Your Heart's Posture

Summary

In this thought-provoking session by BLW Oasis, the discussion revolves around the intricate dynamics of receiving miracles, particularly touching upon the role of faith and divine sovereignty. The conversation includes testimonies and biblical examples that highlight different perspectives on whether faith is always necessary to receive a miracle from God. The session emphasizes the importance of a believer's posture towards God's word and the attitude required to truly harness the transformative power of divine teachings. The engaging discourse challenges traditional notions of faith and encourages believers to examine their personal approach to spiritual growth and understanding.

Highlights

• Discussed whether faith is always required to receive miracles, with diverse opinions shared 🔍.
• Explored biblical stories that supported both sides, such as Lazarus and the healing of a blind man 📜.
• Highlighted the importance of being in the presence of God's power for miracles to happen 🤲.
• Emphasized the attitude towards God's word as a key factor in spiritual growth 🧠.
• Encouraged practical application and understanding of scripture for real change 🌟.

Key Takeaways

• Miracles can happen by grace or direct faith, showing the sovereignty of God's actions 🙏.
• Faith is essential in most cases, but divine will may not always require it ⭐.
• Believers should maintain an open, receptive attitude to God's word for transformation 📖.
• Deep reflection and understanding are crucial in nurturing faith 🌱.
• Consistency in spiritual practices can pave the way for miracles to unfold ✨.

Overview

The session begins with a lively debate addressing whether receiving a miracle from God always necessitates faith. Participants shared various perspectives, some suggesting that in certain divine instances, faith might not be a prerequisite, highlighting God's grace and sovereignty.

Through biblical stories such as the raising of Lazarus and the healing encounters of Jesus, the discussion unfolds multiple angles. These narratives illustrate scenarios where either faith played a central role, or divine power operated independently, enriching the dialogue around miracles.

Concluding with a focus on the significance of one's disposition towards God's word, the speaker stresses that understanding and embracing scriptural teachings profoundly impact one's spiritual journey. Listeners are encouraged to cultivate a deep, reflective engagement with their faith to truly experience God's transformational power.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 10:30: The Role in Receiving Miracles The chapter explores the role individuals play in receiving miracles, particularly in the context of programs like Healing Streams. It emphasizes that there is always a part or responsibility for individuals in receiving miracles, not just in such programs but generally from God.
• 10:30 - 60:00: Attitude Towards God's Word The chapter explores the theme of individual responsibility in relation to one's attitude and engagement with God's word. The speaker poses the question of whether an individual always has a role to play in the context of receiving spiritual teachings. There is an emphasis on active participation and personal contribution in understanding and implementing divine instructions. The audience is asked to consider their own involvement and to respond with a simple 'yes' or 'no' regarding their belief in the necessity of having a part to play in the process.

Your Heart's Posture Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 is there any part that we have to do in say receiving a miracle in a program like healing streams do you have a part to play in receiving and not just healing streams just in general receiving a miracle from God do you have a part to play yes do you always have a part to play
• 00:30 - 01:00 that's a bit more tricky do you always have a part to play I got you I got you I got you there do you always have a part to play who who says yes yes let's let's see your hand and please just make it a yes or no okay you always have a part to play when it comes to you know receiving
• 01:00 - 01:30 a miracle from God okay I see a bunch of yeses there I see some yeses here as well one yes here Pastor RI no is yes or no no h I didn't see your hand uh what were you Jeff not always come you're still thinking
• 01:30 - 02:00 praise God who said no this is a very important uh question Okay no Okay I see let's see the nose again okay give him a mic I want to hear I want to hear all right so I said no because
• 02:00 - 02:30 if God decides to do something in your life without your knowledge of it yeah you don't have to receive whereas sometimes you have to go through the process of Faith which is believing because faith is the now is the action so need to believe to receive what has not always the case interesting give him a round of applause that's an interesting one
• 02:30 - 03:00 who who else wants to add to that I saw another no here yes give you can give her a mic yes praise God um thank you sir for the opportunity so um I said no because um the power of God and because always is like a legal term you're saying like every time 100% And I don't agree with that it's like there's an atmosphere of
• 03:00 - 03:30 God like the power of God when you come in contact with the power of God something actually happens to you even if you may not know it it's like doing something to get electrocuted by accident and you didn't expect to get electrocuted and you were electrocut so you can accidentally experience a miracle I think so and not necessarily accidentally but when that atmosphere of Miracle is there a miracle going to take
• 03:30 - 04:00 place there are people who received their Vision in an atmosphere of Miracle because angels of healing were present not that they necessarily did anything so interesting that's an interesting one give her a round of applause as well I wish you guys would give proof because you there should be biblical proof right let's hear from Brother T I mean these kinds of questions you have the answers in do you believe that the answers are in the scriptures yes the answers are in the Bible the answers are
• 04:00 - 04:30 in the Bible yes go ahead praise God hope you're good to add scriptural proof evidence for us okay go ahead I mean one of the um the top scripture that comes to mind is The Story of Lazarus the the keyword from what you say was always always is not the it doesn't have to be always because what of the recipient what is the situation of the recipient what if the recipient is dead like how would a dead person show no you got to give a round of appla for that that's a
• 04:30 - 05:00 good one [Applause] right what what part the Lazarus have to play in being raised from the dead give him a round of applause again that's a good one okay Michael has his hand up let's hear from Michael I think Omar disagrees we're going to hear from her are you learning something so far cuz I have some thoughts to share on this yes go ahead there there's another story in the Bible
• 05:00 - 05:30 um with the the the man that they brought in through the roof and I Think Jesus said it was the Fai of his friends that healed him so so your question was about the recipient like being always responsible so having a part to play and Jesus specifically said it was his friends good good good give him a round of applause that's a good one okay let's hear from Omar then come
• 05:30 - 06:00 I I think she come closer yeah you disagree I I get from I understand where they coming from you know when you asked that question I said no but at the same time I said um yes because for you to receive any Miracle it can be indirect and it can be directly so from what sister Elizabeth said you can be in the atmosphere not knowing anything but you are there you were there that's indirect of receiving a miracle so you are
• 06:00 - 06:30 playing a part okay so beautiful that's she makes a very valid point she's saying your being there was already an Act of Faith yes give a round of applause that's good and using Lazarus as an example let's be honest if um Lazarus sisters Mary don't have access to Jesus do you think that might happen so there was somebody else whose Faith was present give me a round of applause again that's a good that's good the same
• 06:30 - 07:00 thing with the friends it's they have so you're saying it has so it may not be the person's but there has to be some direct exactly there's a direct connection with that person regardless and I will use the um Jesus um stopping the storm is a miracle what happened they the the disciples didn't believe but what happened they woke Jesus up and Miracle happen I feel like that is just a way direct um way you um the person can receive it so praise God amazing
• 07:00 - 07:30 amazing give another round of applause that was really good okay let's hear from uh sister K interesting topic this morning right oh you're similar to okay then let's hear from favor is yours different okay let's he from favor then okay not that I disagree with sister Omar but in John N um the man who was blind and Jesus healed the Bible says and as Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth so this man wasn't even
• 07:30 - 08:00 in a place of healing he was just standing at a spot where he usually would and Jesus was just passing and he got healed so he didn't even expect healing he wasn't looking for healing healing just met him where he was so yeah okay clap for her clap for her that's a bit of a tricky one let's hear from uh come here praise God thank you Pastor so I
• 08:00 - 08:30 agree a lot with Omar with what she said but to comment to favor as well if we look through the scripture for every time that there was a miracle or a healing there was a presence of you know Jesus or a presence of a prophet or a presence of the spirit of God so not necessarily that the individual has to play a role so look at the boy who died uh I think she was it was the woman um at Nana something like that was what it was called and the her son died you know
• 08:30 - 09:00 she was scripture said they were on their way to bury the boy and Jesus was just passing by you know and that miracle happened so uh when I said I was thinking I was really trying to search through the scripture if there was an example of any miracle that happened where the person was far away from the atmosphere of either healing like Elizabeth said or where Jesus Christ was so for every time that was a healing not necessarily that had the faith to be healed all they they had someone who had
• 09:00 - 09:30 healing but they were just in that environment where they were connected to healing and we know that Jesus is very compassionate so there's a place where compassion and mercy now gets to play a role in interfering but you cannot be inness you can't be in hell and the healing will get to you there so not necessarily that you were born again but you just found yourself in an environment where merca found you to command the healing for you to receive oh praise God
• 09:30 - 10:00 Give Me 2 Kings chapter 13 from verse 14 says now Elisha was suffering from the illness from which he died and then it tells you the story of
• 10:00 - 10:30 jeha's interaction with him so Elisha the prophet dies right let's skip over to verse 21 once while some Israelites were burying a man suddenly they saw a band of Raiders thieves so they F the man's body into Elisha's tomb when the body touched Elisha's body Bones the man came
• 10:30 - 11:00 to life and stood up on his feet whose Faith was working and I love this one because the prophet in question is dead so you can't say it's the the faith of the Prophet that was working whose Faith was working the people that were carrying the man had no faith
• 11:00 - 11:30 the B the dead body had no faith Elisha's bones had no faith so whose Faith was working I'm waiting for feedback from those that said May has to be Omar do you have a response [Laughter]
• 11:30 - 12:00 no no I didn't say that uh um close the case on an argument I just wanted to make a very important point there about uh one the sovereignty of God right and two there's such a thing as you know principles that can be in operation Beyond you know the existence of of our faith as a well but incidentally I'm
• 12:00 - 12:30 actually sharing with you about receiving with your faith so now the reason I said that is because great we have this story but how do you engineer that you know when you're dealing in the space of the sovereignty of God or what someone call the mercy of God it's so within his power that we can't do anything about it
• 12:30 - 13:00 but there's a part that you can do something about which leads me to my next question by the way is was that sufficiently answered do you because we were asking the question do you always require Faith to get something from God was that sufficiently answered wisdom looks like he not sure you have a question
• 13:00 - 13:30 you were asking if um we need to do something to receive from God you didn't you didn't say to do something to for a miracle to happen so in that scripture that yeah you just read a miracle happened no one was um expecting to receive anything but the question he asked was do we need to do something to
• 13:30 - 14:00 receive from God okay interesting interesting so now we're on the technicality of the question what did I say [Music] exactly do we always have to play a role to receive a miracle okay but I think it's the same I mean how is this different um you're supposed to receive something yeah it's like you're taking from okay now you're now
• 14:00 - 14:30 you you're you're adding your own part because he received something he received life life came into his body one way or another right he received life he came back to life he got something he got a miracle yes but did he have a role to play in the miracle no praise God so did you want to say something about RI earlier I think I had put your hand on you still want to say
• 14:30 - 15:00 something okay if you can get Pastor Rook a mic but I wanted to share with you about the right attitude for receiving God's word and this is going to be a very important very few minutes on a Sunday morning that you don't want to forget please please pay very close attention uh go ahead um thank you sir even though the story doesn't say it what if like like the man had a sister that was praying
• 15:00 - 15:30 for him at home and then you know that sort of worked out for their family that's why the Bible doesn't leave room for what ifs right it's truth it's been said that's where you're now dealing in conjecture and assumptions we don't deal in that praise God and I love the Bible is so complete because I believe that if someone was praying for him actually have said that God likes you to know those kinds of
• 15:30 - 16:00 details right but is there a right attitude for receiving God's word or being transformed in God's presence I really want you to pay attention to this because it leads me to the question I asked before leads me to the next question um is there is it possible to want something from God that he has made provision for and not receive it in an atmosphere where
• 16:00 - 16:30 that thing is is it possible to miss God in an atmosphere where he is the blessing that you're looking for is is it possible I would expect at least one no you know oh he said he said it's not possible I love it I love it Pastor Danny it's not possible it's possible okay I mean it's not
• 16:30 - 17:00 possible is there anyone that believes that it's not possible that once you're in the place where the miracle of God is and the blessing of God that you want is once you're there it's not possible for you to miss it it's possible for you to miss right but who believes that it's not possible that's question
• 17:00 - 17:30 let's let's hear that it says actually I heard him I don't worry he said it's not possible because God loves you right and in that atmosphere his love is going to work in your behalf is God's love enough I love that one some people said yes and one voice said no I'll ask again and I want everyone to answer just answer how you know is God's love
• 17:30 - 18:00 [Laughter] enough who said no who said God's love is not enough how can you say that in church God's love is not enough no it's what I said that's it go is God's love enough Pastor Danny you said God's love is not enough what kind of Pastor is this stand up stand up tell
• 18:00 - 18:30 us why is God's love not enough tell us with [Laughter] proof praise God hallelujah so God because one for God to love the world that he gave his only begotten son that who believes shall not perish so
• 18:30 - 19:00 like Pastor has said this so many times salvation is for all but not everyone is saved salvation is free for all as of now technically everybody's supposed to be saved but there's a believing that you have to do to be able to receive your salvation right and then another example Jesus Christ was on this Earth walking living breathing like me the Bible tells us that when he was in his village he could not perform any Miracles oh
• 19:00 - 19:30 hallah they T him away when he was there he's he's God in full flesh so of course if God's love was enough or God's power was enough he walking they should be receiving their healing whether they like it or not but that was not the case thank you sir wow give her a round of [Applause] applause amazing does anybody disagree with that any opposing opinions
• 19:30 - 20:00 okay the faith of the person that's important let's look at Matthew Chapter 13 I want to show you something cuz what I'm sharing today is very important Matthew 13
• 20:00 - 20:30 uh let's go over to verse 54 says coming to his hometown can you give me the King James because I like the construction that King James gives here something that he says
• 20:30 - 21:00 and when he was come into his own country he taught them in their synagogue in so much that they were astonished and said whence hath this man this wisdom and these Mighty works this where did he get this wisdom and his mighty works is not this the the carpenter son is not his mother called Mary and his Brethren James that is his siblings James and Joseph and Simon and Judas he says he has these four siblings that we know where did he get this wisdom from and his sisters are they not
• 21:00 - 21:30 all with us so he even had other sisters apart from that once then had this man all these things and they were offended in him but Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and in his own house verse 58 and he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief that's what he was talking about the the
• 21:30 - 22:00 role of Faith so God's love is not enough uh there's a a way that the uh uh Mark gives his account of this same thing that I want us to take a look at Mark chapter 6 and we can read from verse
• 22:00 - 22:30 one actually let's just skip to verse uh 4 very strong words that he uses but Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor but in his own country and among his own King and in his own house so same story that Matthew was given us the account of right verse five verse 5 and he could there do no Mighty
• 22:30 - 23:00 work save that is except that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and heal them that means Jesus could only heal headaches colds fever but he says he could you know and I love to draw people's attention to that it's a different thing if I said you would not if I said you would not do something means you can but you're not willing Cod is a statement of
• 23:00 - 23:30 ability if I said he could not what do I what do I mean more than likely he tried and it failed can you imagine Jesus telling the lame to walk and the man goes back home the same did you ever imagine that you know that's what the scripture is saying
• 23:30 - 24:00 he said he could not what he's trying to describe to you is that the power that he had to heal the sick was short circuited at least in one scenario we see that he attempts and it fails it says only a few sick folk could be healed now why am I drawing this to your attention because it's the same principle that applies with everything do you know I I said this on Wednesday in our midweek service I said you know I
• 24:00 - 24:30 reminded you all of the message and if you haven't listened to it on Pastor Chris Digital Library make sure you get a hold of it winning the war within Pastor beautiful message that the man of God teaches winning the war within and Pastor talks about how um many people go months Christians go months sometimes even years with any real change without any real change in their lives or where they're supposed to be
• 24:30 - 25:00 experiencing exponential increase things are moving you know like ining forward where they could be taking giant steps ining forward so 20125 is only marginally different than 2020 marginally different maybe they made progress here and there and here and then can I tell you this secret can I tell you the
• 25:00 - 25:30 secret to make sure that that is not your testimony it is your attitude to God's word an attitude is such a very interesting term because you are the only one at the end of the day well not you not just you but you know your attitude towards something what do you mean by attitude your
• 25:30 - 26:00 disposition your approach your response to the word of God uh give me a scripture and please make sure you you take notes of some of the scriptures that we're sharing psalm 107:20
• 26:00 - 26:30 your posture towards the word look at what it says he sent his word and healed them and deliver them from their destructions God's word is God's tool for healing God's word is God's tool for deliverance many have gotten themselves in a in a a cycle a negative cycle and you may be here that may be your story
• 26:30 - 27:00 where you go for these you know deliverances that are organized by Churches this deliverances the challenge with those deliverances is that many times it's a revolving door you'll come back in 3 months and in another 3 months and every 6 months you're renewing your your deliverance no the Deliverance that you get from the word of God is permanent with when the word delivers you into the life and it's not always
• 27:00 - 27:30 delivering from when it delivers you into the life that God planned for you it is permanent Deuteronomy 32:47 speak in Tong speak in Tong
• 27:30 - 28:00 the word of God is effective in my life the word of God is productive in my life the word of God has power over my spirit over my soul over my body the word of God has power every time I hear the word I'm transformed every time I'm changed oh thank you Lord Jesus your life see every day will be exciting for you
• 28:00 - 28:30 look at what Moses says to them he says for it is not a vain thing for you he's talking about the law of God the word of God he says it is not a light thing it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life H imagine the strength of the words says the word is not a vain thing it is not a light God's word is not a light thing when we're talking about about attitude first thing you're thinking of
• 28:30 - 29:00 is a value towards something what value do you place on the word what value do you place on it how important is the word in your life what value do you place on it the the value you place on it will be measured in different ways can I begin to tell you one of them will be how much are you even spending on the word you have Netflix subscription you have Prime video you have Hulu you have but the moment the bring up pcdl ah why is this so
• 29:00 - 29:30 expensive how many how many SPS is it again it's like $6 thereabout it is not a light thing he says it is not one of the things that you put behind and you do after do you understand when you have
• 29:30 - 30:00 time no it says it is your life and look at what he says it says and through this thing you will prolong your days in the land whether you go over Jordan to possess it meaning that by the way the land that he's talking about here is not talking about being alive and breathing are you are you following what I'm saying this is not talking about being alive and breathing when he's talking about the land he says you prolong your days in the land the land
• 30:00 - 30:30 he was talking about was the land that God promised them which in our case is the experience of the new creation the pro the things that God has declared concerning the new creation say your experience of it will be protracted unstopping I want us to start with some of the wrong attitudes to have toward God's
• 30:30 - 31:00 word Luke chapter 8 the parable of the S we'll start from verse four actually many of you I'm going to assume
• 31:00 - 31:30 well it's not it's not a safe assumption but Jesus tells this Parable and it talks about a s that goes and and you know when you talk about a parable a parable is is an is really an allegorical communication it's a story that has a meaning beyond the surface do you understand it's a has a deeper meaning to it so he tells the story of a so are the goals and souls and soul seeds in different grounds and each this the same seed produce different results
• 31:30 - 32:00 depending on the soil are you following It produced different results depending on the soil say I'm the good ground but let's look at what it says from verse 11 give us from verse 11 where he begins to explain it now the parable is this the seed is the word of God he's letting you know what translates to what says the seed is the word of God so the same word of God is being sown in different grounds says those by the way are they that hear then
• 32:00 - 32:30 cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved imagine being in the place where
• 32:30 - 33:00 the power of God to move you financially is and leaving the same way being in the place where the power of God to move you forward in your relationships in whatever it is but you live you know the same being in the place where the power of God to change your state you know when it comes to your your your career you're in that place but you live the same or the power of God to change your mind in a certain way to change your experience of life to upgrade your
• 33:00 - 33:30 experience of life and leing that place the same way doesn't sound like what anybody would want right doesn't sound like what anybody would want let's look at that story in Matthew 13 from Verse 18 we'll see different attitudes to the word that you should
• 33:30 - 34:00 have it says hear ye therefore the parable of the S when anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understands it not now this we didn't see in Luke's account Matthew's account adds something to to it for us he says here that then cometh the wicked one and catch it away that which was sown in his heart this is he which received seed by the wayside
• 34:00 - 34:30 Luke just told us that for some people the Devil comes and takes it away but Matthew adds something he says they heard the word but they did not understand you know how you can walk away from Church Pastor said something it did not make any sense to you but he didn't bother to check you didn't bother to ask anybody you made no investigation you you I mean you didn't you didn't treat this thing like something that you can call your
• 34:30 - 35:00 life you ask no questions about it maybe it was a word that you heard wrongly a term that was used that you didn't quite understand whatever it is but in that thing was some part of the information that was supposed to come to you and you didn't get it but you did what you walked away very comfortably such a person such an attitude to the word can only receive but so much understanding also has to do sometimes
• 35:00 - 35:30 with the arguments the internal arguments in your heart you know that you did not agree oh I'm I'm telling you this thing and even in my spirit I'm my spirit man is shaking about it because I'm thinking this has accounted for some people being in churches for years and there are others making progress ahead of them and they're on the same spot
• 35:30 - 36:00 still still arguing the same arguments from years past because you did not seek understanding still having questions that you had three years ago four years ago five years ago Bible talks about such people says ever learning say they're ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth when will you
• 36:00 - 36:30 understand it's been 6 years 7 years 8 years you've been in the house of God and you are still arguing about partnership about tithes about offerings you're still arguing but you are seeing those that are sharing the testimonies those that are doing the things they're making progress financially but you are still arguing a hardened heart not Bible calls them it says the referring to the children of Israel
• 36:30 - 37:00 God said they could not enter into the promis land because the whole generation everyone that was you know uh an adult when they were leaving Egypt none of them entered the promised land God said because of unpersuadable they could not be convinced do you know that's a position of heart it's not about what's being said it's the state of your heart it doesn't matter what they tell you nobody can explain there's no number of scriptures you have just put put yourself in a state of unpersuadable you
• 37:00 - 37:30 cannot be convinced that's an attitude to the word of God the scriptures cannot convince you sale leader cannot convince you Pastor cannot convince you
• 37:30 - 38:00 imagine the people that are Christians they've been Christians for God knows how long but their Earthly bit ethnicism however you want to call it tribalism racism all the isms that they have nothing can convince them out nothing they see in the scriptures let's see a
• 38:00 - 38:30 positive uh example in that light Acts chapter 17 from verse 10 and the Brethren immediately sent Away Paul Paul and Silas By Night unto Berea says Who coming thether went into
• 38:30 - 39:00 the synagogue the synagogue of the Jews these talking about the Christians in Baria this Barian Christian says these were more noble than those in thessalonica the other Christians in a in a different city thessalonica it says that these ones in barer were more noble than them why says in that they received the word with what all Readiness of Mind read of Mind do you know you can hear God's word
• 39:00 - 39:30 with an argumentative Spirit God cannot deal with such people he cannot he cannot you look through the scriptures he has not he has he has I mean imagine God not succeeding in dealing with the people he eventually had to tell them sorry I mean only those that were of a certain age and Below when he came out of Egypt will make it into this place that I'm sending you to so the rest so you can't go
• 39:30 - 40:00 in Readiness of mind you can write that as one of the attitudes that you should have to the word of God Readiness of mind then look at what he says about them also he says they search the scriptures daily daily they didn't search the scriptures on Sunday only they didn't search the scriptures on Sat on on on midweek service only or in cell meetings only it says daily they searched the scriptures whether the those things were so that is they were looking for
• 40:00 - 40:30 evidence of the things that they were told in the scriptures this is not the same as an argumentative Spirit they research it in the word this is how you get understanding this is how understanding comes to you you may leave there and you're you're not sure about something that was said okay what did you do what did you do with with your own Bible when you got home who did you ask did you talk to yourself later about it you talk to your Bible study class teach about it were you interested enough to have a better understanding of
• 40:30 - 41:00 the subject or did you walk away with something in your heart that was now preventing you from experiencing the fullness of God oh Hallelujah Readiness of heart Readiness of heart
• 41:00 - 41:30 let's go back to that Matthew 13 on to the next verse but he that received the seed into Stony places received the word into Stony places the same is he that Hearth the word and immediately with joy
• 41:30 - 42:00 receives it excited say a none with joy receive receiveth it next verse yet had he he not root in himself but dth for a while say endures for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he's offended H he's describing another group here say these ones receive the word with excitement when Pastor sharing woo yes Glory not realizing that there is
• 42:00 - 42:30 tribulation and persecution that's supposed to come because of the word oh the health of God is in my body yes I've got the life of God in Me you don't know that that means that sooner than later you wake up on morning with your back hurting I mean look at the Lord Jesus Bible says God spoke from Heaven this is my beloved
• 42:30 - 43:00 Son in whom I'm well pleased and then right after Satan come says if you are the Son of God challenged the very thing that God just said so why are you surprised when what was spoken over your life by prophecy or through the scriptures when that thing is challenged by life circumstances why are you
• 43:00 - 43:30 surprised you said that one did not say they didn't have root there was an excitement but there was no root how do you cause it to have root in your spirit meditation on the word personal meditation on the word that nobody can do for you you can't pretend your way into it you can't act out your way into it this
• 43:30 - 44:00 is personal meditation on the word because the word has to take root in your spirit so that when life's challenges come your first response is the word of God your first response is the word of God now interestingly the Bible doesn't condemn the excitement with which you receive the word that's how we're supposed to receive the word is with excitement with joy but after I've received it with joy I have
• 44:00 - 44:30 homework I can't just say it once here in church the health of God is in my body oh thank you Lord Jesus and then walk away it will not work it will not work there's an attitude to the word you have to go back and meditate on it you need to let it soak into your mind into your spirit you know the Lord started telling me something recently I I had listened to someone's testimony very inspiring testimony of their life but I was just asking the
• 44:30 - 45:00 Lord you know in my heart just communion with the Lord I was asking that this is very different from how we are in Ministry we don't have these kinds of testimonies that this person shared it's a beautiful testimony but our testimonies are usually very different and I was wondering Lord what's the reconciliation between you know it's like there's a way we talk and the way we talk sometimes makes it seem as though you know even with pastors there can be this idea that you
• 45:00 - 45:30 know um if you if you want if you want a Ministry where you know you know you know how they describe it oh um relatability of you know the pastor being relatable you hard to find such like that in this ministry and when I say relatable I know you need to understand what I mean I mean relatable in sense that you know uh this kind of like vulnerability that attracts people to certain ministers nothing you bring in this life that will
• 45:30 - 46:00 make I was telling someone was very very uh interesting thing you know a minister was sharing and very inspiring video by the way that I I I watched this Minister had come across it and they were just sharing about how you know they were facing a certain kind of like difficulty you know with I think it was like a financial difficulty and you know something like that and they were you know calling on the church to pray and things like that and you know you could tell that the man of God was you know visibly distraught you know about the thing that was going on I said in in love
• 46:00 - 46:30 world before before you hear a pastor pick up mic and say something like that you rather stop pastoring so in a way some people may you know appreciate that kind of vulnerability you know Pastor comes and he talks about you know his challenges his difficulties you don't let me tell you what you don't know is is the same way that Pastor is talking in front of you that when he's facing
• 46:30 - 47:00 the challenges in his own life that's how he's talking to the challenges do you understand he's not there you know uh cowering before the challenge you know off stage and then when he gets on stage is trying to muster hope no it's a fight so you hardly ever hear that kind of communication so I was talking to the spirit of God I was like what you know we don't have those kinds of testimonies of you know things that have to do with you know expressing some kind of vulnerability and then you know uh uh
• 47:00 - 47:30 the things that people want some I mean in this generation you know from pastors people are attracted to pastors that talk about how hard life is and how one day one day one day God will do it do it Lord if that's the church you're looking for I'm sorry never never never Pastor said when he was a young Minister Pastor Chris said when he was a young
• 47:30 - 48:00 Minister and he was still testing and proving the word he said he had so talked the health of say the health of God is in my body I have eternal life you know I mean we preach this thing like you you Christian you can't be how can you be sick he said at some point this was in the early days you know those are long G now said at some point his brother on one side his wife on one side and they were taking him to
• 48:00 - 48:30 the hospital so I am not sick they dragged him there go to the uh in front of the doctor what's what's wrong with you I am not sick and true to it the doctor checked everything checked everything there was no there was no proof but I was I I was thinking to myself so why are we different in this
• 48:30 - 49:00 way and the Lord started talking to me he said in the ministry that you're in he said I've called you differently he said I've called you differently he said don't worry about the testimonies that others have he said I've called you to have a unique type of testimony of my word said I've called you to exalt my word and he started talking to me that if you
• 49:00 - 49:30 will meditate on these scripture says I want you to be different see because there's a meditation that's required for you to become the substance of the word that I talk about in the scriptures he says if you would become these things you will become a new kind of Wonder your testimonies will not be by the route that others have talked about before your testimonies will be higher they will be
• 49:30 - 50:00 higher everything in this ministry whatever you want to say you're referred back to the word and prayer it doesn't matter what you call it the word and prayer you don't have a a pastor therapist you know Pastor therapist is Pastor that sits down with you and then they are helping you delve into the you
• 50:00 - 50:30 know your life and your history your childhood your you know how you came about the you know and the pastor is doing all these things no we don't have Pastor therapist whatever you're saying as you're saying it Pastor is thinking about the messages that you need to listen to um this one is to hear winning the war within this one is to hear as bondage you need to hear the impact of the Holy Spirit on human I
• 50:30 - 51:00 mean those of you that have gone for counseling before what did they recommend to you messages it's the word of God I think ah you need to read this book ah prophecy um Elizabeth where do we have copies of how to make your faith work because the word of God is the answer it's the answer it's the only answer it's the only answer it's the only sure
• 51:00 - 51:30 answer I don't know about other ways I can only tell you the one that I know that works and your attitude to it must be right do you know that even in church how you sit determines what you're going to receive there's a way you can sit like someone that's trying to catch something have you have you seen have you if you've ever watched soccer being played and you have the goalie the goalie doesn't stand like everybody else on the
• 51:30 - 52:00 on the you know uh football field right especially when it's coming to when the ball is coming near him he's not going to stand like this that's not a serious that's not a serious person right his his body is positioned like I have to catch this thing his focus is squared
• 52:00 - 52:30 his focus is squared there's a kind of attitude you must have to the word when I'm doing my Bible study I put my phone away because this is not the time to be receiving notifications from who for this time I want my attention to be focused to be precise I'm like like that goalkeeper I must have a kind of positioning you
• 52:30 - 53:00 can't I mean imagine you're in church you're sitting and you're slouched all the way back your spirit is following the state of that your spirit man is like that God's word is just floating by your ears no there's a way you sit you see how Jeff is sitting like someone that's ready to to receive something right yes he says it's not a light thing
• 53:00 - 53:30 the word is not a light thing and some of you don't take notes in church it's bad oh yes I know some people record but de beloved all the ones that you recorded when did you listen to them in fact for some I mean depending on you I know there's some people that like to
• 53:30 - 54:00 write with a pen and a a paper that's great but I found that it's not really the best for me because I need to be able to search because if you write pen and paper how will you find that's a hard matter how will you find you know something from two years ago three years ago if I if I need to pull up my notes on any part and if I I me just have a word in my mind that I
• 54:00 - 54:30 want to research all I need to do is type it into my notes and everything comes up and I can go there and relieve that message again take the word seriously those are signs of seriousness take notes don't say it's for some people take notes and I'm talking to you that are not taking notes is you take notes and I'll tell you why this is important while you write there's a lot more that's in that's put in your spirit in the process when I
• 54:30 - 55:00 first started in this ministry I came in as a 15y old and in ch in uh a matter of three months I had grown astronomically in the word what what was I doing I will take rap stud realities the same raps that we have and I will just read it and journal I read the article and I'll write the thoughts that were coming to my heart I'll just write whatever was coming to my heart accelerated my
• 55:00 - 55:30 growth when you go to class you take notes right yes because it's information you don't want to forget practice it and not just in church in your private study time when you're studying the Bible by yourself take notes did you hear what I said take notes there's an attitude to the word that you
• 55:30 - 56:00 must have get rid of distractions get rid of distractions
• 56:00 - 56:30 remember see this do you you want a you want a harvest of the word do you want a harvest of the word in your life I believe that you do that's why you're here that scripture that we read clearly let us know that not everywhere the word is sown produces results so how do you make sure that you are the place that produces results it's not by wishing it it's not by thinking no I I know me no I tell
• 56:30 - 57:00 people you don't know you unless the word reveals you to you only God's word God's word knows you I did not think I was prideful until one day i' had seen this was years ago I looked in the word I said ah this is pride I did not know if you had asked me I thought I was the most humble person but the word of God defined me in real time and I saw
• 57:00 - 57:30 it so it's not by thinking I know me you don't know you you actually don't you actually don't only the word can reveal you to you so if we're asking are you the ground that did not have understanding you may be and there's nothing wrong with that that's why you came to church to fix it right or you may be the soil
• 57:30 - 58:00 that where there was excitement but there was no root you you know you know from your results you know that even though you were excited about that message when the challenge came you didn't know what to do so that was you then there's another group that he describes those that said received the word amongst Stones says they received the word they were excited about it but the cares of this world the deceitfulness of riches all the things
• 58:00 - 58:30 coming in choked the word they didn't allow the word to be effective in their lives is that you the distractions of Life the things that you want that don't allow the word to be as productive so which soil are you when you're coming to a place like the house of God to worship ship or to praise the Lord and to bring to him your offerings of Thanksgiving or your
• 58:30 - 59:00 offerings of you know uh uh your your your finances and to listen to the word of God is there a preparation in your heart to come to such a place bible says Nehemiah when he was trying to call the children of God back to order after they had strayed away from God for so long when it was calling them back to order and they were reading the scriptures to them says he read scriptures to them from it says from morning till noon till till
• 59:00 - 59:30 till mid day the word that he used there was talking about he said from dusk from dawn rather from the from the the from day break for hours the people were hearing the word hours hours but in our in our day and time Pastor has been preaching for 35 minutes and and that and you know
• 59:30 - 60:00 there's nothing wrong with you know having um uh plans and also the church honoring your schedule so I'm not talking about that but I'm saying there should be we should have opportunities it shouldn't be that we now go to IPC and we're having the same expectation of 35 minute message or we go to some conference and we're having the same expectation there should be times where we are cooning in the
• 60:00 - 60:30 word I miss those experiences because we don't have them often anymore when I was on campus we would have you know times of I mean I don't this is not scheduled uh cell meeting or uh service anything like that just friends in a circle and we're sharing the word for hours Bible hours and just everybody's just excited to be there we've lost track of
• 60:30 - 61:00 time these days if you want to do something like that you have to plan it you have to put it on their calendar you have to remind them three times four times the day of you have to call call call you have to you know and then when it finally come you have to make sure that it keeps it in 30 minutes do you even talk to your friends you share the word with your friends anymore oh I and it's one of the things I love the most you know when I get with my friends and we're talking oh I saw this scripture and it brought this light
• 61:00 - 61:30 to me by the time we done was speaking in Tong speaking it talk we prophesying not every time just talk talk talk eat e e you know not no substance what am I talking I'm still talking about the same attitude to the word value for the word some of you go to programs and you hear Pastor preach for two
• 61:30 - 62:00 hours oh I'm grateful to God for the training in my spirit I'm so grateful to God do you know there used to be a time when the IPC that some people complain about now as ending you know oh we have 4our sessions you know you don't know OG IPC ippc that's our International pastors and partners conference the older editions would would run until 11 p.m. and Pastor would preach for 4 5
• 62:00 - 62:30 hours straight and nobody wanted to leave four five hours straight can you imagine being in a place like that or growing up in an environment because that's how I grew up from from my teenage years being in an environment I mean when we when we did Jesus today and forever with
• 62:30 - 63:00 nbtc Jesus today and forever was in February and we had sessions from uh 900 p.m. till 4:00 a.m. and Pastor would teach for hours in that period And I was enjoying every moment of it do you are you excited about God's word do discoveries in the Bible excit you do the things that God says about
• 63:00 - 63:30 you the things that he says about you in his world do they excit you we had different periods on campus there was a there was a period where the Revelation was uh from first John where you know John had talked about you know uh um he he that I think where he says that he that uh walks with the Lord something to that effect cannot sin for his seed remains in him and it was you
• 63:30 - 64:00 know this was like the Revelation were chewing on exiting escaping from the life of sin with the scriptures at different points different Revelations there was one time and as I'm saying this I remember Evangel my friend you know there was a re a revelation that about CAU from I think it was uh Book of Psalms PMS of Proverbs where it says that I have more understanding than all my
• 64:00 - 64:30 teachers this was I mean imagine being on campus I was every day were saying this to I have more understanding than all my teachers it was it was a revelation that was floating in the moment every time we we talk that's that's what's coming up in our conversations we're testifying about it when we gather together oh I I was in this class I even explained this to this teacher I haven't understand my teachers how do you understand that
• 64:30 - 65:00 that's value for the word when I was moving for school I started school as a 16 year old College University when I was moving for school at 16 the the things I cared about the most that I packed cuz those days we didn't have Pastor Chris Digital Library app was messages by Pastor Chris three kinds of wisdom alone was like it's like you know they used to be in those little jackets the CD jackets three kinds of
• 65:00 - 65:30 wisdom in it 12 Parts Plus was already a section of my bag and then all my other messages I mean I had a whole box full messages and I was excited ah I'm going to chew these things in school how would that Chris's life be the same you've invested something in your spirit what's your value for the word and in those days we would buy just
• 65:30 - 66:00 to give you an idea three kinds of wisdom that you're listening to that's 12 parts right we would buy each one as a CD and at the time because of all the production cost of making C was $20 a piece so I would literally save money $20 time 12 to get the whole three kinds of wisdom pack that's where my money was going and whenever there was a new message in church that Pastor just come out with I'm already thinking how I'm
• 66:00 - 66:30 going to save money to buy in fact the uh sister if anyone knows it's a sell myo sometimes I would tell her just give me the messages I'll pay over time and then I'll get to my dorm room in school and putting the CD in listening next CD listening you know and this one you can't carry it with you so you must sit down there and hear everything you need to hear oh praise
• 66:30 - 67:00 God speak in other tongues thank God for the words that you have heard
• 67:00 - 67:30 if you hear and you have not made Jesus Christ the lord of your life