1 00:00:07,167 --> 00:00:10,091 Have you ever, like, 2 00:00:11,610 --> 00:00:15,131 been in a time of prayer or been in an intimate 3 00:00:15,486 --> 00:00:19,249 time with the Lord? Yeah. And when you're sitting 4 00:00:19,329 --> 00:00:22,655 in your office, I'm just asking for a friend, when you're sitting 5 00:00:23,668 --> 00:00:26,730 in your office and you're like, Yeah, Lord, 6 00:00:27,404 --> 00:00:31,001 I'll absolutely do that. Yes, I will. 7 00:00:31,628 --> 00:00:34,582 And then you walk out the doors and you're like, what was I thinking? 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,870 Has that ever happened to anybody? Has that happened to you 9 00:00:38,870 --> 00:00:42,564 this week? 'Cause I really would like to not feel alone here. Anyway, 10 00:00:43,062 --> 00:00:46,900 so in prayer time this week, you know, last week we 11 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:50,513 talked about wells and my encouragement was to dig 12 00:00:50,513 --> 00:00:54,142 another well, you know, as we continue forward. And I can't tell you how 13 00:00:54,142 --> 00:00:57,934 many people have gone, What does that mean? What does that 14 00:00:57,966 --> 00:01:01,679 mean? Tell me what it means to dig a well. And what I 15 00:01:01,679 --> 00:01:04,379 felt like the Holy Spirit said to me was, 16 00:01:06,090 --> 00:01:09,460 show 'em how you do it. Show 'em how you do it. And 17 00:01:09,914 --> 00:01:13,528 so we're all gonna go to my office. Now, since I 18 00:01:13,576 --> 00:01:16,617 can't do that, I'm gonna bring a couple of things out here, if 19 00:01:16,617 --> 00:01:20,285 you'll— this is what reluctant obedience 20 00:01:20,398 --> 00:01:24,140 looks like. Okay. All right, here we 21 00:01:24,140 --> 00:01:27,933 go. You know, there's an exit sign right 22 00:01:27,933 --> 00:01:31,583 over here. I wasn't considering it. Oh, 23 00:01:32,083 --> 00:01:35,569 yes, I was. Move that. Okay. The 24 00:01:35,714 --> 00:01:39,039 audiovisual team is like, somebody help her, get her off of there. 25 00:01:40,370 --> 00:01:44,028 Okay, so Courtney, if this rug looks familiar, 26 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:47,959 it's because I stole it out of yours and Caitlin's office. But 27 00:01:48,024 --> 00:01:51,862 I admitted it, so. This is what I 28 00:01:51,862 --> 00:01:55,441 do. So I'm gonna take you into my office 29 00:01:55,556 --> 00:01:59,320 with me and hopefully show you how 30 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,984 to dig a Word well. This is the way the Lord does it with 31 00:02:03,016 --> 00:02:06,793 me. And I just want to invite you because he's making me. 32 00:02:07,342 --> 00:02:11,169 Anyway, I just want you to go with me and allow the Holy 33 00:02:11,169 --> 00:02:14,785 Spirit to— I'm just gonna show you the process through which I 34 00:02:15,253 --> 00:02:17,500 dig a Word well. When I begin to— when there's something in the Word 35 00:02:19,420 --> 00:02:23,236 that just grabs my attention, and 36 00:02:23,236 --> 00:02:27,020 I want to go further in it. I want to know what this looks 37 00:02:27,084 --> 00:02:29,962 like. This is the, the way he does that with me. 38 00:02:33,784 --> 00:02:37,225 So anybody want a piece of carpet just right here? You're welcome to. Grab your 39 00:02:37,225 --> 00:02:40,925 Bible, it's going to be right there. Never study 40 00:02:40,958 --> 00:02:44,684 without tissue. Or coffee. 41 00:02:47,698 --> 00:02:50,797 Usually, there's music, so would y'all hum a little bit just for something? 42 00:02:51,391 --> 00:02:55,084 Not really. Okay, so, when the Lord begins to put something on my 43 00:02:55,164 --> 00:02:58,906 heart, I just— I grab my weapons. 44 00:02:59,484 --> 00:03:03,273 And I usually have a couple of Bibles, a couple of translations. I 45 00:03:03,418 --> 00:03:07,191 always like to have an Amplified, an NIV, and just to make 46 00:03:07,191 --> 00:03:10,081 Justin happy, you know, a KJV or something like that. 47 00:03:11,851 --> 00:03:15,394 I will grab my notes from the last time I taught 48 00:03:15,912 --> 00:03:19,406 because I feel like it's gonna be relevant to where we're going the next time. 49 00:03:19,927 --> 00:03:23,160 I will grab that, and I know that he was gonna give us something else, 50 00:03:23,241 --> 00:03:27,040 so I'll grab a fresh notebook. This one's not so fresh because I 51 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,251 have been studying just a little bit, but I will grab those. 52 00:03:31,450 --> 00:03:35,048 Never underestimate the resource power 53 00:03:35,241 --> 00:03:38,598 of an Old Testament survey book or a New Testament 54 00:03:38,631 --> 00:03:40,591 survey book. There is richness in here. If you want to go a little bit 55 00:03:40,591 --> 00:03:44,253 deeper, get you a survey book. Yes. Get yourself a couple of 56 00:03:44,253 --> 00:03:47,977 these. Plus, they're really impressive when you're walking down the street, and you're like, 57 00:03:48,041 --> 00:03:51,862 that's a big book. Anyway, really 58 00:03:51,862 --> 00:03:55,457 good resources. Always 59 00:03:55,489 --> 00:03:59,245 have highlighters, 'cause that— you can't do 60 00:03:59,261 --> 00:04:02,662 anything without highlighters. And I have 61 00:04:03,331 --> 00:04:05,678 my glasses, which I didn't have in First Gathering. 62 00:04:07,310 --> 00:04:11,118 And I have online concordance. My Strong's Concordance 63 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:14,927 is so huge. The Lord has graced me, allowed me to 64 00:04:14,927 --> 00:04:18,697 find one online, and I use that. It has the Greek and Hebrew lexicons 65 00:04:18,761 --> 00:04:22,211 in it. That sounds like leprechauns, doesn't it? So, I will 66 00:04:22,452 --> 00:04:26,223 gather my tools. I was gonna drag a shovel 67 00:04:26,303 --> 00:04:29,977 out here, but I figured Hal would go, what are you doing with my shovel 68 00:04:30,154 --> 00:04:33,267 anyway? And it just disappeared 69 00:04:33,924 --> 00:04:37,470 from the house. All right, so, here's what we're 70 00:04:37,470 --> 00:04:41,241 gonna do. Father God, I thank you for your Word. I thank you for 71 00:04:41,241 --> 00:04:44,723 your truth. I thank you, Lord, for the way that you reveal yourself to us. 72 00:04:45,254 --> 00:04:48,643 And so, Father, I'm asking today that you teach us to dig a well. Teach 73 00:04:48,643 --> 00:04:51,434 us, Father God, to just take your Word 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,731 and go deeper with it, Father God. Teach us, Father, the way to just 75 00:04:57,103 --> 00:05:00,676 come after you. And so, Father, I thank you for this resource in my 76 00:05:00,822 --> 00:05:04,606 life. I thank you, Lord, that you are the master teacher. I thank you 77 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:08,316 that you are the rabbi who teaches. And so, Father, I pray that that be 78 00:05:08,365 --> 00:05:12,160 the impartation in this room, Father, that— Amen. You teach us 79 00:05:12,192 --> 00:05:16,001 to seek you, to make the wells deeper 80 00:05:16,772 --> 00:05:20,549 in our life, Father, as you supply the resource. In Jesus' name, 81 00:05:20,886 --> 00:05:24,630 amen. Amen. So, this is always, almost always 82 00:05:24,727 --> 00:05:28,005 prompted by something when I'm reading the Word. And so, this time, 83 00:05:28,905 --> 00:05:32,713 as I was going through the scriptures and I was studying about wells, and I 84 00:05:33,020 --> 00:05:36,765 had just left— we had just left last week Genesis 26. And so, I 85 00:05:36,765 --> 00:05:40,448 was reading on over in Genesis 27, and I came across this phrase. 86 00:05:41,705 --> 00:05:44,804 The Dew of Heaven, the Richness of Earth. 87 00:05:45,462 --> 00:05:49,251 And it was the blessing, and it said this, ah, the 88 00:05:49,251 --> 00:05:52,896 smell of my son is like the smell of the 89 00:05:52,928 --> 00:05:56,766 field that the Lord has blessed. May God give you heaven's dew 90 00:05:56,958 --> 00:06:00,459 and earth's richness, an abundance of grain and new 91 00:06:00,972 --> 00:06:04,746 wine. And I'm like, Lord, you know, we can skip right over 92 00:06:04,746 --> 00:06:08,117 that. But the thing that stuck out to me were those 2 93 00:06:08,117 --> 00:06:09,065 things, the— The dew. 94 00:06:12,266 --> 00:06:15,711 Heaven's dew and earth's richness. Heaven's dew and 95 00:06:15,824 --> 00:06:19,606 earth's richness. Here's the thing, guys, God's Word is never just a 96 00:06:19,687 --> 00:06:23,456 word. It's never just one syllable. It's never 97 00:06:23,617 --> 00:06:27,376 just letters. It is life and breath, and there is a pulse 98 00:06:27,553 --> 00:06:31,110 in it, and there's a message in it that if our hearts and our 99 00:06:31,110 --> 00:06:34,883 spirits are open to receive, He will pour into that. And if we just 100 00:06:34,883 --> 00:06:38,505 dig, we will find it. That's right. a little deeper. And so let's dig a 101 00:06:38,505 --> 00:06:41,506 well. Let's dig a well. 102 00:06:43,022 --> 00:06:46,026 And I'm gonna take you to the— so the first thing I do is I 103 00:06:46,112 --> 00:06:49,428 ask the question, what is heaven's dew 104 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:54,678 and what is earth's richness? And I begin to assemble all of 105 00:06:54,742 --> 00:06:58,565 my options. I begin, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna need to find out. I 106 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:02,438 wanna know the origin of the word. There's something about that that always gets me. 107 00:07:02,503 --> 00:07:05,517 And there's also something about the Hebrew language that always draws me in. It's like, 108 00:07:07,646 --> 00:07:11,316 talking to someone in their native tongue, you know, whatever it might be. But the 109 00:07:11,349 --> 00:07:15,099 way that it was written in the very beginning, there's a richness to that. 110 00:07:15,340 --> 00:07:19,026 And so, I'm always— that's probably almost always the 111 00:07:19,026 --> 00:07:22,777 first place that I will go. And so, I'm going to need a few options 112 00:07:22,809 --> 00:07:26,496 for that. I'm gonna need my Strong's Concordance. It's got the 113 00:07:26,881 --> 00:07:29,606 Greek and Hebrew lexicons. Sometimes, I'll use 114 00:07:29,606 --> 00:07:31,209 biblegateway.com, 115 00:07:32,266 --> 00:07:35,686 elia.com. There you will find A really 116 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,551 rich resource. It has the Strong's Concordance in 117 00:07:39,664 --> 00:07:43,384 it. It has the Greek. It has the Hebrew. And it will take you 118 00:07:43,465 --> 00:07:46,754 into study tools that I have been able to 119 00:07:46,770 --> 00:07:50,473 utilize this for years now. Blue Letter Bible, 120 00:07:50,666 --> 00:07:54,484 etc. You probably all have your own that you begin to study 121 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,311 from. So, we're carrying that forward. And as I go 122 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:01,538 to find out what this means, it literally means— What? 123 00:08:02,220 --> 00:08:04,901 Heavens do, in Hebrew, is tal samayim. 124 00:08:05,870 --> 00:08:09,586 Tal samayim. It's masculine. That means it almost comes 125 00:08:09,586 --> 00:08:13,313 from a male point of view. It's like, there's something about 126 00:08:13,313 --> 00:08:16,712 that that gets me. And it— yeah, I get excited because I think about anything 127 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,530 that God's doing and his life force being a part of that. 128 00:08:20,642 --> 00:08:24,258 The do, tal, from heaven, samayim, that's 129 00:08:24,258 --> 00:08:27,761 created by God. And when you look at that right there where it says 130 00:08:27,777 --> 00:08:31,409 created by God, it prompts me always to go back to the Genesis of the 131 00:08:31,409 --> 00:08:34,899 Word. Yes. And what do I mean by that? I 132 00:08:35,027 --> 00:08:38,798 wanna know where it was first mentioned in scripture. I want to know the 133 00:08:38,798 --> 00:08:42,328 first place that it's going to be mentioned in scripture. And it 134 00:08:42,328 --> 00:08:45,874 tells us the first time we hear this word, taal, 135 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:50,463 shamayim, the first time we hear shamayim is in Genesis 1:1, 136 00:08:50,511 --> 00:08:54,121 and it says, in the beginning, God created the 137 00:08:54,121 --> 00:08:57,892 heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the 138 00:08:57,892 --> 00:09:01,550 heavens and the earth. And then I'm like, okay, all 139 00:09:01,566 --> 00:09:04,358 right, we have the origin. That's the first time we said it, and it was, 140 00:09:04,488 --> 00:09:07,941 It is a place of creation. It is where God just 141 00:09:07,941 --> 00:09:11,523 spoke the blessing of, 142 00:09:11,652 --> 00:09:15,493 let there be heavens. Let this be, as all of these things 143 00:09:15,590 --> 00:09:18,689 became, as He breathed and everything came to be. 144 00:09:19,641 --> 00:09:23,328 And so now I wanna know what taal is. I wanna know what the dew 145 00:09:23,932 --> 00:09:24,756 of heaven is. 146 00:09:27,877 --> 00:09:31,683 But— and it is this. It begins to give us characteristics of 147 00:09:31,716 --> 00:09:35,343 this dew of heaven. Yes. And then it begins to tell 148 00:09:35,503 --> 00:09:39,291 us that it sustains life. Now, wrap this up 149 00:09:39,757 --> 00:09:43,031 in what He did in Genesis 1:1. What He did in 150 00:09:43,063 --> 00:09:46,900 Genesis 1:1 is when He threw those heavens out there, when 151 00:09:46,916 --> 00:09:50,575 He created this canopy over the earth, He filled 152 00:09:50,688 --> 00:09:54,347 those heavens with resource. He filled those 153 00:09:54,443 --> 00:09:58,151 heavens with everything that was going to be 154 00:09:58,151 --> 00:10:01,971 needed for us in this time. The dews, the rains, the The idea is 155 00:10:02,083 --> 00:10:05,754 there's a hair. Anyway, all of these things, when he threw them out there, 156 00:10:05,834 --> 00:10:09,649 he threw them out full. And these are the characteristics, if you research 157 00:10:09,697 --> 00:10:13,208 this dew, it says it sustains life, it 158 00:10:13,208 --> 00:10:16,638 arrives quietly. Let me give you that. Gently, 159 00:10:17,071 --> 00:10:20,261 without thunder, without lightning, without 160 00:10:20,261 --> 00:10:23,531 announcement, the morning is touched by heaven. 161 00:10:23,964 --> 00:10:27,458 Think about that, guys. We wake up morning after morning 162 00:10:27,811 --> 00:10:31,418 and the dew has coated the ground. The dew has covered. It 163 00:10:31,418 --> 00:10:35,120 didn't announce itself when it happened. And it was a natural 164 00:10:35,185 --> 00:10:38,805 thing for us just to expect that when we wake up, 165 00:10:39,128 --> 00:10:42,683 the earth would be covered with dew, right? Didn't 166 00:10:42,683 --> 00:10:45,832 announce itself. See, that's the God that I know. 167 00:10:46,543 --> 00:10:50,270 Now, can he thunder? Absolutely he can 168 00:10:50,367 --> 00:10:53,988 thunder. Can he send the lightning? Oh yeah, and he does. 169 00:10:54,425 --> 00:10:57,950 But those moments where you expect him in the lightning, but you 170 00:10:57,950 --> 00:11:00,588 find him in the dew— That's right. In the morning. 171 00:11:02,010 --> 00:11:05,164 In the morning. See, when you're— when you are Him, 172 00:11:06,083 --> 00:11:09,900 you don't have to announce yourself. You don't have to have a 173 00:11:09,965 --> 00:11:12,436 trumpet. You don't have to have that. 174 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,487 Then— oh, there we go. And then it says— 175 00:11:18,557 --> 00:11:21,920 I'm just taking you— everything you see written up here is off 176 00:11:22,405 --> 00:11:25,456 me sitting at the computer going, oh wait, I'm excited! Wait a minute! 177 00:11:26,242 --> 00:11:29,850 What was that passage? When I read this, it comes gently, it comes quietly, it's, 178 00:11:30,235 --> 00:11:33,906 you know, it wasn't lightning, it wasn't thunder. And it triggers 179 00:11:33,939 --> 00:11:37,001 something on the inside of me that goes, wait a minute, I've heard this before. 180 00:11:37,626 --> 00:11:41,282 Wait a minute, where have I heard this before? It wasn't lightning, it wasn't 181 00:11:41,298 --> 00:11:44,441 thunder, it wasn't in the wind, it wasn't in the earthquake. And I'm like, oh, 182 00:11:44,745 --> 00:11:48,369 that was Elijah! That was Elijah! And so, I 183 00:11:48,369 --> 00:11:51,367 wanna hear about that. And so, I will grab my Bible and I will go. 184 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,238 I wanna see what it says. So if you have your Bible, Turn to 1 185 00:11:55,335 --> 00:11:56,451 Kings 19. 186 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:05,319 You know, this is nothing like my office because I've been sitting here for a 187 00:12:05,319 --> 00:12:06,800 while and I haven't heard once, 188 00:12:10,910 --> 00:12:14,641 are you in there? And I'm like, yes, I am, but I'm 189 00:12:14,641 --> 00:12:18,469 pretending not to be. Okay, 1 Kings 19. 190 00:12:20,299 --> 00:12:24,004 Go down to verse 11. It says, the Lord said, go 191 00:12:24,101 --> 00:12:27,757 out and stand on the mountain. He's talking to Elijah, 192 00:12:27,773 --> 00:12:31,419 and Elijah's had a rough day. Elijah has retreated into the caves, 193 00:12:31,549 --> 00:12:34,322 and he says, the Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in the 194 00:12:34,322 --> 00:12:37,859 presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then a 195 00:12:37,859 --> 00:12:41,286 great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered 196 00:12:41,674 --> 00:12:45,215 the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. 197 00:12:46,148 --> 00:12:49,905 After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in 198 00:12:49,921 --> 00:12:53,694 the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the 199 00:12:53,694 --> 00:12:57,034 Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle 200 00:12:57,082 --> 00:12:59,571 whisper. When Elijah heard it, 201 00:13:00,438 --> 00:13:03,199 he pulled his cloak over his face, 202 00:13:04,291 --> 00:13:08,080 and he went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a 203 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,083 voice said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah? 204 00:13:12,274 --> 00:13:14,264 What are you doing here, Elijah? 205 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,675 And he goes down to verse 15, and the Lord says to— Elijah tells him, 206 00:13:20,691 --> 00:13:24,470 you know, they're trying to kill me, Lord. And the Lord says, 207 00:13:24,503 --> 00:13:28,338 go back the way you came. Go back the way you came. And 208 00:13:28,676 --> 00:13:32,266 in the middle of this study, as I'm learning about dew, and I'm learning about 209 00:13:32,331 --> 00:13:35,998 the richness of earth, and I'm learning about all of this, I'm looking back and 210 00:13:36,014 --> 00:13:39,639 going, oh, wait. He wasn't in the lightning. He wasn't in the fire. He 211 00:13:39,703 --> 00:13:42,486 wasn't in the wind or the earthquake, but he was in that gentle voice. 212 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:47,538 And I'm like, oh, that's— then that's the element of part of that, that 213 00:13:47,587 --> 00:13:51,072 dew that he brings into our life morning by 214 00:13:51,072 --> 00:13:54,781 morning, his voice. But you know 215 00:13:54,830 --> 00:13:55,729 what's even better? 216 00:13:59,212 --> 00:14:02,915 If you've got your Bible, go to Hosea. Yes. 217 00:14:06,659 --> 00:14:08,745 14:5. Hosea 14:5, 218 00:14:10,459 --> 00:14:13,223 and it says this, I 219 00:14:14,258 --> 00:14:17,801 will be like the dew, the tall, to 220 00:14:17,898 --> 00:14:21,700 Israel. I will be like the dew to 221 00:14:21,716 --> 00:14:25,380 Israel. I'm like, oh God, you are so faithful! All 222 00:14:25,508 --> 00:14:28,900 of those elements that we just read about, you are that which 223 00:14:28,964 --> 00:14:32,789 sustains life, you are that gentle voice, you are the truth, 224 00:14:33,002 --> 00:14:36,256 Without lightning, no need to announce yourself. You are 225 00:14:36,788 --> 00:14:40,154 dew that we wake up to every single 226 00:14:40,186 --> 00:14:42,661 morning. Every single morning. 227 00:14:45,944 --> 00:14:49,665 But you know what's cool too? I know, but 228 00:14:49,665 --> 00:14:51,655 wait, there's more! There's Ginsu knives! 229 00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:57,568 I will be the dew that falls to Israel. 230 00:14:59,655 --> 00:15:02,784 He is the Ta'alel. He is the 231 00:15:03,009 --> 00:15:06,090 Ta'alel, the dew of God. Or 232 00:15:06,475 --> 00:15:10,165 Ta'alei, the dew of the Lord. The 233 00:15:10,165 --> 00:15:13,904 refreshing of the Lord. This constant source that pours 234 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,819 into our life, that gives and pours and is there 235 00:15:18,429 --> 00:15:21,927 for us. And see, now it just begins to 236 00:15:21,959 --> 00:15:25,698 take shape. When— now when you look at it and you 237 00:15:25,714 --> 00:15:29,404 go, The dew of heaven. The dew 238 00:15:29,765 --> 00:15:33,591 of heaven. The well's a little deeper. The well's a little deeper. It has a 239 00:15:33,591 --> 00:15:37,249 little bit more context. You're like, oh, wait a minute. When, 240 00:15:37,425 --> 00:15:40,906 when that is spoken, and you are the dew of heaven, Lord, I hear you 241 00:15:40,906 --> 00:15:44,660 saying you will sustain me. I hear you saying that you supply 242 00:15:44,741 --> 00:15:48,366 me, that you speak to me in gentle voices and lead me 243 00:15:48,671 --> 00:15:52,329 in places, that you beckon me to come out when I want to hide. 244 00:15:52,683 --> 00:15:56,382 all of these things that are wrapped up in that 245 00:15:56,398 --> 00:15:59,677 blessing of the Lord. And so now when we read it, 246 00:16:02,470 --> 00:16:05,731 when God created the heavens, He placed within them a 247 00:16:05,859 --> 00:16:09,426 life-sustaining provision. And, and the prayer is that 248 00:16:09,651 --> 00:16:12,998 may He release over you what He established from the beginning, 249 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:16,815 coming gently, quietly, without 250 00:16:16,815 --> 00:16:19,549 thunder, like His whisper to Elijah. 251 00:16:21,394 --> 00:16:25,122 Horeb. May it fall upon your life morning after morning, quiet, 252 00:16:25,543 --> 00:16:28,878 constant, and never exhausted in supply. 253 00:16:30,737 --> 00:16:34,034 And you dig a little deeper because in Him there is 254 00:16:34,292 --> 00:16:37,948 always more. Always more. 255 00:16:38,077 --> 00:16:41,758 Okay, ready? Let's dig a little deeper. Let's go to Exodus. 256 00:16:41,854 --> 00:16:43,892 Let's go to Exodus chapter 16. Exodus chapter 16. 257 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:52,889 Exodus chapter 16. Oh, I love His Word! 258 00:16:53,531 --> 00:16:56,695 It's just, oh, it is water to me! 259 00:16:57,627 --> 00:17:01,465 It is water to me! Okay, we are in Exodus. The children of 260 00:17:01,465 --> 00:17:04,998 Israel have been complaining, and grumbling, and they're upset. What they would 261 00:17:04,998 --> 00:17:08,548 really like are the leeks and the garlics that they had back in Egypt, 262 00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:12,691 and God is getting ready to supply something for them that they didn't even know 263 00:17:12,707 --> 00:17:16,192 that they needed. And in verse 11 it says, The Lord said to 264 00:17:16,192 --> 00:17:19,663 Moses, I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell 265 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:23,616 them, at twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning 266 00:17:23,953 --> 00:17:27,746 you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord 267 00:17:27,746 --> 00:17:31,329 your God. Now, 13, the evening— that evening 268 00:17:31,361 --> 00:17:35,185 quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there 269 00:17:35,202 --> 00:17:38,962 was a layer of dew around the camp. When 270 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:42,847 the dew was gone, Thin flakes like frost on the 271 00:17:42,911 --> 00:17:46,296 ground appeared on the desert floor. When the 272 00:17:46,376 --> 00:17:50,180 Israelites saw it, they said to each other, what is it? For they 273 00:17:50,180 --> 00:17:53,618 did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, it is the 274 00:17:53,667 --> 00:17:57,301 bread the Lord has given you to eat. 275 00:18:02,646 --> 00:18:06,244 When the dew lifted, the manna appeared. 276 00:18:07,168 --> 00:18:10,421 When the dew lifted, the manna appeared. So now that goes back to 277 00:18:10,421 --> 00:18:14,126 sustaining and resourcing. Here's the cool thing to me. 278 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,166 Let me give you this. The provision of God was 279 00:18:20,264 --> 00:18:23,984 lying beneath the dew. And guys, it always has been. 280 00:18:24,832 --> 00:18:27,827 It always has been. The dew, the 281 00:18:27,892 --> 00:18:31,338 impartation that the Lord has made into our 282 00:18:31,338 --> 00:18:35,101 lives, that He's poured, that He's given, His provision is there. 283 00:18:35,637 --> 00:18:39,002 And what's really interesting to me, and And I have this 284 00:18:39,083 --> 00:18:42,872 tendency to, you know, I'll do this and then I'll have my takeaways 285 00:18:42,969 --> 00:18:46,741 over here, and I'll write those down so that I remember. And my takeaway 286 00:18:46,790 --> 00:18:50,632 from this one is sometimes 287 00:18:51,471 --> 00:18:54,425 God does not reveal what we need until we need it, and even when 288 00:18:55,329 --> 00:18:56,925 we may not recognize it. 289 00:18:59,615 --> 00:19:03,399 You ever come up against somebody that you know the Lord has called them 290 00:19:03,399 --> 00:19:07,130 to something, and they're like, oh, I can't do that. I cannot do that. 291 00:19:07,418 --> 00:19:11,087 Well, you've never needed to before. So you might not have 292 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,901 what you needed in order to do what he's called you to do, but 293 00:19:14,901 --> 00:19:18,554 the moment you step in to do what he has called you to do, he 294 00:19:18,554 --> 00:19:22,223 resources you. He equips you. And 295 00:19:22,639 --> 00:19:26,244 I just find this interesting because they didn't even know 296 00:19:26,325 --> 00:19:29,994 what it was, and sometimes God resources us and we do not recognize 297 00:19:30,090 --> 00:19:33,567 it. We do not see that he has already provided what we 298 00:19:33,567 --> 00:19:37,269 need For this time. I love that. I love that they called it 299 00:19:37,317 --> 00:19:40,927 manna. What is it? Sometimes we live in those places 300 00:19:41,362 --> 00:19:45,128 of manna. As we add 301 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,980 these layers, as we add these layers, these stones of truth, 302 00:19:49,774 --> 00:19:53,495 the well begins to take shape. It gains strength, structure, depth, 303 00:19:53,656 --> 00:19:57,442 and beauty. See what I'm saying? It's like when you're adding all of 304 00:19:57,442 --> 00:20:01,067 these elements to it, it begins to take on— oh, I 305 00:20:01,067 --> 00:20:04,779 didn't see that there. Oh, you were trying to tell me what? What? And 306 00:20:04,795 --> 00:20:08,194 his resources are right there. All right, 307 00:20:08,745 --> 00:20:12,550 but grab the shovel. We're 308 00:20:12,550 --> 00:20:16,326 gonna go a little bit further because see, the deeper you take the well, 309 00:20:16,439 --> 00:20:20,043 the colder the water. Grab the 310 00:20:20,043 --> 00:20:23,745 shovel, there's still work to do. Why is there still work to do? Because 311 00:20:24,004 --> 00:20:27,673 Isaac didn't stop with this. He didn't stop with, you will give you heaven's due. 312 00:20:27,722 --> 00:20:30,751 He went deeper and he said, there's also the richness of earth. Yes. So, we 313 00:20:30,751 --> 00:20:33,686 need to know what that means, too, because these are complementary 314 00:20:34,428 --> 00:20:37,268 issues, elements that he's bringing into 315 00:20:38,058 --> 00:20:41,352 our realm. And so, we— what do we do? We go back to the references 316 00:20:41,368 --> 00:20:44,166 that we did in the beginning. For me, I would go back to the lexicon. 317 00:20:44,684 --> 00:20:47,854 I would go back to the resource, and I would go, okay, show me what 318 00:20:47,854 --> 00:20:51,577 this means. Show me what this means. And back to the genesis of the word, 319 00:20:51,706 --> 00:20:55,426 earth's fill— earth's richness. Mashayim. 320 00:20:56,528 --> 00:21:00,106 Mashmane hayaretz. What does that even 321 00:21:00,219 --> 00:21:03,959 mean? Well, I'm going to tell you what it means because I looked it up, 322 00:21:05,721 --> 00:21:09,136 and it means this. It's a Hebrew expression, and it 323 00:21:09,136 --> 00:21:12,584 speaks of the fatness of the earth, extreme 324 00:21:13,328 --> 00:21:16,951 agricultural fertility, fruitfulness, and abundance of all He has 325 00:21:17,048 --> 00:21:20,380 created and supplied. And my favorite part in this, 326 00:21:20,784 --> 00:21:23,445 that He has supplied For our access. 327 00:21:24,441 --> 00:21:27,491 For our access. He put it there for you. 328 00:21:28,374 --> 00:21:31,376 And he put it there for you. And he gave this 329 00:21:31,569 --> 00:21:35,326 richness, this— the dew of heaven and the richness of earth 330 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,725 for you. For you to access. Not just to walk by 331 00:21:39,934 --> 00:21:43,771 it and go, oh, that's cool. I'm so glad that that's there. But to access 332 00:21:43,851 --> 00:21:47,640 it. It is for your use. And this happens all the 333 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,590 time. And so, don't be surprised if it happens to you. 334 00:21:51,493 --> 00:21:55,042 A squirrel came into my office. And I'm like, oh, wait a minute, wait a 335 00:21:55,042 --> 00:21:58,449 minute, squirrel! Sometimes a squirrel sounds like this, and 336 00:21:58,449 --> 00:22:01,976 sometimes it sounds like a phone ringing, and sometimes it sounds like 337 00:22:02,008 --> 00:22:05,226 this. Words that go neon and go, 338 00:22:06,001 --> 00:22:09,794 okay, make a note to yourself because you are gonna go back and 339 00:22:09,794 --> 00:22:13,279 you are going to look up how you access 340 00:22:13,876 --> 00:22:17,376 How do I access 341 00:22:18,854 --> 00:22:22,210 this richness? How do I look? And 342 00:22:23,350 --> 00:22:26,978 I will mark that as a side note so that I know I wanna 343 00:22:26,978 --> 00:22:30,414 go back and add to this well at some point because it's gonna be important 344 00:22:30,414 --> 00:22:33,642 and I don't wanna forget it. And I will forget it if I don't write 345 00:22:33,642 --> 00:22:37,463 it down, so I'll write it down. All right, so back to 346 00:22:37,479 --> 00:22:41,284 the concordance. I look at this earth's richness, and the next 347 00:22:41,284 --> 00:22:44,842 question I normally ask is, does this appear anywhere else in 348 00:22:44,842 --> 00:22:48,643 Scripture? And if it appears somewhere else in Scripture, what is its 349 00:22:48,643 --> 00:22:52,407 context? And is it consistent with what I'm seeing 350 00:22:52,585 --> 00:22:56,360 here in this context? Move the 351 00:22:56,360 --> 00:23:00,127 squirrel back to concordance. And yes, it 352 00:23:00,127 --> 00:23:03,910 does. It does appear in Scripture in Genesis 27. We've 353 00:23:03,910 --> 00:23:07,755 just been in Genesis 26. Yes. Go to Genesis 27, 354 00:23:08,348 --> 00:23:12,166 and if you go to verse 38 and 39, it says, 355 00:23:12,423 --> 00:23:16,257 Esau said to his father, do you have 356 00:23:16,931 --> 00:23:19,915 only one blessing, my father? Because see, Jacob just 357 00:23:20,701 --> 00:23:24,551 received his— the blessing that should have been his, and Esau 358 00:23:24,711 --> 00:23:28,433 realizes the blessing has been taken. And he goes, and he goes in 359 00:23:28,481 --> 00:23:32,075 tears to his father, and he says, do you not have another blessing for me? 360 00:23:32,123 --> 00:23:32,235 Yes, I do. 361 00:23:35,463 --> 00:23:39,059 Bless me too, my father! 362 00:23:39,557 --> 00:23:43,154 Then Esau wept aloud, and his father Isaac 363 00:23:43,154 --> 00:23:46,734 answered him, your dwelling will be away 364 00:23:47,810 --> 00:23:50,556 from the earth's richness, away 365 00:23:51,664 --> 00:23:53,414 from the dew of heaven above. 366 00:23:58,797 --> 00:24:02,012 That just broke my heart. It broke my 367 00:24:02,044 --> 00:24:05,210 heart to go away 368 00:24:06,050 --> 00:24:09,578 from all of those things we've just talked about. It will be away from those 369 00:24:09,691 --> 00:24:13,387 things. And the 370 00:24:13,387 --> 00:24:16,811 powerful contrast between the same 2 elements being 371 00:24:16,844 --> 00:24:20,376 present and being absent from someone's 372 00:24:20,376 --> 00:24:24,069 life, that tells you there's the possibility of that, right? Yes. 373 00:24:24,962 --> 00:24:27,283 If you look into it, if you begin to look at it. 374 00:24:28,814 --> 00:24:32,247 And then scripture takes us to Genesis. It takes us back to 375 00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:35,810 Genesis 49:25, Jacob's blessing spoken 376 00:24:36,005 --> 00:24:38,791 over Joseph. Blessings of heaven above, 377 00:24:39,530 --> 00:24:43,315 blessings of the deep that lie below. So we know 378 00:24:43,331 --> 00:24:46,956 that it's there. And then again, in the blessing over 379 00:24:46,956 --> 00:24:50,505 Joseph in Deuteronomy, it says, may the Lord bless you— 380 00:24:50,784 --> 00:24:53,983 I'm sorry, may the Lord bless Yes. His land with the tal 381 00:24:54,114 --> 00:24:57,659 samayim, with the dew of heaven above. 382 00:24:58,082 --> 00:25:01,796 That's Deuteronomy 33:13-16. 383 00:25:02,948 --> 00:25:06,794 Here's the thing, guys, as I'm looking at this, and I'm looking at Isaac, and 384 00:25:06,794 --> 00:25:10,594 I'm looking at Jacob, and now I'm looking at Joseph, and all of a sudden 385 00:25:10,627 --> 00:25:13,909 it hits me. These are generational wells! These 386 00:25:14,023 --> 00:25:17,779 blessings are generational blessings that are being passed down on the 387 00:25:17,796 --> 00:25:21,638 breath of the fathers, and, and And so, there's another element 388 00:25:21,702 --> 00:25:25,073 to that, that blessing of above and beneath as he's 389 00:25:25,330 --> 00:25:29,071 pouring into Joseph. And now I get it. And guys, we need to 390 00:25:29,087 --> 00:25:32,779 understand that the wells that we dig can 391 00:25:32,795 --> 00:25:36,359 become generational wells. The blessings that 392 00:25:36,472 --> 00:25:39,859 we walk in, in our life, we need to be speaking over our 393 00:25:39,859 --> 00:25:42,829 children and over our grandchildren so that they 394 00:25:42,829 --> 00:25:46,313 understand that these are for their access as well. 395 00:25:47,250 --> 00:25:50,769 Dig the wells so that your children can rest by them 396 00:25:51,141 --> 00:25:54,838 until it's time for them to dig another well. Like 397 00:25:54,838 --> 00:25:58,179 Joseph, we are blessed with blessings of the deep 398 00:26:00,260 --> 00:26:03,859 waters that lie below. I so love his 399 00:26:03,972 --> 00:26:07,723 Word, his truth. But then there are these other things that 400 00:26:07,723 --> 00:26:11,481 if you dig just a little bit deeper, kind of 401 00:26:11,481 --> 00:26:15,283 like in Marvel, you pick up things if you stay for the credits 402 00:26:15,283 --> 00:26:18,713 and you're like, oh wait, that's part of the next. And There are 403 00:26:18,842 --> 00:26:22,500 Easter eggs that— they're hidden treasures that you only discover when you 404 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:26,321 slow down, look closer, and dig a little bit deeper. And that is 405 00:26:26,417 --> 00:26:30,260 what the Lord took me to in this next passage. You think you've 406 00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:33,329 learned it, so we're gonna go back to Deuteronomy 33. 407 00:26:40,775 --> 00:26:42,178 And who wrote Deuteronomy? Moses. 408 00:26:45,770 --> 00:26:49,609 Moses. Absolutely. This makes me feel like, 409 00:26:49,657 --> 00:26:53,352 you know, who was it? Oh, I can't do it 410 00:26:53,465 --> 00:26:55,465 because I'll get busted because I don't know the name. 411 00:26:59,697 --> 00:27:02,487 Justin will know the name. What's the name of the dude that wrote all the 412 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:05,634 Marvel stuff? Stan Lee. Stan Lee. 413 00:27:06,363 --> 00:27:09,698 You know how he always found a way, or Alfred Hitchcock, they found a way 414 00:27:09,698 --> 00:27:13,186 to be in their own movies? I see Moses do this. 415 00:27:15,149 --> 00:27:17,859 'Cause seriously, if you go to Deuteronomy 33, 416 00:27:19,682 --> 00:27:23,408 it says, he's telling Joseph, may the Lord bless his land 417 00:27:23,408 --> 00:27:27,207 with the precious dew from heaven above and with deep waters that lie below, with 418 00:27:27,207 --> 00:27:30,694 the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can 419 00:27:30,726 --> 00:27:34,165 yield, with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the 420 00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:38,065 fruitfulness of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the 421 00:27:38,163 --> 00:27:41,796 earth and its fullness. And the 422 00:27:41,796 --> 00:27:45,314 favor of Him who dwelt in the 423 00:27:45,394 --> 00:27:49,008 burning bush. And I'm like, oh, Moses, no 424 00:27:49,152 --> 00:27:52,926 you didn't! You just told him about one of your own experiences here! It's 425 00:27:52,926 --> 00:27:56,524 like, the favor of Him who 426 00:27:56,540 --> 00:28:00,379 dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on 427 00:28:00,411 --> 00:28:03,752 the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince 428 00:28:04,185 --> 00:28:07,527 among his brothers. Yes. I love that 429 00:28:07,639 --> 00:28:11,078 Moses is telling the story of Isaac blessing Jacob, who would 430 00:28:11,158 --> 00:28:14,998 later bless Joseph, and woven into that blessing is something 431 00:28:15,030 --> 00:28:18,357 from Moses' own encounter. His own 432 00:28:18,549 --> 00:28:22,245 encounter. I love stuff like that. I love it, and I miss it 433 00:28:22,647 --> 00:28:26,471 if we don't just dig a little bit deeper and slow down and listen 434 00:28:26,841 --> 00:28:30,183 to what he's saying. The favor of Him who dwells 435 00:28:30,617 --> 00:28:33,806 in the burning bush. Guys, I pray that for you, 436 00:28:34,257 --> 00:28:37,559 that you would know the favor of Him who 437 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:41,313 spoke from that burning bush, that you would know His 438 00:28:41,507 --> 00:28:44,766 favor! The breath blessing is so 439 00:28:44,977 --> 00:28:47,343 important, guys, because I can think all day. 440 00:28:52,937 --> 00:28:56,557 You all are so blessed, but you don't know it yet. Yeah. Because it 441 00:28:56,573 --> 00:29:00,241 hasn't passed on breath yet. And a breath blessing 442 00:29:00,338 --> 00:29:01,689 comes out, it releases something into the universe that is 443 00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:07,575 Bless me and I will be blessed. That's what the Word— 444 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:12,713 Sidebar, the research that they are doing now about sound 445 00:29:12,713 --> 00:29:16,374 waves, and sound waves being trapped to the point that 446 00:29:16,567 --> 00:29:20,308 they will hit something, an inanimate object, and they will just begin to spin 447 00:29:20,420 --> 00:29:24,081 there. And they are looking now at technologies that can 448 00:29:24,114 --> 00:29:27,212 go and literally retrieve sound waves from 449 00:29:27,726 --> 00:29:30,942 forever ago. That are trapped to be 450 00:29:30,942 --> 00:29:34,549 translated. You know why that's true? Because he spoke and it 451 00:29:34,549 --> 00:29:38,188 came to be. There was life in his words, and 452 00:29:38,188 --> 00:29:41,634 life has never left his words. When he sends 453 00:29:41,795 --> 00:29:45,208 them, the scriptures say they will not return void unto 454 00:29:45,337 --> 00:29:48,625 him, but will accomplish everything that they are sent to do. 455 00:29:49,161 --> 00:29:52,493 So when a blessing is spoken over you, 456 00:29:53,679 --> 00:29:57,438 receive it. Yes. Receive it! Receive it! Allow it 457 00:29:57,470 --> 00:30:01,214 to begin to just spin in your heart, in your 458 00:30:01,246 --> 00:30:05,079 soul, in your spirit, and come to life! The favor 459 00:30:05,354 --> 00:30:08,270 of Him who dwelt in the burning bush! 460 00:30:10,878 --> 00:30:11,798 Here's the thing, the do— 461 00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:17,520 oh, did I go back? 462 00:30:21,338 --> 00:30:25,170 The dew is His blessing. The richness is His 463 00:30:25,283 --> 00:30:29,003 provision. But the water in the depths of the well, 464 00:30:29,291 --> 00:30:32,531 that's Him! That's Him! 465 00:30:33,044 --> 00:30:36,828 The water in the depths of the well, it's Him! And if we 466 00:30:36,828 --> 00:30:40,612 will go deeper, if we will dig into His truth, 467 00:30:40,837 --> 00:30:44,605 we're always going to find Him there! We're always going to find Him there! 468 00:30:44,685 --> 00:30:48,025 You're always going to find revelation in the depths of Yes. Of 469 00:30:48,462 --> 00:30:51,840 the well. And that's what— when I say dig 470 00:30:52,244 --> 00:30:56,033 a well, that's what I'm talking 471 00:30:56,033 --> 00:30:59,119 about. To allow things to come to 472 00:30:59,537 --> 00:31:03,249 light, and to come to life, and to dig a little deeper 473 00:31:03,249 --> 00:31:07,057 until you find the water that sustains you. And 474 00:31:07,346 --> 00:31:10,768 whatever it might be, whatever the word is, whatever goes 475 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,517 neon to you in Scripture, to go, Lord, show me what this 476 00:31:15,151 --> 00:31:18,873 Show me what it looks like throughout the Word. And allow the Lord— it's 477 00:31:18,873 --> 00:31:21,575 like having a stick figure with no cover, no 478 00:31:22,352 --> 00:31:25,883 clothes, no hair, no nothing. And then the Lord starts putting 479 00:31:26,077 --> 00:31:29,855 layers on. Connie, you're an artist. You can start with nothing 480 00:31:29,904 --> 00:31:33,540 and create the most beautiful universe. That's what He does 481 00:31:33,654 --> 00:31:36,525 with His Word. We are the blank canvas. 482 00:31:37,794 --> 00:31:41,109 If we will just let Him paint, if we will just let Him do 483 00:31:41,779 --> 00:31:45,284 what He does. That's right. And teach us. He is the master 484 00:31:45,284 --> 00:31:48,955 rabbi. He is the one who has the answers. And 485 00:31:48,955 --> 00:31:52,703 so now, now when you take that from the very beginning 486 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,611 and you go, may God give you heaven's 487 00:31:56,660 --> 00:32:00,229 dew and the earth's 488 00:32:00,358 --> 00:32:03,620 richness, the blessing of the tal 489 00:32:03,668 --> 00:32:07,284 samayim and the mishmani hayaretz. May 490 00:32:07,429 --> 00:32:10,379 God give you those. It's a whole 491 00:32:10,978 --> 00:32:14,735 different body of water. Yes. There's depth to it, 492 00:32:14,993 --> 00:32:18,578 that you have frame of reference, you have context, you 493 00:32:18,707 --> 00:32:22,406 have all of the beauty of the Word and the life 494 00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:26,682 in the middle of it. And that's the power of blessing 495 00:32:27,541 --> 00:32:30,845 as seen from the depths of wells that we purpose to dig. 496 00:32:39,607 --> 00:32:42,792 There is blessing in digging deeper 497 00:32:43,875 --> 00:32:47,513 into the Word. There is blessing and there is life. And as the 498 00:32:47,513 --> 00:32:51,238 Lord is calling us in this body into deeper places 499 00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:54,490 in the Word to become people who are 500 00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:58,355 grounded by the Word, not by circumstances, not 501 00:32:58,419 --> 00:33:02,154 moved, not changed, because the Word doesn't change. And the God 502 00:33:02,492 --> 00:33:06,194 behind the Word, the living Word, does not change. And so the 503 00:33:06,194 --> 00:33:07,868 Lord is inviting us, I believe, to dig deeper wells. Amen. 504 00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:13,558 So that when the waves come, or the wind comes, or the 505 00:33:13,671 --> 00:33:17,409 earthquake comes, or whatever comes, we hear Him in the 506 00:33:17,409 --> 00:33:20,824 stillness of His voice. We know the gentleness of His 507 00:33:21,001 --> 00:33:24,827 whisper, and we know who it is who's calling us to 508 00:33:24,827 --> 00:33:28,656 the edge of the cave. And so we're getting ready— hold 509 00:33:28,672 --> 00:33:32,390 on, I just shut that and I wanted to give you some— one 510 00:33:32,390 --> 00:33:35,755 more thing. We're getting ready. Worship team, if you'd come out, feel free to sit 511 00:33:35,755 --> 00:33:39,538 right here next to me. Because we're going to dig 512 00:33:39,586 --> 00:33:43,394 another well, but this time we're going to do it with worship 513 00:33:43,394 --> 00:33:46,763 in a different way, with the understanding— let me move that— 514 00:33:47,523 --> 00:33:51,109 with the understanding that the well 515 00:33:51,222 --> 00:33:54,437 can be deeper. We're getting ready to sing The Blessing, 516 00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:58,654 and I know the last few times that I have taught, we have 517 00:33:59,803 --> 00:34:03,547 just really praised as we went out. Yes. Today, because 518 00:34:03,612 --> 00:34:07,296 of the strength and the power of the blessing, I'm inviting you, and I'm 519 00:34:07,296 --> 00:34:10,804 gonna join you right here. They're getting ready to sing the blessing, and 520 00:34:10,901 --> 00:34:14,701 it is a breath blessing. And 521 00:34:14,863 --> 00:34:18,458 as you release it, recognize it as such that you 522 00:34:18,522 --> 00:34:22,145 are sending a living word into the 523 00:34:22,145 --> 00:34:25,875 room with the people that you love and that God has called you 524 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:29,575 to minister to. So speak it with authority. Yes. Speak it 525 00:34:29,575 --> 00:34:31,989 with truth. Speak it with truth and sing it. And guys, we're going to gather 526 00:34:32,053 --> 00:34:35,738 right here and we are going to stand under this blessing 527 00:34:35,770 --> 00:34:39,465 because let me tell you, it starts, it says, the Lord bless 528 00:34:39,498 --> 00:34:43,223 you and keep you. That's Deuteronomy— I'm sorry, 529 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,707 Numbers 6:24-26. 530 00:34:48,003 --> 00:34:51,057 They're going to talk about a covenant to a thousand generations, 531 00:34:51,743 --> 00:34:55,542 Deuteronomy 7:9. He will never leave you. 532 00:34:55,607 --> 00:34:58,979 He'll go before you and behind you. Deuteronomy 31:8. 533 00:34:59,718 --> 00:35:03,010 Psalm 139:5. Within you. Psalm 534 00:35:03,075 --> 00:35:06,576 30:5. Exodus 33:14. May his 535 00:35:06,688 --> 00:35:10,366 presence always go before you, behind us, 536 00:35:10,607 --> 00:35:14,429 around us. Be with us. Deuteronomy 28:6. In your 537 00:35:14,541 --> 00:35:17,817 coming and your going, he is with you. 538 00:35:18,251 --> 00:35:21,672 He is with you. This is the blessing. 539 00:35:21,961 --> 00:35:25,397 If you need a blessing of any of those Amen. I'm 540 00:35:25,397 --> 00:35:28,978 inviting you, we're going to stand right here, and when it goes, 541 00:35:29,717 --> 00:35:32,912 amen, amen, we're going to sing it. 542 00:35:33,490 --> 00:35:37,279 We are saying, so let it be. So 543 00:35:37,343 --> 00:35:41,052 let it be. May Your presence go before me. May it be 544 00:35:41,052 --> 00:35:44,681 behind me. Encircle this house, Father God. I'm 545 00:35:44,729 --> 00:35:47,684 praying the blessings of the Lord, the covering 546 00:35:48,503 --> 00:35:52,063 of God The dew of heaven 547 00:35:53,231 --> 00:35:56,723 in this house. So Father, we 548 00:35:56,868 --> 00:36:00,660 thank you for sending us the dew of heaven 549 00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:04,083 and the richness of earth. We thank you for the provision that you have made 550 00:36:04,983 --> 00:36:08,831 and your still small voice that draws us to the edge of the cave 551 00:36:09,249 --> 00:36:13,098 every single time. Jesus' name. You 552 00:36:13,453 --> 00:36:16,919 want to join me? Yes. Amen. Guys, let's pronounce that blessing.