February 18, 2025 • 48 mins
Jeremiah 29:13 says, “And you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.”
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There's always more.
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There's always going to be more.
And our Father wants us to understand that
it's really worth seeking him wholeheartedly
because he has more for us than we can even imagine.
Now there are spiritual blessings that are there
that we can't comprehend unless we pursue them.
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Yes, and persevere.
You just keep pursuing.
God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring,
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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Bus.
And I'm Sharon Bus.
Welcome to the podcast today.
We're so glad that you're with us.
The Lord began speaking to my spirit this morning
about the scripture that's in Jeremiah 29, 13.
And you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
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It's time for us to seek the Lord like never before.
And the wonderful thing is that when we seek him, we will find him.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
We are delighted that we can be together again.
It always makes us happy to sit in front of these microphones and imagine you listening.
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And before we get started on this episode, we just want to make sure that if you haven't
already done so, that you go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, and that you make sure
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and so that we can stay in touch with you and that you have gone to our event page and
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found the convention information, Convention 2025, May 21st through 24th at the St. Louis
Airport Marriott Hotel.
It's going to be a wonderful family camp time.
It's going to be a time of meeting God in a marvelous way for all the age groups.
We've got nursery and children's ministry and youth ministry and something for everyone
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that's going to cause everyone in the family to come closer to Jesus and walk with him
more closely.
So we want to encourage you to be with us for that.
We have Dr. Tony Kemp with us, Bishop Tony Kemp, and he is just a glory man.
We love the way that he flows in the Holy Spirit and brings fresh bread every time he
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ministers.
And we have Dean Braxton who's going to be with us and he's going to be even having a
special Q&A time talking about whatever your questions are about heaven and his experience
of going to heaven for an hour and 45 minutes when he left his body and his body died.
And we have others and God is going to pour out his spirit in a powerful way in that time.
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We want to encourage you to be there.
Come and bring some hungry people with you.
It's going to be a glory time.
So today we're talking about seek the Lord with your whole heart and find him.
It's about seeking for him with your whole heart.
It's real easy to kind of half heartedly seek and you'll only maybe not even half find him.
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But when you seek for him with your whole heart, something happens.
Something happens that is actually a healing for your heart and it's a uniting of your
heart and uniting your heart with him because really he designed us.
He's our father and he designed us with a place in his heart for us and a place for
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him in our hearts.
When we seek him, it's like for a classical guitar.
There was a point where I finally felt like I was going somewhere.
And then before that, just learning your learning scales and learning things.
Boring.
Yeah, it's boring.
And you know, in our day, you know, that's minimal.
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But there is a point where you feel like you're accomplishing something.
And that's the same way with prayer life too.
When you're first starting out, sometimes it doesn't feel like you're going anywhere
like you want.
You know, it says, Lord, I'm spending all this time, but maybe he wants you to spend
a little more time.
It's like half hearted.
You know, to be good at something, you have to work at it.
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Yes.
And you put your heart into it.
It's kind of true across the board in anything.
Sure.
If you're into sports, you know, you're not going to get up there and play basketball
like Caitlin Clark.
Unless you have practiced a lot.
Right.
You put your heart in.
You put your heart in.
And you know, she puts her heart into, she cares more about the game than I think than
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winning for herself.
Right.
You know, because she's all about winning.
And the team.
And the team.
And the team is there.
Right.
Which is what we're supposed to be.
Exactly.
We spend more time with the Lord.
We won't be loose cannons.
Ah, you know, loose.
When you connect with other people of the same synergy that have the same vision and
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pull as you.
Yeah.
It creates a synergy.
It creates that.
Yeah.
Otherwise you're just a cannon out there sometimes.
Yeah.
There's something that happens when the weight of his glory comes down on you.
Yeah.
There's a weightiness that, you know, when you really get into a heavy presence of the
Lord, you wind up on your knees or on your face.
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Yes.
You know, it's like when the glory of God came in at the dedication of the tabernacle
and again at the dedication of the temple.
When the glory came in, the priests couldn't stand up.
You know, when Jesus was resurrected, the guards that were there, they fell down.
Even in the garden of Gethsemane, they fell down when Jesus said, I am.
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Remember Steven Lytle, he wrote the book Exodus 2.
It was about the Jews coming out of Europe, you know, out of Russia.
And he was on a long fast.
Oh, yeah.
And he's, I think it was in, maybe it was in Russia or he was in Germany.
I'm not sure where he was.
I don't know where he was, but I remember that part of the story.
But the power of God just came down and he's just on the floor.
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And people would walk into the room and fall on their face.
The more closeness they had with the Lord, the longer they could stay in the glory.
Yes.
But there came a point where most of them, they had to crawl out.
They couldn't handle it.
It was so intense.
Yeah.
I thought, wow.
He was seeking the Lord with all his heart in fasting.
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And which Isaiah was, you know, seeking the Lord.
And when Isaiah chapter six, woe is me, I am undone.
Right.
Yeah.
And just fall on your face.
Right.
And you know, we could be like Ezekiel, the Lord will take you by a lock of your hair
and pull you up out of your, pull your spirit out of your body to see what's happening somewhere.
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Yeah.
But he had relationship.
Relationship.
Through tough times.
Yeah.
And to go back to this scripture in Jeremiah 29 13, the context is really important here
for you to understand.
And, you know, everybody just about can quote Jeremiah 29 11, for I know the thoughts that
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I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected
end, or to give you a future and a hope.
It's in another translation that way.
Most people can quote that, but they tend to quote it out of context.
The context of that scripture and this one about you shall seek me and find me when you
search for me with all your heart.
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The context of this is Jeremiah's letter to the people that have just been deported to
Babylon.
And you know, they weren't expecting to be deported to Babylon.
They weren't expected to be carried away into captivity.
But Jeremiah's writing to them and saying, look, you guys are in the best possible position.
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Everybody that's left behind here is going to die by the sword or die by the famine.
And so you are blessed to have been taken to Babylon.
So verse five says, build houses and dwell in them, plant gardens and eat fruit of them.
Verse six, take wives, have children, take wives for your sons and give your daughters
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to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters, that they may be increased there and not diminished.
And then it goes on to say, seek the peace of the city where you've been carried away
captive.
Bloom where you're planted.
That's a good way to say it.
That says, pray unto Yehovah for it, for the city where you've been taken.
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For in the peace thereof, you shall have peace.
In other words, wherever God has taken you and planted you, do everything that you can
to bring peace to that place.
Pray for the peace of the place that you've been sent.
That's what Joseph did when he was in captivity.
Wherever he went, Potiphar's house, the jail, then like a son to Pharaoh, favor.
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Yes, because the anointing of God is upon the people of his covenant.
So if we are Gentiles, we're not Jewish people, we've been grafted into that covenant.
So we also have expectations of him keeping his covenant with us.
Because if he doesn't keep his covenant with Israel, why would we think he's gonna keep
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it with us?
Truth.
So all of these things happened to Israel because of the covenant, because of the rules
and the instructions that God gave.
And we had a podcast several weeks ago about the law.
What about the law?
Well, before we go on to that, I just wanna finish talking about this, that in verse 10,
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Jeremiah prophesies, for thus says Yehovah, the Lord, that after 70 years be accomplished
at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return
to this place.
So settle down is the point, settle down, you're gonna be here for 70 years.
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So just hang in there.
So then comes the verse 11 that everyone quotes, for I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, says the Lord, thoughts of shalom.
So shalom means there's nothing broken, nothing missing, everything is paid in full, peace,
real peace.
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And it also implies prosperity too.
So thoughts of peace, thoughts of shalom and not of evil to give you an expected end.
And that word expected there is the word tikvah, and it means hope.
Hope.
You know, hatikvah is the name of the national anthem of Israel and it means the hope.
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So you have a hope, just settle down and live and bless the place where you are and live
like normal and worship God.
Because the whole problem was that the people had gotten into idolatry.
And that seems to be the thing that God hates most of all.
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You know, it says right at the beginning of the 10 commandments, for I the Lord or Yehovah,
your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.
It's about have no other gods before me.
Yes.
But time after time, the people, first of all, because they didn't deal with their enemies,
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they didn't wipe out everybody that God told them to wipe out, they learned their ways,
which were idolatrous ways.
So if you roll back the time clock and look at when God sent them into the land of Canaan,
remember that Noah had cursed Canaan because Ham, the son of Noah, mocked him for being
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drunken and naked in his tent and mocked him to his brothers.
And who knows what else he might have done.
That's not clear in the Bible.
But Noah cursed Canaan, one of the sons of Ham.
And it was the Canaanites that were inhabiting the land that among the Canaanites were giants.
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Now remember that the flood came because of the Nephilim, the giants, all of these offspring
of the, quote, sons of God, unquote, that made wives out of the daughters of men and
had these monster kind of offspring.
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I have a theory for what it's worth.
I don't know if it's worth anything or not, but I have a theory that maybe there was just
a little bit of DNA from that stuff that was in Ham's wife and it came into Canaan.
Oh, it's possible.
It's possible.
I don't know.
But we know that they were giants in the land and God had been trying to get rid of them
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because they were just evil.
They're offspring of fallen beings.
And so if they had gotten rid of the Canaanites, all of them like they were supposed to, then
they wouldn't have had this problem with idolatry.
But idolatry is putting something ahead of God that you worship instead of him.
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Yeah.
You know, in Matthew 633, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things shall be added onto you.
Absolutely.
There's a real principle there.
So if we're not fully seeking the Lord, maybe we're not getting blessed the way we should.
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Right.
There's always more.
There's always going to be more.
And our father wants us to understand that it's really worth seeking him wholeheartedly
because he has more for us than we can even imagine.
Now, there are spiritual blessings that are there that we can't comprehend unless we pursue
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them.
Yes.
And persevere.
You just keep pursuing.
So you know, God made it clear in his word that he gave to Moses.
He said it three different times in the Torah.
He warned his people what will happen if they don't follow him and live according to his
instructions.
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So I won't read all of these scriptures, but if you want to follow up, you can go to Leviticus
chapter 26 and verses 31 to 33 and 36 describe what's going to happen if you don't follow
the rules, if you don't follow me wholeheartedly, if you don't love me enough to follow me.
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Remember Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.
So keeping his commandments is part of loving him.
It's the love relationship that God has been trying for all these generations to get us
to understand that he loves us.
And he loved Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and made these promises to them for the land that
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would be inhabited.
And it was this land that the Canaanites had occupied.
So anyway, God warns, here's what's going to happen.
I'm going to lay your city's waste and your sanctuaries.
I'm going to bring it down.
I'm not going to smell the good fragrance of your sweet aromas.
You can burn all the incense you want, but I'm not going to smell it.
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If you are not doing this for me from your heart, if you're doing it for these other
idols and stuff, forget it.
And he says, I'll bring you to the land of desolations.
Your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
I'll scatter you among the nations and draw a sword after you.
And he goes on.
It's about being taken away captive.
I remember Howard Pittman.
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He was a Baptist preacher.
And he did everything which you would think would be right.
I mean, he worked with troubled kids.
He gave tracks away.
And then he had a massive heart attack and died.
Went to heaven and Jesus wouldn't let him in.
He said, everything you did, you did for yourself.
It wasn't for me.
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I'm sending you back with another chance.
And when he came back, he came through that second realm and the Lord showed him all the
demonic of the second heaven with all the activity going on.
So you really know what you're fighting against.
And it's just an amazing story.
It's not works.
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Right.
Exactly.
For by grace you are saved by faith and not of yourselves.
It's a gift of God, not of works, as any man should boast.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That puts it in perspective.
Certainly does.
And so much of the time, you know, especially as we're growing up and we're being taught
the ways that we're supposed to do the things we're supposed to do, and we do them by rote
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rather than doing them by the heart.
And then even in the captivity, when you read the book of Ezekiel, where the Lord takes him,
he's already on the way to Babylon.
Yeah.
They're by the river Kibar.
And he's among the says he's among the captives.
That's when the Lord takes him by a lock of his hair, his spirit, and takes him up and
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lets him look down.
He can see what everything is going on in the temple, all the abomination, all the abomination
to Egypt, and they're all burning incense facing the, I forget they're facing the east
or something that said the Lord, the Lord doesn't see us, the Lord doesn't care.
You know, and the statue of Tammuz, the goddess of fertility, was also in the temple.
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He saw that.
Yeah.
Idolatry.
All this idolatry, and the common person out there may not know that was going on.
What's going on in the leadership.
Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors.
Yeah.
And so I think that's why many were shocked.
How can God let this happen to us if they're doing all the right thing, but the priesthood
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is not.
So maybe they were the ones that got carried away captive.
Wow.
And spared.
And spared.
Yeah.
So back to what the Lord was saying in the Torah, he says this three times, okay?
Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 29 and 30.
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Basically it's the same message three times where he says, if you persist in your idolatry,
I'm going to throw you out of the land and the land is going to have a chance to get
its rest because you're not going to give rest to it like I told you to.
He already knew that they weren't going to give that seventh year of sabbatical rest
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to the land.
And he goes on to say, he's going to scatter them into the nations.
But every time he says, when you're in tribulation, this is Deuteronomy 4 and verse 30, when you're
in tribulation and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to
the Lord or Yehovah your God and obey his voice.
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For Yehovah your God is a merciful God.
He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore
to them.
Same thing in Deuteronomy 29.
He tells them what he's going to do to them, all these curses.
And then in chapter 30 verse 1, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the
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curse which I've set before you and you call them to mind among all the nations where Yehovah
your God has driven you and return to Yehovah your God, you and your children and obey
his voice in all that I command you today with all your heart and with all your soul.
Here it is again.
Then Yehovah your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you and he will gather you
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again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
And he goes on in verse 6 and says, and the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and
the heart of your offspring so that you will love the Lord your God, Yehovah your God with
all your heart and with all your soul so that you may live.
And he goes on, he says in verse 15, see I have set before you today life and good, death
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and evil.
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today by loving the
Lord your God, by walking in his ways, by keeping his commandments and his statute center's
rules, then you shall live and multiply and the Lord your God will bless you in the land
that you are entering to take possession of it.
But if your heart turns away, it's because they're there, Moses is reading them the riot
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act, basically, and telling them, look, you got to do good.
You got to follow the rules.
Yeah, because he's your God.
Yehovah is your God.
Do it his way and he will bless you.
He will prosper you.
Just love him and obey him out of love.
But if you don't, here's what's going to happen.
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You're going into this land and you know, here's what's going to happen if you don't
do what he says.
So he goes on to declare verse 19, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today
that I've set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore choose life that you and your offspring may live loving Yehovah your God, obeying
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his voice and holding fast to him for he is your life and length of days that you may
dwell in the land that you have swore to your fathers to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob
to give to them.
So this is the promise.
And what he's saying is that he wants you to understand you've got a choice.
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And you know, going back to Jeremiah 29, he's telling the people that have been sent to
Babylon, I know the thoughts I think toward you, their thoughts of peace, not of evil,
to give you an expected end, to give you a future and a hope.
And you shall call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken to you
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and you shall seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
That's the context.
It's in this place where they're already in trouble.
They and their fathers have been worshiping idols.
And it's very clear in Isaiah 59, he says in verse one, behold, Yehovah's hand is not
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shortened that it cannot save or is ear dull that it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have
hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies.
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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No one enters suit justly.
No one goes to law.
Honestly, they rely on empty pleas and they speak lies.
They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
And then the last half of verse six, it says their works are iniquity and deeds of violence
are in their hands.
Their feet run to evil and they're swift to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
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And it goes on.
And verse 12 says, for our transgressions are multiplied before you and our sins testify
against us, for our transgressions are with us and we know our iniquities transgressing
and denying the Lord and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and
revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
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So what's your heart doing?
This is about your heart.
Is your heart engaged with doing all the wrong stuff or is our heart engaged with doing the
right stuff with the Lord?
Or are we doing kind of half and half, halfhearted?
You were talking about your classical guitar and you felt like you were getting somewhere.
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I remember when I was in school and I was learning to play the bassoon.
That's an unusual instrument.
And I was only halfhearted about it.
If I was the only bassoon player, I was first chair.
If there were two of us, I was second chair.
If there were three of us, I was third chair.
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And there was one time that there were four of us and I was fourth chair.
Four bassoons.
Four bassoons.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it was.
But the bottom line is I was only halfhearted about it.
I was not practicing.
I was not working at it.
My heart wasn't in it like it should have been.
I wasn't ready to apply myself.
So I had other interests, right?
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The choir was a bigger interest.
Yeah.
I didn't even get into choir until I had quit bassoon.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I took it up again briefly as a senior because I thought I'm going to be a music
major.
I figured I had to go back to band.
But my point is I was halfhearted about it.
I wasn't putting my whole heart into it.
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So there are things that we want to do.
Think about the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And Jesus says, pray with me.
And they all fell asleep.
Three times.
Yeah.
And sometimes that happens even when we're trying to seek the Lord in the middle of the
night.
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Yes, that's true.
They fall asleep.
And you don't know you fall asleep until you wake up.
I know what Saru, Salvarud says.
Get up in the night, get a cup of tea.
Or that's the thing you do in their culture.
Right.
And or get yourself some coffee.
Just don't make it so strong where you can't get back to sleep after.
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Yeah, whenever it's time.
But anyway, the point is that if you seek him with your whole heart, you'll be found
of him.
And sometimes we have to get a little bit desperate.
Sometimes it's kind of like hide and seek.
The Lord, he inspires us to follow him.
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And then other things come along to distract us.
And we kind of forget about following like we should.
Like he designed us for you.
The design is for us to follow him, to flow with him, to be with him.
So the best time to follow him is when you have less distractions to start, which is
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usually in the night.
Right.
When everybody else is asleep.
Or early morning.
Early morning.
You know, Jesus rose and went to prayer a great while before day.
So it's those hours before the morning, before everybody else wakes up.
Yeah.
So if your eyes pop open in the night, just get up and pray.
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There's a reason for it.
Yes.
And you accomplish something.
And sometimes he'll lay certain things on your heart to pray about.
And sometimes you just pray in tongues.
And sometimes you just be still.
Or you just worship.
Or worship.
And the being still is the part where I tend to fall asleep.
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Yeah, that's true.
Sometimes I walk to keep myself from falling asleep if I get up in the night.
And I'm not super spiritual.
I don't do that all the time.
But once in a while, the Lord lays it on my heart.
But I do want to seek him with all my heart.
And I do want to find him because there are things that he has for us that he's waiting
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for us to let go of the distractions.
We had a time of fasting here recently.
And in the fast, I stopped looking at certain news apps that was keeping me up to date on
certain things that were going on.
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I just stopped.
And I haven't gone back to it.
And I feel good about that.
Because I found that I was being distracted.
You're taking a lot of extra time.
Yeah.
So the Lord is trying to help us, the Holy Spirit is trying to help us to get focused.
Because there's different kinds of light.
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You've got these lights that are quite diffused.
For instance, okay, like at night, these farm lights, we live on a farm, right, out in the
country.
And for years, we just had mercury vapor lamps.
And they're just a bluish light with a slow frequency.
But now we've got some of these LED lights.
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And they're sharp.
They're very bright.
And your shadows are very sharp and defined.
Yeah, that was, remember you pointed it out.
And I thought, yeah, you know, you're right.
Yeah, I think it has to do with the frequency.
But anyway, you know, my point is that there's kind of like diffused light, and then there's
sharp light.
There's even laser light that's very focused, and it'll burn right through things.
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So the Lord is trying to focus us.
Sometimes He wants us to be diffused, right, so that we're shining big.
But I think He would rather have us shine bigger with a more focused light.
You know what I'm talking about?
Am I making sense?
It's about this seeking Him has to do with He wants to be found of you.
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He wants you to find Him.
And it's up to you to make that choice really on a moment by moment basis.
Yes.
Because He wants us to be operating with Him, flowing with Him.
You know, 2 Chronicles chapter 6, verses 37 to 39, where Solomon is praying at the dedication
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of the temple.
And he's talking about one of these situations where the children of Israel might be in some
other land.
Now that had never happened yet in Solomon's time.
But he was going back to what the Lord had said three times that I just pointed out to
you from Leviticus and twice in Deuteronomy, three times where God warns the people, you're
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going to be sent to some other land.
You're going to be scattered to the nations if you don't do what I've told you to do.
So, Solomon is praying this, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they've been
carried captive and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity saying,
we have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly.
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If they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity
to which they were carried captive and pray toward their land, which you gave to their
fathers, the city that you've chosen and the house that I've built for your name, then
hear from heaven, your dwelling place, their prayers and their pleas and maintain their
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cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
And he's praying all these different prayers about if people will pray toward this place,
hear from heaven.
He's asking God to hear from heaven.
And then just a couple of verses later, the glory falls and the people can't stand up.
They all fall to their knees.
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So Psalm 91 verse 15 says, he shall call upon me and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him and honor him.
God is looking for these wholehearted people or these people who have gone off the rails
and realize they've gone off the rails and they come back to him.
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There's a difference between conviction of sin and repentance and being shamed and self-loathing.
Because when you find yourself off the rails, when you find that you've, oh, I really made
a stupid mistake and I fell into some kind of sin, I've done something I shouldn't have
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done.
God wants us to recognize that we've made this mistake and repent.
Repent means to turn around and go back the way you should be going.
You return to him.
And that's repentance.
That's being restored to him.
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There's a hope of expectation and expectation of restoration.
It restores the relationship.
He forgives.
He's always looking to forgive us.
He's trying to draw us back to him when we've dropped the ball.
But the tempter, the one that operates in darkness, he'll tempt you into sin and then
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he'll smear you and slime you and make you feel so awful.
That is not conviction.
That is shame.
Very well put.
So our Father brings conviction, the Holy Spirit brings conviction.
And with conviction is a drawing back.
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Come back to me.
Come back to me.
Come back to me.
If you seek him with your heart, with your whole heart, you will find him.
Yeah.
Remember, there was this amazing worship leader that his music was just, it was so powerful,
the worship.
And he went big.
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He was on big platforms and went overseas and power of God just moved.
But on the road, his wife wasn't there and he fell into adultery.
And so he's out of ministry.
And one day he's sitting, he's just sitting in his bed and Jesus appears at the end of
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the bed and says, I'm waiting for you.
Are you ready to come back?
Are you ready to come back?
And he did.
Yeah.
Well, the Lord wants us to come back.
Yeah, God forgives.
Man doesn't.
That's true.
Makes it tough.
Yeah.
I mean, it's better not to fall.
That's the point.
It's better not to fall.
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Better not to fall because it, yeah.
And it's good to seek him with your whole heart to keep you from falling.
And the tempter will always put something in your path at the right time or the wrong
time which can cause you to mess up.
Yep.
And it reminds me of Rick Joyner's book, The Final Quest.
And there's a chapter where there, this is dreams and visions that he had on a continual
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basis and they're in this mountain fighting and all that.
And he almost slips, you know, and fall down and an angel that was there said to him, you
know, you have to be careful.
You can fall from any level at any time.
Yeah.
And we've seen greats fall.
Haven't we?
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Especially recently.
Yeah.
All these things have been uncovered.
And great was the fall of it.
Yeah.
And it's not just that person that falls, but it's everything that surrounds around
it pays the price for their mistake.
Right.
Right.
And it brings shame on the whole church.
Shame on the whole church.
And then your people talk, your relatives will talk, see, that's what you, didn't we
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warn you about going there?
So the Lord is looking for us to return with our whole heart and repent with our whole
heart.
Yes.
We can also repent on behalf of others like Daniel in Daniel chapter nine, he comes with
repentance because he sees, he sees that the 70 years have passed, the 70 years that Jeremiah
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prophesied in the scripture that we started with.
Daniel says, Oh God, please forgive.
And he goes down the whole list of all the things that he was godly.
He didn't fall into those things, but he, he spoke it as though he was, he became an
intercessor and begged for God to forgive.
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And God was listening.
You will seek me and you will find me when you search for me with all your hearts.
That's what happened with Daniel.
He did that.
So the thing that I also am impressed with is back in Isaiah 59, we were in Isaiah 59
earlier talking about it's your, it's your iniquities that have made a separation between
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you and your God.
Okay.
So going back to that in verse 16, he saw that there was no man and wondered that there
was no one to intercede.
Now Daniel was an intercessor, but he's looking at a bigger picture, I think in Isaiah 59
because Daniel hadn't happened yet.
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Right?
So in Isaiah 59, he's probably looking at something other than that.
So he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no one to intercede.
Then his own arm brought him salvation and his righteousness upheld him.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on his head.
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He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his
enemies to the coastlands.
Will he render repayment?
So they shall fear the name of Yehovah from the West and his glory from the rising of
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the sun, for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord Yehovah drives.
Verse 20, and a redeemer will come to Zion to those in Jacob who turned from their transgression,
there's the Lord Yehovah as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord, my spirit
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that is upon you and my words that I've put in your mouth shall not depart out of your
mouth or out of the mouth of your offspring or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,
says the Lord Yehovah from this time forth and forevermore.
So what's happening here is he's describing what happened in Isaiah 53 where the Messiah
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comes to pay the price.
He puts on the helmet of salvation, he puts on that Yeshua head and he goes out to be
the Yeshua and his arm, remember it said, then his own arm brought him Yeshua, his own
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arm brought him salvation.
So the arms of Jesus were stretched out on the cross and he became their redeemer.
So in Acts chapter 8, Philip is explaining to the Ethiopian eunuch about Jesus being
the Messiah who suffered for us in fulfillment of the description he was reading in the Isaiah
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scroll from chapter 53 because that's what he was reading.
And he's explaining to this Ethiopian eunuch that it's Jesus.
This is Jesus, this Isaiah 53 is talking about Jesus.
He came as our Messiah, he came as the son of God and as they're going along in the chariot,
here's some water.
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And the Ethiopian asks to be baptized.
And Philip says, if you believe with all your heart, you may.
Then he answered, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
So the believing that we do results in something.
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It results in an act.
In this case, it's the act of baptism.
Maybe you haven't been baptized yet.
Have you been baptized?
I'm talking to the listeners.
I know you have, Philip.
And the thing is this, I've been baptized many times.
I've found that I feel a leading of the Holy Spirit that if I have a significant moment
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in my life where my situation changes, like when I became the vice president of this ministry,
and then again, when I became the president of this ministry, I felt it was right for
me to be baptized.
It just new and fresh because it's a moment that is at the beginning of something brand
new.
Yeah.
Well, when the families came up to Jerusalem for the three different feasts, they would,
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the mikvahs were there and they'd be baptized.
Exactly.
So if they went to the feast, all three feasts, they'd get baptized three times that year.
Exactly.
So it's not just a once.
When I'm 12 years old, I got baptized.
But I've been baptized in Jordan.
The same thing with you whenever walking in a food dispensation, we would get baptized.
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And we baptized, I baptized many in Jordan too.
Yes.
So that's exciting to watch the power of God hit people when they're going under the water.
Yes.
And something happens when you're seeking the Lord with all of your heart and baptism
kind of shuts the door to the old and opens the door to the new.
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And that is a sign.
One of our staff just got back from Pakistan and it's Muslim.
And that's one of the biggest things when people go to get baptized publicly.
Yeah.
They know that could be their whole life has changed and some will probably get killed
over it.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
They from their own families.
Right.
Right.
So sometimes it's better to not do it publicly.
Yeah.
But there is something that happens.
There is a change that takes place when you're baptized.
And in the Jewish culture, one of the times that you're baptized is just prior to your
wedding.
So the bride and the groom are baptized right before their wedding.
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So it's like a sign of you are now the bride of Christ.
Yeah.
And you're the Anabaptists.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's the story of, you know, from the time of Constantine, it was accepted to sprinkle
in order to be baptized because there were so many people in his army that he didn't
have time to douse everybody underwater.
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And so they just sprinkled.
They just made an adjustment.
And is that where that came from?
Yeah.
And that was how sprinkling began.
And it came down through the church as well.
This is how we baptize.
We do it by sprinkling.
And a tradition overtook what the reality of what immersion really is.
And when people started reading the Bible for themselves, they discovered, oh, well,
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baptism is something that you do when you have become a believer.
And you know, when they first came with that understanding, I'm not sure exactly when that
was.
It was part of the Reformation.
The Anabaptists, Anabaptist means baptized again because you were baptized as a baby.
You don't need it anymore.
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And they said, no, this is what the scriptures are teaching that you should be baptized when
you are a believer.
And that's how that came to be.
It's like be dedicated when you're young, which is what Jesus was on the eighth day,
wasn't it?
Yeah, he was circumcised on the eighth day, and that's when he was named.
And then when the number of days of Mary's purification happened, they took him to the
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temple.
And that's when he met Anna and Simeon and they prophesied over him.
And so, you know, there are steps that you do.
The point is, the point is follow him with all of your heart.
Luke 11, 9 through 13, Jesus says, and I tell you, ask and it will be given to you.
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Seek and you will find.
Knock and it will be open to you.
For everyone who asks, and I think in the Greek, it's like asks and keeps on asking.
It's the idea of persistence.
Everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds.
And to the one who knocks, it will be opened.
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What father among you, if his son asked for a fish, will instead of a fish, give him a
serpent?
Or if he asks for an egg, we'll give him a scorpion.
If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will the heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
So if you are seeking the Holy Spirit, if you're seeking the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
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he wants to give it to you even more than you want it.
So just receive by faith.
Absolutely give yourself to him.
He wants to fill you to overflowing.
He wants to impart to you things that you don't even know to ask for.
Just keep pursuing him.
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Keep seeking, keep finding him with all your heart.
And then if you have a prodigal, maybe you have someone in your family or someone that
you love that needs to come back to God.
So here's a promise for you to pray from Jeremiah 24 seven.
Don't you love that 24 seven?
So you can keep praying it continually 24 seven.
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He says, I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord, that I am Yehovah and
they shall be my people and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their
whole heart.
Just pray that over your loved one.
Pray them back in because the Lord is drawing.
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He's absolutely drawing them and he will bring them in.
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
Let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, as we come before you, Lord, we want to have a brand
new fresh anointing to seek you with our whole hearts, to seek you for our nation, to seek
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you for your purposes, to be accomplished in our loved ones and our families, in our
nation, our communities, Lord and for Israel, Lord, that your purposes will be accomplished
there.
And we ask you to ignite our hearts, pour out your spirit on us with your great mighty
outpouring that will cause us to seek you with all of our hearts, to lay aside every
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distraction to go fully for you, to live for you, to dedicate ourselves, to humble ourselves
before you and to be filled with your spirit new and fresh in a glorious way, because that's
what you want to do in these days to pour out your spirit on all flesh.
Lord, we ask you to equip us as we move forward so that we will be ready to do the things
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you give us to do as you pour out your spirit on all flesh.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
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God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.
There's always more.
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There's always going to be more.
And our Father wants us to understand that
it's really worth seeking him wholeheartedly
because he has more for us than we can even imagine.
Now there are spiritual blessings that are there
that we can't comprehend unless we pursue them.
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Yes, and persevere.
You just keep pursuing.
God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring,
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we equip for that outpouring, so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Bus.
And I'm Sharon Bus.
Welcome to the podcast today.
We're so glad that you're with us.
The Lord began speaking to my spirit this morning
about the scripture that's in Jeremiah 29, 13.
And you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
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It's time for us to seek the Lord like never before.
And the wonderful thing is that when we seek him, we will find him.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
We are delighted that we can be together again.
It always makes us happy to sit in front of these microphones and imagine you listening.
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And before we get started on this episode, we just want to make sure that if you haven't
already done so, that you go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, and that you make sure
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and so that we can stay in touch with you and that you have gone to our event page and
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found the convention information, Convention 2025, May 21st through 24th at the St. Louis
Airport Marriott Hotel.
It's going to be a wonderful family camp time.
It's going to be a time of meeting God in a marvelous way for all the age groups.
We've got nursery and children's ministry and youth ministry and something for everyone
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that's going to cause everyone in the family to come closer to Jesus and walk with him
more closely.
So we want to encourage you to be with us for that.
We have Dr. Tony Kemp with us, Bishop Tony Kemp, and he is just a glory man.
We love the way that he flows in the Holy Spirit and brings fresh bread every time he
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ministers.
And we have Dean Braxton who's going to be with us and he's going to be even having a
special Q&A time talking about whatever your questions are about heaven and his experience
of going to heaven for an hour and 45 minutes when he left his body and his body died.
And we have others and God is going to pour out his spirit in a powerful way in that time.
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We want to encourage you to be there.
Come and bring some hungry people with you.
It's going to be a glory time.
So today we're talking about seek the Lord with your whole heart and find him.
It's about seeking for him with your whole heart.
It's real easy to kind of half heartedly seek and you'll only maybe not even half find him.
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But when you seek for him with your whole heart, something happens.
Something happens that is actually a healing for your heart and it's a uniting of your
heart and uniting your heart with him because really he designed us.
He's our father and he designed us with a place in his heart for us and a place for
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him in our hearts.
When we seek him, it's like for a classical guitar.
There was a point where I finally felt like I was going somewhere.
And then before that, just learning your learning scales and learning things.
Boring.
Yeah, it's boring.
And you know, in our day, you know, that's minimal.
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But there is a point where you feel like you're accomplishing something.
And that's the same way with prayer life too.
When you're first starting out, sometimes it doesn't feel like you're going anywhere
like you want.
You know, it says, Lord, I'm spending all this time, but maybe he wants you to spend
a little more time.
It's like half hearted.
You know, to be good at something, you have to work at it.
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Yes.
And you put your heart into it.
It's kind of true across the board in anything.
Sure.
If you're into sports, you know, you're not going to get up there and play basketball
like Caitlin Clark.
Unless you have practiced a lot.
Right.
You put your heart in.
You put your heart in.
And you know, she puts her heart into, she cares more about the game than I think than
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winning for herself.
Right.
You know, because she's all about winning.
And the team.
And the team.
And the team is there.
Right.
Which is what we're supposed to be.
Exactly.
We spend more time with the Lord.
We won't be loose cannons.
Ah, you know, loose.
When you connect with other people of the same synergy that have the same vision and
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pull as you.
Yeah.
It creates a synergy.
It creates that.
Yeah.
Otherwise you're just a cannon out there sometimes.
Yeah.
There's something that happens when the weight of his glory comes down on you.
Yeah.
There's a weightiness that, you know, when you really get into a heavy presence of the
Lord, you wind up on your knees or on your face.
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Yes.
You know, it's like when the glory of God came in at the dedication of the tabernacle
and again at the dedication of the temple.
When the glory came in, the priests couldn't stand up.
You know, when Jesus was resurrected, the guards that were there, they fell down.
Even in the garden of Gethsemane, they fell down when Jesus said, I am.
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Remember Steven Lytle, he wrote the book Exodus 2.
It was about the Jews coming out of Europe, you know, out of Russia.
And he was on a long fast.
Oh, yeah.
And he's, I think it was in, maybe it was in Russia or he was in Germany.
I'm not sure where he was.
I don't know where he was, but I remember that part of the story.
But the power of God just came down and he's just on the floor.
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And people would walk into the room and fall on their face.
The more closeness they had with the Lord, the longer they could stay in the glory.
Yes.
But there came a point where most of them, they had to crawl out.
They couldn't handle it.
It was so intense.
Yeah.
I thought, wow.
He was seeking the Lord with all his heart in fasting.
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And which Isaiah was, you know, seeking the Lord.
And when Isaiah chapter six, woe is me, I am undone.
Right.
Yeah.
And just fall on your face.
Right.
And you know, we could be like Ezekiel, the Lord will take you by a lock of your hair
and pull you up out of your, pull your spirit out of your body to see what's happening somewhere.
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Yeah.
But he had relationship.
Relationship.
Through tough times.
Yeah.
And to go back to this scripture in Jeremiah 29 13, the context is really important here
for you to understand.
And, you know, everybody just about can quote Jeremiah 29 11, for I know the thoughts that
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I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected
end, or to give you a future and a hope.
It's in another translation that way.
Most people can quote that, but they tend to quote it out of context.
The context of that scripture and this one about you shall seek me and find me when you
search for me with all your heart.
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The context of this is Jeremiah's letter to the people that have just been deported to
Babylon.
And you know, they weren't expecting to be deported to Babylon.
They weren't expected to be carried away into captivity.
But Jeremiah's writing to them and saying, look, you guys are in the best possible position.
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Everybody that's left behind here is going to die by the sword or die by the famine.
And so you are blessed to have been taken to Babylon.
So verse five says, build houses and dwell in them, plant gardens and eat fruit of them.
Verse six, take wives, have children, take wives for your sons and give your daughters
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to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters, that they may be increased there and not diminished.
And then it goes on to say, seek the peace of the city where you've been carried away
captive.
Bloom where you're planted.
That's a good way to say it.
That says, pray unto Yehovah for it, for the city where you've been taken.
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For in the peace thereof, you shall have peace.
In other words, wherever God has taken you and planted you, do everything that you can
to bring peace to that place.
Pray for the peace of the place that you've been sent.
That's what Joseph did when he was in captivity.
Wherever he went, Potiphar's house, the jail, then like a son to Pharaoh, favor.
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Yes, because the anointing of God is upon the people of his covenant.
So if we are Gentiles, we're not Jewish people, we've been grafted into that covenant.
So we also have expectations of him keeping his covenant with us.
Because if he doesn't keep his covenant with Israel, why would we think he's gonna keep
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it with us?
Truth.
So all of these things happened to Israel because of the covenant, because of the rules
and the instructions that God gave.
And we had a podcast several weeks ago about the law.
What about the law?
Well, before we go on to that, I just wanna finish talking about this, that in verse 10,
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Jeremiah prophesies, for thus says Yehovah, the Lord, that after 70 years be accomplished
at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return
to this place.
So settle down is the point, settle down, you're gonna be here for 70 years.
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So just hang in there.
So then comes the verse 11 that everyone quotes, for I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, says the Lord, thoughts of shalom.
So shalom means there's nothing broken, nothing missing, everything is paid in full, peace,
real peace.
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And it also implies prosperity too.
So thoughts of peace, thoughts of shalom and not of evil to give you an expected end.
And that word expected there is the word tikvah, and it means hope.
Hope.
You know, hatikvah is the name of the national anthem of Israel and it means the hope.
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So you have a hope, just settle down and live and bless the place where you are and live
like normal and worship God.
Because the whole problem was that the people had gotten into idolatry.
And that seems to be the thing that God hates most of all.
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You know, it says right at the beginning of the 10 commandments, for I the Lord or Yehovah,
your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.
It's about have no other gods before me.
Yes.
But time after time, the people, first of all, because they didn't deal with their enemies,
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they didn't wipe out everybody that God told them to wipe out, they learned their ways,
which were idolatrous ways.
So if you roll back the time clock and look at when God sent them into the land of Canaan,
remember that Noah had cursed Canaan because Ham, the son of Noah, mocked him for being
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drunken and naked in his tent and mocked him to his brothers.
And who knows what else he might have done.
That's not clear in the Bible.
But Noah cursed Canaan, one of the sons of Ham.
And it was the Canaanites that were inhabiting the land that among the Canaanites were giants.
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Now remember that the flood came because of the Nephilim, the giants, all of these offspring
of the, quote, sons of God, unquote, that made wives out of the daughters of men and
had these monster kind of offspring.
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I have a theory for what it's worth.
I don't know if it's worth anything or not, but I have a theory that maybe there was just
a little bit of DNA from that stuff that was in Ham's wife and it came into Canaan.
Oh, it's possible.
It's possible.
I don't know.
But we know that they were giants in the land and God had been trying to get rid of them
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because they were just evil.
They're offspring of fallen beings.
And so if they had gotten rid of the Canaanites, all of them like they were supposed to, then
they wouldn't have had this problem with idolatry.
But idolatry is putting something ahead of God that you worship instead of him.
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Yeah.
You know, in Matthew 633, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things shall be added onto you.
Absolutely.
There's a real principle there.
So if we're not fully seeking the Lord, maybe we're not getting blessed the way we should.
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Right.
There's always more.
There's always going to be more.
And our father wants us to understand that it's really worth seeking him wholeheartedly
because he has more for us than we can even imagine.
Now, there are spiritual blessings that are there that we can't comprehend unless we pursue
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them.
Yes.
And persevere.
You just keep pursuing.
So you know, God made it clear in his word that he gave to Moses.
He said it three different times in the Torah.
He warned his people what will happen if they don't follow him and live according to his
instructions.
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So I won't read all of these scriptures, but if you want to follow up, you can go to Leviticus
chapter 26 and verses 31 to 33 and 36 describe what's going to happen if you don't follow
the rules, if you don't follow me wholeheartedly, if you don't love me enough to follow me.
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Remember Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.
So keeping his commandments is part of loving him.
It's the love relationship that God has been trying for all these generations to get us
to understand that he loves us.
And he loved Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and made these promises to them for the land that
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would be inhabited.
And it was this land that the Canaanites had occupied.
So anyway, God warns, here's what's going to happen.
I'm going to lay your city's waste and your sanctuaries.
I'm going to bring it down.
I'm not going to smell the good fragrance of your sweet aromas.
You can burn all the incense you want, but I'm not going to smell it.
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If you are not doing this for me from your heart, if you're doing it for these other
idols and stuff, forget it.
And he says, I'll bring you to the land of desolations.
Your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
I'll scatter you among the nations and draw a sword after you.
And he goes on.
It's about being taken away captive.
I remember Howard Pittman.
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He was a Baptist preacher.
And he did everything which you would think would be right.
I mean, he worked with troubled kids.
He gave tracks away.
And then he had a massive heart attack and died.
Went to heaven and Jesus wouldn't let him in.
He said, everything you did, you did for yourself.
It wasn't for me.
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I'm sending you back with another chance.
And when he came back, he came through that second realm and the Lord showed him all the
demonic of the second heaven with all the activity going on.
So you really know what you're fighting against.
And it's just an amazing story.
It's not works.
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Right.
Exactly.
For by grace you are saved by faith and not of yourselves.
It's a gift of God, not of works, as any man should boast.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That puts it in perspective.
Certainly does.
And so much of the time, you know, especially as we're growing up and we're being taught
the ways that we're supposed to do the things we're supposed to do, and we do them by rote
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rather than doing them by the heart.
And then even in the captivity, when you read the book of Ezekiel, where the Lord takes him,
he's already on the way to Babylon.
Yeah.
They're by the river Kibar.
And he's among the says he's among the captives.
That's when the Lord takes him by a lock of his hair, his spirit, and takes him up and
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lets him look down.
He can see what everything is going on in the temple, all the abomination, all the abomination
to Egypt, and they're all burning incense facing the, I forget they're facing the east
or something that said the Lord, the Lord doesn't see us, the Lord doesn't care.
You know, and the statue of Tammuz, the goddess of fertility, was also in the temple.
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He saw that.
Yeah.
Idolatry.
All this idolatry, and the common person out there may not know that was going on.
What's going on in the leadership.
Behind closed doors.
Behind closed doors.
Yeah.
And so I think that's why many were shocked.
How can God let this happen to us if they're doing all the right thing, but the priesthood
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is not.
So maybe they were the ones that got carried away captive.
Wow.
And spared.
And spared.
Yeah.
So back to what the Lord was saying in the Torah, he says this three times, okay?
Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 29 and 30.
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Basically it's the same message three times where he says, if you persist in your idolatry,
I'm going to throw you out of the land and the land is going to have a chance to get
its rest because you're not going to give rest to it like I told you to.
He already knew that they weren't going to give that seventh year of sabbatical rest
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to the land.
And he goes on to say, he's going to scatter them into the nations.
But every time he says, when you're in tribulation, this is Deuteronomy 4 and verse 30, when you're
in tribulation and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to
the Lord or Yehovah your God and obey his voice.
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For Yehovah your God is a merciful God.
He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore
to them.
Same thing in Deuteronomy 29.
He tells them what he's going to do to them, all these curses.
And then in chapter 30 verse 1, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the
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curse which I've set before you and you call them to mind among all the nations where Yehovah
your God has driven you and return to Yehovah your God, you and your children and obey
his voice in all that I command you today with all your heart and with all your soul.
Here it is again.
Then Yehovah your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you and he will gather you
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again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
And he goes on in verse 6 and says, and the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and
the heart of your offspring so that you will love the Lord your God, Yehovah your God with
all your heart and with all your soul so that you may live.
And he goes on, he says in verse 15, see I have set before you today life and good, death
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and evil.
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today by loving the
Lord your God, by walking in his ways, by keeping his commandments and his statute center's
rules, then you shall live and multiply and the Lord your God will bless you in the land
that you are entering to take possession of it.
But if your heart turns away, it's because they're there, Moses is reading them the riot
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act, basically, and telling them, look, you got to do good.
You got to follow the rules.
Yeah, because he's your God.
Yehovah is your God.
Do it his way and he will bless you.
He will prosper you.
Just love him and obey him out of love.
But if you don't, here's what's going to happen.
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You're going into this land and you know, here's what's going to happen if you don't
do what he says.
So he goes on to declare verse 19, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today
that I've set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore choose life that you and your offspring may live loving Yehovah your God, obeying
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his voice and holding fast to him for he is your life and length of days that you may
dwell in the land that you have swore to your fathers to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob
to give to them.
So this is the promise.
And what he's saying is that he wants you to understand you've got a choice.
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And you know, going back to Jeremiah 29, he's telling the people that have been sent to
Babylon, I know the thoughts I think toward you, their thoughts of peace, not of evil,
to give you an expected end, to give you a future and a hope.
And you shall call upon me and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken to you
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and you shall seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
That's the context.
It's in this place where they're already in trouble.
They and their fathers have been worshiping idols.
And it's very clear in Isaiah 59, he says in verse one, behold, Yehovah's hand is not
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shortened that it cannot save or is ear dull that it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have
hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies.
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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No one enters suit justly.
No one goes to law.
Honestly, they rely on empty pleas and they speak lies.
They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
And then the last half of verse six, it says their works are iniquity and deeds of violence
are in their hands.
Their feet run to evil and they're swift to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
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And it goes on.
And verse 12 says, for our transgressions are multiplied before you and our sins testify
against us, for our transgressions are with us and we know our iniquities transgressing
and denying the Lord and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and
revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
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So what's your heart doing?
This is about your heart.
Is your heart engaged with doing all the wrong stuff or is our heart engaged with doing the
right stuff with the Lord?
Or are we doing kind of half and half, halfhearted?
You were talking about your classical guitar and you felt like you were getting somewhere.
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I remember when I was in school and I was learning to play the bassoon.
That's an unusual instrument.
And I was only halfhearted about it.
If I was the only bassoon player, I was first chair.
If there were two of us, I was second chair.
If there were three of us, I was third chair.
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And there was one time that there were four of us and I was fourth chair.
Four bassoons.
Four bassoons.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it was.
But the bottom line is I was only halfhearted about it.
I was not practicing.
I was not working at it.
My heart wasn't in it like it should have been.
I wasn't ready to apply myself.
So I had other interests, right?
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The choir was a bigger interest.
Yeah.
I didn't even get into choir until I had quit bassoon.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I took it up again briefly as a senior because I thought I'm going to be a music
major.
I figured I had to go back to band.
But my point is I was halfhearted about it.
I wasn't putting my whole heart into it.
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So there are things that we want to do.
Think about the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And Jesus says, pray with me.
And they all fell asleep.
Three times.
Yeah.
And sometimes that happens even when we're trying to seek the Lord in the middle of the
night.
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Yes, that's true.
They fall asleep.
And you don't know you fall asleep until you wake up.
I know what Saru, Salvarud says.
Get up in the night, get a cup of tea.
Or that's the thing you do in their culture.
Right.
And or get yourself some coffee.
Just don't make it so strong where you can't get back to sleep after.
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Yeah, whenever it's time.
But anyway, the point is that if you seek him with your whole heart, you'll be found
of him.
And sometimes we have to get a little bit desperate.
Sometimes it's kind of like hide and seek.
The Lord, he inspires us to follow him.
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And then other things come along to distract us.
And we kind of forget about following like we should.
Like he designed us for you.
The design is for us to follow him, to flow with him, to be with him.
So the best time to follow him is when you have less distractions to start, which is
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usually in the night.
Right.
When everybody else is asleep.
Or early morning.
Early morning.
You know, Jesus rose and went to prayer a great while before day.
So it's those hours before the morning, before everybody else wakes up.
Yeah.
So if your eyes pop open in the night, just get up and pray.
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There's a reason for it.
Yes.
And you accomplish something.
And sometimes he'll lay certain things on your heart to pray about.
And sometimes you just pray in tongues.
And sometimes you just be still.
Or you just worship.
Or worship.
And the being still is the part where I tend to fall asleep.
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Yeah, that's true.
Sometimes I walk to keep myself from falling asleep if I get up in the night.
And I'm not super spiritual.
I don't do that all the time.
But once in a while, the Lord lays it on my heart.
But I do want to seek him with all my heart.
And I do want to find him because there are things that he has for us that he's waiting
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for us to let go of the distractions.
We had a time of fasting here recently.
And in the fast, I stopped looking at certain news apps that was keeping me up to date on
certain things that were going on.
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I just stopped.
And I haven't gone back to it.
And I feel good about that.
Because I found that I was being distracted.
You're taking a lot of extra time.
Yeah.
So the Lord is trying to help us, the Holy Spirit is trying to help us to get focused.
Because there's different kinds of light.
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You've got these lights that are quite diffused.
For instance, okay, like at night, these farm lights, we live on a farm, right, out in the
country.
And for years, we just had mercury vapor lamps.
And they're just a bluish light with a slow frequency.
But now we've got some of these LED lights.
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And they're sharp.
They're very bright.
And your shadows are very sharp and defined.
Yeah, that was, remember you pointed it out.
And I thought, yeah, you know, you're right.
Yeah, I think it has to do with the frequency.
But anyway, you know, my point is that there's kind of like diffused light, and then there's
sharp light.
There's even laser light that's very focused, and it'll burn right through things.
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So the Lord is trying to focus us.
Sometimes He wants us to be diffused, right, so that we're shining big.
But I think He would rather have us shine bigger with a more focused light.
You know what I'm talking about?
Am I making sense?
It's about this seeking Him has to do with He wants to be found of you.
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He wants you to find Him.
And it's up to you to make that choice really on a moment by moment basis.
Yes.
Because He wants us to be operating with Him, flowing with Him.
You know, 2 Chronicles chapter 6, verses 37 to 39, where Solomon is praying at the dedication
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of the temple.
And he's talking about one of these situations where the children of Israel might be in some
other land.
Now that had never happened yet in Solomon's time.
But he was going back to what the Lord had said three times that I just pointed out to
you from Leviticus and twice in Deuteronomy, three times where God warns the people, you're
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going to be sent to some other land.
You're going to be scattered to the nations if you don't do what I've told you to do.
So, Solomon is praying this, yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they've been
carried captive and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity saying,
we have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly.
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If they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity
to which they were carried captive and pray toward their land, which you gave to their
fathers, the city that you've chosen and the house that I've built for your name, then
hear from heaven, your dwelling place, their prayers and their pleas and maintain their
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cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
And he's praying all these different prayers about if people will pray toward this place,
hear from heaven.
He's asking God to hear from heaven.
And then just a couple of verses later, the glory falls and the people can't stand up.
They all fall to their knees.
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So Psalm 91 verse 15 says, he shall call upon me and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him and honor him.
God is looking for these wholehearted people or these people who have gone off the rails
and realize they've gone off the rails and they come back to him.
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There's a difference between conviction of sin and repentance and being shamed and self-loathing.
Because when you find yourself off the rails, when you find that you've, oh, I really made
a stupid mistake and I fell into some kind of sin, I've done something I shouldn't have
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done.
God wants us to recognize that we've made this mistake and repent.
Repent means to turn around and go back the way you should be going.
You return to him.
And that's repentance.
That's being restored to him.
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There's a hope of expectation and expectation of restoration.
It restores the relationship.
He forgives.
He's always looking to forgive us.
He's trying to draw us back to him when we've dropped the ball.
But the tempter, the one that operates in darkness, he'll tempt you into sin and then
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he'll smear you and slime you and make you feel so awful.
That is not conviction.
That is shame.
Very well put.
So our Father brings conviction, the Holy Spirit brings conviction.
And with conviction is a drawing back.
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Come back to me.
Come back to me.
Come back to me.
If you seek him with your heart, with your whole heart, you will find him.
Yeah.
Remember, there was this amazing worship leader that his music was just, it was so powerful,
the worship.
And he went big.
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He was on big platforms and went overseas and power of God just moved.
But on the road, his wife wasn't there and he fell into adultery.
And so he's out of ministry.
And one day he's sitting, he's just sitting in his bed and Jesus appears at the end of
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the bed and says, I'm waiting for you.
Are you ready to come back?
Are you ready to come back?
And he did.
Yeah.
Well, the Lord wants us to come back.
Yeah, God forgives.
Man doesn't.
That's true.
Makes it tough.
Yeah.
I mean, it's better not to fall.
That's the point.
It's better not to fall.
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Better not to fall because it, yeah.
And it's good to seek him with your whole heart to keep you from falling.
And the tempter will always put something in your path at the right time or the wrong
time which can cause you to mess up.
Yep.
And it reminds me of Rick Joyner's book, The Final Quest.
And there's a chapter where there, this is dreams and visions that he had on a continual
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basis and they're in this mountain fighting and all that.
And he almost slips, you know, and fall down and an angel that was there said to him, you
know, you have to be careful.
You can fall from any level at any time.
Yeah.
And we've seen greats fall.
Haven't we?
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Especially recently.
Yeah.
All these things have been uncovered.
And great was the fall of it.
Yeah.
And it's not just that person that falls, but it's everything that surrounds around
it pays the price for their mistake.
Right.
Right.
And it brings shame on the whole church.
Shame on the whole church.
And then your people talk, your relatives will talk, see, that's what you, didn't we
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warn you about going there?
So the Lord is looking for us to return with our whole heart and repent with our whole
heart.
Yes.
We can also repent on behalf of others like Daniel in Daniel chapter nine, he comes with
repentance because he sees, he sees that the 70 years have passed, the 70 years that Jeremiah
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prophesied in the scripture that we started with.
Daniel says, Oh God, please forgive.
And he goes down the whole list of all the things that he was godly.
He didn't fall into those things, but he, he spoke it as though he was, he became an
intercessor and begged for God to forgive.
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And God was listening.
You will seek me and you will find me when you search for me with all your hearts.
That's what happened with Daniel.
He did that.
So the thing that I also am impressed with is back in Isaiah 59, we were in Isaiah 59
earlier talking about it's your, it's your iniquities that have made a separation between
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you and your God.
Okay.
So going back to that in verse 16, he saw that there was no man and wondered that there
was no one to intercede.
Now Daniel was an intercessor, but he's looking at a bigger picture, I think in Isaiah 59
because Daniel hadn't happened yet.
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Right?
So in Isaiah 59, he's probably looking at something other than that.
So he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no one to intercede.
Then his own arm brought him salvation and his righteousness upheld him.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on his head.
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He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his
enemies to the coastlands.
Will he render repayment?
So they shall fear the name of Yehovah from the West and his glory from the rising of
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the sun, for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord Yehovah drives.
Verse 20, and a redeemer will come to Zion to those in Jacob who turned from their transgression,
there's the Lord Yehovah as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord, my spirit
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that is upon you and my words that I've put in your mouth shall not depart out of your
mouth or out of the mouth of your offspring or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,
says the Lord Yehovah from this time forth and forevermore.
So what's happening here is he's describing what happened in Isaiah 53 where the Messiah
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comes to pay the price.
He puts on the helmet of salvation, he puts on that Yeshua head and he goes out to be
the Yeshua and his arm, remember it said, then his own arm brought him Yeshua, his own
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arm brought him salvation.
So the arms of Jesus were stretched out on the cross and he became their redeemer.
So in Acts chapter 8, Philip is explaining to the Ethiopian eunuch about Jesus being
the Messiah who suffered for us in fulfillment of the description he was reading in the Isaiah
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scroll from chapter 53 because that's what he was reading.
And he's explaining to this Ethiopian eunuch that it's Jesus.
This is Jesus, this Isaiah 53 is talking about Jesus.
He came as our Messiah, he came as the son of God and as they're going along in the chariot,
here's some water.
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And the Ethiopian asks to be baptized.
And Philip says, if you believe with all your heart, you may.
Then he answered, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
So the believing that we do results in something.
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It results in an act.
In this case, it's the act of baptism.
Maybe you haven't been baptized yet.
Have you been baptized?
I'm talking to the listeners.
I know you have, Philip.
And the thing is this, I've been baptized many times.
I've found that I feel a leading of the Holy Spirit that if I have a significant moment
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in my life where my situation changes, like when I became the vice president of this ministry,
and then again, when I became the president of this ministry, I felt it was right for
me to be baptized.
It just new and fresh because it's a moment that is at the beginning of something brand
new.
Yeah.
Well, when the families came up to Jerusalem for the three different feasts, they would,
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the mikvahs were there and they'd be baptized.
Exactly.
So if they went to the feast, all three feasts, they'd get baptized three times that year.
Exactly.
So it's not just a once.
When I'm 12 years old, I got baptized.
But I've been baptized in Jordan.
The same thing with you whenever walking in a food dispensation, we would get baptized.
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And we baptized, I baptized many in Jordan too.
Yes.
So that's exciting to watch the power of God hit people when they're going under the water.
Yes.
And something happens when you're seeking the Lord with all of your heart and baptism
kind of shuts the door to the old and opens the door to the new.
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And that is a sign.
One of our staff just got back from Pakistan and it's Muslim.
And that's one of the biggest things when people go to get baptized publicly.
Yeah.
They know that could be their whole life has changed and some will probably get killed
over it.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
They from their own families.
Right.
Right.
So sometimes it's better to not do it publicly.
Yeah.
But there is something that happens.
There is a change that takes place when you're baptized.
And in the Jewish culture, one of the times that you're baptized is just prior to your
wedding.
So the bride and the groom are baptized right before their wedding.
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So it's like a sign of you are now the bride of Christ.
Yeah.
And you're the Anabaptists.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's the story of, you know, from the time of Constantine, it was accepted to sprinkle
in order to be baptized because there were so many people in his army that he didn't
have time to douse everybody underwater.
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And so they just sprinkled.
They just made an adjustment.
And is that where that came from?
Yeah.
And that was how sprinkling began.
And it came down through the church as well.
This is how we baptize.
We do it by sprinkling.
And a tradition overtook what the reality of what immersion really is.
And when people started reading the Bible for themselves, they discovered, oh, well,
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baptism is something that you do when you have become a believer.
And you know, when they first came with that understanding, I'm not sure exactly when that
was.
It was part of the Reformation.
The Anabaptists, Anabaptist means baptized again because you were baptized as a baby.
You don't need it anymore.
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And they said, no, this is what the scriptures are teaching that you should be baptized when
you are a believer.
And that's how that came to be.
It's like be dedicated when you're young, which is what Jesus was on the eighth day,
wasn't it?
Yeah, he was circumcised on the eighth day, and that's when he was named.
And then when the number of days of Mary's purification happened, they took him to the
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temple.
And that's when he met Anna and Simeon and they prophesied over him.
And so, you know, there are steps that you do.
The point is, the point is follow him with all of your heart.
Luke 11, 9 through 13, Jesus says, and I tell you, ask and it will be given to you.
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Seek and you will find.
Knock and it will be open to you.
For everyone who asks, and I think in the Greek, it's like asks and keeps on asking.
It's the idea of persistence.
Everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds.
And to the one who knocks, it will be opened.
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What father among you, if his son asked for a fish, will instead of a fish, give him a
serpent?
Or if he asks for an egg, we'll give him a scorpion.
If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will the heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
So if you are seeking the Holy Spirit, if you're seeking the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
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he wants to give it to you even more than you want it.
So just receive by faith.
Absolutely give yourself to him.
He wants to fill you to overflowing.
He wants to impart to you things that you don't even know to ask for.
Just keep pursuing him.
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Keep seeking, keep finding him with all your heart.
And then if you have a prodigal, maybe you have someone in your family or someone that
you love that needs to come back to God.
So here's a promise for you to pray from Jeremiah 24 seven.
Don't you love that 24 seven?
So you can keep praying it continually 24 seven.
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He says, I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord, that I am Yehovah and
they shall be my people and I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their
whole heart.
Just pray that over your loved one.
Pray them back in because the Lord is drawing.
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He's absolutely drawing them and he will bring them in.
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
Let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, as we come before you, Lord, we want to have a brand
new fresh anointing to seek you with our whole hearts, to seek you for our nation, to seek
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you for your purposes, to be accomplished in our loved ones and our families, in our
nation, our communities, Lord and for Israel, Lord, that your purposes will be accomplished
there.
And we ask you to ignite our hearts, pour out your spirit on us with your great mighty
outpouring that will cause us to seek you with all of our hearts, to lay aside every
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distraction to go fully for you, to live for you, to dedicate ourselves, to humble ourselves
before you and to be filled with your spirit new and fresh in a glorious way, because that's
what you want to do in these days to pour out your spirit on all flesh.
Lord, we ask you to equip us as we move forward so that we will be ready to do the things
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you give us to do as you pour out your spirit on all flesh.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
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