Service Date: 12.31.19 New Year’s Eve 7PM
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okay you’re still standing I know why
you’re still standing because I’ve got
some passages that I want to read that
will be the foundation of what I want to
talk about tonight I believe is that you
know I pray every year if you if you’ve
been to one of our New Year’s Eve
services make some noise silently and
our first time doing it together and
getting for Denver certainly had in
other years but our first time doing it
together in Denver was last year and can
we celebrate Denver Colorado one of the
greatest states in the world incredible
people incredible church I love you so
much
all right so every year I ask God what’s
up like seriously like that what’s going
on and and there’s this passage in the
scripture it talks about the sons of
Issachar and the unique grace that they
had was that they understood times and
seasons and what Israel ought to do or
the people of God ought to do the
context was the children of Israel we’ve
been grafted in to the Commonwealth of
Israel we are God’s people without a
shadow of a doubt we have been redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb we’ve been
grafted-in come awesome you have any
blood washed people in here you just
thank God for Christ he became
everything that kept you separate to God
and watch this not only separately God
but separate from the highest version of
you hello somebody
so Jesus died so that you can be you hey
come on somebody the highest version of
you and so we’re going from glory to
glory level to level into that perfected
identity in Christ because we were all
created in the image of God in the image
of his likeness and so not to operate
and to function the way God does is an
injustice and so Jesus came to put all
that in his own body and and allowed it
to be crucified and crushed on the cross
and put to death and then when he was
raised victorious you know we say it
every week come on when he was raised
victorious because we’re in him will
raise victorious – and we are on our way
things that used to have us don’t have
us anymore and we go from faith to faith
we go from level to level of wholeness
what an awesome God what an awesome
gospel what an awesome life anybody
grateful
for the life of the believer I am
redeemed I am renewed God’s got a plan
for me plans to cross for me and not to
harm me to give me a future and a hope a
future that transcends what eyes have
ever seen
what ears have ever heard you standing
next to somebody just this is just this
tiny neighbors are you somebody you
you’re really somebody turn to your
other neighbor and say you’re kind of a
big deal you’re kind of a big deal
you’re kind of a big deal you’re kind of
a big deal yeah you are yeah yeah you’re
a big deal to God here a big deal to me
you’re a big deal to this world if you
would align and your purpose in your
identity and I believe in 2020 and in
this decade you’re gonna be a bigger
deal than you’ve ever been before I
can’t wait to talk to you about that
this is the year I feel God this is the
year of revealing God is getting ready
to show some
I’m trying
the year of the reveal God is getting
ready to reveal you
I can’t do this I can’t do this I got a
lot a lot of ground to cover so I want
to draw your attention to three passages
of Scripture the first one is in Romans
8:19 if you’ve been in part of this
movement for any length of time you’ve
heard me quote this but I’m gonna call
it out the NIV this time the second is
Daniel chapter 12 verses three also on
the NIV the third is Matthew six verses
three through four here we go Romans
8:19 it says for the creation waits in
eager expectation for the children of
God to be saying together all of
creation that is the universe that is
everything that got created is in its
watch this is waiting in eager
expectation for the children of God
that’s you to be revealed this turn to
Darius a
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tada
what up Denver tada
Daniel chapter 12 verse 3 says those who
are wise will shine or shine those who
are wise will shine like the brightness
of the heavens and those who lead many
to righteousness
like the Stars forever and ever so we
got some revealing we got some shine and
come on somebody that that’s the age
that were what worker were coming into
Matthew 6 3 & 4 it says but when you do
a charitable deed do not let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing
that your charitable deed may be in
secret and secret and if your charitable
deed is in secret it says your father
who sees in secret will himself reward
you openly you may be seated before you
do turn to somebody say it’s show time
it’s it’s show time it’s it’s show time
hallelujah thank you Lord yes good to be
home hallelujah good to be back good to
be with my people hallelujah yes yes yes
yes I’ve always been intrigued by that
last passage that we read Matthew six
three and four because in it it Jesus
for the first time there introduces this
concept of that which is in sea
he introduces this idea about a secret
dimension Jesus speaks of of the secret
dimension if you do your charitable deed
in secret your father whose season
secret is going to reward you openly and
so so it’s always it’s been encouraging
to me at a very elementary level it’s
encouraging to me because it says that
that God doesn’t miss any good thing
that you do even if no one ever
acknowledges what you do in other words
if you do it in secret if it doesn’t
happen on the stage if you do it and you
don’t even get a thank you God is
keeping a track record of every good
thing that you do and in the process of
time he will reward you openly and so
it’s been encouraging to me that’s
always been encouraging to me because
it’s this idea of this this secret thing
in fact one of the things I’ve learned
to do is I tried not to do anything for
the acknowledgement of man but because
I’ve come to discover that God can do
things for me that man just cannot in
fact if you if you read that that
passage in its context it basically says
that if you don’t don’t do things for
men because if you do things for the
praise of men then you’ll get the praise
of man but that’s all you get you you’ll
get what man can do for you what man can
accomplish for you but if you do it for
God the blessing is unlimited so don’t
be in and this is for somebody you’ve
been doing things in secret and you feel
like you haven’t gotten any recognition
I just believe that we’re gonna step
into the season where God is going to
reward you openly for something you
sacrifice and did behind the scene you
just did it because it was right no I
haven’t need people you-you-you you know
people said you shouldn’t do it it
doesn’t make good business sense but it
was right it had integrity in it and
we’re moving into a season where God is
going to reward you openly for the right
that you did in private but beyond as it
relates to in secret beyond the fact
that God’s not going to miss any good
thing that you do what’s more
fascinating to me about that passage is
that it reveals not only that God sees
but the way that God sees and the way
that God sees is in secret and that’s
encouraging to me to know that God sees
in secret because that lets me know that
God even when I don’t see something that
will encourage me God does even right
now God sees something concerning you
you ever noticed so you ever wonder why
why you’ve never read a passage where
God was stressed out even that there’s
nothing even to suggest certainly my
experience of God perhaps in yours that
he even gets stressed out over you I
know that we try to humanize God and
bring God down to to what we would be if
someone did to us what sometimes we’ve
done to others but there’s nothing to
suggest that God is like even when we
are not living up to our identity in him
and it’s because he sees something so
even when you’re ready to give up on
yourself you got to recognize that God
is not ready to give up on you because
he sees you he knows the plans that he
has for you and he knows what he put in
you and he’s looking at that he’s not
looking at your mistakes he’s looking at
what he made and so so what I love about
this end secret thing is that that that
it’s the way that God sees God sees God
sees and secret and this text also draws
to my attention the fact that they are
this is important that they are too
uniquely interconnected realities the
secret realm and the revealed realm can
I teach a little bit there’s there’s the
secret realm and the revealed realm and
this dichotomy is referenced in proverbs
chapter 25 and 2 we’re going somewhere
tonight proverbs 25 and 2 says this I
love this one of my favorite passage of
Scripture it says it is the glory of God
to conceal a matter o God
it is the glory of God to conceal a
matter but the glory of kings is to
search out a matter like that what we
what’s going on
this is there’s this weird relationship
between the scene or the secret rather
and the scene the the the the hidden and
the reveal and they’re intertwined and
we see it right here in the text it says
it is to God’s glory
it makes God God it is a part of the
characteristics of God to hide stuff
it’s to his glory not to present to you
everything it wants because you got to
recognize that God is managing the
universe and not just the universe as
you know it but God is managing the
generations of the universe the
generations that were before you the
generations that will be after you he is
a strategic manager puppet master of the
universes and so so God doesn’t just he
hides stuff he doesn’t just give you at
once everything that’s in his mind Oh
hallelujah for a number of reasons it is
that the brilliance of God to function
and to operate that way it is the glory
it is to the glory of God to conceal a
thing but he doesn’t leave it there
there is this other verse juxtaposed
against that and it says yet it’s the
glory of kings or queens royalty the
children of God to search out the matter
and it’s interesting that word that was
translated search out is he reward of
course and it and it means to penetrate
so it is the glory of God to hide a
reality you can’t hide something that
doesn’t exist
hello we’re together
it is to God’s glory to make something
that is real invisible to you and it’s
to the glory of Kings to penetrate it to
somehow to some way and I’ll tell you
how through faith and faithfulness you
to pin the trait realms in order to get
what’s yours
two or three people ought to catch what
I just said it is true your glory it is
not to your glory that God shows you
things and it gives you things all at
once it is to your glory to stick it out
just search it out to become somebody in
the process while things are concealed
because it takes a special type of
person to penetrate into the revealed
dimension are we tracking together can
we go further and a little deeper and so
the secret realm we’ll talk about the
secret realm is is a reality that has
not been exposed yet so it’s real that’s
why God sees in it that’s why it is part
of the characteristic and the nature of
God to see in Adam and it’s how he sees
to God watch since everything is seen
what is hidden to you is seeing it is
evident to God’s wonderful that’s why
you got to trust God’s voice when he
tells you that something is there that’s
there even if you have to wait for it
the prophet aback it put it this way
though the vision Terry wait for it
because in the end it will speak because
that vision is for an appointed time
that excites me you mean to tell me all
the notes that I’ve been taken about
what God’s gonna do in my life things
that God has caused my heart to trust
and believe in every single thing that
God said to me is coming my way that’s
exactly what I’m telling you it is
on God’s calendar everything that God
spoke is going to show up in your life
at the appointed time if you believe it
holla at me real quick I let me I can’t
hear you didn’t fur I loud me Denver
holla at me LA how Adam if you’re
watching online whatever you are in fact
don’t holler at me you’ve got a praise
and a shout if you know everything he
spoke to you it’s making its way to it
all you gotta do just keep on walking
can we go further yeah
it’s reality it just hasn’t been exposed
yet there are two aspects we’re gonna go
further there are two aspects of the
secret realm I like for us to consider
two aspects of it the first aspect is
that there is a part of this secret
realm that we’re talking about that has
to do with who you and I are on the
inside I’m talking about our character
our inner character it’s it’s the
deepest it’s the deepest part of you
that’s when we’re back in in Matthew and
and he’s talking about
don’t let your left hand know what your
right hand is doing but but just this is
a good thing that you’re doing don’t let
anybody know just do it he’s talking
about character he’s talking about who
you are on the inside of you and what’s
interesting always kind of one’s like
what do you mean don’t let you left hand
know what your right hand you know what
does that mean – he didn’t hands talk no
he’s he’s using language to to help us
to understand that this level of inner
character this this level of inner self
is so intimate that I’d like to use the
phrase right-hand man right it’s my
right hand man right
wife of my right hand well man right and
I have other people that are my left you
know my my right you know but but it’s
to say that this part of you is so
intimate and so special that even what
is so close to you that it’s a part of
you cannot access this part of you I
gotta say that but I he’s he’s talking
about this place in you that is only in
God’s purview it’s it’s the place where
we connect with God we are all here
together in the corporate setting
Colorado corporate setting in California
and we are having a corporate experience
with the Lord
right we’re worshiping we’re hearing
from God we’re hearing things all I kind
of said that’s wonderful
but but that’s not really what God is
dealing with tonight God is dealing with
the deepest part of you your your secret
place that no one understands but you
and the Lord this is the one aspect of
of being in secret it’s this it’s just
part of you it’s it’s your it’s your
your inner character and and and I might
add as a caveat to throw this alongside
make certain that your secret realm that
part of you is working for you and not
against you and we’re gonna talk about
that later because that’s what God sees
God looks at the heart he’s looking at
the he’s not he doesn’t care what you
put on he doesn’t care what you drive it
doesn’t care where you live that’s not
that that doesn’t mean thing to him
because he understands the temporary
nature of it there’s a passage that says
the man looks at all of that mail until
the outer period enough wrong with that
but he’s saying that’s not what I look
at he says I look at the heart and what
I love about God is that he doesn’t look
at the heart to condemn you
he looks at the heart to prayerfully buy
his spirit by his presence by his eye
and by his direction cause you to be who
he’s created you to be
I got I got to get through this and get
to this and so we talk about these two
aspects of the secret realm one is your
inner character it’s the deepest part of
you right the second one is this there’s
a part of this thing that we are calling
the secret realm that has to do with the
realities that God has hidden until at a
point of time there are realities right
now right now watch this these are
things that are not getting ready to
happen these are not things that God is
getting ready to do these are things
that God has actually all ready done
they are just as real as me standing
there but they are reserved unto a point
of time and so they hang out in the
secret realm and God is believing that
you will trust him
enough to know that what he spokes is
not will be are you tracking are you
tracking and this is where the revealing
of the sons come in that we looked at
and the promise of the wise shining
because these are these moments that I’m
describing our God or day moments for
God to to reveal who you are to the
effect of the transformation of
everything around you the reason why
this season of revealing is so important
is because you are God’s strategy to
change the earth are you track with me
you’re like I want I want I want I want
I want you to do well I want what might
lead my spiritual leaders are my my
social leaders or or maybe my political
leaders or whatever I want
I want you know that the leaders in
business or the leaders
technology you know just you you’re
putting pressure oftentimes we put
pressure on other people to do what God
has anointed us to do everybody in here
God’s plan for your life is to be a part
of the transformation of everything
around you that’s why it is so vital
that you are revealed because they’re
people depending on you I feel that
you’re gonna shine do you know family if
you do this thing right you change
everything around you oh man can we talk
for a minute if you do this thing right
if church is it goes beyond being
inspired right you know and as look we
all need to be inspired and that wrong
with that but I thought about going
beyond that if you will understand that
this is really about becoming that this
is really about becoming who God knew
before he put us in our mother’s womb if
we will really take God at His Word and
lean in and become everything that he
says that we are everything around you
watch this will change I’m trying to
move butBut I feel something on that if
you do this thing right
your family will change your community
will change I feel this you’re sick
everything that comes your way will
change if you do this thing right you’ll
be in the airport changing lives you’ll
be in Costco changing lives you’ll be in
chick-fil-a changing lives and you won’t
even know it necessarily it’ll just be
happening I feel that everything around
you’ve got to be who God’s calling we
got a lot of ground cover
yeah a lot of ground cover you are God’s
strategy you’re his strategy we’ll move
on that there is always a revealing of
what God promises and foretells there’s
always a revealing I was thinking about
you know how the scripture says it say
that God God is the Potter and we are
the clay right
and and and and he so he’s the Potter
and we are the clay and I have a
question for you
what Potter exists for the sake of just
spinning clay all day the purpose of the
pot is not to potter’s not to spin clay
the purpose of the Potter is to produce
masterpieces oh I wish you definitely
said that the purpose of clay is to not
simply sit there and beat clay the
purpose of clay is to become something
so the partnership between God and man
the partnership between the potter and
clay is to ultimately come to this
moment
where there is a revealing of what was
in the Potters mind from the very
beginning do me a favor
Shou time being revealed I’m being
revealed and and so the reveal has
always been the plan and sometimes what
happens is we have been on the wheel for
so long that we lose sight of the fact
that a masterpiece is coming so we
become so satisfied and I get this we’re
satisfied in the development we’re so
satisfied in the development that we
forget that the development is for the
reveal guys working on me yes I know
that but he’s also wants to reveal you
he’s not working just to be working
there is something in God’s mind about
you and about your life and about your
community and about your legacy I feel
God and that’s what he is producing are
we tracking together the reveal mm-hmm
you’re not just working on you and we’re
you me you know and just you know it’s
the reveal and all of creation is
eagerly waiting for Showtime baby and I
believe we’re stopping it
a decade we’re stepping into an era when
it’s getting ready to be Showtime for
God’s people if that’s your word you’ve
got about 5 seconds of free Showtime
baby rehearsal is over
Showtime I’m telling you it’s true
mm-hmm now I want to reveal some
practical things to you really quickly
we’re almost done here another four
hours and we’ll be finished
I want to reveal to you some practical
things as I was praying God show me what
you’re doing show me what you’re up to
and here is let me just give you a
disclaimer right now true
prophetic words are ambiguous with
respect to discerning this specific
timing let’s say that again so what
we’re talking about
the year you know and everybody’s 20/20
and clarity vision or whatever that’s
fine it’s wonderful right but but we
don’t really understand what’s this the
difference between a day a year a decade
and the millennium why because remember
what does God do he hides things he
conceals things you’re in when Jesus
over over an accent and the disciples
were asking you you know will that be
the time we all was that way to be the
consolation of Israel and he’s like no
no I know he probably didn’t say it like
that don’t nobody know don’t nobody know
that man no he talked about how it was
the father how the father was the only
one who had had perfect insight on the
timing of things so when we talked about
the year we could be talking about a day
we could be talking about a decade we
could be talking about a millennia so no
one truly has a corner on the precise
timing even as we give a prophetic word
can I talk to you like that for real so
I’m speaking I’m declaring this is a
year revealing but it might be a decade
it might be a lifetime because to be
honest with you maybe it
take a lifetime for God to fully reveal
you to the optimum so I just want to put
that disclaimer out there really quickly
let me tell you what he told me was
gonna happen in this era in this age in
this time right it’s gonna be a time of
really six things that I saw one is
vindication it’s gonna be a time of
vindication right that’s why the Bible
says vengeance is mine so don’t don’t
try to you know fight and all that kind
of stuff and get back and don’t do that
God will then define wind he will
vindicate you ving defied that was a
word God will min defy him he’s gonna
vindicate you he’s gonna do it you you
were I feel the Spirit of God just
received us prophetically you have been
misunderstood
you’ve been misunderstood you have been
and who I’m talking to you I’m talking
to
you’ve been misunderstood you have been
people have put stuff on you that’s not
even you it is the most frustrating
thing when someone who doesn’t even know
you put something on you that’s not it’s
just it’s terrible because you and you
end up trying to defend yourself within
wait why am I trying to defend myself
and get someone who doesn’t even know me
and I hear God saying I’m gonna
vindicate you let me tell you something
there is nothing that anybody can put on
you that will stop God from what God is
gonna don’t win you’re right God’s gonna
vindicate you you’re worried about your
reputation and I hear God’s saying watch
this I hit you I hit you I hit you the
whole time I hit you because I’m getting
ready to reveal you
to the right people to the right seeds
and to the right situations vindication
there’s going to be a time to
vindication he also said it’s going to
be a time it’s gonna be time with some
of you are gonna go from watches from
overlooked to can’t be missed brush I
feel I feel good if that’s your work I
don’t have to preach it that’s your word
just catching from overlooks to can’t be
miss those who are wise will shine
because she did it in secret because she
did it in secret because you didn’t give
up because you didn’t get weary in your
well doing because you held on to your
integrity because you held on to your
character because you didn’t give up on
God because you said no to the right
things and yes to the right things ah
telling you God is dead
ready so revalue see here is the thing
you are never overlooked you just hidden
feel God I feel like dancing in God’s
house today you will never overlook
being overlooked is just a feeling how
can you be overlooked when God sees is
secret can’t be missed
I’m coming through baby I’m coming
through shining not on my own shot it’s
gonna be God’s shine on my life and I’m
gonna start attracting thanks to me
everything if god that’s a sign of my
life it’s coming to me I’m getting ready
to side-side-side shine come on somebody
this with a line of mine
but it ain’t gonna be no little lights
the Bible says the path of the just is
like a shining Sun that shines brighter
and brighter on to the perfect day from
overlooked
– can’t be miss hmm has run through
these God said is gonna be a time of
vindication there’s gonna be a time from
going from overlook to can’t be I almost
can’t get off that
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you serve a big Oh God he is the great I
am see you wanted to shine in your own
time by your own means and God says
we’re gonna do it like that I’m gonna
put my shot I’m gonna put my shine on
you in my timing because this shine will
never dull a man cannot control this Sun
then some people shine I can’t wait to
get to my next one there’s some people
shining right now but it’s not even a
real shine it’s a reflection it’s not
even the real thing because this sign
that I’m talking about is from the in
side Wow
it’s in the same place it’s in a secret
place I don’t need nobody to put their
light on me oh I don’t need you wanna
put the light on me God has already put
he’s like
and when he gets ready to turn that
thing out
there is no darkness
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that we’ll be able to overwhelm the
light that is me I am a light jesus said
you are the light of the world you don’t
have light
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I feel like someone wants to break out
of here
I said imma be nice and and real
reserved today but I feel the Spirit of
God in this house after my cabins right
this comes down
your sign is coming
your light is coming arise
glory of the Lord is rising upon you
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uh-huh you thought the shine was what’s
gonna come from outside
God said nah brah no sir
no man it’s gonna come from the inside
out I got to protect this light I I
can’t make you bling too soon Ellis
that’s some people in here and you are
God’s secret weapon I feel the Lord I’m
about to go crazy in here
you’ve been hidden on the backside of
the desert like Moses God was protecting
your shine but the revealing is coming
revealing is coming the real thing the
thing that you don’t have to compromise
for the real thing
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hmm it’s gonna be a time of also
balancing the scales equality the scales
are being balanced we already see scales
are being balanced things are gonna
start adding up this is the season of
the faithful underdog the faithful
wonder dog or the Spirit of God it’s
gonna be a time of justice and judgment
justice and judgment we’re afraid that
word judgment because we get all spooked
out now a judgment judgment is when God
reveals what is him and what’s not
they led by sheep who
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this is a season for the real people not
the fridge and the people God is going
to reveal everything every fraudulent
and I don’t want to call an individual
fraud every fraudulent motive every
fraudulent business connection
everything that is fraudulent God is
gonna rip a lot
God is gonna reveal it in this season
for God’s people man let me tell you
something it’s gonna be hard for fraud
to do business with you cuz you’re just
gonna be fine and stuff like because
this is the age of the revealing
exposure that shine God’s gonna expose
some things right and when something is
revealed what its exposed there will be
on and amazing it that’s awesome that’s
wonderful but let’s be honest there’s
also gonna be shocking disappointment
this is the world but it’s always good
to have truth uh I would rather I’d
rather have an ugly truth than a pretty
lie
I I got a move I got a move to this and
here’s the last like thing that that God
showed me and I’m sure he’s showing you
things as well no one has a corner on
everything that God is doing in an age
right but God he told me to specifically
God’s gonna reveal what’s truly valuable
and what is it he’s gonna reveal what
what truly has value and what just is
purporting to have value right God’s
gonna show you that there’s some things
that you have held in high regard that
are actually worthless can I tell the
truth from prophesy tonight and and and
then he’s gonna show you that there are
other things that you despised or fought
a little of that are actually the most
value mark my words
that’s balance that’s gonna balance
that’s that’s judgment that’s just as oh
I thought that that was worthy of
investing all of my time all of my
energy all of my focus and you’re going
to get it and say I have nothing and
then that thing that you said was
nothing was insignificant not not
important not worth your time and your
energy God is going to reveal that see I
feel there’s treasure in what you call
trash you’re gonna find treasure in what
you used to call trash are you tracking
with me mm-hmm I want to dig a little
deeper we’re almost done I want to dig a
little deeper into this thought of
revealing now let’s go to Romans 8 and
19 real quick we’re almost done I’m
gonna dig a little deeper load deeper
dr. Romans 8 and 19 here we go I just
want you to get this revealing how this
revealing thing works so when it says
for the creation waits in eager
expectation for the children of God to
be revealed that were revealed is an
interesting word it’s a Greek word and
it’s the Greek word apocalypsis and we
have always associated the apocalypse
apocalypse
with doom that Greek word literally
here’s what that word means
it literally means disclosure doesn’t
mean doom it just means disclosure it
means the it means to be revealed it
means to be manifest there’s another
Greek word in fact that was translated
manifest it was translated in English
the word manifest is the Greek word for
narrow and it literally means watch this
I love this it means to make a parent to
make a parent that was doesn’t it
doesn’t say to make it’s to make a
parent to disclose to to make obvious
what was once hidden and that’s what
he’s gonna do with some of you and okay
I didn’t start landing this this plane
I’ll say it again there’s some people in
this room and your true your God secret
weapon your God secret weapon you’ve
been through some stuff you’ve been on
the backside of some desert you seen
most you seen the least likely forgot to
use mightily my I mean the least you and
the left you’re like David right we’re
never going to anoint the king right the
next King David was so unlikely that
they didn’t even call him out he was the
son of Jesse right it’s like everybody
else but when they came to bring out the
sons to be anointed they didn’t bring
him in the room that’s some of you yours
I feel that you’re his secret when
you’ve been through some stuff and there
were angels watching out for you there
were angels
protecting
covering you the entire time the entire
time okay we got it we got it we gotta
go
there are also some thoughts in that
Daniel passes that I want that I want to
point out really quickly let’s go to
head Daniel chapter 12 verse three
really quickly really quickly and then
I’m gonna give you some I’m gonna give
you an exercise and then we’re gonna be
we’re gonna be out I give you an
exercise with no stretch no that’s not
what I meant so Daniel 12 and three
threes like this he says those who are
wise shall shine like the brightness of
the heavens and those who lead many lead
many to righteous me shining when I
shine it allows me to lead some of your
gonna be more effective in this new
season because of your leadership is
coming to you because of your shine
God’s gonna it’s almost like a switch
he’s gonna turn a switch on something is
gonna come out of you and people are
gonna begin to follow you and you’re
gonna lead them into the right things
but but that’s not what I brought you
there for study that on your own I want
to talk about this word wise because I
think this this this is important this
work wise so the word wise the Hebrew
words to call and it means circumspect
and hence intelligent in other words to
be circumspect and there’s something
about being circumspect that makes you
wise or intelligent what does it mean to
be circumspect the English word
circumspect was borrowed from the Latin
word circumspect us which comes from its
origin is circumcision it means watch
this it means to be cautious so the
basic meaning of that word circumspect
which is what the text is calling this
wise person and this wise person is the
one who’s going to shine this one and
the shine and ultimately people the
righteousness going to shine brighter
than anything that’s to you right the
basic meaning of that Latin word is to
look around is to look around and so so
that word speaks to being alert and I
believe in this season we’re gonna have
to be alert very alert right it means to
be aware and this sees
we’re gonna have to be aware we can’t
just be we can’t just go with the just
with the flow because here is the thing
if you don’t have a strategy for your
life you’re gonna be a part of somebody
else’s strategy they’re people selling
books right now about you how to
manipulate you how to get you to do this
how to get you to do that and so so
watch this so if you are just you know
what what Napoleon Hill called a drifter
if you are just a drifter then you’re
it’s gonna seem like you’re doing
nothing but you are gonna be doing
something you’re gonna be doing exactly
what somebody created a system for you
to do in their strategy are you tracking
with me and so you got to be aware you
got to be alert you got to be paying
attention you know he says you got to
look around you you got to be searching
right you got to be discerning you got
to be asking but I felt God was saying
that it’s not just looking around and
your present circumstance although that
is true and it is a meaningful
instruction but I believe he’s also
talking about looking around this is
important looking around via inquiring
and asking questions about your previous
season mm-hmm looking around not just
looking around in your present but
looking around as we were getting ready
to step into a new decade I don’t
believe that you and I are ready for
what’s next until we have accurately
assess what was hindsight is 20/20 but I
also think is gonna prepare you for
20/20 you don’t want things that I
noticed and my father-in-law brought
this to my attention and it was just it
was just an epiphany
but most people only see in years so
it’s about the Year this and 2020 is my
year but I learned that that wise people
see in decades
oh you got get this yeah I’ll get this
hey get this what wise people don’t see
in years they have a decade mentality
and sometimes the most profound people
have a generational mentality and having
for me having a decade mentality keeps
me from throwing in the towel or being
completely thrown off when I have a bad
year anybody ever had a difficult year
but but see when I have when I have a
decade mentality
I still got a 90% chance of having the
good decade are you tracking with me and
and and what I’ve learned what I’ve
learned is that is that if you tally up
not just last year but the last 10 years
for the most part you will notice an
upward trend kind of like the stock
market right stock market does this it
does this but if you watch it over a
decade or if you watch it over two
decades typically most of the time
almost all the time nine and I buy mine
99% of the time you will notice that it
is done this some of you are to give God
a praise not just for last year but you
want to give God a praise for the last
10 years because of you look at where
you come from baby
your life has trended upwards and if you
didn’t in one area baby he did it in
another area I’m wiser than I was 10
years ago and I understand a lot of
times people so young they don’t have
enough decades under than the thinking
decades I get it but once you hit 30
you got at least one decade that you can
do an analysis on how are you trackin
with me
think about it they don’t talk about
1977 they talk about the 70s they don’t
talk about 1985 they talk about the
eighties the 60s the 70s the 80s the 90s
the thousands of the tens and now you
gotta have a decade mentality but in
order to look forward sometimes you got
to look back and this is my exercise for
you
it’s my exercise for you and my
father-in-law we were just talking to
spend some time with him last weekend
and he was like yeah yo young people
y’all just look at years Tory he said
you got a look at decades on and I say
why because if you look over if you look
over the decades it’s a completely
different picture it is almost to
shortchange yourself and to deceive
yourself by only looking at the year so
we challenge me and I’m gonna challenge
you to do an analysis over the previous
decade and in doing so here are the four
questions that I want you to ask so that
we can step into 20/20 so we can step
into 20/20 our best self what did I lose
in the last decade be honest be real
well I lose what did I gain it’s so
important what a game what did I learn
uh-huh what I learned what did the last
decade teach me and then if you’re able
to what was the theme of my last decade
mine was alignment theme of the last
decade for me was alignment it was I
lost some things and I gained some
things and when you do the math you
realize that you trended up once I
learned some things and so that you why
is it so important I’m done why is it so
important to do an analysis of the last
decade it’s so that you can step into
this decade the very best version of
yourself and that’s what I want for you
this is a decade thing baby
and you made it you made it you made it
to the season of the reveal you didn’t
quit you didn’t give up and you didn’t
die you are still here God is not
finished with you and I believe he saved
the best for last
come on stand with me if you would I
want to pray for you hallelujah if
you’re here if you’re here and you felt
God was speaking to you and you just say
you know what I receive I receive that I
receive that this is the year but this
is the decade that this is the season
that this is my time to be revealed and
by faith right I’m gonna penetrate it by
faith
i’ma press into it I want you to come
and meet me here at this altar if that’s
you the second point of this invitation
is if you here and and you heard about
this being a season of revealing and
exposing and and those secret things not
being a secret anymore and you want to
bring some things to God that are in
your secret place not in the thing you
tell your mom and your daddy your sister
your brother your husband your wife
whatever things that you know if they
were to be exposed right now it would be
traumatizing it wouldn’t be where you
want to be and you say you know what god
I want to bring my my secret things to
you because I don’t want anything to
delay my reveal if that’s you I want you
to meet me here at this altar as well
don’t worry about who’s looking
something’s gonna happen
and the third point this invitation is
if you’re here and you don’t know the
Lord you got to know God and you can’t
know God you you you won’t necessarily
be able to put God in a box and define
God and know everything there is to know
about God that’s not going to happen
that would make you god but you can have
enough of a relationship with him
through his son by the Spirit of God you
have the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit
will lead you and the Holy Spirit will
feed you in the Holy Spirit will talk to
you just like I’m talking to you now
the spirit will whisper to you truths
the spirit will make you wise beyond
your years the spirit the spirit will
reveal the hidden things the spirit will
make things that look on paper and not
look good look good on paper not look
good in your art and you’ll know there’s
there things family that I have missed
that I would have not missed and I mean
miss and it was a grace that I missed it
had I not had the spirit in other words
my calculations that the criteria that I
have for business the criteria that I
have for relationships all that all
those things checked off but there was a
check in my spirit see one thing you got
to realize is the Holy Spirit is
all-wise he knows not just what is but
what will be and so sometimes you’re
buying into what looks good now but in
10 years it’ll be your worst nightmare
so I’m talking about having a
relationship with the Holy Spirit I am
NOT interested at all in getting you to
subscribe to religion that’s not my deal
that can be your deal wonderful whatever
right there I’m talking about truly
having a relationship with the creator
of the universe a god that knows you in
fact the God that had his hands on you
before he puts you in your mother’s womb
God you didn’t start with mom and dad
you started as a as a thought in God’s
mind and in God and his wisdom said I
need in order for you to be you I got to
hook these two people up but it didn’t
really have much to do with those two
people per se of course there was some
significant there or he wouldn’t have
used them but it’s God’s thought you are
God’s thought and if I am God’s thought
that I need his thoughts by his Spirit
to lead me into Who I am what I need to
be doing what I need to be focused on
who I need to be connected to what moves
to make what city to live in
what business to start what business to
end what relationship to initiate what
relationship to shut down that’s what
we’re offering so if you’re here and you
say I want to have a relationship with
God I wanna do this thing by myself I
want to be covered I want to be covered
i I want to show up in life with
confidence because I know I’m not by
myself and not because somebody told me
but because I feel him I feel God on the
inside of me saying wonderful things to
me about me saying I got you saying no
weapon formed against you shall prosper
then if you abide in the secret place
you’ll be under my shadow I got you
covered
a thousand might fall at your right side
outside and ten thousand bye
but it will not come near you the spirit
that will make you say like the word
says in Psalm 27 the Lord is my light
and my salvation whom shall I fear the
Lord is the strength of my life I’m
talking about a relationship that will
give you confidence in any room in any
season and any people feel god voice of
God in your life that’s you and you say
I want that I don’t want to step in the
20/20 without the voice of God I don’t
want to step into 2020 without a
relationship with God I want you to come
and get as close to this alter as you
can
come on dimmer I see
if you hear and you say I need to
rededicate my life to God I need to
rededicate my life to God I’m not I will
not I refuse I refuse to start another
year in the same place and I see God
like the father in the prodigal son
story with his arms open like this watch
this
saying I knew you’d be back because I
see in secret I saw this after the Lord
I saw this day here’s God’s Word to you
you didn’t disappoint me I can’t be
disappointed
it takes ignorant to be disappointed did
you catch that the only way for you and
I got to be disappointed as if they
expected something that didn’t happen
therefore God cannot be disappointed
because God knows the end from the
beginning there’s nothing hidden he sees
everything
God is not disappointed who am I talking
to come home come on come on if you’re
in LA come on you’re in Denver come home
come home I see you coming come home
come home play fix pray father for
sending this word that reminded us that
our light is still done on the inside of
us father we thank you for preserving
that light over the last decade that
fear couldn’t take it away that
depression couldn’t remove it that
disappointment didn’t shake it father
you kept that light alive when we
thought we were going at things by
ourselves and for that we say thank you
before we ask for anything else before
we step into this next decade father
first we want to say thank you thank you
for being a keeper when no one else
could be a keeper thank you for helping
us to make a way when everyone else
turned there
Bax Ana’s father it was you that kept
that light burning down on the inside of
us now father as we step into this next
dimension I feel that prophetically for
somebody this is not just the next
decade this is the next dimension and
next dimension of who you are the next
dimension of what you’re going to do in
the earth you thought you were coming to
the end and I hear God’s saying you were
breaking through to the next dimension
so father when we break into this next
dimension we had that you would take
anything away from us that were dear to
that might that is tell on the inside of
us and that that light would burn so
bright that we would draw
father we want to be a monument for your
glory silly accent you want to break
every thoughts that you would break
every generational curse that you were
to break everything that is keeping us
from standing in this light father we
received this identity we receive your
glory over our lives and we ask that you
would uproot anything that wages war
against what you already know and that
you would give us strength father to
seek out those mysteries to seek out
those glories that you know about us
even if we have to do it alone by the
words turning our face to you not
towards a deal not towards a
relationship we’re turning our face to
you and we’re asking that you would
reveal us to us that we may come to
understand what you’ve always known
about us
and that we would step with authority
and power into every situation every
opportunity every relationship because
something took place as you were
preaching this word that reminded us
that you’re still with us someone came
in here with a friend that came in here
by themselves of a father they’re
leaving with you let this just be the
beginning of a revealing that takes
place over the ages and over the years
seal this word father let it take root
and let it produce fruit in Jesus name
hallelujah anybody believe that prayer
is real that God hears and answers
prayers I believe that something
happened to you
some happy tonight listen Happy New Year
can we give it up come on Denver come on
LA Happy New Year we love you this is
going to be an incredible year and
unlike ever before and you
we’ll shine for Jesus’s glory god bless
you love you so much see you Sunday
love you
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