Brian Guerin shares a powerful sermon on the significance of angelic assistance and the importance of gazing upon Jesus, the Son. He recounts a transformative experience in India where he witnessed the power of God in delivering a young girl from demonic possession, emphasizing the reality of spiritual warfare and the role of angels in ministering to believers. Guerin encourages the congregation to cultivate intimacy with Christ, as this connection opens the heavens and allows for angelic intervention in their lives. He highlights the necessity of seeking God diligently and the profound impact of prayer and stillness in the presence of the Lord. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a deeper relationship with Jesus, which leads to empowerment and freedom in the believer's life.

Man, I remember I was in India years ago. So I'm all over the place. Don't try and take notes or anything. We'll just have fun and see where the spirit leads. And man, they have enough darkness really all over the earth, but this peculiar spot we were at was out in the middle of nowhere. I mean, it was an apostle with churches in India. I couldn't find myself. I couldn't find my way back there to save my soul. Immense poverty. I knew it when the pastor took up an offering one morning and the people brought up cups of rice and poured them into the bucket. I said, whoa, this is their offering, their tithes and offerings, rice. Well, you never judge a book by its cover. I come up on the most dainty, sweet, beautiful girl and Indian girl had the ink and all that that the Indians do. We're in the nation of India. But the Holy Spirit broke out and I come by and I laid hands on her just to receive the Holy Spirit. All of a sudden her eyes clicked back and she was full out demon possessed. I mean, the demons are real. We don't put a lot of attention there. We put attention on Jesus, but he loves to destroy the works of the devil. And I kid you not, I, we've seen many devils come out, but this is probably the strongest one to date. Little dainty 11 year old girl, skinny, just, you know, and I work out, try to stay in shape. And she within seconds, she's throwing me and two grown men around. I mean, for pastors, I'm like, what's happening right now? Your mind can't compute, you know? And I'm like praying in tongues, English, going through the interpreter in Hindu and Telugu, you know, Telugu, Hindi, like languages. And finally the devil comes out. I'm like, praise God. Uh, later we go to the pastor's house, pastor Moses. He would call me brother Brian, because it was India. He's like, brother Brian, I know this girl. I know of her, when her village, when she manifest the devil in her village, sometimes it takes up to 50 people to contain her. I said, well, now you tell me pastor Moses, you know, give me, tell me that beforehand. Next time I won't lay hands on her. No, I'm teasing. But, uh, but yeah, so excited this morning. We'll see where we end up. I did have a, um, a dream that was very clear, uh, last night, which often is I'll minister from just so you guys know, because I love the current voice of the Lord. He knows, you know, what each house needs and what he wants to specifically do. And I've done my own thing over the years. And usually it's not really fruitful. So I've learned, like, you know, what's the point. Um, but this one dream I'm trying to figure out from this morning in prayer, how I will navigate it. We'll just do our best, but I'm excited because I go into this dream and, uh, you could see, I actually, I'll just tell you guys, you guys get the prophetic. I could tell by pastor Rob initiating it, but I'm, I'm, um, addressed initially by pastor Bill Johnson. Many of you know, from, uh, Bethel, which I then found out as the dream progressed. Can you guys hear me good? I'll make sure I'm not messing with the sound. Okay. Uh, then I, I later found out was the whole Bethel. This is the house of God. And it's a word, I believe for this house, what God's about to do. And with many of you personally. So Bill walks up, we're talking soon as I engage with him, which he is the father of Bethel, which is in Genesis 28. This is the house of God that Jacob names. And as soon as I go into dialogue with him, the heavens like open up behind him over the skies. And it's the sun at first, which I believe is obviously Jesus Christ. And this is where I'm going to try to do like a hybrid message on this, but our gaze of loving him, our eternal isolated gaze on Jesus Christ and intimacy. Listen, everything comes from there, but no sooner did I see the gaze of the full sun, the scene switch in the angelic realm opened up. There was an angel in the sky. And then it was, I'll just tell you guys, it was a male angel at first, then it flipped into a female angel, which I know that can get a little bit debatable in a theological world, but the prophetic interpretation of that, as I believe with men and women today, because they were specifically hovering over specific people that were these assignments needing to be loose in people's lives and assisting upon their call. And it was beautiful. I love these type dreams because it was so vibrant and real and true. And, uh, so I want to go there. There's, there's a real, oh, y'all forget on these. So I have some books when I saw them back into the church. So we're not making money off this or anything, but just want to give you guys, we have divine encounter here. How many of you love to encounter God? No cars. Okay. I'm teasing angelic hosts. I'm going to be touching on that some this morning. Um, what's this next one? Contemplations of character. How many of you know, we need to walk in godly character, humility, faithfulness, purity, loyalty, integrity, things like this. Listen, if you're gifted, but don't walk in the character of the spirit, there's a serious problem. We want the fruit and the gifts of the spirit and God of wonders. So I just want to bless somebody. Did you not have these or need some? I saw you. Oh, yay. Anybody want these? I'll just hand them out. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'll give him to pass it around. Yeah. So, um, home Depot bucket, man. There's a glory on that. I love that. Yeah. My background for about a decade was oversaw and built custom homes. So I love stuff like this. Me and Brett were looking at the trailer and how all this works. It's incredible. But listen, on the angelic realm, I just want to build it a little bit because there's something to do with heaven, loosing the angelic realm over our lives. How many of you know we need angels in our lives? I'll build it. But listen, if Jesus Christ, the flawless lamb of God needed the angelic realm, he did twice documented in scripture, probably much more, but it's crystal clear. You see in the Bible where first off, Hebrews 1 14 says aren't angels ministering spirits sent to assist those who are to inherit salvation? They're mentioned over 270 times in scripture. And I think if we're not careful, often I've done this plenty in the church. We can get a little top heavy biblically and just, well, don't get off on angels, brother. It's all in the Lord. And it is, I'm going to end the message there. It's all through him, but also throughout scripture. You can see that God went out of his way to let us know this, this order and this heavenly assistance is greatly needed for his purposes. Does that make sense to you guys? Angelic realm mentioned over 270 times in scripture, all throughout the word, old and new Testament, two times, like I mentioned in Jesus's earthly ministry, they come to minister to him. Another one, uh, I think it's Luke 22. It says where Jesus was about to go to the cross. And it says an angel came down out of heaven and strengthened him. And from that, he prayed more fervently. Listen, a lot of times you don't know it, but you'll be in the presence of God is all, you know, and all of a sudden this fervency comes this, have you ever been in prayer and just a greater unction power, just as militancy comes often an angel just came and strengthened you. Sometimes it's the Holy spirit as well. I don't get too caught up on like the logistics. You know, if the Lord wants to reveal it, awesome. And they're very humble by nature because they come from the presence of God. So they're not trying to be seen anywhere. They point everything back to Jesus, but it's a real, uh, heavenly protocol and dynamic here that God's trying to loose. And I'm telling you that I believe this place, especially with something with pastor Rob and what you guys carry and are tapping into, haven't seen a dream like this in a, in a minute. And I've been traveling every week with this, so much weight on it from encounter form. So there's something to be loosed with Genesis 28. This is the house of God and opening up of heavenly activity for fresh. Come on. Okay. Yeah. And, uh, listen to me when they come around because listen, it's all the presence of God. I look at it as the angelic realm is more, they're more like the UPS guys from heaven. Okay. The messengers and they deliver the, the presence of God, his voice, strength in ministering. You saw this even with Jesus. And then it says he prayed so fervently, he began to sweat drops of blood. Everybody knows that passage, but they don't back up a few verses and realize an angel strengthened him to do that. Jesus, the flawless lamb of God. What is it? Acts 12 Peters in jail. You guys remember that? And what set him free? An angel told, listen, you'll notice when angels bust on the scene in scripture, usually it's in either dire moments, seasons of need of great breakthrough, great transitional times where profound revelation must come to catapult you into the next season of life commissionings. They, they come on the scenes that very pivotal junctures and destiny. Does that make sense to you guys? How many of you feel like you're in that right now? Just, yeah, that, that dream it said it all to me. Cause I've been in these situations before. Not that they don't get involved. If you're about to get in a car wreck and things, of course they assist those who are to inherit salvation. But when you see them revealed in scripture, it's very pivotal moments that are profound. Any cars back there know what I'm talking about? Yes. Okay. Just had to get some horns, but you see a Peter acts 12. He's locked up. He's in jail, dire situation. There's no getting out of this one. And of course the Holy spirit could have done this, but he's got a heavenly protocol. I don't know why he does this. You see it in Zachariah, Zachariah would always say the angel who talked with me, read it and get your highlighter out and see how many times he does this. The prophet Zachariah, he would always call him as the angel who talked with me, told me this. Then next to the angel came and the angel who talked with me said this, I was awakened as though a man in sleep. And the angel who talked with me told me this. It gets so crazy. At one point, another angel pops on the scene is Zachariah to, to get a message to Zachariah. And he has to go through his angel to get to him. Heaven's into order. There's a specific angels that assign your call on destiny for very specific reasons. I mean, this really matters. So the angel pops on the scene and like say, Amy, they say, he's trying to get a message to Amy, but Amy's angels here, he's right here. He says, Hey, tell Amy this. And he goes through his angel to tell him something. And it's like, why don't you just tell Zachariah he's right there, but they knew order and how personal they feel assigned to your calls, which really, really matter. So Peter's right there. And angel pops on the scene. If you read closely, listen, this happens, or can I get a little out there with signs? And anyway, but it's just the disclaimer will be on me. I don't want to cause pastor Robert any trouble, but listen, I was in Montana. That reminds me, I think this is really just sound, but I was, I kept stepping over in Montana, Whitefish, Montana was preaching up there. Just weighty glory came in the meeting, man. There was some wonders, incense type smells under the meetings. It was just one of those just saucy meetings where glory came. But the strangest thing I would hit this pocket over here. And all of a sudden the frequencies in the, in the sound would go, there was these crazy frequencies that would come through the speakers. I was like, what is going on? Walk everywhere else, all over the place. Everything was fine. And I said, there's probably an angel there. I was teasing, but I really meant it because they're supernatural beings that come from the presence of God. And I've seen wild stuff happen as far as this goes. And so sure enough, I forgot. I was talking about the supernatural, the kingdom of heaven. I stepped over into that zone again in a ball of light. I kid you not. I've seen things in the spirit, but this happened in the natural, a ball of light, about the size of a grapefruit appeared on my right side, flew out over the crowd. And I wanted to make sure they saw it or were, but just my spiritual eyes opened in the moments. I said, did y'all see that? They go, yeah, the light and men haven't hit the place that night. I was vibrating. I couldn't go to sleep till like one o'clock, which I'm like a grandpa. I go to sleep by like 10, easy. I was vibrating by the power of God and all this stuff. But, um, but you see this where it says an angel came in the jail cell and a light shown. If you read closely, when they come on the scene, sometimes lights appear. I know that freaks some of you guys out, but read your good old B-I-B-L-E it's in there. And, uh, I've no need to come back at the word of God as a child and read it again. Fresh. Yeah, man, there's burning bushes with voices coming out. That's the living God you and I serve Jesus walking on water face lighting up like a light bulb. And, uh, the Bible says that the children, the childlike shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Angel steps in. It says a light shown and he touches Peter. He just touched Peter. Angels don't have time for lower level things and bondages of this world. They don't listen, nor does the Holy spirit. They care about you. They touch you. It's a very personal thing for his call. Then the chains of this world fall off. They fell off when he touched Peter. He don't mess with keys, locks, none of that. They don't operate on this frequency. That's another great key to warfare. If you're experiencing down here, a lot of noise and voices and you elevate to Jesus intimacy is always the highest vantage point of warfare. You get up into his realm and his voice and his presence and things fall off down here. So anyway, Paul, end of the book of Acts, like chapter 27, somewhere in there, they're about to wreck on the Isle of Malta, touched on it last night, right before they made s'mores. And, uh, you know, Paul goes into a dream before they shipwrecked. The Bible says he woke up. He says, look, fear not boys. Everybody's going to live, but we will lose the ship. Like grab your floaties. I hope you can swim. And if you read closely, it says an angel came to me in the night. Do you guys remember that passage? If you're really close to an angel came, um, Jesus, uh, Joseph, Jesus's father. It says when he was born as a young boy, that an angel would come constantly to Joseph, his father in a dream to reveal to him where to go. And so you see it time and time again, I'm building, but where the, the need for the angelic realm was really vital and key judges chapter six, one more, uh, with Gideon, he's about to be commissioned into his call. Remember he's kind of like a coward at first Gideon and judges chapter six. Have any of you ever felt like under qualified for your call? Welcome to Christianity. That's like the life that's every chapter for me, at least I'm like, yeah, it sounds good, Lord, but you know what I mean? There's no way we can pull that off. But an angel comes under his father's tree and judges chapter six, and he's then commissioned. He's like mighty man of valor. He speaks the presence, the voice of God into him and over him that then takes him to, into a new place of, uh, of destiny. And so I really, there's really something on that. I could see him hovering out over the heavens. It was a male than a female over these specific people that there's going to be great breakthrough. Some of you are, you feel like you're chained up like Peter right now in your call. You just can't go any further. And you need an angel to touch you prophetically to set you free. Some of you, there's a fresh commission and you feel like a coward. You just aren't powered enough to step into this. And Gideon went from like a coward to brave heart overnight, painted face, everything he's taken out there, share a pose of his dad, the whole bit. And all it did was take a heavenly messenger to come in the voice and presence of God to, to commission him. But listen, this dream first had the sun. This is one of our transit transition into the intimacy, our gaze upon him. Cause really Genesis 28, 12, I'll, um, preface it for you. But it says Jacob was going about, came back to that place. If you read closely, there's always a place new covenant. I look at it as that secret place that we've got to come back to. And this is where it opens up God's voice and presence and will for our lives. It says he laid his head upon a rock. The heavens opened up. We all know a ladder appeared with the bottom of the ladder on the earth and the top reaching the heavens. And if you read closely, he says he saw angels ascending and then descending. The Bible says first they were ascending. Then they were descending, meaning they're here. You understand that if, if you descended first, your, your main stay is in heaven, but they're here. They're loose, just like the Holy spirit. And then they ascend into assignments and gifts from heaven, descend back to assist us in the earth. I'll never forget this, uh, powerful encounter. I heard of a man that went to heaven. He's walking up there before the throne room. I don't know if it was literal or prophetic or what, but he sees a depiction of what looked like the father and the son. And he asked in the encounter, he says, where's the Holy spirit and the angel that was ushering him through this encounter. He says, he's in the earth. He's not up here. And like a light bulb went off when Jesus ascended, he sent the Holy spirit and the Holy spirit orchestrates the angelic realm. But their assignment is here with you and I, again, for Jesus's purposes. So the new Testament verse for this is John one 51 though, where Jesus says, you will see the, basically the heavens open and angels of God ascending and descending upon the son of man. Have you ever read that verse? John one 51. It's basically the Genesis 28, uh, basically mascot verse of the new covenant, John one 51. And so we all know Jesus is that ladder. He's that gateway that accesses the purposes of heaven in and through our lives. And, uh, there's something that's going to be loose this morning. I want to pray for you guys again, if you want prayer, I can sign books later as well, but just want to encourage you guys when this happens, listen to me, everything flips upside down. I'll take you into one encounter that happened where it changed everything for me back in like Oh six. And, uh, and then I want to close it with intimacy, gazing upon the sun. Everything's here. Everything's there. And, uh, but I want to say it was like, Oh six or something like that. I was waiting upon the Lord one morning, fourth watch three to 6.00 AM. It's just a sweet spot waiting in silence. How many of you know, Psalm 46, 10 says, be still and know that he has God. Sometimes we've got to be still. Psalm 37, be silent before the Lord. If you read that word in Hebrew, cause we're in old Testament, it says to be dumb before God, meaning unable to speak. How many of you, sometimes you talk too much in prayer. I've been there. God's like, yeah, and I touched on it last night. Like he said, yeah, let me know when you're done so I can move. Sometimes our stillest point in the earth is the most active point of unlocking heaven. Be still and know that he is God. And you say, well, how long until he comes? Really? I'm telling you, sometimes we've got to lock up, take hold days and just lock up with him. And this is, I'm kind of getting ahead of myself on the secret place, but it was one of these mornings. I'm still waiting upon him and, uh, just up against my headboard. I'll be in different places at times, but this specific morning I was leaning up against my headboard, had to have my coffee. How many of you had your coffee this morning? I see Starbucks back here. I've got this little cute thing that gave me Christmas cup, but it is potent. Anybody want to guess how many shots of espresso on this thing? Four. Yeah. Did you say four? Yes, indeed. You got to go for four living creatures, four wins. You got to stay biblical. No, three would be biblical too. So anyway, don't let it deceive you. Um, I can go take a nap though after just, you know, I drink strong coffee and still don't know what it is. But one time we, we had a cruise event we'll do on these big ships are a lot of fun. And I, uh, my session was later that day. I'll do it with some dear friends that we actually poured out of our last one. Was it out of here? No Fort Lauderdale. We just missed COVID this year. It was crazy. Um, but I remember I was going to work out before my session on the cruise ship. So I took some pre-workout, a friend had recommended, and this stuff gets you super amped up. And I go to the gym and like every machine's full, like it's packed the gym. I can't get onto a machine. So I couldn't work out. I'm like, no way. And then I had to go straight into my session and I'm all like vibrating because of the pre-workout. I'm like the first Kings, no second Kings. I'm just all over the place. And, uh, so that, that was interesting, but you see, uh, with gazing at the sun, everything is there, you know, in him in this intimate point of unlocking this purpose with the angelic realm. But this encounter is 5 39 AM. I'm sitting in silence. And, uh, this may freak some of you out, but again, just read the Bible for a little bit. I mean, this is real mild compared to biblical proportion encounters. And we really got to go back to primitive, primitive Christianity. Paul walked on Peter, sorry, walked on water. That's kind of crazy. Really? Jesus ascended ax one nine into the, into the clouds of heaven. Um, Elisha made an ax head float, a fire called down from heaven in the old Testament. I believe we're going to see a return of real profound things of God working in the earth. There's a reason why false prophets perform false signs and wonders in the last days is because the authentic prophets are going to be gunning on all cylinders seriously, but rooted in deep, deep intimacy with the Lord. And so this morning I'm waiting in stillness and I, uh, out of nowhere at 5 39, I heard my doorknob begin to open. Literally. It was like there, like I heard the doorknob turn, like someone was going to come into my bedroom, startled me. And I looked and nobody ever came in. I was like, that's so strange. And if you know me, I'm very logical accident, very down to earth practical. That gets me in trouble sometimes with the spiritual. I just, I'm very, I can be heady. I don't know if any of you are that way. I'm very analytical at times I'll overthink it so that I'm not bent naturally the other way. Um, heaven actually surprised me with the prophetic stuff. I was not drawn to it at all. I was kind of, that's a little weird, you know, let's be honest. Sometimes the prophetic camps are like, okay, you blowing your trumpets and your flags and your, and I love it all, but I'm just saying, I'm just, I'm very real. But sure enough, I knew by at this point in time though, with the Lord, he's very calculated and purposeful and everything he does. So I checked the time immediately. It was five 39, probably first day of may or something like this when it, when it happened. And I was like, Lord, what is it? What's going on? And he says, I want you fifth month, third day through the ninth lock up and pursue me. I'm trying to come into your world, like come into your bedroom and encounter you. And I thought, okay, uh, which that wouldn't be always how I interpret it. This was this specific one. So may 3rd, I locked up for whatever day straight, that would be almost a week. Wouldn't answer phone calls, anything. Just let me know that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. We need this returning. Listen, I'm all about delight alone, but sometimes we've got to roll up our sleeves and go after heaven. Listen, fasting prayer, shut the phones off, take a weekend away. Really diligence. Jeremiah 29, 13, though the day you seek me with all of your heart, that's when you'll find me. You know, I just feel like we're getting lackadaisical sometimes, not legalism at all, not works, but complete infatuation. And sometimes you got to strive to enter into rest. I like in the secret place often to flying a kite. At first, sometimes you got to put some effort into it and run. And it's rough and it lands and hits the ground. It's like Charlie Brown. He can never get it up. And then through time, Isaiah 40, the wind of the spirit will catch you and you suspend. And then that's where you sustain the presence of God. You guys understand what I mean? If you've ever been in prayer, it's like rough. It's hard to sustain. I've been there. It's like you're hitting up against a wall. We'll stay the course, be with him, and then you'll get pulled into an intimate place. So May 3rd starts. Corey, what is up? See you in the Vax. He's amazing. And nothing dries a bone. May 4th, shaka-laka-ba, nothing. May 5th, 6th, 7th. Has it ever seemed to like God totally always waits to the very, very, very last minute? I should have known when he told me May 3rd to the 9th. I was like, he's not coming to the 9th. I should have known. But I'm excited every day. And he's luring me in. And it was building and prepping me. And I believe setting me apart in a way for him to land more purely in my heart. And so sure enough, May 9th comes, nothing, not even a word of knowledge, nothing. And I go to take a power nap, that's it, real quick during the middle of the day. How many of you know naps are from the Lord? Come on, no cars. No cars, okay. Yeah, they're napping, okay. They're being obedient to the Word. And so I took a quick power nap and no longer just like Pastor Rob was saying, I was just dozing off in that twilight state, just starting to fade out. Didn't know how it was supposed to happen. I just wanted to be available however the Lord wanted to encounter this thing. And listen, all I did and still do is just Jesus. But sometimes when you run into the king, his kingdom comes with him and his protocol and purposes. And they're very complex in a beautiful way, all pointing back to him. But right when I slip into this twilight state, that same door where I heard the doorknob begin to turn on May 9th, the whole week leading up to this point, opens up. And to this day, I don't know if I was just able to see in the spirit world, was it dream state? It just felt real. I don't know how it happened, to be honest with you, wish I could say. But that same door opens up. I'm in my bedroom, everything's normal, except where you would normally look into and see my breakfast room, then my kitchen. It was a stairway going into heaven like Jacob saw. It was crazy. Most of the most beautiful white, just my room even lit up. When the door opened, the light from this heavenly realm opened up and came into my room. Never saw an angel in this one. But all I saw was that Genesis 28 ladder open up. And from that encounter, listen to me, since then, we haven't been able to stop it. One of my books is on the angelic realm. But the assistance in function of the angelic realm with revelation, their movings, their workings have just totally busted open from that encounter that I begin to learn were very needed within the body of Christ and God's purposes. So I want to pray into that later, but want to land it here with intimacy that gazing at the sun that was first over the over the sky that I believe is going to cause not only this house and a more just prevalent, potent way to be called Bethel, the house of God, meaning heaven's activities, his voice, just a new jolt of what he's trying to do in our lives as well. And I'm believing for it as well. To just bust forth. But there's something with the son, Jesus Christ, and gazing at him that we need like never before in this hour. And just want to encourage you guys that we love him now more than ever in such a pure, pure way. I touched on purity last night, which that's usually the prerequisite living pure by his grace. But then for loving him really, really well, I've been in Matthew 25 a lot lately. If you followed us on the 10th bridesmaids, I'm seeing it all throughout scripture of a deep pull from Jesus for his bride to come higher in purity and intimacy, starting to cut the lesser lovers. Pastor Rob touched on it out of our life and putting our gaze back on the sun alone. Listen, and that practically looks like something. It's not just like, yeah, the cliche phrase. Have you ever seen often in church? We're real good at the talk. We know the lingo, but behind doors, our Bible still has dust on it. There's no, and I can tell it. You can get around people. And even yourself, you can tell when you get out of the presence, but that daily pursuit of that, that man from heaven, John six, that Jesus mentions that we partake of him in such a deep way, men and women. I like, like, I don't care where you're at. Me and my dear friend Brett were talking this morning. Sometimes couples even are not always equally yoked and don't start elbowing husbands and wives right now, but we're not always at the same place. And I really don't care where you're at. My thing is, is from this day, moving forward that we would start to step into a place of such deep, rich intimacy with him that you just never look back. You get so branded and in love with him that you can't shake it. And this is where the John one 51 ladder opens up. This is where the function of heaven comes so potent and is sustained his purposes. The revelation, his voice comes, let the motorcycles fly by, but there would be a people that love him so deep and well and consistently. And listen, I touched on it already, but that it would be, you know, sometimes I'm just going to go practical with you if this helps. Okay. It helps me the way I'm wired, but sometimes it takes finding a place, the secret place. You can see this with Adam right out of the gate in the garden. God, God came to walk with him in the cool of the day. Uh, the Bible even says this about Jesus, that he had that certain place. It says the disciples came to that certain place and found Jesus. There was a place he loved to pray. Um, even it says in Luke 11, well into the chapters of the Bible that the disciples asked Jesus, how do we pray? Teach us how to pray. And the reason for this is because Jesus would often get alone. So you've got to get alone with God. I know some of the sounds elementary, but if we really start looking at our life and what we invest into, it's not always there. If we're honest, you know, and don't raise your hands, but cars, honk your horns. We can't see you. You could honk your horns. You can rat yourself out. We don't know who you are, but, um, but finding a certain place is big. Listen, I've done this for years now. I've moved a lot over the years and in the most valuable place in my house, any, any given place I live is the secret place. That place I'm, I spend time with God is so precious and valuable and true. And I would encourage you to do that, especially with my custom background. I'll trick it out, put the most expensive chair in there. I don't care if the visitors come see it or not. Uh, you know, it's where I spend time with the bridegroom King every day. This is the most valuable thing you can do every day of your life is be with Jesus. You know, acts four 13, Peter and John gunning and power and authority. And the scholars of the day said, what is up with these common untrained men? They couldn't figure it out. And then they said, ah, there it is. They've been with him that I can see it now. He's on them. He's in them. He's through them. I can hear it on their voice. That's what it is. If you want to really click into the highest purpose of all that you were ever born for, be with him. Listen, you'll come out. There'll be just something different on your spousal. Know what? They're like, what is different about you? Same cologne smell great, but there's something different. And it's that gazing at the sun. Listen, you walk in freedom. You step into he who is all liberty. Bondage can't stay on you. It's impossible. You abide in the vine and you come out empowered and then you you're outside. Not much longer. Although I know we all always practice the presence were in him. I'm just talking about the secret place now that is devotion and a daily life. Matthew six. Jesus says for you and I to go into our closet, shut the door behind us and be with him in secret. Listen, I travel. Listen to me. Humanity is pretty much the same. I'm learning this. We're humans, different languages, ethnic, ethnic backgrounds, colors, you know, whatever it is. And we're all the same. I'm close friends with David Hogan's son in law. And we're closer with them. Their freedom ministries down in Mexico. Amazing work, seeing the dead rays and all this stuff. Book of Acts times 10. I mean, food multiplication is really powerful. And his son in law says, Yep, we've been learning just humanities the same. They've been on the high mountains. I've been all over the place as well. And at the end of the day, sometimes if we're not, you know, careful and if we're honest, we're lazy. You know, we go what like water, just what's the easiest way in path of nature for us. And sometimes we need to really get diligent and seek heaven in a real way. And it forms out this grace of infatuation and love of being with Jesus. But the Bible says the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. And often, if you keep catering to your flesh in these areas, it'll start to dominate your life and keep you flat of where God's really trying to take you to. Does that make sense to some of you guys? And you're like, No, I'm holy. I got the secret place locked down. I'm teasing with you. But go into that closet, shut that door behind you. Some of my secret places. I don't encourage you find that place. A quiet place is really key. The Bible says Jesus would even wake up Mark one thirty five well before the sun. Birds aren't chirping just yet. Not, you know, humanity still. And it's the Bible says even he would go a throne still a stone throw sorry away from the disciples. Isolation, stillness, being alone with God. Genesis thirty two. You know, when Jacob wrestled with God, once he got alone, it's all throughout the word. And sometimes, especially if we're extroverted, we don't like being alone. We want to be around people. You guys know what I'm talking about? There's extroverts and introverts. I have a dear friend, Todd White. He's probably the extrovert of all extroverts, the dreadlocks. He loves people, but he blows out the secret place to basically extroverts or those that are charged when they're around a lot of people. You guys know those type? Do we have any here? Any cars that are extroverted out there? Obviously not. You're in your car. You're introverted. I'm teasing. I'm messing with you. But but introverts, they get drained around a lot of people, you know, and I can relate as well. It's like you're like, oh, my gosh, man, all these people, you know what I'm saying? And that's OK, too. All of them are great. Some are kind of hybrids and it's just humanity and it's all good. You said not you. Oh, Jocelyn, are you introverted? Oh, introverted. Yeah, no, I can totally relate. And but it's all good. It's just the beautiful makeup of mankind. But I'll encourage you extroverts when you're with him. It's fully it's a full out party. You've got Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the father angelic realm. I mean, it's usually more people than you would with just your friends. And but the point is being with him. Listen, letting him draw you into such a deep, deep place of intimacy in watching a month from now, six months from now, a year from now. And these people, man, they're just different. They walk on a different frequency of life, a different freedom. Deception can't rest and stand upon your life when you intimately gaze upon the sun. So I want to encourage you guys like never before. Dig deep in the word, especially right now. There's a lot of just interesting stuff starting to come about. You know, that's not accurate. It's not the Bible. And just stay on the pure word, man. I love the Bible. Listen, I pray for a fresh infatuation for the Bible. I've just fallen more in love again with it. Dive deep, man. Go all of it. Leviticus, Old Covenant, Psalms. They have a proverbs for every day of the month. It's just gold. It's just gold, man, that book. It's a divine encounter waiting to have a crack that thing open. And listen, I'll give you some practical tips that I love. Is sometimes have you ever tried to read the Bible and it's just flat and boring and you can't comprehend it? I've been there a bunch of you all are holy, especially the cars. But but sometimes listen to me, if you pray in the Holy Ghost for about half hour, an hour, get in it, get in his presence, because, listen, the Holy Spirit authored the thing. Holy Spirit penned it. The Bible says all scripture is God breathed Holy Spirit through men, penned it, and he can unlock it like anybody else. So if it feels flat, sometimes just close it for a minute. Pray in the Holy Spirit. I love Smith Wigglesworth said he said some read the Bible in Hebrew, some read it in Greek, but I read it in the Holy Ghost. That's what Smith Wigglesworth said. And we love the Hebrew and Greek, too. But to the point is reading it by the spirit. It will come alive again. The wisdom of Proverbs, Song of Solomon, the Psalms dive deep, the New Testament go deep. And listen, I would encourage you sometimes I love I was on a podcast recently with a dear friend who was talking about some of these practical things. Find a version that lands well with you. That's okay. I don't get too hung up. If that's okay, Pastor Rob, I don't know if it's KJV only. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I was like, oh, maybe I'm treading on. But, you know, I just think sometimes the way we compute and comprehend things are different from others. And I have different friends that love different versions. And a lot of people are on the passion one lately. Sounds awesome. I don't know a lot about that one, but find something that really those spirits breathing on and speaking to you in. And sometimes what I'll do just to let you in the back end of my life, I'll read quantity to find quality. So meaning I don't have a set thing. I may jump in and reading one chapter and then, bam, I had a verse and just there's oil on it. I feel the Holy Spirit for life and I'll camp out, chew and chew and dig different versions, Greek. And just he's washing me in the water of his word. It's an encounter full out. Listen to me. You wonder why you read the Bible and you hunger for Jesus more that the sinful pulls fall off because it's a supernatural book, a live of his presence and voice, and it keeps you pure and true and following him. Sometimes I'll be 10 chapters later and then, bam, I'll hit that quality. It's like a needle in a haystack and I'll find it. I'm like, there it is, the bread of life for today. There's encounter on it. Wind. And so, you know, to each his own. But the point is being with Jesus is the most valuable thing you could do every day of your life. And from that, the heavenly ladders unlock and purpose is fulfilled and so forth and so on. So I just want to encourage you guys with that and we will pray.