1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 healing or breakthrough? Want to find out more about 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Omega? Get to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:29,240 page through the links below. Today you have me. 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:35,120 So yeah, I'm excited to to speak and share a little bit about 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,840 what I believe God is trying to speak to us in this coming 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,520 season. I'm preaching to myself 1st and 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,560 then to you second. So this is what the Lord is 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,960 speaking to me about personally. But I believe it is so relevant 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,640 for us as a church and where we're heading. 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:55,680 Cool. So there's something about 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,640 knowing the time, right? That changes how we behave. 17 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,400 If you know what time it is, you know what you're supposed to do. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,040 So, for example, like you can drift through the day, but if 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,920 you have an appointment coming up in the evening and you've 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,480 kind of lost track of time, then you start, you start to quicken 21 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,280 what you're doing, you start to hurry and you get yourself 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,600 prepared to go to your meeting, to go to your date, whatever it 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,840 is you want to do. And so time has this element of 24 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,800 framing things for us. So Matthias, he's three years 25 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,360 old now, but say in in the evening when it's about four O 26 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,240 clock, he'll be playing in the other room doing his own thing. 27 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,240 And then he knows that Dadi and Sema and Ramana, Dadi and Dada 28 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,880 cook dinner. And so around 4:30, Mum will 29 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,240 almost be walking by and he'll say no, I want to play some 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,120 more. He knows what time it is. 31 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:47,640 He knows that dinner times coming. 32 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,120 He knows what that means. It means he has to pack his toys 33 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,720 up, He has to go sit on the table, right? 34 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:59,960 And so similarly, we just had Elijah and so we were in, in, in 35 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:01,920 the hospital going through labour. 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,280 And so the midwife comes into the room and the midwife says, 37 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,440 OK, it's time. She she thought Haley was fully 38 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,440 dilated. So she says now's the time, the 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,560 time to push is now. And so everything was all go. 40 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,280 Haley is getting her to push and push and push. 41 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,560 And an hour and a half went by and nothing happened. 42 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,600 And so then we had to get the doctors in. 43 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,000 And so the doctor comes in and takes a look and says you're not 44 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,040 fully dilated. It wasn't the time to push, 45 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,360 right? And so we need to know what time 46 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,560 we're in if we had to make the most in of, of, of the, of the 47 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,960 situation that we're in. The point is when you know what 48 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,760 time you have, you can behave appropriately. 49 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,760 The time to push wasn't the hour and a half the time to push once 50 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,000 you're dilated and then the baby comes, right. 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,960 In the same way, if we don't recognise what season we're in, 52 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,080 we won't be prepared for what God wants to do in our midst. 53 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,680 It's really important to be In Sync with where he's where we're 54 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,880 at and where he wants to take us for us to be prepared to take 55 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,160 it. And so the current context for 56 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,440 Omega is we've got so, and, and This is why I'm, I'm preaching 57 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,440 on this because I had this dream of, of, of, of this garage of 58 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,160 this barn shit of, of, of gathering. 59 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,080 And it was a double garage. But then it got made into a 60 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,680 quadruple garage. And so there's this expansion 61 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:26,520 and there are countless things dad has seen about a revival 62 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,240 that's going to come to Omega that the expansion of the house. 63 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,280 We're going to see people come to the Lord and and soul save. 64 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,760 And this is stuff that we as a church believe for, right? 65 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,040 This is we don't come here week after week just to do the 66 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,520 motions. We're contending for a revival. 67 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,640 We're contending for a move of God. 68 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,960 And so that's our context is that God has spoken. 69 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,120 We know these things are coming, but here's the tension. 70 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,160 The promise of God doesn't always promise of God doesn't 71 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,480 equal taking position of that promise. 72 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,240 There's this little thing in between. 73 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,400 And this morning I'd like to propose that that thing is 74 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,960 preparation, that we need to prepare ourselves for the move 75 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,560 of God that's coming. We need to prepare our hearts 76 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,800 for what God wants to do in our midst. 77 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,800 We can't just waltz into it and expect that and and God and the 78 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,519 sovereignty does do that. But if you and if you look at 79 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:21,600 revivals in the past, it kind of feels like God stands back with 80 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,280 a, with a, with a pen at a dart board and goes boom. 81 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,400 Oh, it landed on Azusa St. Let's let the revival break out 82 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,200 there. Oh, it landed in Wales. 83 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,040 That a revival break out there. But actually, if you look at 84 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,440 those stories, and we'll go on to it a bit more detail later, 85 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,720 there is years and years of prep work and intimacy that comes 86 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,200 from a few people that have given everything to see God 87 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,120 move. It's not just a a random 88 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,040 occurrence. And so that's our context. 89 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,680 There's a sense that something's coming. 90 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,120 And preparation, I think is what God is calling us to do, to take 91 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:01,120 hold of what he has for us. And so Numbers 13 is what Jaunty 92 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,600 read from. And this is a story and it's 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,120 really a tragedy of Israel not being prepared already for what 94 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,160 God had for them, right? And so the context of Numbers 13 95 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,520 is that Israelites have come out of Egypt, they've crossed the 96 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,720 Red Sea, they're into the they're in the they're at the 97 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,600 mountain, they've got the commandment, whatever. 98 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,120 Some year, a year and a bit goes by and God says, OK, now's the 99 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,120 time for you to go and take the land. 100 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,280 And as we see they send some spies out. 101 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,080 Sorry, I totally spaced this morning and I didn't bring my 102 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,560 Bible, so I'm going to have to use my phone. 103 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,440 But but we should all bring our Bibles to church. 104 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:50,080 Where are we? Sorry, Numbers 13, the Lord said 105 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,400 to Moses, send some men to explore the land of Canaan, 106 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,840 which I'm giving to the Israelites from each ancestral 107 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:59,960 tribe, send one of its leaders. So the Lord's command, so the 108 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:03,800 Lord's so at the Lord's command, Moses sent them from the desert 109 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,400 of Pran. All of the leaders of the 110 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,600 Israelites, these were their names. 111 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,800 There's a when you look at the passage in Deuteronomy, the 112 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,200 story gets replayed in the book of Deuteronomy and there's a 113 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,680 disconnect here. It says the Lord said to Moses 114 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,200 sent some meant to explore the land. 115 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,000 But in Deuteronomy, Moses said the people came to me. 116 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,880 Moses actually says the Lord has said go and take the land and 117 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,040 the people come to him and they say, can we send spies out to go 118 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,560 out ahead of us, Right. And so who? 119 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,800 Whose idea was it? Was it the people's idea or was 120 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,400 it Moses idea or the God's idea? Sorry. 121 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,400 And I think reading into it and looking through commentaries, 122 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,320 chatting with dad about it, I think what happened was it, it 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,120 was the people's idea, but God gave them permission to explore 124 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,160 their unbelief. He said, fine, like you have the 125 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,680 land, go and take it. But the people said, no, no, no, 126 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,920 we want to send spies out to make sure what it's like. 127 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,440 We want to, we want to see and, and the Lord said, OK, if you 128 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,720 want to do it your way, go ahead and do it your way. 129 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,160 Send people out with the 12 tribes. 130 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,600 And so God will give us the liberty to go our own way if he 131 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,120 wants. He is a gentleman. 132 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,480 He's not going to force your hand to do something that you 133 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,840 don't want to do. So if the Israelites wanted to 134 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,920 do things their own way and God allowed it to happen as a test 135 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,320 of their faith. So either way, this isn't the 136 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,840 plan of God. And God used this whole 137 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,080 situation as a test of Israel's faith. 138 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,160 Moses then says he sends out the people. 139 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:30,880 There's a list of all the people. 140 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,640 These are the names when Moses sent them to explore verse 17, 141 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,200 Canon said, go up through the negevant in the Hill Country, 142 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,120 see what the land is like and whether the people who live 143 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,120 there are strong or weak, few or many, what kind of land do they 144 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:44,960 live in? Is it good? 145 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:50,080 Is it bad? So at a first glance you're 146 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,000 like, OK, he's just telling them what to do. 147 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,080 But if you think about, if you dig deeper and you look at the 148 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,120 context, right, this was a subtle manifestation of unbelief 149 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:04,240 on Moses's part because did he really doubt that the land was 150 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:05,920 good or didn't even matter that it was good? 151 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,960 If God told you to do something, does it matter that you need to 152 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,280 do all these things? But interestingly, when God 153 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,760 first encountered Moses at the burning Bush back in the way 154 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,600 before all of us even started, that was one of the first things 155 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,680 he told him is that I'm taking to a land flowing with milk and 156 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,000 honey. It's a good land. 157 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,960 So in Moses commissioning was the promise and this was a 158 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,440 manifestation of unbelief where he he deliberately he knew what 159 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,000 God had spoken to him and in fact he'd relayed that to the 160 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,039 people of Israel as well. He said the Lord our God wants 161 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:40,200 to take us to a land of milk and honey. 162 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,039 And so here on the part of Moses and on the part of the people of 163 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:48,080 Israel is this little seed of unbelief that is crept in right 164 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,840 unbelief and to the promises of God. 165 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,760 And as I started to kind of as I was meditating on this whole 166 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:01,480 thing, it kind of took me back to the Garden of Eden where the 167 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,880 voice of the serpent says, did God really say this? 168 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,960 And I and I and it was that same voice that Moses heard that God 169 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,800 real that Israelites heard as well. 170 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,760 Did God really say he's going to take you to a land of milk and 171 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,320 honey? Is it really that good? 172 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:19,160 And so and again, talking with bouncing ideas back and forth, 173 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,000 Dad said we're we wake up in that garden every single day to 174 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,560 that voice and it's our responsibility to put it to 175 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:29,480 death. That voice of doubt, that voice 176 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,880 of unbelief. Satan hasn't changed since the 177 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,360 beginning of creation up until now every morning, unbelief and 178 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,640 offence are his key weapons and trying to get us to war against 179 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,320 the things of God in our life. Everything, yeah, everything 180 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,720 that happens is, is his poise to make you not believe that he's 181 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,040 finished his work on the cross. And when that doesn't happen, 182 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,960 it's offence. God, why did you not do this? 183 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,800 Why am I in the situation right now? 184 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,360 And so that is what was happening here. 185 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,680 The exact same thing from the garden was occurring in the camp 186 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:08,680 of the Israelites. And what unbelief and offence 187 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:12,680 does is it shifts us from a position of standing with God to 188 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,440 then standing against him and saying, why is this happening? 189 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,640 Right. It it changes our posture toward 190 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,960 him. And one of the steps to the 191 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,960 preparation of revival then becomes to stand strong in what 192 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,120 the Lord has promised you to keep, to keep what he said in 193 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,720 the forefront of your mind, the promises of revival and renewal 194 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,040 for this church, for the promises he's put on your life 195 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,000 is to keep them close to your heart. 196 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,640 And I again, as I was mulling over that, that verse from when 197 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,200 the Angel encounters Mary came to my mind, right? 198 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,160 And the Bible said, what does the Bible say? 199 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,640 The Bible says? But Mary treasured up all these 200 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,280 things and pondered them in her heart and she kept them close. 201 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,800 She locked up everything that God had told her, regardless of 202 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,440 what other people were saying, and kept them in her heart and 203 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,640 continued to ponder them. And so when God says something, 204 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,160 this needs to be our responses to lock it up in our hearts and 205 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,160 continually ponder it. Say, OK. 206 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,680 And in Psalm 119, that's the exact same kind of phrase that's 207 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:18,640 used in it. And that says, I have hidden 208 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,760 your word and my heart, that I might not sin against you. 209 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:28,040 And so entertaining unbelief is sin in our lives. 210 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,240 When we entertain the thoughts of the enemy that cause us to 211 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,640 doubt God, that becomes that takes root and bears from the 212 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,880 fruit of sin. So when God speaks, it's our job 213 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,280 and our responsibility to treasure what he said and to 214 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,760 keep his words safe within us, Right. 215 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,280 And so we go on the, the Israelites go out. 216 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,400 I mean, the spies go out and they come back with the report 217 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,760 that the land truly does flow with milk and honey. 218 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,400 What God had promised about the land was indeed true. 219 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:05,360 And then they say, nevertheless, meaning despite all of the good 220 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,120 things that we've said, they've just undercut all of the 221 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,960 positives. It's it's got giants. 222 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,600 It's got the people are too great, their traps all through 223 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,800 the land and so on and so forth. And so they've completely 224 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,400 undermine everything. The positives God had said 225 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,320 Significantly though, Caleb, that's right, Caleb and Joshua, 226 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,120 two men saw the exact same things that the other 10 spies 227 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,240 did. The same grapes, the same men, 228 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,040 the same land, the same cities, the same giants. 229 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,360 They came away singing in faith and the others were filled with 230 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,920 a sense of fear, right? There's a disconnect. 231 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,920 You two people can see the exact same things and have a 232 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,920 completely different response to what they see. 233 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,920 And ultimately, faith or unbelief does not spring up from 234 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,480 our circumstances. Then two people can be in the 235 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,360 exact same circumstance, have the same things in life happened 236 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,720 to them. But faith and unbelief stems 237 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,040 from the heart, right? Which God must change. 238 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,600 It can't be a circumstance. You can't say, oh, he's just 239 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,800 like this because he's had a good life and he's easy. 240 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,040 Whereas I've had a really tough life. 241 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,000 No, circumstances don't dictate our responses. 242 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,000 A heart does. And a heart can only be changed 243 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,120 by the Lord. So you can stand in front of the 244 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,280 move of God and still miss it, right? 245 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,360 Us as a church, like we, we could be right on the cusp of 246 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,000 something and still miss what's happening. 247 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,040 Not because God didn't move, but because our hearts weren't 248 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,160 ready. Like the 10 spies, they weren't 249 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,920 ready for what God is about to do. 250 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:49,720 But why were they not ready? They had seen God, but they 251 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,120 didn't know Him. And this was a representation of 252 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,440 Israel as a whole. They had seen the miracles, they 253 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:00,280 had seen the plagues, they had seen the Red Sea part, but they 254 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,720 didn't know him personally. Only Moses knew him. 255 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,120 And back when they first arrived in Mount Sinai, the invitation 256 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,240 was there from the Lord to to to know them and to meet with them. 257 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,200 And they said, no, we don't want it. 258 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,400 We don't want anything to do with him. 259 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Moses, you go, you go and intermediate for us because we 260 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,560 might die. We don't want anything. 261 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,880 We don't want to have an encounter with this God. 262 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,160 And so they distanced themselves from him. 263 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:32,000 But Moses didn't. And more importantly, Joshua 264 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,240 didn't because Joshua's assistant was with him the whole 265 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:36,680 time. But I'll come to that in a 266 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,080 minute. But the key point being, just 267 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,440 because we're around miracles or an environment where where faith 268 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,920 is high and that we believe and contend every morning here for 269 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,120 healing, for deliverance, Just because you're in this 270 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,400 environment doesn't necessarily mean that we have that you can 271 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,520 you, you have that same faith we need. 272 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,760 It's important to expose. It is important to expose 273 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:00,720 ourselves. Don't get me wrong, it's 274 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,080 important to be in this environment, but we need to 275 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,000 actively participate to share in the benefits of faith. 276 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:12,040 We can't just passively come and kind of like expect it to. 277 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,400 Sometimes it does and a little bit does, but I think it needs 278 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,080 an active participation on our to partner with the things that 279 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:23,600 are happening with God and we need to personally cultivate 280 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,440 that relationship with Him. And this is where Joshua comes 281 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,280 in right now. Joshua was exposed to something 282 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,760 different. He would linger in the tent of 283 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,080 meeting after Moses would leave. He was up the mountain with 284 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,120 Moses while the Israelites were down there building the golden 285 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,960 calf. And So what happened is I think 286 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,000 it it it cultivated something and it built a hunger in him to 287 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,920 know God, to seek him to be in his presence that the rest of 288 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,200 the nation didn't have. Like Moses had it. 289 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,320 And I think Joshua had it. He wasn't just seeing God move. 290 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,800 He was learning who God was and was developing a hunger for his 291 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,960 presence as he saw his mentor Moses do right as a man speaks 292 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,360 face to face. He had was exposed to something 293 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,040 and said, I want that and I want that relationship with God that 294 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:15,760 Moses has. So when the giants appeared, the 295 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,840 nation, which was not rooted in the presence of God, saw 296 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,760 obstacles, but Joshua saw opportunity. 297 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,960 He knew that God could take down this giant. 298 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,560 And so this is where that personal cultivation to the 299 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,800 presence of God becomes really important to how we see 300 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,360 problems, to how we encounter and take hold of the promises 301 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,560 that God has for us. And as I was meditating on that, 302 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,520 the Lord brought to my mind David, right? 303 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,080 David and Goliath, really similar situation. 304 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,720 So we all know the story. David is a little shepherd, not 305 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,680 a little. He's a young man, a little, not 306 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,840 a little shepherd. He's a shepherd. 307 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:56,960 We're looking after his father's sheep. 308 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,840 And so his brothers are out fighting the war. 309 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:05,240 And interestingly, again, the Goliath was taunting the armies 310 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,880 of Israel for 40 days. That's the same length of time 311 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,000 the spies had gone to see the land. 40 days. 312 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,200 He comes to the army camp to give his brothers food and bring 313 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,400 things from home. And then he obviously asked saw 314 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,880 what the reward is. And he's dissatisfied that this 315 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,280 Philistine is, is is mocking the Lord. 316 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,840 So he goes up to Saul and says I've killed lions and bears. 317 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,560 And I will do the same to this heathen Philistine who has 318 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,800 defied the armies of the living God, the Lord who saved me from 319 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,040 the poor of the lion and the poor of the bear. 320 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,800 He will save me from this Philistine. 321 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,640 So David's confidence was built not in front of the crowds or 322 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,440 the stage. His confidence was built in the 323 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,960 field, in the secret place. His confidence and trust was in 324 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,040 the Lord who saved him from the lion and the bear could save him 325 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,040 in from this giant Joshua's confidence. 326 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,080 The Lord who brought them out of Egypt, who did this, this, and 327 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,840 this, could save them from that, would deliver them into this 328 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,640 promised land. And so David grew in the secret 329 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,000 place. He trusted God because he'd 330 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,880 experienced the God of deliverance. 331 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,360 Like, right? That was his experience of God. 332 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,440 And so when he saw a giant, he could respond in faith. 333 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,200 I'm sure his brothers were aware of all the things he was doing, 334 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,760 that he was fighting beers and he was fighting lions, keeping 335 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,480 his dad's sheep. They probably knew what was 336 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,320 going on in the field, but just because they know something's 337 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,240 possible doesn't allow them to respond in faith, right? 338 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,080 Just like the Israelites knew God can do these miracles, they 339 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,560 couldn't respond in faith because their hearts weren't 340 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,960 aligned at that level. And so Israel saw public 341 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,920 miracles but private distance from God. 342 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,440 David private intimacy, but showed public authority in front 343 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,880 of two entire nations to take down the giant. 344 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,000 Faith is not built in the moment of crisis or when it's needed, 345 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,360 but it's revealed in the moment of crisis. 346 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:03,280 It's not when you not when you need it is not when faith comes. 347 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,120 Faith is already built. It's already there, but it's 348 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,840 shown when that moment comes. And so if we had to possess the 349 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,920 move of God, it needs to be bought with the price of faith, 350 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,760 right, of intimacy, because intimacy develops faith, and 351 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,480 faith is the currency which heaven responds to. 352 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,480 Look at all the reviles in the past. 353 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,680 Look at all through the Bible. God responds to faith, and faith 354 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,520 is cultivated with intimacy and trust. 355 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,560 It's what pulls on God. If you're gonna step into God, 356 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,960 what God's doing, we need to increase our intimacy with him. 357 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,080 Intimacy produces trust, Trust produces faith, and faith 358 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:45,040 positions us to respond. And of course, the Bible says 359 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,400 without faith it's impossible to please God, right? 360 00:19:50,280 --> 00:20:00,840 So, So yeah, let's look. So it's really, so I guess the 361 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,160 key thing for me is our intimacy with the Lord, like we need to 362 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,680 know him so that when the time comes, we can step 363 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:13,080 forward-looking at revivals in the past, Azusa St. revival, 364 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,000 right, didn't start with crowds. It didn't start with a big 365 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,960 church. It started with a handful of 366 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,880 people praying in a room and consistently praying to seek the 367 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,160 House of God, to seek the face of the Lord. 368 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:27,760 It was. Consistent, it was persistent 369 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,160 and it was unseen prayer. It wasn't a big thing. 370 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,200 And then slowly people started, it started to gain momentum. 371 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,320 People would come, that experience, the outpouring of 372 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,760 the Holy Spirit, and then people said, hey, I want that and more 373 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,320 people would come. And that's how it gained 374 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,680 momentum. The Welsh revival. 375 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,760 This is one of my favorite revivals just because, you know, 376 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,920 in the book of Acts it talks about there's a small revival in 377 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,400 the city and it says the currency of what is it? 378 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,040 Hell no. The current or like the currency 379 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,920 of hell like fell in that city in the sense that like people 380 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:02,160 making idols were out of business, stuff like that. 381 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,400 So in the Welsh revival, Evan Roberts was the man who ushered 382 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,840 it in. And when that revival broke out 383 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,640 in the city of Wales, the police had nothing to do like the 384 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,880 police stations would have they there would be no crime in the 385 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,560 streets. Bars went out of business 386 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,880 because people wouldn't drink the coal miners the way that 387 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,240 they would treat the donkeys and the coal mines. 388 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,320 When they encountered the Lord, they would they'd be swearing 389 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,600 and hitting. And then once they encountered, 390 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,360 once they encountered God, the whole language would change and 391 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,680 the donkeys wouldn't respond to how they would talk And the coal 392 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,480 mines, right? Complete and utter cultural 393 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,000 shift took place in Wales. The police had nothing to do. 394 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,280 So they would actually go to these revival meetings and have 395 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,720 choirs and sing in the worship teams because their job was to 396 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,960 be where crowds were. And they said, well, the crowds 397 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,640 are at these meetings, so that's where we're going to go. 398 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,520 And if we were going to go, they got saved. 399 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,960 They got saved. They joined the choir, right? 400 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,400 Like, it was such an complete transformation of a city. 401 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720 But it started with this man, Evan Roberts. 402 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,920 He was only 25 years old when the revival broke out. 403 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,440 And people say that's young, but if you actually look into his 404 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,920 life, it was when he was 16-10 years before that he encountered 405 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,280 God. And God put something in his 406 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,960 heart. And so he would pray for 407 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,760 revival. He would pray for the city 408 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,720 country of Wales. And this he would talk with his 409 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,240 friends and say, hey, do you think God could save 100,000 410 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,920 souls in Wales? Is it possible? 411 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,560 Let's pray for it? And so all of this he would they 412 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:41,160 sowed prayer for 10 years and then right before the revival 413 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:48,960 broke out, he would have encounters with God every night 414 00:22:48,960 --> 00:23:01,200 for a month, every single night. And he described it as seeing 415 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,760 God face to face. Every night. 416 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,760 His face would glow like Moses did. 417 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:30,830 I want that each and every one of us needs 418 00:23:30,830 --> 00:23:39,790 that. It's not about the church. 419 00:23:39,790 --> 00:23:43,430 It's not about the structure. It's not about who preaches. 420 00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:46,920 It's not about the programs we have during the week. 421 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,440 It's about the secret place to see God face to face. 422 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,840 And what he preached at those meetings was a very simple 423 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,600 sermon. He wasn't a great preacher. 424 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,240 He wasn't a pastor. He didn't have the skills 425 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,680 required to lead a church. But his his sermons were based 426 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,200 on these four things. One, confess all known sin to 427 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,480 God. Everything in your life that you 428 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,000 know is a sin. Confess it, repent and put it 429 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:32,240 behind you. 2 put away all doubtful habits, but something's 430 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,200 interesting. Anything that you're not sure 431 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:40,120 about like, oh, could go either way, but my conviction is this 432 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,880 put it aside. It's not worth it. 433 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,240 It's not. That's the price of revival is I 434 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,520 want to do this, but I'm not. I have 1% of doubt that this is 435 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,640 right or it's causing me to do this. 436 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,800 Put it aside. You're not going to get revival 437 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,920 unless you clear your heart of doubt, Obey the Holy Spirit 438 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,160 promptly. Was #3 and #4 confess Christ 439 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,880 publicly. People won't know about Jesus 440 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,280 unless we talk about Him outside these four walls. 441 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,360 It's as simple as that. However you choose to do those 442 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,440 things, I think we need to do that. 443 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,840 And then in the Bible also we this whole confession of 444 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,920 repentance is so important because when Solomon is building 445 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,760 the temple, the Lord says, if my people who are called by my 446 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:33,040 name, what is it? Humble themselves next and pray. 447 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:39,040 Yeah, yeah. And so I don't know that's what 448 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,920 it's about. We need a move of God. 449 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,440 It needs to be birthed not on the stage, not in front of 450 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,680 crowds. It needs to be birthed in the 451 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,240 secret place to be sustained in front of people. 452 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,720 Like I said, that's what God has been talking to me about. 453 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:59,400 That's what I want. And I believe that's what the 454 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,760 call for this church is to do. As I was continuing to meditate 455 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:11,040 on this throughout the week, actually, yeah, that gave me a 456 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,480 thing, he said in Judges chapter 2, verse 7, it says the people 457 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,160 served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the 458 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,600 elders who outlived him and who had all seen the great things 459 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,520 the Lord had done for Israel. In Judges chapter 2, verse 10, 460 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,640 after that whole generation, another generation grew up who 461 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,800 knew neither the Lord nor what He had done for Israel. 462 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,000 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 463 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,320 One generation saw a move and the next didn't even know, 464 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,280 didn't even know him, and ushered in this whole era of 465 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,760 idolatry that can that plagued Israel for forever. 466 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,800 And so revival cannot be sustained on borrowed faith. 467 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,520 We cannot inherit intimacy from our parents, from our 468 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,760 grandparents, from the people we see, our pastors, or we can. 469 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,920 We cannot live on yesterday's encounter. 470 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:09,200 So it's really important that we ourselves are changed so that we 471 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,240 can change our children. Our children watch us really, 472 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,200 really closely when we don't even think about it. 473 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,600 They're always looking at how we behave, how we respond. 474 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,600 And So what we don't build into our lives now, we can't pass on 475 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,520 to the next generation, right? Like, and it's simple things 476 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,160 like, do you value money over over God? 477 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,760 Like is, is how much of is your attention solely faced on like 478 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,880 on finances or it's visible, it's visible in the home. 479 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,320 Like it's, we had to make a conscious decision like, OK, 480 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,000 we're not gonna like, it's good to pay down the mortgage and all 481 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,440 that stuff, but a whole life doesn't have to be centered 482 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,720 around finances. Like God will take care of that. 483 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,920 That's OK. Like we're so loose with that 484 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,120 now because gods in charge of that area of our lives. 485 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,120 So again, like we can't build into our lives and what will 486 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:10,360 pass on to the next generation. So how Yeah, they, they all I 487 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,240 can say is they watch, they notice and down the track when 488 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,200 when push comes to shove, all those things kind of add up. 489 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,720 Oh, it's OK to kind of skip church every now and then you 490 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,160 need a break. Like it's OK. 491 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,760 Like I don't need to do my quiet. 492 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,200 All that other stuff they see and it'll be picked up on. 493 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,840 And so generational warning, like we need to pass on revival 494 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,360 to our kids, to the other people. 495 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:34,920 And it's not just kids, it's the other generation in the church 496 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,960 as well, right? Like we have the privilege of 497 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:44,040 having really mature Christians, youths, really young children. 498 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,520 And so I encourage you, like encourage people from across 499 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,040 generations like revivals, not just for the the young ones 500 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,760 coming up. It's not just for the old ones 501 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,400 that have prayed and contended for it their whole lives. 502 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,000 It's for everyone. And so it's not gonna happen 503 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,960 until we all kind of build it together. 504 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:08,960 And so coming back, bringing it back to Omega, if Omega is on 505 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:15,280 the edge of revival, the question isn't will God move, 506 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,680 It's will we be ready for when he does? 507 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,800 Have we put aside the things that are hindering us in our 508 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,080 pursuit of him, in our relationship with him, so that 509 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,800 when he says it's time to take hold of the promised land, we 510 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,680 don't shy back. We go full forth. 511 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,280 And so preparation looks like prioritizing time with God. 512 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,760 It looks like learning to hear his voice. 513 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,080 We need to be a people that move based on his voice. 514 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,600 It can't just be out of a good plan. 515 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,760 Like the the thing of sending one man from each tribe was a 516 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,720 good plan. It was it was a plan given by 517 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:55,160 man, but we need to hear the voice of the Lord dealing with 518 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,680 fear and sin in our lives and building a history with them 519 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,800 before God does something through us. 520 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,520 He wants to do something in us. We need to be prepared to carry 521 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,600 his presence into what he's called us to do. 522 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,880 Yeah. And if you look at us, the 523 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:29,800 brothers hate the evil have done a belief and they intent True. 524 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,440 Yeah. So these are spiritual sort of 525 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,320 principle in there as well. So yeah, yeah. 526 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,320 An evil heart of unbelief stops you entering the promised land. 527 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,520 Yeah, absolutely. An evil heart of unbelief stops 528 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,080 you from entering the promised land. 529 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:54,480 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, in that story, don't 530 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,520 the Israelites also turn against Caleb and Joshua when they say 531 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,400 we can do it? Yeah, exactly the same thing. 532 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,040 Yeah, yeah. That evil heart of unbelief 533 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,880 turns against the people of God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 534 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,120 No cool. So be encouraged. 535 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,040 The Lord is doing something in our midst. 536 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,040 It's not numbers that are going to usher in the revival, but 537 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,040 it's going to be intimacy, and it's going to be how much of A 538 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,120 cost are we willing to pay to bring it in? 539 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,000 Right? I'm just gonna pray and finish 540 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,400 it up. Lord, thank you for your 541 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,440 promises. Thank you for your faithfulness 542 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,320 and your goodness. All the wonderful things you've 543 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,120 said over each and every one of our lives, all the promises 544 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,520 you've made to us as a church family. 545 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:42,600 God, I pray help us to prepare ourselves to take hold of the 546 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,080 promised land that you've given us. 547 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,640 Help us to prepare ourselves to take hold of the promises in 548 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,080 each and every one of our lives that you've given to us before 549 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,120 the foundations of the earth. God, when that time comes, let 550 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,280 us not be found lacking. Let us not be found in a place 551 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,120 of unbelief, in a place of fear. But God, let us be found ready, 552 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,200 waiting to take hold of everything that you have for us. 553 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,200 God, I pray, help us to develop that trust, that history with 554 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,920 you in the secret place, Praise Lord, so that when it's time we 555 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,960 can exercise that faith in public. 556 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:23,040 God, Lord, I pray, yeah, help us crucify the flesh with Christ 557 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,240 and know what it is to be made new with you in Jesus name I 558 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:32,280 pray. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 559 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,480 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 560 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,480 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 561 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,240 the links below.