1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,235 Kevin O'Dea: Come on. Come on. Come on. Give him praise. Hallelujah. Yeah. 2 00:00:13,415 --> 00:00:17,240 Kevin O'Dea: And you have access to that God. You have 3 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:21,000 Kevin O'Dea: access to that God. Man, God has been so good. If you have, if 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,744 Kevin O'Dea: you've been in attendance to the conference in any shape, any of the days, 5 00:00:24,744 --> 00:00:27,945 Kevin O'Dea: would you just lift your hand? You've you've been a participant. Has it been a 6 00:00:27,945 --> 00:00:31,385 Kevin O'Dea: good week? Has it been a good week? Good. Good. I'm so 7 00:00:31,385 --> 00:00:35,050 Kevin O'Dea: glad, and I'm so thankful to, everyone who has, 8 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:38,730 Kevin O'Dea: come and all of the work that has gone behind the scenes. 9 00:00:39,385 --> 00:00:43,145 Kevin O'Dea: The worship team has done a phenomenal job leading us. All of you 10 00:00:43,145 --> 00:00:46,825 Kevin O'Dea: people up in the loft that have been working behind the scenes in the tech 11 00:00:46,825 --> 00:00:50,610 Kevin O'Dea: areas, we so appreciate you. All of the volunteers 12 00:00:50,990 --> 00:00:54,830 Kevin O'Dea: who have worked with our kids and our teens all week 13 00:00:54,830 --> 00:00:58,290 Kevin O'Dea: long have done a phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal 14 00:00:58,350 --> 00:01:01,845 Kevin O'Dea: job. All of the people manning the tables, the ministries, 15 00:01:02,065 --> 00:01:05,905 Kevin O'Dea: we are so just so grateful. It takes an army to be able to 16 00:01:05,905 --> 00:01:09,549 Kevin O'Dea: do, what we did this week, and I'm so grateful. I do want 17 00:01:09,549 --> 00:01:11,810 Kevin O'Dea: to recognize a few key individuals, 18 00:01:13,149 --> 00:01:16,875 Kevin O'Dea: that I believe really just, there would be no conference 19 00:01:16,935 --> 00:01:20,695 Kevin O'Dea: without without these with the without these people. So if you are 20 00:01:20,695 --> 00:01:24,377 Kevin O'Dea: Joshua McLeod, would you come? If you are Dustin Theater 21 00:01:44,390 --> 00:01:48,149 Kevin O'Dea: individuals, have been here, you know, of course 22 00:01:48,149 --> 00:01:51,725 Kevin O'Dea: the paid staff is here through the week working on things, but these these 23 00:01:51,725 --> 00:01:54,465 Kevin O'Dea: guys have just been laboring behind the scenes, 24 00:01:55,485 --> 00:01:58,145 Kevin O'Dea: tirelessly, very joyfully, tirelessly, 25 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:02,930 Kevin O'Dea: tying balloons, blowing balloons, cooking dinners, getting things organized, 26 00:02:02,990 --> 00:02:06,510 Kevin O'Dea: saying God this way, that way, and stay here, and don't do that, and do 27 00:02:06,510 --> 00:02:10,305 Kevin O'Dea: this, and all of those things. And, what I 28 00:02:10,305 --> 00:02:14,145 Kevin O'Dea: love so much about this group is that if we 29 00:02:14,145 --> 00:02:17,910 Kevin O'Dea: didn't do this moment, your treasure would've been in heaven and 30 00:02:17,910 --> 00:02:21,670 Kevin O'Dea: you're totally fine. But I believe that the word says, render honor 31 00:02:21,670 --> 00:02:25,415 Kevin O'Dea: where honor is due. And you guys, we just honor you. I thank you for 32 00:02:25,415 --> 00:02:28,855 Kevin O'Dea: making helping make the vision of All Access Conference come to 33 00:02:28,855 --> 00:02:32,694 Kevin O'Dea: fruition, for putting up with my shenanigans, and all of the all of 34 00:02:32,694 --> 00:02:36,120 Kevin O'Dea: the staff and working with us. You guys are the 35 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,420 Kevin O'Dea: best. Would you guys show your appreciation and love for this team? 36 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,900 Kevin O'Dea: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 37 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,239 Kevin O'Dea: God is good and God saves the very best right now and I don't wanna 38 00:03:00,239 --> 00:03:03,745 Kevin O'Dea: take any more time from our guest speaker. Would you please welcome Tim 39 00:03:03,745 --> 00:03:04,245 Kevin O'Dea: Hooper? 40 00:03:10,970 --> 00:03:11,630 Tim Hooper: Love you. 41 00:03:15,178 --> 00:03:18,965 Tim Hooper: God is good, amen? Come 42 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:22,325 Tim Hooper: thou fountain of every blessing, prone to 43 00:03:22,325 --> 00:03:25,525 Tim Hooper: wander, Lord, I feel it. It's so good to be in this place, but you 44 00:03:25,525 --> 00:03:27,625 Tim Hooper: know, we are in a broken world. 45 00:03:29,190 --> 00:03:33,030 Tim Hooper: We're in a broken world. It's so good to be reminded of who God 46 00:03:33,030 --> 00:03:36,650 Tim Hooper: is. Amen? Did they do a good job or what? Wow. 47 00:03:37,625 --> 00:03:41,465 Tim Hooper: Every book of the Bible, God is something to us. In 48 00:03:41,465 --> 00:03:44,985 Tim Hooper: our relationship with him, the spirit relating and speaking to 49 00:03:44,985 --> 00:03:48,690 Tim Hooper: us speaks into the moment who God is for us 50 00:03:48,690 --> 00:03:52,390 Tim Hooper: in that moment. And there's no way 51 00:03:52,985 --> 00:03:56,745 Tim Hooper: I can take any of what I've written scribbled and chicken scratch and crossed 52 00:03:56,745 --> 00:04:00,505 Tim Hooper: out and added to and said, God, maybe this direction or maybe that direction. There's 53 00:04:00,505 --> 00:04:04,090 Tim Hooper: no way that I can take that and apply it to this group 54 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:07,709 Tim Hooper: today. So I pray, pour it out and 55 00:04:08,410 --> 00:04:12,175 Tim Hooper: God would you just fill this pray, would you come meet with us today? 56 00:04:12,175 --> 00:04:15,855 Tim Hooper: That's our prayer in Jesus' name. So praise God 57 00:04:15,855 --> 00:04:19,669 Tim Hooper: for everything that's already happened in the conference. Barby was 58 00:04:19,669 --> 00:04:23,110 Tim Hooper: preaching last night and said, the 3rd day wonderful things 59 00:04:23,110 --> 00:04:26,925 Tim Hooper: happen. And it was funny because as I was reading back through theatre 60 00:04:26,925 --> 00:04:30,605 Tim Hooper: text for today, there was a 3rd day in there. And I was 61 00:04:30,605 --> 00:04:33,588 Tim Hooper: like, Wow. And then it said in on the 4th pray. And so we're God 62 00:04:33,650 --> 00:04:36,850 Tim Hooper: get to that. So you are here on the 4th day. Can I get an 63 00:04:36,850 --> 00:04:40,575 Tim Hooper: amen? You're here on the 4th pray. It's been amazing. And 64 00:04:40,575 --> 00:04:44,115 Tim Hooper: I don't take for granted being put at the tail end of anything. 65 00:04:44,975 --> 00:04:48,035 Tim Hooper: I come from a big family and we pray that, 66 00:04:49,030 --> 00:04:52,789 Tim Hooper: that you exercise faith being at the tail end of the family because the 67 00:04:52,789 --> 00:04:56,550 Tim Hooper: Hebrews says, you know, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the 68 00:04:56,550 --> 00:05:00,215 Tim Hooper: evidence of things not seen. And, if you were at the tail end of the 69 00:05:00,215 --> 00:05:03,975 Tim Hooper: family, that was the platter of meat. It was the substance of things hoped 70 00:05:03,975 --> 00:05:06,840 Tim Hooper: for on that end of the table. And when it got down to you, it's 71 00:05:06,919 --> 00:05:10,680 Tim Hooper: was the evidence of things not seen. So, you know, being at the tail 72 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,199 Tim Hooper: end, I don't take for granted, but if you were not able to hear some 73 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:17,785 Tim Hooper: of the messages. I got to sit in Kevin's house yesterday 74 00:05:17,785 --> 00:05:21,465 Tim Hooper: afternoon and he just poured his heart out about the Spirit 75 00:05:21,465 --> 00:05:25,169 Tim Hooper: of don't pray in the hallway, God's door is wide open 76 00:05:25,169 --> 00:05:28,949 Tim Hooper: and oftentimes we've built the hallway all access to Him. 77 00:05:29,250 --> 00:05:32,505 Tim Hooper: And then he Holy me about, he said, if you get the chance to go 78 00:05:32,505 --> 00:05:36,265 Tim Hooper: watch Justin's message about putting our entire yes on the table, 79 00:05:36,265 --> 00:05:39,485 Tim Hooper: just everything, all in. And I will tell you 80 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,660 Tim Hooper: that that is probably the battleground in all of our hearts, 81 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,480 Tim Hooper: because right here in this moment, I'm all in. Are we all in this 82 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,005 Tim Hooper: morning? Yes. We're all in. But the battle 83 00:05:51,625 --> 00:05:55,384 Tim Hooper: is real. We walk out that door, the battle is real. There is 84 00:05:55,384 --> 00:05:59,190 Tim Hooper: warfare, spiritual warfare, and somebody in the 85 00:05:59,190 --> 00:06:02,550 Tim Hooper: enemy's kingdom is saying, oh, pray. What's going on at 86 00:06:02,550 --> 00:06:06,230 Tim Hooper: Springhouse Church this morning? And they're God be on the lookout, they're gonna be 87 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:10,055 Tim Hooper: looking for every opportunity to distract us. And then Barbee came on 88 00:06:10,055 --> 00:06:13,735 Tim Hooper: the 3rd day and talked about the veil being torn from the 89 00:06:13,735 --> 00:06:16,695 Tim Hooper: bottom down. It's funny. We're getting on a plane. My son Jeremy is here with 90 00:06:16,695 --> 00:06:20,060 Tim Hooper: me this morning. We're getting on a plane, first time on a commercial airline. 91 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,400 Tim Hooper: And we were Ghost looking out the window waiting for our pray, there were several 92 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,784 Tim Hooper: delays, and we were looking at the fin on the top. And I said, How 93 00:06:26,784 --> 00:06:29,745 Tim Hooper: thick do you think that thing is? Because we were looking at the wheels, and 94 00:06:29,745 --> 00:06:32,784 Tim Hooper: you know, we all think an airplane wheel is about this big, but then I 95 00:06:32,784 --> 00:06:36,030 Tim Hooper: was looking at the ground coordinator with the thing and it's up to here on 96 00:06:36,030 --> 00:06:38,750 Tim Hooper: him. So, I stood up in the terminal and I'm like, dude, that's like a 97 00:06:38,750 --> 00:06:42,190 Tim Hooper: tractor tire. Like, these wheels are massive. I said, how thick do you 98 00:06:42,190 --> 00:06:45,885 Tim Hooper: think that that that fin is? And then Barbie got up here and talked 99 00:06:45,885 --> 00:06:49,645 Tim Hooper: about horses couldn't even tear. If you tied 2 horses on either side of 100 00:06:49,645 --> 00:06:53,160 Tim Hooper: that veil, it could not have been torn. But God tore it from 101 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:57,060 Tim Hooper: the top down. Only God can tear 102 00:06:57,060 --> 00:07:00,840 Tim Hooper: the veil of our heart open of the Holy of Holies and give us 103 00:07:01,345 --> 00:07:04,865 Tim Hooper: all access because of Christ and his finished work on the 3rd 104 00:07:04,865 --> 00:07:08,705 Tim Hooper: day. And then Kevin got out this morning and literally cut 105 00:07:08,705 --> 00:07:10,990 Tim Hooper: to the heart of our disappointments. 106 00:07:12,570 --> 00:07:16,250 Tim Hooper: Our disappointments. And I want to pick up right there where 107 00:07:16,262 --> 00:07:19,855 Tim Hooper: God and if you didn't get a chance to attend because of work or life 108 00:07:19,855 --> 00:07:22,755 Tim Hooper: or schedule, please go back. They're right on the line. Watch 109 00:07:23,455 --> 00:07:27,190 Tim Hooper: from start to finish. Go binge All Access because I 110 00:07:27,190 --> 00:07:30,950 Tim Hooper: think God does not want us to forget that we have 111 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:34,555 Tim Hooper: access. There's only one power in this earthly kingdom 112 00:07:34,854 --> 00:07:38,615 Tim Hooper: that wants us to forget that we have all access to the throne, 113 00:07:38,615 --> 00:07:42,375 Tim Hooper: and that is the enemy, and he's a defeated enemy. His days are 114 00:07:42,375 --> 00:07:46,200 Tim Hooper: numbered, ours are eternal, and if he can just get us to be 115 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,800 Tim Hooper: distracted from the all access posture we 116 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,485 Tim Hooper: have, then he can win 117 00:07:54,264 --> 00:07:57,920 Tim Hooper: some of the battles, because he's already lost the war. So, 118 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,900 Tim Hooper: go back and binge it. But he talked about the disappointments. 119 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,515 Tim Hooper: And it was so funny because as I prayed about what to preach, I was 120 00:08:05,515 --> 00:08:09,115 Tim Hooper: considering John 11 and near to the heart of God, which 121 00:08:09,115 --> 00:08:12,875 Tim Hooper: you just completely did church a fantastic job with this morning. 122 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:16,340 Tim Hooper: It's amazing. But what God gave me was, 123 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,639 Tim Hooper: Tim, I want you to share the message on where am I 124 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,164 Tim Hooper: looking? All of us can ask ourselves that question this morning, 125 00:08:24,164 --> 00:08:27,625 Tim Hooper: where am I looking? And we'll go to the word of God. 126 00:08:27,925 --> 00:08:31,770 Tim Hooper: In Psalm chapter number 25 verse 15, I'll read this out 127 00:08:31,770 --> 00:08:35,209 Tim Hooper: of the, NIV version, it's on the screen. If we could all stand, we'll read 128 00:08:35,209 --> 00:08:38,955 Tim Hooper: this together, and then we'll pray and then get into the message. But 129 00:08:38,955 --> 00:08:42,715 Tim Hooper: in Psalm chapter number 25, verse 15, David 130 00:08:42,715 --> 00:08:46,155 Tim Hooper: writes, and we'll read it together, My eyes are 131 00:08:46,155 --> 00:08:49,560 Tim Hooper: ever on the Lord, for only he 132 00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:53,160 Tim Hooper: will release my feet from the snare. Let's read it one more time. 133 00:08:53,460 --> 00:08:57,240 Tim Hooper: My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only 134 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:01,125 Tim Hooper: he will release my feet from the snare. You may be seated. 135 00:09:01,125 --> 00:09:04,025 Tim Hooper: Let's pray. Father, our eyes, 136 00:09:07,420 --> 00:09:11,180 Tim Hooper: Our eyes, God. Will you just show 137 00:09:11,180 --> 00:09:14,880 Tim Hooper: us, Lord, like Joshua just got up here and said, Lord, 138 00:09:16,084 --> 00:09:19,305 Tim Hooper: the complainers and the those 139 00:09:19,524 --> 00:09:23,285 Tim Hooper: me, the complainer, me, the one who forgets to 140 00:09:23,285 --> 00:09:26,670 Tim Hooper: worship in the suffering, God, my eyes 141 00:09:26,670 --> 00:09:30,430 Tim Hooper: quickly are shifted off of you to 142 00:09:30,430 --> 00:09:34,075 Tim Hooper: the waves around me. Lord, would 143 00:09:34,075 --> 00:09:37,915 Tim Hooper: your spirit just lovingly and mercifully point out in our hearts 144 00:09:37,915 --> 00:09:41,640 Tim Hooper: where our eyes are, God. And 145 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,320 Tim Hooper: will you just help us to shatter all of the 146 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,895 Tim Hooper: lives of the enemy. All of the 147 00:09:48,895 --> 00:09:52,675 Tim Hooper: fear that he has spoken 148 00:09:53,615 --> 00:09:57,395 Tim Hooper: into our lives through maybe the lives of others, 149 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,900 Tim Hooper: maybe through past hurt, maybe through the disappointments, 150 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,180 Tim Hooper: but he has caused us to be fearful 151 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,855 Tim Hooper: of looking up into your loving, 152 00:10:10,274 --> 00:10:13,954 Tim Hooper: matchless, wonderful face. Would 153 00:10:13,954 --> 00:10:17,440 Tim Hooper: you shadow those lies? Would you show us where our eyes are this morning? 154 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:21,019 Tim Hooper: In your name, your precious name of 155 00:10:21,019 --> 00:10:24,775 Tim Hooper: Jesus. Amen. So in Psalm, David writes 156 00:10:24,775 --> 00:10:28,295 Tim Hooper: this, and I thought about our eyes. Scientists tell us that our vision, the sense 157 00:10:28,295 --> 00:10:31,595 Tim Hooper: of our vision, takes 50% of our brain. 158 00:10:32,470 --> 00:10:36,230 Tim Hooper: It's it's the it's the Ghost engaged sense is our 159 00:10:36,230 --> 00:10:39,865 Tim Hooper: eyes, our vision. And you know, our eyes do 160 00:10:39,865 --> 00:10:42,985 Tim Hooper: not see. Some people say, and I'm going to ask all of us, where are 161 00:10:42,985 --> 00:10:46,699 Tim Hooper: we looking? Some people say about faith, about God, about belief in God, 162 00:10:46,985 --> 00:10:50,050 Tim Hooper: they say, well, I'll see it when I believe it. Anybody ever hear that? I'll 163 00:10:50,050 --> 00:10:53,170 Tim Hooper: see it when I believe it. Well, that's actually a myth, and I'll tell you 164 00:10:53,170 --> 00:10:56,390 Tim Hooper: why. We bought this old house in Virginia, and 165 00:10:57,145 --> 00:11:00,985 Tim Hooper: we bought this old house, and it's from 19 thirties. And so, you know, big 166 00:11:00,985 --> 00:11:04,825 Tim Hooper: massive oak trees, the leaves have fallen, the soil, they've turned to soil, and 167 00:11:04,825 --> 00:11:08,410 Tim Hooper: the ground, you know, over time, the ground builds up. So the ground has raised 168 00:11:08,410 --> 00:11:11,610 Tim Hooper: a good foot over the last 80 years. And so the garage 169 00:11:12,330 --> 00:11:14,649 Tim Hooper: we we we dug it out a little bit and we put pavement in the 170 00:11:14,649 --> 00:11:18,475 Tim Hooper: garage but the garage, the eaves of the garage hang down just 171 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:22,315 Tim Hooper: enough Ghost enough to where a 5 foot, you 172 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:25,930 Tim Hooper: know, 10 guy or gal would clear just fine. 173 00:11:26,390 --> 00:11:30,230 Tim Hooper: But this 5 foot 11 guy doesn't clear just fine. The 174 00:11:30,230 --> 00:11:33,815 Tim Hooper: problem is my eyes are about 5 foot 7, somewhere in 175 00:11:33,815 --> 00:11:37,495 Tim Hooper: here. And that 5 foot 11, that little point of my head 176 00:11:37,495 --> 00:11:41,115 Tim Hooper: is right here. So I come out of the garage and I'm looking down. 177 00:11:42,398 --> 00:11:45,420 Tim Hooper: Pray I say I was looking? Oh, yeah. Down. So I'm looking down, I come 178 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:48,160 Tim Hooper: out of the garage, trying to answer a few texts before I'm in the house. 179 00:11:48,779 --> 00:11:52,535 Tim Hooper: I walk out of the garage and Ghost BAM! Right into this little 180 00:11:52,535 --> 00:11:56,375 Tim Hooper: point of the eave. It's just BAM! I'm like you know? I 181 00:11:56,375 --> 00:11:59,870 Tim Hooper: didn't see that coming. But see, that's the myth. I'll see it. 182 00:12:00,010 --> 00:12:02,890 Tim Hooper: I'll believe it when I see it. No. I believe it and I didn't see 183 00:12:02,890 --> 00:12:06,090 Tim Hooper: it. Like, I believe it hit me right there. But here's the thing. Right? Where 184 00:12:06,090 --> 00:12:09,625 Tim Hooper: were my eyes? My eyes were down. I was looking down. You 185 00:12:09,625 --> 00:12:13,464 Tim Hooper: know, in life, we look down a lot. You know, it's it's 186 00:12:13,464 --> 00:12:16,524 Tim Hooper: part of it's just just here like, gravity. 187 00:12:17,230 --> 00:12:20,910 Tim Hooper: We have gravity that is called the little g. You know, gravity. You know, I'm 188 00:12:20,910 --> 00:12:23,389 Tim Hooper: a runner and people always say, oh, that little Jesus God catch up to you. 189 00:12:23,389 --> 00:12:27,195 Tim Hooper: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know. It will. Right? Generosity. Gravity. What does it 190 00:12:27,195 --> 00:12:30,875 Tim Hooper: do? It pulls us down. The weight of this life 191 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:34,649 Tim Hooper: pulls us down. The things that maybe just entered into 192 00:12:34,649 --> 00:12:38,329 Tim Hooper: our life by surprise, the diagnosis, the news, the 193 00:12:38,329 --> 00:12:41,690 Tim Hooper: relational issue, they pull us down, they weigh us 194 00:12:41,690 --> 00:12:45,485 Tim Hooper: down. It's not any of our fault, but it is 195 00:12:45,485 --> 00:12:49,325 Tim Hooper: a problem that each of us live with. It's the reality. This 196 00:12:49,325 --> 00:12:53,070 Tim Hooper: thing body have a phone on in their pocket somewhere on them? Yes. How do 197 00:12:53,070 --> 00:12:56,370 Tim Hooper: we live without this thing anymore? Somebody said when phones had cords, 198 00:12:56,750 --> 00:13:00,590 Tim Hooper: people were free. They came unplugged and now we're tied 199 00:13:00,590 --> 00:13:04,135 Tim Hooper: up. But, so we're always looking down. Right? And 200 00:13:04,135 --> 00:13:07,815 Tim Hooper: it's just this posture. And I think whether 201 00:13:07,815 --> 00:13:11,120 Tim Hooper: it's by choice or just by default, 202 00:13:11,899 --> 00:13:15,199 Tim Hooper: our gaze has shifted downward. 203 00:13:16,765 --> 00:13:20,445 Tim Hooper: But see, our eyes don't they're not really what sees, it's our brain. In 204 00:13:20,445 --> 00:13:24,110 Tim Hooper: Ephesians, Paul calls them the eyes of our heart. And in our 205 00:13:24,110 --> 00:13:27,709 Tim Hooper: life a lot of times I know our physical eyes may be looking down 206 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:30,769 Tim Hooper: but the eyes of our heart have shifted downward. 207 00:13:32,015 --> 00:13:35,615 Tim Hooper: Discouragement. Disappointment. They've 208 00:13:35,615 --> 00:13:39,295 Tim Hooper: shifted our eyes downward. I was driving home from, 209 00:13:39,615 --> 00:13:43,270 Tim Hooper: from, not Nashville. That's past life. I was driving 210 00:13:43,270 --> 00:13:46,250 Tim Hooper: home from D. C. Back to Central Virginia, 211 00:13:47,110 --> 00:13:50,390 Tim Hooper: considering some of the diagnoses and things my wife had been through on her 2nd 212 00:13:50,390 --> 00:13:53,894 Tim Hooper: round of cancer, and I was just 213 00:13:53,894 --> 00:13:57,654 Tim Hooper: downcast. And I was driving and, you know, kind 214 00:13:57,654 --> 00:14:00,615 Tim Hooper: of weaving in and out of the lanes, trying to make it home as best 215 00:14:00,615 --> 00:14:04,360 Tim Hooper: I can, just in the hubbub of life, 216 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,980 Tim Hooper: just driving back. And it was a long day, a great day, nothing was 217 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,975 Tim Hooper: incredibly wrong. There were some diagnosis things we had to deal with, nothing major at 218 00:14:11,975 --> 00:14:15,335 Tim Hooper: this moment in time. She was working through Ghost towards the end of 219 00:14:15,335 --> 00:14:19,015 Tim Hooper: her treatments, but I was just discouraged. It's been a long 3 220 00:14:19,015 --> 00:14:21,990 Tim Hooper: years, second round of cancer. I'm just 221 00:14:22,450 --> 00:14:25,890 Tim Hooper: discouraged. And I'll never forget, I 222 00:14:25,890 --> 00:14:29,464 Tim Hooper: was just looking and you know how a truck will pass you as you're Holy 223 00:14:29,464 --> 00:14:32,745 Tim Hooper: in traffic? It passes you this way, then it passes you that pray, and you 224 00:14:32,745 --> 00:14:36,580 Tim Hooper: feel like you're going backwards, because it's going faster than you are. I had 225 00:14:36,580 --> 00:14:40,180 Tim Hooper: one of those moments of, like, woah, a little equilibrium loss. And so I looked 226 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:43,845 Tim Hooper: over, I'll never forget, it was one of Lauren Daigle's buses. And it 227 00:14:43,845 --> 00:14:46,345 Tim Hooper: just said, Look up, child. All plastered across 228 00:14:47,845 --> 00:14:51,524 Tim Hooper: the side. And I'll never forget in that moment the Holy Spirit whispered and 229 00:14:51,524 --> 00:14:55,370 Tim Hooper: said, don't forget to look 230 00:14:55,510 --> 00:14:59,350 Tim Hooper: up. It's just a simple reminder. My my mom, I I God to 231 00:14:59,350 --> 00:15:02,330 Tim Hooper: go speak at her church in Cedar Rapids. They had just lost 232 00:15:03,105 --> 00:15:06,405 Tim Hooper: her pastor, 56 year old, healthy, runner, 233 00:15:06,465 --> 00:15:10,085 Tim Hooper: fit, diagnosed with brain cancer, and within a year, gone. 234 00:15:11,390 --> 00:15:14,190 Tim Hooper: And I was going to fill the pulpit and I said, God, what do I 235 00:15:14,190 --> 00:15:17,730 Tim Hooper: say to a church who just lost their dearest 236 00:15:17,790 --> 00:15:18,290 Tim Hooper: friend? 237 00:15:21,455 --> 00:15:24,355 Tim Hooper: And he said, just what I told you on the interstate. 238 00:15:25,375 --> 00:15:28,990 Tim Hooper: Just look up. And if we could 239 00:15:28,990 --> 00:15:31,490 Tim Hooper: end this conference just remembering 240 00:15:32,589 --> 00:15:36,435 Tim Hooper: to look up to the throne room, where we 241 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:40,115 Tim Hooper: are seated with Christ, heirs to Christ. If we can 242 00:15:40,115 --> 00:15:42,695 Tim Hooper: remember, we're not there yet, 243 00:15:43,839 --> 00:15:47,680 Tim Hooper: but we will be and we are spiritually seated with Christ, if I can 244 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,360 Tim Hooper: just remember to look up. Not because I got it 245 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,075 Tim Hooper: all right first, not because I got all of it together 246 00:15:55,207 --> 00:15:58,675 Tim Hooper: Ghost. Now, I'm ready. Daddy's God to be pleased. No, he's 247 00:15:58,675 --> 00:16:02,140 Tim Hooper: already pleased. I can just remember to look up. 248 00:16:02,380 --> 00:16:06,000 Tim Hooper: Kevin was talking about letting him have the final say. 249 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:10,380 Tim Hooper: And I thought about some of the reasons I don't look up. I'm 250 00:16:10,380 --> 00:16:14,154 Tim Hooper: afraid. I'm afraid it's God be no again because I told 251 00:16:14,154 --> 00:16:17,915 Tim Hooper: him it was a no when really it's a no now cause there's a greater 252 00:16:17,915 --> 00:16:21,300 Tim Hooper: yes coming. I love the line of the song that says, if it's not 253 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:25,140 Tim Hooper: good, then He's not done with it yet. I love that, 254 00:16:25,140 --> 00:16:28,865 Tim Hooper: because I can come looking up in confidence, in steadfast 255 00:16:29,005 --> 00:16:32,765 Tim Hooper: hope that He gets the final say. I can look up, I 256 00:16:32,765 --> 00:16:36,365 Tim Hooper: can overcome my fear that I'm not good enough, and daddy's not 257 00:16:36,365 --> 00:16:40,120 Tim Hooper: pleased, or father king, father God almighty. And I love what Barbie 258 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,880 Tim Hooper: said. We need to raise our vision, our view, our the eyes of 259 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,714 Tim Hooper: our heart and how mighty God is. The demon is in front of us, 260 00:16:47,714 --> 00:16:51,460 Tim Hooper: but the mighty army of angels, go back and listen to this morning's message. 261 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:55,460 Tim Hooper: The mighty army of angels. Joshua, thank you for the vision. The 262 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:59,080 Tim Hooper: mighty army of angels standing behind us. He looks ferocious 263 00:16:59,140 --> 00:17:02,834 Tim Hooper: because he's scared, and we're scared of him till we turn around and realize God 264 00:17:02,834 --> 00:17:06,674 Tim Hooper: is fighting for us. We need to look up. We need to see mighty 265 00:17:06,674 --> 00:17:10,200 Tim Hooper: King God on our side, and we have all 266 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,500 Tim Hooper: access to Him because of Jesus and His blood. 267 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:15,980 Tim Hooper: Look up, child. 268 00:17:18,615 --> 00:17:22,375 Tim Hooper: So the garage taught me that I gotta look up. Something else 269 00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:25,494 Tim Hooper: taught me to look up. I was driving to Roanoke to speak Roanoke, Virginia to 270 00:17:25,494 --> 00:17:29,330 Tim Hooper: speak. And, I'm driving over there and I'm talking to our senior vice president. 271 00:17:29,330 --> 00:17:32,289 Tim Hooper: I'm like, yeah. I'm headed over to Roanoke to speak. And and he said, oh, 272 00:17:32,289 --> 00:17:35,270 Tim Hooper: I bet you, you're gonna go see the star. I'm like, 273 00:17:35,915 --> 00:17:39,674 Tim Hooper: the star? The star do we have the picture of the star? Is 274 00:17:39,674 --> 00:17:42,395 Tim Hooper: it in the slides? There we go. He said, I bet you we're going to 275 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:45,900 Tim Hooper: go see the God star. I was like, what's the star? Now, I had just 276 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:49,740 Tim Hooper: moved from Nashville to Virginia. I wasn't totally accustomed to all the natural 277 00:17:49,740 --> 00:17:53,485 Tim Hooper: wonders and man made wonders, but this is the largest man made star in the 278 00:17:53,485 --> 00:17:57,245 Tim Hooper: world. I was like, wow. So he said, the star. 279 00:17:57,245 --> 00:17:59,565 Tim Hooper: He said, you don't know what the star is? I was like, no, I've never 280 00:17:59,565 --> 00:18:01,405 Tim Hooper: heard of the star. He said, you need to go see the star. So he 281 00:18:01,405 --> 00:18:04,430 Tim Hooper: gave me a little rundown. Well, I got up to speak. I was speaking to 282 00:18:04,430 --> 00:18:07,870 Tim Hooper: all these people from Roanoke about how to market their business and sales and 283 00:18:07,870 --> 00:18:10,670 Tim Hooper: whatnot and all this. And and I and I brought it up. It was it 284 00:18:10,670 --> 00:18:13,743 Tim Hooper: fit into the story. So I, like, brought it up. So I was driving out 285 00:18:13,743 --> 00:18:17,187 Tim Hooper: here this morning, and this guy told me, I need to go see the star. 286 00:18:17,187 --> 00:18:20,631 Tim Hooper: He asked me if I knew where the star Holy. I said, no. And the 287 00:18:20,631 --> 00:18:24,440 Tim Hooper: whole room gasped. Whatever. So I went 288 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:28,360 Tim Hooper: so afterwards, I got done speaking. My buddy came up, Scott. He said, 289 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,925 Tim Hooper: he said, Tim, do you have some time? Do you have to rush out anywhere? 290 00:18:31,925 --> 00:18:34,565 Tim Hooper: I'm like, no. I don't. He said, could I drive you up to see the 291 00:18:34,565 --> 00:18:38,405 Tim Hooper: star? So he drove me. We got in his truck. We drove up 292 00:18:38,405 --> 00:18:42,090 Tim Hooper: this little winding road, bikers coming up and down. The ones that were 293 00:18:42,090 --> 00:18:45,049 Tim Hooper: going up, I was like snickering. I was like, how on the, you know, these 294 00:18:45,049 --> 00:18:48,250 Tim Hooper: guys with the cabs, like, you know, let's pick us up. And I was like, 295 00:18:48,250 --> 00:18:51,985 Tim Hooper: dude, I mean, they're going to see the star. I mean, it's this windy, steep 296 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:55,105 Tim Hooper: pray, and we're getting up there to the top. And I was asking him on 297 00:18:55,105 --> 00:18:58,580 Tim Hooper: the way. I was like, so, like, how big is it? He's like, oh, it's 298 00:18:58,580 --> 00:19:02,340 Tim Hooper: massive. Well, I've never seen it. Can you see it from Interstate 299 00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:06,020 Tim Hooper: 81? He's like, yeah. Can you see it from this? And I've been on those 300 00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:09,825 Tim Hooper: highways. We came down pray 81 every trip 301 00:19:09,825 --> 00:19:13,125 Tim Hooper: over to Virginia from Nashville. I'm like, how did I not see 302 00:19:13,425 --> 00:19:16,840 Tim Hooper: the star? And the answer is pretty 303 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,600 Tim Hooper: obvious. I wasn't looking up. I was looking 304 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,335 Tim Hooper: at my GPS. I was looking in the back at the 4 kids. Maybe I 305 00:19:24,335 --> 00:19:28,015 Tim Hooper: was looking down, hopefully not texting and driving. Maybe I was looking at the 306 00:19:28,015 --> 00:19:30,620 Tim Hooper: speedometer. Maybe there was a police car behind me and I was checking that just 307 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:34,380 Tim Hooper: right, you know how you just keep your eyes around, speedometer. I don't know 308 00:19:34,380 --> 00:19:38,220 Tim Hooper: what it was, but there was something, all those trips, that I didn't look 309 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:40,044 Tim Hooper: up to see the 310 00:19:43,384 --> 00:19:47,085 Tim Hooper: star. I want to go to scripture and read a passage 311 00:19:47,220 --> 00:19:50,900 Tim Hooper: and then just make some correlations. Hopefully, practically, leave us 312 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,715 Tim Hooper: with a few things we can leave here. And 313 00:19:54,715 --> 00:19:58,155 Tim Hooper: in our life, when it's chaos or 314 00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:01,915 Tim Hooper: confusion or our spirit we can't hear because the noise of the storm 315 00:20:01,915 --> 00:20:05,420 Tim Hooper: is so loud, we can go back and say, but here's 316 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:09,020 Tim Hooper: where I stand. Here's what I do. Here's what I 317 00:20:09,020 --> 00:20:12,765 Tim Hooper: remember to look up. So in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 20 if you 318 00:20:12,765 --> 00:20:15,485 Tim Hooper: have your Bibles, it's a longer passage, it won't be on the screen, but I'll 319 00:20:15,485 --> 00:20:18,845 Tim Hooper: read through. It says, 2nd Chronicles, chapter number 320 00:20:18,845 --> 00:20:22,580 Tim Hooper: 20. Jehoshaphat, he's faced with a 321 00:20:22,580 --> 00:20:26,340 Tim Hooper: situation. And I'll just read through and we'll make some practical application, then 322 00:20:26,340 --> 00:20:30,120 Tim Hooper: we'll wrap up. After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, 323 00:20:30,385 --> 00:20:34,005 Tim Hooper: and with them some of the Mennuites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle. 324 00:20:34,305 --> 00:20:38,145 Tim Hooper: Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, a great multitude is coming against you from Edom 325 00:20:38,145 --> 00:20:41,790 Tim Hooper: and beyond the sea, and behold they are in right at the gate, basically. 326 00:20:42,090 --> 00:20:45,770 Tim Hooper: And then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set 327 00:20:45,770 --> 00:20:49,565 Tim Hooper: his face to seek the Lord. Then 328 00:20:49,565 --> 00:20:53,085 Tim Hooper: Josh was afraid. I want to stop right there. Have you ever 329 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:56,570 Tim Hooper: had news come to you? He was not expecting these men to come to him 330 00:20:56,570 --> 00:21:00,170 Tim Hooper: and say, there's a prayer. The enemy's at the gates. Would you, by show of 331 00:21:00,170 --> 00:21:03,290 Tim Hooper: hands, tell me, have you had a problem? Have you had something come into your 332 00:21:03,290 --> 00:21:06,794 Tim Hooper: life recently? A bill, a diagnosis, some sort of 333 00:21:06,794 --> 00:21:10,235 Tim Hooper: news that just took you by surprise? By a show of hands, 334 00:21:10,235 --> 00:21:13,970 Tim Hooper: yes. We're human. It happens. We're in a broken 335 00:21:13,970 --> 00:21:17,410 Tim Hooper: world. And here we are. A battle has been waged against 336 00:21:17,410 --> 00:21:21,005 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat. Secretly, they're all ganged up on him. They're 337 00:21:21,085 --> 00:21:23,585 Tim Hooper: at the back door and he is 338 00:21:24,445 --> 00:21:27,345 Tim Hooper: afraid. He's afraid. 339 00:21:28,210 --> 00:21:31,990 Tim Hooper: So we see Spirit away, there's a problem. It's unexpected. 340 00:21:32,690 --> 00:21:36,341 Tim Hooper: It's a surprise. He's that, this word, pray, 341 00:21:36,450 --> 00:21:39,395 Tim Hooper: means alarmed. He's alarmed by it. 342 00:21:39,855 --> 00:21:42,835 Tim Hooper: He's fearful. Now 343 00:21:43,775 --> 00:21:47,260 Tim Hooper: in chapter number 19, Jehoshaphat was 344 00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:50,799 Tim Hooper: busy. In 19, he's busy. He's fortifying 345 00:21:50,940 --> 00:21:54,720 Tim Hooper: the army. He's building walls. He's building cities. 346 00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:58,655 Tim Hooper: He is restoring God's house. In 19, 347 00:21:58,655 --> 00:22:02,335 Tim Hooper: he's busy fortifying the kingdom. He's 348 00:22:02,335 --> 00:22:06,010 Tim Hooper: been doing all the right things. And sometimes, some of us have 349 00:22:06,010 --> 00:22:09,470 Tim Hooper: this in our heart to say, God, why 350 00:22:09,529 --> 00:22:12,669 Tim Hooper: me? I've been doing all the right things. 351 00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:17,794 Tim Hooper: I'm sure in that fear, he had that alarm, 352 00:22:17,794 --> 00:22:19,654 Tim Hooper: that question, why me? 353 00:22:22,230 --> 00:22:25,430 Tim Hooper: But it says, just down here, it says, then Josh, if I was afraid and 354 00:22:25,430 --> 00:22:29,245 Tim Hooper: set his face to seek the Lord. I love this. He 355 00:22:29,245 --> 00:22:32,925 Tim Hooper: was afraid and he set his face to seek the 356 00:22:32,925 --> 00:22:36,465 Tim Hooper: Lord. We see right there, we see a prayer, but then we see a priority. 357 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,700 Tim Hooper: And I think this is where Tim misses the boat 358 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,760 Tim Hooper: so many times. I start going to my own wisdom. I 359 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,845 Tim Hooper: start figuring out a solution or I go to chat g p t No. I'm 360 00:22:47,845 --> 00:22:50,905 Tim Hooper: just You're going we're going to find an answer 361 00:22:53,370 --> 00:22:57,130 Tim Hooper: elsewhere. But Jehoshaphat's pray. He sets 362 00:22:57,130 --> 00:23:00,730 Tim Hooper: his face toward the Lord. He makes it a priority 363 00:23:00,730 --> 00:23:04,385 Tim Hooper: that the word set means a resolve, a firm resolve 364 00:23:04,605 --> 00:23:07,265 Tim Hooper: to seek the Lord. Matthew 633 365 00:23:08,205 --> 00:23:11,770 Tim Hooper: says, seek first the kingdom. How many times is that 366 00:23:11,770 --> 00:23:15,290 Tim Hooper: 5th or 7th or 21st for me? Because Ghost, I was 367 00:23:15,290 --> 00:23:18,270 Tim Hooper: seeking my own counsel, online counsel, 368 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:22,475 Tim Hooper: complaining to my friend's counsel, complaining more to my friend's 369 00:23:22,475 --> 00:23:26,095 Tim Hooper: counsel, arguing with my friend's counsel. Right? 370 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,840 Tim Hooper: And then finally, in surrender, I come to God. But he said, he was 371 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,140 Tim Hooper: afraid and then number 2 Spirit. You say, Tim, I'm failing. 372 00:23:33,885 --> 00:23:36,385 Tim Hooper: Like you, Tim, I'm failing in the priority. 373 00:23:38,285 --> 00:23:41,665 Tim Hooper: Well, let's rewind to chapter 18, because 374 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,200 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat in chapter 18 also was failing in the priority. 375 00:23:45,247 --> 00:23:49,060 Tim Hooper: Pray? He learned from failure. Failure is the greatest 376 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:52,825 Tim Hooper: teacher. And besides, you have 377 00:23:52,825 --> 00:23:55,544 Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. I was told at breakfast this morning, you have nothing to feel 378 00:23:55,664 --> 00:23:59,370 Tim Hooper: theatre fear, because we're all going to fail. Just let let that be know, 379 00:23:59,370 --> 00:24:03,130 Tim Hooper: we're all going to fail. But, we have an advantage being sons and daughters 380 00:24:03,130 --> 00:24:06,110 Tim Hooper: of God, because when we fail, he redeems our failure. 381 00:24:07,225 --> 00:24:10,985 Tim Hooper: Can I get, wow? When we fail he redeems our failure. We have 382 00:24:10,985 --> 00:24:14,605 Tim Hooper: nothing to fear. But in 18, Jehosh 383 00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:18,061 Tim Hooper: phat fails. Why? Because Ahab comes to him and says, hey, body. 384 00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:22,390 Tim Hooper: How would you like to reunite the kingdom, buddy? I'm going to war 385 00:24:22,390 --> 00:24:25,595 Tim Hooper: against these guys, and I would love for you to be along. Just tag along 386 00:24:25,815 --> 00:24:29,575 Tim Hooper: and, help me out. We'll reunite the kingdoms. He 387 00:24:29,575 --> 00:24:33,410 Tim Hooper: paints this grand vision. Ahab is a great politician. And he Oh, did I 388 00:24:33,410 --> 00:24:37,090 Tim Hooper: just say that? I'm sorry. But, anyway, we're God to do this. And 389 00:24:37,090 --> 00:24:40,835 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, he's been the king to 390 00:24:40,835 --> 00:24:44,435 Tim Hooper: pursue the Lord, but he thinks this sounds really good. He kind of 391 00:24:44,435 --> 00:24:48,275 Tim Hooper: gets his pursuit of discipleship and following Christ mixed 392 00:24:48,275 --> 00:24:52,010 Tim Hooper: with politics here. He really does. And he 393 00:24:52,010 --> 00:24:55,690 Tim Hooper: says, sure, Ahab. Well, then that ego of 394 00:24:55,690 --> 00:24:59,365 Tim Hooper: reuniting the kingdom blinds him so much to the fact 395 00:24:59,445 --> 00:25:03,205 Tim Hooper: and I read this in EMT. I'm like, how in the world did 396 00:25:03,205 --> 00:25:07,000 Tim Hooper: Ahab convince him to do this? Ahab says, I'll tell 397 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,140 Tim Hooper: you what you do. You dress up like me, 398 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,534 Tim Hooper: so everyone won't think you're the king. How did you like, 399 00:25:15,534 --> 00:25:19,375 Tim Hooper: how? So then, sure enough, he gets into the 400 00:25:19,375 --> 00:25:22,434 Tim Hooper: war. He gets singled out. 401 00:25:23,209 --> 00:25:26,870 Tim Hooper: God commander of the enemy army says, don't go for anybody else but the king. 402 00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:30,710 Tim Hooper: They see the king's clothes and they're after Jehoshaphat, and he's running 403 00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:34,115 Tim Hooper: for his life. Ahab gets killed in the 404 00:25:34,115 --> 00:25:37,015 Tim Hooper: battle, as prophesied by the Lord, by a pure accident. 405 00:25:37,475 --> 00:25:40,775 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat barely makes it out, dressed as the king. 406 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,880 Tim Hooper: And so here he is, rebuilding the 407 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,480 Tim Hooper: army, doing all the right things, problem comes and he 408 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,205 Tim Hooper: sets a priority. He says, I learned from my mistake. I learned 409 00:25:52,205 --> 00:25:55,645 Tim Hooper: from my failure. I set a priority. I'm God look 410 00:25:55,645 --> 00:25:59,398 Tim Hooper: up. I am gonna first look up. Not second, 3rd, First 411 00:25:59,419 --> 00:26:02,960 Tim Hooper: look up is God be my priority. If you're failing in that today, 412 00:26:03,580 --> 00:26:07,105 Tim Hooper: contrast it. Just contrast it to what you've done before and say, 413 00:26:07,205 --> 00:26:10,865 Tim Hooper: God, help me to remember to look up. He will 414 00:26:10,865 --> 00:26:14,360 Tim Hooper: redeem.' Here's here's just a 415 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:18,200 Tim Hooper: practical solution too. So I wear 416 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,044 Tim Hooper: contacts in Nashville. And I don't live here anymore. But when I was 417 00:26:22,044 --> 00:26:25,885 Tim Hooper: in Nashville, I wore glasses more because in the spring, right about now, the 418 00:26:25,885 --> 00:26:29,340 Tim Hooper: pollen count goes from 0 to 96. Right? 419 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:33,180 Tim Hooper: And, the sneezing starts happening. It was always 420 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:36,825 Tim Hooper: horrible being at work and then the contact's in the back of my eyeball. And 421 00:26:36,825 --> 00:26:39,265 Tim Hooper: the rest of the pray, I'm like fighting, trying to get that contact out of 422 00:26:39,265 --> 00:26:42,685 Tim Hooper: the back of my eyeball. So, I just wear glasses a lot. Well, so anyway, 423 00:26:42,745 --> 00:26:45,305 Tim Hooper: I would wake up in the morning and the first thing I would reach for 424 00:26:45,305 --> 00:26:49,030 Tim Hooper: was my glasses. Without my glasses 425 00:26:49,090 --> 00:26:52,850 Tim Hooper: on my face, I was stumbling around, because I'm blind as a bat. So I'd 426 00:26:52,850 --> 00:26:56,285 Tim Hooper: be stumbling around the bedroom. And sometimes they'd fall between the thing, or the kid 427 00:26:56,285 --> 00:26:59,245 Tim Hooper: crawled in bed and cracked them in half or whatever, so you're trying to make 428 00:26:59,245 --> 00:27:02,925 Tim Hooper: them work. Right? That's happening. So you're going around without your glasses, 429 00:27:02,925 --> 00:27:06,760 Tim Hooper: you're stumbling. You're tripping. You're stubbing your toe. So practical application is 430 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,800 Tim Hooper: I'm God to ask this. What is the first thing you pick up in the 431 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,605 Tim Hooper: morning? What is the first thing you look at? I 432 00:27:13,605 --> 00:27:17,365 Tim Hooper: talk to executive teams all the time. You know how high percentage look at 433 00:27:17,365 --> 00:27:21,040 Tim Hooper: their inbox, their email very first in the morning? Some of 434 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,480 Tim Hooper: us, social media, first thing in the morning. TikTok, first thing in the 435 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,100 Tim Hooper: morning. Where are we looking? Where are you looking? 436 00:27:28,561 --> 00:27:32,355 Tim Hooper: Ghost priority. What am I going to determine when 437 00:27:32,355 --> 00:27:35,815 Tim Hooper: I lay my head down is going to be on my phone first thing. 438 00:27:35,955 --> 00:27:39,640 Tim Hooper: Maybe I'm God to text myself some lyrics to a song. Maybe I'm 439 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,480 Tim Hooper: gonna text myself a Bible verse, the verse of the day. What am 440 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,215 Tim Hooper: I looking at first? Is the priority there? Well, then 441 00:27:47,215 --> 00:27:50,815 Tim Hooper: we see the priorities there. He says, he set his face towards the 442 00:27:50,815 --> 00:27:54,514 Tim Hooper: Lord, and then he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 443 00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:58,650 Tim Hooper: And I love this because there's a problem. He makes a priority, but 444 00:27:58,650 --> 00:28:02,250 Tim Hooper: then he's, he has a proclamation. He has a 445 00:28:02,250 --> 00:28:05,625 Tim Hooper: proclamation. He proclaims a fast throughout all of 446 00:28:05,625 --> 00:28:09,385 Tim Hooper: Judah and he assembled to seek help from the Lord. All 447 00:28:09,385 --> 00:28:12,740 Tim Hooper: the cities of Judah, and they came to seek the Lord. And 448 00:28:12,740 --> 00:28:16,340 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord, 449 00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:19,800 Tim Hooper: before the new court and said, and he lifts up his voice to pray. 450 00:28:20,085 --> 00:28:23,845 Tim Hooper: So before the prayer, there's a proclamation. We are going to fast. 451 00:28:23,845 --> 00:28:27,685 Tim Hooper: I love all the leaders across this stage today and yesterday, I'm sure 452 00:28:27,685 --> 00:28:30,770 Tim Hooper: in the Ghost few days of this conference that proclaimed, 453 00:28:31,470 --> 00:28:35,250 Tim Hooper: come up here. This is all access. There's no special pass here. 454 00:28:35,310 --> 00:28:38,770 Tim Hooper: Come claim what God has for you. 455 00:28:39,905 --> 00:28:43,525 Tim Hooper: You say, Tim, I'm not the king. I can't proclaim 456 00:28:43,664 --> 00:28:47,345 Tim Hooper: a fast for all of Smyrna, all of Murfreesboro, all 457 00:28:47,345 --> 00:28:50,880 Tim Hooper: of Rutherford County, all of Nashville, all of Richmond, 458 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:54,700 Tim Hooper: Virginia, wherever you're at in the world. I can't proclaim a fast, but let me 459 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,919 Tim Hooper: tell you in here, you're a mom. You've got 2 kids. 460 00:28:58,535 --> 00:29:02,215 Tim Hooper: You're a teacher. You have a classroom. You're a worker 461 00:29:02,215 --> 00:29:06,055 Tim Hooper: with you have a team. You're a father who 462 00:29:06,055 --> 00:29:09,710 Tim Hooper: has a family. When's the last time I've proclaimed 463 00:29:09,850 --> 00:29:13,530 Tim Hooper: something to my family? I've proclaimed a word of the 464 00:29:13,530 --> 00:29:17,185 Tim Hooper: Lord to my family. I've pulled the Bible out, dusted it 465 00:29:17,185 --> 00:29:20,785 Tim Hooper: off, and read and said, we are going to I'm sorry, family. I'm 466 00:29:20,785 --> 00:29:24,440 Tim Hooper: sorry. I take the responsibility for having not 467 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,280 Tim Hooper: led in this department, but I am not perfect. I am bought 468 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,735 Tim Hooper: with the blood. I have access to the throne. I'm going to 469 00:29:31,735 --> 00:29:35,095 Tim Hooper: proclaim for my family that we're God to follow 470 00:29:35,095 --> 00:29:38,630 Tim Hooper: Christ. I'm going to make a proclamation. I'm going to make a 471 00:29:38,630 --> 00:29:42,150 Tim Hooper: proclamation, we're going to pray together. I'm going to make a proclamation that we're going 472 00:29:42,150 --> 00:29:45,990 Tim Hooper: to love differently. That I'm going to treat your mother differently. I'm 473 00:29:45,990 --> 00:29:49,725 Tim Hooper: going to make a proclamation for my team that it's going to be the 474 00:29:49,725 --> 00:29:53,425 Tim Hooper: golden rule, treat others like we'd want to be treated. I'm going to make proclamations 475 00:29:53,645 --> 00:29:57,425 Tim Hooper: that are kingdom minded proclamations. This is what Jehoshaphat was doing. 476 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,240 Tim Hooper: You don't have to be a king to make a proclamation. But what I'll tell 477 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,020 Tim Hooper: you about the proclamation is, there is freedom 478 00:30:05,955 --> 00:30:09,395 Tim Hooper: from fear in the proclamation. He was 479 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:13,235 Tim Hooper: afraid. He made the priorities seek help from the Lord. And then 480 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:16,940 Tim Hooper: he said, I'm God to proclaim a fast.' There is freedom. When the 481 00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:20,620 Tim Hooper: proclamation's out, it is out body. There's no taking it 482 00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:24,465 Tim Hooper: back. Somebody now knows. The enemy wants us in isolation. 483 00:30:24,684 --> 00:30:27,424 Tim Hooper: The enemy does not want anybody to know. 484 00:30:28,365 --> 00:30:31,850 Tim Hooper: Proclaim the promises of God. Make a 485 00:30:31,850 --> 00:30:35,529 Tim Hooper: proclamation. And even if you don't know the word to proclaim, proclaim a 486 00:30:35,579 --> 00:30:39,070 Tim Hooper: Ghost, proclaim prayer, proclaim repentance, 487 00:30:39,765 --> 00:30:43,525 Tim Hooper: proclaim humility, a humbleness of heart. The sign of this 488 00:30:43,525 --> 00:30:47,285 Tim Hooper: was brokenness in the Holy Testament, was rendering of the clothes like Barbie 489 00:30:47,285 --> 00:30:50,940 Tim Hooper: talked about with Esther, and putting ashes on the head. You didn't have to 490 00:30:50,940 --> 00:30:54,780 Tim Hooper: know what to do in that moment. You just had to say, I'm 491 00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:58,495 Tim Hooper: here. I'm proclaiming I'm here till I hear it. It's like Jacob. 492 00:30:58,495 --> 00:31:01,935 Tim Hooper: I will not let you go until you bless me. He didn't even realize what 493 00:31:01,935 --> 00:31:05,695 Tim Hooper: that meant. It meant a limp and it meant a lot of things that 494 00:31:05,695 --> 00:31:09,490 Tim Hooper: he never planned on, but he made a proclamation, I will not 495 00:31:09,490 --> 00:31:12,630 Tim Hooper: let you go. Who needs to make a proclamation 496 00:31:12,850 --> 00:31:16,294 Tim Hooper: today to God and to your family, to your team, to 497 00:31:16,294 --> 00:31:20,134 Tim Hooper: your siblings, to somewhere in your life that 498 00:31:20,134 --> 00:31:23,910 Tim Hooper: there's something here I don't know, I'm afraid of, but I'm making 499 00:31:23,910 --> 00:31:27,510 Tim Hooper: a proclamation over this area. You don't have to 500 00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:30,650 Tim Hooper: be a king to make a proclamation. 501 00:31:31,164 --> 00:31:34,684 Tim Hooper: I love the song that says, I will speak to my 502 00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:38,365 Tim Hooper: fear and I will preach to my doubt that you were 503 00:31:38,365 --> 00:31:41,920 Tim Hooper: faithful then and you'll be faithful now. And I don't even know what that looks 504 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,360 Tim Hooper: like, but I will speak to my fear and I will preach to my 505 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,340 Tim Hooper: doubt. Make the proclamation. And then we see the prayer. 506 00:31:49,215 --> 00:31:52,895 Tim Hooper: And the prayer says this, O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God 507 00:31:52,895 --> 00:31:56,515 Tim Hooper: in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. 508 00:31:56,735 --> 00:32:00,390 Tim Hooper: In your hand are power and might. Amen? Amen? 509 00:32:02,210 --> 00:32:06,015 Tim Hooper: He is our Father God because of Christ. But you 510 00:32:06,015 --> 00:32:09,395 Tim Hooper: have an enemy out there who wants to destroy you. 511 00:32:10,415 --> 00:32:14,230 Tim Hooper: He is our warrior king. Amen. And we don't 512 00:32:14,230 --> 00:32:17,910 Tim Hooper: have to fear that warrior king anymore because of Christ, but all of 513 00:32:17,910 --> 00:32:21,510 Tim Hooper: our enemies must fear that royal king. And we have 514 00:32:21,510 --> 00:32:25,235 Tim Hooper: access, all access to his power and 515 00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:28,995 Tim Hooper: his might, so that none is able to withstand you. And then 516 00:32:28,995 --> 00:32:32,809 Tim Hooper: he puts heaven on notice. He says, did you not our 517 00:32:32,809 --> 00:32:36,490 Tim Hooper: God drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people, 518 00:32:36,490 --> 00:32:40,315 Tim Hooper: Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your 519 00:32:40,394 --> 00:32:43,995 Tim Hooper: friend? I love the question here. He's putting heaven 520 00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:46,495 Tim Hooper: on notice. Did you not? 521 00:32:49,769 --> 00:32:53,049 Tim Hooper: And they have lived in it and have built for you in a sanctuary for 522 00:32:53,049 --> 00:32:56,509 Tim Hooper: your name, saying, if disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, 523 00:32:56,649 --> 00:33:00,465 Tim Hooper: pestilence, famine we will stand before this house and before you, for your 524 00:33:00,465 --> 00:33:04,145 Tim Hooper: name is in this house and cry out to you on our affliction. And 525 00:33:04,145 --> 00:33:07,820 Tim Hooper: you will hear and save. And 526 00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:11,500 Tim Hooper: now behold, this great multitude has come against us to invade us, 527 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,345 Tim Hooper: to destroy us. And 528 00:33:15,345 --> 00:33:19,185 Tim Hooper: then he ends his prayer. He says, oh, our God, 529 00:33:19,185 --> 00:33:22,245 Tim Hooper: will you not execute judgment on them for we 530 00:33:22,545 --> 00:33:24,950 Tim Hooper: are powerless. 531 00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:30,690 Tim Hooper: For we are powerless. I want 532 00:33:30,690 --> 00:33:34,154 Tim Hooper: to stop right there. We are powerless. 533 00:33:35,015 --> 00:33:38,534 Tim Hooper: In chapter 19, Jehoshaphat has built an 534 00:33:38,534 --> 00:33:42,100 Tim Hooper: army of 1 point 2,000,000 535 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,720 Tim Hooper: fighting men. He 536 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,424 Tim Hooper: is not a wimp. He knows what war looks like. 537 00:33:50,424 --> 00:33:54,265 Tim Hooper: He's been willing to fight before. He has a 538 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:57,780 Tim Hooper: massive army and yet the humility 539 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,780 Tim Hooper: here to say, we 540 00:34:02,585 --> 00:34:06,345 Tim Hooper: are powerless. I want to say 541 00:34:06,345 --> 00:34:10,165 Tim Hooper: this, he he he prays. There's the prayer, 542 00:34:10,344 --> 00:34:14,040 Tim Hooper: he has a priority to seek God first. He makes a proclamation and 543 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,720 Tim Hooper: then he prays. And in his prayer, I realize a few things. He 544 00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:21,455 Tim Hooper: has reflection. He goes to the journal. He goes to the stone 545 00:34:21,455 --> 00:34:25,235 Tim Hooper: of Ebenezer. And he says, did you not? Did you not? 546 00:34:26,549 --> 00:34:29,529 Tim Hooper: But then there's humility. He says, we have 547 00:34:29,989 --> 00:34:33,589 Tim Hooper: no might. It reminds me of the verse that says, not by 548 00:34:33,589 --> 00:34:37,430 Tim Hooper: might nor by power, but by my 549 00:34:37,430 --> 00:34:39,355 Tim Hooper: Spirit, says the Lord. 550 00:34:41,175 --> 00:34:44,679 Tim Hooper: By my spirit. I 551 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,380 Tim Hooper: believe that humility. We are powerless. 552 00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:52,219 Tim Hooper: I am refusing. I am absolutely saying 553 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:56,304 Tim Hooper: no to my own counsel, God. I'm saying 554 00:34:56,304 --> 00:34:59,744 Tim Hooper: no to my own resource, God. He had a 555 00:34:59,744 --> 00:35:02,724 Tim Hooper: 1,200,000 fighting men. 556 00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:07,540 Tim Hooper: But, Tim likes to look at my bank account and say, can we or 557 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:08,440 Tim Hooper: can we not? 558 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:15,755 Tim Hooper: I like to look at my time and say, do I have the 559 00:35:15,755 --> 00:35:17,135 Tim Hooper: time or do I not? 560 00:35:19,570 --> 00:35:23,410 Tim Hooper: Jesus said, you can't serve God and man and money. And and Jesus 561 00:35:23,410 --> 00:35:27,015 Tim Hooper: said that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. He created time. 562 00:35:27,015 --> 00:35:30,474 Tim Hooper: He is a star breather, like Kevin reminded us. He is timeless. 563 00:35:31,734 --> 00:35:34,954 Tim Hooper: We are time bound. But see, that's our counsel. 564 00:35:35,619 --> 00:35:39,460 Tim Hooper: He says, we are powerless, oh Lord. He says, 565 00:35:39,460 --> 00:35:43,079 Tim Hooper: I refuse to rest in my own 566 00:35:43,220 --> 00:35:46,815 Tim Hooper: sustenance. I want you to be our sustainer. 567 00:35:47,755 --> 00:35:51,435 Tim Hooper: There's a humility in that. There was also a public prayer here. I believe 568 00:35:51,435 --> 00:35:54,290 Tim Hooper: there is time for pray, in the closet 569 00:35:54,830 --> 00:35:58,670 Tim Hooper: prayer. But I believe that our church, like Jesus said in the New 570 00:35:58,670 --> 00:36:02,290 Tim Hooper: Testament, he said, we've made his house a house of commerce 571 00:36:02,655 --> 00:36:06,494 Tim Hooper: and we've turned it away from being a house of prayer. And I 572 00:36:06,494 --> 00:36:10,335 Tim Hooper: will tell you, this is where I sin the most. This is 573 00:36:10,335 --> 00:36:13,740 Tim Hooper: the sin that so easily clings to me and besets me in my pray, 574 00:36:14,130 --> 00:36:17,730 Tim Hooper: is a prayerless life. God is 575 00:36:17,730 --> 00:36:21,095 Tim Hooper: calling his people in this age of apostasy. 576 00:36:21,395 --> 00:36:25,155 Tim Hooper: He's calling his people to pray. He is asking he is 577 00:36:25,155 --> 00:36:28,994 Tim Hooper: just looking for a community of believers to gather in public 578 00:36:28,994 --> 00:36:32,500 Tim Hooper: prayer to say, Holy spirit, blow on the embers. Holy 579 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:36,280 Tim Hooper: spirit, do something. Do a new work through us. 580 00:36:36,340 --> 00:36:39,800 Tim Hooper: So many of us grapple with how do we be Christ in this generation. 581 00:36:40,214 --> 00:36:43,895 Tim Hooper: We don't know how to be Christ in this generosity, and the church 582 00:36:43,895 --> 00:36:47,734 Tim Hooper: has lost its salt in this generation. We need a breath from heaven 583 00:36:47,734 --> 00:36:51,530 Tim Hooper: to say, Holy spirit, show us how to be the church. 584 00:36:51,590 --> 00:36:55,130 Tim Hooper: We have to gather in prayer again. Jehoshaphat 585 00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:59,915 Tim Hooper: proclaimed, then he prayed in a public pray. And he 586 00:36:59,915 --> 00:37:03,615 Tim Hooper: ends his prayer with this. He says, we do 587 00:37:03,835 --> 00:37:07,490 Tim Hooper: not know what to do. Have you ever 588 00:37:07,490 --> 00:37:10,210 Tim Hooper: stopped praying because you didn't know how to pray? Or you didn't know what words 589 00:37:10,210 --> 00:37:13,890 Tim Hooper: to say? Come on. Right? Come on. Somebody else 590 00:37:13,890 --> 00:37:17,205 Tim Hooper: prayed so eloquently and you said, I have nothing to say. I want you to, 591 00:37:17,205 --> 00:37:20,805 Tim Hooper: next time that thought comes into your mind, proclaim, God, I 592 00:37:20,805 --> 00:37:24,485 Tim Hooper: don't know what to say. That is one of the most powerful prayers you can 593 00:37:24,485 --> 00:37:28,109 Tim Hooper: ever pray. And it will shatter fear. It shuts the enemy up because 594 00:37:28,109 --> 00:37:30,910 Tim Hooper: he's God to push that button all day long. Yeah, you don't know what to 595 00:37:30,918 --> 00:37:34,269 Tim Hooper: pray. Or you're going to look stupid when you try to say 596 00:37:34,269 --> 00:37:37,984 Tim Hooper: something. They're God to laugh and he's going to tangle you in fear 597 00:37:37,984 --> 00:37:41,685 Tim Hooper: not to open your mouth and proclaim in prayer the goodness of God. 598 00:37:42,930 --> 00:37:46,310 Tim Hooper: So, Jehoshaphat, the king who's supposed to have all the answers, 599 00:37:46,770 --> 00:37:50,450 Tim Hooper: we do not know what to do, but our eyes are 600 00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:51,910 Tim Hooper: on you. 601 00:37:54,675 --> 00:37:57,815 Tim Hooper: Here we stand. Our eyes are on you. 602 00:37:58,355 --> 00:38:01,880 Tim Hooper: There's the star. Now, every time I drive through Roanoke, 603 00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:06,420 Tim Hooper: there's the star. I just need somebody to tell me, remind me, there it is, 604 00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:10,145 Tim Hooper: and by the way, look up. And every time I drive through Roanoke, I'm like, 605 00:38:10,145 --> 00:38:13,825 Tim Hooper: I'm God see the star because I'm looking for it. I'm looking 606 00:38:13,825 --> 00:38:17,660 Tim Hooper: up. And Jehoshaphat Ghost reminded the entire congregation, I I'm the 607 00:38:17,660 --> 00:38:20,780 Tim Hooper: king. I don't know what to do. God, I don't know what to do. We 608 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:24,498 Tim Hooper: don't know what to do. But our eyes are on you. And when we pray 609 00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:29,085 Tim Hooper: that in humility, guess what happens? Go to the next church. Because once 610 00:38:29,085 --> 00:38:32,925 Tim Hooper: he drove me up there oh, man. I was like, oh, there's 611 00:38:32,925 --> 00:38:36,599 Tim Hooper: the airport over there. I took my son to that Roanoke airport. And, oh, what's 612 00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:39,880 Tim Hooper: that big building? That's the hospital. Did you know Roanoke's known for its hospitals? I 613 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,685 Tim Hooper: said, I didn't know that. I was like, man. Look at those Blue Ridge Mountains. 614 00:38:42,845 --> 00:38:46,525 Tim Hooper: Aren't those beautiful? And I just stood up there. I took a panorama. I took 615 00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:50,065 Tim Hooper: a selfie. I did everything. It was so beautiful. The view 616 00:38:50,205 --> 00:38:53,980 Tim Hooper: was totally different. And you know what happens when we turn 617 00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:57,600 Tim Hooper: our eyes to pray to God and when we start seeing 618 00:38:57,660 --> 00:39:01,385 Tim Hooper: him and oh my goodness his face is lovely. He's 619 00:39:01,385 --> 00:39:04,665 Tim Hooper: not looking at me in anger. He's looking at me in acceptance and love. And 620 00:39:04,665 --> 00:39:08,420 Tim Hooper: oh my goodness he says that the verse before in Psalms 621 00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:12,100 Tim Hooper: that God read that whole Psalm 25. But the verse before says 622 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:15,800 Tim Hooper: that those who are committed to God set their face towards God. 623 00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:19,655 Tim Hooper: He is a friend. He's he's used the word fellowship. And that word friendship means 624 00:39:19,655 --> 00:39:23,335 Tim Hooper: he gives the secret counsel to. He gives the secret counsel 625 00:39:23,335 --> 00:39:27,170 Tim Hooper: to. See, when we change the way we look at things, the things we look 626 00:39:27,170 --> 00:39:30,930 Tim Hooper: at change. Wayne Dyer said that quote, but you know what? So powerful about that 627 00:39:30,930 --> 00:39:34,685 Tim Hooper: quote from a spiritual perspective, God changes the way we look at things. We 628 00:39:34,685 --> 00:39:38,285 Tim Hooper: don't have to change the way in our own power. God does the work, brings 629 00:39:38,285 --> 00:39:42,079 Tim Hooper: us to his vantage point, and lets us see his secret counsel. 630 00:39:42,780 --> 00:39:45,579 Tim Hooper: He knows the beginning from the end. He may not show us the end, but 631 00:39:45,579 --> 00:39:48,540 Tim Hooper: he's God to give us the hope and the belief that this is not the 632 00:39:48,540 --> 00:39:52,174 Tim Hooper: end. I have the final say and it's going to be beautiful. 633 00:39:52,234 --> 00:39:56,073 Tim Hooper: If it's not good, it's not done. And then 634 00:39:56,073 --> 00:39:59,760 Tim Hooper: Ghost right after this, I'm going to summarize this, but Jahaziel stands up. Jahaziel 635 00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:03,633 Tim Hooper: is the Levite. Jahaziel stands up, full of the Spirit, 636 00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:06,845 Tim Hooper: says the spirit move into Jahaziel. And Jahaziel 637 00:40:07,145 --> 00:40:10,745 Tim Hooper: says, stands up, and he says this, he says, King, I have a word from 638 00:40:10,745 --> 00:40:13,786 Tim Hooper: the Lord. And he says, I have a word and here's the pray. 639 00:40:14,540 --> 00:40:18,300 Tim Hooper: You are going to be delivered. Who says, that's a good promise right 640 00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:21,810 Tim Hooper: there? I'm going to be delivered. I have access to the king. I am going 641 00:40:21,810 --> 00:40:25,545 Tim Hooper: to be delivered. I have a promise. And he said, and 642 00:40:25,545 --> 00:40:28,585 Tim Hooper: here is the plan. And Jahaziel gives him the plan. Now, let me ask you 643 00:40:28,585 --> 00:40:32,190 Tim Hooper: this. Jahaziel was around 2 chapters earlier. Jahaziel 644 00:40:32,190 --> 00:40:35,950 Tim Hooper: saw Micaiah, who stood up as a prophet, told 645 00:40:35,950 --> 00:40:39,730 Tim Hooper: Jehoshaphat, do not go with Ahab, and they had him thrown in jail. 646 00:40:40,674 --> 00:40:43,635 Tim Hooper: I want to ask, who are the Jehazials in the room who are fearful right 647 00:40:43,635 --> 00:40:47,155 Tim Hooper: now? Because Jehaziel had to be a little scared to get up and give the 648 00:40:47,155 --> 00:40:48,934 Tim Hooper: word of the Lord to the king. 649 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:55,000 Tim Hooper: Who is a friend in this room right now, who the Spirit of God 650 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,520 Tim Hooper: is moving, giving you a word and you are to give that word to 651 00:40:58,751 --> 00:41:02,425 Tim Hooper: body? You are to prophecy over somebody's life. You are to speak in 652 00:41:02,425 --> 00:41:06,045 Tim Hooper: and edify somebody's life, or come alongside and encourage somebody's 653 00:41:06,105 --> 00:41:09,950 Tim Hooper: life. Jahaziel, not by his own might, he said the Spirit of 654 00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:13,710 Tim Hooper: the Lord moved because of the humility of the king, because of the prayer 655 00:41:13,710 --> 00:41:17,390 Tim Hooper: in public. The Spirit of the Lord moved, and Jahaziel stood up and gave 656 00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:20,735 Tim Hooper: the plan and the promise to the king. 657 00:41:21,435 --> 00:41:25,115 Tim Hooper: And the worship team can come out, because we're wrapping this thing up. Because guess 658 00:41:25,115 --> 00:41:28,600 Tim Hooper: what happens. The plan is get all your mighty chariots 659 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,200 Tim Hooper: together. Get all your horsemen. Get all the 1,200,000 that you've 660 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,775 Tim Hooper: amassed. And we're God to engage in this valley. We're going to set traps. 661 00:41:35,934 --> 00:41:39,714 Tim Hooper: We're going to Ghost crush the enemy. Yes? No. 662 00:41:40,095 --> 00:41:43,775 Tim Hooper: This was not the plan at all. The 663 00:41:43,775 --> 00:41:47,339 Tim Hooper: plan was can you just step forward with me? 664 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,920 Tim Hooper: The plan was can you just walk like forward? I'm going to walk behind you. 665 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,140 Tim Hooper: The plan was that the soldiers were going to walk behind the Levites. 666 00:41:55,135 --> 00:41:58,895 Tim Hooper: And these people were going to walk into battle. These 667 00:41:58,895 --> 00:42:02,734 Tim Hooper: people who are hopeless against the spear, helpless 668 00:42:02,734 --> 00:42:06,420 Tim Hooper: against the sword, were God to lead the army into 669 00:42:06,420 --> 00:42:08,660 Tim Hooper: battle. You can back up Ghost for now, so you have to stand right at 670 00:42:08,660 --> 00:42:12,120 Tim Hooper: the edge. They're God to lead. This is bizarre. 671 00:42:13,425 --> 00:42:17,185 Tim Hooper: This is unconventional. This is what we call the upside down 672 00:42:17,185 --> 00:42:20,565 Tim Hooper: economy. This is God math, not ours. 673 00:42:20,785 --> 00:42:23,556 Tim Hooper: God miracles, not our plan. God, 674 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:28,580 Tim Hooper: star breather, master of all the universe, who sees the beginning from the end, 675 00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:31,734 Tim Hooper: says, guess what theatre God to do? Now, they weren't just walking. Guess what they're 676 00:42:31,734 --> 00:42:35,275 Tim Hooper: gonna do? They're gonna praise. We are gonna 677 00:42:35,815 --> 00:42:39,430 Tim Hooper: praise Yahweh. Yeah. Capital l, capital o, capital 678 00:42:39,430 --> 00:42:43,190 Tim Hooper: r, capital d, Yahweh. We're gonna sing praises to Yahweh. Do you know 679 00:42:43,190 --> 00:42:46,710 Tim Hooper: they never lifted a sword? Do you know that Moab Moab turned about and 680 00:42:46,710 --> 00:42:50,405 Tim Hooper: said, they killed each other. When they came up over the hill into the 681 00:42:50,405 --> 00:42:54,025 Tim Hooper: valley, everything was a dead body. Gone. 682 00:42:54,485 --> 00:42:58,280 Tim Hooper: Because the Bible says God inhabits the praise of 683 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,820 Tim Hooper: His people. And so, in the devastating 684 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,565 Tim Hooper: moment, in the problem, in the fear, in the alarm, 685 00:43:05,945 --> 00:43:09,685 Tim Hooper: in the time where you do not know what to do, to pray, 686 00:43:09,705 --> 00:43:13,280 Tim Hooper: God, my eyes are on you, and I am God choose to 687 00:43:13,337 --> 00:43:17,040 Tim Hooper: pray? He said, it was a loud praise. They went 688 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,720 Tim Hooper: out loudly praising. I love the song that says, you have a 689 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:24,075 Tim Hooper: lion in side of your lungs, so get 690 00:43:24,075 --> 00:43:27,915 Tim Hooper: up and praise the Lord. You might not know what to 691 00:43:27,915 --> 00:43:31,700 Tim Hooper: say, just praise the Lord. Let 692 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:35,380 Tim Hooper: your vocal speak. When you're a baby, you don't know how to put a 693 00:43:35,380 --> 00:43:39,065 Tim Hooper: word together and all you say is, oh, and mama and 694 00:43:39,065 --> 00:43:42,825 Tim Hooper: daddy come running, just praise the Lord. Just 695 00:43:42,825 --> 00:43:46,585 Tim Hooper: make noise to the Lord. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all 696 00:43:46,585 --> 00:43:50,200 Tim Hooper: ye lands. You talked about Paul and Silas. This is written right 697 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,980 Tim Hooper: here. So Paul and Silas, they're in their tomb. They pray, the earth shattered. 698 00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:57,815 Tim Hooper: Peter saw the waves, but Jesus was reaching down his hand. And then 699 00:43:57,815 --> 00:44:01,655 Tim Hooper: Paul in Hebrews saw a great cloud of witnesses. He pray. He saw 700 00:44:01,655 --> 00:44:05,450 Tim Hooper: when the praise happened, the provision came. Elijah saw what no one 701 00:44:05,450 --> 00:44:09,290 Tim Hooper: else could. He saw the the the the armies 702 00:44:09,290 --> 00:44:12,970 Tim Hooper: of God surrounding him. In the praise, what are you gonna 703 00:44:12,970 --> 00:44:16,815 Tim Hooper: see? How are you gonna praise? It happens when our eyes look to 704 00:44:16,815 --> 00:44:20,195 Tim Hooper: the king, when our eyes look to all access and say, 705 00:44:21,198 --> 00:44:24,860 Tim Hooper: God, I need you. I'm God praise you. I'm 706 00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:28,540 Tim Hooper: gonna praise you anyway. I'm gonna end with 707 00:44:28,540 --> 00:44:32,305 Tim Hooper: this, Job and when Job was plagued with all of these, 708 00:44:33,645 --> 00:44:37,105 Tim Hooper: his kids were lost to the plagues and his animals, his herds, everything 709 00:44:37,244 --> 00:44:41,070 Tim Hooper: gone. And then the boils, he's church with boils. He's sitting 710 00:44:41,070 --> 00:44:44,830 Tim Hooper: there and he says, when I'm tried and 711 00:44:44,830 --> 00:44:48,450 Tim Hooper: purified, I'll come forth as gold. 712 00:44:48,825 --> 00:44:52,345 Tim Hooper: And I always thought that was such a beautiful verse. And then when Jen was 713 00:44:52,345 --> 00:44:55,945 Tim Hooper: going through her 2nd round of cancer, I became very, very 714 00:44:55,945 --> 00:44:58,940 Tim Hooper: bitter. I became disillusioned. 715 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,040 Tim Hooper: The Ghost time made sense second time, like, why God? Why are you doing this? 716 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,615 Tim Hooper: And why to her? And God, the Holy Spirit and I wasn't, I wasn't bitter 717 00:45:07,615 --> 00:45:11,454 Tim Hooper: towards him. I was bitter at the circumstance. And the Holy Spirit said, I want 718 00:45:11,454 --> 00:45:13,934 Tim Hooper: you to read Job. And I got to the end of Job. I'm going to 719 00:45:13,934 --> 00:45:17,780 Tim Hooper: read this first because it's so powerful. But the end of Job, in Job chapter 720 00:45:17,780 --> 00:45:21,619 Tim Hooper: 42, this is after God has spoken to Job. After 721 00:45:21,619 --> 00:45:24,835 Tim Hooper: Job put God on trial, then God came and spoke to Job and showed His 722 00:45:24,835 --> 00:45:28,435 Tim Hooper: power and might. And Job said this. He 723 00:45:28,435 --> 00:45:31,795 Tim Hooper: said, therefore I have uttered what I did not 724 00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:35,609 Tim Hooper: understand, Things too wonderful for me church I 725 00:45:35,609 --> 00:45:39,450 Tim Hooper: did not know. He said this. He said, I had 726 00:45:39,450 --> 00:45:43,275 Tim Hooper: heard of you by the hearing of the ear, 727 00:45:44,615 --> 00:45:47,675 Tim Hooper: but now my eyes see you. 728 00:45:48,375 --> 00:45:51,900 Tim Hooper: And, I'll tell you that sometimes I want gold. 729 00:45:52,279 --> 00:45:55,900 Tim Hooper: I want to believe that there's gold on the other side of this trial. 730 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,024 Tim Hooper: When I'm tried and purified, I'll come forth as gold. And I believe that's pray 731 00:46:00,045 --> 00:46:03,645 Tim Hooper: promise. But sometimes my gold is tomorrow or next 732 00:46:03,645 --> 00:46:07,265 Tim Hooper: year, and it's not maybe on my timetable. 733 00:46:07,730 --> 00:46:11,410 Tim Hooper: But Joe gets to the end and as he praises, as he sees who God 734 00:46:11,410 --> 00:46:15,110 Tim Hooper: is, as he lifts his eyes, he says, I had heard of you before. 735 00:46:15,250 --> 00:46:18,315 Tim Hooper: I had heard of you with my ears. I heard of the goodness, he said, 736 00:46:18,315 --> 00:46:21,935 Tim Hooper: but now I see you. 737 00:46:22,715 --> 00:46:26,520 Tim Hooper: And it changed everything for him. His circumstance changed, 738 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,360 Tim Hooper: yes, but sometimes we just have to set our eyes on God. Just look up 739 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,180 Tim Hooper: child and say, now I see you. 740 00:46:34,825 --> 00:46:38,425 Tim Hooper: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His 741 00:46:38,425 --> 00:46:41,244 Tim Hooper: wonderful face. And the things of earth, 742 00:46:42,359 --> 00:46:46,200 Tim Hooper: they grow strangely dim in the light of his glory 743 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,960 Tim Hooper: and grace. Church, I just wanna encourage you, let's 744 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,595 Tim Hooper: assemble, let's encourage, let's 745 00:46:53,595 --> 00:46:57,435 Tim Hooper: remind each other that we have all access, when 746 00:46:57,435 --> 00:47:00,655 Tim Hooper: we simply just look up and say, 747 00:47:01,130 --> 00:47:03,310 Tim Hooper: almighty God, here I am. 748 00:47:10,445 --> 00:47:14,205 Kevin O'Dea: Stand with me this morning. As we close this 749 00:47:14,205 --> 00:47:17,880 Kevin O'Dea: out, we're God to proclaim a song that we've been singing for many, 750 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,579 Kevin O'Dea: many weeks here. We trust in God and let's testify 751 00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:25,420 Kevin O'Dea: this morning of the goodness of our Lord. Let's, let's worship.