1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,400 We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,160 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,480 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,200 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,240 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:27,880 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,400 This summer we are going deeper into heart warming movies to 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,400 find gospel gems and Kingdom truths for our everyday life. 9 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,160 As you listen in, we hope that through these familiar 10 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:44,160 characters and sweet stories, you have a fresh revelation of 11 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:46,680 the victorious life we have in Christ. 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,760 Even as we continue with our at the movie series, we are looking 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,840 at this movie Zootopia Part 2. And as you know, we just looked 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:01,000 at how the snake with its poison corrupts us, causes bitterness, 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,640 causes so much of untold hell in our lives, and how with the 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,880 blood of Jesus, we can counter the toxin of the of the enemy. 17 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,640 We also looked at the enemy as a fox who steals the fruits in our 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,200 vineyard, who keeps us distracted. 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,080 And today we're going to be looking at a combination of all 20 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,320 of this in the story. If you watch the movie, you 21 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,320 probably know that the lead protagonist is this snake called 22 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,120 Gary the Snake. Basically his family has been 23 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,000 pushed out of Zootopia, supposed to live in a particular space. 24 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,600 But this bad guy, the lynx cat, he was actually instrumental in 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,400 stealing this guys his grandmothers patent for these 26 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,960 weather walls which enabled all animals to live together. 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,760 He stole it and then he falsely put a case on the grandmother 28 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,320 snake, got her imprisoned and then evicted all reptiles out of 29 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,080 Zootopia. So this guy comes back and says, 30 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,720 hey, I need to look at the blueprint, the original 31 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,160 blueprint. When I look at it, he's a heat 32 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,120 seeking wiper. So through this technique he 33 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,280 uses, he's able to actually see the original pattern, what his 34 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,800 grandmother actually drew up. And based on that, they were 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,360 actually able to go and locate that hidden town that now in the 36 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,840 present condition that Gary the Snake sees, it is completely 37 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,280 covered by snow. They don't even know where the 38 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,080 city is located. And so the story goes on. 39 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,120 They find it, and then they switch on all the lights in that 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,120 underground city and they bring it back to life. 41 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,720 Reptiles move back in. All's well that ends well, but 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,240 today what I want to focus on as we look at this is unveiling the 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,520 hidden. We are called to reclaim that 44 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,920 which was lost. But to get to that place of 45 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,960 reclamation, we need to 1st unveil that which has been 46 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,600 hidden. Some of these things in our 47 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,960 lives have been hidden for centuries, hidden for 48 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,200 generations on end. Some things that our 49 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,240 grandparents missed acquiring in terms of peace or strength or 50 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,560 health or endurance has passed on generations. 51 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,040 Nobody claimed it. It remained unclaimed. 52 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,160 I'm reminded of lost and found properties in school where if 53 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,680 you ever lose a bottle, they say go to the lost and found room. 54 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,600 And when you go there, there are things that are left there for 55 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:17,440 probably 40 years, bottles and bags and and T-shirts and half 56 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,160 of it looks so suspect you don't want to touch any of it. 57 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,320 And many of us have done that with the spiritual inheritance 58 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,600 that has been given to us. We have overtime lost it. 59 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,320 We decided you know what I can do without peace. 60 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,640 Let me strive, let me hustle. We have decided I can do without 61 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,040 joy because you know what is good? 62 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,440 To have grim determination. And so we have decided that the 63 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,760 hidden stuff can remain hidden. But the truth is this so much is 64 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,080 hidden and yet so much is being revealed, but it's being 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,040 revealed to him and her who seek first the Kingdom and his 66 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,440 righteousness. If you ask, seek and knock, you 67 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,440 will receive. That's, that's the simple 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,040 currency of the Kingdom. And so today I want to ask, Are 69 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,200 you ready to unveil the hidden? What is the hidden stuff that we 70 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,960 want to unveil? And you're probably asking 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,600 because when I started working on this, I was just thinking, 72 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,040 why should I unveil what is hidden? 73 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,600 Because I remember this, this one scripture is Deuteronomy 29, 74 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,760 verse 29, which says the secret things belong to the Lord our 75 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,079 God. But the things that are revealed 76 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:18,880 belong to us and to our children forever that we may do all the 77 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,880 words of this law. So when I read this, I thought, 78 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,720 well, you know what? The hidden stuff belongs to God. 79 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,200 So let it stay hidden, let God figure it out, Let me do what I 80 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,480 know. But then it it actually goes 81 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,960 deeper, which I'll get into in a bit. 82 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,120 But the truth is this, the minute you and I accept Jesus, 83 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,120 the minute you and I start walking this journey of the 84 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,760 follower of Christ, like the apostle Paul says, we walk by 85 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,240 faith, not by sight. Most of our reality is in 86 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,760 another realm. A lot of times the things that 87 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,520 we don't see 'cause us to lose faith, but then we have to 88 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,400 remind ourselves, hey, without faith it's impossible to please 89 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,400 God. We haven't seen him yet. 90 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,880 We believe in God calls us blessed cause of that and. 91 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,160 Here's the ploy of the enemy. While he is a snake, while he 92 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,960 poisons us, while he's like a fox beguiling us, causing 93 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,400 distraction, He is the master of smokescreens. 94 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:17,240 He will cover up things in plain sight, by distraction, by chaos, 95 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,520 by complete overhaul of circumstances, creating you to 96 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,560 be so, causing you to be so confused that you missed the 97 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,240 plot. Master of smoke screens. 98 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,280 And today we're going to ask the Holy Spirit to blow those smoke 99 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:33,640 screens away so that we can see it for what it really is. 100 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,040 Many of you are going through a season where you're feeling 101 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,320 nothing is happening. The more I talk to people, the 102 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,680 first four months of this year has been hard in the sense of I 103 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,120 thought this year would look a certain way, but it isn't. 104 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,000 I had this health diagnosis. I had the set back. 105 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,720 I had the surgery, I had this, I had that. 106 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,760 The enemy wants to tell you he nothing is moving. 107 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,720 You're stagnant. He's saying basically, well, you 108 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,520 know what? Nothing changed from last year. 109 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,320 False. The Lord is on the move. 110 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,040 He is doing things. The enemy smokescreen is so 111 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:08,160 thick it makes us think that the seen realm is all that we have. 112 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,120 But I want to encourage you from 2 Corinthians 4 verse 18, which 113 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,680 says we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things 114 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,480 that are unseen. For the things that are seen are 115 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,640 transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal, Hebrews 116 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,000 11 verse 3 says. By faith we understand that the 117 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,040 universe was created by the Word of God so that what is seen was 118 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,560 not made out of things that are visible. 119 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,760 Everything you see was created from nothing. 120 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,120 There was nothing visible or tangible. 121 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,200 God spoke the words into being. That's what the word of God 122 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,640 says. Colossians chapter one verse 16 123 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,800 says. For by him all things were 124 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,960 created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, where the 125 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,480 Thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were 126 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,800 created through him and for him. You know, when we start studying 127 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,720 science as children, we're taught about atoms and molecules 128 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,040 and these, it's so weird to study about it because you can't 129 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,080 see these things. But matter is made-up of these 130 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,400 things. And yet, so we start choosing to 131 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,400 believe, OK, you know what? This is made-up of matter. 132 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,240 It's called atoms and molecules. They've been blended together. 133 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,360 And the whole of life, if you look at it, the very foundations 134 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,120 of our life, most of it is invisible. 135 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,080 And yet life has been built on that. 136 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,320 The Christian life is no different. 137 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,040 It's no different because the Kingdom of God is 1, which is 138 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,280 invisible but rapidly advancing. It is as real as the nose on 139 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,440 your face. The Kingdom of God is real. 140 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,040 The more you talk to people who are living in the power of God, 141 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,960 doing the things they were created for, you realise that 142 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,920 the Kingdom of God is amazing. You realise that God is laying 143 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,960 down the ground for the new heavens and the earth even now 144 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,640 through the Kingdom. People all around who are doing 145 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,320 the things that they must. And so we understand sometimes 146 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,920 we go go through this thing of well. 147 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,440 You know how How? Do I actually accept the fact 148 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,640 that all that I can't see is actually the reality? 149 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,280 It is difficult, it is difficult and yet we have to. 150 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,560 Understand that the Kingdom of God is hidden, yet it's a 151 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,440 present reality. We worship a God who is 152 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,120 invisible. But. 153 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,600 So real. And so we have to come to terms 154 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,640 with the invisible, with the hidden, with the mystery. 155 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,320 But the beautiful thing is that in Christ Jesus, you and I have 156 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,200 access. Unlimited access. 157 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,480 To the throne of grace. If you go to a concert, some 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,000 people get an all access pass. What does that look like? 159 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,200 They can go backstage, they can meet the celebrities, they can 160 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,120 talk, they can shake hands, they can take pictures. 161 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,520 There are some who only have a pass for the stadium seating. 162 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,280 They don't get to go behind and meet everybody with Jesus, with 163 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,480 Him accepting Him as my Lord and Savior. 164 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,960 I get an All Access pass into the throne room anytime, night 165 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,120 or day, minute by minute. I can walk in, sit with my 166 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,800 Father and petition Him, cry before Him, love Him, experience 167 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,320 His love for me. All access pass. 168 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,400 But The thing is that I have to remember that in the seeming 169 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,560 nothingness all around me, heaven is still invading the 170 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,920 earth. Many times we forget that. 171 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,720 And today I want to ask you, Are you ready? 172 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,840 Are you ready to unveil the hidden? 173 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,080 Why is this so important? That's what we're going to be 174 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,280 looking at. You might ask me, why do I need 175 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,080 to unveil the hidden? Why can't I just stay? 176 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,160 Hidden. I mean, God says, you know what? 177 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:31,920 There's hidden stuff that I'm looking after. 178 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,320 I'm handling it. But if you look. 179 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,080 In the Bible, periodically there are people who took the time and 180 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:41,800 trouble to pause at a burning Bush, to ask the hard questions, 181 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,800 to wait in a prison for a breakthrough because a promise 182 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,600 was given, because a dream was had. 183 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,800 There were guys who lived in foreign rule. 184 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,400 Who was? Seeking God for 21 days, saying 185 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Lord, show me what's coming up. And God was revealing himself 186 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,920 through angelic visitations, through dreams. 187 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,920 Many people over the centuries in Christendom have had to 188 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,160 unveil the hidden so that the next generation sees more, so 189 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,640 that people their peers had greater experience, had a 190 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,200 greater understanding and so. Today I want to leave with you 2 191 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,000 reasons why we need to unveil the hidden. 192 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,440 The first thing is to discover and understand hidden 193 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,560 blueprints. Let me leave this with you 194 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:27,160 first, just to start right off the bat, a blueprint is 195 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,400 basically a draft, a document which is drafted with the 196 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,400 intention to give you details about a building, about a city, 197 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,320 about a maybe it's like a sewage system. 198 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,640 It has a detailed blueprint. You ask architects. 199 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,480 That's what they create. Now the blueprint is by which 200 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,200 you know, suppose you're looking for, you know, some kind of a 201 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,840 valve or something in your house. 202 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,440 You open the original blueprint, you look at it, you locate off 203 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,160 through the drawings, you find where that valve leads, how the 204 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,880 sewage system works, and you can rectify any mistake in it. 205 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,920 Now, our lives have blueprints too. 206 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,400 My blueprint is not the same as yours. 207 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,800 It's completely unique. My, my husband's blueprint and 208 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,040 mine are not the same. There will be overlaps, but 209 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,480 they're not the same. My parents blueprints and mine 210 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,440 are not the same. They could be common things that 211 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,280 contribute to my blueprint, things from my blueprint which 212 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,240 bless them, but they're not the same. 213 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:26,040 My children, each of them have individual blueprints, receiving 214 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,320 things from my husband and me which contribute to the 215 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,640 blueprint, but it's not the same. 216 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,200 Now the blueprint is very important. 217 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,280 Many times the enemy hides the blueprint. 218 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,520 He tells you when your life does not have purpose. 219 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:43,040 What are you saying? You, you're an ex drug addict? 220 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,680 You were promiscuous? What What future is there for 221 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,120 you? Your family has been soaked in 222 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,920 debt. What is where is hope for you? 223 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,360 You're. There's no scope of you coming 224 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,760 out of this pit. He will confuse you with a 225 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,480 smokescreen of defeat, of failure, of doubt. 226 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,040 He will harass you to the point of you thinking your life does 227 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,400 not have meaning. The blueprint of our life gives 228 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,080 our life meaning. It gives it direction. 229 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,320 It gives it purpose. Now go back to Deuteronomy 29 230 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,840 verse 29. He says the secret things belong 231 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,440 to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong 232 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,920 to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the 233 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,400 words of this law. So prior to this verse, Moses 234 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,240 had given them a series of instructions. 235 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,120 He had taught them a song. He was going to teach them a 236 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,960 song about, you know, how to remember the Lord in every 237 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,560 season. He was giving them the 238 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:33,320 blessings, the curses, telling them choose life, don't choose 239 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,920 death. And then he says there are some 240 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,080 things that are belonging to God, which talks about the 241 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,720 mystery of so much of our life. Why do good people suffer? 242 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,320 Why did this happen to that person? 243 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:45,800 Why did? This terrible tragedy hit this 244 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,000 nation. Those are mysteries that only 245 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,640 God knows, but there are the rest of it is open for us to, 246 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,160 you know, seek God, ask him, pray and say Lord, I want to 247 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,600 know more. And he says He will reveal it to 248 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,680 us, that we may do what? That we may do the works of the 249 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:05,960 words of the law. So the point is this. 250 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,000 Our blueprint is found in the word of God. 251 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,680 Too many of us are looking for the blueprint in the wrong 252 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:16,080 place. That one account I follow on IG, 253 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,520 she gets me. She speaks to my chaos, she 254 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,960 speaks to my anxiety, she speaks to my depression, and therefore 255 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,720 she is the Bible I read. My dear friends, I just pray 256 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,520 that today will be the day that shifts your blueprint from your 257 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,200 Maker is found in the Word of God. 258 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,760 He speaks to you from His word about what He has planned for 259 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,480 you. Romans 1133 says, O the depth of 260 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,560 the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God, how 261 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,120 unsearchable are his judgments and how unscrutable are his 262 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,280 ways, which means that on my own God's ways seem nuts. 263 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,560 I don't understand why, Lord, I don't understand how. 264 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,280 But the more I get into his word, the more I sit in his 265 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,520 presence with Him, the more I start to understand his heart, 266 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,920 the more I start to understand His ways, the more I seek, the 267 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,400 more I will find. He says, call unto me and I will 268 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,320 tell you great and unsearchable things. 269 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,040 And you might think that sounds like an oxymoron. 270 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,480 He says search. He says seek. 271 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:19,240 Well, He expects you to lean in. He expects you to dig deep. 272 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,360 And as I was preparing this, I just realized I opened my 273 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,960 journals from the last one. Year and I was. 274 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,080 Just looking through the scriptures God had given me that 275 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,400 I had been standing on and I realized not one of them will be 276 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,760 in vain. Maybe I haven't seen fulfillment 277 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,280 yet. Maybe I'm still confused why I'm 278 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,360 claiming something, but I believe when I put it together, 279 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,440 it's like this beautiful puzzle putting together the blueprint 280 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,960 of my life. The problem is many of us want a 281 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,640 immediate answer to the blueprint for 60 years. 282 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,760 I have aging parents and in laws and I just see how their 283 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,400 blueprints are still evolving in their 70s. 284 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,200 And it's marvellous because the God of who's so intentional in a 285 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,960 teenager's life, you know, in a 40 year old's life is 286 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,720 intentional in a 70 year old. He's still drawing up the 287 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,800 blueprint, adding unique bits to it. 288 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,040 And so none of us can check ourselves out saying, you know 289 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,240 what? The blueprint is done and 290 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,920 dusted. It isn't till you reach eternity 291 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,520 till you crossover. It's ongoing and I, I guess that 292 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,480 even in the new heavens, in the new earth, it's going to be 293 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,200 getting drawn up. So here's the thing. 294 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,080 I want to take you back to the time of Jeremiah, right in 295 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,400 Jeremiah 29, God is talking to the Exiles and this is what he 296 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:30,480 tells them. See, they're in exile. 297 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,120 You have to understand they were ripped out of their nation, 298 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,720 brought by this Pagan king and settled in Babylon forcefully. 299 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,280 So they were foreigners here. They don't know the language. 300 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,320 Their oppressors are cruel and they kept them in captivity. 301 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,280 But this is the interesting blueprint that what is giving 302 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,360 them right? Let's read it. 303 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,640 Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 4 onwards. 304 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,000 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says to all 305 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,400 those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 306 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,480 Build houses, settle down, plant gardens, eat what they produce. 307 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,400 Marian has sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and 308 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,080 give your daughters in marriage so that they too may have sons 309 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,960 and daughters. Increase in number there, do not 310 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,120 decrease. Also, seek the peace and 311 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,600 prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. 312 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,880 Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will 313 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,360 prosper. Yes, this is what the Lord 314 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,000 Almighty, the God of Israel, says. 315 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,640 Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. 316 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,480 Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. 317 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,880 They're prophesying lies to you in my name. 318 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,840 I have not sent them, declares the Lord. 319 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,600 This is what the Lord says. When 70 years are completed for 320 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,240 Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring 321 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,120 you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for 322 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,000 you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 323 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,680 plans to give you hope and a future. 324 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,880 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will 325 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,360 listen to you. You will seek me and find me. 326 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:57,800 When you seek me with all your heart. 327 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,840 I will be found by found by you, declares the Lord, and will 328 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,520 bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the 329 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,280 nations and places where I banished you, declares the Lord, 330 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,839 and I will bring you back to the place from which I carried you 331 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:17,440 into exile. God has a detailed blueprint for 332 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,960 the Exiles. He's saying nothing will change 333 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,680 before 70 years, but he does not want them to languish and rot 334 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,160 for those 70 years. He says, hey, this is my 335 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,760 blueprint. I want you to live a flourishing 336 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,120 life. I want you to get married. 337 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,480 I want you to build houses. I want you to eat from your 338 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,760 vineyards. I want you to thrive even in the 339 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,480 land of your exile. Many of us say I don't have a 340 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,000 blueprint for my life, so I will sulk in a corner. 341 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,320 I will not do anything for anyone, for God or the Kingdom 342 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,400 of people until I receive clarity from my experience, 343 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,320 which is limited in its own way. I have found that the minute I 344 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,520 take the first step, he starts ordaining the next few steps. 345 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,240 It requires that I say, Lord, I surrender my plan. 346 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,840 Give me your plan. Blueprints are usually hidden, 347 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,720 not on purpose, but for me to draw closer to the the artist 348 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:11,280 who came up with the blueprint. If I don't draw closer, if I 349 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,080 don't begin to understand, I, the blueprint will not make 350 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:18,040 sense to me. If I don't know his heart, if I 351 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,160 don't learn to trust his character and his nature, I will 352 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,120 mistrust the blueprint. I'll say, you know what, this 353 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:25,280 blueprint is not for me. I don't recognize it. 354 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,320 It's not for me. So this past week, we went for 355 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,000 our voting in Tamil Nadu, right? So I, my family, we went as a 356 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,840 family, my, my mom and dad, my brother, me, my sister-in-law, 357 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,440 all of us, we went to vote together and we had a big 358 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,120 discussion on who we wanted to vote for. 359 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,280 And I knew I was very clear who I wanted. 360 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,840 So I knew the symbol of the party that I wanted to vote for. 361 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,400 So I go into the voting booth and I double checked with my 362 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,040 family, hey, is this a symbol that I need to vote for? 363 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,440 And they said yes. So I went into the voting booth. 364 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,920 There was something like 20 symbols on the voting machine. 365 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,680 And Can you believe the symbol that I had gone in there looking 366 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,880 for was missing. It was not there. 367 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,640 So I stood there for a good 3 minutes, like completely spaced 368 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,160 out. I had no idea what I was looking 369 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:15,960 at. I don't know Tamils. 370 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,920 I couldn't read the, the, you know, the names or there was no 371 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,000 party. There was just symbols. 372 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,520 And so I stood there and then finally I recognized one symbol. 373 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:28,000 I was not dying to vote for that particular party, but I chose to 374 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,320 do it because I felt, well, a known thing better than an 375 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,720 unknown thing, right? I finished, I came out and then 376 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,600 I was telling my family about it, got berated solidly by all 377 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,560 of them. But here's the interesting 378 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,800 thing. So my mom tells me, hey, you 379 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,920 know what, if you only would read the newspaper a little 380 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,480 more, you will understand that a lot of these politics that 381 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,080 there's so much of alliances happening. 382 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,320 So there are multiple symbols being used because there are 383 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,920 many parties in alliance. Now where was this? 384 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,080 So I came home immediately and I checked. 385 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,640 So in the newspaper there's let's picture this to be the 386 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,640 blueprint of your life. I'm not going to show you who I 387 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,840 who I wanted, but I'm just going to hide the symbol. 388 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,800 But Can you believe over here? These were the symbols that were 389 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,960 given and one of the symbols and multiple ones of these symbols 390 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:17,440 were on the board. I had not read the blueprint so 391 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,120 I missed knowing what I should actually have voted. 392 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:24,880 For. And I realized that many of us 393 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,680 are not reading the blueprint right. 394 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,040 We're not even spending time on the blueprint. 395 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,520 We spend more time on social media. 396 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,080 I spend more time on YouTube because I want a quick fix. 397 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,280 I want to hit me right now. I want a reel to tell me what 398 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,640 I'm feeling right now and where I need to be with God. 399 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:44,160 I don't want to take the trouble to open the Bible and let the 400 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,920 Bible read me that the Bible should convict me because I am 401 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,040 trying to read my situation into the Bible. 402 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,120 Convince God about what he should do for me instead of 403 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,040 surrendering my plans and saying Lord let your will be done not 404 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,200 mine. And it's coming to a place where 405 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,080 if I don't know the blueprint I will miss the work of God in my 406 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,960 life. There is a blueprint for your 407 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,960 life. Irrespective of what parents 408 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,800 have told you, irrespective of what siblings have told you, 409 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,280 they probably said you were good for nothing. 410 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,640 They probably said you know what? 411 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,200 You're worthless. Whatever they have said. 412 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,400 I want to tell you, if you are living and breathing on planet 413 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,520 Earth in this time, in this era, your life has worth. 414 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,800 It has a plan. There's a blueprint for it and 415 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,120 it's up to you. There are no shortcuts. 416 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,400 The blueprint can only be found by you. 417 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,240 I realise that having children, sometimes you want to draw their 418 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,920 blueprint for them. You want to say, you know what, 419 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,440 you should take this college, you should do this. 420 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,400 Our oldest is going to be heading off to college soon. 421 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,800 And so my husband and I have been having these disagreements 422 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,440 because my husband's of this thought we need to let him 423 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,360 explore all options. But for me, I, I feel I know my 424 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:54,120 son's heart, I know his abilities. 425 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,400 I know these intricate details. So I think this one route would 426 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,440 be good. And as I prepared this, I 427 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,400 realized, you know what, I don't want to give him my blueprint. 428 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,560 Gesham's method is better. He says let him discover who 429 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,640 he's created to be, let him try out anything. 430 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:17,480 And so I want to ask you, have you been avid about dusting off 431 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,520 those old blueprints and getting into it? 432 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,560 It's not enough just to know the blueprint. 433 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,080 It is required that you ask the Holy Spirit to uncover it. 434 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,600 Not what does this mean? What does it mean when you say 435 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,040 I'll be a rebuilder? What does it mean when you say 436 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,360 that Lord, I will harvest the seed I planted? 437 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,600 What does it mean? Because, you know, for years we 438 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,880 sometimes claim some promises without even understanding the 439 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,320 magnitude of it. And the more you ask the Lord, 440 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,960 the more he unfolds it. The manifold wisdom of God, many 441 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,400 folds. It's got so much power. 442 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:55,640 Let God and His word reveal the blueprint of your life. 443 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,360 Don't accept the lies of the enemy. 444 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,040 Don't allow the quick fix 5 minute method deter you from 445 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,520 actually sitting in the world and asking God, give me my 446 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,240 life's blueprint. When you start asking, you'll be 447 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,920 amazed at how God starts to lead you. 448 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,040 The second thing, the second thing that we need to do in 449 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,880 terms of unveiling hidden destiny is you need to uncover 450 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,760 and possess hidden territory. Did you know that each of us 451 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:28,000 were created to take up territory, not just a land or a 452 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,560 house or a city or a town? No, that's not what I'm talking 453 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,800 about. I'm not talking about ancestral 454 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,160 lands. That may be included in it, but 455 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,560 it's not the whole, you know, peace territory, spiritual 456 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:44,760 territory is so important. When you get into a relationship 457 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,760 with Jesus, you step into the Kingdom of God. 458 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,920 You're you're now a, a subject of the Kingdom of God and you 459 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,600 have this territory that is assigned to you where God is 460 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,000 saying, I know I've given you these giftings, I've put you in 461 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,520 this carrier. Now I want you to shine my light 462 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,000 there. I want you to be a blessing to 463 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,240 all those around you. So the minute you start getting 464 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,720 conditioned in that direction, you start understanding it. 465 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,160 You start looking at your influence differently. 466 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,040 It's not about a blue tick. It's not about 1010 thousand or 467 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,600 a million followers. It's more about when I walk into 468 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,160 this room, who can I introduce to Jesus? 469 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,520 Who can I encourage and lift them up? 470 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,720 Who can I speak life over. And the minute you do that, 471 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,320 you're taking territory up, you're marking. 472 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,440 You can step into the most difficult zone, but when you 473 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,840 walk in there with your joy, when you walk in there with your 474 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,920 peace, you can change and shift an environment. 475 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,520 You have taken territory. You can walk into ancestral 476 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,240 homes and you know the bondage that lies there. 477 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,360 But when you walk in, you're carrying freedom with you. 478 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,840 You're taking up territory. Many of us are giving up 479 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,040 territory because of the stuff we are embroiled in privately. 480 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,040 That one relationship, extramarital relationship, is 481 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,720 making you lose ground that your marriage needs to take. 482 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,520 And the beautiful thing is with the Christian, whether you're 483 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,200 single or married or you have a family or it's just you, 484 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,600 territory has been assigned to you, whether you hold it, 485 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,960 possess it, and begin to enlarge it is on you, is between you and 486 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,360 God. But it requires intentionality. 487 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,800 It requires endurance, it requires a fight. 488 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,120 Paul. Says that we're in a fight for 489 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,240 our faith I have fought the good fight he doesn't say I took the 490 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,760 walk a walk through the park it's a stroll it's not a stroll 491 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:28,280 it's a fight we're fighting for territory Matthew chapter 13 492 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,800 verse 24 says the Kingdom of. Heaven is like treasure. 493 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,680 He didn't in a field which a man found and covered up. 494 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,920 Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys 495 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,400 that field, the Kingdom of him. The kingdom's dynamics is like 496 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,080 that. When you discover Jesus, in whom 497 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,160 are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, you want 498 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,160 more of him. You realize that you now have 499 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,560 power and authority given to you by Jesus himself. 500 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,640 You realize that you have resurrection power in your 501 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,200 veins. You realize that you have 502 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,680 healing, that His healing that is flowing through you. 503 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,400 You say Lord, ideally you say, Lord, I want to do more for you. 504 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,200 How can I do more? How can I take up more 505 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,640 territory? How can I, how can I expand the 506 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,680 Kingdom that you've assigned, the part of the Kingdom you've 507 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:13,760 assigned to me? And yet many times we assume 508 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,760 that territory is meant to be limited. 509 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,480 Many times we miss the fact that in Jesus, while there is the 510 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,960 treasures of wisdom and knowledge, it requires that I go 511 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,440 deeper. It requires that I. 512 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,960 Ask for the field and say, Lord, what is the field you've 513 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,840 assigned me to? If you remember the story of 514 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,440 Ruth and Boaz, Boaz had lots of fields. 515 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,200 Ruth was assigned to a field which was in his which was 516 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,320 cordoned off to him. And when she worked there, the 517 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,600 favor of God followed her. She was obedient to her 518 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,840 mother-in-law. God opened doors of favor. 519 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,760 It is so important to understand that there's a field assigned to 520 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,720 you, and it's up to you whether you uncover that field and take 521 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,400 possession of it. Too many times I have watched 522 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,640 this time and again, couples lose territory because of 523 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,480 deciding to walk away from the marriage. 524 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,840 Because you walked away, your children lose territory. 525 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,160 You don't understand how grave this is because generationally, 526 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,320 territory has to increase. Abraham was given a promise. 527 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,080 He went and occupied a bit. Isaac comes in, he sews X. 528 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:20,520 He yields 100 X. Jacob comes in, has twelve sons. 529 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,080 They occupy Canaan in larger quantity. 530 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,120 You have to understand it has to increase exponentially. 531 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,960 Many of us are losing ground because of the choices we are 532 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,680 making. What works for me is what I will 533 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:33,640 do. This is me. 534 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,640 I'm protecting myself. I'm being comfortable. 535 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,840 I lose territory when I live that way. 536 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,760 The Kingdom way is to live expansively. 537 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,680 It's to say, Lord, I'm here. Do with me as you will, the 538 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,400 minute you do that, the field is revealed. 539 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,000 He shows you here. This is the space that I'm 540 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,920 calling you into. David is a guy we're going to be 541 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,480 looking at today. David had this life defining 542 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,160 moment. You know that he was, he was 543 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,000 anointed when he was really, really young. 544 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,160 For 3 1/2 years he was, he was made king. 545 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,800 But it was only the tribe of Judah that rallied around him, 546 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,440 right? And he was ruling from Hebron. 547 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,440 But after the 3 1/2 years, all the tribes got united. 548 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,680 Benjamin, which was Saul's tribe, came and all the tribes 549 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,280 came and said we want you to be our king. 550 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,760 So it was now a United Kingdom, right? 551 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,200 12 tribes have come together. So he decides, he feels, he 552 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,440 senses that he needs to move his capital from Hebron to 553 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,480 Jerusalem. And this is where we are 554 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,760 situated. Second Samuel, chapter 5, verses 555 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,560 6 to 10. And says the. 556 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,480 King and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the 557 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,720 Jebusites who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, you 558 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,800 will not get in here. Even the blind and the lame can 559 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,840 ward you off. They thought David cannot get in 560 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,600 here. Nevertheless, David captured the 561 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,240 fortress of Zion which is in the city of David. 562 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,360 On that day. David had said anyone who 563 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,160 conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach 564 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,840 those lame and blind who are David's enemies. 565 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,680 That is why they say the blind and lame will not enter the 566 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,800 palace. David then took up residence in 567 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,880 the fortress and called in, called it the City of David. 568 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,520 He built up the area around it from the terraces inward and he 569 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,480 became more and more powerful because the Lord God Almighty 570 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,960 was with him. Isn't that amazing? 571 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,360 So what is what? What shocks me every time is 572 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200 that there was a nation that was already dwelling there. 573 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,320 It was not like he was taking. Up an empty fortress. 574 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,000 There was a nation that lived there, people that lived there. 575 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,560 And he says I'm taking it. And they say, well, you cannot 576 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,520 because even the weakest of us can push you out. 577 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,880 You have. To understand Jerusalem was 578 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,840 situated in such a beautiful location. 579 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,160 It was solid on its own. It had high mountains. 580 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,920 All around it, it was impenetrable by foot. 581 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,000 The only way to get in was this river channel, the water channel 582 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,040 which went under. Right. 583 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,800 So because there was a continual water supply, even if they put a 584 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,640 siege on this nation, on this city, people would survive for a 585 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,440 long time. So they felt they were 586 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,320 impenetrable. But David comes and says, you 587 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,640 know what? Nevertheless, I will take it. 588 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,840 And that's very pivotal because for many of us, the territory 589 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,480 that God is showing you will be very, very scary when he says, I 590 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,720 want you to be a rebuilder. I want you to be a restorer of 591 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,720 generations. He spoke that to me about 13 592 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,040 years back. I had no clue what he was 593 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,040 saying. I just said yes, it sounded fun. 594 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,840 I said yes, I'm, I'm all in God for over 11 years. 595 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,520 I see the struggle that comes with that. 596 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,280 I see that it's, it's, it's so much of work. 597 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,520 It's so much of heartache. It's so much of warfare. 598 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,920 And I wonder what I said yes to. But I realized that the 599 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,040 intimidation, while it is real, it requires me to say, 600 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:50,160 nevertheless, I stake my claim. I say yes to you, Lord, if you 601 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,320 are saying this territory is for us, this territory of enriching 602 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,920 others marriages because you're blessed. 603 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,280 As I say yes. If this territory is ministering 604 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,360 to children who are hurting, I say yes. 605 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,240 If this minister, if my call is to help young people to to 606 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,440 enrich young people, I say yes. If that is the territory you're 607 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:13,280 calling me into, I say yes. Many of us are so intimidated 608 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,280 because you know what happens the minute you say yes. 609 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,000 The warfare breaks out on you like never before, because the 610 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,440 enemy never. Lets you take territory without 611 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,320 push back. And take it from me, I'm someone 612 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,520 who is constantly sensing this. The minute we want to do 613 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,840 something new, the push back is real. 614 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,320 He hates forfeiting territory that is not in his nature. 615 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,080 He does not forfeit well and so it requires that you push back 616 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,120 and take your claim. What is the forward step God is 617 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,920 asking you to take? What is He saying? 618 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,520 Is He asking you to start that business? 619 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,440 Is He asking you to start a business which redeems those who 620 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800 are hurting, which helps some part of society? 621 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,480 Is He asking you to get that college degree so that you can 622 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,960 do more for Him? Is He asking you to get that 623 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,520 health checkup so that you can clear your mind on what's been 624 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,440 troubling you? Is He asking you to move on from 625 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,160 your past? What is He asking you that step 626 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,080 which you say nevertheless? Yes, it looks intimidating. 627 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:16,480 Yes, it looks worrying. The question is, are you willing 628 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,880 to take a stand and take the land? 629 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,840 And you have to understand here the threat that the Jebusites 630 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,720 gave David as a very interesting threat. 631 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,000 So there was a archaeologist who actually did a study on this 632 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,960 chapter, on this particular verse to understand who are 633 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,080 these lame and blind people who are going to ward off David? 634 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,160 And turns out it was nothing but spells and magic and witchcraft 635 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,560 that the people of Canaan were practicing. 636 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,400 So he actually uncovered scrolls from the Hittites who said that 637 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,320 if they wanted to intimidate an oncoming army, an advancing 638 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,080 army, they would create a bunch of spells which would, and they 639 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,760 would name a couple of people and show them from the top of 640 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,240 the fortress. So these people saw it. 641 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,320 They first looked at those soldiers who were like, you 642 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,120 know, maimed and hanging off by their limbs, looking at them. 643 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,280 They would be so intimidated that they'd be like, you know 644 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:08,920 what? I don't want that to touch me. 645 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,160 The second the constituent of that is they would do 646 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,200 incantations. They would, do, you know, have 647 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,040 potions and magic and other things in order to actually cast 648 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,080 a curse on the incoming army so that they could attack, but they 649 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,480 would be hit by the curse. So this was the surrounding myth 650 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,080 and legend that was surrounding that place. 651 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,200 It probably was real because the demonic is real. 652 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,160 Witchcraft is real. Hexes and spells are real. 653 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,320 But The thing is, David knew that if he didn't battle this 654 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,040 and win it, his whole army would melt in fear. 655 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,120 So he actually issues it. In Chronicles. 656 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,480 He says he issues a thing and says who would like to go? 657 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,840 And Joab is the one who says I will go in first and take the 658 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,200 land. And because of that, David and 659 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,160 his army, David, David's a mighty warrior. 660 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,240 And the archaeologist says this interesting thing. 661 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,080 He said the people of Jebusoid were actually issuing an empty 662 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,520 threat. They knew their time was up, 663 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,000 they knew that overturning was happening, they knew that they 664 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,159 were losing footing completely. They knew a mighty warrior was 665 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:11,040 coming against them. And so this was a last ditch 666 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,000 effort to intimidate them and move them out. 667 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,440 And that's when David caught them off guard. 668 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,520 Now you need to understand something deeper here. 669 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,159 In the book of Joshua, centuries before Joshua chapter 15, verse 670 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:26,960 63, says Josh, Judah could not dislodge the Jebusites who were 671 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,120 living in Jerusalem. To this day. 672 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,719 The Jebusites lived there with the people of Judah. 673 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,840 That's the history. What was not done hundreds of 674 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,600 years back, David came in nevertheless and took the 675 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,440 fortress. And David didn't just take the 676 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,440 fortress, he fortified it. He built up the terraces. 677 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,800 He established himself. He put down roots. 678 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,480 He grew his family there. Many of us have given in with 679 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,040 that health issue, with that, with that financial issue. 680 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,360 We've just thrown in the tower and we said, you know what, God, 681 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,240 it's OK. If I have to live in this 682 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:01,240 permanent situation with death, it's OK. 683 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,400 Have you thought that that's territory that needs to be won 684 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,440 back? You've given in on your health. 685 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,400 You're lying on your back. You've decided you can't do 686 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,040 anything. You quit that job. 687 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,960 But what if you push through, take the territory and become a 688 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,120 channel of healing to others, a channel of God's strength? 689 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,960 You become a testimony of what God did in your life. 690 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,280 Too many of us are walking in intimidation. 691 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,160 For generations, my grandmother struggled with anxiety. 692 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,280 Therefore, I am like this. My father was a man who was not 693 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,880 faithful. Therefore that's why I'm like 694 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,080 this in my marriage. The excuses are many. 695 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,680 Sometimes it's not just a generational bondage. 696 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,920 It is sometimes the yoking with the wrong person and unequal 697 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,640 yoking that happens. If you remember the story of 698 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,840 Balam, Balam was this a seer? He was a Pagan seer who gets 699 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,080 called by the Moabite king and says, you know what cursed this 700 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,560 land of people of Israel? So these people are in the 701 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,160 wilderness. He's watching from on top and 702 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,760 Four. Times he sent gives out these 703 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,280 oracles which only bless bless the people of Israel and so 704 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,600 they're told and Balaq who's called him is is just so angry. 705 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,040 He's like what are you doing? I'll call you to curse these 706 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,760 guys and you're blessing them. He says I cannot curse whom God 707 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,840 is not cursed. He has blessed them. 708 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,160 He has marked them out for generational blessing. 709 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,760 Who am I? But the sad turn of events is 710 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,800 that within the next chapter, Balaam. 711 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,120 Sends the Moabite women into the Israelite camp and causes them 712 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,200 to seduce the people of Israel. So the people of Israel were 713 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,720 protected by God, by the covenant relationship God had 714 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:40,840 with them. But Balaam also knew this, that 715 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,800 their God was a righteous God, and this God had caused them to 716 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,680 be set apart. So if they didn't, they didn't 717 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,040 behave set apart. God would rain down judgement. 718 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,240 He counted on it. So he sent these Moabite women 719 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:55,240 in who invited these men to a Pagan festival of, you know, 720 00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:01,360 dancing before their deities, having sex, Complete outrageous 721 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:07,400 behaviour and God breaks out against them. 24,000 people died 722 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,800 that day. 24,000 people who lost their inheritance. 723 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,800 Can you just take a minute to picture that? 724 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,240 How many of us are going to lose our inheritance because of the 725 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,120 flesh based appetites of our life? 726 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,080 How many of us are going to lose out on our inheritance? 727 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,400 Because I'm still stuck in a generational pattern without and 728 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,200 refusing to break out of it. I can't break out of alcoholism. 729 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,800 My my, my great granddad did it. I did it. 730 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,120 I can't stop vaping or smoking. It's the way I cope with stress. 731 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,720 How long are you going to have excuses? 732 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,560 How long are you going to give in to your fleshly appetites? 733 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,400 My husband and I from the middle of last year started fasting 734 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,200 more and we realized only then how. 735 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,280 Strong. The appetite for food is in our 736 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,600 lives. The day you decide to fast is 737 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,760 when your hunger pangs are at its highest. 738 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,680 That's when Swiggy is sending out more deals and offers and we 739 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:04,640 have so many times almost slipped. 740 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,320 Once or twice I've also slipped and ordered and broke in the 1st 741 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,920 and that's when I realized the flesh is still fighting us and 742 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,480 many times we lose the backache. Food is 1. 743 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,680 What are the other battles with the flesh that you've been 744 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,400 losing? It is possible that it will 745 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,640 disinherit you from the territory you were called for. 746 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:28,280 You just take the simple example. 747 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,920 In India, we just watch the number of alcohol shops that are 748 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,560 open, the number of families that it has caused harm to, 749 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,640 women left as widows, children that have been beaten up, 750 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,840 abandoned homes that have been completely decimated by alcohol. 751 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,760 One choice, one giving into a fleshly appetite, You lose 752 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,960 territory. I want to ask you, are you going 753 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,840 to be like David who says you can intimidate me all you want, 754 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,040 enemy, I don't care, I'm surrendered to God. 755 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,240 If he asked me to take Jerusalem, I take it. 756 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,760 Nevertheless, you can threaten me all you want. 757 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,640 Some of you are scared. If I step out in faith and say, 758 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:08,560 you know what? I'm a Christian. 759 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,080 I get baptized. I I follow Jesus wholeheartedly. 760 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,040 You're scared your family will turn against you. 761 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,240 We understand. But God is asking, will you take 762 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:20,960 that territory in boldness and watch me protect you, Watch me 763 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,120 encompass you, watch me put a bloodline around you. 764 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,600 The choice is ours. The choice is ours. 765 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,560 You and I are protected by the blood of the Lamb. 766 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,560 And you're probably saying, why are you taking us on the strip 767 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,880 of hidden territory and and magic and witchcraft and 768 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,080 incantations? The truth is, some of us are so 769 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,080 bound by superstition. If I do business on this day, 770 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,320 it'll be good If I leave the house at this time. 771 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,680 Oh gosh, a black cat. We are marked by superstition. 772 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,280 With the new age coming in, there's so much that is coming 773 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,920 in labeled with Christian terms but isn't. 774 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,040 And if you are looking at the wrong blueprint, you will get 775 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,360 misled. If you are not clear about the 776 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,200 territory God is calling you, you will step into a territory 777 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,040 that you don't have the grace for, that you are not called to. 778 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,440 You need to get closer to the one who assigns the territory. 779 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,280 You need to get closer to the one who draws up the blueprint. 780 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,640 Even as I wrap up, this is what I want to leave with you. 781 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,480 I'm a bio student so when you study DNA. 782 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,760 The DNA link is like a chain, right? 783 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:37,440 And many of you are caught up and bound because of adna thing. 784 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,440 You're blaming it on the DNA. You see, this is what my 785 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,320 father's and great grandfathers did. 786 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,520 This is what my mother and my mother-in-law did. 787 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,160 That's why my kids are like that. 788 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,000 You're not taking responsibility for what you are contributing. 789 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:51,960 You're not taking responsibility for the things you need to end 790 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,320 in your lifetime. Similarly to that, when the 791 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:01,600 people sinned in Moab with the women, when the men went and had 792 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,120 sex with these women, these Pagan women, and started 793 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,840 offering offering sacrifices to these idols and then they ate of 794 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,680 that food which was being sacrificed. 795 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,600 There's this interesting verse which comes up. 796 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,480 It says Numbers chapter 25, verse 12. 797 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,880 It says this is a very interesting thing where it talks 798 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,960 about how when the people went and slept to the women of Moab, 799 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,000 it says that they went and yoked themselves to the ball of pure. 800 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,680 So they, they had they had physical relationships with 801 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,920 women in a carnal way. But what did they do in in 802 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,040 bowing before Pagan idols and eating their food sacrifice. 803 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,480 They didn't just yoked themselves to the women in the 804 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,840 physical, They went and yoked themselves spiritually to that 805 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,560 false God there. And in one day 24,000 people 806 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,280 died. And you know who stopped the 807 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,440 plague? It was the hype. 808 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,920 It was the priest, one of the sons of Aaron, Phinehas. 809 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,200 There's zeal which came upon him. 810 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,800 That's the Holy Spirit's anointing. 811 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,280 When he saw a man walk in with the Moabite woman. 812 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,000 He, that man, was taking the woman. 813 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,080 Imagine the audacity of the guy. He brings the woman from that 814 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,960 camp, brings him into their camp, the Israelite camp, which 815 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,160 was supposed to be set apart, where the Tabernacle was. 816 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,600 The glory of the Lord dwelt there. 817 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:18,640 He brought this woman, brought her into his tent and as they 818 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:24,000 were engaging in a lewd act, Phineas goes in with a spear and 819 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,680 just drives it through both of them. 820 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,960 Now the Bible is all is is so sometimes raw and and gory, but 821 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,600 that's your application for today. 822 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,080 Too many of us are blaming our DNA. 823 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,160 Too many of us have yoked ourselves to something ungodly 824 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,560 because of the choices in our flesh and because of which 825 00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,520 disinheritance is a real possibility. 826 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:51,160 But if you and I decide to spear that sinful thing right through 827 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,960 the heart and saying, you know what? 828 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,240 This infidelity stops with me. This drunkenness and carousing 829 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:01,440 stops with me. These are the need to be aroused 830 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,720 by pornography ends with me. It is a choice that you have to 831 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:07,160 make. Like Phineas with the zeal of 832 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,560 the Lord. Pinned it to the ground. 833 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,600 God is calling you to pin that to the ground. 834 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,000 Are you ready for that? That's what God is. 835 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,880 Calling for seemingly harmless pursuits, things that you're. 836 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,520 Doing as out of just habit. Check what is yoking you to 837 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,640 habits, attachments, relationships. 838 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,400 If a season has gone empty, God moved people out. 839 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,880 Still, being attached to that creates A yoke, and it's not a 840 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,600 good one. God is asking these kind of 841 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,280 yokes, these kind of soul ties will keep you stagnated. 842 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:41,680 It will not let you move forward. 843 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,160 It'll keep you beguiled. That's the word that was there 844 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,280 in verse 16 and 17. It says harass the Midianites 845 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,240 and strike them out. Some versions it says 846 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:52,920 Midianites, some it says Moabites, but it says strike, 847 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,360 harass the Midianites, strike them down. 848 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,880 Why? They harassed you with their 849 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,160 Wiles with which they beguiled you. 850 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:05,920 In the matter of pure, the enemy beguiles us through people. 851 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,880 Many times He utilizes some method by which you feel sorry 852 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,840 for someone. You let them back in, They cause 853 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,240 havoc. God is asking, will you spear 854 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,520 that desire right down? Will you close that door which 855 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,280 you have opened willfully? Will you end that thing that you 856 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,000 were supposed to end So that you can discover the blueprint that 857 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,880 I have for you, so that you can take the territory that is 858 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,200 marked for you? Too many of us are living 859 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,120 confined by our parents blueprints. 860 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,560 You know, our parents will subtly say, especially Indian 861 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,520 parents is the way we, you know, we just subtly gaslight our 862 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,280 kids. Oh, I wish you had done this. 863 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:47,040 You know, I mean, hey, your child was created for a purpose 864 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,120 which is very unique. Can you tear up your blueprint 865 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,520 for your child and let God reveal his blueprint for your 866 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,880 child? Can you live in the blueprint 867 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,080 God has for you? It's not what your parents had. 868 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,040 Your territory is going to be more. 869 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,120 How many of you have been shrinking in your capacity 870 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,040 saying, Lord, I love my job too much, I love my comfort too 871 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,520 much. I'm not going to do more, Lord. 872 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,520 I'm good with this I. Preserve what you've given me. 873 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,720 God is asking like that faithful servant for whom much was given, 874 00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:16,800 much more will be granted and expected. 875 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,960 Will you live in that same place where you say Lord? 876 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,960 Here I am use me enlarge my territory stretch by the tent 877 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,360 pegs so that I can do more for the Kingdom, so that I can do 878 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,680 more for. You I want to just pray with you 879 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:38,280 and as we pray, I want to ask you this, are you yoked to 880 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:43,280 anything ungodly? Because the the yoking to that 881 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,960 ball of pure it, it's an intentional fast fastening that 882 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,280 forges an inescapable link. But in Christ Jesus you have all 883 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,360 the victory. You get freedom, but will you 884 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,240 appropriate it? Will you apply the blood of 885 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:01,400 Jesus on that yoke right now and break it in the name of Jesus? 886 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,960 Because the blood of Christ sets us free. 887 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,440 We will cast off every snare and everything that entangles and 888 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,240 stand firm and look at keep our eyes peeled for Jesus. 889 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,880 For your eyes that have been wandering, I ask that your eyes 890 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,680 will go back to Jesus. For those who have been looking 891 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,680 at the wrong blueprints, today is the day. 892 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,240 You might have to uninstall that app. 893 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,480 You have to get off social media, maybe open the Bible, sit 894 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,160 with it, ask God, what did you create me for? 895 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,680 What is the territory you're assigning to me? 896 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:34,960 It could be your children right now. 897 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,320 Your territory could be just bringing up your kids in the 898 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,760 ways of the Lord. It could be, you know, really 899 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,800 nurturing your marriage. It could be blessing the people 900 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:44,480 in your community. It could be looking after the 901 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,960 poor. Whatever it is, Lord, I'm 902 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,240 surrendered to knowing the territory. 903 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,640 You're mocked for me. I am. 904 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,560 Willing to take the land. Nevertheless, no matter what 905 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,760 intimidation, I will take the land. 906 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,120 Can you make that your prayer? We thank you, Lord, for hearing 907 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,600 our prayer. We pray that God, you will help 908 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:10,240 us to ask, seek, and knock consistently so that we receive 909 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:12,280 the things that you have marked for us. 910 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,440 Lord, I pray for anyone who's on the verge of losing an 911 00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,480 inheritance, that today that will shift. 912 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,880 They will come back, they will stake their claim. 913 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,440 They will stand within the audience and fight. 914 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,440 I pray for those who have misread their blueprint, Lord, 915 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,400 who are using someone else's blueprint, who are comparing 916 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,840 their blueprint with someone else's and have gotten confused. 917 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,560 We pray for clarity. In the name of Jesus, direct 918 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,080 their paths, lead them, go before them, strengthen them. 919 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,840 Lord, we pray all of this in Jesus mighty name, Amen. 920 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:44,080 Amen. Amen. 921 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:47,000 We hope you enjoyed today's message and we're blessed. 922 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,840 If you liked what you heard and want to hear more messages from 923 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,400 us, you could rate US and subscribe to our podcast channel 924 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,600 for more content from We Are Zion or if you would like to get 925 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:04,440 in touch with us, you can go to We Are Zion dot in or follow us 926 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,240 on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. 927 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:13,320 Most importantly, remember that whoever finds Jesus finds life.