March 13, 2025 • 30 mins
Divine timing marks significant moments where heaven's reality breaks into earth's limitations. Throughout history, when Jesus declared "the hour has come," everything changed—and now another such moment has arrived.
This transformative revelation explores how God's kingdom operates in the eternal now while still interfacing with our time-space reality. When we enter covenant relationship with Jesus, we experience a divine exchange where our past, present, and future become His, while His life, nature, and kingdom citizenship become ours. This isn't about improving our old self but embracing an entirely new identity and way of functioning as kingdom citizens.
What makes this urgently relevant is the recognition that we've entered a season where encounters with Jesus are increasing in frequency and intensity. These divine meetings reveal dimensions of Christ beyond what many have previously experienced—transforming not just individuals but entire communities. Most striking is how these manifestations often bypass traditional religious structures, with God's presence filling warehouses as easily as cathedrals.
The spiritual hunger awakening in believers represents a divinely-implanted desire—not something to fear but to nurture. As walls of non-essential doctrines come down, a united people emerge, made ready through yielding to the very presence that purifies. Whether you're experiencing this divine outpouring or searching for it, this message will fan the flames of holy anticipation for what God is doing right now.
Join us as we explore what it means to participate in this unprecedented manifestation of God's glory—not tomorrow, not someday, but in this eternal now moment where the kingdom breaks through.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
because those of us who live on planet Earth
function within the construct oftime and space, the realm of
time and space.
Things happen to all of us andto the things that we are
(00:24):
involved in at certain times.
For example, if a person isbaking a cake, you put it in the
oven and it comes out at acertain time.
If you're playing sports,depending on the sport, there
are times in which you functionand then you take a break.
(00:47):
If you're a farmer, there's atime to plant and then there's a
time to harvest.
There's this aspect of time andwe're looking at the kingdom of
God in this particular podcastseries right now the rule and
(01:12):
the reign of God, the constructof his realm, how things happen
in the kingdom of heaven, in thekingdom of God, how things
happen within God's way of doingthings, his thought process,
what's on his heart, his kingdomhe's king and what's in his
(01:35):
heart is what is established inhis kingdom.
And an amazing thing takesplace for those of us who have
encountered Jesus and haveexperienced that radical
relationship covenant with him,where there's that divine
(01:59):
exchange what's ours becomes hisand what's his becomes his and
what's his becomes ours.
We're talking about life.
I give Jesus my everything, mypast, my present, my future.
(02:21):
I say it is yours.
My present, my future, I say itis yours.
And he does the same to me atthe covenant.
It's a divine exchange.
He gives me his life.
That's so powerful.
He gives me divine nature andas part of becoming one who is
(02:48):
possessing divine nature, I getborn into a kingdom, god's
kingdom.
I get born into it Like I wasborn into the realm of time and
space on earth through my mother.
So through Jesus, by work ofHoly Spirit, I am supernaturally
(03:15):
born again into the kingdom ofGod.
His kingdom, his way of doingthings is eternal.
His kingdom, his way of doingthings, is eternal.
And so, in it being eternal,the time in the kingdom right
now is just that.
It's right now.
It's always now.
(03:39):
It never was, it never will be,it's now.
That's eternal, powerful Again.
The reality that we are borninto that kingdom, which
involves us being born into theways of God, which are higher
than our ways, his thoughts, thethoughts of God are supreme.
They are higher than our ownthoughts on our own, than our
(04:03):
own thoughts on our own, soundsa bit redundant, but you get the
point.
Our own thoughts are not ashigh and lofty as God's thoughts
are, but because we're calledinto his divine nature and we
possess it, and we're givencitizenship into his kingdom, we
(04:24):
begin to learn his ways.
I'm just not trying to do goodthings.
It's not me, david, trying topolish up my old way of doing
things so that I'm a betterversion of my old self.
I'm a new creation In Christ.
(04:44):
I am new.
I'm a new creation in Christ.
I am new.
I have a new way of living, andsometimes that way of life
coincides with the culture thatI live in, but sometimes it
clashes, and my first loyalty isto the kingdom of God.
(05:06):
Sometimes that producesfriction.
That's really not the point ofthis particular podcast episode.
The point that we're getting towith this particular episode is
this this aspect of timing.
There's something going onconcerning timing, and Jesus
(05:32):
wants us to know how tounderstand the times, not just
by virtue of what we receive viathe media, but the times
concerning the movement of hiskingdom, the ways of his spirit,
his thoughts, his motivations,his timing, Because God works
(05:59):
within the realm of time andspace, even though he is eternal
.
Time and space.
Even though he is eternal, wehave the opportunity of learning
things within this carved outplace called time and space, of
which it will come to an end atsome point in time and we will
(06:21):
experience a new age.
However, we still have the timeand space continuum and we will
experience a new age.
However, we still have the timeand space continuum that we
work with, and so, in thatrespect, god does things here
within the scope of his timing.
(06:46):
It's not just at random thatthings are taking place.
There's a specific plan, godhas a plan and it's unfolding.
That's really good news to know.
We're called into somethingthat has a purpose to it,
there's some direction to it,there's a plan that's going on
and God is very committed tothat plan.
There's some direction to it.
There's a plan that's going onand God is very committed to
(07:11):
that plan.
It's not as though he getscaught off guard by what's going
on like we do.
He can see things from acompletely different perspective
and also his plan is whatliterally was the establishing
foundation for creation, becausewe are created from God and
(07:36):
before we were created there wasa plan, and from the dawn of
creation until now, that planhas been unfolding and there
have been different times,different things have taken
place and we've seen God revealhimself in different ways at
different times as his plan hasbeen unfolding.
(08:00):
And we are now in a time inwhich his plan, as it's
unfolding, is going to berevealing a greater dimension of
who he is, not just thingsabout him, but him Encounters,
(08:22):
encounters with Jesus,encounters with Jesus,
encounters that are somind-altering, life-altering.
They take a person and transformone from the inside out by
(08:43):
virtue of the dynamic of theencounter with him and his love
being so strong, so revealing ofwho he is and revealing who we
are and who he's called us to be, that it transformed us.
It will transform entirevillages, it will transform
(09:04):
entire nations.
It will eventually transformthe entire villages.
It will transform entirenations.
It will eventually transformthe entire earth.
It's been prophesied that theknowledge of the glory of the
Lord will cover the earth.
Just like the waters cover thesea, so the knowledge of his
(09:25):
glory will cover the earth.
The earth, the entire earth,will radiate the glory of God.
And in John, chapter 17, thereis a prayer that John records
(09:47):
that Jesus prayed.
It was on the night in which hewas betrayed, the night in
which he was being handed overto eventually be crucified as a
criminal on the cross on ourbehalf.
But prior to that betrayaltaking place, jesus prays a
(10:16):
prayer that if there's ever aprayer that's going to be
answered and God answers prayer.
Let me be very clear.
God answers your prayers, heanswers our prayers.
God answers your prayers, heanswers our prayers, he answers
my prayers.
I have lists of answered prayer, but if there's ever just one
(10:40):
prayer that would be answered,that would be John, chapter 17.
That would be the prayer andbecause we've been using the
scripture as our baselineconcerning our discussion
pertaining to the kingdom of Godand specifically the gospels
(11:01):
Matthew, mark, luke and John,the reason being, Jesus taught
concerning the kingdom of Godcontinually throughout what's
recorded in those Gospels, andsometimes he prefaces things by
(11:28):
saying the kingdom of God islikened unto, and then he gives
an illustration like to amustard seed.
Then, when it grows, it gets tobe a large tree and even the
birds of the air can find aplace in it.
Or it's like a seed thatsomeone, a farmer, it's like a
(11:51):
seed that a farmer plants and hegoes to sleep and he wakes up
and while he's even sleeping,the seed is growing.
He doesn't know how the kingdomof God is at work.
So Jesus illustrates things byprefacing them and then teaching
(12:12):
us parables, but then also, hejust does it.
He just his life is a lesson,his life is a teaching.
And in John, chapter 17, heteaches us something concerning
the kingdom.
By the few words in his openingexpression to the Father that
(12:38):
night, he goes Father, the hourhas come.
Father, the hour has come.
Glorify your son so that he maybring glory to you or give you
(13:06):
glory.
The hour.
This is the point.
The hour.
This is the point.
The hour has come.
Jesus made a very powerfulstatement, giving us the
understanding that something wasgoing to change radically in
the way things were done onplanet Earth, and he didn't say
(13:31):
it's going to be coming.
You can look forward to thishappening.
We can hope for it to be likethis.
He didn't say that.
He said the hour has come.
That's a very definitivestatement, meaning that the
(13:53):
kingdom of God has precisemoments in which things take
place, and this was one of thoseprecise moments.
There was going to be acovenant that was going to be
cut between God and mankind, andJesus was going to be the one
(14:15):
who is the sacrifice, the one inwhom the covenant is made whole
, complete.
Jesus brings about the fullnessof the covenant that's going to
(14:38):
change lives eternally.
From that point on, you and Iare part of that very thing.
You and I are part of that verything.
You and I are part of what tookplace when Jesus said the hour
has come.
If it hadn't come, we'd still besacrificing animals.
That wouldn't take away our sin.
(15:01):
Animals would just their bloodwould just cover our sin for a
year and then we'd have to do itover again.
But because of the blood ofJesus, we don't do that anymore.
His blood is sufficient to notjust cover us but to eradicate,
(15:28):
to take away, to remove from usour nature.
Death was in us.
Now life is in us through him.
He said the hour has come, it'sgoing to take place, and it did
(15:51):
and, as a result, you and I areborn again with his life in us
right now, as citizens of hiskingdom, learning how to
function in his ways, realizingthat there are things that we
have not been doing, that wereally have access to, and there
(16:16):
are things that we have beendoing that have prohibited us
from functioning complete, thatthey prohibited us from
functioning in a complete way ascitizens of the kingdom.
We're unlearning some things,and we're learning some things
(16:38):
at the same time, and so whatwe're learning is that our
identity is far greater, eventhe down payment of what is
promised to us before theresurrection of the dead.
(17:00):
Prior to that, we have his lifein us and his spirit is called
a down payment.
The down payment is Holy Spiritin us and it's called.
His spirit is called the downpayment.
The down payment is Holy Spiritin us and his down payment is
even greater than what we'vebeen utilizing and the
revelation.
And here's where, here's where Iwant to really look straight
(17:26):
into the heart of the matter,really Look Straight Into the
heart Of the matter and say whatJesus said Concerning the hour
had come.
It Did, did come.
(17:49):
There are certain things thatwe've been hearing for a long
time about God revealing himselfacross the nations in a
magnificent way that's neverbeen seen before.
And, granted, we've seen somevery significant things, and yet
(18:17):
it's important to state thatthat's not, that's not the
fullness of what God intends todemonstrate to us and through us
.
Jesus said the hour has come.
(18:42):
I'm saying an hour has come.
I'm saying an hour has come.
I can't say the end has come,but I can say an hour, an hour
has come.
We're not waiting for it, it'snot on its way, it's here and
(19:07):
now it's.
Things are changing.
Divine encounters are beginningto take place on a more and more
regular basis, where therevelation of Jesus is
absolutely going beyond whatpeople have ever known of him
(19:30):
before, and it's transformingnot only their individual lives
but entire communities.
And the funny thing about it isthis a building that has a
(20:01):
501c3 status attached to it inorder to function.
He doesn't need a non-profitorganization building, he
doesn't need a recognized churchlocation in order for him to
manifest his presence.
In fact, some of the placesthat are recognized in that
(20:24):
status are going to beoverlooked, because they are
rejecting the very person ofJesus wanting to make himself
real in his own house.
It's gone by his name and it'sjust an ease for him to keep
moving and fill a warehouse.
God can fill a net with fish ina moment.
(20:48):
He can fill a warehouse withpeople who are just overwhelmed
with his presence because hispresence is in that warehouse
just as easily as he can do itin a building with a steeple on
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it or a marquee in the front ora marquee in the front.
Some of the local churches aregoing to be experiencing that.
There's a local church near youthat is probably beginning to
experience that, and if it's notin your fellowship, go in and
(21:29):
find out what's going on andbring that revelation back with
you.
That's a dangerous thing to say.
Not really.
It's actually a very healthything to say.
The dangerous thing to say iswell, we don't want to be
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unbalanced in our approach.
I'm so tired of hearing that,because that's really just an
excuse for us to keep waiting orto actually ultimately do
nothing, or to be afraid of whatGod is doing because it doesn't
(22:13):
fit within the way that wewould envision it to be if we
were to do it, or the way it'sbeen done, before an hour has
come.
Oh man, part of me, the reasonfor me saying this is because
(22:35):
every time I hear spoken fromthe lips of another person, it
brings encouraging.
It brings encouragement to me.
I get encouraged, I findstrength in hearing that.
I say, oh god, tell me more.
Tell me it's real.
Tell me it's real, because thehunger in my heart is crying out
for that.
God, I want so much of you that, even though I tell you to stop
(22:59):
.
Please don't stop, because Iwant more.
I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry,I'm so thirsty, I'm longing, and
that longing is going to befulfilled because that hunger
and that thirst, that's actuallysomething that's been placed
within me.
(23:19):
It's a divine thing and I'm sothankful for it.
It's not a tormenting thing,it's a passion.
I have a passion to meet the onethat I love.
I want more of him, not less ofhim.
I want more of him and I wantmore of him, together,
(23:42):
collectively, with others, tosee that take place, to see us
be united and wanting more ofhim and then being satisfied
with him, to receive more of himand then to enjoy fellowship.
In that, I don't care what yourbackground is.
At that point in time, I reallydon't.
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I don't right now.
(24:25):
It's really not fair for us toprejudge the motivation of
people when we really don't havea full revelation of God going
on in our lives, a fullrevelation of God going on in
our lives.
It's important for us to knowwhat we believe, but, man, there
are so many things that arenon-essentials that we've made
(24:48):
essentials, and thosenon-essentials have been walls
that have divided us, and Godhimself is taking those walls
down, because he's going to havea united people.
He's going to have a bridewho's made herself ready no spot
, no wrinkle, no blemish, butpurified, made, ready, made,
(25:18):
complete, made herself, readyMade.
We making ourselves ready, andhis presence being that very
power that makes us ready.
An hour has come, an hour hascome, an hour has come, it's
here, it's here, it's here andagain, if it's not happening in
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the group that you're in, it'snot saying you can't, but if you
know where it is, man, man, thewater is really made available
to all and it's going tocontinue to sweep more and more.
(26:06):
You might be the one to helpbring about a real encounter in
the group of people that youfellowship with, a real
encounter in the group of peoplethat you fellowship with.
That type of thing happens allthe time.
Yes, it's great when it happensbecause the leadership helps
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usher it in, but that's notalways the case.
Sometimes it's a result ofsomeone who doesn't consider
himself to be much at all, whoencounters Jesus in a very great
way and just makes his presenceknown by virtue of expressing
(26:49):
what they can't hold backanymore because they're so full
of the Holy Spirit.
Oh man, the people full of theHoly Spirit, who have the joy of
the Lord, who are really beyondtheir own limitations,
functioning in a way that isactually organized and
(27:13):
productive, that accomplishesgreat things, without concern of
who gets credit.
As long as Jesus, oh Lord, weare in that time, we are in that
group of people, we arefunctioning in that alive, right
now, and it is growing, it'sgrowing, it's growing, it's
(27:34):
growing, and I encourage you tocontinue to nurture that hunger,
continue to nurture that thirst, and to know that what's inside
of you is something that Godhas placed there and he is going
to fulfill it.
An hour has come, jesus said,concerning what he was doing at
(27:57):
that particular time.
He said the hour has come andit came.
And, as a result, here we are.
Well, now he's unfoldinghimself, his presence in an
unprecedented way and encounterwith him, because we need it,
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and the hour has come.
Praise God, let's pray Father,thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you that you have timedthings out the way they are and
that we are alive right now toparticipate in the manifestation
(28:38):
of your glory.
Hallelujah, we honor you, wegive you praise.
We ask you, holy Spirit, to doit to us and through us in a
magnificent way.
Help us be a people that honorJesus and exalt him as head, and
that we are united together inthe bond of peace.
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In the name of Jesus, we prayand we say so be it.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, I love you.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
(29:21):
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
We would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, god bless you.
Adios amigos.
because those of us who live on planet Earth
function within the construct oftime and space, the realm of
time and space.
Things happen to all of us andto the things that we are
(00:24):
involved in at certain times.
For example, if a person isbaking a cake, you put it in the
oven and it comes out at acertain time.
If you're playing sports,depending on the sport, there
are times in which you functionand then you take a break.
(00:47):
If you're a farmer, there's atime to plant and then there's a
time to harvest.
There's this aspect of time andwe're looking at the kingdom of
God in this particular podcastseries right now the rule and
(01:12):
the reign of God, the constructof his realm, how things happen
in the kingdom of heaven, in thekingdom of God, how things
happen within God's way of doingthings, his thought process,
what's on his heart, his kingdomhe's king and what's in his
(01:35):
heart is what is established inhis kingdom.
And an amazing thing takesplace for those of us who have
encountered Jesus and haveexperienced that radical
relationship covenant with him,where there's that divine
(01:59):
exchange what's ours becomes hisand what's his becomes his and
what's his becomes ours.
We're talking about life.
I give Jesus my everything, mypast, my present, my future.
(02:21):
I say it is yours.
My present, my future, I say itis yours.
And he does the same to me atthe covenant.
It's a divine exchange.
He gives me his life.
That's so powerful.
He gives me divine nature andas part of becoming one who is
(02:48):
possessing divine nature, I getborn into a kingdom, god's
kingdom.
I get born into it Like I wasborn into the realm of time and
space on earth through my mother.
So through Jesus, by work ofHoly Spirit, I am supernaturally
(03:15):
born again into the kingdom ofGod.
His kingdom, his way of doingthings is eternal.
His kingdom, his way of doingthings, is eternal.
And so, in it being eternal,the time in the kingdom right
now is just that.
It's right now.
It's always now.
(03:39):
It never was, it never will be,it's now.
That's eternal, powerful Again.
The reality that we are borninto that kingdom, which
involves us being born into theways of God, which are higher
than our ways, his thoughts, thethoughts of God are supreme.
They are higher than our ownthoughts on our own, than our
(04:03):
own thoughts on our own, soundsa bit redundant, but you get the
point.
Our own thoughts are not ashigh and lofty as God's thoughts
are, but because we're calledinto his divine nature and we
possess it, and we're givencitizenship into his kingdom, we
(04:24):
begin to learn his ways.
I'm just not trying to do goodthings.
It's not me, david, trying topolish up my old way of doing
things so that I'm a betterversion of my old self.
I'm a new creation In Christ.
(04:44):
I am new.
I'm a new creation in Christ.
I am new.
I have a new way of living, andsometimes that way of life
coincides with the culture thatI live in, but sometimes it
clashes, and my first loyalty isto the kingdom of God.
(05:06):
Sometimes that producesfriction.
That's really not the point ofthis particular podcast episode.
The point that we're getting towith this particular episode is
this this aspect of timing.
There's something going onconcerning timing, and Jesus
(05:32):
wants us to know how tounderstand the times, not just
by virtue of what we receive viathe media, but the times
concerning the movement of hiskingdom, the ways of his spirit,
his thoughts, his motivations,his timing, Because God works
(05:59):
within the realm of time andspace, even though he is eternal
.
Time and space.
Even though he is eternal, wehave the opportunity of learning
things within this carved outplace called time and space, of
which it will come to an end atsome point in time and we will
(06:21):
experience a new age.
However, we still have the timeand space continuum and we will
experience a new age.
However, we still have the timeand space continuum that we
work with, and so, in thatrespect, god does things here
within the scope of his timing.
(06:46):
It's not just at random thatthings are taking place.
There's a specific plan, godhas a plan and it's unfolding.
That's really good news to know.
We're called into somethingthat has a purpose to it,
there's some direction to it,there's a plan that's going on
and God is very committed tothat plan.
There's some direction to it.
There's a plan that's going onand God is very committed to
(07:11):
that plan.
It's not as though he getscaught off guard by what's going
on like we do.
He can see things from acompletely different perspective
and also his plan is whatliterally was the establishing
foundation for creation, becausewe are created from God and
(07:36):
before we were created there wasa plan, and from the dawn of
creation until now, that planhas been unfolding and there
have been different times,different things have taken
place and we've seen God revealhimself in different ways at
different times as his plan hasbeen unfolding.
(08:00):
And we are now in a time inwhich his plan, as it's
unfolding, is going to berevealing a greater dimension of
who he is, not just thingsabout him, but him Encounters,
(08:22):
encounters with Jesus,encounters with Jesus,
encounters that are somind-altering, life-altering.
They take a person and transformone from the inside out by
(08:43):
virtue of the dynamic of theencounter with him and his love
being so strong, so revealing ofwho he is and revealing who we
are and who he's called us to be, that it transformed us.
It will transform entirevillages, it will transform
(09:04):
entire nations.
It will eventually transformthe entire villages.
It will transform entirenations.
It will eventually transformthe entire earth.
It's been prophesied that theknowledge of the glory of the
Lord will cover the earth.
Just like the waters cover thesea, so the knowledge of his
(09:25):
glory will cover the earth.
The earth, the entire earth,will radiate the glory of God.
And in John, chapter 17, thereis a prayer that John records
(09:47):
that Jesus prayed.
It was on the night in which hewas betrayed, the night in
which he was being handed overto eventually be crucified as a
criminal on the cross on ourbehalf.
But prior to that betrayaltaking place, jesus prays a
(10:16):
prayer that if there's ever aprayer that's going to be
answered and God answers prayer.
Let me be very clear.
God answers your prayers, heanswers our prayers.
God answers your prayers, heanswers our prayers, he answers
my prayers.
I have lists of answered prayer, but if there's ever just one
(10:40):
prayer that would be answered,that would be John, chapter 17.
That would be the prayer andbecause we've been using the
scripture as our baselineconcerning our discussion
pertaining to the kingdom of Godand specifically the gospels
(11:01):
Matthew, mark, luke and John,the reason being, Jesus taught
concerning the kingdom of Godcontinually throughout what's
recorded in those Gospels, andsometimes he prefaces things by
(11:28):
saying the kingdom of God islikened unto, and then he gives
an illustration like to amustard seed.
Then, when it grows, it gets tobe a large tree and even the
birds of the air can find aplace in it.
Or it's like a seed thatsomeone, a farmer, it's like a
(11:51):
seed that a farmer plants and hegoes to sleep and he wakes up
and while he's even sleeping,the seed is growing.
He doesn't know how the kingdomof God is at work.
So Jesus illustrates things byprefacing them and then teaching
(12:12):
us parables, but then also, hejust does it.
He just his life is a lesson,his life is a teaching.
And in John, chapter 17, heteaches us something concerning
the kingdom.
By the few words in his openingexpression to the Father that
(12:38):
night, he goes Father, the hourhas come.
Father, the hour has come.
Glorify your son so that he maybring glory to you or give you
(13:06):
glory.
The hour.
This is the point.
The hour.
This is the point.
The hour has come.
Jesus made a very powerfulstatement, giving us the
understanding that something wasgoing to change radically in
the way things were done onplanet Earth, and he didn't say
(13:31):
it's going to be coming.
You can look forward to thishappening.
We can hope for it to be likethis.
He didn't say that.
He said the hour has come.
That's a very definitivestatement, meaning that the
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kingdom of God has precisemoments in which things take
place, and this was one of thoseprecise moments.
There was going to be acovenant that was going to be
cut between God and mankind, andJesus was going to be the one
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who is the sacrifice, the one inwhom the covenant is made whole
, complete.
Jesus brings about the fullnessof the covenant that's going to
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change lives eternally.
From that point on, you and Iare part of that very thing.
You and I are part of that verything.
You and I are part of what tookplace when Jesus said the hour
has come.
If it hadn't come, we'd still besacrificing animals.
That wouldn't take away our sin.
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Animals would just their bloodwould just cover our sin for a
year and then we'd have to do itover again.
But because of the blood ofJesus, we don't do that anymore.
His blood is sufficient to notjust cover us but to eradicate,
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to take away, to remove from usour nature.
Death was in us.
Now life is in us through him.
He said the hour has come, it'sgoing to take place, and it did
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and, as a result, you and I areborn again with his life in us
right now, as citizens of hiskingdom, learning how to
function in his ways, realizingthat there are things that we
have not been doing, that wereally have access to, and there
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are things that we have beendoing that have prohibited us
from functioning complete, thatthey prohibited us from
functioning in a complete way ascitizens of the kingdom.
We're unlearning some things,and we're learning some things
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at the same time, and so whatwe're learning is that our
identity is far greater, eventhe down payment of what is
promised to us before theresurrection of the dead.
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Prior to that, we have his lifein us and his spirit is called
a down payment.
The down payment is Holy Spiritin us and it's called.
His spirit is called the downpayment.
The down payment is Holy Spiritin us and his down payment is
even greater than what we'vebeen utilizing and the
revelation.
And here's where, here's where Iwant to really look straight
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into the heart of the matter,really Look Straight Into the
heart Of the matter and say whatJesus said Concerning the hour
had come.
It Did, did come.
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There are certain things thatwe've been hearing for a long
time about God revealing himselfacross the nations in a
magnificent way that's neverbeen seen before.
And, granted, we've seen somevery significant things, and yet
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it's important to state thatthat's not, that's not the
fullness of what God intends todemonstrate to us and through us
.
Jesus said the hour has come.
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I'm saying an hour has come.
I'm saying an hour has come.
I can't say the end has come,but I can say an hour, an hour
has come.
We're not waiting for it, it'snot on its way, it's here and
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now it's.
Things are changing.
Divine encounters are beginningto take place on a more and more
regular basis, where therevelation of Jesus is
absolutely going beyond whatpeople have ever known of him
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before, and it's transformingnot only their individual lives
but entire communities.
And the funny thing about it isthis a building that has a
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501c3 status attached to it inorder to function.
He doesn't need a non-profitorganization building, he
doesn't need a recognized churchlocation in order for him to
manifest his presence.
In fact, some of the placesthat are recognized in that
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status are going to beoverlooked, because they are
rejecting the very person ofJesus wanting to make himself
real in his own house.
It's gone by his name and it'sjust an ease for him to keep
moving and fill a warehouse.
God can fill a net with fish ina moment.
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He can fill a warehouse withpeople who are just overwhelmed
with his presence because hispresence is in that warehouse
just as easily as he can do itin a building with a steeple on
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it or a marquee in the front ora marquee in the front.
Some of the local churches aregoing to be experiencing that.
There's a local church near youthat is probably beginning to
experience that, and if it's notin your fellowship, go in and
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find out what's going on andbring that revelation back with
you.
That's a dangerous thing to say.
Not really.
It's actually a very healthything to say.
The dangerous thing to say iswell, we don't want to be
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unbalanced in our approach.
I'm so tired of hearing that,because that's really just an
excuse for us to keep waiting orto actually ultimately do
nothing, or to be afraid of whatGod is doing because it doesn't
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fit within the way that wewould envision it to be if we
were to do it, or the way it'sbeen done, before an hour has
come.
Oh man, part of me, the reasonfor me saying this is because
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every time I hear spoken fromthe lips of another person, it
brings encouraging.
It brings encouragement to me.
I get encouraged, I findstrength in hearing that.
I say, oh god, tell me more.
Tell me it's real.
Tell me it's real, because thehunger in my heart is crying out
for that.
God, I want so much of you that, even though I tell you to stop
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.
Please don't stop, because Iwant more.
I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry,I'm so thirsty, I'm longing, and
that longing is going to befulfilled because that hunger
and that thirst, that's actuallysomething that's been placed
within me.
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It's a divine thing and I'm sothankful for it.
It's not a tormenting thing,it's a passion.
I have a passion to meet the onethat I love.
I want more of him, not less ofhim.
I want more of him and I wantmore of him, together,
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collectively, with others, tosee that take place, to see us
be united and wanting more ofhim and then being satisfied
with him, to receive more of himand then to enjoy fellowship.
In that, I don't care what yourbackground is.
At that point in time, I reallydon't.
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I don't right now.
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It's really not fair for us toprejudge the motivation of
people when we really don't havea full revelation of God going
on in our lives, a fullrevelation of God going on in
our lives.
It's important for us to knowwhat we believe, but, man, there
are so many things that arenon-essentials that we've made
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essentials, and thosenon-essentials have been walls
that have divided us, and Godhimself is taking those walls
down, because he's going to havea united people.
He's going to have a bridewho's made herself ready no spot
, no wrinkle, no blemish, butpurified, made, ready, made,
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complete, made herself, readyMade.
We making ourselves ready, andhis presence being that very
power that makes us ready.
An hour has come, an hour hascome, an hour has come, it's
here, it's here, it's here andagain, if it's not happening in
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the group that you're in, it'snot saying you can't, but if you
know where it is, man, man, thewater is really made available
to all and it's going tocontinue to sweep more and more.
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You might be the one to helpbring about a real encounter in
the group of people that youfellowship with, a real
encounter in the group of peoplethat you fellowship with.
That type of thing happens allthe time.
Yes, it's great when it happensbecause the leadership helps
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usher it in, but that's notalways the case.
Sometimes it's a result ofsomeone who doesn't consider
himself to be much at all, whoencounters Jesus in a very great
way and just makes his presenceknown by virtue of expressing
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what they can't hold backanymore because they're so full
of the Holy Spirit.
Oh man, the people full of theHoly Spirit, who have the joy of
the Lord, who are really beyondtheir own limitations,
functioning in a way that isactually organized and
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productive, that accomplishesgreat things, without concern of
who gets credit.
As long as Jesus, oh Lord, weare in that time, we are in that
group of people, we arefunctioning in that alive, right
now, and it is growing, it'sgrowing, it's growing, it's
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growing, and I encourage you tocontinue to nurture that hunger,
continue to nurture that thirst, and to know that what's inside
of you is something that Godhas placed there and he is going
to fulfill it.
An hour has come, jesus said,concerning what he was doing at
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that particular time.
He said the hour has come andit came.
And, as a result, here we are.
Well, now he's unfoldinghimself, his presence in an
unprecedented way and encounterwith him, because we need it,
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and the hour has come.
Praise God, let's pray Father,thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you that you have timedthings out the way they are and
that we are alive right now toparticipate in the manifestation
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of your glory.
Hallelujah, we honor you, wegive you praise.
We ask you, holy Spirit, to doit to us and through us in a
magnificent way.
Help us be a people that honorJesus and exalt him as head, and
that we are united together inthe bond of peace.
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In the name of Jesus, we prayand we say so be it.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, I love you.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
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free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
We would love to hear from you.
In the meantime, god bless you.
Adios amigos.
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