(226) “Don’t Let Your Heart Melt! Take Courage!”

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We have to be those people that are so full of courage,

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so full of the peace of God, so full of joy,

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so full of love that whatever's going on

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in the darkness around us doesn't affect us.

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There'll be no effect

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because we will not allow our hearts to melt.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you're with us.

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You know, a little while ago, a few weeks ago,

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maybe it's been a month or more,

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I had a picture in my mind of melting butter.

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And I think we did a podcast about something to do with that,

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or at least it was mentioned then.

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But today we're going to talk about how fear makes the heart melt.

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And we should take courage.

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Thanks for joining us today.

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We're so glad that you're with us.

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And we trust that this is going to be a life changing podcast for you

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that will encourage you and give you strength in the days to come.

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There are things that are on the horizon that that we need to really get focused

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on our courage and get our courage from the Lord.

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But before we get started, we want to encourage you,

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encourage that you will go to our website, globaloutpouring.net,

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tell us what the Lord is doing in your life.

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give us an idea of something that you need to hear,

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that you want more information about or you want some enlightenment from the Holy Scriptures about.

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And we'll take it to the Holy Spirit and see what he gives us.

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And there's also lots and lots of other things out on our website that will be a blessing to you,

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that will encourage you and help you to grow in the things of God

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as we contend and equip and engage for the outpouring.

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So this vision that I had, a mental picture,

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I'm not sure you'd call it a vision,

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was just a picture of butter melting.

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And, you know, butter just melts under,

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it doesn't take a whole lot of,

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doesn't take a lot of heat to make it happen.

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But there are some things in our lives and some things that are described in the Scripture

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about causing the heart to melt.

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And I find it interesting that the word for courage

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comes from a word meaning heart.

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So when we're discouraged,

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there's something that's missing in our heart, you know?

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Or if we're encouraged, our heart is strengthened, right?

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Yeah.

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Encourage thyself in the Lord.

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Exactly.

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David did that many times.

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Exactly.

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And so there are a number of places in the Word of God

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that talk about the melting of the heart.

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And it's usually caused by fear.

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Moses, when he was on the shore of the Red Sea,

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he's prophesying as they have gotten through to the other side

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and Pharaoh's armies have been drowned in the sea

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and they're all celebrating on the Red Sea shore

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and, you know, Miriam gets her tambourine and is dancing and singing songs.

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And one of the things that he prophesies,

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he declares, who is like you?

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Oh, Yehovah, oh Lord among the gods.

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Who's like you?

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Yehovah among the gods.

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You know, all the gods have names.

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And that's why we keep using his name

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because that's what it says in the original scripture.

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It says Yehovah. It doesn't say Lord.

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But the translators have followed the protocol

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that was given to them by the Jewish people

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who understood the Hebrew language.

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And they had been given orders because years and years ago

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under the Greeks and again under the Romans,

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they were forbidden to use the name

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and they would be executed if they used the name.

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So they decided it would be better to say it's just much too holy to use.

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So Moses is saying, who is like you, oh Yehovah, among the gods?

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Who is like you?

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Majestic in holiness, awesome and glorious deeds, doing wonders.

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You stretched out your right hand.

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The earth swallowed them. Talking about Pharaoh and his army.

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You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed.

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You have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

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The peoples have heard, they tremble.

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Pang's have seized upon the inhabitants of Philistia.

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Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed.

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Trembling seizes the leaders of Moab.

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All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

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Terror and dread fall upon them because of the greatness of your arm.

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They are as still as a stone.

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Till your people, oh Yehovah, pass by, till your people pass by whom you have purchased,

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you will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain.

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The place, oh Yehovah, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, oh Lord,

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which your hands have established, Yehovah will reign forever and ever.

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Amen.

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That's from the English Standard Version.

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And you can see how Moses is prophesying.

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As soon as these people hear that Yehovah has split the Red Sea

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and caused all the Pharaoh's armies to drown,

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they probably have already heard from the traders the stories of the ten plagues that have hit Egypt.

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Yeah, and when we were studying those plagues,

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it wasn't something that happened maybe all in one week.

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Yeah.

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Because the cattle were destroyed and all of a sudden they have cattle.

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Right.

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Maybe they got them from the Israelites.

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So it's not like there was a plague every day.

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There was a measure of time between them and what we don't know.

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Yeah.

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So can you imagine the traders, going on the trade routes from Egypt?

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They would pass through the land of Canaan.

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Yeah.

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And they would pass the Moabites and the Edomites, the Canaanites,

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are all going to hear these stories of the things that the God named Yehovah has done for his people.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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And they have their gods and their gods have names and so on.

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And they're comparing the powers of the gods, right?

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And the plagues were all designed to show that the gods of Egypt had nothing on Yehovah.

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Yeah.

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That's what Rahab said in Jericho.

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Right.

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And we've heard what happened to the Egyptians.

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Yeah.

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And so you know that only could have come by the traders.

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Sure.

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Sure.

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So it caused the hearts of all of these nations to melt.

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Melt.

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OK.

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So in this case, it's the fear of Yehovah that's causing their hearts to melt.

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Well, you know, let's think about in these days that we're living in right now,

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we need to have that fear of the Lord reestablished.

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Oh, my, yes.

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Yes.

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And it's probably going to take some stuff happening to get the fear of Yehovah back to us.

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You know, we don't know what it's going to take.

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But if you read the Book of Revelation, there's a whole lot of stuff.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I don't know that we're quite there yet, but we are certainly in a place where we are close to some stuff happening.

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Now, the question is, is your heart going to melt when stuff happens?

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Because when you see the things that Yehovah does and you are in right relationship with him,

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you have nothing to fear.

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Absolutely nothing.

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I remember it was Bruce Allen and Bruce has a lot of visitations.

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He has a real relationship with the Lord.

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And he mentioned something that he says, you know, all these characters that you see,

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you know, like ET and all the gremlins and that little green thing with the pointy ears,

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you know, all this stuff, maybe cabbage patch.

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I don't know.

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But he says all this a lot of this stuff is demonic.

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Absolutely.

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It's people, you know, a lot of these creators, they've been on drugs, cocaine,

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and they see these or they get visited by these things.

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Right.

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And what Bruce had said, he said, the day is going to come when these beings are going to appear

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and they're going to be there and people's hearts will melt for fear.

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Yeah.

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Because this is something that, you know, you're used to seeing it on a page, on a kind of book

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or on your TV, but all of a sudden, if you see something like happen in front of you,

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and he may not have a smile on his face either.

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You know, and this is real tribulation stuff.

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Right.

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We probably won't be here for that.

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Well, I don't know what we're going to be here for, but I'll tell you this experience.

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I mean, you know about it, but I'll tell it for our listeners that our daughter wanted us

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to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies.

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And I wasn't particularly interested in watching those things, you know.

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Because we don't watch a lot of movies anyway.

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We don't hardly watch any movies, but she wanted us to see it.

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And I knew that Tolkien was a Christian.

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And so there's probably something good in it.

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And I'll, okay.

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Okay.

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I'll sit down and watch it.

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So we're watching the first one and we're sitting there.

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If you know the story of the first Lord of the Rings movie, they're in this mountain,

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all these characters that are trying to do what they're trying to do.

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I won't go into all those details, but they're in this corridor inside of a mountain

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and a cave and they see this red light and they hear this kind of sounds.

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They hear these horrible sounds and they're looking at each other.

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And all of a sudden, one of them says, it's a Balrog run for your life.

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And I'm thinking, I do not want to put my eyes on whatever this is.

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And I got up to leave the room.

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Do you remember that?

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You remember that?

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And all of a sudden I heard the Holy Spirit say, sit down and watch this.

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You're going to see worse things than this before it's all over.

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You're going to see worse things than that.

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Yes.

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So the point here is, are we going to allow our hearts to melt at the things that are

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shown to us by dark powers that have an agenda?

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We hear all about their agendas, but it doesn't mean they can do all of their agendas.

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A lot of things depend on how much we pray and how much we stand on the word of God and

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our relationship with our Father, with the Lord Jesus, with the Holy Spirit.

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So are we going to let His presence in us maintain our hearts?

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Are we going to have strong, courageous hearts, brave hearts?

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Or are we going to have melting hearts?

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This is something we need to look into.

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We need to pay attention because this is equipping.

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Because when the Holy Spirit said to me, what's coming is going to be like the book of Acts

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on steroids.

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And so we think about, oh, wow, the day of Pentecost.

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Oh, wow, the miracles.

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The lame man getting up and running and leaping and praising God and all of the miracles and

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miracles and the shadow of Peter healing people.

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And all of these amazing things that go on.

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But you have to also remember that there was extreme persecution at the same time.

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So if it's the book of Acts on steroids, the Lord didn't specify that it was just the miracles.

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Yeah, glory and judgment go together.

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Yes, they do.

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They surely do.

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And we shouldn't be afraid of judgment because judgment from God is really bringing justice.

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It's going to bring righteousness.

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It's going to bring order.

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We've been praying for ever since Jesus taught His disciples to pray, thy kingdom come, thy

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will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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Well, in heaven, there's perfect order.

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In heaven, there's perfect righteousness.

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In heaven, there's perfect glory.

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There's peace.

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There's joy.

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There's love.

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Everything is in order.

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So we're asking God to bring His kingdom here.

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The kingdom of God is so close.

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And the problem is that time itself is the countdown for the devil until he's done.

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He's done.

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He's almost done.

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And he's so close to being in this place where he is, you know, he's upset because his time

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is short.

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Yeah.

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And in Isaiah, chapter 26, verse 9, and who knew judgment is like Isaiah?

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I mean, oh, the...

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He prophesied it.

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Oh, my.

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But in 26, verse 9, with my soul have I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within

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me will I seek thee early.

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That's the key right there.

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That is the key.

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You know, that's the key.

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For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will earn righteousness.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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So the question is whose hearts are going to melt in this time?

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Is it the enemies of God?

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Yes.

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That's what it should be.

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It should be that we are so filled with the presence of God that our being is so yielded

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to His glory that He can do anything He wants to do through us.

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That's the part of the book of Acts that we want to see.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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That we're so full of light.

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We're so full of glory.

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We're able to stand because He is operating in us and we have learned to yield to Him.

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When we let Him have His way and we just go with Him, we're working in tandem with Him,

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and it will cause the hearts of the enemies to melt.

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Yes.

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You know, the folks that have been trying to do witchcraft and they come up to believers

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who are really walking in the things of God and they try to do things to us, we need to

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have that amount of the glory of God that they don't have any power against us.

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Kind of like in Egypt when the Egyptian magicians couldn't do those same things that God did

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when Moses did whatever he was going to do with his rod.

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We have to be those people that are so full of courage, so full of the peace of God, so

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full of joy, so full of love that whatever's going on in the darkness around us doesn't

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affect us.

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There'll be no effect because we will not allow our hearts to melt.

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I remember in all of these scriptures that I was looking up, one of them that stood out

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to me, because there's a couple different words in Hebrew for this idea of melting,

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and they both kind of mean to melt or to faint or dissolve or to vanish, to drop off or to

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be discouraged or faint.

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One of them is this word that is used when Samson was bound in Judges 15.

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Let's just look at that.

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So Samson had just, he had just caught 300 foxes and tied two of them together and put

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a torch in between their tails and lit the torch and sent them out into the Philistines

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grain fields.

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They were not happy.

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And he was busy trying to take out the economics of the Philistines by doing that.

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That's how you do it.

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You destroy the crop.

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But the way he did it.

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And so then the men of Judah, when the Philistines came up, this is in Judges 15 verse 9, it

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says the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi, or

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Lehi.

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And the men of Judah said, why have you come up against us?

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And they answered, we have come to bind Samson to do to him as he has done to us.

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Then 3000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rocky tom, which is where Samson was,

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and said to Samson, have you not known that the Philistines are rulers over us?

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What is this that you've done to us?

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He said, as they did to me, so have I done to them.

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Well, they tricked him out of his wife.

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You know, he had a Philistine bride and that didn't go well.

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Won't take time for that.

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And they said unto him, we've come down to bind you that we may deliver you into the

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hands of the Philistines.

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And Samson said unto them, swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.

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And they said unto him, no, we will bind you fast and give you into their hand.

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But surely we will not kill you.

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So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

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And when he came to Leahy, the Philistines came shouting to meet him.

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Here's the verse and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon Samson and the ropes on

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his arms became as flax that had caught fire and his bonds melted off his hands.

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Okay.

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So yeah, they melted.

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So here's the picture.

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When the anointing comes on you, whatever has been binding you is going to fall off.

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So if you have some fear that's melting your heart, what you need is for the anointing

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to come down on you.

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So how do you get the anointing to come down on you?

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What do you do when you're discouraged?

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Just worship, praise God.

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Exactly.

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Praise God.

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Wow.

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Worship, praise, dance, dance, spend time quietly in his presence.

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He will encourage you because he's inside of you.

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If you've allowed him to be in you.

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As you have studied his word, his word begins to come up inside of you.

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And it comes up to give you a word that you can use to go to battle against the darkness

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because you are a light in the world listener.

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You are a light.

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You are a light.

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You are the child of the father of lights.

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He put you here.

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He lit you.

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He has a purpose and he wants you to be a light.

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And you can't be a light when you're hidden under.

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Well, you're still a light, but you don't hide under a bushel basket.

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Yeah.

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You know, in James chapter four, verse eight says, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh

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to you.

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Cleanse your hands.

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He sinners and purify your hearts.

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He double minded.

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So don't be double minded.

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Yes.

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How would you describe double minded?

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Well, I would describe double minded as when you're trying to figure out, do I do this?

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Do I do that?

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Do I do this?

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Do I do that?

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You're weighing the pros and the cons and you know, part of you wants to do this and

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part of you wants to do that.

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And you have to let go of the flesh that is fighting with your spirit.

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Yeah.

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It's like you have one foot in the world and one in the kingdom and it's going to fight

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against each other.

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It's true.

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So if you're double minded in all your ways, your thinking is going to be double minded.

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Yes.

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And you're not going to be full focused.

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Yeah.

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During the World War II it was, there was a particular ship and the guy in the radar

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fell asleep, you know, and all of a sudden woke up and all of a sudden they're within

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range of, you know, an enemy ship or something like that.

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You know, because, you know, he fell asleep and missed, you know, they did get out of

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it, but if you fall asleep at the wrong thing, it could take you out.

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Right.

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You can't fall asleep at the wheel.

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Yeah.

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I did that once.

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What happened?

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Yeah, I was doing 65 miles an hour and going down 294, you know, Chicago, it's a toll

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way.

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It was a big mile long bridge.

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Oh my.

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I'm in the middle lane.

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I remember it was raining.

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I had a big car.

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It was a 72 Chevy.

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That's back when they made them big.

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And I drifted off and I went into the rear wheels.

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It was a double trailer.

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You know, the 18 wheelers, I have another trailer on the back of it.

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I went into the back wheels, you know, the door and it bounced the car back.

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So I was able to maintain control.

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And I'll tell you what, I woke up real quick.

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So what do I do anymore if I get real tired when I'm driving?

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I kind of think about that.

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I do something about it.

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You know, don't wait until you fall asleep at the wheel, you know, if you're tired, do

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something.

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Right.

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Get out, run around the car or let somebody else drive.

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Right.

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Right.

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You know, because when you pray, when you, before you go out on a trip, we were in Scotland,

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we were coming back and I'm in the back seat, which with Sharon and our founders, Sister

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Gwen and Colonel Jim, Colonel Jim was driving and I was just sleeping in the back and it

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was just the Holy Spirit just woke me up.

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My eyes popped open and I'm looking at Colonel Jim and he's bobbing.

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I mean, he's already, you know, and I look at the speedometer.

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His head was bobbing.

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His head was bobbing.

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And we're doing about 135 kilometers an hour, you know, and I just go, I do a real loud

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cough and he wakes up and, you know, after five minutes, he says, do you want to drive?

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I didn't want to because the steering wheel is on the other side of the car and we're

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on the other side of the road.

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That was my first experience, but at least it was an automatic.

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Yeah.

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But it was the Holy Spirit was faithful to wake me up.

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So even if you fall, you know, if maybe that you're falling asleep or something, then the

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Holy Spirit alerts somebody else to, you know, to kind of jerk the slack out of you.

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Right.

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Right.

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And this idea of melting hearts, I mean, your heart was kind of melting when you saw him

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falling asleep at the wheel.

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Yeah.

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Like, what do we do now?

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Okay.

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Clear your throat.

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You know, if you want to have a melting heart, you know, come down in an airplane on a real

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tough landing, you'll feel, you know, a praying in tongues.

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Yeah.

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You know, there's something that you read.

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I don't know if you read it on the podcast, but you read it in the message that you gave

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a few weeks ago.

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That was Reese Howells.

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When he was talking about praying through regarding the air raids that were happening,

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and they were happening in Wales as well.

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It wasn't just in England.

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It was the whole UK.

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And what he was saying, I can't quote it exactly, but it was something about you have to know

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that you have the protection of the Lord.

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You have to be so secure.

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It's not that you just say, well, the Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want, I'll be okay.

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The Lord's going to watch over me.

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You have to know.

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And I think in that prayer too, is like when you go to sleep at night, you know, is when

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the air raids or something, you know, are you going to be able to withstand it?

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Yes.

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I'll give you enough God in you to withstand this.

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And that's really the point that we're trying to make here is that we have such a relationship

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with our Father and that we are listening for His voice.

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And He is giving us the word of the Lord of what to do next or what not to do next, that

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we're hearing Him giving us instructions.

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And if we don't hear anything, we don't do anything.

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Sometimes we get presumptuous and it's time for us to stop presuming.

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And I'm not saying anything against repeating scriptures because we need to repeat the scriptures.

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We war with the word of God.

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We use the word of God as a sword in our battles.

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But the idea is that we become so confident in the word of God that we know it so well

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and we know that this is the word of the Lord.

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Now we were in preparation for this podcast.

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We were talking about a moment when your heart melted.

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Oh, we were in, we were in Tibet and we were leaving Tibet.

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We were in three old land cruisers when we were on our going through the mountains of

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Tibet.

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And so now we're in Nepal and just crossed the border and we picked up a, it was like

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a 25 seat Mercedes bus.

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It was just so really nice.

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You know, I thought, wow, this is really good.

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It was comfort compared to the land cruisers.

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And we didn't get, get real far, maybe 45 minutes.

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And all of a sudden we're stopped.

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There's this line of traffic ahead.

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So I wonder stopped completely stopped.

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We went down, you know, walked about a little ways there and crossed over a little hill

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and looked down and down in the bottom of the road is like a hill in this down little

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valley.

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Here is a truck blocking the road.

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I mean, why didn't transport truck, a big truck and go, cause this is a narrow two lane.

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He's right smack in the middle of the road and he's broke down and I get out and I looked

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underneath and they have the gears, you know, the, the, the rear axle pulled apart and my

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mechanical buying my heart melted because my mechanical knowledge told me, you know,

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this isn't something that you fix in an hour or two.

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This is a major, major breakdown on a vehicle and they can't even move it.

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You know, and our heart just kind of melted.

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I thought, man, what do we do?

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How do we even go back?

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Do we go back, cross the border back in a Tibet where the last hotel was?

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And you know, we're responsible for the team of 12 that we have.

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We're the tour leaders on this, right?

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You know, and then Sharon just pipes up with this word.

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We are going to be in Kathmandu.

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That's the capital of Nepal on the 4th of July.

487
00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:23,180
And it was the 4th of July and I didn't have faith for that.

488
00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:24,180
Okay.

489
00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:29,780
But we had a word of the Lord because our accountant, Sandy Baldwin told us before we

490
00:29:29,780 --> 00:29:31,780
left, she had a dream.

491
00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:32,780
Yeah.

492
00:29:32,780 --> 00:29:38,340
She says, I had a dream and in my dream, I don't remember if she saw it or she heard

493
00:29:38,340 --> 00:29:45,120
it or whatever, but the message of the dream was that our team was going to be in Kathmandu

494
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,620
on the 4th of July.

495
00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:52,340
Well, we actually planned our journey based on that word.

496
00:29:52,340 --> 00:29:58,700
We set up the whole itinerary so that we would be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July.

497
00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:03,240
So to me, that was a proceeding word of the Lord.

498
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:09,620
So I was determined and in full expectation that no matter what this looks like, we're

499
00:30:09,620 --> 00:30:12,780
going to be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July.

500
00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:19,020
So you know, the story goes that we went beyond there and somehow I got the idea that there's

501
00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:24,780
buses that are trying to get to the border that can't get to the border because of this

502
00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:28,980
truck, but they could turn around and go back to Kathmandu.

503
00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:29,980
Yeah.

504
00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:36,420
And this gentleman in a car, he was English, so he spoke English and Nepali and he saw

505
00:30:36,420 --> 00:30:40,100
a predicament and his car was narrow enough.

506
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:45,480
They dug part of the bank of the road out so the small cars could get by and he went

507
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,140
up and negotiated with a bus that was up there and he came back and he says, yeah, they will

508
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:52,820
take you to Kathmandu.

509
00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:55,180
So we just hired a bunch of guys.

510
00:30:55,180 --> 00:30:59,700
They came and just got all of our luggage for trouble bus, carried it on their head

511
00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,620
past the broken vehicle.

512
00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:05,940
Then we got onto this, I've always wanted to get one of these big buses they have in

513
00:31:05,940 --> 00:31:06,940
India.

514
00:31:06,940 --> 00:31:13,180
It's manufactured by Tata, T-A-T-A and they have these abrasive air horns that are far

515
00:31:13,180 --> 00:31:17,460
worse than any train you've ever heard and it just rattles your eardrums.

516
00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:21,520
And I've always wanted to ride one of those things and God gave us the desire of our hearts

517
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:28,580
and we got to ride one of those and we pulled into Kathmandu at 9.15 in the evening.

518
00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:30,260
On the 4th of July.

519
00:31:30,260 --> 00:31:39,420
So having a word of the Lord gives you courage and it causes that melting heart to stop melting

520
00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:43,060
because we're going to see the word of the Lord come to pass.

521
00:31:43,060 --> 00:31:47,500
Now sometimes the word of the Lord comes to us in scripture.

522
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:53,580
If you have immersed yourself in scripture then a phrase from the scripture will come

523
00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:57,440
into your spirit and give you guidance.

524
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,160
It happens to me all the time.

525
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:06,600
It's not like I'm always hearing the voice of the Lord giving me a prophetic word.

526
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,500
It doesn't happen often.

527
00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:09,640
Sometimes it does.

528
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:18,540
But many, many, many, many times I get a phrase from the scripture that comes into my mind,

529
00:32:18,540 --> 00:32:25,240
comes into my spirit and I go look up that scripture and it gives me the next step.

530
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,980
That's often how we get the leading for what to do in a podcast.

531
00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:28,980
In a podcast, yes.

532
00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:29,980
Yeah.

533
00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:36,700
I just get a word, a phrase and as I go and look it up and there's the word of the Lord.

534
00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:42,020
So we can be guided by the word of the Lord that's in our spirit.

535
00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:48,300
The Holy Spirit that's inside of our spirit will bring up those words and we'll find that

536
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:56,000
there is something that is giving us courage to go forward even when the enemy is trying

537
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,460
to do something to cause us to fear.

538
00:32:58,460 --> 00:32:59,460
Yes.

539
00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:00,460
Oh, that's right.

540
00:33:00,460 --> 00:33:03,280
So we don't let our hearts melt.

541
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,220
We make the enemy's heart melt because of the glory of the Lord that he's working in

542
00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:09,360
our lives.

543
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:15,840
All of these things that the devil tries to put on us, when we recognize who it is, that's

544
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:22,580
when we start to go to battle and we win because the word of the Lord always works.

545
00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:23,920
The word works.

546
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,920
The word works.

547
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,920
The word works.

548
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:26,920
Yes, that's right.

549
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,920
The word works.

550
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:35,500
So we stand with Samson in those moments and let the spirit of the Lord come upon us and

551
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:41,520
all those things that are trying to bind us up and keep us from moving forward.

552
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,380
Those things are going to be melted.

553
00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:48,180
So there's another scripture that talks about being melted with fervent heat.

554
00:33:48,180 --> 00:33:55,080
That phrase came to me when I was preparing all these notes and that's in 2nd Peter chapter

555
00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:00,840
3 verses 10 to 12 it says, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night

556
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,540
in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt

557
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:08,100
with fervent heat.

558
00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:13,340
The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

559
00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:16,900
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved.

560
00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:23,960
What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation or all holy lifestyle

561
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,700
and godliness looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God where in the

562
00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:34,420
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

563
00:34:34,420 --> 00:34:38,020
Well, it sounds like the book of Revelation and tribulation.

564
00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:39,020
Exactly.

565
00:34:39,020 --> 00:34:43,640
You know, I spoke with Dean Braxton about this, about, you know, what is this going

566
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:44,640
to be like?

567
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,320
Because, you know, he went to heaven, spent an hour and 45 minutes there.

568
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,680
He saw lots of things.

569
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,160
So earth time and our 45 minutes.

570
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:58,200
Yeah, our earth time and you get outside of time and it's like a long time.

571
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,200
That's without limit.

572
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,920
A day of the Lord is like a thousand years.

573
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:03,920
Right.

574
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,780
So it was like he spent years there.

575
00:35:05,780 --> 00:35:09,800
So anyway, I was asking him, what is this going to be about?

576
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,280
Because I was a little scared of it.

577
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,200
You know, where are we going to be?

578
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,520
And what he explained was that everything that's out of order is going to be burned

579
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:24,400
up so that that which is kind of like the shaking that's talked about in Hebrews, that

580
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,920
everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that that which cannot be shaken will remain.

581
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,760
The things of the kingdom of God will remain.

582
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:39,000
I think didn't Dean say the Lord just loves his earth so much to destroy it like that?

583
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Was that Dean that said that?

584
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,300
It wasn't Dean that said that.

585
00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:48,120
That was Howard Storm when he was with Jesus after he died and he came back into his body.

586
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:56,320
He asked Jesus, will the earth be destroyed by nuclear armaments?

587
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,880
And Jesus said, no, I love my earth too much to let that happen.

588
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:00,880
Wow.

589
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,120
So that gives you a great yeah.

590
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,560
I think that's a word of the Lord that we can hang on to.

591
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,400
We do not have to fear these things.

592
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:15,440
And if you think about the atomic bombs that went off in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I mean,

593
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,800
those were horrific.

594
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,480
The people that were at ground zero were completely vaporized and all that was left of them was

595
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,800
their shadow.

596
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,160
But there were the group of, I think they were maybe just priests.

597
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:37,200
It was a monastery or a group home of priests, Catholic priests that were right at ground

598
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:44,960
zero or near ground zero and everybody else all around them died and they were unharmed

599
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,040
because they were living in the presence of God.

600
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,040
Wow.

601
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,800
So radiation just bounced off them.

602
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,680
See they were radiating the glory.

603
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,400
They were living in prayer.

604
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,040
That prayer was their thing.

605
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:03,160
And so it's the presence of the Lord that will protect you from those kinds of fervent

606
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:10,320
heats that will melt the enemy, that will melt things that don't belong.

607
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,800
Please I'm not saying anything about the innocent Japanese people that were wiped out.

608
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:21,320
I'm not saying that they were the enemy, but the Japanese military was, the Japanese government

609
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,680
was that started the war.

610
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:29,980
They were the enemy and why they chose to knock out a city, I don't understand.

611
00:37:29,980 --> 00:37:37,040
But anyway, the point is that when you are in the presence of God, when you are walking

612
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:43,320
where you're supposed to be, it doesn't matter how bad the circumstances get, the presence

613
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:49,920
of God is with you and everything else will melt, but you don't have to melt.

614
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,920
That's good.

615
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:51,920
Okay.

616
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:52,960
That is the point.

617
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,640
And we just need to be so in our trust in God.

618
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:04,240
And you know, sometimes we get faced with things that are scary.

619
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:09,620
Sometimes we get faced with, like look at Joshua, at the beginning of the book of Joshua,

620
00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:15,820
at the end of Deuteronomy, God tells Moses to bring up Joshua, set him in front of everybody

621
00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:20,080
and say, okay, this man is going to take you in.

622
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:25,520
The Lord says, I can't go because I lost my temper and hit the rock when he told me to

623
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,360
speak to the rock and it's all your fault because you made me mad.

624
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,680
He kind of did a little blame shifting there, but he was angry with the hardness of their

625
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:35,680
hearts.

626
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:43,960
And he says, Joshua, you be strong and courageous and lead this people in.

627
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:52,480
So after Moses dies and the people are there waiting, they spend 30 days in mourning in

628
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,800
honor to Moses.

629
00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:01,040
And then God says to Joshua, Moses, my servant is dead.

630
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:06,240
And I'm reading from Joshua chapter one, verses one through three says, after the death of

631
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:12,480
Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,

632
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,520
Moses, my servant is dead.

633
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:19,560
Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land that

634
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,720
I'm giving to them, to the people of Israel.

635
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:27,480
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you just as I

636
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,360
promised to Moses.

637
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,680
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life.

638
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,960
Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

639
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,520
I will not leave you nor forsake you.

640
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:46,880
Be strong and courageous for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore

641
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:54,080
to their fathers to give them only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according

642
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,640
to all the law that Moses, my servant commanded you.

643
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,360
Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left that you may have good success wherever

644
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,520
you go.

645
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:09,620
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day

646
00:40:09,620 --> 00:40:15,260
and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.

647
00:40:15,260 --> 00:40:19,600
For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.

648
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,000
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous?

649
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,060
Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever

650
00:40:28,060 --> 00:40:29,060
you go.

651
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:30,060
Yes.

652
00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:31,060
Be strong.

653
00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:38,600
So how, so in this scripture we are given some keys to how to be strong and courageous.

654
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,760
First of all, you just take it into your heart to do what God said to do.

655
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:48,400
But it also said, take hold of this book that I've given you.

656
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:55,600
These instructions that I gave to Moses, that word law there means instructions.

657
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:03,400
These instructions that I gave to you, just do them and nobody's going to be able to stand

658
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,040
against you.

659
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:13,440
Just take courage, be strong, do it and meditate on this word day and night.

660
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:21,000
It's the meditating on his word that gives us the strength and it gives us the heart.

661
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,840
It gives us the courage to do what the Lord is telling us to do because every single one

662
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,880
of us has an assignment on this planet.

663
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,200
It may be being a plumber.

664
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,400
It may be being an airline pilot.

665
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,600
It may be being a lawyer.

666
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:43,000
It may be being a pastor or a missionary, but it may be being a teacher.

667
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:49,880
It could be any job on the planet, but you are to be so filled with the Holy Spirit and

668
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:57,120
so filled with the word of God that the glory that's on the inside of you will cause you

669
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:04,080
to be able to stand and be strong and be courageous in this time.

670
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:09,340
Psalm 57 says, my heart is fixed, O God.

671
00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:10,340
My heart is fixed.

672
00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:13,200
I will sing and give praise.

673
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:22,480
When we have a courageous heart, a strong fixed heart, a set heart, a steadfast heart,

674
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:28,320
giving praise and singing is going to give us strength.

675
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:33,160
The fixing of our heart and the singing of praise goes together.

676
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,960
This word, my heart is fixed.

677
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,800
It could be steadfast, confident, set.

678
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,920
Psalm 112 verse seven says, he shall not be afraid of evil tidings.

679
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,920
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

680
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,680
It's our trust that comes from knowing him.

681
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:55,880
When we have seen him do stuff and we've seen him do plenty of stuff, we've lived long enough

682
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,320
to see him be faithful over and over and over.

683
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,160
Maybe you haven't lived long enough or maybe you haven't walked with the Lord long enough

684
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,080
to know that he's faithful.

685
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120
We're telling you, we've seen it.

686
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,800
He is faithful and you can anchor your soul in him.

687
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,960
You can put your trust in him.

688
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:20,560
This word fixed means to be stable, to be established, to be set up.

689
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:25,360
And it comes from a root word that means to be erect or stand perpendicular.

690
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,120
In other words, you're standing up.

691
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,440
It gives you the strength to stand.

692
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,340
When you have a fixed heart, you are ready to stand.

693
00:43:35,340 --> 00:43:40,240
And so you can be as strong as a lion.

694
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:47,400
The anointing that melts your bonds like it melted Samson's gives you the strength to

695
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,340
stand in front of the enemy.

696
00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:53,380
And it's like standing up to a bully.

697
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:59,880
We heard a story the other day from apostle Bobby Hogan where he was fed up and he told

698
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:04,520
how when he was in sixth grade, these boys would bully him and chase him home every day

699
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,240
running down the railroad tracks and chase him and chase him.

700
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,760
He was running with fear.

701
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:10,840
They were older than him.

702
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,240
They were bigger than him and he would just run.

703
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:23,120
And so one day he got fed up and he borrowed his daddy's knife and he was ready for them

704
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,560
this day and they start chasing him.

705
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:30,480
He starts running and all of a sudden he says, if I don't do it now, I'll never do it.

706
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:37,840
And he stopped and he turned around and he pulled out that knife and he threatened them

707
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,080
and they looked at each other and turned and went the other way.

708
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,080
Yeah.

709
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,720
It never bothered him again.

710
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,200
Never bothered him again.

711
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,540
You got to get fed up.

712
00:44:48,540 --> 00:44:50,480
You got to get that courage.

713
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:57,960
You've got to get that knowing that God has put you on this planet for a purpose and you

714
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,800
will stand in his anointing.

715
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:07,480
That Spirit of the Lord will come upon you and cause those bondages to break off of you

716
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:13,600
and you will be filled with the light of God and cause darkness to flee.

717
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:14,600
Yes.

718
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,600
In the name of Jesus.

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