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Better Together | Better Together - Episode 563 | April 6, 2022
- - Jesus said, "My sheep know my voice."
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- Today we're talking about how to hear God's voice,
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- know his will, and make decisions his way.
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- Come on and join us.
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- (upbeat music)
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- - You know, when I got saved, I full-on got saved.
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- I was a little bit of a,
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- Saul becoming Paul on the road to Damascus.
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- And when it happened, like everything in my life,
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- it kind of happened.
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- And so I sort of,
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- when it really clicked for me, I did like a 180.
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- So I had this sense, I didn't know what it was,
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- but we have what is called at the end of my Bible School
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- one year in 1990, we have this thing called Presbytery.
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- Now I came from a Greek Orthodox background.
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- I didn't know what Presbytery was.
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- I didn't know what prophets were.
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- I'd been studying the Bible.
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- But they bring in two prophets for Presbytery,
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- part of the tradition that I was from.
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- And I had never met these people.
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- I didn't who they were.
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- They didn't know me from Eve.
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- No idea.
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- And I still got the cassette tape, that's how old I am.
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- I've got the cassette tape.
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- Now I've got transcripts of everything,
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- and I've had them all moved onto digital.
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- But in that cassette, they prophesied over me
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- for a solid probably 15 minutes,
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- which is a long time when you...
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- And can I tell you that was in 1990?
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- We're recording this right now at 2022,
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- so that's 32 years ago.
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- And can I tell you all
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- everything that you are all seeing me do today,
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- if you listen to that cassette tape from 1990,
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- you'll go, "I cannot believe this."
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- And so then one day, again, now years later,
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- so about seven years after this, I've not dated anyone,
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- I'm president of the Singles Til Rapture club.
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- I'm leading a big youth movement in Australia,
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- that by the grace of God,
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- thousands of people are coming to Christ.
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- I'm doing all the things, helping churches
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- and building youth ministries.
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- Then in my prayer journal every morning
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- as I was having my quiet time in my prayer journal,
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- I don't know how else to explain all this to you.
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- So for some of you, this may not make sense,
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- but as I'm writing, I'm doing my little devotional,
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- I'm reading the scripture.
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- I start writing, without even thinking about it,
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- "You are going to meet your husband in August."
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- Okay. This is January. I freak out.
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- Like I literally, I dropped the pen and screamed.
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- I went, "What was that?"
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- It was like, "What was that?"
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- I wasn't thinking about a husband.
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- This was gonna mess up my
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- Singles Til Rapture club presidency,
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- I was like freaking out.
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- And so I just kind of kept it there in my prayer journal
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- just going, "I don't know what will happen there."
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- And I just didn't think about it.
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- Well then August,
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- I'm going to do a lecture in the Bible School.
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- And one of the students, Nick and I are the same age,
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- but he was a student.
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- He got saved later in the college and I was giving a lecture
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- and he says the story,
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- that's where he fell in love with the teacher.
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- And so all of a sudden I was running
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- a community-based youth center.
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- All of a sudden,
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- Nick would turn up everywhere that I was and say,
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- "I just need some help with this paper
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- for community-based evangelism.
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- And he would just be everywhere, you know,
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- to the point that it was very obvious.
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- Anyway, cut a long story short, we start dating.
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- And then of course it gets to the serious point of marriage.
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- Now I'm freaking out because I had such a fear
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- that if I get married,
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- whatever this thing is that I feel purpose to do,
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- which I didn't know what it was,
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- but I just knew that I wanted every second of every moment
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- of every gift, of every talent to be to God
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- for my whole life.
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- I had this sense of call.
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- There just wasn't women doing it where I could look at it
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- and in Australia.
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- And I remember, I wasn't here in America,
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- so I'm like, "What am I going to do?"
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- And this is how the Lord did it again.
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- Discerning the will of God.
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- Now for me to even date Nick, not only was it, yes.
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- Okay. Was it within the permissive will of God? Yes.
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- I believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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- So I'm thinking, "Okay, well we can start dating."
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- And we're then going into, I go to my pastor.
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- I go to, I had three really good girlfriends,
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- godly girlfriends.
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- And before we even sort of seriously dated,
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- I got all of their input because they knew that I was called
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- and they knew that I'd sacrificed a lot to be doing this.
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- And they didn't want me to just throw it away
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- because suddenly there's a guy on the picture.
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- So what did I do?
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- I mean, the word.
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- I go to my good friends, then a wise godly council,
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- a couple of people that were further on in the Lord
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- that would give me wise council in my life.
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- And so then it's like, "Okay, this seems good."
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- Like, people are in agreement. No one's got red flags.
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- No one's saying, "You shouldn't do this."
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- But then when it came to, "Will you marry him?"
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- I mean, I wanted God.
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- I wanted actually the Trinity, all the triune God.
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- I wanted the Father himself and the son and the holy spirit
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- to come into my bedroom.
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- I wanted them to write on a wall,
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- "Nick Caine is the man for you."
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- I was like, freaking out.
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- I wasn't able to sleep, because I was just so,
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- and many of you know what this is like,
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- so it was like, "God, how do I know?"
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- I wish the triune God came down, you know,
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- 26 years later it was obviously right.
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- We're good.
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- But this is how it happened for me.
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- I went up to speak at a youth rally in Queensland,
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- in Australia.
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- And it was about had a thousand kids in a school hall.
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- And we were just doing an outreach event,
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- a little regional outreach event.
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- And as I'm watching, and I'm in my heart, I'm like,
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- "Lord, do I get married? Don't I? What is your will?
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- What is your will, is this gonna be?"
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- As I stood at the back of that hall,
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- there was a thousand kids there.
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- And again, because I'd been in the word of God for years,
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- because I'd learned to discern the voice of God
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- through his word, through wise counsel around me,
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- I'm in church, I'm listening to a pastor.
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- I've got those checks and balances around me.
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- It's not just bad pizza and dreams.
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- As I was standing there, I felt in my heart,
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- and again, it's hard to explain this.
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- You just know.
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- And I've been walking with the Lord so long now,
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- I can know if this is God.
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- And I felt the holy spirit say to me,
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- "Christine, it's up to you. It's up to you.
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- You can choose whether you wanna marry Nick or not."
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- And in front of me were a thousand kids.
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- And he said, "If you stay single, you,"
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- and then that scripture out of Ecclesiastes,
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- "'One will put a thousand to flight.'
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- Chris, I'll bless your ministry.
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- I'll bless you.
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- And you will have great impact."
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- This is like, "One will put a thousand to flight."
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- But if you marry Nick, together exponentially,
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- that scripture goes on to say,
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- "And two will put 10.000 to flight."
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- And it was like, the thing that mattered to me,
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- different things mattered to other people.
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- but for mine, it was fruitfulness for the kingdom.
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- That's really what married, 'cause when I got saved,
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- I walked away from an ungodly relationship.
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- I mean, it wouldn't be enough for me to marry for love
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- or for sex or for companionship.
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- I walked away from all of that to follow Jesus.
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- So that was not going to be the deal breaker.
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- The deal breaker for me, and that's what God knew,
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- was fruitfulness.
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- So when he said, "If you marry this man,
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- together your ministry will have a 10 times more fruit
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- than if you don't marry him."
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- That was the, okay, this is God specifically speaking to me
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- in a way that matters to me for the thing that under
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- all of my stress and freaking out,
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- really was the issue.
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- And in that moment is how I was able to discern God's will.
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- So supernatural elements in there, natural elements.
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- Did I like him? Yes. Did we get on? Yes.
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- - Are our personalities well aligned?
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- Yes.
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- Did we have same interests?
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- Tick, tick, tick, tick.
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- Again, none of those things for me, Christine Caine,
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- were gonna be enough to marry Nick.
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- I had to have this other thing, and God knew.
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- And so that's when for me I was able to say,
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- yeah, this is the Lord.
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- This is the will of God that Nick and I.
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- And our people look at us and go, duh, of course.
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- But I'm like, there's a lot of a backstory.
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- I took a long time to say that
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- because I think what I wanna say in the midst of that
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- is God will use things that matter
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- and means something to you.
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- Don't box the way he's gonna speak to you
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- because God is God, and a lot of people wanna silence
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- the voice of God and say he can't speak to you like that.
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- Well, he can.
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- He can use whatever he wants
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- to speak in meaningful ways to you.
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- - I love that you wrestled though.
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- To me, one of the most important parts
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- of discerning God's will is wrestling with it
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- because sometimes what happens is we want something, right?
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- So, you know, let's take, you know, Nick as an example.
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- So you see him, he's a strapping young man
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- and you're just like led by your eyes, right?
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- And you're like, oh, he's a good looking young man.
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- God, I just want you to bless this
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- because this is what I want.
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- But instead, you wrestled with it.
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- And I think for people who are watching this,
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- I wanna first just acknowledge
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- that if you're wrestling with it, that's a good thing.
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- If you truly are going before God
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- and you're seeking his face, that's a good thing.
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- And I think sometimes we overlook that because we're like,
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- I just don't know.
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- But it's important to take that struggle to God.
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- I just, I love how also how you directed your desire to God.
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- It wasn't just about, you know,
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- I want to make my name big, or I want to be married.
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- It was Lord, I want to make your name great,
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- and if marriage is the path that you want me
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- to take to do that, then I will.
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- I just wanted to say I just love that,
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- and I think it's so important for us to continue to wrestle
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- in discerning God's will.
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- - And as you were talking, Christine,
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- I wrote down these ideas about the hard decision you made
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- and you mentioned God's word.
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- That was your confirmation.
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- Then you mentioned an inner knowing, inner conviction
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- that God showed you.
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- I also wrote down practical circumstances
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- because you really did know a calling in your heart,
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- and you could see the future in the spirit for yourself.
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- And you took all that into account,
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- and it's important that we do use our God given talent,
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- and the ability to see and weigh things.
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- Sometimes Christians can get, you know, this idea going.
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- Even outrageous ideas.
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- And they'll do things and you've heard the expression
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- put a fleece out.
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- And if the car doesn't go by at the certain hour,
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- well then I'll know that wasn't God or whatever.
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- And I think that's a little shallow.
- 00:11:37.486 --> 00:11:41.157
- I think it's a little shallow sometimes.
- 00:11:41.157 --> 00:11:43.325
- I'm not saying God can't do that,
- 00:11:43.325 --> 00:11:45.494
- but you're so deep in the story to explain
- 00:11:45.494 --> 00:11:50.399
- that you used your entire life experience
- 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:55.638
- in making a practical decision,
- 00:11:56.272 --> 00:11:58.774
- and I hope that a lot of young women are listening to this
- 00:11:58.774 --> 00:12:02.311
- because it was a turning point in your life
- 00:12:02.311 --> 00:12:05.447
- and in your mission for the rest of your life.
- 00:12:05.447 --> 00:12:07.783
- And then the fourth thing I wrote down,
- 00:12:07.783 --> 00:12:09.919
- is that you wanted the council of godly mature Christians.
- 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:16.425
- And that is so powerful.
- 00:12:16.926 --> 00:12:20.362
- There are people who have already worked out
- 00:12:20.362 --> 00:12:23.098
- all these life issues that I face.
- 00:12:23.098 --> 00:12:26.168
- They've already got an answer.
- 00:12:26.168 --> 00:12:28.003
- So if I'll be open and if I'll just say,
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- God, help me talk to the person, show me the person,
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- bring the person into my life.
- 00:12:36.412 --> 00:12:38.214
- And then if I'll be teachable
- 00:12:38.214 --> 00:12:40.316
- and I'll be willing like you were
- 00:12:40.316 --> 00:12:42.952
- to accept what they have to say,
- 00:12:42.952 --> 00:12:45.421
- then you can truly find the good, the acceptable,
- 00:12:45.421 --> 00:12:49.692
- the perfect will of God.
- 00:12:49.692 --> 00:12:51.627
- - You know, one of the things
- 00:12:52.261 --> 00:12:53.696
- I think we sometimes miss and don't understand
- 00:12:53.696 --> 00:12:55.331
- is the will of God and the timing of God.
- 00:12:55.331 --> 00:12:58.100
- You know, that we think if something is God's will,
- 00:12:58.100 --> 00:13:00.603
- then it would work out in a time that makes sense to us.
- 00:13:00.603 --> 00:13:03.239
- And to me when it comes to scripture, context is key.
- 00:13:03.239 --> 00:13:06.609
- It's everything.
- 00:13:06.609 --> 00:13:07.943
- 'Cause when I was like, I don't know 16, 17,
- 00:13:07.943 --> 00:13:09.845
- my mom had this scripture up on the wall everywhere.
- 00:13:09.845 --> 00:13:13.616
- You know, we all know it; Jeremiah 29:11.
- 00:13:13.616 --> 00:13:15.651
- "'For I know the plans I have for you' says the Lord.
- 00:13:15.651 --> 00:13:18.754
- 'They're plans for good and not for disaster.
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- To give you a future and a hope.'"
- 00:13:21.257 --> 00:13:23.359
- And I used to say to her,
- 00:13:23.359 --> 00:13:24.560
- mom, I would just like to see the plans.
- 00:13:24.560 --> 00:13:26.328
- If I could make a few suggestions,
- 00:13:26.328 --> 00:13:28.230
- I'll even sign off on the plans.
- 00:13:28.230 --> 00:13:30.332
- But then as I began to study this passage
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- when I was in seminary, I remember coming home
- 00:13:32.568 --> 00:13:34.703
- and saying to her mom, I know you love Jeremiah 29:11.
- 00:13:34.703 --> 00:13:39.141
- Do you mind if I read you Jeremiah 29:10?
- 00:13:39.141 --> 00:13:42.578
- Because in it it says, "This is what the Lord says.
- 00:13:42.578 --> 00:13:45.781
- "'You'll be in Babylon for 70 years,
- 00:13:45.781 --> 00:13:48.484
- but then I will come and do for you
- 00:13:48.484 --> 00:13:50.920
- all the good things I've promised,
- 00:13:50.920 --> 00:13:52.922
- and I will bring you home again.'"
- 00:13:52.922 --> 00:13:55.591
- I'm just thinking of those of you right now who are like,
- 00:13:55.591 --> 00:13:57.526
- Lord, I don't understand.
- 00:13:57.526 --> 00:13:59.128
- I made this move because I knew you told me
- 00:13:59.128 --> 00:14:01.397
- that's what I'm supposed to do.
- 00:14:01.397 --> 00:14:02.965
- You know, I made this job change, I did this thing,
- 00:14:02.965 --> 00:14:05.467
- and things are not falling into place
- 00:14:05.467 --> 00:14:07.636
- in a way that makes sense.
- 00:14:07.636 --> 00:14:09.305
- That's why I love the quote by Warren Wiersbe where he says,
- 00:14:09.305 --> 00:14:12.975
- "We don't live by explanations.
- 00:14:12.975 --> 00:14:14.310
- We live by faith in the promises of God."
- 00:14:14.310 --> 00:14:17.646
- You know, sometimes we want explanations
- 00:14:17.646 --> 00:14:19.315
- for why things are not falling into place.
- 00:14:19.315 --> 00:14:22.251
- But he said, no, we live by faith
- 00:14:22.251 --> 00:14:24.019
- in the promises of God.
- 00:14:24.019 --> 00:14:26.088
- So if you're struggling a little bit right now
- 00:14:26.088 --> 00:14:28.424
- and you're saying, I don't understand this
- 00:14:28.424 --> 00:14:30.125
- because I know I heard from you Lord
- 00:14:30.125 --> 00:14:31.961
- and I know I obeyed you
- 00:14:31.961 --> 00:14:33.562
- but things are not quite falling into place,
- 00:14:33.562 --> 00:14:35.831
- stand on the promises of God
- 00:14:35.831 --> 00:14:38.567
- because when God has promised something, he will do it.
- 00:14:38.567 --> 00:14:41.270
- It's just not always, I mean, think of Joseph.
- 00:14:41.270 --> 00:14:43.405
- You know this young boy who gets his word, you know,
- 00:14:43.405 --> 00:14:46.642
- that he's gonna be...
- 00:14:46.642 --> 00:14:48.243
- He's gonna get these incredible visions.
- 00:14:49.111 --> 00:14:50.479
- And at one point his mom and his dad or his brothers
- 00:14:51.547 --> 00:14:52.982
- are gonna bow down before him.
- 00:14:52.982 --> 00:14:54.483
- And, you know, he's like 17, 18 when he gets that.
- 00:14:54.483 --> 00:14:58.454
- It's not until he's almost 30 that God fulfills that.
- 00:14:58.454 --> 00:15:02.891
- And I think in that waiting,
- 00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:05.027
- if any of you are in that waiting period,
- 00:15:05.027 --> 00:15:07.696
- God is more concerned with what he's doing in you
- 00:15:07.696 --> 00:15:11.100
- than what he might be doing through you, you know?
- 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:13.302
- I think sometimes we think, oh, I'm so ready, Lord.
- 00:15:13.302 --> 00:15:16.205
- I've just got it all.
- 00:15:16.205 --> 00:15:17.773
- Charisma is not character.
- 00:15:17.773 --> 00:15:20.009
- You know, you can have all the charisma in the world,
- 00:15:20.009 --> 00:15:21.944
- but until you have character that's steeped
- 00:15:21.944 --> 00:15:25.180
- 'til you're soaked to the skin in the word of God,
- 00:15:25.180 --> 00:15:27.816
- then I think we're not quite ready.
- 00:15:27.816 --> 00:15:29.585
- But it's like John 5 Jesus says
- 00:15:29.585 --> 00:15:32.755
- when the Pharisees are complaining and they said,
- 00:15:32.755 --> 00:15:34.523
- why did you heal that guy on a Sunday?
- 00:15:34.523 --> 00:15:35.991
- That's clearly not right.
- 00:15:35.991 --> 00:15:37.192
- And Jesus says this and I love this.
- 00:15:37.192 --> 00:15:39.128
- He said, "'My father is always working, and so am I.'"
- 00:15:39.128 --> 00:15:43.499
- So God is working in your life right now,
- 00:15:43.499 --> 00:15:46.902
- whether you understand the timing.
- 00:15:46.902 --> 00:15:48.404
- You have not missed the will of God.
- 00:15:48.404 --> 00:15:51.440
- It might seem to you like it's taken a detour,
- 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.976
- you have not missed God's plan for your life.
- 00:15:53.976 --> 00:15:57.479
- It might seem like you've been
- 00:15:57.479 --> 00:15:58.947
- in a wilderness for a few years
- 00:15:58.947 --> 00:16:00.916
- but God said at the right time, I will bring you back.
- 00:16:00.916 --> 00:16:03.819
- It's a promise.
- 00:16:03.819 --> 00:16:05.287
- - You know, it's trusting the character of God.
- 00:16:05.287 --> 00:16:08.290
- If we trust his character, he's a good father.
- 00:16:08.290 --> 00:16:11.794
- He loves us, he's a generous God.
- 00:16:11.794 --> 00:16:14.329
- I mean, he can't...
- 00:16:14.329 --> 00:16:15.531
- That's who he is.
- 00:16:15.531 --> 00:16:16.632
- He doesn't love us; he is love.
- 00:16:16.632 --> 00:16:19.568
- He is the epitome of love and good.
- 00:16:19.568 --> 00:16:23.572
- And if we believe that, then we want his will in our life
- 00:16:23.572 --> 00:16:27.943
- no matter what we, you know, go through.
- 00:16:27.943 --> 00:16:32.114
- So I talk a lot about our journey up to Los Angeles.
- 00:16:32.114 --> 00:16:37.386
- We worked at TBN back in the '80s and the '90s,
- 00:16:38.287 --> 00:16:40.722
- and in '92 we left TBN.
- 00:16:41.223 --> 00:16:44.927
- We resigned our positions.
- 00:16:44.927 --> 00:16:46.361
- In 1995 we moved our two little boys up to Los Angeles
- 00:16:46.361 --> 00:16:50.365
- 'cause we felt God wanted us to do movies up there.
- 00:16:50.365 --> 00:16:53.068
- So we produced some movies up there,
- 00:16:53.068 --> 00:16:56.738
- stayed up there for about 16 years
- 00:16:56.738 --> 00:16:59.141
- before we came back to TBN.
- 00:16:59.141 --> 00:17:01.643
- During that time, I knew God had called us up there.
- 00:17:02.711 --> 00:17:06.682
- God gave us the grace.
- 00:17:06.682 --> 00:17:08.217
- It wasn't what we wanted to do.
- 00:17:08.217 --> 00:17:11.353
- We were very comfortable.
- 00:17:11.353 --> 00:17:13.422
- Felt those desires, felt the leading of the Holy Spirit
- 00:17:13.422 --> 00:17:16.992
- to put our foot in Hollywood, get up there,
- 00:17:16.992 --> 00:17:20.496
- and do movies that took the name of the Lord
- 00:17:20.496 --> 00:17:24.833
- into places where it's dim and unheard.
- 00:17:24.833 --> 00:17:27.236
- That was kind of the call.
- 00:17:27.236 --> 00:17:29.571
- I remember getting up there,
- 00:17:29.571 --> 00:17:32.141
- didn't have the money for our first house payment.
- 00:17:32.141 --> 00:17:36.411
- And I remember calling one of the prophetic guys
- 00:17:36.411 --> 00:17:40.249
- that had spoken into our hearts,
- 00:17:40.249 --> 00:17:41.517
- get your foot in Hollywood.
- 00:17:41.517 --> 00:17:42.951
- And just sobbing on the phone I said, Kim,
- 00:17:42.951 --> 00:17:46.588
- I said we don't even have money
- 00:17:46.588 --> 00:17:48.757
- to pay our first house payment.
- 00:17:48.757 --> 00:17:50.592
- We don't know anybody.
- 00:17:50.592 --> 00:17:51.627
- I have an empty home up here.
- 00:17:51.627 --> 00:17:53.495
- I've got my two little boys.
- 00:17:53.495 --> 00:17:54.763
- What is going on?
- 00:17:54.763 --> 00:17:56.131
- And he said, Laurie, do you think God
- 00:17:56.131 --> 00:17:58.667
- would call you up there and leave you?
- 00:17:58.667 --> 00:18:02.037
- Do you think he would call you into what he's felt...
- 00:18:03.105 --> 00:18:07.209
- You know, what we felt to put our whole heart and soul into,
- 00:18:07.209 --> 00:18:11.113
- and then would he leave you there?
- 00:18:11.113 --> 00:18:13.182
- He said, he's not gonna leave you there.
- 00:18:13.182 --> 00:18:16.251
- And I remember during those years,
- 00:18:16.251 --> 00:18:21.056
- we just lived the most the weirdest life
- 00:18:21.924 --> 00:18:24.927
- but God was showing us who he was.
- 00:18:24.927 --> 00:18:29.031
- He was showing himself.
- 00:18:29.031 --> 00:18:31.233
- - Faithful in every, every aspect.
- 00:18:30.399 --> 00:18:33.769
- We never missed a meal.
- 00:18:33.769 --> 00:18:35.370
- We did some movies, but it was always,
- 00:18:35.370 --> 00:18:38.840
- we wanna say a struggle, but it wasn't a struggle.
- 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:43.545
- It was seeing God in those times.
- 00:18:43.545 --> 00:18:45.881
- And I just think that if we trust the faithfulness
- 00:18:45.881 --> 00:18:48.650
- and the character of God,
- 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:50.519
- that we are going to want everything that he has for us
- 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:55.057
- and trust in his perfect will
- 00:18:55.057 --> 00:18:57.960
- that his will is being done in our life.
- 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.028
- And a lot of that is just revelation,
- 00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:01.964
- knowing who he is and becoming like him.
- 00:19:01.964 --> 00:19:04.199
- The Bible tells a story about the potter who has the clay.
- 00:19:04.199 --> 00:19:08.270
- And he says in the, in the hands of the potter
- 00:19:08.270 --> 00:19:11.673
- the clay was marred so that he could shape and mold.
- 00:19:11.673 --> 00:19:15.844
- So all those things that seem so,
- 00:19:15.844 --> 00:19:18.814
- so hard for our flesh just know that God is working
- 00:19:19.848 --> 00:19:23.252
- in every single little detail.
- 00:19:23.252 --> 00:19:25.821
- If you have the faith to trust him in the middle of it.
- 00:19:25.821 --> 00:19:29.491
- - You know what though Laurie, you just,
- 00:19:29.491 --> 00:19:31.893
- you literally were speaking to what,
- 00:19:32.694 --> 00:19:34.162
- as everyone was talking,
- 00:19:34.663 --> 00:19:35.864
- the Lord took me to Romans eight verse five
- 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:38.800
- which says those who live according to the flesh
- 00:19:38.800 --> 00:19:41.336
- have their mindset on what the flesh desires.
- 00:19:41.336 --> 00:19:43.405
- But those who live in accordance with the spirit
- 00:19:43.405 --> 00:19:45.574
- have their mindset on what the spirit desires.
- 00:19:45.574 --> 00:19:47.976
- And when you skip down to verse 14
- 00:19:47.976 --> 00:19:50.412
- it says for those who are led by the spirit of God
- 00:19:50.412 --> 00:19:53.048
- are the children of God.
- 00:19:53.048 --> 00:19:54.516
- I think in discernment it's so important
- 00:19:54.516 --> 00:19:56.985
- that we're spirit led. - Yes.
- 00:19:56.985 --> 00:19:58.720
- - Really being spirit led
- 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.789
- and surrendering our fleshly desires
- 00:20:00.789 --> 00:20:03.892
- to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- 00:20:03.892 --> 00:20:06.028
- And I think the thing about discernment is the reason
- 00:20:06.028 --> 00:20:08.297
- why we need it is because there is a war
- 00:20:08.297 --> 00:20:10.899
- between our flesh and our spirit right.
- 00:20:10.899 --> 00:20:13.535
- - Sure.
- 00:20:13.535 --> 00:20:15.037
- - We need the discernment because we want to honor God.
- 00:20:15.037 --> 00:20:16.872
- And so I think it is important for us to have a,
- 00:20:16.872 --> 00:20:19.875
- a practice of prayer.
- 00:20:19.875 --> 00:20:21.877
- A lot of times we go to God in prayer when you know,
- 00:20:21.877 --> 00:20:24.680
- we want something or we need something
- 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:26.581
- but we have to develop a regular practice
- 00:20:26.581 --> 00:20:29.484
- of interfacing and communing with God
- 00:20:29.484 --> 00:20:31.553
- because it's only through being spirit led
- 00:20:31.553 --> 00:20:33.755
- and learning to listen to what the Lord is saying,
- 00:20:33.755 --> 00:20:37.125
- that we will develop discernment, 'cause it's a skill.
- 00:20:37.125 --> 00:20:40.028
- It really is a skill.
- 00:20:40.028 --> 00:20:41.530
- And it's a gift.
- 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:43.632
- It's a, it's a gift of the spirit of God
- 00:20:43.632 --> 00:20:45.100
- but that requires spending, spending time with God.
- 00:20:45.100 --> 00:20:47.002
- And I feel like that's the common thread
- 00:20:47.002 --> 00:20:49.338
- through what everyone has been saying today
- 00:20:49.338 --> 00:20:51.039
- is that we have to live a spirit led life.
- 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.909
- You know I don't care what my flesh desires.
- 00:20:53.909 --> 00:20:55.777
- I don't care what my flesh wants.
- 00:20:55.777 --> 00:20:57.245
- The question is, what is God requiring of me in this moment?
- 00:20:57.245 --> 00:21:00.649
- - God is so gracious and kind.
- 00:21:00.649 --> 00:21:03.919
- And listen, he is, if you have a heart after God
- 00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:08.857
- and you start going down a track
- 00:21:08.857 --> 00:21:11.159
- and it just isn't within his perfect will, don't freak out.
- 00:21:11.159 --> 00:21:15.864
- God has the ability to get you on track
- 00:21:15.864 --> 00:21:18.834
- and not everything that I started have I started going down
- 00:21:18.834 --> 00:21:22.170
- the exact alignment of what God wants.
- 00:21:22.170 --> 00:21:24.206
- As my heart has been towards God
- 00:21:24.206 --> 00:21:26.108
- and I'm like Lord help me.
- 00:21:26.108 --> 00:21:27.843
- And then shut the door if I'm going the wrong way
- 00:21:27.843 --> 00:21:30.045
- or redirect me.
- 00:21:30.045 --> 00:21:31.747
- God is so gracious.
- 00:21:32.214 --> 00:21:33.448
- I think sometimes we are so scared
- 00:21:33.448 --> 00:21:34.950
- of messing up the perfect will of God that we,
- 00:21:34.950 --> 00:21:37.219
- you know we are paralyzed almost.
- 00:21:37.219 --> 00:21:40.122
- I think that's actually a bigger problem
- 00:21:40.122 --> 00:21:41.656
- than sort of stepping out ahead of God.
- 00:21:41.656 --> 00:21:43.225
- I think more people so fear either dishonoring the Lord
- 00:21:43.225 --> 00:21:46.795
- or not doing it.
- 00:21:46.795 --> 00:21:48.463
- So I'm speaking to that woman today.
- 00:21:48.463 --> 00:21:49.664
- You know that don't freak out.
- 00:21:49.664 --> 00:21:51.700
- God's good.
- 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:53.235
- Sometimes my kid, my youngest is just learning to drive now,
- 00:21:53.235 --> 00:21:55.437
- Lord have mercy.
- 00:21:55.437 --> 00:21:56.872
- My prayer life's gone to another level, but you know what?
- 00:21:56.872 --> 00:21:59.007
- There's some things that she does
- 00:21:59.007 --> 00:22:01.042
- and it's a little bit like, okay,
- 00:22:01.810 --> 00:22:02.978
- she's going to get on track
- 00:22:03.578 --> 00:22:04.846
- and she's going to be able to, to do this thing right.
- 00:22:05.947 --> 00:22:07.249
- And I'm gonna help steer her and redirect her.
- 00:22:07.249 --> 00:22:10.051
- I just love the fact that she's finally getting up
- 00:22:10.051 --> 00:22:12.821
- and moving in that direction, which is awesome.
- 00:22:12.821 --> 00:22:15.056
- And it's a lot easier for God to, you know,
- 00:22:15.056 --> 00:22:18.660
- you've heard it said so many times to,
- 00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:21.062
- to steer a moving car than one that's just stuck
- 00:22:22.063 --> 00:22:23.231
- in the garage.
- 00:22:23.231 --> 00:22:24.433
- I'm speaking to someone today,
- 00:22:24.433 --> 00:22:25.901
- time to get your spiritual key in the ignition
- 00:22:25.901 --> 00:22:28.870
- and start up your engine and trust that God
- 00:22:28.870 --> 00:22:32.607
- will direct your car.
- 00:22:32.607 --> 00:22:33.842
- Don't freak out.
- 00:22:33.842 --> 00:22:35.210
- And I really believe that he will.
- 00:22:35.210 --> 00:22:37.646
- And those of you that think Chris I've messed up so bad,
- 00:22:37.646 --> 00:22:40.749
- I've messed it up.
- 00:22:40.749 --> 00:22:42.417
- You know there's a reason why in the scripture
- 00:22:42.417 --> 00:22:45.120
- and we read it multiple times.
- 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:46.588
- Old Testament and new, that God is able to restore the years
- 00:22:46.588 --> 00:22:50.725
- that the locus worm has taken,
- 00:22:50.725 --> 00:22:52.194
- that God is able to restore double for wasted years.
- 00:22:52.194 --> 00:22:55.030
- If we have a truly repentant heart
- 00:22:55.030 --> 00:22:56.698
- and we truly come before the Lord and say okay,
- 00:22:56.698 --> 00:22:58.767
- God I want, it's not the end of your life.
- 00:22:58.767 --> 00:23:01.269
- It's not that God can't use you.
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- The enemy will be lying to you saying it's all over.
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- You can't do anything else,
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- but don't listen to the lies of the enemy.
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- God is able to redeem.
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- God is able to restore.
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- God is able to give you double for your trouble
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- and you will find, that's the supernatural side.
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- And people go, well, it's not fair.
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- Hello, grace is not fair.
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- It's just the way that it works in the kingdom of God
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- and the 11th hour labor is gonna get the same
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- as the first hour.
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- So maybe you're just waking up to this whole thing
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- about the will of God, step into God's will.
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- And anyone that tries to limit you in any way
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- and say well it's,
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- you know other people have been doing this for 20 years
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- and you are just doing it.
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- They don't have a revelation of grace
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- 'cause if I've been doing it for 30 years
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- then I have a revelation of the grace of God.
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- I've been in the father's house with access to everything
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- so I don't begrudge anyone being in 11th hour labor
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- and getting every,
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- I want as many people to get a on track with God's will
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- and plan on purpose as possible.
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- So don't listen to the enemy any longer.
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- It's not too late.
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- Get your spiritual key in that ignition
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- and begin to get on plan because it's the will of God.
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- He says that he came,
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- Jesus said I came that you might have life
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- and life more abundant.
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- And let me tell you where abundant life is to be found.
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- It's in the will of God.
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- So I gonna pray for you.
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- And I'm gonna pray today
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- that literally people are going to be activated
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- and get on track with their God-given destiny.
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- That today you're gonna stop listening to the lie
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- of the enemy that tells you it's all over
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- and it's too late and you're gonna know the redeeming.
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- You're gonna know the redeeming power of God in your life.
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- So father, I thank you. - Thank you.
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- - I thank you that you've,
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- father allowed us to enter into your story
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- and to be part of your incredible will here on earth
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- as it is in heaven.
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- So father I pray firstly for those that feel
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- like it's too late.
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- Lord I pray right now
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- that you would just give them strength
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- and courage to know that it's not too late Lord.
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- While there's still breath in our lungs, there's still hope,
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- there's still a purpose.
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- So father, I just silence the voice of the enemy
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- over their lives in the name of Jesus Christ
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- and speak strength and faith and courage.
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- And Lord for those that have just been paralyzed by fear of
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- just stepping outside of your will
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- or not being in alignment with your will,
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- father, I just bind that spirit of fear
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- in the name of Jesus Christ and father.
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- I pray that there would be just
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- a true holy ghost joy of like let's get into the car
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- and get on track with my God given purpose.
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- So father let people be activated today
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- in the name of Jesus I pray.
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- Amen Lord. - Amen, amen.
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- our plan to God's will.
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