God Satisfies the Longing Soul - Best of Bill Johnson Sermons | Bethel Church

0:00 It's not just this ritual or this religious routine. What's happening is my interaction with what God has said is now becoming a part of the fabric of my being. And it affects how we think. It affects how we live. It's not a two-minute reciting of a verse. It's a lifetime of engagement with that which God has said.

0:21 I really want to stir up hunger for the Word of God, for the Scriptures. I love the Bible so much. I will not avoid reading Scripture consistently, regularly, daily, ingesting the Word, letting the Word read me. I just won't avoid it. It's something that I hunger for, something that I crave. I just found an app here recently via my wife, an app that reads audibly portions of Scripture. And so I've been able to go through the entire book of Acts just in recent weeks, just driving to and from the office, just turning it on in my car. It's just like taking a shower the whole time you drive. You're just getting bathed in the word of God. We had a crisis here just a month or so ago with our daughter, Leah. And many of you joined with us in prayer. We're very grateful, very thankful.

1:14 But the Lord really spared her life. My mom was in a real crisis. Many of you prayed as well. And when I was in Taiwan, when I heard the news and my first response is obviously prayer. But I told my wife, says, we need a word from God. We've got to find out what God is saying. And immediately turned to the scripture, began to look at passages of promise that the Lord has given us in the past. But also just reading, asking the Lord to speak to us because we're dead without his voice. We have nothing without the word of God. I've noticed something in the last little while how many of you have your iPhone you have Bible on your iPhone or whatever other phone you have the iPad I've got so many Bibles I have so many in every device I have my computer my goodness it's impressive I've got study I can look up a verse push a number it gives me the most detailed word study and commentary. It's just fun. This is Christian recreation at its finest.

2:18 I just love the word of God. But what I noticed and I don't say this in any way to condemn or to make light of. I'm thankful for the privilege of having the scriptures in all these devices. But what I've noticed is I've been reading the Bible primarily out of my iPad for the last year. And as wonderful as that is Pizza Hut We need to do a commercial like Visa or one of these that's priceless. That's priceless. It's being able to know your way around. And if you have a Bible that's too good to write in, then throw it away and buy one you can write in.

3:14 I remember some years ago hearing from a dear friend of ours from Weaverville. His name is Buck Steele. And Buck had literally had his brain fried from drugs. He couldn't put thoughts together, couldn't concentrate on anything. he was just, wasn't quite a vegetable, but just really couldn't function normally in life. Just destroyed the brain. But the Lord spoke to him after he got saved enough to let him know if he would memorize scripture, God would heal his mind. And he began to focus on one scripture, just memorize, work hard with the smallest part. And the Lord began to heal his mind. He's a brilliant, creative individual today. The Lord has fully, fully, fully restored his mind. I talked with somebody, that's the only story I had on that until just about a month or so ago.

4:14 And I talked with somebody in this environment who had the exact same thing happen. Their brain was destroyed because of drug abuse and stuff from their past. And when they began to memorize scripture, the Lord healed their mind. This book is alive. It is alive. It is alive. And James Gall made a statement here. on Instagram that I just think is priceless. He said, complaining about a silent God while your Bible is closed is like complaining about not getting texts when your phone is turned off. and that just makes sense right there. You know, this is what the Lord speaks through. This is what he speaks to. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Faith comes from hearing, but where does the capacity to hear come from?

5:08 I'm glad you asked. Right here. The word of God. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing by the word of God. And so what I want to do today, I can tell you what happened to me. I was not a reader. I'm embarrassed to say I was a horrible student. I got decent grades. I got good grades. I'm sorry, Mom, to make this confession in front of you. But I was a horrible student. but my grades were decent I knew how to cram right before that test and I remembered long enough to get into the room write down the right answers and everybody thought I knew what I was talking about but I didn't, I didn't know I hated to read I hated to write actually anything to do with work I was basically basically allergic to work but when I said an absolute passionate yes of surrender to the Lord somebody gave me a book and I began to read this book and it was actually about the book of Romans largely and as I was reading this book which was a real issue for me I became hungry for the word because I read this book and I went you're kidding this isn't there and ever since that literally since that moment I've had this insatiable hunger for scripture for the word of God to keep it in front of me if there's a crisis then read hungry for an answer if there's no crisis read hungry for an answer hungry for what God is saying hungry for what God is doing this book is life LevelAlensitive Isn't that amazing that our mind, the intellect, is an instrument of love in God's world?

7:19 David would intentionally, he would talk about the night watches. There were apparently times in his routine, and others in Scripture, in the Psalms especially, they would wake in the night just to consider God. Everything else was quiet, and they would just stop, and they would just think. Next time you're restless, and you just can't seem to get to sleep, how about use your time well? How about just use your time well? Just maybe it's an invitation to consider something of his ways. I ran an experiment once in a prayer meeting. I think there was about 10 people or so there. It was in Weaverville days.

8:11 And I just said, I want everybody here to pick an aspect of God's nature. And so just pick something. his love, his justice, his purity, whatever. So everybody picks him. So it's this row right here. Everybody picks him. And they said, all right, what we're going to do is we're going to stand, we're going to give praise to God. I want you to do it out loud and we're going to praise God. And I want you to only praise him about that one thing. And so whatever thing they picked, they couldn't change the subject. You know, if it's, if it's God's justice, they just had to, God, I pray. And you know, it didn't take long until you ran out of stuff to say. and so I just let him go I just let him go get beyond the get beyond the reach of comfort into the realm of sacrifice because that's where the great discoveries are made discoveries in the kingdom are made in the realm of sacrifice and when we were through as this one i forget now 15 20 minutes it was a period of time so when we were through i sat everyone down and i said what happened every person had the same story they said i said every i gave god praise for his love i said everything i could think of about his love So that's using the mind.

9:33 I recalled everything I could think of about his love, and I spoke it, and I gave him praise for it. And as soon as I ran out of things to say, he showed me something new. In other words, they stewarded what they were given. It's been in there for maybe for years. But they got into a moment where they pushed into a realm of sacrifice, and they began to give expression of that which they had known for years. And when they poured it all out, he then lifted the veil and let every single person see something new about that aspect of his own person, his own nature.

10:16 Stewardship, sacrifice. It's not true because it's in the Bible. It's in the Bible because it's true. It's in the Bible because it's true. This is Jesus in print. I gave an illustration a few weeks ago.

10:54 One of the best, I love to go to fine restaurants, so if you think that's waste, I'm so sorry for you. I'm investing into eternity is what I'm doing. Excellence is an expression of wisdom. I'll leave that alone right there. All right. So one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life, two of the main ingredients I can't stand. I've never been a fan of oysters. Forgive me if you like them. To me, huh. And until this moment, I was never a fan of caviar. and I went to the French Laundry, my favorite restaurant in the world. Thank you, Jesus.

11:52 Thank you, Thomas Keller. And this is many years ago now. I sat down, and one of the first dishes they brought out was this thing called Oysters and Pearls. Well, it's oysters and caviar in this special thing that he made. And I looked at it, and I looked at my... Now, you've got to understand, I don't like either of these two things. And it's got something else, sauce something. And I look at Benny and I said, I'm spending too much money on this meal to not at least try it. I took one bite. The hallelujah chorus, I'm sure, began to echo through the room.

12:36 As this, I actually, I turned to Benny and I said, honey, I want a chili bowl full of this stuff. How is it that one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life has ingredients I can't stand? There are things in here that make no sense to you. They're bitter. Some are mysterious. But they all go into the recipe of bringing life, healing, and strength in insight, purpose, clarity of heart and mind. I need to not just read the verses that make me feel good. I need the ones that cause questions. I need the ones that frustrate. I need every part of this thing because it all mixes together into the finest thing you've ever eaten in your life. It's the word of God. So I'm to love God with my mind, but then it says I'm to love him with my strength.

13:37 Isn't that interesting? Physical strength. I guess I doubt it means sing worship songs while you lift weights. I think somehow, somehow, well, let me just read a verse to you. Go to Psalms 84. how lovely is your tabernacle? Tabernacle is a dwelling place of God. How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts? My soul longs, that's a hunger thing. My soul longs, even faints for the courts of the Lord. The courts of the Lord is a place of encounter. It's a place of presence, okay? There's a tabernacle, and then you go deeper into the presence, and that's what courts represent, all right? My soul longs just even faints for the courts of the Lord.

14:32 My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. My heart and my flesh. Now, listen carefully. Heart and flesh. My body cries out for God. we know what physical appetites are. We know what it is to be thirsty. We know what it is to hunger for oysters and pearls. Yes, Jesus. We know what it is to hunger for food, to pursue a meal.

15:09 It's possible to spend time in the glorious presence of God Than Whether Present on Bethel TV was actually designed by God so that every part of us, our mind, our emotions, our will, every part of us, our physical body, our gifts, talents, everything is at its finest in its encounter of loving God and receiving love from God. There's something of perfect design that comes when I'm loving God well and completely. Every part of me is to burn for God, It's still love for God. I can't make that up. But I can receive love until that's the only logical response.

16:05 See, it says to know the love of Christ, Ephesians 3.19, to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. To know what's beyond knowing. to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge it can be translated this way to know by experience what is beyond comprehension Wow.

16:38 Busyness is artificial significance. it insulates us from being still enough to be loved. I don't mean he doesn't love you when you're running. I just mean you don't realize or discover the true dimension of his love until there's stillness. I'm not saying you can't learn through hectic activity. All of us have. But there's something about being still and know that I'm God. That's what he says. Be still. There's something about stillness. I come into a place of stillness. It's the reason why so many in this room are, you receive some of your best insights, inspirations, moments in God when you're sleeping or just waking up.

17:42 Defenses are down. Anxiety hasn't kicked in yet. Your agenda hasn't come to mind, which are... our agenda for God is sometimes our greatest interference from God, keeps us from God. Our agenda for God oftentimes insulates us from God. See, it's a lifestyle. It's a journey of personal discovery. To know by experience, to taste and see. To know by experience what is beyond comprehension. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Taste is experience. See is perception. Your experience will affect your perception.

18:33 It says, oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his wonderful works to the children of men. He satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with goodness. the poor in spirit feast on his goodness.

18:55 What does it say? The poor in spirit, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Are you kidding me? The realm of God's dominion that exists throughout the galaxies? that which is at rule over the house of the living God The kingdom of God is how the Holy Spirit manifests himself. the kingdom of God is not meat or drink. It's not in the natural. It's righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. The kingdom is in the spirit. So when he says the kingdom of God is yours, he says the reality of the spirit is now your inheritance. The reality of his dominion, his expression of liberty and life, all the things that he brings to the table. That is what you get through being poor in spirit. You enter into that. And now he says, and that person is going to feed to the fullness on the goodness of God. This concept of the goodness of God has to be more than just a point on our theological statements. It's got to be what fuels us, what sponsors us, what empowers us, what shapes our thinking, our seeing.

20:16 we come in we come into that meal if i could call feeding on the goodness of god we come into that meal through being poor in spirit you don't eat the meal and then become poor in spirit it's the reward of placing ourselves completely on the line where I trust in him and him alone, and either he shows up or I die. It's all about my trust in him. And that posture, that position, positions me, puts me in a place to feast on the goodness of the Lord.

20:57 So he says he satisfies the longing soul, Verse 9, fills the hungry soul with goodness. Look at verse 21. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his wonderful works to the children of men. Look at verse 31. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his wonderful works to the children of men. Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people. Praise him. What's the point? The point is the wise person is going to notice the patterns of what takes us into greater and greater breakthrough. until in reality, sin has no voice. verse look at this passage i didn't read this in the other two but i like it so much verse 33 says he turns the river into the wilderness by the way i need to welcome all of our online family i'm sorry i've ignored you the entire message i really do love you honestly i think he turns the rivers into a wilderness and the water springs into dry ground. Look at this. He turns rivers into wilderness. He turns water springs into dry grounds, a fruitful land into barrenness for wickedness of those who dwell in it. He turns a wilderness into pools of water, dry land into water springs. There he makes the hungry dwell that they may establish a city for a dwelling place. How did that, do you see the analogy here? He takes the ones that have everything and he turns it into a barren place.

22:41 Why? Because in their everything, they became arrogant and wicked. They insulated themselves from the voice of God. They insulated themselves from being under the influence of God's direction. But then you got the broken of the most broken, the one who have access to the reality of being poor in spirit. And he takes their barren place and he turns it into a prosperous place, into an abundant place. And the end result of that whole discovery of the goodness of God was the city.

23:13 I mean, if God's going to build a city, it's going to be a city that thrives. It's going to be healthy. It's going to be creativity. There's going to be health. There's going to be services. There's going to be community. There's going to be all the stuff that we ache and long for in life. In fact, it describes it here. He says that they may establish a city for a dwelling place. Verse 37, sow fields and plant vineyards that they may yield a fruitful harvest. He blesses them and they multiply greatly. He does not let their cattle decrease. The whole concept is this city of God is supposed to be a place of extraordinary abundance. There's a theme in Scripture, especially in the Psalms, that is so frequent that we can become so familiar with it that it doesn't mean anything anymore. And there's this phrase that is used frequently about meditating. For example, meditating in the night watches, meditating on the works of the Lord, meditating on the wonders of the Lord, meditating on the commandments of the Lord, the statutes of the Lord. This whole concept of meditating on the things of the Lord. And I personally, I love to ponder what God has said. A number of you know that I had a real physical issue earlier this year and was really quite sick for a while. And Jesus saved me, and I'm so thankful.

24:38 but one of the things that I did often is I would bring I would especially bring out the familiar passages of scripture that had fed me for years and I would re-read them sorry I'm a little messed up I'm not sorry I messed up I'm just sorry it's in public you know I would find the most familiar passages that have fed me, some of them for 30 and some for 40 years or more. I hope that you have places like that, places where little places of habitation that you can run to and feed. I could take you to dates. I could take you to places in Scripture where this is where God met me. He met me here in this chapter and I remember when I was walking on the church property in Weaverville, the property we were going to build on. I remember walking and crying out to God, and he met me with this passage. Or I can show you a place. I was in absolute pain or despair because of a situation going on, and God met me, and he gave me this verse. Or traveling home, God met me on the plane and spoke to me these words. And I can take you through my own particular journey. I'm not going to do that. I'm just trying to use it as a point of reference that that I would, when I was just so sick earlier this year, I spent a fair amount of time just reviewing some of the feeding places where I had been over the years. And I would bring out the prophetic words that God had spoken over my life. Some of them just literal scriptures, others, words that are prophet friends, and some of them, you know, some you don't know, but things that or spoken into my life. And the reason, I love what Chris Cruz was saying earlier about this, you know, things being too good to be true. They are so good, they are true.

26:38 They are so good, they are truth itself. And when the Lord gives you a promise, it's only because he has visited your future and he's brought you the tools necessary to get you there. And so promises are how we get into our future. You can just drift your way in and you'll be the victim of circumstances, or you can fight your way in as a person of promise, people of promise. And I love doing that. I love that part. I love the rest part, but I love the fight part too, because I like seeing his tools work. I like to see the effect of a word on surroundings, on circumstances. And one of the things that I did, I actually did in the hospital bed, I have notebooks, binders of prophecies over my life and over Bethel. And I have a number of them in here. And so I would just sit there and lay there actually in the hospital bed and I would just bring the pages up, page after page, and just read over what the Lord has said about our future.

27:59 And you know, some people, some people, sometimes we need to be more convinced of the beauty of tomorrow than the difficulty of today. And that's what promises do. That's what the commandments do. And this phrase that hit me two weeks ago, I realized there's a part of this process that I feel like I've done fairly well in being a steward of this. Part of this process, I have ignored altogether. and that was the meditation on the commandments of the Lord. And I couldn't remember one time where I actually sat up in the middle of the night going, hmm, thou shalt not kill. And I realized, I have not done that part. and I purposed in my heart, it leapt out at me, I purposed in my heart, it must be beneficial, it must be part of the package, it must be part of the system, he's created a certain economy, his resources work in his economy, and that may be one of the important keys. And so I started thinking, meditating, in cultic meditation, you empty your mind. In biblical meditation, you fill your mind. It's a huge difference. They're worlds apart.

29:36 Secular cultic meditation is you want to get to this place of nothingness. In biblical meditation, you want to get to everythingness. Yeah, don't quote me on that one. But you get the point. It's the kingdom. It's the abundance of life itself. And the word meditation is actually translated. There are several words for meditation in the Bible. One of the words is to mutter, to kind of mutter under your breath, which the implication is, is that you think over this. Let's just take a commandment, for example. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength.

30:20 You shall love the Lord your God. So there's a commandment. And so what is it to meditate on? It's to review it. It's to bring it up. To bring it up. To bring it up. To confess it, to pray it, to declare it. to speak it so that you hear the word spoken. It's, I am to love the Lord my God with all that I am. And suddenly it seemed weird to me that God would want to command us to love him.

31:04 And then I started thinking, only love could command love. Wow. Everything he does is out of love. So out of love, he commands me to love him who is love. It's the absolute beginning place of life for us. It's the number one commandment in Scripture. It's in Matthew 22. And the second is like it. Love your neighbors yourself.

31:35 I was reading this week some of the harder passages. I like to read the in-your-face passages that Jesus gave. There's so many of them. Unless you lose your life, those kind of verses. Unless you lose your life, you're not going to find it. I love reading those verses because I don't want to get too comfortable I don't mean to create insecurity I just mean Bobby Connor made a statement here years ago he said we've become all too familiar with a God we hardly know that familiarity thing is really dangerous for us this whole thing of being sensitive and tender to this one who has has a heart of grace and mercy towards us but he's also right. He's right about everything. And when he says adjust here, it's because standing where I am is going to cause some problems. And so he comes to us and he says, the second is like the first one, but it's focused on people. Love your neighbors yourself.

32:39 Now here's the thing that I was reading this last week in the hard sayings of Jesus. He said, if you love your mom and dad, your children, your family more than me, you're not worthy of me. That's one of the harder statements, but it's a good one. And then you have the other passage in 1 John 4, where he says, if you say you love God, but you hate your neighbor, you're lying. The truth isn't in you. So here we've got these two, truth is found in the center of these two conflicting realities. One is, if I love God, it has to be measurable in my love for people. If I love people, I cannot love them more than God.

33:27 I can rephrase that better, I think. You understand it's possible to love people more than God. Yes? It's possible. It's forbidden. Do you understand? It's impossible to love God without loving people.

33:48 So some, to keep themselves safe and not loving people more than God, just simply stay away from people. because it appears to be safe. It's not safe because your love for God is not measurable. And so here's this great privilege that we have in Scripture to meditate on the commandments of the Lord, the statutes, the testimonies, Deuteronomy 6. I fear that so many New Testament believers are losing their grip on Old Testament truth. Real prosperity starts on the inside. So the target of the Lord is he wants everybody in this room to be ridiculously prosperous. But his target is the inner world.

34:42 It's my emotional and mental health. All right. Verse eight. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you will meditate on it day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have success. Then you will make your way prosperous. I thought the Lord did it. No, he gave you the tools. I got the same response under that drum back there.

35:26 Then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Say this with me. I am responsible for my own prosperity. I am responsible for my own success. Oh, Jesus, help us. We need a nation of people right now that will take responsibility.

35:52 And not expect some government to do it. All right. I have more to say, but for all of our safety, I will be quiet. Verse 9. Have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid. Do not be dismayed. for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. How many of you have ever become so anxious over something, it kept you up at night, and you just had that thing going through your brain all night long and you couldn't sleep? Put your hands up. All right. So we know that we know how to meditate. so now we just have to change the subject matter all right this passage of scripture gives us like how many times does he have to say it be strong be courageous be very strong be very courageous did you hear me I said be strong be courageous don't be dismayed don't be fearful don't become anxious he gives all these commands in there but not one time does Does he tell you how?

36:58 he just says be strong very courageous and then he says you're going to make your own way prosperous you're going to make your own way successful and then he gives one little sliver extremely profound sliver of advice not advice a command a sliver of instruction that makes everything else in the verses possible he says but you shall meditate on this word day and night I think this is biblical meditation is probably the most neglected area of Christian discipline in the body of Christ in our country. there's Western meditation, which is intellectual. There's Eastern meditation, which is to empty your mind.

38:04 And there's biblical meditation that is unlike either of those two. I want to read to you the definition of this word meditation. by the way, if you're taking notes, I don't know if we'll get to it or not, but the first Psalm, Psalms number one, is a parallel passage to Joshua chapter one. It runs very, very similar themes. All right. So let me read this definition to you. It means to reflect, to moan, to mutter, to ponder, to make a quiet sound such as sighing, to meditate or contemplate something as one repeats the words. It represents something quite unlike the English meditation, which may be a mental exercise only. In Hebrew thought, to meditate upon the scriptures is to quietly repeat them in a soft droning sound while utterly abandoning outside distractions. From this tradition comes a specialized type of Jewish prayer called davening that is reciting texts, praying intense prayers, or getting lost in communion with God while bowing or rocking back and forth. If you've seen people at the wailing wall, this rocking, that is actually a physical response to biblical meditation.

39:41 It is repeating a matter, which is what you do in biblical meditation, all right? So rocking back and forth. Evidently, this dynamic form of meditation prayer goes back to David's time, thus called davening. This is from Dick Mills in his word study book. often what we do is we'll read us we read scripture uh we say amen to what we read we're encouraged by what we read but the lord has actually given us instruction that in in many ways determines the measure of our success our impact our prosperity and again i don't mind talking about money in this context but it's not my focus today at all it's it's not about boats and planes and mansions. It's about being as wealthy as Bill Gates is on the outside, you and me being that wealthy on the inside.

40:44 Is that there's that kind of an abundance here that I have to spend my life trying to figure out how to give all this encouragement away because I've got so much. It's that place of prosperity. Is it possible that God would bless you more on the inside than somebody like a Bill Gates or some of these others are blessed on the outside. Yes, it's possible because we tap into an eternal unlimited kingdom. And it is the design of the Lord that we actually enter into places of personal victory that are equal to the kinds of victories that we see by great corporations, et cetera. All right. So back to the point is that the Lord would cause you and me to be a people that have triumphed in our personal journey with the Lord to such an extent that there are conquests in the same way that there'd be conquest in military, conquest in business, conquest in other parts of life, sports, et cetera. Instead, what he's saying is he's directly tying it to this one tiny little sliver of insight and command, and that is to meditate. Even where he says, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. That's actually one of the expressions of meditation. It is the fact that there is just, I'm not saying you have to walk, but I want to illustrate. It's the fact that there is this repeating, God spoke a word to me. Let's just take, I remember times I've been in real difficult place financially and I needed a miracle breakthrough. And I found this verse in Psalms 127. In fact, for months now, I've been reading Psalms 127 to 128 every day because they are family Psalms and I love to pray them over my household. So let's go back to this verse. So he says, he provides for his beloved even while he sleeps. So I will take this verse in a time of great personal need and I will just pray and say, God, you said in your word that you provide for me even while I'm sleeping. God, I celebrate the fact that I do work hard for you and I give that to you, but your work for me is far greater than

42:52 my work for myself. You have unlimited resources. You have unlimited resources. You provide for me out of the riches of your glory, which is vast and uncontainable in any vessel. God, I thank you that your abundance pours towards me, that you've actually assigned a measure of breakthrough into my life, my family, and my family line. God, I confess, I declare, I sing before you. You provide for me even while I sleep. What is there? There's just this repeated prayer. It's not just this ritual or this religious routine. What's happening is my interaction with what God has said is now becoming a part of the fabric of my being. Lance Wall now would say it's become cellular in us. It becomes something that is so much a part of us that it is woven into our actual personality. And it affects how we think.

43:46 It affects how we live. It's not a two-minute reciting of a verse. It's a lifetime of engagement with that which God has said. Now, the scriptures tell us, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. God is saying, you're alive because I talk. you're alive because I talk everything about you thrives because I have spoken everything about you thrives because I have spoken I have deposited through word I have transferred from my world to yours through a decree and when we take that word seriously and prayerfully consider put it on I've done this put it on three by five card stick it on the dashboard of my car if I have a distance to drive and I just have that to look at just to refresh my mind. I maybe can quote it without the card, but I look at it anyway because I want everything about me. I speak it because I want my ears to hear it. I see it with my eyes because I want my eyes to see it. I speak with my mouth because I want to participate with God in saying what he is saying. If you want, Jesus only said what his father says. If you want to learn to say what the father is saying, then start saying what he has said. Yeah, I'm so glad that you watched this video. I do pray that it's a great, great strength and encouragement to you. And I've got a verse that really is my cry for all of us. And it's Psalms 20, it's verse 4. May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans. That's my prayer. That's my prayer is that this would be the season of rich, rich fulfillment. Thanks for joining us.