Stephanie Ike - Hide and Seek

And while you're standing, family, Ay man. While you're standing, let's just go into the world of God. I'm going to be reading from Proverbs twenty five, verse two, and it's. Coming up right about now. And so it says, it is the glory of God that hides the word, and the glory of the King that seeks for the world. You may be seen the family unless you understand. It's up to you. You know what I love about this word? Actually, if there is one. One scripture, I mean, there are many scriptures that one my favorite, but this this is like one of my all time favorite scriptures because it holds so much that it's really to any destiny. Person needs to understand what the scripture means to them. And to even go into it. One of my when. I just read it, it brought me when I was studying for this world, it brought me back to my childhood. How many of us, like used to play hide and seek. Some of us was hide and seek like not an American thing. Maybe there was not that many places I had. I don't know, but we used to. I love the game, you know, as a kid, and eventually the game started becoming frustrating to me. Just because of the outcome each time I'll play with my family because I was very great at hiding, a master at hiding. I were hiding places. That you could not even think possible was someone could hide there. And one time in particular, I remember I was hiding underneath the car. But I'm like underneath. It and I'm like giggling to myself and I'm seeing, like, you know, people walking by. They're trying to find me, and I'm like, ooh, they don't know I'm here, you know, And it was just it was amazing to me because I wanted to see how long would it take for you to find me? But it started to become frustrating when my brothers and my cousins would give up and it's just silent for some time, and I'm like, wow, I don't see anybody's footsteps, nothing. And then I realized, you know, I would come out of hiding and I'll you know, go upstairs and everyone is like watching cartoons or something, and I'm like, yo, like I was, I'm right here, Like why are we not. Playing the game? And they're like, we couldn't find you. And so after that, they started doing this thing where if they couldn't find me. They would just make this general, you know, announcement, just walk around the compound and screaming like Stephanie, the game is over, you know. And that was the part that was frustrating for me, because when I played the game, I wasn't hiding to stay hidden. I was hiding to be found. The joy of the game was that how long would it take you to find me? But I wanted you to find me so that when you found me, I'm like, Hahi, you. Know it took you this long or something. But that was not the way it was planning, And so I got tired of it and we moved on to something else. But as I thought about the game I loved so much as a child, it took me back to this passage again, because there are many words about our lives that are hidden in God. But they're hidden to be found. They're not hidden just because God needs it or God wants to do something with it. They are hidden in God to. Be found by you. You see what I love about this scripture. It says that it is the glory of God that hides the word. The glory of God speaks to the attributes of God. It speaks to the nature of God. It speaks to who he is. In Exodus thirty three, Moses asked the Lord. He said, God, please show me your glory. And God responds to Moses and he says, I will cause my goodness to pass before you. So in response, he said, Moses, if you want me to show you my glory, I will show you an attribute of my nature, because who I am is my glory. You see, one of the words that we normally used to translate the glory of God is the weight of God. But our word can also be translated to the reverence of God. It is who God is that causes us to put him above all other things. It is who God is that causes us to respect him to the highest degree that it is possible to respect somebody. It is who it is. Just the attribute is the essence of God. You know what is amazing is that God continues speaking with Moses. And if you taking us, you can write the scripture to study it. Exodus study three. He continues speaking with him, and he says, I will not show you my face, because he understood that Moses was really asking God, I want to see all of your glory and the face of God represented his image, and he said, for. If you see my face, you will die. And it's not a thing of like, oh wow, I saw the face of God. Let me tell you how God looks type of thing. But it's that if you see all of Me, that you are not created, you are not designed to and do all of me, because who I am is so much greater than anything I've ever created. And there is the weight of God, that essence, the fullness of Him. For you to see it at once, it would have given Moses a heart attack. Moses would have just like you know, barely opened his eyes and passed out and not a very you know what's so fascinating. This is not even in my notes, but I want you to study this. And I don't have the scripture, but just you know, evangelist Google, but study this when Jesus, when Jesus was born, read what the angels had to say when when the angels called him a Manuel God with us. Even the angels never saw the fullness of God. They were so excited to see Jesus because they say, finally we can see we can't there is there's there's a part of God that we have we can put a face to. Even the angels never saw the fullness of him. That's why the Satan did the nonsense that he did. So the glory of God is there is so much to God that humanity was never created to take it all at once. And so he says to Moses, you cannot see my face. You will die. This is not gonna work. But he says, I will show you my back. And when he said I will show you my back, it's not that God is like and I've been in the gym, I'm doing reps in a back muscles, you know. Is that I will show you my back. It was. It represented the goodness of God still, because it's the things that God turns his back. To that shows you his love for you. The Word of God tells us that for your sake, I will no longer remember your sins, No for my sake. Rather, he says, for my sake, I forget your sins. For my sake, I turned my back to the things that you did that was even against you and against my will, But for my sake I remember it. Not. That is why one of the things I love about God that now it's always the right time in him. God does not look at you and judge you by your past. God does not look at you when you come before him, and he says, but remember what you did yesterday. He says, I've turned my back to your yesterday so that I can give you your future. It is the goodness of God that shows his back. He says, I turned my back against the things that could stand against you. That when the enemy wants to bring a case against you, I turn my back to the words that he has to say. That when he says, look at what your child is doing. Look at what they did yesterday, and this is the child you want to bless. God says, I don't even remember. I know not of what you say. How many of you have seen that a skit. I don't know this man. If I see him, I feel bad for this man. I don't know this man. When the enemy brings your sins before God, God says, I don't know this sin. I feel bad for this sin, but I don't know this sin. God turns his back on the things that could stand against you. God turns his back on the things that you did out of ignorance, so that when you come before him. That's why the love of God is like no other. Because he loves you as though like all the things that we sometimes feel. Like God, it is impossible that you will love somebody like me. God says no, because what you're using to what you're using against you, what you're using to bring shame and guilt on your life. I don't even see that. Because in his goodness and in his love, he sends his son to die for us. So every time he looks at us, he sees Jesus, he sees the blood that was shed, So he doesn't even see none of that. You know what's crazy when my uncle there's a right now, there's the whole thing with the you know, the gentleman that forgave the lady who murdered his brother. And I mean I was shocked to see some of the feedback on social media where people are like, why would you forgive this person? And what is crazy is because why would you forgive? Is the back of God? Is when God says that that is the nature of God. My uncle murdered my father, and when I spoke to God about it, you know what God told me. I mean, God is a god, is a righteous god. He's a god of justice. But the Lord said to me, He said, jealousy is what killed your father, even though jealousy worked through your uncle. But it was not your uncle, the man I created, it's not the person that did that. Who I know him to be is not the person that did that. And when you function in the love of God, you begin to see people. There are times that you have to know how to distance you yourself from people. All right, I said, you know what this. We are not gonna have a relationship, but I'm gonna believe you to be and i will pray for you to be all that God has called you to be, because this is the essence when God turns his back on things. This is the goodness of God. And so I'm sharing this is because when Moses is saying, God, show me your glory, God responds by showing him an attribute of his nature. And so when we talk about it is the glory of God that hides the Word. It's not that God is hiding the Word from you out of you know, to spite you or out of pleasure. There are things about God. Another attribute to God is that God is omniscience. That means God is all knowing. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He knows all things. He knows things about your life that you are yet to comprehend. Only he knows what you're going to be doing in thirty years of your life. He knows everything about you, and so by default there are things about you that are hidden in him. So it's not that God takes pleasure to say, ooh, I got a secret one of them. He says, no, this is just who I am. I am all knowing God. This is what makes me me. This is why God can boldly and confidently say that I am the Lord, and there is no one else like me. There is no other you see. One of the things also about the attributes of God is God's wisdom, and it's the wisdom of God that will cause him not to tell you everything about your life at once, because the truth is that if you knew everything about your life at once, there's some things you will not say yes to, because in order for God to show you what it will cost you, he has to develop you and equip you to stay the course. You see, when I was sixteen, the Lord was showing me. At sixteen, I was, you know, at the brink of making a decision between do I move to California or do I move to London. And my mother was like, look, London is six hour flight from Legos, Nigeria, so it's closer home. Is you know I can see you. You're my only daughter, so it would just make sense. I have two boys and one girl, and I need to know where my girl is. And we were and you know, it was like, you know, we're trying to figure out, like what's the best option, and the Lord started speaking to me, said no, I've called you to go to California, and that's where I would use. Young gostare giving me all these words. And I told my mom, I said, Mom, the Lord has spoken. But at that age, you know, my mom, when I said it to her, it resonated with her and she just knew that this is what we're supposed to do. But at that age, when God said to me that hey, this is what I'm doing with your life, he made it so lofty. He didn't show me exactly the details, and I was just like, whoo wow. The moment I just the moment my feet just touches the ground, it's like something would happen, Maybe the clouds would open. I thought, there was a fashion, so I said, I'm gonna be walking, and demons would just be like jumping, like, oh. There you go. I was like, this is about to be so easy, breezy, come a girl, and so you know, I'm just thinking, I'm about to live my best life until God surprises me. But you see, if God showed me what servant. Him would cost me in my twenties at sixteen, I would have said Lord to have breakfast with the queen, because that does not look like the move. But because the truth is, at sixteen, I wasn't developed to stay the course of what it will cost me. So in God's wisdom, he hides certain things. The things that he could reveal to me now because He's developed me to know that promotion comes with responsibility, that promotion will cost you your life, that elevation costs something, because when. You're excited about elevation, it. Means you're still in the flesh. When it excites you, when it's like ooh, look at what God is doing for me. No, no, no, Elevation brings you before the presence of God even more because you recognize that what God puts in your hand is not for you it's for you to be a steward over and it's for you. It's connected to lives and generations, and so it would be it would be foolish of me that, in the place that God is saying that this is the time I want to do something with your life, that I think it's about me. But you see, God will take his time with you to develop you before he releases certain words about your destiny because it's in the development season many of you here even today, you're you're facing some of the hardest times of your life, but you have not turned your back on God. You have not turned your back on his word because God has developed you to stay the course. If you knew what it will cost you when you first decided to move to this city, if you knew what it will cost you when you decided to take that position, to take that to say yes to the doors that God opened for you, if you knew what it will cost you, then you might not have said yes to it. So there are things that God would do in his wisdom to protect you and to preserve your way. But all of this family points to the glory of God. So when they say that it is the glory of God that hides the word. You can look at it like, it is the knowledge of God, it is the wisdom of God. It is the goodness of God that hides the word. But then something I love that it says is that it is the glory of kings that seeks for the word. You See, why is it important that we seek for the world because the king is really you. That word king means royalty, so it means king, queen. It's really talking about you. That the essence of who God created, when he created you, was one that would seek. And this is so critical because if you're taking on I want you to write this down. There's a revelation that precedes every major shift in your life. There are times and seasons that is appointed for God to get a word to you. There are times and seasons that God says, because there's something new I'm about to do in your life, because there is a shift that I'm about to do in your life, I need. To get this word to you. But that word getting to you necessitates you being in a position to seek you. See, what is so fascinating about God is that when God is inviting you into the place of seeking him, seeking his presence, seeking what is it about your life. One of the things that I've learned that God will normally do is that he will disrupt your normalcy. You see, because family, if you are comfortable in the old thing, then when God is doing something new, you will not know it. And it takes expectation to engage for manifestation. The word of God says, behold, I do something new, shall you not know it? And so if you're so comfortable in the old season, you will not know it. So God will now disrupt the norm of your presence. So you find yourself in places where you feel like you're losing control of your life. You find yourself in places that it's like, God, why do I feel like I'm in this repeated cycle. You find yourself in positions that you start asking questions to God. But the mistake that we sometimes make is that we ask questions from a place of self pity. Self pity does not push you forward. There was a man by the well In the Bible. It talks about a man by the well who stayed there for thirty eight years because he engaged in self pity. And when Jesus encounters him, it says do you want to be made well? Because Jesus understood that you with your mouth, you speak that you desire something, But self pity will cripple you besealf. Self pity will deceive you to think that what by just saying what I desire it would happen because self pity makes the issue bigger. Than that which can solve it. And so when you wallow in self pity, the circumstance becomes bigger than your God. So you are aware that God is there, but you have made the circumstance your idol. And so you're in places where you're questioning God, why what is happening? But the beautiful thing about questions that you can't answer is that it's God inviting you to seek him. There are questions that you will not find on evangelist Google that it will not be answered there. There are questions that will not be answered just by you randomly open your Bible to say, who speak to me? There are questions that can only be found when you seek him. You see, there's a fantastic story about a man named Saul in the Bible. Saul was living his best life. He was just doing the thing he knew to do. But what was unknown to him. It was that God had purpose to make him king. And God had spoken to a prophet by the name Samuel. Prophets in the old in days, they I mean their road, because prophets have their prophets today, their prophet will be prof tomorrow. But in the olden. Days in particular, because the spirit of God was not in the earth yet. So God will rest on certain people to represent him, to represent his voice to a nation, to represent his voice to the people, to speak forth his will. And so this prophet Samuel was one that was highly respected because he was one that they said of him that none of his words fell to the ground, meaning that everything this man literally said that they saw the manifestation of it. The man had given everything of him to God. And so this prophet sam will God had already had. A conversation with him. He says, there is a man, you know. He tells him about Saul, and he's like, he will come to you on this day at disappointed time, and this is the person that would be king of over the people. But Saul has no clue. Saul is just doing living, you know, living his best life. And the all of a sudden, his father's donkeys go missing. The father says to him, He says, Saul, take a servant and go look for my donkeys. You see what God had disrupted was for them to ask a question, where are the donkeys? So they're looking for the donkeys. It takes them three days. Three days they have not this cannot find these donkeys. They're going from town to town. They cannot find the donkeys. So Saul is like, you know what, this is not gonna work. Maybe we should go back home because at this point my father may be more concerned about us than the donkeys. But then the servant tells him something that changed his life. You know what I love about that story even and this is not the message, but what is so powerful is that it's the servant that would give him direction towards his destiny. Never look down on people because they're serving beneath you. Because with God, everything connected to you, everyone connected to you. There is a two way blessing. Because someone is serving you just what you're doing for them, they're also doing something for you. The servant tells him. He says, you know what, let's not go back. Let us go to the prophet Sam will because they knew that this prophet, if you had a question, he had the answer that he will just speak to God and God will show him where the donkeys are. They just knew that this man, he just knew things. You see, he was in the knowing. He knew the secret things of God. He was one that could seek. And so they go to the prophet and when the prophet sees them, he's already waiting for them, and he tells Saul. He says, you know what, You've been looking for your father's donkeys for three days. They're actually already found, he said, because it was never about the donkeys. Some of the biggest questions you're asking God about. God already has a plan to solve it. He just disrupted that so that he can get your attention. Because what God really needed to get to Saul is that, Saul, I am actually about to shift you into a new level. I'm about to change your season. But I need to get your attention. And if the only thing I could use to get your attention were to cause these donkeys to go and missing, I would use that to get your attention. Some of the questions you have about your life, it's not because God is not with you. It's not because God doesn't see you. Is that God is using that to invite you to seek him. Because when there are times that I mean, we were always gonna have questions, but there are times that it becomes overwhelming that you can't shake it off, and you're just like God, before I take another step, what is happening in my life? But those questions needs to be directed in His presence. It's not a question that you have as a conversation with friends that you're sitting down and having brunch and you're like, men, I'm so frustrated. I just need God to speak, but you need God to speak, But you're speaking to your friend. We talk about God more than we talk to him. So we're telling people. Like men, I don't know what God is doing in my life, but you have not brought that before the presence of God, and so you're frustrated with the one that you have not even communicated with. And so all along. The prophet is just like, look, we just needed you here. He said, forget about the donkeys. We've solved the donkey problem. God has a word over your life. You think you have a financial issue, you think you have a relationship issue, you think you have, whatever the issue is, and God is like all of this I'm using to bring you to get your attention. There is something so much bigger than the thing that you're complaining about that I want to do in your life. And I don't want the season to come and you do not know it because you see, the scripture says times and seasons belong to God. There's a time and a season for everything. And the appointed time that God has for your season, he wants you to walk in the knowledge of it so that you can bring what it's manifestation. So when it says that it. Is the glory of the kings to seek it out, if they don't seek out the word of God, then it's almost like it is a word of God that shows us the truth. About our essence and our identity. You see, many of us, who we think we are is just the default of our surrounding, our circumstances, the opinions of people, the opinions of family. It's not really who God created you to be. It is the Lord that begins to show you this is who you are. You see, some of us, they're pivotal decisions that we have to make in life. Not every decision in your life carries the same impact. Not every decision in your life carries the same weight. We are society that we just do things on impulse and then we say, God, bless it. God said to Abraham, he said, come to a land that I will show you. He didn't tell Abraham, go somewhere and I will bless you. He didn't saying, like, you know what, just take a walk wherever you feel you feel comfortable. Then just tell me that's the spot and I will bless you. He said, come to a land that I will show you. Why am I sharing this. Because sometimes we make decisions to move to cities without consulting the voice of God. We just say, God, you know I'm tired of I think there is a call for me in that city. We never consult him. We consult friends who are like man, this city is thriving, this is the place that this would work out for you. We never These are major decisions that could impact your future. Because one of the things you will learn. About God is that oftentimes when God wants to bless you, he uses certain locations. And so if God has an ass for you in Los Angeles, and then you randomly just decide that you want to move to Atlanta. Then when you go to Atlanta, you say, I'm going on a fast so that God will bless my trip, and I'm gonna be in prayer for God to just acknowledge my ways. We have to first. These are heavy decisions. Relationships. You're in a relationship and you're you don't know, you don't have peace about where it's going, but you just want to see, Well, let's see what happens. God just bless it. Whoever you decide to marry in life, you are connected to that person for the rest of your life. And if you make a wrong decision, you're choosing one of you is choosing to go the wrong direction for the rest of their life because somebody is gonna compromise. There are decisions. Not every decision holds the same impact. There are some things you can do just for fun. There are things about your life that are negotiables. What to wear today that's negotiable. You know, right, wear black or white or it doesn't affect the Kingdom of God. God will not look at me and say, wow, Stephanie, you really want that shirt? Huh that's what you wanted to wear. But there are things that have more impact and carry heavy weights concerning your future that you cannot just do it out. Of a feeling or an idea. You have to do it as a conviction. When the Holy Spirit convicts you, it means that there is a word that is so true and so secure in you that even when logic is against it, you know it to be true. And so when you find yourself on the brink of having to make a pivotal decision, you cannot just make it randomly. You cannot just make it out of just because you need to do something right now. That uneasiness is God inviting you to seek him, that there is a word he has for you that will shift your life. Sometimes you want to quit a job, and God actually opened the door for you to have that job, But then you want to quit because there's a position because it's too hard and people are like, you know what, if the Lord favored you, then it should be easier. But because of the Lord's favor, you're not fired. But then you want to quit. And what you don't understand is that there could even be something that is offering you something better. You can even receive an offer that is outstanding. But what if the assignment on your life is connected to someone you will meet at that job. And so there are some. Decisions you just don't make randomly. You don't make certain decisions in the flesh. When you know you're on the brink of making a pivotal decision. You say, you come before God. It's time to see his word. God, what are you saying? And so what does it mean to seek him? If you're taking notes, write this down. Seeking is the posture of one who has reverence for God. Seeking is the posture of one who has reverence for God. And write this down as well. Reverence is revealed by the consistency of an intentional pursuit of God. Intentional pursuit. You see, we are a generation that we focus more on the truth is that God is everywhere, and you can have fellowship with God at any time. You can talk to God in your car, you can talk to God anywhere. But the strength of your relationship with God anywhere, it comes from the place that is intentional. You see your friendships, your relationships, any relationship in your life that is strong. It's not a relationationship that is built with a crowd. It's not a relationship that is built around people all the time. You have strong. Relationships because you're intentional about the time that you invest in it. You're intentional about the time where there is no distractions, but both people. Are learning one another. But we have luck. We when you talk to people like you know, what, what does it look like? You know what does spending time with God look like for you? And they're like, oh, all the time, every time, always that they have lost the essence of being intentional about it. Because you should talk to God all the time, every time, but it should be birthed from a place that is intentional. That you see Jesus, even Jesus, Jesus had fellowship with the Father all the time. But the Bible will tell you in so many areas that at nighttime just he will go to a secluded area where it would be just him and the Father in prayer, that he would pray to the Father for hours. He would just be in his presence for hours. Even you know, when you study God's relationship with a man named Moses, what it's fascinating is that God will tell Moses, Moses come up to the mountain there's something I want to show you. But before Moses got to the mountain, he heard the voice of God. And when God wanted to give him something that would shift the people, he says, come up to the mountain, remove yourself from the crowd, be intentional about how you want to engage my presence, and that is the place that I would give you revelation. Moses was always in fellowship with God, but there were moments where they had to be intentionality about his relationship with God. Those are the moments of that's where intimacy forms. And so we say that, you know what, I just spend all my time with God. But are you intentional? It's the time you spend with God? Is it the default of your free time? Is it that you know what? When I'm gonna break then I'm like, oh yeah, God, this is what's going on. Is there intentionality behind your pursuit? You see the average person today, our lives are it's like in our routine, we're distracted. Distractions are in our routine. It's just part of who we are, and we are allowing those distractions to compete with God. And why I say that is because if you take about five minutes to pray. If you're not intentional about that, those five minutes. At minute three, your phone rings, you answer it, Hey, let me call it right back. I'm in prayer. But already your mind has shifted. And if they have something important to tell you, you continue the conversation. And what if at that very moment there was something that God wanted to show you, and now your. Attention has shifted. You See something I. Love about how God was represented in the Old Testament the Bible is that even though we know that when you know the coming of Jesus, I mean, it made too many things a lot easier because they did a lot of sacrifices, a lot of things that you know today I can't tell you, you know, sacrifice, bull, a lion, the sheep of goat. It was a lot. But when Jesus came, obviously he paid the ultimate price. But one of the things I love is, you know, is the way they reference the presence of God. There are lessons that God taught us about him in the Old Testament. You see, when God wanted to dwell amongst the people, he said to Moses, he says, build for me a tabannacle, and I will show you exactly what it should look like. I will give you all the details of it. But one of the first thing he tells, and when building it, he says, you would build what was called the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant represented the was that it really represented the presence of God. Because when the Temple was built, where the ark was placed was in the Enemy was part of the temple. It was a place that was known as the Holy of Holies. There was a veil that separated it from the rest of the temple, and in order to access it, it had to be someone who was a high priest, and a high priest was one whose life was very different from every other person there were separated for the things of God. It had to be a high priest first. Of all, who would only go once a year, and there were certain things, specific things that he had to do. And if he missed one. Thing as it was approaching the Holies of Holies, God will strike him dead right there. And God did not kill him because God was evil or God was you know, like, what are you thinking? But God is looking at it, and he says, for one whole year, you have one job to get this right, and that one job was included you understanding that to engage me necessity, to respect and intentionality. You cannot just engage me any way you desire. The high priests had to wear a special attire, they had to i mean, take a bath before they had to do there were specific things they had to do to engage the presence of God. And what that taught us that engaging the presence of God takes it. You must respect who he is, who he is, and you must be intentional about it. You said, the beautiful thing is that when Jesus. You know, gave up his spirit on the cross supernatural, there was an earthquake and the veil that separated the holies of holies it was ripped open. And that showed us that anyone can access his presence. And that's amazing. Anyone, anyone, a murderer, anybody can access the presence of God. But the thing that we. Should not lose in the midst of that was the intentionality and the reverence for the things of God. You see, what does this mean in our own lives that your time with God is it sacrifice? Do you actually spend time with him? Sometimes we ask the questions But what does that do Is that like religious? Is that like you know, I'm just coming before God to read my Bible and check that off and you know, say some. Prayers and check that off. Is that religion? It's not. It's hunger. Hunger is what should should motivate you that God, I want to know something about you that I would wait before you, that I will take out time for my day each day to just sit before you, to read your word to even if I just have my journal, and I'm expecting you to speak to me. Because when God sees your hunger, that is what he answers. The Word of God says that those who are hungry, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, that He will fill them up when God sees your hunger. All of a sudden, you may not even know when things started changing. All of a sudden, your dreams become more vivid. All of a sudden, you start like you're just you know, you're having your regular day and you start having visions or you start having memories that of things you did not engage in, and you're like, wait, I feel like I know, I know what's happening right now. There are times that you could just be living your best life and all of a sudden, something is impressed on your heart and God is telling you. I want you to speak to that person. This is what happens in the presence of God when God sees your hunger. You see, even when you read the world, even if you take time and you say, you know what, each day, I want to read the Word for fifteen minutes. It's not about checking off a scripture and say, okay, Regid, this is wan let me check it off. The Bible talks about meditating on the Word of God. There is a scripture, one of the scriptures I love. It talks about how the Word of God is flawless. It says it is like gold refined seven times. And what that means, family, is that there are layers to it that in order for you to tap into the perfection of the Word, that you have to meditate on it. That the Holy Spirit begins to reveal the layers of the Word. It is more beneficial to you you study one verse in fifteen minutes, then to read the whole chapter. Just to read it that you can look at a verse and say, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and you sit there and say, Wow, God. Why did you create the heavens first? What was that like? God? Can you take me there in the beginning? What? God? What was before the beginning? God? What is time? What is before time? There are so many questions that you can begin to ask of the scripture. I'll pastor always share something that Bishop TDJ says when he says that you know, ask questions of the text, that you can take fifteen minutes and just make yourself available to the Holy Spirit and say, God, when you say it is the glory of God that hides the word God, what does that mean? God? What is your glory? Why would you hide it? Your questions you can ask of it and you can sit there with God. And what this does is that it begins to feed your spirit. It begins to make you more sensitive to the things of God. Because when you start asking questions of the Word, then you have an expectation to hear from God. And God begins to train how you hear him. This is what happens in His presence. I challenge you to start taking time to read a verse and just sit with it. Just sit with a verse. Don't be in a hurry to just say, you know, it is a glove of God that hides the world and the glory of the King that sinks the word next verse and you say, oh Lord. Thank you. I read Proverbs twenty five today. Check because you have to. You have to make room for the Holy Spirit to reveal. What does that word say. The reason why people use the word as a weapon against God is because they have not sat with it. If the word is refined like gold seven times, there are layers to understand exactly what God is saying. And we have to be the kind of people that says God. And this time I'm just spending with you. I just want to read your word. Let me just read. Give me one verse and let me meditate on that verse. Let me see what you have to say. And as you're hearing God, and it's beginning to make sense, all of a sudden, that same manner that God used to speak to you, it could be your mind where the thoughts you have is not your thoughts because you could have never thought about that. And then you begin to pay attention that while God is using my thoughts to communicate to me, that you start to you start to know things. You see the spirit of God that is all knowing. It is the spirit of God that lives in you. So times, so there are times that God will speak to you through an knowing where you just know what to do. You just you just know what to do. There was something said about the sons of Isakar that they that they know, they just they know things. They just know what to do in the time, They know what to do in the seasons. And that is what happens when you're in the presence of God, and that is what God wants for you. You see, sometimes we might feel like God, it's like I don't hear your world. I feel like even when I'm before you, I'm not hearing you. I'm not this. I'm not that live remove the excuses and have the patience to wait. Because the beauty of God. Or even if you feel like God, this is boring, We've all been there. Sometimes we're still you know, seasonally we get there where God would have you read something and you're like, God, I don't even know what's happening right now. I'm looking at it and I cannot tell you one thing. I might as well say meedhow because this looks like Chinese. But the beautiful thing, family, is that if you're someone who you feel like God, when I'm in your presence, it feels boring praying to. You, like I just don't feel the energy. I just don't know how to do it. Stay there because the truth, family is that some things can start in the flesh, then it would lead you into the spirit because when you start in the flesh, what God is looking for is your consistency, because consistency speaks. Of your hunger. It could start in the flesh. You may be so bored while you're praying, you're thinking about Chick fil A and Popeyes, and you're like, who really had the better chicken sandwich? That could be on your mind. But stay there and just say you know what, God, let me. God, you can even transition it. God, I wonder which one you would like better, so you can invite God into the conversation. There are things it's no family, But in all seriousness, sometimes you. Could be in your flesh. But when you stay there, when the Lord knows that you would be consistent there, all of a sudden, you would not even know when it happens, the Holy Spirit begins to empower you. There was a time where fifteen minutes would be so boring. All of a sudden, you see yourself and it's thirty minutes in prayer, thirty minutes just sitting down and writing in your journal, and I wur just reading the world. All of a sudden, the Holy spirits begin. The Holy Spirit begins to strengthen you in that place. But we have to learn because every time the flesh wants to do something else and we say no. That's what breaks its power over us. And that's what allows the spirit to rise up within you. You see, there's anyone who anyone you admire in their walk with God, they were not born that way. We're not just born to know things. We're not just born to say, Wow, the Lord spoke to me yesterday in the womb. I remember I wast three months and he gave me a word. I said, wow, God, is that what you have for me in six months? No, you're cultivated. God cultivates you. So it's also important that when you sense things that may seem random, you actually you give it attention, you give it focus. Because God is eager. God desires to have a way to talk to you. He's like, just give me something. He will give you a dream, and the dream may seem so random. You might have a dream and you in the dream, you see someone you know wearing a blue shirt. Your friend goes wearing a blue shirt, and that was a dream. That was it a blue shirt? And then maybe you walk into church and you see the person wearing a blue shirt, but there was nothing else to the dream. It's God training your ability that what do you see? Let me make sure you're what you see. You're recording and you're giving attention to your dreams now so that maybe I could use your dream as a channel to speak to you about important things. Sometimes you may be just minding your business and all of a sudden, you feel this need to tell someone something. Jesus loves you. You go over to them and you're like, man, Jesus loves you, and they break down crying, and it's a sign that God is like okay. Then you start knowing that, oh man, I think I heard God properly. I think that was God. God begins to develop you. Sometimes you might miss it. It's all right, but pay attention to the things that seem that just seem random. You know, you're thinking about one thing and all of a sudden, you have a thought, a random thought comes across your mind. Call this person and you're like, hmm, okay, let me call her. Then you call the friend and they're like, man, I really needed to talk to somebody right now. God is trying to see what are you going to pay attention to? So the next time that I use that same area, are you going to be are you going to be a focused on? Wait? Maybe God is actually trying to speak to me. He wants you to cultivate something. God wants to talk to you more than you want to know his voice. It is his desire. He will not die for you to not speak to you. Your relationship with God is tangible, and the. Reason God is so eager to have to cultivate you, you know, to cultivate your ability to know his voice is so that you will not be deceived when it's something bigger. You see their two scenarios. One, there's a man named David in the Bible, right David. One of the David's breakthrough that was David, or let me use the word breakthrough, because what shifted David into the position also of king. You know, David took the man named Saul's position I was talking to you about earlier. But what shifted David was that there was a moment where he had to he challenged. He fought this giant called Goliath, and the way he fought him was he had you know, he had mastered his ability to use this sling, you know, this sling and a rock, just this weapon. There was a weapon he had mastery over because God had cultivated him to use that weapon. Against the lion and against the bear. And so when it came to Goliath, David wasn't second guessing how he's gonna take him down. He's like, God has given me mastery over this area, so I would use this area to fight this giant. If David did not know the way that God would use him, the King actually said to David, he says, we're my armor and fight the giant. And David puts it on. But because there is something that God has already used to train him, he says, this is not it not feel like what God has used me for in the past to fight my battles, And so because of that he. Says, no, no, no, I can't do this. If David stayed in the armor of the king, he would have lost that battle against Goliath in the same way Jesus. There was a moment where Jesus asks his disciples. He says, who do men say that I am? He wasn't asking them to get information, you say, sometimes we're asking people questions so that we might we might were like, God, please give me a sign if I ask them this and they tell me. If I ask someone like, what do you think I'm called to do? And they say, well, maybe you're called to you know, to be a journalist, You're like, you know. What, maybe that's the voice of God. No, when Jesus was asking them this question, he already knew who he was, so when he asked him, he says, who the men say that I am? And then Peter says, you are Christ, the son of the Living God. And Jesus said, oh wow, flesh and blood has not told you this, but my father, who is in heaven. The reason he said that is because he knew what the Father had told him. But something fascinating happens. The next moment, Jesus is talking about going to the cross, and the same Peter who just spoke what the Father said. Peter rebukes Jesus that no, no, no, you are not. Going to the cross. But Jesus, because Peter was not his information pull because Jesus already knew the voice of the Father. He looks at Peter and he says, get behind me, Satan. But the key thing in this in that happened in that scripture is that why did the enemy think that was an opportunity to deceive God? To deceive Christ, who is God? But why did he think that was an opportunity to deceive him? Because this is where many of us become deceived. Because we heard someone say something that came from God. We become dependent on them to always speak to us about what God is saying. And the truth of the matter is that their humanity in us. Sometimes we may not be speaking from a place of submission to the Holy Spirit. There are times that someone will ask me something and if I am not sure where my advice is coming from, I will tell you, Look, this is just me talking. This is my advice. Please don't take it like pray about it. But please do not think that because I gave you an advice, this is what the Lord said about you. I have no clue, but this. Is how the enemy gets us because if you don't know the voice of your father, then someone who has said something that sounded like God, you will go to them and say, hey, this is what I'm dealing with. Can you tell me what to do? And that person may be speaking from their feelings, that person may be speaking from who knows where, and then you take that as the word of God. When all along God is saying, look, I'm all like you have an all access. Passed to me. Why are you seeking my voice about critical things from strange places? Jesus said something so powerful. He says, my sheep know my voice, a stranger's voice. They will not follow. There is a process for that. And why is he saying something like that? Because when God wants to tell you something critical about your life, he wants to develop you in an area that you know that, Wow, this came from God, so that you can follow and you can manifest what is a sign to you. But this starts from having reverence for his presence. There's no magic show. It's not like, hey, after seven days of just spending time with God, boom. It's a lifestyle. Because you're gonna have There are different seasons in your life that you need a word from God to properly move into what God has for you, and. He wants you to know his voice. You see the word of God says in Psalms twenty five fourteen. It says, the secret of the Lord is with those that fear him, and he will show them his covenant. That word he will show them simply means no, and covenant can also be defined as friendship. That the secret of the Lord are with those that fear him. They will know his friendship. His friendship is intimacy. When you're a friend of God, he doesn't hi. It's not that God doesn't hide things from you, but you're so the relationship. Is to the point where you just know the things of God, that. You know what God wants to do in your life because he has access to for you to hear him. He said of Abraham, he said, would I not tell Abraham what I'm about to do? It's not that God was asking himself a question, like he was sitting down and he's like, man, I'm about to do something, But am I not gonna tell Abraham? Am I just gonna blindside him? It was not that it was that Abraham is someone who gives me the space. He has made room to hear me, and so I want him to know this thing, and I have the access to tell him. There are many things that God wants to reveal to you in this season. There are things God wants to reveal to you about what's next for you. And it's gonna come from the place of intentionality with his presence. And that's why we have to learn. Everything about culture is against waiting. Everything about culture is like I want this, and I want it now. I want this, I want it now. And everything about God is about waiting. He says, amazing, God is known as the Bible says, God is love, and the first thing that the Scripture tells us about love is that love is patience. Everything about the nature of God requires you to wait. And so when you and so waiting before him, you know, it's fascinating. I remember there was a time where the Lord has said to me, He's like, I want you to rise at this particular time and meet me, and to be honest. When God gives me a word. Like that, I'm thinking that, Wow, when I rise up, I'm about to just have a visit to heaven. That the spirit of the Lord is just carrying me or something. I was like, God, you're just about to show up every day of my life. And so I would wake up and it was the most boring thing ever because I was like God, like where are you at? Like what is going on here? This is just so dry. And there was one particular day I woke up at that time to meet with him, and that the atmosphere was different, like the way the presence of God was in the room. It was something I could never forget. But it wasn't for me to be dependent on that. All God was doing is that I've been here all along, all along, I've been here. I've just I was watching your consistency when you s when you speak, I hear you when you're studying. I'm the one giving you the revelation. You're waiting for a tingle. But I've been here all along. Just continue to abidon me, and I will show you the things concerning your life. I will show you the things that are connected to you. God wants to reveal mysteries to you. He doesn't need it in heaven. Everything in heaven is an open book. He doesn't need that in heaven, but you need it on the earth. That's why the Bible says that when Jesus is teaching the disciples how to pray, he's saying that on earth, as it is in heaven, Heaven is settled. We need it on the earth. We need revelation on the earth. We need to know God. What have you said? What are you doing? What is your will? What is your plan? I need this on the earth. It is good. It's fun to me, I said, who and so family, this is just a time. When God gave me the sword, he simply said, this is a time for repentance. Repentance literally means change your mind, change your mind about how you engage my presence. The beautiful thing is that, yes, I am always with you. You can talk to me about anything. When I used to struggle with pornography, I used to talk to God about that. I will turn it on and I'm like, God, please, I hope you're not watching. Beauty of relationship, But that relationship is most fruitful when it comes from a. Place of intentionality. You can have relationship with God, but intimacy friendship, that type of fruit comes from intentionality. It was not everyone in the scripture that God called his friends. He called people his servants. He called people they know me and all this this, But it's not everyone he called his friend. There were few people that God identified as friends. And God wants you to be his friend. God wants friends on the earth. But the fris intentionality. Think about your best relationships. Think about your best friends. What makes them your best friend? Just think about that. What makes What is the difference between someone who is the best friend and someone who's an associate? What you invest in it, what is invested in those relationships. That's where the difference is. God wants to be your friend. And so this is really a time where we say, God, I'm gonna change my approach towards your presence. I want everything I do with you to come from a place of being intentional. And you can start right now. You can start today that before you go to bed, you map out time you're intentional about God should not be your default plan that okay, since some dinner is at this time, and then my TV show comes on at this time, and then got a thirty minutes, No I know with my shows. Oh it's set. When I have a show that's coming on, I'm ready, Please, I am unavailable because my show is coming on, and the same way, like literally, in my phone, the time I spend with God, I have my I write it as appointment with God. It's on my calendar every single day of my calendar. It shows up appointment with God. Because I want to be intentional, so that God is not a default to me, and so that everything else I do when I'm when I'm dancing and i'm and I'm speaking to Him, when I'm at the grocery store and I'm speaking to him, it came from a place of intentionality. First, And so families stand with me. You know what's beautiful? This morning, after my prayer time, I heard so clearly, like so clearly, two words, everything changes. And I began to meditate on it. I said, God, what does that mean? Everything? Everything changes? Everything changes? And it says, there is a shift that is coming to my people that will change everything they know about their life. And that shift will be birth in my presence. That as they abide in me, as they seek me, as they go deeper in me, as they're more intentional about how they engage me, there are mysteries that I would reveal to them, and it will change everything about their lives. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. You say, sometimes what God wants to do is write in front of you, literally right in front of you. The team you're looking for, they're right in front of you. But you need a word from God because the person that could be one of the greatest ass to your life is the one you're overlooking because you're looking at it from a site perspective, not a word perspective. There are things God, everything about your destiny, everything you need in your life. In every present moment you have, every single thing you need. God already makes it available to you because he said, he said that he watches his word for the fulfillment of it. God is like, look, this thing I said needs to happen. He sets everything in position, and all he needs for you is to know that. Shall you not know it? Shall you not know what I'm doing in your life? And this is what happens when we spend time with Him, when we say God, I'm hungry for you, I'm hungry for you. One of my other favorite scriptures is when the Bible talks about how God, God shows no favoritism, and what is powerful about that is that as long as you show him hunger, he will give you his spirit. That it is your hunger that causes him to elevate you in the spirit. That where there is hunger, there is the power of God. That's it. It's hunger. And sometimes you may not feel hungry. You may not know like God. You may like God, make me hungry, make me hungry. I remember one time and God was talking to me about, you know, being hungry for him, and I say, God, but what if someone doesn't feel hungry? And he said to me, how do you get hungry in the natural? And I thought about that. You see, if you have a heavy meal the night before you go to bed, you don't wake up hungry. You wake up and you're all right. You could you could go about today. You could have a cup of coffee, green tea came of mal There's a bunch of kind of teas in the world, now, you know, and. You'll be fine. You could go the whole morning and you're fine. But then when you go three days, two days without food, all of a sudden, you're like, oh my gosh, I'm hungry. I mean for some you know, seven hours, you're like, oh wow, But what makes you hungry? Is that there was something that was starved. And so when you don't know, when you're wondering that God, what does it mean to be hungry for your presence? Sometimes it starts by starving the distractions, starving the things that occupy your time. Because if all you, if you all you make yourself available to, are things that feed your flesh, your spirit is not engaged. But when you begin to starve things in your life, then all of a sudden, there's a your spirit, there's a hunger that starts to kick in, and then you're the time before God that could seem like it was boring, and it was this all of a sudden, it's you just sit there, you cry before him, you talk to him, and that is one of the sweetest places that you, oh, that you ever desire. But sometimes you have to learn how to. Starve what is fighting you from being hungry. Hunger is not an anointing. It's a process. There's a process to hunger, the same way in the natural there's a process to hunger. If you give me ribs right now, it is impossible for me to tell you in five minutes, oh man starving. But if I go without foods for some time, I'm like, oh, my body's hungry. The same way for the spirit. What are you? What is feeding your soul? What is feeding your soul? You see last Sunday, our pastor pastor today he talked about briefly talked about Russiashana, and Russashana is a biblic holiday. It's the Jewish new year that started last Sunday evening, and Rassashana is normally it's followed by what they call ten days of awe, ten days of reflecting and repentance, when we reflect on the goodness of God, we reflect on our ways, we reflect on our relationship with God, and it's a time of repentance that God, if I'm seeing something about my life that is not in alignment with You, let me change my ways. Let me change my behavior so that I might be in alignment. With your will. And Rasashana ends with a conclusion of yum Kapor. And yung Kapor is literally the day of atonement. What I love about that, and that's actually going to come up Wednesday evening. That would be the conclusion of yum. Kapor and our pastors, you know, just he put it out there that perhaps this is a time with your fast, fast. Than for you. Could be different things. If you have not joined the fast, you could always join it. You could start today, and it could be something. It could be whatever is a sacrifice for you, whatever would starve, what is against your hunger. It might be it might be television. It might be social media. It might be you know. It might be food. It might be that because you spend so much time thinking about what to eat and and this, that your mind is occupied with your thoughts of food. It could be. Anything but sacrifice, something that will bring you to the place that you become hungry again for the things of God. And the beautiful thing is that when God begins to manifest himself to you in fresh ways, no one needs. To encourage you to continue. Nobody you would know that this thing with God is it has substance to it. It's not just this mystery and the clouds. It has substance for me. God is more real to me than the people I see. You cannot there. There is no amounts, there's no science, there's no logic that can ever make me can be, that can ever make me think that. No, Jesus is not real. No, no, no, Because when God starts to reveal himself to you from the place of your hunger, you don't need anybody to encourage you to stay the course. You don't need anybody. The reason that many of you are even in a place where you're like God, I'm gonna seek you deeper is because He has already given you. Glimpse of his elf, of who he is. You see many of you, even when I'm talking about the dreams that could seem random, or the impressions that can seem random, or the thoughts that could seem random, you began to think about. It that way. Maybe that was. God talking to me all this time, and he wants to develop that in you. God wants some friends. Man, what God can do with a friend, that is what changes nations. The people God called his friends in the Bible were people that led nations. Oh thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. It's available to everyone. We just have to be hungry for it. And so what I want to pray into is that if you know that God, I have not given the respect I ought to give because of your mercy and your goodness towards me, I have lost reverence for your presence but God, I want to go deeper in my relationship with you, because there is levels to relationship with God. There is levels to it. And you're saying that God, I repent. I want to change my ways. I want to know you deeper, and I want I want you to know that when you wanna. Speak to me about something, Lord, I'm all ears. Lord, my heart is yours. You know, when there's a man. Named Solomon in the Bible and when God asks him, what is one thing you want. Me to do for you? It was actually in a dream. Check this out. In a dream, he had a dream and God tells him in the dream, what is one thing you want me to do for you? And Solomon in the dream says, God, give me wisdom because he was a king, and he said, I I don't know how to lead these people. I need your wisdom. And that word wisdom actually translated to a hearing heart that God, give me the ability to hear your wisdom. Give me the ability to hear from you to know how to lead this people. And check this when Solomon then woke up, that was actually what happened in his life. But there are two powerful things. One it was a dream, the dreams that we sometimes think are random, is a channel for God to encounter you. And second, the thing he asked of God is that. God give me a hearing heart. I want to hear you. I cannot function effectively as king if I don't hear what you have to say. And he had his you know, he had his falls and slips because it's not just a one time thing. It's a thing you press into that you consistently press into it. And it was amazing because God said to him, because you have asked of this, not riches, not this, not that I would give you everything, and that because when you hear from God everything is that you're is you? You? I mean, what is what? How do I even put this? What can't you attain? Because one word from God will shift your whole life? One word from God, the words of God is what. It's what even creates favor with man because you're someone who is just in the know, and you will be at the right place at the right time. You will be doing the right things with the right people. It just creates the atmosphere of favor because you're moving in alignment with what Heaven has spoken. Favor is really alignment favor shows up where there is alignment, and so family, family, someone, and you might be wondering. Someone might be here and maybe this you're you're new to your you're new to the things of God, and you're wondering, what does alignment even mean? Alignment literally means when your life on the earth looks like what God has ordained for it to be. At that point, when the people around you looks like the people that God are deigned to be around you, You, at that point, you know what's amazing Jesus. Before Jesus was about to pick his twelve disciples, this was his team. These are the people that would you know, that would push forward with him and all that stuff, and then when he's gone, they will go out to all the earth and continue to spread the gospel. When he was about to pick them, the Bible tells us that he stayed all night in prayer because he needed the wisdom of his father to show him who is my team? Because if my team does not look like what you ordained, we're gonna miss it. There are pivotal things in your life that are not negotiable. You need a word from God. God, what is your word about this area? You can't just make it blindly or go with the flow. There are things you could do it blindly, you know, vanilla or strawberry. Of course, strawberry, you know, but you could do it blindly whatever ice cream of your choice. Heaven does not it's not bothered by that. But there are things concerning you that you need a word from God. So, family, if that is you, and you say, God, I want to change my approach to you, meet me at this alter, let us pray. Thank you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. If you know that you are at the brink of some major decisions of your life and you don't have a peace about what to do, you're not a peace about what to do. God is inviting you to seek him. Meet me at this alter. Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. God is inviting you to seek him. That is the place of your power, that is the place of your strength. It's in seeking him. If you feel like you're losing control over your life because everything seems to be going haywire, God already has that factor. Then, but he is inviting you to seek him. There are many more things he wants to say to you. If that is you, come on down. There's room, there's room, Come on down. Thank you, Jesus. Take a step, take a step that marks the change that you want to see. Thank you, Lord, have your way, Oh God, have your way, Oh God, have your way. Oh God, Heavenly Father. We love you, and we thank you for what you're doing in the room. We thank you, Lord God, that you are with your people. We thank you, Lord God, that it is your desire to speak to them, even more than they want to hear your voice. But we thank you Lord, that their desire would match their actions. Lord. I thank you that they would press on in Jesus' name. Lord, I thank you for what you're doing now. I thank you that you would meet them at the place of their hunger. I thank you that your spirit will fill them up from the place of their hunger, Oh God, and the pivotal decisions they need to make for their lives, the words that would bring transformation and change everything. They know about their life. Lord God, that you will begin to give them fresh encounters with you, fresh. Encounters with you. Thank you, Jesus, Holy Spirit. We need you. I cannot do this thing called life without you. It is in you that we live. It is in you that we move, It is in you that we have our being. Anything outside of you, we don't know what is that. Your word, Oh God, says that there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to that wish is death. But the ways of God leads to life. Oh God, Lord, that when we walk in your plant, you say that you have an expected end for us, to give us a future and a hope. Lord, we don't want to rely on our own understanding. And I also break the spirit of anxiety. This is not to make us anxious. This is to make us hungry. To know that God, you desire to speak to me more than I even want to hear you. And as I come before your presence, Oh God, as I wait before you, that all of a sudden the places of confusion, that Lord, I will be filled with your peace, that your peace would begin to reign. Over my life. Your peace would reign over I just don't even see God doing it. Now that even in your answer to this, also called that even for those watching, there are areas that you have been so confused about. And in this moment, God has already given you this sense of peace about what you should do. Peace is another way God communicates. He is the prince of peace. So when he gives you something and all of a sudden you have peace about it, God is showing you the direction that He's. Leading you in. And so, Lord, I come against every confusing thought that God in response to your hunger. Even now, Lord, you would begin to speak to your people, you begin to fill them up with your word. Have your way. Lord, I just hear the Lord saying that there are even ideas he would give you for your business, ideas he would give you for about your calling. Some of you have been asking God, God, what is exactly do you want me to do with the opportunities that you have given me? And He's gonna start giving you ideas. But what your job is. To know how to cultivate what you hear? Get a journal, start writing, have a dream, you write it down, you have a thought, see it through, make some mistakes. Along the way. That's all right. God already factor that in it's training. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. Lord, I thank you that we would continually pressing with hunger for you and so steal what has taking place and the heart and the minds of your people. And I thank you for the testimonies of encounters with you. I thank you for the testimonies of revelation. I thank you that you would open their eyes to see what is already in front of them, because everything you have for them to move to the next place, it's there right now. And so Lord seal this word in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen,