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**Prayer Time Heir Waves episodes are edited for clarity and conciseness. Transcripts are generated using Machine Learning. They may contain typos, misspellings, omissions, and misheard words. Accuracy is not guaranteed. Please use for reference only.**
[00:00:00] Carl Nicolson: Now we have to be on the straight and narrow.
[00:00:07] George La Du: Okay, now we're recording. These words will be used against you in the court of law.
[00:00:16] Carl Nicolson: Or at the very least in the court of public opinion. Which might be a higher court.
[00:00:23] Pastor Addy: You miss a lot.
[00:00:25] Carl Nicolson: What did I miss? What did I miss?
Speaking of that, guys: we're trying a thing as we continue to see if we can raise the overall experience of Prayer Time: Zoom recently offers an option for those of us. If we're running a little bit late or you had to take a phone call and " what did I miss?", which turned out to be some interesting tidbits. If you are tuning in from not here, there's a little new icon on the Zoom toolbar that has the, a little bit of the Polaris or Subaru logo here with a little stars.
If you click on that, that brings up this window where you can do a couple of things. You can click on catch me up or you can say what were the points we talked about so far. It's going to be handy. We're going to try it out. It's the first time we've tried it for the meeting. This will not replace that transcript thing that I was showing you earlier.
That's a different matter. But for us who are here, it might be a handy way to see what we've missed over here.
[00:01:19] George La Du: Carl, thank you for letting us know. I would have never known and I use Zoom all the time.
[00:01:26] Carl Nicolson: If you use Zoom, I believe this feature is included at least the basic paid level. I don't think they offer it if you're just on the free version as a host.
It doesn't matter if you're a guest, you can use it either way. Dare I say "irregardless" and "mischievously?"
[00:01:45] George La Du: Okay. Let's open up with a word of prayer, shall we? Heavenly Father, thank You for today. Today is Wednesday. And we all get to be here together. We rejoice in that, and we rejoice in that we're two or more gathered You're in the midst of us.
So thank You for being here, for imparting Your wisdom, knowledge, Your love. And thank You for Pastor Addy, that You've are building him up and he's gets to share out of that son that he is to You, such a great son. So thank You for today in Jesus' name, amen.
[00:02:31] Pastor Addy: So what are we going to talk about today? Oh, the pastors.
[00:02:35] Carl Nicolson: Jesus. We're gonna talk about Jesus.
All these pastors here there are times. There are times you just go and say, all right, I'm going to trust God,
[00:02:47] Ken Eagon: let's talk about that concept that you and I were talking about gaining back the time.
[00:02:52] Pastor Addy: Oh, okay.
I
[00:02:54] Ken Eagon: don't know, it was really fascinating to me.
[00:02:58] Pastor Addy: Everyone here know that when you look in Romans Romans chapter 12 of the concept of, let's begin with the concept of thanksgiving before we go to what we want to talk about. In in John chapter 6, and we discussed it extensively, anybody can stop me and comment, in John chapter 6, you guys know this as pastors.
You After Jesus asked them to give something to the people to eat, they, after all the conversation, he say, go find out what you have. And so they brought what they had and the Scripture says in John chapter says, Jesus lifted up the loaves and he blessed them. They bless it as he bless it. He gave it to them to distribute when they started the distribution, that when the multiplication began.
It didn't multiply in the hands of Jesus, it multiplied in the hands of the disciples. So when Jesus told them, you give them something to eat, and they brought it, and then Jesus gave thanks, and then he gave it to them, and when they started the process of distribution, that way it began to multiply. And then John tells us something very important, I think it's verse 23, John chapter 6, verse 23.
He was making reference to the particular era when the miracles are taking place. And then he said, this is the place where the miracle took place and where Jesus gave thanks. Is that 623? Verse 23. So there were the little ships.
[00:04:46] Carl Nicolson: Yeah. This is from The Voice in John 6, 23, other boats were arriving from Tiberias near the grassy area where the Lord offered thanks and passed the...
[00:04:56] Pastor Addy: And the Lord offered thanks.
He will make you reference to that because it's important. He was talking about this place, but then he made reference to something that Jesus did. When the prayer multiplies, he says, this is the place, but it is where Jesus gave thanks. Now, you and I here know that our thanksgiving doesn't make God any bigger, even though we use the phrase come let us magnify the Lord and all that stuff and all the different things that we do.
But you know that God so loves us that when he reveals something to us, that thing is actually for our benefit. It's not because he's on an ego trip or because he wants something from us or but every time He show us or you pull back the curtain. It's because he wants to see us bless
Every time I think you've heard this before when the pastor is praying for somebody and maybe the person Couldn't hear or maybe their hands were numb or something like that. They will ask the person to pray Can you not raise your hand? Why did they do that? They do that because they want to focus the pressure on what God is doing.
Now what he hasn't done. So in that way the person will cultivate an attitude of gratitude for the process I just started. Because once the person creates an atmosphere of thanksgiving, things will begin to multiply. So that's why they would tell you, don't look at the glass that is half empty. Look at the glass half full because if you can look at the glass half full and you cultivate an attitude for what God is doing, not what he's not doing.
The moment you begin to give God gratitude and focus on what he's doing, they say you're creating a culture or atmosphere. And in that atmosphere, go ahead, things multiply.
[00:06:58] Carl Nicolson: I always feel compelled. This came to me as a little kid in science class. We're talking about, elements, air, That we breathe, water, etc.
In our experience, thankfully, there really is no such thing as a glass which is half empty. It's full, partially water and partially air. Even in the things we might perceive as not having abundance.
[00:07:20] Pastor Addy: I love that.
[00:07:21] Carl Nicolson: Where would we be without the air?
[00:07:23] Pastor Addy: Man, I love that. That's great, I've never seen it that way before. That's great!
[00:07:30] Ken Eagon: Every time somebody asked me whether or not I'm a half empty or half full person, I would say no, I'm an overflowing.
[00:07:36] Carl Nicolson: There you go. I like to say I'm an optimistic I'm an optimist not a pessimist, but I'm a realistic optimist because in reality, We also got air in the deal, not just water.
[00:07:48] Ken Eagon: That's great.
[00:07:51] Pastor Addy: And Pastor Jared brought his word to us more than two, three times. Every time he came here with Philippians, and when you look in that passage, he reminded us that God keep telling us and the Apostle Paul, every time he prayed, he said, I cease not to give thanks. I cease not to give thanks.
I thank God for you always. What are they doing? They're cultivating an atmosphere. Because the moment you do that, something happens. Something happens in our environment. There's just something about God. He tends to respond to that. We'll say you guys and I were discussing about plagiarizing or plagiarism, where if you don't credit your source, the professor will fail you.
If God is the doer of the environment. Then we owe him thanks Then we owe him. Thanks You know if God is a doer of the act, so he reminded us in Philippians chapter four four And Paul tells us he says because a double minded man. Yeah cannot receive anything from God He said, therefore, when you go in the presence of God to pray, the first thing God does is to guarantee or keep your mind.
[00:09:14] Kenneth (Bishop): Hallelujah.
[00:09:16] Pastor Addy: He said, because if your mind is vacillating, just imagine that. He said, when I go in the presence of God, because God wants me to receive and a double minded man cannot receive, the first thing God does in the secret place, in the place of communion with him, is to protect my mind. I'm stable.
Hallelujah. to make my mind stable. And then he tells us in preceding verses that hey, you got to keep your focus on what God is doing and not what God is not doing. So it brings me to what I wanted to talk about in Romans chapter 12 and Proverbs 29 18. Romans chapter 12. 18. Proverbs 29 verse 18. Okay.
Yeah. Don't worry. Let's talk about something like that. I would do chapter one today. Can you speak, understand what I'm saying? I'm not a good typer, so I, those are some of the, that is chapter one of the book on vision. So that's where I'll be talking from today. Oh, I told you Ken talked about this guy that he knows that he wanted to start printing some of the books, especially Jacob and Esau.
And all the different things I was sharing with Pastor George, because I'm a slow typer, but that's why I haven't typed all of them. But I'll be talking from chapter one. So I want these pastors and other people to give me their input and correct me,
[00:10:38] Carl Nicolson: After you're finished, I'll make a scan of that.
[00:10:40] Pastor Addy: Yeah. So It's chapter one of it. I got it. I got about 10 chapters completed. So I will talk from chapter one. So we'll talk about Romans chapter 12.
[00:10:54] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:10:55] Pastor Addy: Let me put on my glasses and read
and Please anybody can talk. Anybody can talk. That's how we do it here, especially Pastor George and Pastor Jared, please contribute
Romans chapter 12, because I need to, I tell you, I'm going to edit some of these things before we put it out, so I'll be talking directly from here, so we need to correct some stuff. So I'll read from verse 1.
[00:11:34] Kenneth (Bishop): Oh yeah,
[00:11:34] Pastor Addy: I beseech you brethren. I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice who acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is done good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Let me just stop there first, and then we deal with that. We'll go down further. We're talking about capturing the vision through thanksgiving. Capturing a vision through the process of thanksgiving. So Paul begins by saying, there are a hundred things you can be doing, you may be doing. He said, but God has a particular thing for which he put you on the Earth.
That's how he started his conversation. He said, there are a lot of things we are doing, but there's a particular thing, or there's a prophetic word over us. And God released us into the Earth. And he said, to come into that fulfillment of that prophetic world or that thing for which God released you to your generation, he said, there are two things you need to notice. He said, first, you have to present yourself as a living sacrifice to God. He said, if you're bouncing all over the place, today you're in nightclub, tomorrow you're here, today you're here, tomorrow you're in the nursery, you're in church, he said, if you keep doing that, you will not come into the fullness of the fulfillment.
Of the purpose for which God released you into the earth. He says, so the place you begin from is to dedicate your life is to give yourself as a living sacrifice is to put yourself back on the altar to God and say, I'm giving myself to you. So that's the first place you will begin from. You say, if you don't do that, you will never experience the purpose for which God released you to your generation.
So you say, you must first dedicate yourself to God. And he said, the second thing you should do. You should come. You should change your thinking. He said, because if you don't change your thinking, you will miss out on the purpose for which God release you to this life. He said, so there are two things you should do.
First, give yourself, hold your soul and put yourself in the altar before God. Number one. Number two, he said, change the way you think. Change the way you think. Then he come down, he said, yeah. There's something I want you to do. He said that thing is called sober thinking sober s o b e r o verse three Romans chapter three verse three you say don't think highly of yourself.
[00:14:33] Kenneth (Bishop): Hallelujah,
[00:14:34] Pastor Addy: but you will do something called sober thinking Now, what is sober thinking because he explained to all what he's talking about. We're talking about capturing a vision through thanksgiving So you say when you give yourself or you place yourself on the altar You before God. And after you bring your life into alignment, Pastor George is doing a book on that, our thought processes and how the devil defeat us.
He said, after you bring yourself into alignment and come let us reason together, God says, let's think together, they say they say A definition of terms or understanding is the beginning of effective communication, you know So we both got to understand what we're saying before we begin to communicate So he says after you put yourself down before God and give yourself totally to God unreservedly They say the second thing you do you start thinking that when God is thinking or you think in line with what God has said about you to quote Pastor George, he said, God can be saying you are this and you'd be saying, no, I am that, so you've got to repent and break align yourself with the thought processes of God.
Then he said, number three, and we'll get to the place of Thanksgiving, how it works. He said, He says don't think of yourself more highly than you ought to.
[00:16:04] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen
[00:16:06] Pastor Addy: He said one of the things That can destroy a man or his ministry is something called pride. Oh, thank you He said when God releases a person God impart he said every creator or manufacturer will impart into you the ability to achieve that thing He said you must think in according to that grace And not above that grace.
He said, so when you see somebody doing something, it's because God has imparted into them a grace to accomplish that thing. He said, you will think within that grace, within the measure of the grace that God has given to you. Then number four, he says, Every person that God sent on this earth will never fulfill a vision in isolation.
If you think you are a Lone Ranger, and you will fulfill a vision by yourself, you say, you are not thinking sober. See, not even Jesus could do that. Jesus had to look for 500 people, 70, and you knew about the 12, and the 3, and so on and so forth. He said, nobody can fulfill any vision in isolation.
He said, if you're thinking that you are a lone ranger, he said, you're not thinking soberly. You're thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to. He said, sober thinking means that when God gives you a vision, there will be people. That God will bring to help fulfill the vision. He said so If you are thinking that you can fulfill a vision by yourself, he said you're not thinking soberly
[00:17:48] George La Du: It's not a God vision You can have your own vision and you can fulfill it yourself, maybe, but you're talking about a Godly vision.
[00:17:58] Pastor Addy: A Godly vision.
[00:17:59] George La Du: A vision from the Lord.
[00:18:00] Pastor Addy: Yeah. A vision from the Lord.
Take note of that.
Thank you. He's saying that. He goes on to say here, let's go to the Scripture so we can get some stuff from there. Verse three.
Yeah, King James? Yeah. Okay.
[00:18:20] Carl Nicolson: Can I change that? No, that's good. There. King Jimmy. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God dealt to every man, of the measure of faith.
[00:18:41] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:18:42] Pastor Addy: Go ahead.
[00:18:44] Carl Nicolson: For, as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
[00:18:58] Kenneth (Bishop): Thank you.
[00:19:00] Carl Nicolson: Proceed? Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith or ministry. Let us wait on our ministry.
[00:19:14] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:19:14] Carl Nicolson: Or he then teach it on teaching.
[00:19:16] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:19:17] Carl Nicolson: Or he did exort us on exhortation.
[00:19:19] Pastor Addy: Yeah. So he's, yeah. You finish?
[00:19:21] Carl Nicolson: Just one more.
[00:19:22] Pastor Addy: Okay.
[00:19:22] Carl Nicolson: He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity.
[00:19:25] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:19:25] Carl Nicolson: He that ruleth, with diligence. He that showeth mercy with cheerfulness.
[00:19:30] Kenneth (Bishop): Hallelujah.
[00:19:31] Pastor Addy: So he says He said notice that when God gave you a vision God would bring people alone that would help with the vision he said something like the body.
He said sober thinking is for you to think within Unity within the body or God is doing the work. God is building incorporate something It's not one person on the island achieving something by themselves. He said, no, it's called, working. He got the pieces that he put together. Then he says, some of you are the eyes, some of you are the ear, some of you are the nose, some of you are the mouth.
He said, therefore the person who has the vision must understand that to fulfill that vision, God has given people different graces and gifts that they will come and work in unison. And with your effort in concert, you will be able to accomplish. Then he explained to us. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, sir. Okay.
He said if the whole body was the eye, he said, then where would the hinge and all these different things be? He said, therefore, in the fulfillment of a vision, he said, anybody who God gave a vision to, That principal should think soberly, and he must not think highly of himself. He alone can achieve this thing.
He said, it has never happened before, and the most anointed person who ever walked the face of this earth is Jesus, and he couldn't do that. Then, after he talked to the visionary, he go further down and start talking to the people who could incorporate in their vision, so there's a second group of people he wants to talk to.
He said, notice. That God didn't call everybody to be a lone ranger or to be the head of a vision. He says some of you will have to incorporate your vision into the church vision or into the body. He said if God called Moses, Joshua would have to incorporate his vision depending on what God is saying to Joshua into Moses' vision.
That he will fulfill his vision. So if God called the Apostle Paul, Timothy would have to incorporate his vision to the other to fulfill that vision. He said, what most of you are missing is that everybody thinks it's also one year a vision. He said, no. He said it doesn't work like that. He said, so each of you must decide what God call you to do.
And then if God didn't call you to be on your own or to be the father of a vision, you must find a vision and incorporate your vision into that vision. So in that way, the vision will find expression. And if you look around you and say, is it Cliff Barrow with Billy Graham, he incorporated his vision for all the years.
into Billy Graham vision to fulfill that vision. He said the problem that we have is that every person think they are supposed to father a church or they are supposed to father a vision. It's not that way. He said, it's true God may call you probably God want you to incorporate your vision into another man's vision.
Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
[00:23:21] Ken Eagon: Steve Jobs, who founded Apple, said something really profound. He goes, we don't hire people so we can tell them what to do. We hire them so they can tell us what to do. You find the best and the brightest, and you don't You know, hold things over them. You let them be part of the vision.
Yeah. I think about the old Beaverton basketball coach, who was so successful, Nick Robertson. He used to have the guys on the basketball team wear these shirts around just during the day, even. That said, one goal. Know your role. You're part of a team. You're not a one man show out there. Dunking and throwing the ball sideways and everything else.
Know your role.
[00:24:16] Pastor Addy: Good man.
[00:24:17] Carl Nicolson: What's the coach's name?
[00:24:18] Ken Eagon: Nick Robertson. He was great. I still see Nick all the time.
[00:24:22] Angela Nicolson: Yeah, he was there was I was there.
[00:24:24] Pastor Addy: Coming? You guys still coming? Okay, now, so let's go back and now that we're finished with cooperating the vision, he says something in verse three in
in verse three say, For I see through the grace given to me to every man that is among you. So first of all, he tell him, say, Hey, Whatever you see me a possible doing is because it was grace that was given to me. I received grace from Jesus to operate what I'm doing. So that's why you see me functioning.
We are functioning. It's not just, this special guy from space and something like that.
God imparted this...
[00:25:02] Carl Nicolson: Sometimes I feel like I'm from space, but I don't think I'm special.
He's a, but the thing so early, I thought as God had dealt to every man, the measure of faith, I want to talk about that. The measure of faith.
Now, he say, he goes further than he say, anybody who is doing something, they must operate within the risks that God has given them. He said, the danger is that people leave from within the graces, the reason most vision are not fulfilled. Is that the man live within his grace and start taking highly of himself and extend himself outside the grace.
And then he failed. Jesus said if somebody want to build a house, they first sit down and calculate to see whether they have enough to finish it, and what all that statement where it means by having enough considering all the facts and everything put together, so you say anybody who's going to prophesy according to the proportion of their faith.
That he talking about a different thing now.
Have you seen somebody trying to prophesy, but trying to prophesy all of the portion of their faith? Let me explain what I mean. He talking about the corporate body, because when we calm down, he will start talking about, you should bless I courage, you should do this. And you know all the different things you be talking about.
He say, overcome evil. I'm overcome evil with good. And that would come to that play where he's trying to use Thanksgiving to show you how we can change the nation or change the community. So he say, if a man wants to prophesy, let him prophesize come to the proportion of his faith. He say, now that you are the are, he's the ear.
I'm the nose. He said, I am smelling for the body. You've seen for the body, within our respective grace. But with our effort in concert, we will win. He said, therefore, we should all know that we have a place. So he said, if you prophesy within the realm of the grace that God has given to you. I remember way back when we were praying for somebody and you go to church at a time and the presence of God is all over the place and everybody getting goosebumps, and you're laying hands on people and so we're praying for this woman somehow There's just some things, you know in your spirit because you got the spirit of God inside of You know, you just know that will happen.
You may not know the timing but you've entered something They call the peace or the rest of God. Remember Paul said We have in the sea spirit of faith We believe therefore we speak.
[00:28:04] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:28:05] Pastor Addy: And I explained to you the problem with the "Name It Claim It" Revelation is that what I didn't teach the people is that you don't prophesy to take something You prophesy for a position of faith.
What people were doing is that they were prophesying Without being in faith. They just see something and say I claim it. I claim it. That's not what Paul was talking about Paul said when you have the spirit of faith You Then before you speak it, he said, you are in a position of believing and knowing. He said, when you enter faith, when you enter rest, you will know the spirit of God, you will enter the peace.
You will just know the thing will happen. You just know. He said, what is faith? He said, faith is rest. It is that peace that you enter. It's that knowing that you have, that no matter what the storm going on, you just know that you know this will happen. He said, when you enter that realm, that when you should speak, now you have the spirit of faith.
He said, but what most people were doing in the name of clemency. It's not that it's unscriptural But what they were doing is that they were prophesying for a position of greed And not a position of rest or what God has imparted into their spirit, you know so That was the ills of the name claiming He says the blessings of the upright by the blessings of the upright, the city shall be exalted.
She said, what is blessing? He said it is empowerment to achieve something. The Lord blessed them and said, be fruitful. I'm empowering you to be fruitful. I'm empowering you. So He said to Aaron, speak over them. I will put whatever word you say. I will empower them to achieve that thing. So when God blesses.
He doesn't give you the, He empower you to achieve the thing. So he said The person who is prophesying them, therefore must prophesy according to the proportion of the faith. What does he mean? It means that if Pastor George or Pastor Jared is in the presence of God, and God give them a word and remember the promise may be in each emry stage.
But he embraces it. So Mary said, be unto me according to the word of the Lord. Then she had a nurture until she gave birth to Jesus. So when the word of the Lord come by the spirit of God, while you're in a place of praying or whatever, and you got the word of God, the moment you receive that word, God also impart the grace.
So you're already pregnant. Don't rush it. Just water it and nurture it. After some time, you will see that world. You will see, you will enter a place of peace. You will enter a place of resolute faith. You will enter a place of rest. You will have it knowing inside of you that this thing will happen.
You may not know the timing. Paul says when a person receive a word and the word that they receive because he said with the heart men believe it and with the mouth we speak. He said the problem that most people have in this body if we're going to function and win this thing is that you're prophesying outside of your place of rest.
You're living, he said, prophesy. I'm going to the proportion of faith. So Elijah said tomorrow, this time, it will read. Remember, Elijah got a word from God. He not only me, God said, go and show yourself to air. He talked about what most people vision and laugh of faith. So number one, they don't incorporate a vision.
They think they're a lone ranger. They can do it. So number two, they prophesy beyond the grace that God has given to them. So when he saw Elijah said, tomorrow this time, there will be no rain. He said, then what happened? When you get the James chapter, if you read 1 Kings 17, it won't tell you that Elijah prayed when he got the word of the Lord, but you go to James, you will find it.
So when the Lord said to him, I will lock heaven, because the things of God are born out of the Spirit of God. They are not born by the flesh. So Elijah then had to pray for God to lock heaven. He said, even though he received the word of the law, he had to break the word of the law. Even though Mary received the word of the law, she had to break the word of the law.
He said, be unto me according to the word of the Lord. Then the angel said, blessed is she that believeth. There shall be a performance of the things that were spoken to her. So he said, as soon as Zion traveled, Zion gave birth. So Jesus explained to Nicodemus, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit.
He said, mark them not. He said, the things of God is like the wind, it's blowing, but you don't know where it's coming from, but you have to position yourself. So when Elijah received the word and requested things, he was not just doing mimicry. He heard the word of the Lord. He had divine backing. So when he went on Montgomery, so what did the first thing Elijah had to do?
James tells you, Elijah had to go pray for God to shut him. He will not just pray something he figured out in his head. He was not just praying something he thought about. He was praying because he had a word of the law. So he had to birth that word. So he lacked heaven. When God was ready to send rain, God went back to him and said, go show yourself to Aha.
I will send rain. So what did Elijah do? He put his head between his head and started praying and asked the Lord to go look. Why was he doing that? Because he had the word of the law and he was trying to give birth to that which God has spoken to him. I explained to you that when we go to church the pastor would say, God have a word for you.
It's true But the thing is that he didn't explain to you In detail what he meant. He meant that even though you people are 500 here Notice that during the course of this service Something will leap at you or something will jump at you. It has, you will know whether it comes from the choir or it's coming from a testimony or it comes, he said that thing that just came at you, that's the solution to the problem you've been praying for.
He said, but you trivialize it. You didn't take it and God, it said because God wanted it to be bad. So all you did was that you just only learned it in the Bible and you left it. He said, no, don't do that. He said, notice, you may have heard that thing before. Now, it doesn't have to be the Bible. It can be a sign.
You can be driving down the street, and you just see a sign, and the sign say, you shall be great. You have seen that thing before, but we'll just jump at you, as if the person wrote it to you, as if they're talking to you. What is God saying? God is saying, somewhere in your life, you will rise to greatness.
What happened is that you did not take that word to nurture it. You did not take that word to protect and to guide until The day he said, he talked about joseph. He says Until the word of the Lord came to him that tested and tried him until his word came It was after that word before the king sent for him and losing for him to go to the palace So there was a word for joseph But there was a process for the manifestation of that word.
So when Jesus came to the people in Luke chapter four He took the place where it was written about him the spirit of the Lord is upon me And he read it in a hearing said this day his Scripture has been fulfilled. He said it was spoken ever since about me And for 30 years Yes. I've been working my way, doing everything I needed to do is that now the spirit of the Lord is upon me.
And now this word is coming to a special now. So Paul says here, he says, prophesy according to your proportion of faith. He said, if you go outside of your faith, you say, because you don't have that grace. And you start going outside. Have you seen ministry that had to close down or something like that, or they couldn't finish the building project?
Cause it's not that God didn't want to do that. And maybe it's not that he didn't hear from God. He either heard from God, but he didn't nurture the word of the law or he stepped ahead of God because he makes everything beautiful in his time. He said, the visions from that point in time, do it. Tyrus, wait for it.
So how does God restore the years that the locusts are eating? Since God is dealing with you and God knows you're a human being, you can make mistakes. So sometimes we deviate and we go places and do things we're not supposed to do. Because our days are numbered. Now God wanted me here, I'm here. God wanted me there, I'm here.
He said God created something they call mercy or forgiveness in the economy of God. Then God introduced himself to us as the God of restoration. He tells us that the years the locusts are eating, I have the ability to restore it. How does he do that? The Scripture gave up many ways in which he does it.
He said, number one, God has a spirit called the spirit of multiplication. So God can come upon a person. He say, one of you can put a thousand into flight. The two of you can put 10, 000 into flight. He say, I have the ability to impart into you that one of you can become a nation. So one of the way God does is to multiply the works of your hands.
So that means if God wanted you to do something in three years time, if it were going to take three years, God can cause you to achieve that progress in six months. You can multiply that thing. Do you remember when Elijah was up on Mount Carmel? And the chariot here, Elijah ran him. Do you remember David?
The guy would tell 10, 000 of us. The God will put a brace upon David and David would fight all night and slaughter people Notice there are some things that God talked about that will happen in millennium But the Bible teaches that God already has that ability to cause it to happen. Jesus taught us that God can multiply five loaves, two peaches, and He can feed thousands of people.
So God has that ability. He said the same way, if I mess up on God and I'm supposed to achieve something, And I kept on playing around. When I come back to God, he said, God, it's the ability in that forgiveness. God can restore the years that the locals are eating by multiplying that grace and multiplying and putting short the time.
So if I was supposed to raise a 50, 000 member church and I was supposed to do it in 15 years, God can cost me to do it in five years by restoring the 10 years that I blew up. Because I repented. So since I repented, if I had time, I would show you all the Scripture, but it's there. You know how to study so you can find it.
It's there. She said God have the ability to do that. So when we come further down, how many more minutes we got left? Coming contribution?
[00:40:24] Carl Nicolson: Just one sobering one that I want to hold in balance in my thinking here. It is such a hope to hear that the Lord certainly can multiply the work of our hands and restore what the locusts have eaten.
[00:40:34] Ken Eagon: Which is Joel 2 25.
[00:40:36] Carl Nicolson: Oh, thank you very much. As a kid, my mom and dad got us these archway storybooks about the Bible. Did you guys ever come across those little books for Bible stories? Really done. One of the ones that scared me the most as a little kid was the story of the rich fool and the.
Drawings for it in the children's storybook, where you see him storing up all these storehouses of grains and tearing those down to build bigger ones, and they use the King James in there, which made it even more poignant to me, because that's so good for remembering things. Tonight, thou fool, thy soul shall be required of thee.
I don't want to, I don't want to tarry in what God's calling me to do that He might multiply the work of my hands because, right? We don't know how many days we have, and I don't want to be like that rich fool.
[00:41:28] Pastor Addy: Yeah. Yeah.
And that's what a loving father does, because in the Bible, He says, He remembers that we are dust.
That means we are susceptible to deception and mistake. So He made provision for all that You know, He made provision for all that. Remember He said to Abraham that they will stay in His children will stay in Egypt for 400 years. They came up for 30 And Stephen explained to us why when they were stoning him when you're giving his sermon He said when God sent the deliverer Moses When the time was nearing, He said, go away in the camp.
And Moses went in the camp rather, and was talking to them and said, who made you law over us? The same way you killed that man, the way you want to kill us? So Jesus explained the scene to him, he said, I'm sent to you, if you just knew the hour of your visitation. He said, but now you're rejecting Me. And you don't know what awaits you.
Stephen explained in a sermon why they were delayed and all those things happened. He said not in God's program, but God had Imagine God telling you that I'm taking you to a land filled with milk and honey. What happened? They all died in the wilderness. Because they didn't cooperate. But that didn't thwart the purpose of God.
He raised up people to fulfilling, before we close somebody come and say something.
[00:42:58] Jared Roth: Can I share?
[00:42:58] Pastor Addy: Yeah, go ahead.
[00:43:01] Jared Roth: Two big ideas that I'm hearing. The first one is. That all vision is God's vision all the vision that we care about is God's vision. It's generated by God, it's spoken by God, and it's fulfilled by God.
That was helpful for me because we often ask people, what's your vision? And we have them help them dream and imagine and think, talk about their passions. By the way, in the right setting, I don't mind that. That can be very helpful. But what you're talking about is God's vision. What I'm hearing today is it's always generated by God.
It's always spoken by God. It's always filled by God. Second big idea was he always fulfills his vision in community.
[00:43:52] Pastor Addy: Yes. Yes. Yes.
[00:43:55] Jared Roth: Wow.
[00:43:56] Pastor Addy: Yes. Yes.
[00:44:00] Jared Roth: By the way, if I missed it.
[00:44:01] Pastor Addy: No, you hit the nail on the head.
[00:44:03] Jared Roth: Yeah,
[00:44:04] Pastor Addy: You hit the nail on the head, hit the nail on the head.
[00:44:07] Kenneth (Bishop): What then shall we say to these things if God be for you who can be against you?
[00:44:14] George La Du: And as we talk about community is
to Ken's point at the beginning is, do you know your position? Yeah. I think we can better appreciate each other when we see the way God made me. If I can't see the way God made me, how can I really appreciate you? If I am an I, and I appreciate that, then all of a sudden the hand looks wonderful.
Yes, doing what you can't do and then what if we were to coordinate all this together and work together as one for his purposes, right? So I think we all need a revelation of who God has made you to be. So you can appreciate, I think to the degree that you can appreciate what God has done in you, your giftedness, the grace in you, so then can you appreciate it in other people.
Or if you say that in the negative, if you can't see how wonderfully made you are, I don't know, you can really appreciate others and see how wonderfully made they are. I think it's a growing thing, as I grow in the revelation of God, the way you made me, and here's the challenge, is that in our program, we've helped many people understand, help them see the way God made them.
But step number two is then that person appreciating that, because I want to be the way he is. And I want people like you, so I want to be the way you are. And therefore, where we have all these idols, Oh, if only I was Tom Cruise, my life would be great.
[00:46:15] Carl Nicolson: I have found this very helpful to surround yourself with patient people.
[00:46:18] Jared Roth: I think it's so helpful, George.
[00:46:20] George La Du: Open our eyes, Father, as we close here today to the grace in each of our lives. And then let us say yes to that. Lord, what you did when you made me, Lord, what you It was really good and I'm finally going to acknowledge that today and the way you made me is really good and out of that I can see my family and friends and the way you made them and I'm in awe.
I'm in wonder. I just can't believe. How wonderful you are to make each one in your likeness in so many different ways that we can celebrate life. We can celebrate one another, and we can celebrate the call to work together and see your kingdom come in the place where I live.
[00:47:15] Pastor Addy: Thank you.
[00:47:16] George La Du: Amen.
[00:47:17] Kenneth (Bishop): Amen.
[00:47:19] Pastor Addy: Thank you.
[00:47:19] Jared Roth: I need to excuse myself. I'm sorry that I'm slipping out of it early.
[00:47:27] Pastor Addy: Thanks for that second part. Community.
[00:47:30] Jared Roth: Community.
[00:47:32] Carl Nicolson: Yes.
God's vision. He makes it. He proclaims it. He fulfills it.
[00:47:41] Kenneth (Bishop): Hallelujah.
In community.
[00:47:45] Carl Nicolson: Well done.
[00:47:47] Jared Roth: I'm a simple man.
[00:47:58] Pastor Addy: Thank you.
[00:47:59] George La Du: Thank you. We got Philip. Thank you for joining us. Brother had Shane on and amen. Be blessed.
[00:48:11] Pastor Addy: Thank you all. Appreciate it.
[00:48:13] Carl Nicolson: No benediction at Prayer Time?
[00:48:15] George La Du: That was it, wasn't it?
[00:48:16] Kenneth (Bishop): Oh, he prayed. Amen.
[00:48:23] George La Du: Good job, Pastor.
[00:48:23] Carl Nicolson: Thanks people.
[00:48:24] Kenneth (Bishop): Very good. Beautiful.
[00:48:28] George La Du: What's that?
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