Hearing God with Your Spiritual Eyes

00:00 it's good to see you again so this is
00:02 hearing God's voice again at Jubilee
00:04 this is session number five and it's
00:07 hearing God with your spiritual eyes and
00:09 I'm Michael and this is normal attend
00:11 ski and our ministries kingdom partners
00:13 and we are really happy to be here
00:16 partnering with you to learn how to hear
00:18 God's voice better just use your use
00:21 your hand out notes okay follow along
00:23 with those don't just stare at us we
00:25 want you to look at your notes - okay
00:27 but they're pretty they're pretty
00:29 complete so you want to do a lot of
00:30 writing but you can write to edit them
00:33 now I want to quickly review member of
00:37 the four keys stillness vision
00:42 spontaneity and writing so stillness is
00:45 quieting your mind and we talked about
00:47 that okay vision is focusing on Jesus on
00:52 put of things aside all those tractions
00:54 spontaneous paying attention to those
00:58 spontaneous thoughts words images that
01:01 light in your mind and then journaling
01:03 is writing it out now let's practice
01:07 remember that do you remember the hand
01:10 motions and the words we'll do it
01:12 together stillness vision spontaneity
01:18 and writing yes I do it backwards
01:21 it's Hebrew again still this vision
01:28 spontaneity and writing all right now I
01:32 hope everybody's been practicing I hope
01:34 you've had opportunities during the week
01:37 to take some time out to journal and
01:39 hear from God and let him speak speak
01:42 into your heart and we're gonna talk a
01:45 little bit tonight first I want to start
01:46 out as you can see here note was some
01:48 talking a little bit about things that
01:50 can actually hinder your ability to hear
01:53 from God because there are some things
01:55 that get in the way
01:55 like if you're living in unconfessed sin
01:58 that separates us from God makes it hard
02:01 to hear his voice if you have
02:03 unforgiveness and you've been hanging on
02:05 to that unforgiveness that's going to
02:08 hinder your ability to hear from God so
02:10 you want to deal with those two things
02:13 confess your sin do it quickly do it all
02:15 the time get rid of any unconfessed sin
02:18 if you're angry with someone or you're
02:21 angry at God
02:23 both of these can get in the way of you
02:25 being able to hear from him I think I
02:28 mentioned last time how when I'm angry
02:30 with someone or I'm really upset with
02:32 someone I really don't trust what I get
02:35 from in journaling about that person
02:37 because I know it's filtered through my
02:39 anger now because Healing Room is also
02:42 some interesting things that have to do
02:43 with people in your life and also the
02:46 people you minister to one is trauma if
02:49 you've had trauma in your life I mean
02:51 you can think of a whole host of those
02:53 things you want to deal with that get
02:55 prayer for it if you've been wounded
02:58 sinned against you don't want to do you
03:01 don't want to hold on to that you want
03:03 to forgive of course and you want to get
03:05 ministry for that both of those can get
03:08 in the way now another thing getting the
03:10 way is simply unbelief if you don't
03:12 believe God's can speak to you and you
03:14 can hear it's hard to hear so unbelief
03:17 gets in the way but then the other side
03:20 of that is believing in lies believing
03:24 in lies about yourself or lies about God
03:27 and for example there was a lie that I
03:31 believed for a while until the guard
03:33 helped me and that was that only
03:36 prophets to get a prophetic word from
03:40 God a prophetic word for someone and God
03:44 told me no that's not true that's a lie
03:46 everybody can get prophetic words and
03:48 I've learned to do that now we talked a
03:52 little bit about this last week you
03:54 don't want to force it the Bible says
03:58 what does it say it's it says be still
04:02 and know that I am God it doesn't say
04:05 strive and know that I'm God so you
04:09 don't want to strive to be hearing from
04:11 him you just want to let it bubble up be
04:13 very gentle it's often happened and you
04:16 don't want to work it up you don't want
04:17 to try to create it yourself just let it
04:20 kind of float to the top but if you're
04:22 striving to hear that gets in the way so
04:26 that's
04:27 see too hard and the last one well one I
04:30 want to talk about is praying from an
04:32 idol that's a term that doctor that Mark
04:34 Berkley uses about praying through an
04:36 idol but the whole idea is when you're
04:38 so emotionally involved in the topic or
04:41 where the issue is you know highly
04:44 emotional to you or it's so big that the
04:48 issue becomes bigger than God and for
04:53 example here in the healing room I've
04:55 had this experience when I've been
04:57 praying for people in the sick
04:58 a person will come in and they'll start
05:02 listing this cavalcade of issues in
05:05 their life between physical healing and
05:08 several different issues and physical
05:10 healing their families breaking up they
05:12 just lost their job and they're worried
05:14 about the other relatives you know and
05:16 it's so big where do you even start well
05:20 when you start thinking about it being
05:21 so big that makes it hard for you to
05:23 hear from God because God knows all that
05:25 and so you want to realize that he's in
05:28 control and if you just dial it down and
05:31 turn to him it'll show you what of that
05:34 whole host of need he'll show you where
05:37 to start and he'll show you what to
05:40 cover on so you don't want to pray of a
05:43 idol in your heart with something that's
05:44 so big they do you think it's bigger
05:47 than Jesus and the last one of course is
05:49 distractions and we've talked about that
05:51 so now what we want to do is we want to
05:55 move on to another key which is vision
05:57 enormous going to talk about that okay I
06:02 want y'all to close your eyes I don't
06:06 want to see any open eyeballs okay now I
06:10 want you to picture a sandy beach with
06:13 the waves lapping at the shore and the
06:15 Sun setting on the horizon okay now keep
06:19 your eyes closed
06:20 raise your hand if you were able to
06:22 picture that in your mind okay
06:27 everybody all right wonderful okay so
06:30 you can all see in the spirit every
06:32 single one of you all right because
06:34 there actually is a small percentage of
06:36 the population have a have a condition
06:40 called it's one like what I've read is
06:42 one two three percent of the population
06:44 has a condition called a Fantasia and if
06:47 na Fantasia or a fantasy or something
06:50 like that which means they absolutely
06:51 can't do that they can't picture
06:53 anything in their mind would that be sad
06:55 anyway can you picture your bedroom can
06:59 you picture a nice shiny Apple sitting
07:01 on a plate in your kitchen can you
07:03 picture your car okay good know that you
07:07 are not part of the one two three
07:08 percent that's good so tonight we're
07:11 going to be talking about the second key
07:13 which is vision now the Bible mentions
07:16 the eyes of our heart Paul wrote to the
07:19 Ephesians that church and Ephesus and in
07:22 Ephesians 1:18 he said I pray that the
07:25 eyes of your heart may be enlightened in
07:27 order that you may know the hope to
07:29 which he has called you and I mean
07:32 literally our our heart does not have
07:34 eyes right but what he's talking to is
07:36 revelation he's speaking about
07:38 revelation and one of the ways that we
07:40 can receive revelation from God is by
07:42 learning to see in the spirit and in
07:45 acts 2:17 on the day of Pentecost you're
07:49 probably quite familiar with this or
07:51 Peter gets up and addresses the crowd
07:52 and he quotes from the Prophet Joel and
07:56 he says it shall come to pass in the
07:58 last days says God that I will pour out
08:00 my spirit on all flesh your sons and
08:04 your daughters shall prophesy your young
08:06 men shall see visions your old men shall
08:08 dream dreams and he's really speaking to
08:11 us I believe were in the last the last
08:13 days and so he's speaking to every age
08:17 group we can all learn to do this we can
08:19 all learn to see we can all learn to
08:21 dream we can all learn to prophesy it
08:24 just takes training just takes practice
08:26 now it must be pretty important to God
08:29 because there are hundreds of references
08:32 in the Bible to dreams and visions and
08:35 being in the spirit so it's obviously
08:38 something that God wants us to know
08:40 about and to be able to do and if you're
08:43 anything like us nobody ever taught us
08:45 until we stumbled onto mark burglar we
08:48 just thought you were either born with
08:49 it or you weren't and we actually know a
08:52 couple of people that are what you call
08:53 seers who have that ability to see this
08:56 into the supernatural realm that can see
08:58 angels and demons and all kinds of wild
09:01 stuff that's going on and neither one of
09:03 us is like that but we have learned how
09:06 to see and so we can all learn how to do
09:08 it and you know that that's saying a
09:10 picture is worth a thousand words it's
09:13 really true I can communicate so much in
09:15 one little picture that you don't you
09:18 don't really need anything to amplify it
09:21 because you just get it you just get it
09:23 and these pictures will usually appear
09:25 and for me at least very briefly on what
09:28 we call the screen of your mind you know
09:31 and it can be with your eyes open it can
09:33 be with your eyes closed for me it's
09:34 usually it can be either one if I'm
09:36 praying I'll usually be praying with my
09:38 eyes closed but if it's something that
09:40 God just wants to show me like in an
09:41 instant it can be with my eyes open and
09:43 you just see it know what I'm talking
09:46 about I'm sure you've all experienced
09:47 just getting little little pictures in
09:49 your mind and and so it could be
09:52 anything it could be like a very hazy
09:54 image it could be very clear it could be
09:58 kind of one lingers in your mind and is
10:01 like or is like a video or it could be
10:03 something that is very very vivid you
10:08 know it just depends there's all kinds
10:10 of different ways that people can see
10:11 and in the in the beginning the images
10:15 will be fairly fleeting I think at least
10:17 my own experience and Mike's experience
10:19 has been that way that they're very
10:20 quick they just kind of all kind of real
10:22 hazy and then they're there and you kind
10:25 of perceive what they are and then they
10:26 disappear and with practice it can come
10:30 more readily and more clearly do you
10:32 have that book like the pragmatic book
10:34 and you get that out okay I want to
10:37 recommend I recommend a book to you that
10:39 was really helpful to us I've read a
10:42 quite a few books about seeing in the
10:44 spirit and to be honest with you none of
10:46 them helped me because they were
10:48 by people who are true seers that have
10:51 all these wild visual experiences and
10:54 they can't really explain very well how
10:58 to do that because you're either born
11:00 with it or you're not but bottom line is
11:02 again that kind of level of visual
11:04 acuity and the Spirit is fairly rare
11:07 it's a powerful gift it's a wonderful
11:09 gift but if you don't have it you can't
11:12 you're not gonna just wake up one night
11:13 overnight and maybe find it that you
11:15 have it so I'm gonna recommend the book
11:17 to you that it was really helpful to us
11:19 it's called singing in the spirit made
11:20 simple by praying medic and you can buy
11:23 this on Amazon and what I really like
11:25 about this book is he went from being an
11:28 atheist to being becoming a born-again
11:31 believer who did not see in the spirit
11:34 at all and then he just decided he
11:36 wanted to learn so he asked the Holy
11:38 Spirit just to teach him and he just
11:41 gradually learned how to receive visual
11:44 input from the Lord and what's good
11:47 about this book is not only is this he
11:48 really make it simple because it is
11:50 seeing in the spirit made simple it
11:52 makes it really simple and easy to do
11:54 and at the end of each chapter is a
11:56 little exercise that you can practice
11:57 and so I have been practicing some of
12:00 these activities and it's really helped
12:02 it really does so ok moving on oh Jesus
12:07 okay see point-eight you're gonna cross
12:09 off point H because I don't think I
12:11 believe that
12:11 that pictures are the language of the
12:13 heart but ideas are the language of the
12:15 mind now I think we can get plenty of
12:17 ideas from God in our minds too so just
12:19 write that out okay Roman numeral to
12:23 Jesus is our example remember how he
12:25 said in John 5:19 that he only did what
12:29 he saw the father doing
12:31 he had such clear spiritual vision that
12:35 if he was in a crowd of people that were
12:38 all pushing and pressing into him he
12:42 could see the specific people that God
12:44 wanted him to minister to he would only
12:47 do and he saw the father doing and
12:49 that's why he was so incredibly
12:50 successful he could see what God was
12:54 doing and then carry it out so there's
12:56 various kinds of visions there could be
12:59 a spontaneous picture that just lights
13:00 upon your mind
13:02 and had a very good example of that this
13:04 week okay we were here last Tuesday
13:06 night went home Wednesday morning I go
13:10 out to the garage to get on the car and
13:12 go and run an errand and I look at my
13:14 purse and my keys are totally missing I
13:17 dump everything out they're gone I run
13:20 through the house frantically because I
13:22 know how expensive it is to replace a
13:24 whole set of keys the electronic keys
13:26 are really pricey and I desperately need
13:28 my keys anyway just a function and so
13:31 I'm looking everywhere I can possibly
13:33 look and I and I'm coming up coming up
13:36 empty and so I in desperation I'm
13:39 thinking well maybe they pull out of my
13:41 purse last Tuesday night at Jubilee that
13:44 was really a long shot but I called sue
13:46 and I told her and I'm getting more and
13:48 more frantic now you need to know that
13:50 and she says well there's a lost and
13:53 found and I'll call and see if they're
13:55 there and if not Canara I will drive
13:57 over and actually look for them which I
13:59 thought was incredibly nice but she says
14:00 but let me pray for you so she just
14:03 prayed this really nice little prayer I
14:04 don't remember all the details but it
14:05 was something about you know God calling
14:08 calling back
14:09 to me what was what was rightfully mine
14:11 and so that actually calmed me down a
14:14 lot and then within a minute or less I
14:17 get this quick mental picture I saw my
14:20 keys and I knew where they were I had
14:22 left them stupidly enough in the outside
14:25 pantry where I have extra groceries
14:28 because I come out of the car the night
14:30 before and/or the day that whatever it
14:32 was and I had a bunch of stuff I was
14:34 carrying and I wanted to get something
14:35 out of the pantry and I just laid them
14:37 down there and then ended up closing the
14:38 door totally forgot about it and so I
14:41 just thought in a flash I saw them and I
14:43 knew where they were so it was you know
14:46 it was but I think the important thing
14:48 is that I was calm I was able to receive
14:51 that input and obviously Sue's prayer
14:53 made all the difference so that would be
14:55 an example of how a picture can just
14:57 light up on your mind and communicate a
14:59 wealth of information sometimes you'll
15:01 get a spontaneous picture in your mind
15:03 while you're praying and you can ask God
15:06 what he wants you to see or know about
15:09 it and that way you'll be praying on
15:11 target we're going to give you some
15:12 examples about that later
15:15 sometimes God will give people a vision
15:17 outside of themselves this has never
15:19 happened to me but I do know people it
15:21 has happened to where God shows you what
15:23 is going on from his perspective some
15:26 biblical examples of that you know the
15:28 story it's in second Kings 6:17 where
15:32 Elijah and his Elijah and his servant
15:35 are in big trouble because the Syrians
15:38 have surrounded their town and they're
15:41 mortal enemies and the the servant is
15:44 totally freaking out and so Elijah who's
15:47 very calm he just prays that God would
15:49 open the servants eyes and he does and
15:52 he sees in the spirit he sees that
15:53 there's angels warrior angels and fiery
15:57 chariots around them rather than the
16:00 seeing the enemy and so he is at peace
16:04 because of what God has revealed to him
16:06 and you can see there's many many
16:07 prophetic visions Daniel Ezekiel John
16:10 and revelation they're very biblically
16:12 speaking they're fairly commonplace okay
16:14 some people have a vision while in a
16:16 trance in acts 10 verses 10 to 23 you
16:20 probably know the story where Peters up
16:22 on the rooftop waiting for lunch and he
16:25 has this vision in a trance where his
16:27 like he's just not there he sees
16:30 something but very real in front of him
16:32 and it's a sheep being lowered down with
16:35 all these different animals in it and
16:36 the voice that says arise Peter go and
16:40 he kill and eat and the God is showing
16:42 him that he's actually including the
16:44 Gentiles in in the salvation plan you
16:47 can also have a visionary encounter
16:49 through a dream there's lots of examples
16:51 of that Joseph's dreams and Genesis
16:53 Mary's husband Joseph had several dreams
16:56 that were very significant where an
16:58 angel would actually give him
16:59 instruction about what he was to do and
17:02 when take his family and that sort of
17:03 thing Paul had the dream of the
17:06 Macedonian man beckoning him over to him
17:08 in Acts chapter 16 and I don't know if
17:12 any of you have been hearing stories of
17:13 what's been going on in some of the
17:15 Muslim countries where people
17:17 particularly in Iran which is I guess
17:19 the fastest growing church anywhere
17:22 underground church people are getting
17:24 dreams of
17:25 Jesus coming to them and just revealing
17:27 himself to them it's pretty amazing so
17:30 your visions and and they don't have to
17:32 be like full color you know spectacular
17:35 things like I was saying my picture of
17:37 the keys was just like this very kind of
17:39 little hazy quickie sort of thing it can
17:42 be that way or it can be much more
17:43 detailed they can be full-color or they
17:45 can be black and white that can be clear
17:47 they can be hazy but they're all equally
17:50 valid that's the important thing okay so
17:52 don't get down on yourself if you're not
17:55 getting 3d Technicolor visions and and
17:57 and videos because you know I think that
18:00 may come with time okay here's an idea
18:02 for you to try this is letter B under
18:05 Roman numeral two let's say if you're
18:08 really concerned or worried about a
18:11 particular situation you can ask the
18:14 Lord to show you the situation from his
18:16 perspective ask him to show you how he
18:19 is reacting to it and you might be just
18:22 going nuts about it but I guarantee you
18:24 he's not stressed at all
18:26 he's probably just sitting back with a
18:28 big smile on his face cuz he knows
18:30 exactly how he's going to take care of
18:32 this situation and he might even show
18:33 you what it is when praying for another
18:36 person visualize that person and then
18:39 see Jesus there on the screen of your
18:41 mind
18:42 and watch and see what he is doing give
18:45 you an example from my own life there is
18:48 someone that is very dear to me who's
18:50 under a lot of I would say a lot of
18:52 demonic oppression not in a good place
18:54 and I was praying for him one day and I
18:56 saw him completely wrapped up in like a
18:59 mummy in grave clothes and then I saw
19:02 Jesus go up to him in in my mind's eye
19:05 and just begin to unwrap the wrappings
19:08 that were around his head and so I saw
19:11 that God was giving him his desire was
19:13 for him to have understanding and to him
19:16 to have freedom and so that's how I
19:18 prayed the way got the Lord was showing
19:20 me what he was doing and what's really
19:23 fun to do is when you imagine the
19:25 scripture when you're reading the
19:26 scriptures put yourself in the picture
19:29 and experience it it's really kind of
19:32 cool to do that maybe some of you do
19:34 that already I do that when I read a
19:37 book visualize what's going
19:39 if there's a lot of active action and
19:41 activity do that with a Bible to put
19:43 yourself in the story we're going to do
19:45 that in a little while in one of our
19:47 exercises and so what you want to do is
19:50 use the eyes of your heart
19:51 also during praise and worship if this
19:54 can this is a really fun
19:56 let the lyrics just sort of take you
19:58 away into whatever it is they're talking
20:00 about in the whatever the lyrics are are
20:03 expressing allow the Holy Spirit to let
20:06 you see what you're singing about or
20:08 maybe you could even see what's going on
20:11 in the room you might see I know people
20:13 that see ministering spirits worship
20:16 angels all that kind of thing going on
20:18 dancing happening musical instruments
20:21 all in the spirit not not in the natural
20:23 or you could even go into the throne
20:25 room and join with the with the heavenly
20:28 hosts there and be worshiping the Lord
20:31 okay Michael's going to read you you
20:33 have a excerpt well sign an excerpt is a
20:37 complete article that we included in
20:41 your notes here so Michaels going to
20:43 read part of that to you I could yell
20:50 this is an article by General Jennifer
20:52 Eva's she is a well-recognized teacher
20:56 and prophet her ministry actually is up
20:58 in Turlock California and some of some
21:02 of her words are just so spot-on it's
21:04 been it's really encouraging to read
21:06 them but what we're going to do you have
21:10 this in your handout and we're I don't
21:14 have time to read the whole thing I want
21:16 you you can do that the first part but
21:18 down go down to where it says your
21:20 spiritual gifts package because this is
21:26 a very practical part of this little
21:28 article that is pertain it pertains to
21:31 what we're talking about tonight so as
21:33 I'm reading it I want you to follow
21:35 along and pay attention and then we'll
21:38 take this a little further so it begins
21:42 visions and seeing into the spirit realm
21:45 are part of your spiritual gift package
21:47 in the Holy Spirit many people have
21:50 visions but don't know they are having
21:52 them
21:52 let's say for example you're driving
21:55 down the road and you see a homeless
21:56 person on the street for a moment you
21:59 feel sorry for that person but decide to
22:02 not help them for a lot of reasons in
22:05 your mind's eye you suddenly see
22:08 yourself picking up a sandwich in a
22:09 nearby sandwich shop and bringing it to
22:11 them the scene plays so quickly in your
22:15 imagination that you barely notice it
22:18 and then your rational side persuades
22:21 you to dismiss it I can relate to that
22:24 I've had this happen what happened to
22:27 you however is you just had an internal
22:30 vision from the Lord you were being
22:33 directed by the Holy Spirit to help feed
22:35 this man you fail to recognize it
22:38 because it happened so quickly and you
22:41 dismissed it as just being your
22:44 imagination the place in your mind where
22:47 the the the place in your mind where you
22:50 imagine things is also the place in your
22:53 mind that the Lord draws his mixtures on
22:56 to instruct you I've learned to pay
22:59 attention to those seemingly
23:00 insignificant internal movies and act on
23:04 them God is very much speaking to you
23:07 through it did you know that Jesus
23:10 received his directives this way this is
23:12 what is behind his statement to the
23:14 disciples in John 5:19 where he said he
23:17 only does what he sees the father doing
23:20 basically Jesus was receiving visions
23:24 from the Lord and it was how he planned
23:26 his day and his ministry activities
23:30 access visions by faith meditate on his
23:33 word like all the gifts of the Spirit
23:37 visions can be accessed by faith if you
23:41 don't have visions or struggle to see
23:43 into the spiritual realm you can
23:45 kick-start visions by going through the
23:48 doorway of the word let me explain how
23:51 one day I was reading Psalm 8 meditating
23:54 very deeply into it and my spiritual
23:57 eyes switched on I could see Jesus
24:00 standing right there in front of me I
24:02 knew that transition happened simply
24:05 because I was meditating on his word
24:06 over the years I've helped people step
24:10 in divisions through the same process in
24:13 the activation you find a scene from the
24:17 Bible and fix every detail of the scene
24:19 into your imagination I suggest to use
24:23 throne room scenes such as those found
24:25 in Revelation 4 and 5 here's a key once
24:30 you have fixed every detail of that
24:32 scene into your mind you ask the Holy
24:34 Spirit to breathe on it and then you
24:37 surrender your imagination to him in
24:40 your imagination you can walk right up
24:43 to Jesus on the throne and ask him your
24:47 questions this typically results in
24:50 having those short internal visions like
24:52 I described previously but some will
24:55 have even have external ones the way you
24:58 test that vision is by the way he
25:00 answers you if it's real he'll answer
25:03 you in ways you couldn't make up
25:06 yourself it does take some mental
25:08 discipline but this process works well
25:11 with peaceful people who are too logical
25:13 to have visions or with people who need
25:18 to feel very grounded before they
25:20 surrender their mind like that I believe
25:23 the Lord wants to train all of us to see
25:27 in the spiritual realm there are some
25:30 things that can't be explained outside
25:33 of a vision think about it think about
25:36 in natural terms how can I describe to a
25:39 blind person what the color red is it's
25:43 impossible you have to be able to see
25:46 the color in order to understand the
25:48 color visions are the same way they help
25:52 us to more fully understand the word of
25:55 the Lord because we can see what he's
25:58 saying
26:02 so our imagination is not bad it's good
26:06 it can be sanctified imagination where
26:09 God is breathing on your imagination and
26:12 you get pictures in your mind and we're
26:14 gonna do that right now
26:16 and here's how we're gonna do it we're
26:18 gonna start out we reading Psalm 23 and
26:21 I hope everybody has a Bible if you have
26:24 a phone it's in their notes too okay
26:28 what you what we're gonna have you do
26:30 what we want you to do is use the eyes
26:34 of your heart to picture yourself in the
26:39 scene to picture the scene to see what
26:42 and then as you read and you're
26:44 picturing the scene to see what though
26:48 happens from the Lord and what he'll
26:50 give you from this so you want to see
26:53 what happens as you read this familiar
26:55 Psalm as you're picturing the scene of
26:58 the song so let's take a couple minutes
27:00 now and you guys can do that how many of
27:05 you experience Psalm 23 which I'm sure
27:08 you've read many times in the past in a
27:10 new way
27:14 that's really good raise them high so
27:16 everybody can see ask you okay did you
27:21 see anything did you see yourself did
27:23 you picture anything how many saw
27:26 something that's wonderful
27:30 you're getting it and when you saw
27:33 yourself as a sheep that's how I do it
27:38 anyway okay now for the next one I'm
27:41 gonna read to you a familiar Bible
27:42 passage and I want you to enter in so
27:45 close your eyes and just imagine that
27:49 you are one of Jesus's disciples and
27:52 it's Passover time now on the first day
27:56 and you're in Jerusalem okay it's Bible
27:58 times you're wearing sandals and
28:00 whatever it is they were you know Bible
28:03 clothes and it is early springtime and
28:07 you're in Jerusalem you've gone there
28:10 for the pilgrimage of the pilgrimage
28:12 festival of Pesach and now on the first
28:15 day of the feast of unleavened bread the
28:17 disciples came to Jesus saying to him
28:19 where do you want us to prepare for you
28:22 to eat the Passover so you're one of the
28:24 disciples he's talking to you now and he
28:27 said go into the city to his
28:29 certain man and say to him the teacher
28:31 says my time is at hand I will keep the
28:35 Passover at your house with my disciples
28:37 so the disciples did as Jesus had
28:39 directed them and they prepared the
28:41 Passover when evening had come he sat
28:44 down with the twelve now as they were
28:46 eating he said assuredly I say to you
28:49 one of you will betray me and they were
28:52 exceedingly sorrowful and each of them
28:54 began to say to him Lord is it I
28:56 he answered and said he who dipped his
29:00 hand with me in the dish will betray me
29:02 the son of man indeed goes just as it is
29:05 written of him but woe to that man by
29:08 whom the Son of Man is betrayed it would
29:11 have been good for that man if he had
29:13 not been born then Judas who was
29:16 betraying him answered and said rabbi is
29:18 it I he said to him you have said it and
29:21 as they were eating Jesus took bread
29:24 blessed and broke it and gave it to the
29:27 disciples and said take eat this is my
29:31 body then he took the cup and gave
29:34 thanks and gave it to them saying drink
29:36 from it all of you
29:38 for this is my blood of the new covenant
29:41 which is shed for many for the remission
29:43 of sins but I say to you I will not
29:47 drink of this fruit of the vine from now
29:49 on until that day when I drink it new
29:52 with you in my father's Kingdom and when
29:55 they had sung a hymn they went out to
29:57 the Mount of Olives how many of you were
30:04 able to put yourself in the scene and
30:07 see it happening on the screen of your
30:10 mind did you experience communion did
30:14 you experience that Passover meal with
30:16 Jesus and the disciples could you see it
30:20 raise your hand if you could see it
30:22 happen okay so this is a really
30:26 interesting way to to study the word to
30:29 get yourself into it you know we are we
30:32 grew up in a very Greek mindset it's
30:35 very logical it's very rational but the
30:37 Bible is written from a Hebraic mindset
30:40 where it's much more visual and
30:42 experiential and it's not more fun that
30:45 way actually in my humble opinion okay
30:47 we're gonna play for you ken are you
30:50 there
30:51 we're gonna pray for you play for you if
30:54 it works a familiar song and we want you
30:58 to just visualize as you listen to it
31:04 [Music]
31:15 hopefully louder
31:18 [Music]
31:32 two years
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33:26 [Applause]
33:27 [Music]
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36:32 [Music]
36:44 okay how many of you had an experience a
36:48 visual experience were you in the throne
36:52 room would anybody like to share a
36:55 little bit briefly what you said what
36:57 you saw what happened while you were
37:00 listening to that song anybody come on
37:06 out yes you brought I volunteer I just
37:12 saw the the all the living creatures but
37:15 especially when the the choir started
37:18 singing that I saw all the people in the
37:21 white robes really us singing anybody
37:28 else therapy gaining so I start feeling
37:36 like a swing I feel like having a swing
37:39 worship the whole heaven just worshiping
37:42 the Lord liking one motion you know was
37:46 at least seen a singer seeing that the
37:48 choir the whole handle was seeing I just
37:52 kept going on and on and on and then I
37:56 feel that light just came right pouring
37:59 down onto us as we were worshipping God
38:02 and it was part of it so worship will
38:07 never be the same right
38:09 once you enter in visually and
38:11 experience it more now what I want to
38:17 talk briefly just to finish up tonight
38:19 with just how important and useful it is
38:22 to use vision when you're ministering
38:24 and praying for people I'm gonna give
38:27 you a couple examples from my life one
38:30 was I was praying this woman came up was
38:32 after a church service she came up and
38:35 asked for prayer because she was having
38:36 pain hair shoulder and she could barely
38:39 lift her arm like this without hurting
38:41 terribly and I said okay I'll pray for
38:43 you and I as soon as I started I saw
38:46 this really brief picture of a dagger
38:50 sitting right here sticking into her
38:53 shoulder and so in the spirit I grabbed
38:57 that dagger and pulled it out and de
39:00 said be healed and then I asked her how
39:02 does it feel and she says well something
39:05 happened and then she started to move it
39:07 and she could just have total mobility
39:09 which is completely healed so that was
39:13 very simple another time I was
39:15 ministering in a small group and I was
39:17 praying for this woman who was just
39:19 really discouraged and kind of feeling
39:21 hopeless and that she was missing things
39:24 and I it was this hard for even to
39:27 describe she just didn't feel well and
39:30 as I started to pray for her I saw a
39:32 little music box that had a ballerina on
39:37 it and I could hear this music being
39:39 played this is ballerina was just kind
39:41 of twirling around and I simply said
39:43 does that mean anything to you
39:46 and she says well that was a desire of
39:48 my heart as a little girl who was to be
39:50 a ballerina and it never happened and
39:53 then I started to minister that God
39:56 hasn't forgotten the desires of your
39:58 heart and the Holy Spirit is showed up
40:01 so that was like a key that opened up
40:04 the ministry time so that's some
40:08 examples one for myself personally for
40:11 example I and you remember that we we
40:13 haven't talked about it and we don't
40:15 have time to talk about dreams the
40:16 juniors are very important as a visual
40:18 experience of God talking to you and I
40:21 had this dream and in this dream I was
40:23 in a big plane and a little plane
40:25 crashed into the cockpit of the big
40:27 plane and the big plane started going
40:30 crashing but it was crashing backwards
40:33 like this twirling backwards going down
40:36 and and I could see out the windows it
40:39 was going to come in tail first and
40:40 crash and I thought I need to get out of
40:43 here
40:44 and as it hit the ground I kind of went
40:47 to the door and jumped out and I was
40:49 fine everything was fine and this was
40:52 the Lord talking to me about a situation
40:55 that I was in that was crashing and it
40:59 was time to leave and if I got out I
41:02 would be fine and that's exactly what I
41:05 did and I'm fine
41:07 so and now we've had people who prayed
41:10 for us and seen things about us like you
41:13 know commenting about pillars and you
41:16 know being strength in a church things
41:18 like that that opened up our ministry so
41:20 pay attention to those quick little
41:24 visions those quick things that come to
41:26 you and especially when you see Jesus
41:28 doing something if you're ever praying
41:31 for someone and you get an image of
41:33 Jesus laying his hand on someone's
41:35 shoulder or something
41:36 does that pay attention to that because
41:38 that's true to do that and when you do
41:42 you'll see results you want to add
41:45 anything okay so we're gonna wrap it up
41:49 Lord Jesus we thank you that you gave us
41:53 your Holy Spirit and with that came that
41:55 wonderful gift package and part of the
41:58 gift package is the ability to see in
42:01 the spirit and so Lord we ask that you
42:03 would open up the eyes of our hearts or
42:06 that we would be able to have that
42:07 sanctified imagination and we will be
42:10 able to receive visions from you Lord
42:13 that would be incredibly helpful
42:15 incredibly insightful incredibly
42:18 powerful in helping us Lord to know what
42:21 it is you're doing so we can be obedient
42:24 so we can be effective in ministry
42:27 effective in praying for people and just
42:30 hear what it is that you want us to hear
42:33 through vision in Jesus name Amen