1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,200 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,500 Good morning. What a great day it is to be in 6 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:22,700 the presence of the Lord. And I appreciate so much about 7 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:28,000 this house in the short time I've been here just remarkable 8 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:33,200 and you know, when I feel the audience is right, and hungry, I 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,500 just open up. So I told you a lot of stuff 10 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:41,100 yesterday and, you know, I had a guy come up to me one day in a 11 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,500 conference down in Texas and he said, dr. 12 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:48,300 Crumb, you won't remember me, but I was in one of your 13 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:55,300 meetings, 25 years ago, and you told a lot of stories Out of 14 00:00:55,300 --> 00:01:00,100 Africa and your time and tenure in in West Africa and he said, 15 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:04,300 you told a few of those stories again tonight, 25 years later 16 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,000 and he says, I know you tell the truth and I looked at him, I 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,800 said well, how could, you know he said? 18 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:15,100 Because the details were exactly, like they were 25 years 19 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:19,000 ago and he said, I know, Because nobody can remember how they 20 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:23,900 tell an embellishment or a lie and say it again the same way, 21 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,500 25 years later. So to me, I took that as a 22 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:31,500 compliment but I'll I do like this share testimonies of what 23 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:36,000 God has done because they teach, you know? 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,900 And the other interesting thing the guy said was, I don't 25 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:42,200 remember a thing you preached on that night, but he said I 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,700 remember your stories and I guess we'll Jesus figured that 27 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:49,000 out. To write because he used 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,900 Parables a lot of stories. But anyway, it's been a joy to 29 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,500 be here. I'm so excited about just being 30 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:58,900 able to come along with Bill buyer and Faye. 31 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:05,400 These are wonderful Servants of the most high God getting to 32 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,400 know them more and more for the past four years. 33 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,200 They've served on a special governmental team that I'm the 34 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:18,600 head of and they are some of the most mature People that I know 35 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:24,000 and what I would say would be, they are truly, truly genuinely 36 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,200 a true mother and father in the Lord. 37 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:34,900 So I just encourage you to recognize how special it is for 38 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:39,900 you to be able to have that kind of connection with them as sort 39 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:43,700 of an Apostolic voice into this house. 40 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:49,200 So I really confirm them. Before you today one quick thing 41 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:54,100 and I'll hand the Mike back to Bill or are you Bill? 42 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:58,900 Okay just stay near stay close not long ago. 43 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:02,200 I just started thinking about the word amen. 44 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:06,900 And you know it's the last word in the Bible, not the end but 45 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:10,200 amen. It's the last word in the Bible 46 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:16,200 and it's the last word in the Lord's Prayer and I thought, you 47 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:21,200 know, there's got to be More to the amen than just encouraging 48 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,800 preachers when they're preaching. 49 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,400 Right now, we preachers love to hear amens because it lets us 50 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,700 know that people somewhere in the crowd or still awake. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,300 So you know I like it the amen, it's encouraging but God gave 52 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:40,700 the amen to the church, not just to encourage preachers. 53 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,700 In fact, he gave it to the Equus Sia to his Remnant Church, his 54 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:50,800 body of believers. Is as a word of having a final 55 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,800 word in every matter because it is the final word. 56 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,300 In the word of God, it is a word that literally means so be it 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,600 it's actually a governmental term. 58 00:04:03,900 --> 00:04:08,400 It's like being in a court of law and the judge sounds the 59 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,300 gavel. At the beginning of a hearing to 60 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,100 announce the beginning, the jury is seated. 61 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,899 The trial has begun or the proceedings have begun. 62 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,200 But it is the sound heard in a court room. 63 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,000 That is the final sound of conclusion and completeness, 64 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,100 because when the gavel sounded at the end, there's no more time 65 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:34,300 for lawyers to present evidence or their side of the story, The 66 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,800 Judge sounds, the gavel as a amen. 67 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:44,200 And last word that Seals Everything God gave the amen. 68 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,300 Not to the angels, He didn't give the The amen to the 69 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:53,300 unbelievers, he gave the amen to the church to have the last word 70 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:58,200 in every matter, God never intended for sickness and 71 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,800 disease, to have the last word in your life and even those that 72 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,300 have gone before on to be with the Lord. 73 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:11,400 And that a disease, may have been that part that led to that 74 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,600 promotion to Heaven. It still never has the last 75 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,900 word. Listen. 76 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,600 Don't let the enemy have the last word in your situation, 77 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,100 whether it be sickness or Finance or whatever 78 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:30,000 relationships, God gave the church, the word, amen. 79 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,200 And in American English, my British friends, say, don't say 80 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,400 you guys speak English over there, you speak American and, 81 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:42,600 but in American English, it's a men in Spanish. 82 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,200 A man in Russian. I mean, it's almost It's the 83 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,400 same word in every language but it is a word of finality. 84 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:54,200 It's interesting that in the Old Testament. 85 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:00,000 Amen was always used at the end of what God said to come into 86 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,100 agreement and to seal what God has said. 87 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:09,100 But in the New Testament, it's interesting because amen is used 88 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,100 before God does something, or before he says something. 89 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:16,600 Because when Jesus said verily, verily are truly truly. 90 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:22,600 Essentially, the word, amen. So he would say, Amen, before he 91 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:28,000 said it, God not only gave the amen to the church in this hour, 92 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,400 to have the last word in every matter that matters, but he also 93 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,800 gave it to us as a prophetic decree to say. 94 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,300 Amen. And agree with what God has not 95 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:43,300 yet done. So we speak in agreement to what 96 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,700 he's going to do, but we've not yet. 97 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:49,600 Seen the evidence of Of it. So use the amen for both. 98 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,100 Amen. Everybody said, amen. 99 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:53,900 God bless you. Thank you. 100 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,800 We need to take another offering and bring an altar call after 101 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,700 that. That's good. 102 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:12,000 Every matter that matters. Got your Bibles. 103 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:20,200 Can you turn with me quickly to the Book of Proverbs chapter 25? 104 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:32,500 Verse 2. It's the glory of God to conceal 105 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:41,200 a matter. but the Glory of Kings is to search out A matter, every 106 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:49,400 matter that matters, The word matter. 107 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:56,500 Is word. It's the glory of God to conceal 108 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,100 a word. It's the Glory of Kings to 109 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,300 search out a word. God. 110 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:10,300 God is the is the Divine originator of the game of 111 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:15,400 hide-and-seek? I've heard preachers almost all 112 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,700 my Christian Life say God doesn't play games. 113 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:25,000 Yes he does. And he is a master player. 114 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,200 And you're not going to outsmart him, he's going to win every 115 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,600 time. I guarantee you that but he 116 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,500 likes the game. Yeah, I figured every man in 117 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:38,500 this room would say Amen to that. 118 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,700 He likes it and he likes concealing things, but we have 119 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,400 to understand that he does not. He does not hide things from us. 120 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:55,200 He hides things for us. He conceals it to preserve. he 121 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,900 puts the, he puts the, he puts the most precious Hidden 122 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:03,800 Treasures in a place, For his children to fight. 123 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,200 They're not accessible by anyone else. 124 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,000 There only accessible to his children to you to me. 125 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:19,100 And so when God God sets, this in motion when he conceals a 126 00:09:19,108 --> 00:09:24,900 matter when he conceals a word, He sets it there for the purpose 127 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:31,300 that we engage in the Heavenly game of hide-and-seek and 128 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:35,900 seeking out that which he hides because it is precious, it is 129 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:37,100 precious. It is precious. 130 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:40,400 The reason that gold is so valuable is, it's not easily 131 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,100 found, right? And the reason that the word of 132 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:47,600 the Lord is so valuable is, it's not easily found. 133 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,900 You're going to have to search or going to have to wait. 134 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:54,100 You're going to have to speak the Which of Tears you're going 135 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:56,300 to have to, you're going to have to give your heart. 136 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:57,600 You're going to have to give your mind. 137 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,000 You're going to have to give your body. 138 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,000 You're going to have to give everything, that's the cost in 139 00:10:02,008 --> 00:10:05,900 the kingdom is everything. It's always everything. 140 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:08,900 It's never short of everything. It's always everything. 141 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:12,600 And and when we begin to understand these things, and we 142 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,500 begin to understand what matters to God, and when what matters to 143 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,400 God, matters to us. Then you've got a wonderful, 144 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,000 wonderful. Wonderful impetus. 145 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,200 That's released in. That's moving forward. 146 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:31,000 God himself loves hiding. He loves it, he loves mystery, 147 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,100 he loves standing right in front of your face and you not even 148 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,300 know he's there. Hmm. 149 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:44,300 I guarantee you, he's this way. I guarantee you and some people 150 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:46,200 think he's not around, but he's there. 151 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,300 He's there. He sees he hears. 152 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,300 He knows to some people that would be intimidating and even 153 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:58,300 fearful two other people. It's very comforting. 154 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:03,600 He sees he hears, he knows. Listen to this. 155 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:10,400 In the beginning was the word? Remember he conceals a word in 156 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,600 the beginning was the word. The word was with God. 157 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,400 The Word was God. He was in the beginning with 158 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,000 God. All things were made through him 159 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,300 and without him nothing was made. 160 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:23,000 That was made in him was life. And the life was the light of 161 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,500 men and the word became flesh. Dwelt among us. 162 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,000 And we beheld, his glory, the glory, as of the only begotten 163 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,700 of the father full of grace and truth. 164 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:41,200 And so God brought this this this this hidden hidden Heavenly 165 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,800 reality into a material world and yet he Still hidden. 166 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:51,100 They were very few that were privileged to have the 167 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:55,000 sensitivity to actually come to Bethlehem. 168 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,300 Yes, yes, yes. This is class participation. 169 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,700 Very few. In fact, if you look at it it's 170 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,700 a little bit embarrassing, quite frankly. 171 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:11,500 The only ones that really, really had a clue where these 172 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:16,800 guys that at best were, were astronomers and at worst were 173 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:22,100 astrologers and they got invited, they picked up on it, 174 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:26,400 they saw something and they had the courage to engage in what 175 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,700 they saw and they moved on what they saw. 176 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,900 And it took them a long, long, long time. 177 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:33,000 They left, they left their homes. 178 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,700 Long before Jesus was born. Just to get there. 179 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:41,700 They saw they saw a star, they saw a light, they saw something 180 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:44,500 that nobody else saw somehow someway. 181 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:48,000 God, God, God got into their hearts and got into their lives 182 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,700 in such a way that they, they wanted to engage in. 183 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:55,700 They wanted to seek and then you have Shepherds that nobody 184 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:57,600 wanted to sit next to in the synagogue. 185 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:05,800 Because they smelled like sheep. Are there any sheep herders in 186 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:13,200 the house? I prefer cattle myself. 187 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,100 It was a lady in North Platte Nebraska that preferred sheep 188 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:21,400 and she rebuked me at the end of the service but quite frankly 189 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,400 sheep stink. They don't smell nice. 190 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,200 And these are the guys that were invited in to look at the Lamb 191 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:38,700 of God. Because they valued. 192 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,600 They valued what everybody else passed over and what everybody 193 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,000 else took for granted. And God called them and God drew 194 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,400 them. He's given us. 195 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:56,200 Clear instructions and Jeremiah, you know, this this scripture 196 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,400 very well, I'm sure verse chapter 29, it says, for I know 197 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,300 the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of 198 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:07,700 peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope. 199 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:16,500 And in in, in this time of personal pronouns, Listen to 200 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:21,300 these. Then you will call upon me. 201 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:33,100 And you will go and pray to me. And I will listen to you and you 202 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:40,300 will seek me. And you will find me when you 203 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:44,300 search for me with all your heart. 204 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:47,900 Those are the pronouns that matter. 205 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,500 And he says, when you do this, he says this, he gives this 206 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,500 promise. I will be found of you. 207 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:02,400 I'm going to jump out and say here I am. 208 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,700 Right here, I am. So many times, you know, the 209 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:14,400 Lord has this in his hand, in life, puts us in his hand and 210 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,100 here we going and we're having this sweet communion with him 211 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:20,700 and and we're just looking upon the Lord and loving him. 212 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,900 And and then all of a sudden, some difficult time, some 213 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,900 difficult season comes and he still got us in his hand but 214 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:30,600 because of his great grace and his great love, he'll take his 215 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,900 other hand and he'll put right over the top of us and we go 216 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:35,300 crazy. Where are you? 217 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,800 Lord. What are you doing? 218 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,400 I can't find you. Oh, Jesus, please speak to me, 219 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:47,300 don't leave me. Oh, please people even please. 220 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:51,300 It's okay. Oh, there you are. 221 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,700 There you are. Oh Jesus. 222 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:57,300 You I don't know what happened to her. 223 00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:01,400 I do something wrong. Where have you been all this 224 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,600 time? I'm right here. 225 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:05,100 I'm right here. I love you so much. 226 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,700 I love you so much. Older little bit of trouble. 227 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:15,100 Jesus, Jesus. What? 228 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,100 A wonderful sense of humor, God has. 229 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,400 It's going to be Comedy Hour when they review my life in 230 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,300 heaven, all the times that I've freaked. 231 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,900 I mean, just freaked out. Lord, where are you? 232 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,200 I couldn't feel him. Couldn't see him couldn't sense 233 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,300 him. And he hid me in his hands. 234 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:45,000 He was there all the time. And he was closer than I even 235 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,300 dreamed. He covered me below above 236 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:53,900 around, north-south-east-west top, bottom, everything he's got 237 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:59,200 us, He's got us. He says I'll be found by you. 238 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:02,800 It's when he opens up that other hand here I am. 239 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:09,000 It's going to be okay. He says, I'll be found of you. 240 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,400 Turn with me to the book of Song of Solomon. 241 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:20,000 This Living Word. Draws near to our heart and we 242 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,700 search for him and we, and we discover this on this amazing, 243 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:31,000 amazing mystery. That we only really begin to 244 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,600 seek him. When we begin to sense that he's 245 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:39,100 been seeking us. He's the one that initiates it. 246 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,400 He was there all the time he was never not there. 247 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,500 Papa Jack would say, I don't know how many times I heard him 248 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:49,700 say this. I, when I started studying the 249 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:52,700 kingdom, I discovered that the kingdom was already studying me. 250 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:58,900 God is the one that searches God is the one who seeks God is the 251 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,600 one who puts the desire inside of our hearts, the longing 252 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,500 inside of our hearts. He initiates that you can't take 253 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:08,700 credit for that. He's the one that initiates it 254 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:10,400 all. He's the one that puts the 255 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,600 desire to pray, he's the one that puts the desire to fast. 256 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,600 He's the one that puts the desire to get off of your bed, 257 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:21,200 and take your head off of your pillow on Sunday morning and get 258 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,600 out in the cold and come here. When your pillow was shouting to 259 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,800 you the whole no, no don't leave me. 260 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,600 Stay here with me. We will have such good communion 261 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,600 together. I'll whisper in your ear. 262 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:43,600 I love, oh you back to sleep. And is, it would be so easy. 263 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,200 Yes, to turn over and just close your eyes and go back to sleep 264 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,400 on a Sunday morning, especially a cold one. 265 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,800 And yet, here you are. How'd that happen? 266 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,400 Yes, of course, you cooperated. I understand that because God's 267 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,000 done a good measure of work inside of your heart and inside 268 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,700 of your life, that you have an understanding on the inside. 269 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,000 No, I need to be there. I want to be there. 270 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,300 There's something going on there. 271 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:14,300 That's better than what's going on here, right? 272 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,300 And the kids get drug along in the process. 273 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:20,900 And little bit by little bit painfully. 274 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:22,500 They learn. Wait a minute. 275 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:24,500 There is, that's Mom and Dad are right. 276 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,900 When you get up, we need to get going. 277 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,300 Well, we never gave our children an option, you know? 278 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,100 We just we just got them up many of the many was the time that 279 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:36,900 they were asleep and we dressed them in their sleep. 280 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:44,800 They wake up in church. I'd make sure of that because I 281 00:19:44,808 --> 00:19:53,400 was the pastor. truth is, if we have any desire to seek the Lord 282 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,200 It's only because he's already been seeking us. 283 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:06,400 Song of songs 1:2. Let him kiss me with the kisses 284 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,400 of his mouth. For your love, is better than 285 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,000 Wine because of the fragrance of your good ointments. 286 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,800 Notice the pronouns again, your name is as ointment poured 287 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,500 forth. Therefore, because of this the 288 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:24,500 virgin's. Love you. 289 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,200 Draw me away. Listen to the prayer of her 290 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,300 heart. Draw me away. 291 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:34,900 We will run after you. The King has brought me into his 292 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,600 Chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in 293 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,900 you. We will remember your love more 294 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:43,000 than one rightly. Do they love you? 295 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,300 And so she's consumed with only him. 296 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:54,300 She's not consumed with answers. She's consumed with the answer 297 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,800 singular. He is the answer to everything 298 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,600 that we have. He is the answer to every 299 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,500 question that we have. He is the answer to the, to the 300 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:08,900 conundrums of our life. These problems that just seem 301 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:12,000 like they've got 14 and 11 different sides to them and we 302 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,100 can't figure anything out. He's the one. he is the one that 303 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:20,400 when we search for him with all of our heart, when we seek him 304 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,700 and him alone He States, I'll be found. 305 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:26,800 I'm going to jump out from my Hiding Place. 306 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,600 I'm going to make myself known to you. 307 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:34,800 I'm going to reveal myself to you and God has done it with me 308 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:41,600 and the most unusual places and he is so gracious, and he is so 309 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:47,000 kind There goes on. In verse 8, the voice of my 310 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,400 beloved behold, he comes leaping upon the mountain skipping upon 311 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,700 the hills. He he will dance upon the most 312 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:57,400 difficult challenges of our life. 313 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,900 I don't know if you've ever climbed any mountains, but let 314 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:07,700 me tell you something, it sounds really romantic and its concept. 315 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:11,400 But the moment that you start having to climb something, let 316 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,000 me tell you honey, It Ain't Easy. 317 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,700 Mountains, often speak of yes, Great accomplishments. 318 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:24,500 But they often speak also of great challenges And I mean 319 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:28,500 great challenges. I remember hearing the testimony 320 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:32,800 of a man that ran from coast to coast in the United States. and 321 00:22:32,808 --> 00:22:35,800 he ran every single day and he ran and he ran, and he ran, and 322 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,800 he ran and he ran Coming from the east coast to the West Coast 323 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,200 and after many, many many, many, many many days of running he 324 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,100 sees off. In the distance, the Rocky 325 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:51,800 Mountains, And his heart just sank. 326 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,700 Dear God help me get over these. Can we get there? 327 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,100 And then help me climb them, right? 328 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:05,300 Yeah, it's one thing to to romanticize, Mountaintop 329 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:09,500 experiences. But you have to measure that by 330 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:16,500 all of the journey to get there. And God comes leaping upon the 331 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,900 mountains and skipping on the Hills there. 332 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:23,200 Nothing to him. Then he says, she says, my 333 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,600 beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag behold notice this? 334 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,600 This is this is where I'm going behold. 335 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,500 He stands behind our wall. He is looking through the 336 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:44,400 windows gazing through the lattice and my beloved spoke and 337 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,000 said to me, rise up my love, my fair one, and come away. 338 00:23:54,200 --> 00:24:02,700 God is looking at Iowa. He's just behind your wall. 339 00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:10,400 He's just at your window, the place where you receive light 340 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,800 the place where you receive the spirit of wisdom and Revelation 341 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,200 in the spirit of wisdom and Revelation functions. 342 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,500 In this place called a window. It's where Daniel went to pray 343 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:24,100 every day. He went to his window in the 344 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,700 open, the window up, he wanted as much light as he possibly 345 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:30,300 could, could could Garner and he and he opened up his heart and 346 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:34,200 he opened up his life and he at the risk of his own life. 347 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:39,600 He opened his heart and he sought the Lord and he cried out 348 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,800 unto God because because something was going on with his 349 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,000 heart and something was going on with his life, that God was 350 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,100 present in his window, and God was there in, God was drawing 351 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:55,000 him and God was looking at him. And the Lord said his eyes upon 352 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,100 him in the Lord, would not take his eyes off of him. 353 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,400 There's something about the eyes of the Lord. 354 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,800 You go through the scriptures in the eyes of the Lord scatter, 355 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,900 his enemies, just his eyes, just the look of the Lord. 356 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,000 You don't have to say anything. He didn't have to lift a little 357 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 finger. He doesn't have to do anything 358 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:23,600 at all. He just looks had fathers and 359 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:29,900 mothers in my life and I and they had what I would call the 360 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:39,000 look, Somehow, someway, Spirit of the Lord transpose the look 361 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:46,700 into my wife. And she can give me the look. 362 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:57,200 And I recognized it sometimes in my stupidity I just move along 363 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:03,300 but there's the look it's there it's there and I'd better 364 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:10,700 recognize it right right. The Lord was looking at the 365 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:14,500 bride. And here she is in her house. 366 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,600 And the interesting thing is that he's looking through the 367 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,700 lattice work. And latticework is placed upon 368 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:26,400 windows for privacy and latticework is usually made up 369 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,200 in our lives with our excuses. It's usually made up in our 370 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:35,900 lives with our fears. It's the things that we it's the 371 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:38,400 things that we put up in that we hide behind. 372 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,300 To ensure privacy, we all have it. 373 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:46,700 You might not, you might not admit it but we all have it, 374 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,200 right? Latticework is oftentimes seen 375 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,100 as I as the image that we want to project so that people will 376 00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:59,800 receive us and accept us. Latticework is there. 377 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,900 It's put there for privacy. It's put there for the reason 378 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,900 that I want to let some light in but I don't want anybody else 379 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:10,200 in. It's a place where I can hide. 380 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,500 And here he is standing. At the window and looking 381 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:21,200 through the lattice work. And I don't know how many times 382 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,900 it's happened in my heart and in my life that I went to seek the 383 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:27,800 Lord, only to discover that there was a pair of eyes. 384 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,100 Looking right back at me before I even got there. 385 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:38,300 He was there waiting for me. Became a shift in the service 386 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:43,700 this morning. The Lord took this message and 387 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:46,500 there's more to it. And dear Lord, I can go for what 388 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:49,500 is it? It's only 85 pages. 389 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:58,600 I have a tendency to over prepare. and, and And as we were 390 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,700 singing this morning, there's a shift that came in the 391 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:05,800 atmosphere and I heard it first, and then I saw it. 392 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:09,000 And then, and then I heard clearly again. 393 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:14,400 God is looking through the lattice work, at the state of 394 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,800 Iowa. His Eyes Are Fixed upon you. 395 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,000 Now, she went about her job, she went about her duties. 396 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,600 She went about all the things that women can do. 397 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,300 And I, my wife will tell you, you get royalties off this. 398 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,900 She didn't like this, but she, if she's on a, she'll tell you, 399 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,700 if she feels comfortable with your Shield, she won't. 400 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,500 She won't divulge. She will divulge this. 401 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,700 She would put a name into this and that is that sometimes 402 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:54,900 sometimes I just watch her. I watch how she moves because I 403 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,900 like it. I watch. 404 00:28:57,900 --> 00:29:00,600 I watch how she puts her makeup on. 405 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:05,400 I like it. I watch how she attends to her 406 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,800 hair. I watch how she looks at herself 407 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,300 in the mirror. I watch. 408 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:13,800 I watch her. And there's not a woman on God's 409 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,400 green earth that cannot feel the eyes of a man. 410 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,500 And pretty soon. She feels a little fidgety and 411 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:26,700 comfortable. And she looks around and there I 412 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:29,000 am. What are you doing? 413 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,700 I'm watching you. Why are you watching me? 414 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:40,800 Because I love you. I like what you look like. 415 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,800 I like the way you move. I like the way that you look at 416 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,100 yourself. I like it. 417 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:54,500 Jesus was looking through the lattice work. 418 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,100 And he's looking through the lattice work of your individual 419 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:00,700 life. He's looking through the lattice 420 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:02,900 work of your marriage. He's looking through the lattice 421 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:05,100 work of your family. He's looking through the lattice 422 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:08,100 work of the congregation and he's looking through the lattice 423 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,600 work of the state of Iowa. Why? 424 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,500 Because he loves you. That's why Because he has plans 425 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,000 for you. That's why Because he wants his 426 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,700 eyes set upon you until you begin to fidget. 427 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:25,700 And you begin to think, I don't know. 428 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:28,600 Something's to feel something. Shining on me. 429 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,400 I'd there's something happening. There's some movement somewhere. 430 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,900 I don't know how to and I can't discern and I can't see it or 431 00:30:34,908 --> 00:30:35,900 not. Something. 432 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:41,500 I feel like somebody's looking at me. we've all been in a crowd 433 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:45,400 of people and suddenly we felt someone looking at us and we 434 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,700 turned her head and they were The human soul is quite amazing. 435 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,200 Actually, it's much bigger than our bodies. 436 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:01,000 So an interview one time of a of a professor. 437 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,300 And, and they were, and they were asking this question, where 438 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:09,400 is the human mind? What a brilliant question. 439 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,600 I mean this that that's that's a lot of people would say well 440 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,000 dumb. It's in your head. 441 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,000 No, it's not. That's just a central processing 442 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,800 unit. That's just the computer. 443 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:25,200 That's just the physical, the physical place, where things are 444 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,000 processed. And the professor was a woman 445 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,900 professor and she sat there and they said, where is the human 446 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:36,600 mind in the human body? And and, and, and the professor, 447 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,400 you could just they thank God they didn't edit this. 448 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,600 They just kept the camera right on her and she you could see the 449 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,700 wheels turning in her mind. She was her eyes. 450 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,400 It was coming through. There was this movement in her 451 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,400 and she was there was this thought process and finally, she 452 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,900 said after maybe I don't know 30 seconds of Silence, that's a 453 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:00,600 long. Time in video and radio. 454 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:07,200 And finally, she said, well, well, we know that, it's at 455 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:13,000 least inside the human body. And I thought, oh my God, 456 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,500 they're beginning to actually find out the secrets of the 457 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:19,300 Lord. Out of the issues of the heart, 458 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:26,200 the mouth speaks. As a man thinks in his heart, so 459 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,400 is he? So God is looking and he's 460 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,600 searching and he's watching, and he's got his eyes fixed Upon Us 461 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:37,700 on every one of our hearts on every one of our lives so that 462 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:42,200 we can come to the place where we begin moving and we're 463 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,500 getting in touch with a part of our being that we don't normally 464 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:49,800 operate in and we can feel his eyes and we start looking 465 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,600 around. Where is that coming from? 466 00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:01,400 Hmm. and then suddenly you go to your window of prayer, or you go 467 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,200 to your window of worship, or your goal, your window of the 468 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,400 word, or you go to the window, wherever you're getting your 469 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:12,300 light from, And you start looking out for more light and 470 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,700 lo and behold, there's a pair of eyes looking right at you. 471 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:22,200 And as soon as you recognize those eyes and soon as you lock 472 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:28,700 eyes with him, the light that is in your soul comes through your 473 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,300 eyes and the light that is in his soul comes through his eyes. 474 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:37,900 And when they meet together, an atomic explosion goes off inside 475 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,600 of us. And that's when the word of the 476 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:49,300 Lord comes forth. And he says, Come Away With Me. 477 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,900 Let everything else just fall to the ground. 478 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,900 Stop worrying about your makeup. Come on and just come with me 479 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:05,700 now. Now. 480 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,199 I've been several times in our marriage. 481 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,000 Here's another royalty for my wife. 482 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,400 I've been several times in our marriage that I watched this 483 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,500 woman get. I mean she was dolled up. 484 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:26,800 Dialed in. Her face is beginning to glow 485 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,900 red now. And and she was gorgeous. 486 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,900 I mean she was knockout gorgeous and we're going out of the 487 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:37,600 house. To which I would say to her Wing 488 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,699 going anywhere. This is just too good. 489 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:45,300 We're not going to go anywhere. We're going to stay home 490 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:47,600 tonight. No. 491 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,100 No. She says, we have to go out. 492 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:54,000 I said, no, we don't. We don't really have to be 493 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,400 there. I don't want to share you with 494 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,800 anybody. Yeah, yes. 495 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:22,800 Who are we living for? Hui dressing for who are we 496 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:29,700 preparing for? Who's the number one? 497 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,200 I ministered in Japan for many, many years and and the Japanese 498 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,600 divulge Secrets. They've got a gazillion Secrets. 499 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,300 Dear Lord, they got seven levels, they got seven levels of 500 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:45,200 their language and most Japanese, don't even know. 501 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,000 All the levels of the language of Japanese. 502 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:57,800 They are excellent hiders. They they they conceal things 503 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:04,200 better than anybody. I think at least they try to And 504 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,400 one day we were talking I was talking with some pastors and 505 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,300 they said to me, you know, you know the word love is not in our 506 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:14,300 language. When someone actually loves 507 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:16,200 someone else, they look at that one and they say you're my 508 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,300 number one. Your first priority your top 509 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:24,500 priority for me. Nobody else comes in the game. 510 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,100 Just you your number one in. There's only one. 511 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,800 It's not 1 of 2. It's one of one. 512 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,900 And I thought, oh Lord. Increase their language. 513 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:43,100 But the question remains, who is your number one? 514 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,500 I mean, really. He knows, you know. 515 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:52,200 He knows. He knows. 516 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:58,100 And he comes and he positions himself at our window and he 517 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:01,400 looks at us through the latticework and he's looking on 518 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,200 us, not with condemnation. He's looking on his not with the 519 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,100 idea of shaming us. He's looking on us, not with the 520 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,300 understanding that he's going to condemn us. 521 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,400 He's looking on us because he loves us because it's the 522 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,200 pleasure of his heart and it's the pleasure of his life and he 523 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,400 doesn't want to be anywhere else. 524 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,000 He just wants to look through the latticework of our window 525 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:23,300 and it doesn't really matter to him. 526 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,800 If the This work is there because he's looking Beyond it. 527 00:37:25,808 --> 00:37:28,600 He's looking through it, it doesn't hold him out. 528 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,300 And he looks at our hearts and he looks at our lives. 529 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,000 And, and we're there, and then suddenly become aware of the 530 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000 eyes of the Lord, that is set upon us. 531 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,900 And then he speaks. He waits he's patient. 532 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,000 He's not in a hurry. You might even say that he's got 533 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:55,100 the whole time in his hand. So he's got time and he knows 534 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:59,100 it. But something happens when we 535 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:02,300 begin to realize he is looking at me. 536 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,600 And he's waiting for that moment to call us away, and he's 537 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,100 waiting for that moment. And his heart is pounding in his 538 00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:13,500 chest, and his, and I'm using human terms, forgive me? 539 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,200 But his heart is pounding inside of his being. 540 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,100 And his longing inside of his heart and patience is operating 541 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:24,500 and functioning and joy. He's looking with joy at the 542 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:28,700 very first moment that we stop. What we're doing, and we turn to 543 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:36,900 him. because when we stop, what we're doing, And we turn to him. 544 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,200 That's when he reveals himself to us. 545 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:45,200 That's when he says to us. Okay, let's get out of here. 546 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,000 Come on, just you and me. Let's go. 547 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,500 I know a place. Come with me. 548 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:57,000 Let's go. And while we were singing 549 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,300 earlier this morning, I just felt of the spirit of the Lord, 550 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:03,700 that his eyes. I felt his eyes looking upon 551 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:06,800 Heartland church and I felt his eyes looking upon and canny 552 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,800 Iowa, and I felt his eyes looking upon the central portion 553 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,200 of this state. And I felt his eyes looking upon 554 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,800 the whole state. And I found, I found words in my 555 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,100 heart that God gave all the way back to 1998 for the heartlands 556 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:23,900 of the United States of America. And I felt that they lifted up 557 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:26,100 from where I thought they would be and they They were looking 558 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:31,600 for a place to land. And then the holy spirit's so 559 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,000 graciously reminded me of the story of Noah. 560 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,800 And Noah at the end of the flood. 561 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:47,400 He opened up the window. And he let out the dove. 562 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,800 And the dove flew and the dove was searching for a place to 563 00:39:52,800 --> 00:40:02,000 land and could not find one. And then the dove returned and 564 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,100 he held out his hand, and he took her in inside and then it 565 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:09,500 says, seven days later. He let her out again. 566 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,600 And she went, and she looked and she searched but there was no 567 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,800 place to land, no place to light. 568 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,300 There was only, there was only a small little Olive Branch. 569 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,800 She picks that and and she brings that olive branch of Hope 570 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,800 back to Noah. Something's changing out here. 571 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:34,700 I just wanted you to know. And then seven days later, he 572 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:39,300 opens up the window sword, approximately 21 days of this. 573 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:45,400 He opens up the window and finally she goes and she does 574 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,000 not come back because she found a place to rest. 575 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,200 I want to say to you this morning that the holy spirit is 576 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,800 released the, Holy Spirit has lifted up and lifted off. 577 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,700 And the Holy Spirit is looking upon the heartlands for a place 578 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:08,800 to land. Are you willing to let his eyes 579 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:09,700 fall on? You? 580 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,400 Are you willing to let him look at you until you become uneasy? 581 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,400 Are you willing or you willing to let him divinely? 582 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,800 Disturb you to the degree that you that you lay everything else 583 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,200 down and you just come back to him. 584 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,400 And you say Lord where where are you? 585 00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:32,200 I can feel your eyes but I cannot see you. 586 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,200 And you're looking, you're looking. 587 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,200 You look because of latticework trellis work. 588 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:44,200 Often has a Vine growing on it. And it's sometimes difficult to 589 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:50,400 see his eyes looking at you. And then you make the connection 590 00:41:50,800 --> 00:42:01,700 Bang. I was in Mullen Nebraska. 591 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:09,200 Mullen Nebraska is a Crossroads. In fact, in that day and time, I 592 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,800 don't even realize I don't even think that there was a stop sign 593 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,600 there. Much less a traffic like forget 594 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:20,300 that Just a Crossroads small little Community tiny. 595 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,200 But in Mullen Nebraska, They've got a couple of Bucket List, 596 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:36,000 golf courses. and I got an invitation, I got a bucket list 597 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,300 invitation To go play at a golf course called Dismal River in 598 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:43,200 Mullen Nebraska. It's just that it's outside. 599 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,700 It's quite a ways X is actually outside of Mullen. 600 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,300 That's just the closest Little community that they could attach 601 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:51,800 it to. And it was this bucket list 602 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,800 course, where you go there. And and I was, I was, I was 603 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,600 treated to this. I, it was a gift to me and 604 00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:01,000 otherwise, I would have never had the money to go to a place 605 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,500 like this. I mean, you go there and it's, 606 00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:05,000 and it's rustic five-star facilities. 607 00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:08,800 They have they have a restaurant but they have no menu. 608 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,200 You just tell the chef what you want, and he will cook it. 609 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:14,300 That kind of place. I didn't even know those things 610 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:20,700 to existed, but they do It was an all-inclusive thing. 611 00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:28,500 So I ordered ribeye every night. Cuz I like the fat content and I 612 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:36,200 want to see Jesus sooner. And besides that, it tastes 613 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,900 good. It's the best cut in my opinion. 614 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,100 And we went to the Pro Shop, when we arrived and the director 615 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,200 of golf, the god that's above the head pro, the director of 616 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,500 golf metis. And he looked at us and he says, 617 00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:00,300 I don't know what you guys have done, right? 618 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:05,100 But you are the only four men on this golf course, for three 619 00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:08,000 days. No one else is coming. 620 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:11,200 You've got the place to yourself. 621 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:18,300 And oh, did we play golf? It was great. 622 00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:22,800 Beautiful In The Sand Hills of Nebraska, just beautiful there. 623 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,900 This desolate place and yet it's got a beauty that's that's 624 00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:29,200 almost non-descriptive. You have to go there and see for 625 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,400 yourself. And we played golf for three 626 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,100 days and the afternoon of the second day. 627 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:40,300 I got tired, really tired. Abnormally tired, after lunch. 628 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,600 And I looked at the guys and I said, I know this sounds crazy, 629 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,000 guys, but I'm going to go back. I'm just going to go back to my 630 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,500 room. I'm going to go back to my room, 631 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:49,500 I'm going to rest a little bit, so I go back to my room. 632 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:51,600 And what do I do? I turn on the Golf Channel. 633 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:57,800 Case. You didn't know I like playing 634 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,300 golf. There are days that I'm pretty 635 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:05,200 decent at it, shot my age about a year ago. 636 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:12,700 And I'm old. And I'm there, and I'm watching 637 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:14,600 the Golf Channel. And there comes on the Golf 638 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,900 Channel, a documentary on a on a professional golfer Hall of Fame 639 00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:22,200 golfers life. His name's Ben Crenshaw. 640 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:27,700 It's from Texas. And Ben Crenshaw had this father 641 00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:31,500 Mentor in his life. By the name of Harvey Penick who 642 00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:36,100 was renowned for his teaching ability and and the great ones 643 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600 would go to Harvey Penick, if something was wrong with their 644 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,300 game and he could straighten them out really quick. 645 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,100 It didn't take him long, he could see. 646 00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:46,900 Just had that kind of vision that kind of eye for the golf 647 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,900 swing. And Ben Crenshaw had been having 648 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:52,100 a really, really difficult time in his game. 649 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:55,400 And and so he had won the Masters. 650 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,900 It's a Wonderful Tournament down in Augusta. 651 00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:00,300 Georgia. I've been there. 652 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:04,600 It's just incredibly beautiful there and it's almost it's 653 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,400 almost the Holy Grail of all golfers would be to play there 654 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,900 are and professionals to play in that tournament. 655 00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:13,200 That's that's the tournament, right? 656 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,900 And and been in really he won the tournament. 657 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,100 Once before and so but he was having a really, really 658 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:23,800 difficult time with his game, and he just couldn't get 659 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,400 anything, right. I mean, just couldn't get 660 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,400 anything, right? Nothing was going right? 661 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,500 And and on one of his one of his afternoons. 662 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:34,100 His, his caddy helped him with a small little tiny adjustment in 663 00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:37,500 his swing and he just started hitting it dead solid. 664 00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:41,700 Perfect. It just came that quack touch 665 00:46:41,700 --> 00:46:46,600 bang immediate. And he was out on a practice 666 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,700 round and he was given a message someone came out from the 667 00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:58,500 clubhouse and said Harvey died. And and Ben's whole countenance, 668 00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:03,700 his whole being just just changed, it was like his father, 669 00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:08,100 his mentor, the one that raised him in his profession. 670 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,800 The one that had sewed, everything into him and had made 671 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:18,000 him what he was had died suddenly, And Ben's I have to go 672 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,800 I have to go back to Austin. He was he was he lived in 673 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,300 Austin, Texas. Ben got on a flight flew, back 674 00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:28,400 to Austin for the funeral. And and professional golfers 675 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,300 from all over the world, went to Harvey P nk's funeral, they just 676 00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:33,200 stopped what they were doing. And they went to his funeral to 677 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:39,300 honor, a man that they loved because he was a father And 678 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:42,400 after the funeral, they went from the from the sanctuary into 679 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,100 of the reception hall. And all of these, all of these 680 00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:50,100 professional golfers were going from one building to the next 681 00:47:50,100 --> 00:47:52,000 building. And there was a, there was a, 682 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,300 there was a golf. There was a sports caster. 683 00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:59,200 That was interviewing as many people as he could grab. 684 00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:01,600 And they got, they got bin somehow. 685 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,800 They somehow, they got bin just to stop for just a moment. 686 00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:10,100 And the, and the and the broadcaster said Then what did 687 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:15,700 Harvey Penick mean to you? And his eyes were red and tears 688 00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:18,000 were flooding down his face unashamedly. 689 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,700 And he looked into the camera and he said Harvey, Penick was a 690 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:29,700 great Christian man. And when I, when I heard that on 691 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:34,100 this, this broadcast there in my room at Dismal River, Golf Club, 692 00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:39,900 Something happened in my heart and I broke on the inside of my 693 00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,800 heart and I said to the Lord that's enough for me. 694 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,300 That's enough of a testimony for me. 695 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:52,600 I'll take that one. and I don't know how to describe this to 696 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:58,900 you, but my door of my cabin opened and Jesus walked into the 697 00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:05,000 room. And I rolled off of my bed and I 698 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:10,300 fell on the floor. And he just looked into my 699 00:49:10,300 --> 00:49:15,100 heart. And there was a dimension of 700 00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:19,500 Glory that he has never ever taken me and ushered me into and 701 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:24,300 it happened at a golf course watching a golf documentary. 702 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:31,300 He stands at the window of our life. 703 00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:35,300 Looking for us, waiting for us to just stop what we're doing 704 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,300 and open up her eyes and say, I love you Lord, where are you? 705 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,600 You're the one that I'm looking for. 706 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,400 I don't need any more answers. I just need you. 707 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:58,300 Just just you just you and my focus of my prayer life gets 708 00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:03,300 extremely laser-like and narrow and all the other things that I 709 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:05,700 pray about and all the other things that I longed for in all 710 00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:08,300 the other things that he has promised me and all the other 711 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:13,700 thing, and they just seem to just lose meaning the moment 712 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:25,100 that I find him, the moment that I find him, When is the last 713 00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:26,600 time that you've gone to your window? 714 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,200 Could I just suggest to you? Maybe it's been a little too 715 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:41,800 long. Maybe we need to set aside. 716 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:46,700 This this time of tremendous turmoil all around us, economic 717 00:50:46,700 --> 00:50:51,100 upheavals, political upheavals This prophetic word, that 718 00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:53,700 prophetic word, another prophetic word in Dear God, in 719 00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:56,100 heaven profits, that aren't even prophets are prophesying. 720 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,800 Just set it down. I'm just speaking to you as a 721 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,700 father, this morning, just set it down. 722 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,400 You don't need that. What you need is. 723 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,600 Just open your window up and look out your window because 724 00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:23,800 he's waiting there for you. When he's waiting there for you 725 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,900 and you see him, I guarantee you. 726 00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:28,000 What's going to happen? He's going to say, come on. 727 00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:34,000 Come with me. Come with me. 728 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,100 And then every single question that you've got in your soul 729 00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:40,200 will be answered in a twinkling of an eye. 730 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,700 Suddenly you won't have any more questions. 731 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,500 Suddenly, you just want to be quiet and you just want to hear 732 00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:50,900 what he's got to say, and you don't want to Cloud the time 733 00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:56,900 with him with your own thoughts. Bob Jones years ago, you may 734 00:51:56,900 --> 00:52:04,300 know the story. He was told by an Angel, you 735 00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:06,500 need to get ready for any in the angel named a month. 736 00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,600 I'm going to use January. I don't remember what it was. 737 00:52:10,100 --> 00:52:14,600 I'd have to look back. And the angel said, look you 738 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,300 need to get ready because in January Jesus is going to come 739 00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:20,600 and he's going to he's going to bring a visitation but he 740 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,300 himself is he's coming to you he's going to meet with you. 741 00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:26,300 So have your questions ready? The angel said? 742 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:38,800 So, Bob labored over it. And he labored and he labored in 743 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,300 the labor, what questions? What it, what kind of what do I 744 00:52:41,308 --> 00:52:42,800 need to ask him? What I need to have ready, and 745 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,500 it's just man. I mean and January we came and 746 00:52:45,500 --> 00:52:52,000 January went and Jesus didn't show up. so, we thought Well, 747 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,400 you know, you didn't tell me what year. 748 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,900 That's Faith, right? Did you tell me what year maybe? 749 00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:02,400 It's next January and so he prepared himself all year long 750 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,200 for that January. Jesus didn't come. 751 00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:09,500 And it went for several years like this but Bob never gave up 752 00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:13,000 hope and he never dropped it and he never disbelieved it. 753 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,900 He believed it from his heart. And so, he was preparing for 754 00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:20,900 every single January, just come. Come come, come like a clock. 755 00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:24,100 Jesus wouldn't show within its next year. 756 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,000 Then, it's next year. Then it's next year, then it's 757 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,800 next year quite a few years. Then one day the angel popped 758 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,600 into his room. Oh, by the way, it's this coming 759 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:41,700 January. Get your questions ready by now? 760 00:53:41,700 --> 00:53:47,700 Bob had all kinds of questions. So he starts going through his 761 00:53:47,700 --> 00:53:51,600 questions. Comes closer to January closer. 762 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,100 King, he starts taking questions, out taking questions, 763 00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:55,700 at taking questions. Out taking question. 764 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:57,600 No, no, not this. No, no, not that. 765 00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,100 No, no, no, no, no, not this. And he came down to this short 766 00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:07,100 list of questions. It was almost time for January 767 00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:12,100 to roll around. And he felt so empty with the 768 00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:17,500 questions that he had left. And sure enough January came and 769 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:21,700 Jesus walked into the room. He believed that it was 770 00:54:21,700 --> 00:54:25,400 physical. And Jesus was, there he is. 771 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,900 Jesus, and Jesus with his wonderful wonderful. 772 00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:31,800 Wonderful sense of humor says, Bob, do you have your questions 773 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:36,400 ready? And Bob answered him. 774 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,600 And he said, I don't want to waste our time together with my 775 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:45,800 questions. Would you just talk to me about 776 00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,400 whatever you want to talk to me about? 777 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:53,300 I will listen. I think that's important. 778 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:04,900 God is calling Heartland Church. The Holy Spirit has risen over 779 00:55:04,900 --> 00:55:07,400 the heartlands of the United States. 780 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:14,600 And he's looking for a place to light, he's looking for a place 781 00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:20,000 to land. You have promises in this house. 782 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,600 You have prophetic words in this house but I'm going to reaffirm 783 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,000 them even this morning and I don't even know them, but I can 784 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,200 tell you this, Holy Spirit has lifted up and the Holy Spirit is 785 00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,900 flying and the Holy Spirit is looking for a place to land. 786 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:40,500 So that when he lands Or when she lands. 787 00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:48,000 Or when he she lands. Because they're both there. 788 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:55,000 In the language itself. No, ma feminine. 789 00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,300 That'll get your theological panties Twisted wanted. 790 00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:14,200 She's looking for a place to land. 791 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:21,000 And when she lands, she has purposes that we never dreamed. 792 00:56:23,100 --> 00:56:26,000 Because God wants to speak to the heart of this country that I 793 00:56:26,008 --> 00:56:28,800 can tell you, I've known it since 1998. 794 00:56:28,900 --> 00:56:31,100 I've been prophesying since 1998. 795 00:56:31,100 --> 00:56:33,900 I've been coming into these Heartland since 1998. 796 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:39,400 October of 1998. With a vision with a heart, with 797 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,400 an a, seeing of everything that God showed me, that he was going 798 00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,900 to do in the heartlands of the United States of America. 799 00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:47,100 And I have not yet seen it fulfilled. 800 00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:57,100 And so, I since Holy Spirit brooding, Brooding over the 801 00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:01,500 heartlands of the United States. And he's looking. 802 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,600 Holy spirit's looking for a place to land. 803 00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,600 It's like he's got his eyes. She's got her eyes. 804 00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:15,300 Set on us. I feel the eyes of the Lord this 805 00:57:15,300 --> 00:57:19,400 morning. I feel his gaze. 806 00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:25,000 Something has grown to attention inside of my heart and my life. 807 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,600 Even the short time that I've been with you, there was so much 808 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,700 resistance for Fay and I the past two weeks before we came 809 00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:36,600 here. The resistance level was 810 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:41,100 honestly, it was painful. Mental torments emotional, 811 00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:43,300 torments. All kinds of Temptations, 2222 812 00:57:44,700 --> 00:57:48,500 not come. All kinds of opportunities that 813 00:57:48,700 --> 00:57:50,800 this known to do that. No, no. 814 00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:56,500 But my heart was set. And I've walked with him long 815 00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:59,900 enough to know this that when I come to the end of myself and 816 00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:03,100 when I come to the end of my strength that in my weakness, 817 00:58:03,100 --> 00:58:06,000 his strength then takes over in his strength is made perfect in 818 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,800 my weakness and I've discovered through the years. 819 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,700 Just stay, the course. Bill. 820 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,900 Just stay the course, even if you don't have the strength to 821 00:58:13,900 --> 00:58:17,400 take, but one more step, just stay the course and go and he'll 822 00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:18,800 give you the strength and you can do it. 823 00:58:19,700 --> 00:58:23,500 There have been so many times in my life and faces life that I 824 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:26,600 was sicker than a dog on Sunday morning. 825 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,500 I mean, throwing up sicker than a dog. 826 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:35,300 It's a Texas saying I think Cats could probably get sick, too. 827 00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:41,600 but the saying sicker than a dog, And I would say to my wife, 828 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,200 just get me to the pulpit. I'll be all right. 829 00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:48,600 If I get there, just just help me get behind the pulpit and 830 00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,900 when I get there, it's going to be okay. 831 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,500 And I cannot tell you how many times that that happened in our 832 00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:59,700 life. 44 years of marriage, coming up on 45 really quick in 833 00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:05,100 the fast lane. Stay the course, Heartland 834 00:59:05,100 --> 00:59:08,800 Church. Stay the course congregation. 835 00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:16,900 Don't be surprised in. The passing of 21 days that Holy 836 00:59:16,900 --> 00:59:22,100 Spirit doesn't breathe over you. Looking for a place to land. 837 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:29,700 That was through 21 days of dealing right there with Noah. 838 00:59:31,300 --> 00:59:35,700 I've Got a Feeling, I've just got this feeling, I've just, 839 00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:44,100 I've just got this feeling, we need to lift our eyes up, to be 840 00:59:44,100 --> 00:59:48,800 whole the king. And the lover of our soul. 841 00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:56,000 And look out the window. So in this 21 days of prayer and 842 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,800 fasting, this is a 21-day window for you. 843 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,400 Come. Come and do whatever you need to 844 01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,700 do while you're in it. Because I know that there's a 845 01:00:06,700 --> 01:00:08,000 lot of things that you need to take care of. 846 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,200 There's a lot of things that you need to do. 847 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,500 There's a lot of things you need to dress, but somewhere in this 848 01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:16,900 21 days, don't be surprised. If you come to the window in 849 01:00:16,900 --> 01:00:19,900 this house and another pair of eyes is looking back at you. 850 01:00:23,500 --> 01:00:27,800 And when he looks at you, open your eyes and gaze upon him. 851 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:34,200 Gaze upon him. When the, when the shepherd said 852 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,600 this. After the Angels left, the 853 01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,400 shepherd's looked at one, another and said, let's go to 854 01:00:39,408 --> 01:00:40,900 Bethlehem. This is paraphrase. 855 01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:45,100 Let's go to Bethlehem, and let's see this thing. 856 01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,600 And the word thing is Rhema. let's go to Bethlehem and let's 857 01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:59,800 see this Rhema This matter, this word. 858 01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,400 And the word see is the keyword, it's horrible. 859 01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,800 And her 0 means to see with the eyes go deeper, see with the 860 01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:18,700 mind, go deeper to perceive, go deeper to see and experience, 861 01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,800 intimately. What you're looking at? 862 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:27,200 And so those Shepherds went to look upon the Lamb of God and 863 01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:32,400 they didn't give him a casual glance, they looked until there 864 01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,900 was an experienced heart-to-heart and then it says 865 01:01:35,900 --> 01:01:41,800 they went out and they told the whole city and everyone was 866 01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:46,500 blessed and everyone was amazed and Mary and Joseph were amazed 867 01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:54,400 and Mary pondered these things. In her heart, God's going to do 868 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,900 something for you and 21 days. Get Ready. 869 01:01:58,700 --> 01:02:01,700 Get Ready, Get Ready. Get Ready. 870 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,300 Get Ready. Father I thank you. 871 01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:09,100 I, thank you for the Simplicity of this word. 872 01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:13,500 I thank you. Lord, that you are able to take 873 01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:20,700 a weak vessel and bring forth transformation word. 874 01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:27,800 I ask you Lord look into through the latticework of Heartland 875 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,500 Church. I ask you now. 876 01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:36,000 Lord, looking through the window look through the latticework 877 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,100 look through the failures of the past. 878 01:02:38,100 --> 01:02:42,900 Look through the insecurities, look through all of the, all of 879 01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:49,100 the things that we all put up. To protect ourselves. 880 01:02:49,100 --> 01:02:51,800 Look through them, just get close enough to the window and 881 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,400 look through them to whether the latticework doesn't even, it 882 01:02:54,408 --> 01:02:59,100 doesn't even come into play. And keep looking at us until we 883 01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:05,200 are divinely Disturbed. Until we stop what we're doing 884 01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:08,900 and we turn looking where we don't even know. 885 01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,700 And so we look outside the window only to find you there. 886 01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:19,800 Speak to our hearts. Give us the secrets of your 887 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:25,500 heart for this season. Calls us to come and do a place 888 01:03:25,500 --> 01:03:33,200 where we are riveted by your spirit and we seek only you. 889 01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:41,000 You and when we are, when we, when you are found of us and we 890 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:46,800 are found of you, you will take care of all of the minutiae. 891 01:03:48,100 --> 01:03:54,900 Of details of problems of issues of everything that even seems 892 01:03:54,900 --> 01:03:58,900 impossible to us to deal with that, we don't have answers for. 893 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:07,800 You are the answer and so we invite you into Our problems are 894 01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:13,100 Ministries. Our Praises, our worship, our 895 01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:16,200 prayers, our fastings are everything. 896 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:23,700 Come, come, Holy, Spirit. Come lover of our souls. and 897 01:04:23,700 --> 01:04:28,800 gaze Upon Our Hearts until we feel your eyes and we start 898 01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:37,200 searching for just you Just you. Just you. 899 01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:58,300 I thank you for this father. Hallelujah. 900 01:05:03,100 --> 01:05:07,000 Go ahead and stand. I want to pray over us this 901 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:12,100 morning. I believe this is an invitation 902 01:05:12,100 --> 01:05:16,400 from the Lord into this 21 days. Remember years ago, reading an 903 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:21,000 article about two Russian artists. 904 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,600 They were sculptures, they had been commissioned by their 905 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:27,600 government to carve some carving and this husband and wife team 906 01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,000 got to discussing how they couldn't do what they did 907 01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,400 without a thumb. And in their discussion, they 908 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,300 came to the conclusion, there must be a god, they began to cry 909 01:05:37,300 --> 01:05:41,400 out for the god, the creator of the thumb to reveal himself to 910 01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,600 them. They came to the conclusion of 911 01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:48,800 the goodness of God because of his their thumbs and I've often 912 01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,300 thought the goodness of God is revealed in food. 913 01:05:53,700 --> 01:05:55,800 You know what? I could worship God just for the 914 01:05:55,800 --> 01:06:00,500 jalapeno. That God gave you taste buds in. 915 01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:05,100 Just the right place to experience an array of different 916 01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:06,500 flavors. Isn't that good of him? 917 01:06:07,100 --> 01:06:09,800 You know, he could have made everything tastes like spinach 918 01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,600 or like would he could have done that but he didn't do that 919 01:06:13,900 --> 01:06:18,000 because he loves us. And fasting among other things 920 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:22,500 is us saying, God we thank you for food. 921 01:06:22,900 --> 01:06:26,800 We thank you for the gift and all the different flavors, but 922 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:31,900 what we're really hungry for is you Lord we set aside the 923 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:37,100 satisfaction of our physical appetites for this short season 924 01:06:37,300 --> 01:06:39,800 and Lord, we ask let us Feast on you. 925 01:06:41,100 --> 01:06:46,400 Let us Feast on the goodness of who you are and so Lord. 926 01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:51,500 We ask even now Lord, for Grace, to fall upon us, and Lord, I ask 927 01:06:51,500 --> 01:06:56,300 that you to wake in our spiritual appetites as Bill 928 01:06:56,300 --> 01:06:59,100 stood up here, and read the menu of Heaven. 929 01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,400 Lord, let our spiritual appetites begin to be awake and 930 01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:09,700 let us salivate in the spirit. And Lord, we look over the, the 931 01:07:09,700 --> 01:07:12,900 banqueting table of the next 21 days. 932 01:07:13,700 --> 01:07:18,400 And Lord, we ask for one thing that you'd release more of you 933 01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:22,300 to us. Lord release more of you to us. 934 01:07:22,300 --> 01:07:26,500 Lord, God, we are hungry for you. 935 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:33,100 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 936 01:07:35,900 --> 01:07:37,500 Jesus. We thank you. 937 01:07:39,700 --> 01:07:43,000 Hallelujah, on our last trip to Colombia. 938 01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,600 We went to this one barbecue spot and they brought out these 939 01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:50,600 big bibs and they made us put bibs on before they're brought 940 01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,200 the food. And I just saw that picture. 941 01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,300 When I was praying over us, get your bib on. 942 01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,800 There's some feasting going to happen. 943 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,500 I'm serious. Get your expectations up, get 944 01:08:03,500 --> 01:08:05,800 your spirit you. Jewel utensils. 945 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,800 Get your fork in your knife in hand. 946 01:08:07,900 --> 01:08:10,900 Get you big old plastic Bib and belly up to the table. 947 01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:14,500 It's going to be a time of feasting on him. 948 01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:18,899 Amen. Bill fade on. 949 01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:21,200 Thank you so much. Thanks for taking time out of 950 01:08:21,207 --> 01:08:26,500 your busy schedules. Yeah, we love you guys that. 951 01:08:29,300 --> 01:08:32,500 These have been the hors d'oeuvres and out of the feast. 952 01:08:32,500 --> 01:08:35,200 He begins. Thanks for listening to our 953 01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,000 podcast. If you'd like to help more 954 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,600 people hear this message, you can get the word out by 955 01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,000 subscribing and sharing it on social media. 956 01:08:42,399 --> 01:08:45,100 If you'd like to support the Ministries apartment church, you 957 01:08:45,100 --> 01:08:46,600 can do. So at Heartland Church, 958 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:32,100 online.com give These have been the hors d'oeuvres and out of 959 01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:33,399 the feast. He begins. 960 01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,000 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 961 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:38,500 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 962 01:08:38,500 --> 01:08:41,100 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 963 01:08:41,100 --> 01:08:43,399 social media. If you'd like to support the 964 01:08:43,407 --> 01:08:45,500 Ministries apartment church, you can do. 965 01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:48,700 So at Heartland Church, online.com give