
SPEAKER_00: And Saul entrusted the outcome for an entire nation into one boy's hand because the agreement was if I defeat your champion, you will be our servants.
SPEAKER_00: But David, he carried breakthrough, flung that stone so hard it sank into Goliath's head.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we pray that you allow us to step into a new place of a renewed mind, having the capacity to engage with your kingdom, having the capacity to break through and find that place where we are framed by your word now, Lord, going through the course, going through our lives, burning like a star, fulfilling its destiny.
SPEAKER_00: Blessing each and every one, bless each and every heart, Lord, in this place today.
SPEAKER_00: We give you honor, Lord, we give you praise, we worship you.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for giving us your breath, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for filling us.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for giving us your word, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We honor you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We love you, we love you, we love you.
SPEAKER_00: More than anything else, Lord, we love you.
SPEAKER_00: Let your throne be established in our lives higher than any other throne.
SPEAKER_00: Let no other name compete with your name, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We give you all the praise.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We ask this, Father, in the name of your precious, precious Son, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Holy Spirit, come and minister to us.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.