Tonight, we want to dive into the story of every day. And really, what's the prophetic story that God's given to us as a people? And as we launched every day a couple weeks ago, this is a really strategic time where we feel like there's an invitation from the Lord for us to just get scooped up together in where we headed, where are we going, God, what are you saying? And where did we come from?
And now where are we going? And what are we seeing God do? And so maybe you've heard some of the things that we're going to share tonight. But I just want us to actually get a lens to see things differently and hear the story and then go, man, it should be encouraging if we're saying some of the same things.
Some of us get tired or were overwhelmed by change fatigue. And so take it as an encouragement that there's not too much changing as we're sharing. And we're saying the same thing in maybe a little different way. So we're going to go back to the Toyota Camry tonight.
There was in 2008, Katie and I were dating. And there was this moment that we had where we had to have a DTR. And if you know what a DTR, it's a defined the relationship conversation. And so there we were, we were dating.
And Katie felt like there was this moment that we needed to have, where she needed to understand where are you headed in life? Where are you going? What's the vision that God's given you? This is what the Lord's given to me and deposited into my life where I'm headed.
And so we had the conversation there in my 1994 Toyota Camry, XLE edition, Dark Green, very nice. That's how I got the girl. And she'd skinned fur, seat cover, for the Minnesota winters. Because I'm from Colorado.
And it's like, man, this is going to be intense, right? She didn't have one, though. And so we're there in the winter of 2008. And she just opens up her journal of what the Lord had given to her.
And the Lord had given her this vision called the base. And as she began to share the vision, she said that the Lord had given her this vision of a home base ministry that touches all the bases, where it's actually an apostolic ministry that's sending people out and shooting people out to the nations and shooting people into the spheres of society. And it was a prayer room at its core. But there was all of these house groups and houses where there was like incense and flames rising from homes all throughout the Twin Cities of worship and prayer going to the throne.
And then from that place, there was all these kingdom business ministries. There was a counseling center. There was ministry training school, mission training school. There was all these things were spawning off of this first command ministry where it was love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul mind and soul.
It was like the core was the first command. The core was prayer and worship. And the Lord had just deposited that into her. Now she was sharing it.
My heart was burning. And the Lord had given me a vision called the base. And I opened up my journal. And it was the same thing that the Lord had given to me many weeks before that.
And we were just undone as we looked at the picture that the Lord had begun to paint. And that vision that the Lord gave us, it was an apostolic vision. I want to talk about this briefly. In ministry and gatherings, there's the pastoral gatherings.
And then there's the apostolic gatherings and ministries. And so pastoral is let's bring all of the sheep in and get them healed up and care for them and make sure they're okay and nurture the sheep and feed the sheep. And then the apostolic gathering or ministry is let's gather them to shoot them out and get them out of the building and catapult them out of the church building. And the Lord gave us this apostolic sending and receiving call in 2008.
And it's totally something that Jesus stole from the Roman Empire. I don't know if you've heard of what Jesus he called his disciples. He called his disciples apostles. And it was actually a Roman governmental term, apostles.
What happened with the Roman Empire is the emperor would send his military, they'd conquer land. And then after they conquered the land, it was part of the Roman Empire then, right? But they had a problem if the people in that land continued to hold their culture and it continued to operate the way that they had been before being conquered, it wouldn't feel like Rome. And he knew that the power of culture was actually the way to gain ground as he expanded his empire.
And so what he did is he enlisted apostles. And apostles were sent ones from a place of authority. And the apostles were sent as culture carriers. And what their soul intent and purpose was to do is to actually infuse Roman culture into all of the lands that were conquered.
And Jesus is going, this is my playbook. You are all going to carry the kingdom of the culture. And I'm going to send you as ones that have been given authority and power. And I'm going to send you into culture and you're going to carry a different culture.
It's called the kingdom culture. It's called my culture. And it's like Matthew six through eight, Sermon on the Mount, type of culture that you're actually going to carry into every sphere of society, into every business, into every classroom, into every hospital room, into every governmental meeting, into every board room. This is your, this is my strategy is to send the culture carriers out.
And so that's what God had given us in those early days. But how many of you know that every vision goes through a valley? And it wasn't like everything caught right in 2008. And it was like all of a sudden the vision sprung up right before us.
No, it took time. And we went through the valley over time. So I'll pick up there. Like five, five, this year's later probably we found ourselves back in Minnesota.
And we've been out of state for a season and we were back and we're in kind of this transition season as a family. And we were praying, we're asking the Lord what He had for us next. So this whole time we're carrying this vision in our heart, but we have no idea when that's going to happen. This could be a long term vision that starts when we're in our 60s.
You know, we were not going to strive after making it happen. We just knew that that's what the Lord had said. And we were open handed on how that was going to unfold, right? So in this season, like many other seasons before it, we were asking the Lord what He had.
And He just said, be who you are without the title. It's a really simple word. Like keep doing what you've always done and don't worry about a title anywhere. And we always, when we share this part of the story, we always like to say if you find yourself in a season right now where you have vision and you feel like the Lord has shown you even a glimpse, even a picture of what's to come.
And you have His yes. You do not need any man or any woman to validate you or give you a stamp of approval, but you have permission now. Like there's a yes for you now to move forward and be who you are without a title. And so in this season, we just, we obeyed that.
We just said, okay, so we just kept doing what we had done this season before. And that was gathering people in our home. So we'd always done. We gathered people to worship, to pray, to read the word, to celebrate stories from everyday life, pretty much exactly what we still do today here.
And we demystify the deeper things of the spirit. So for us, our story is that we grew up in the church, but we did not grow up with exposure to the gifts of the spirit. And that's part of our story of waking up to the Lord and coming alive in our true identity before Him. And so that was a big part of what we were doing in the house as well as demystifying the deeper things and making sure that everyone knows it's for every believer, not just for the spiritually elite, whatever that looks like.
And so we just continued. We were just faithful to steward what was in front of us. And I just want to even say that, like the stewardship word of steward, what he has given you, whether it be small, even though it's likely small, steward it in its small days and allow him to be the one that adds to your number, allow him to be the one that adds the increase, allow him to be the one that grows that thing, whatever that looks like, growth looks like many different things, allow him to grow it, just be faithful to steward what's in front of you. And if you're faithful with little, he'll entrust you with more.
So in this space, we just continued to gather and the Holy Spirit just breathed on it. And there's no other way we had to describe it. We didn't do anything different than when we were meeting in our home in Colorado. It's like we were just continuing to be faithful.
And before, if you know the story before you knew it, there's 25. No, there's 50. No, there's 75. Oh my gosh, is that 100 people in our living room on Monday nights.
And it was in that season that people would come that we hadn't met before. And when we're introducing ourselves, we'd ask, you know, where do you go to church? And they go, oh, I go here now. And we're like, what do we say?
Do you know? This isn't a church. Go back to your church. This is not a church.
It's just a Monday night. I don't know what it is. So then we started to pray about what is this. What just happened?
And it was during that that the Lord said, you don't need to plant a church. You've already planted one. And now you're just watching it grow. And so that's when we had that invitation.
Again, he said, are you going to steward that church that you've already planted? So as a stewardship season again of setting it up strong to have a strong foundation for the Lord wanted to do here. Because as you can see, it was a bit of a discovery journey. You know, when we got this base vision, like Josh said, it actually wasn't a church.
It was a house of prayer, like a center hub with a bunch of different ministries coming off of it. And so that's why we're going really a church. And so, but now we look back and we just see the wisdom of the Lord and the way that he wanted to start this with a thriving community to gather around. And so in this season, we see the base vision taking shape more than ever, honestly.
If you've been around, you have probably heard us say that the base vision is something that we're working toward. But in order to get there, we will need to move into a building. The big part of that base vision is that it's open around the clock and that there's people coming in and out all throughout the week, not just on Sunday, or in our case now Monday or Wednesday as well. But in this last season, if you have been here, you know that we had a building, we've had a couple buildings fall through.
We have had some buildings or properties fall through, but we're still looking. But in this season, as we saw the Lord as a leadership team, he has so clearly said something that will sound really familiar to all of us. And he said, be the base without the building. Just like you said, be who you are without the title.
And he has invited us. And so I think this is like a shift that we want to name for the community, that we are owning that identity as a base, that we're not pointing to a someday base, even though that it's going to grow and flourish and take on different shapes and different things like that season to season. But right now, we feel that it's a significant shift as we are every day, that we are establishing ourselves, that we are a base. And even if that is in smaller ways than the fullness of that vision, it's important that we own that role in our city and for our own mindsets of what that looks like.
And so as we move toward that, that looks like some people are going to relate with every day in different ways. And we love that and we want to champion that. So here's what I mean. First, every day is not a building, right?
Every day is not a service or a program, but every day is a people. It's a community. It's a way of life. It's a perspective.
It's a mentality, right? So when you're engaging with every day, some of you may continue to relate with every day as your local church. And we think that's great. Maybe this is your community.
Maybe this is where you're investing. Maybe you're leading a community here. Maybe you're serving. Maybe you're leading worship, whatever that looks like.
And you will continue to relate with every day as your local church. But there are also some others. And I think that that number is growing and will continue to grow of people that are connected and relating with every day as more of a base and more of a resourcing center or a hub or a home base. And what that might look like is maybe you're really, maybe, I mean, there's so many of you here that have your own ministries, that have your own communities that are thriving.
And you come here to be fed and to refuel, but to take it back to a different ministry. And maybe some of you are connected to house churches. I really see that movement starting to catch and grow. And while we're not saying that house churches are the only way, they definitely are a way.
And we want to validate house churches. And so as that continues to flourish, there's some of you even in the room right now that have your own house churches. And then you come and you get refueled, but you take it back to your house church. And that's what you consider your local church, but you're connected to us still.
And so we just want to communicate that it's expansive. There's room for how you relate and how you're connected here. And we validate all of it. Because it is not just about you coming through the doors to build this thing.
We are here to get into your life, to build your life, your influence, your call, your destiny, your Monday through Sunday. That is what this is about. And so if for you, your investment is out, the reality is the strong majority of you in this room, your time investment of serving is outside of these walls and not in here. And there's some of you that are going to have a call to build this house as we would say, where you're going to go, I want to build this so that more believers can come in and get trained and get equipped and get sent out.
But the majority of you will come in to receive, to get strengthened and to be sent out. And so you've maybe heard us say in the past that we're more like a missions training school for the everyday believer than we even are at church. That is still really true. Another way it's more honestly, it's more true than ever.
And another way to look at this, we've been using this analogy because I think it can be helpful is that we see ourselves more like a medical school than a hospital. Those are two really different things. And so with a medical school, we see ourselves training up the spiritual doctors of our city, training them, equipping them, to send them out. You don't stay in medical school forever.
You come in with a purpose and you go out with a vision. And so that is a piece of what this is to just name for us what we're going after and not just what we're going after in the future, but who we are today. And we can take on that identity as a community. Yes, I just, when I think about the medical school idea, how many of you know that you can bring the sick to the hospital, but sometimes people just can't make it to the hospital, right?
And I think the hospitals of our city are big enough, like spiritual hospitals are big enough to hold all of what God wants to do in our city. I think the salvations that if we grew, if the church grew 1% this year, that would add 30,000 new believers. There's not big enough buildings to hold what God wants to do. If we grow 1% in a year, God's saying, hey, I want physicians that look like the great physician out in the spheres and I want them, the way to reach every person is actually to train and equip every type of person and to send them out, right?
God is going, I have a strategy to reach everyone. And we think, then we have to gather in stadiums and the Lord's like, no, train them all in send them all, right? God's saying, get them to the living rooms of our city. There's enough houses to actually host all of the encounters that I want to make, all the encounters that I want people to have with me.
There's enough houses, but there's not enough buildings. So let's just catalyze every type of person to reach every person. Ephesians 4, if you want to turn there, you can turn there with me. Ephesians 4 is a really important passage for us as a body.
Say amen when you get to Ephesians 4. Ephesians 4, there we go. Any more, amen? Okay.
Ephesians 4, 11, it says this. And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and the teachers to do what? To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. The Lord had a strategy and he's going, this is how church leadership operates.
Each one of these roles, it's actually a position, it's like a position in the church. Apostles, pastors, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and every single role has the same purpose. Did you see that? So they have different ways to do the same thing.
And the same thing is to equip the saints for the work of ministry. In other words, the church leadership are not the leaders or the ministers, they're the leaders but they're not ministers, they're actually the ones training the ministers. They're training the saints and they're equipping the saints and pushing them out, apostolicly going, you're the reverend, you're the pastor, you're the one that was always meant to wear the collar. How many of you know, you know, priest collars, right?
And we put these priest collars on the anointed priest and the Lord's going, give them all collars. I don't care how many seminary degrees you have. I don't care if you've been to Bible school or seminary, put a collar on him. When did he meet Jesus?
Yes, sir. Put a collar on him. He's a reverend of the Lord. Put a collar on the priest of my kingdom.
They're royals. Get them out off the bench and into the game. There's an important story that I want us all to be aware of in church history. And it's about a man named Constantine.
Raise your hand if you've heard of Constantine. A lot of you. Constantine, he was the son of a leader in the Roman Empire in the fourth century. And his dad passed away.
And at that time, there was four regions in the Roman Empire. And each one was led by leaders. And Constantine had this vision. He said, I am going to unite the whole Roman Empire under my rule.
And so he started conquering each region of the Roman Empire. And there was a battle he was going into. It was called the Battle of Milvian. And the Battle of Milvian, it was going to take place on a bridge, the bridge of Milvian.
And he knew going into the battle I'm outmatched. And the night before the battle, he says, legend has it, that he had a vision of an angel or he claimed that it was Jesus. And that the figure told him, I will give you the victory under the symbol. And at that time, the symbol of Christianity was the Cairo.
And the next day, he painted the symbol on the shields of his army. And he was victorious in battle. And it was one of those battles that had really shifted everything for the Roman Empire. And Constantine actually was the emperor then after that of the whole Roman Empire.
And at that battle, shifted Christianity forever. The destiny of Christianity shifted in the structure of how Christians operate in the Roman Empire shifted that day. And in one generation, the understanding and the expression of Christianity changed. In one generation.
And it was because of Constantine. At that time, before the Battle of Milvian, Constantine's Roman Empire was actually very, how would I put it? They would persecute Christians in a way that we couldn't imagine today. So the Colosseum was set up as entertainment.
And Christians were fed to animals. It was a sport to torture Christians. They were sold into slavery consistently. There was abuse that was happening consistently.
And in that culture, Christians were an underground movement. They were an illegal movement. Constantine has this moment. He gets into power and he establishes Christianity as the formalized religion of the Roman Empire when he takes the throne.
And the result is this. What he does is he starts building cathedrals and buildings. And then he takes people that he knows and he puts them as bishops over these buildings. And he gives the bishops authority in the same way that Roman governors have authority.
And he starts paying them paychecks. And so now the government is paying all of church leadership. And so what that means is whatever the government says you do as a bishop in the church. And so what takes place is all of the churches, it becomes what happens is the body got cast traded.
There's this movement, underground movement of the kingdom advancing, caring for the poor, the orphan, the widow. And there's this radical you had to count the cost if you were going to follow Jesus. Now Jesus is actually a privilege, you're privileged if you're a Christian in their culture. And what happens is these bishops, they wear different types of garb and clothing.
And they groom themselves different than other everyday people. And they have wealth and they're a different class in society. And there begins to be a distance between church leadership and all of the lay people. There's a distance and then there becomes a compartmentalization of faith and everyday life.
Because now faith is something that's done in buildings. And faith is something that we come to and we watch the professional ministers do the ministry. And all of a sudden the whole landscape of Christianity shifts in one generation. And the whole body of Christ takes a seat on the bench and lives vicariously through the professional ministers.
And all of a sudden there's a mentality shift that says God is meant to be at altars and at buildings rather than in the streets and in the homes and in the families and in the businesses. There is a shift. And I believe that God is bringing forth a new day today. That just like Christianity changed, the expression and the understanding of Christianity changed in Constantine's day in one generation over a hundred years, I believe today is a hinge generation.
And that just as that expression and understanding shifted, that in our day, in our generation, whether you're 70 or whether you're 12, God is shifting the landscape. He's changing the understanding and the expression of Christianity in one generation. And he's going, I am going to get them off of the bench and into the game. I am going to actually push them into the everyday.
I'm going to get the gospel into the streets. It's not going to be the professional ministers. It's not going to be the lay lead. It's going to be the lay lead ministers that are going to do the work of ministry.
You don't need to go to seminary. You need to get activated in the call that God has given you. You don't exist as a business person to give money alone to ministers. You are a minister.
You don't exist to just make money to give to missionaries. Listen, it's not your time to shine. Just when offering starts. That's our time to shine that we all generously give because that's who we are as the people of God.
But your call isn't to just make money and give it away, even though it's amazing. It's a gift, but it's not your call. Your call is to be a messenger. Your call is to be an evangelist.
There's a church leadership and everyday leadership here. Our call is to be like a pit crew in NASCAR. How many of you are NASCAR fans? None of us.
Okay. It's like, I mean, either. But listen, Katie's the only NASCAR fan, right? ND 500 for sure.
Big fan. Yeah. Listen, as church leadership, we were always meant to be the pit crew. You're supposed to be with Jesus in the driver's seat together.
You do a couple laps. We'll put on a couple tires, put some gasoline and just spank you right through. Just go. Just go.
Just get out of here. Get out of the pit. We're pushing you onto the track. You're the stars.
You're the stars of the game. You're like the all-American team. You're the ones that have gotten off the bench into the game. We're the water boys.
Listen, come over here. I'll squirt some Gatorade into your mouth. Get some electrolytes and get into the game. That's who you are.
You're on the team. You're the starting five. You're the starting 11. Get into the field.
Get into the game. God is actually calling us as a people to get out into the field. The Lord has called us as the people who have got to be like a gas station or a truck terminal. It's like, come and get the resources and go.
Have you ever seen a truck terminal? It's very small. It can't hold a lot. But there's a lot of traffic that goes in and out, right?
Nobody thinks of truck terminals. They think of when they get what they were always longing for. When they get the resource, when they get the truth, when they get the thing that they had purchased, the whole world is longing for hope. The whole world is longing to actually give their lives, pay with their lives for something.
And what they've always been wanting is the Lord. And the Lord is going, hey, leave the truck terminal. Let's go. Leave the truck terminal.
And here we are, as the terminal, they say, yes, go, go, go. I just believe there's a new day. There's a new day. It's like NASA.
Everybody is thinking about the NASA engineers. They're thinking about the astronauts that get launched into space, into the new endeavors, into the uncharted. God is calling us as church leadership, as the NASA engineers, trying to figure out how can we launch them? How can we launch them into the unknown doing things that have never been done before, innovating in the business sphere and creating and inventing things and doing things in the classroom in third grade class that's never been done before and praying for people and seeing them get out of hospital rooms, even with a whisper.
God is actually healing babies and NICUs. I believe God is on the move. And there's a vision that's bigger than just good church services. It's actually a people.
It's an everyday people that's woken up to who he is and what he's called us into. It's everyday. Jesus is worthy of everyday. And he's going, oh my goodness, I want it to be flipped upside down.
My strategy is an upside down kingdom where the church leadership are not the ones that are lifted up on a pedestal. But God is going, oh, they're the ones that are supposed to serve thousands of visions, thousands of people that carry my heart. They're the ones that are called to wash the feet of the everyday saints. God's calling us as a people into the fields, but he's calling us around the first commandment and he's going, it's always prayer, it's always worship, it's always intimacy and connection with me.
And that's going to be the core. That's going to be the core of this whole thing. And so let's all stand. I just feel this invitation from the Lord for us to respond.
We can spread out if you want to. There's a tendency for us as consumers in American culture to consume a lot of information and to consume things. It's just like what our society is built off of. But in the kingdom, there's a different way.
There's a different way and it's not called consumerism. It's actually, it's different. There's when you eat, then you actually, it's to give you energy to go. And I think what happens in our consumerism is we assume that we can just back up our truck to the truck terminal and we can just camp out.
And some of us are feeling bored and you're feeling dry and you're feeling tired and lethargic. And some of that has to do with there hasn't been enough outflow and you haven't left the terminal. And God's going, I know that it feels like a busy season. I know that maybe you've had a full season.
I know that there's a lot going on in your family. I know that there's a lot going on at work. I know that there's a lot of responsibility, but there has to be some type of outflow. There has to be some type of moment in a week or in a day where you're going off of, off my eyes are off of myself out of the navel gazing and on to actually spreading the message, spreading what's on the inside of me, spreading what's been deposited into me.
The Lord is going, hey, there's more than what we've touched. And I want us to actually make room in the recesses of our souls. Make room by giving something away for God's sake. Give something away, right?
He's wanting to actually put more into our hands, but our hands are too full. He's wanting to put more just back the truck up because he's got so many resources that he's wanting to pour into his people, but it's time to just outflow. I just want to have us close our eyes. And I believe Holy Spirit's going, hey, I'm going to give one next step.
I'm going to give one next step of how you can actually give. You can have an outflow out of your life. Whatever it is, just divine ideas all over. I believe the Holy Spirit's just going to give us divine insight.
What happens now is usually excuses come. And we can just say, hey, excuse, that's OK. Holy Spirit's going to talk to me right now. I feel like for some of us, the Lord called us into a season of rest.
And that was good. And it was right. But I think that there's some of us that are stuck in a past season. And that's where some of that lethargy and fatigue or jaded feeling is coming from.
Because you are staying in a season that is no longer where you're supposed to be. And I don't mean to not rest. Rest is healthy. And so I believe that that's so valuable to have that rhythm of rest put into our life.
But in order for rest to be healthy, there actually has to be action as well. And then we can actually move forward in action without striving and from a position of rest. But for some of us, we're just staying in rest. And I would say, I just feel the Lord being like, that's not true rest, maybe.
And I think there's an invitation. I think for some of us, we've gotten really, really comfortable in this, like on the couch in the spirit where we're so comfortable on the couch that it's like, oh, I don't even know if I remember how to walk anymore. I don't know if I remember how to run anymore. It actually feels more natural for me to stay put.
And it actually feels like a lot of work for me to get up and start moving again. But the reality is, is that getting up and starting to move again will be the very wind in your sails to get, continue going. And some of us are stuck. But we haven't been calling it stuck.
We've been calling it our season. We've been saying that it's what God has for us. I'm not saying he doesn't have rest for you. Trust me.
He has rest for your souls. I am not calling you to take up arms. I am not calling you into striving. But inaction will kill you.
In action will kill your soul. You are not created to sit on the sidelines. You are not created to watch a minister on a microphone burn. You are created to burn.
You are created to be entertained by someone else healing the sick. You are created to release healing through your own hands. You are not created to be inspired by another family that is choosing Jesus. You are created to be that family.
You were not created to live vicariously through another burning one. You are created to burn. And if you're bored, if you're dull, it's because you weren't created to do what you're doing right now. And I just feel the Lord.
It really is a new day. It really is a new day for the bride. I believe that this new perspective and expression of Christianity that is shifting in one generation. The yoke is easy.
The burden is light. The burden of religion is too strong to bear. We're watching people leave religion and leave the church in droves because we just are buckling under the pressure of living into a dull, inactive faith. That's what it is.
It's not even the yoke of the rules and the do's and don'ts. What we are buckling under is the passivity. We are buckling under the apathy. We are buckling under the weight of being lukewarm.
You weren't created to be lukewarm. And that's what's wrong. It is a new day. And it feels right to be burning hot because it's your destiny.
You have a choice. That new day is at hand for the body. You watch. You choose to not be involved, no prob.
You're going to step back and you watch. And I promise you, you will see the expression of Christianity change in our day. It's already on its way. It's just what he's doing.
It's not just here. It's across the earth. This is what he's doing. We're just a part of it.
You can watch it happen or you can be a part of it happening, but it has to be a new day in your own heart. It has to be a new day in your life. The way that you live. Are you hearing me?
I know that sober, but I feel the Lord on this. We're not going through the motions anymore. We can't. It's a new day for the church, but it's a new day in culture.
The heat's getting turned up. If we don't get hotter, we won't burn brighter and the world needs you to burn brighter. It's a choice. And that choice isn't right now.
That choice is tomorrow. That choice is Tuesday. It's in your workplace. It's when you're getting ready for bed at night.
It's when you're having dinner with your children. It's when you're studying for your test, driving to work, going to Target. I don't care what it is. That's where the choice of a new day and a new perspective comes from.
I don't strive for you, God. I already know I have your approval. I walk with you. I partner with you.
I reveal Jesus and what He looks like through my frame. I am a conduit of the presence of God. That is why I exist. And that is my new day, Jesus.
That's what I'm signing up for. That's the desire of my heart. I want you to hear your own voice say what you want. You get to open up your mouth.
I don't care if it's a whisper. I don't care if it's a yell. But where your own ears can hear your own voice say what you want. I want you to just tell the Lord.
This is what I want. I don't want to be lukewarm anymore. I want to be a burning one. I don't want to sit on the bench anymore.
Thank you for my season of rest. Thank you that it rejuvenated me. And now I'm getting back into the game with a new perspective, a fresh lens that I moved from the place of rest. Thank you for that.
Tell him what you want. Don't wait for me. You tell him what you want. I just see him reminding you of dreams, reminding you of visions, visions that have just seemed just out of reach.
Just enough time went by to make you think you were crazy and it wasn't even God. I see him bringing them back to the forefront. I see leaders in the body in this room that have been sidelined through the busyness of life. Having children, growing businesses, I see leaders being sidelined in the Lord is picking you up and standing you on your feet again and saying you're not finished.
Growing your family is beautiful. Growing that business is kingdom. It's good, but there's more for you. I just see more for you in your everyday.
I see him raising up the leaders that got taken out. I see leaders in this room right now realizing in this moment that you got taken out. I think the enemy, gosh, the confusion that he has put over some of you leaders in this room that you've just thought it's normal. You just thought it was just a season of life and all of a sudden you're going, wait a second.
Lord, I thank you for that moment of realization, that moment of waking up. Thank you that you're not finished. Thank you that you're not finished. That you're not angry.
I just hear him say there's no shame about that season. There's no shame about that season. He's not upset with you. He's cheering you on as the biggest smile on his face.
It's like, yes, let's go. Let's go. Thank you. Oh, I just see leaders right now.
He's just highlighting the leaders to me. I see leaders who you've actually been in vocational ministry. I see you in vocational ministry right now and you're like, it doesn't look like what I thought it would look like. I just feel the Lord's strength sending you right now.
Just receive his refreshing, take a deep breath. It's not too late. The Lord says it's not too late. Thank you, God.
Thank you, Lord. Yeah, I just see the business leaders in the house. I just want to put my yes and the Lord's yes next to what you're doing day in and day out. I just felt like the Lord is saying that's there's there's you're doing the vision and yet there's more on top of it and it's not starting something new.
I just feel like for some of us, we're going, do I need to start something beyond what I'm doing and the Lord's going, you don't need to start something. I'm just giving you new vision for what you're already doing. I'm giving you new vision and new perspective for what you're already putting your hand to. You don't need to go into full-time ministry.
You don't need to have a paycheck for ministry. You don't need to start a 501c3. You don't need to start a ministry. Just do your ministry of business.
Do your ministry of sales. Do your ministry of nursing. Do your ministry of teaching and the Lord's actually going to give revelation. He wants to get into the everyday.
He wants to get up into the businesses of this community. So Lord, we just say we respond with yes. We respond with yes. We want you to get in the middle of it.
We want you to be in the middle of what I've compartmentalized. There's this moment of repentance that happens where we've kind of compartmentalized our whole faith walk from our Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Lord's going, hey, would you give me like would you crack open the door into your Monday 8 a.m.
3 p.m. I just would you open up the door a little bit into your workplace with me? I'm even the some of us that have been in business for 20 years and you've never done it and it feels clunky and it feels awkward and it feels weird to even open up the door of the Holy Spirit. The Lord's going, would you though?
Would you raise the white flag over your business life and let me in? Let me in? Let me in? Let me in?
I'm a good leader. Let me in. I'm knocking on the door of your business. Lord, we just give you an invitation to knock louder for those of us that are just going to resist.
We need a little bit louder of a knock. We need the doorbell to be like an alarm clock. And so Lord, I just thank you for the alarm clock doorbell on the businesses of this community from the Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord.
You're the God of the everyday. All right, we're going to commission together. We're going to get commissioned out. Are you guys ready?
Yeah. We're going to read this together.