let's start off in prayer because we're going to dive into this week's tourah portion which is uh Reay a and Reay a is to see the Hebrew word for see so we're going to talk about what you see we're going to talk about what the father sees we're going to talk about what God sees through you into the Earth realm and I believe when this particular broadcast is finished we'll be able to see just a little bit more clearly so um want to just give a shout out to all of you guys that are out there across the planet we got people from South Carolina from Florida looks like we got people from Venezuela um Puerto Rico um from Jersey hey uh hey Zeus it's good to see you out there Shalom from South South Jersey Ohio Alaska uh it looks like they're just coming in from all over the place MX Mexico Durango Mexico it's good to see you Omar aonso so at some point let me just make a quick an announcement for all of our his people that are out there and we have a lot there's no question about it I think 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forth in the earth realm Lord and I just want to remind you in the same way God that we are simply dusted with eyeballs father God we are uh we are not worthy of anything Lord because of the in our lives and our forefathers we have fallen away from you God we've walked away from your Commandments we've we've called things that are biblical unbiblical and we've called things that are legal legalistic and so father I just ask forgiveness on behalf of the lost sheep of the House of Israel that are all out there today in every state and every country and every tribe and every tongue and ask that you would stay your judgment for just a little bit while longer Lord give us an opportunity to come back to uh Covenant Lord to come back into your throne room into your presence Lord to experience the power of your presence and your light on our face Lord I pray that right now as we dig into your word that you would speak through me Lord your servant Lord God I pray that you put the words in my mouth Lord it would not be anything that I would say but only you father Yahweh we we worship you we praise you we thank you God from the ends of the Earth we cry out and ask that you would lead us Lord through these dark and terrible days and everybody out there PFT land said amen amen all right let's begin now I want to kind of talk a little bit about I know that that we when we're talking about Rea it starts in Deuteronomy so you can turn to deim chapter on chapter 11 and it typically starts off in verse 26 I believe but I'm going to bring something up from last week and uh that may not be too talked about uh and I want to give a little bit of context of of something the Holy Spirit just brought up as I started I flat out started in chapter 11 uh this week and just kind of read through to get the context to get to chap or excuse me uh verse 26 and I ran across this particular verse and I wanted to talk about it for just a minute because I thought man I don't think people really understand cultural significance of what's Happening Here with this particular phrase and I want to unpack this for you so can we just break all the rules today and start in the beginning of chapter 11 and we'll see how far we go there's just so much to to cover here I don't know how much I can get done in the next four and a half hours no I'm just kidding we're not going to be doing this for four and a half hours my wife would kill me all right chapter 11 verse1 therefore you shall love the Lord your God and keep his charge his statutes his judgments his Commandments always know today that I do not speak with your children uh matter of fact let's put this on the screen here just learned how to do this so maybe we can figure this out there we go all right so hopefully you can see that says in verse two know today that I do not speak with your children who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God his greatness and his mighty hand and his outstretched arm his signs and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land what he did to the armies of Egypt to their horses and their chariots how he made the Waters of the Red Sea overflow them and they pursued you how the Lord destroyed them to this day what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place and what he did to Dayan and beam the sons of iLab the sons of Reuben and how Earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up talking about Kora and their households their tents their substance was in their possession in the midst of it but your eyes have seen every great Act of the Lord which he did he's setting it up let's keep going verse eight therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today that you may be strong and go go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers to them and their descendants a land flowing with milk and honey verse 10 for the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come where you sewed your seed and watered it by foot as a vegetable garden all right that's where I want to I want to camp out for just a moment I've highlighted this watered it by foot now you may or may not know what this means but to water something by foot in uh Egyptian language which the father uh God through his spirit is is giving them their own context of what they're used to is when they were in Egypt because they're in the in the in the desert uh yes they got the Nile right there but the way that they watered their Gardens which is what it's referring to here the vegetable gardens the way that they got water from the Nile River out to the different places that they needed the water to go was that they would create treadmills so I want you to picture and I wish I had a picture to show you but I think all of you guys have seen a mouse that's actually been on its own little wheel okay um and it just runs and runs and runs and doesn't go anywhere well that in Biblical context is called a water wheel and so a water wheel is a human being that is running non-stop walking walking fast running nonstop and it's pumping like a sawmill it's uh uh it's water mill it's pumping water from the Nile into the different canals that would bring it into their Gardens and every place in the city so the slaves of the city would be forced to water all of Egypt and all of its surrounding areas in the desert to make that desert come alive you had to physically manually become a water wheel slave or that proverbial gerbal or Mouse on its wheel going nowhere fast so what God says right here he says listen when you were in Egypt you seed your seed and watered it by foot watered it by foot by your own energy you planted the seed and then you were forced to walk water it right and then he says like a vegetable garden but watch let's keep reading here he says in verse 11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of Hills and Valleys which drinks water from the rain of Heaven A Land for which the Lord God cares the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year what's he saying here he saying this that when you're in Egypt and you always know when you're in Egypt cuz some of you out there you know you oh man I used to be in this denomination in Christianity or I used to do this or I used to do that and you intellectually believe that you've left Egypt that you've left your former mindset the nefes your your soul your mind will and your emotions of how you used to think in the past right but how do you really know that you've left Egypt I'm going to tell you why one of the ways the father tells us that you can see better Ray a this week's tourah portion right we're going to cheat by adding some scriptures to it right but you'll know it because you won't be watering it by foot anymore you won't be watering the seed that God put see Yeshua said this he said he said in the New Testament the New Covenant he says I am the one that plants the seed right and I will walk it so he says you plant the seed excuse me and I'll Water it God Waters the seed that he wants to plant and you'll always know when you're walking in the Supernatural you'll always know when you're walking in the truth of the New Covenant is because you will walk in the Supernatural you'll look up and out of nowhere in a desert a raincloud will form and the Very seeds that you think are dead begin to sprout so let me just make some statements here about most of you are out there that are married most of you are uh you know most people according to statistics are are not so happy in their relationships and they struggle and with this and that and the other if you're struggling in a relationship then perhaps there's some Egypt that's still left in that relationship perhaps there's a there's some some Egypt that needs to come out maybe you're you do you ever feel like you're on a on that water wheel do you ever really feel like listen do you ever feel like you're onun a water wheel do you ever feel like you're just constantly like a Geral like it just you're not getting anywhere and the Very seeds of God's word that are in your life you feel like you know what I'm never going to get back to a place where I can walk in the Supernatural of God where I just plant the seed and the father Waters it in Supernatural growth happens well listen I'm here to tell you even prophesy that the word of God is true in every form and that when you leave Egypt for real and you begin to turn back your mind your will and emotions from the way that you used to think okay when you were in bondage to whatever religious system that you were in and God is and by the way God is using covid-19 as a plague to help get you out of Egypt it's to get you out of your comfort zone get you into a place where you are totally 100% relying on him he's Desiring you to follow him into the desert to stay away from everything that you're used to in the way that you normally operate because he's tired of you watering by foot because watering by foot creates slavery ladies and gentlemen Watering your life by Your Own Strength creates and produces bondage I know in my own life that I'm so used to doing things on my own and so used to making things happen and and figuring things out that sometimes I forget that you know what God has got to do this just like this broadcast here there's so many things that happen behind the scenes to make this broadcast even come true with 22 former employees right and and 10,000 people watching live every single week and and and people expected me to come out of my higher learning facility and just immediately walk into broadcasting it's impossible what we what we did with 22 employees was phenomenal it's taken me a year to get to this point where I could look into this camera right here and it be halfway decent uh on the other side of this camera so it is it is for me God is just teaching me you know what Jim it's time to just walk just walk I'll help you I'll give you you don't have to figure it all out you don't have to Fig it doesn't have to be perfect is anybody else out there like that where you feel like life just you want it so badly to be perfect that you end up feeling like you're just accomplishing nothing and so the father promises that if you'll just get in the water matter of fact it's it's remembering it's reminding this scripture this whole context in conversation is reminding me of the Israelites before they went into the promised land right right before they crossed the Jordan River the father said you know the first time I did the supernatural you did nothing I just had Moses hold up the staff and what happened when the staff was held up the the the ocean the water the Red Sea parted wide open you guys just walked on dry ground but now 40 years later when the when you want to walk over into the dry ground you're going to partner with me on this I'm going to teach you because you're my children I can't do everything for you all the time this time I want you to actually take the Ark of the Covenant and I want you to walk into the water and when you begin to walk in the water this is for somebody out there right now needs to hear this you've been waiting on God you've been waiting and the father says matter of fact a friend of mine I think he's passed now known him years and years ago he made a great statement he said those that truly wait on God the way that most people wait is a sign of immaturity because there's so much to do while we're waiting and so while you're waiting on God to pull some miracle move forward Into the Water by faith and watch the miracle happen on your behalf watch the water wheel disappear from underneath your feet watch the spirit spirit of God move and part the waters and watch the very Commandments that are bringing your life move you into a new place you can't stay where where you were before all that was just on one phrase water it by foot let's keep going let's work move down to verse 13 shall we and it shall be if you earnestly obey my Commandments which I command you today to love the Lord your God by the way this is the second time he said this love the Lord God and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul then I'll give you the rain for your land in its season I will send grass in your fields for livestock that you may eat and be filled take heed to yourselves let your heart be lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside and serve serve other gods and worship them lest the Lord's anger be aroused against you and he shut up the Heavens so that there be no rain and the land yield no produce and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord God is giving you look at the end of the day this is a simple formula the father says love me with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul and with all your strength love your neighbor as yourself and I'll do the rest I will send the rain you don't have to go out and look for the rain all you got to do is love me with all your heart mind soul and strength and do that by by loving your neighbor as yourself which some of us are not not so good at right so now that's the context or the pretext I should say of what I wanted to bring up as we move into re that was all introduction that God is on the throne he's got a formula for success for our lives and that formula starts with the with loving the Lord God with all your heart mind soul and strength by keeping his Commandments and doing so with the context of loving your neighbor as yourself that's the two greatest Commandments you see messianics are really good and uh people that come into the the the the the roots of their faith I like to call it the Christian Roots movement because it is the roots of Christianity is our hebraic heritage right so when we try to get back into uh christianos okay which is a simply Latin and Greek fancy word for for a Christian which literally means little Christ follower so if you are a follower of Yeshua right then going back to the roots of our faith is super super important and when we go back far enough what we find out is it's hebraic in origin and the word Hebrew by the way if you don't know what the literal word IIT means it means crossed over one so if you are crossed over Jordan uh then you are an I uh you are a Hebrew believer so anyway let's let's uh move aside from that here we go this is all set up for you to see that God want is on like I said God is on the throne he has a formula for Success keep his Commandments uh but do so with loving your neighbor in mind if you keep the Commandments without loving your neighbor as the context then you become physical you become judgmental have you met any about any of those online anybody that's judgmental telling people that you're wrong for this you're wrong for that arguing this point arguing that point that is a Pharisee uh uh atmosphere and it's a characteristic that comes straight from hassatan himself listen I don't care if you're debating the truth if you don't do it in love and you don't keep the Commandments with the the mindset of loving your neighbors yourself then what happens is you are literally pushing the agenda of Satan himself in the earth realm and you're using the scriptures bastardizing the scriptures to do it you become uh the golden calf where you do it on behalf of Yahweh but you have no idea that you're offending God in in in everything that you saying doing so can I speak to those that are out there that might watch this that might listen listen to this if you feel the need to insult to call names to tell people that they're going to hell if they're not following Yeshua or they don't say the name right or this that and keep this Comm calendar right or that right I'm telling you you're forwarding the the the kingdom of hassatan because he delves in division and he Majors on the minors and he tries to get God's people to divide against one another that is not the the the character of our Messiah so you can disagree with me you can go to your grave feeling like that you're defending God but let me remind you the king of kings the lion of Judah when was the last time you needed to defend a lion they are at the top of the food chain my friends you do not need to defend God all you need to do is speak the truth and love and let the Holy Spirit do its job his job amen all right here we go verse 26 before behold I set before you today a blessing and a curse every morning we should wake up with that phrase I set before you blessing and a curse the blessing if you obey the Commandments of the Lord your God I command you today and the curse if you do not obey the Commandments of the Lord your God but turn aside from the way which I command you today to go after other gods which you have not known now it shall be when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you possess that you shall put a blessing on Mount gazim and the curse on Mount ibal at some point I'm going to teach on uh sheam and I'm going to teach on Mount gazim and mount ebal and I'm going to I'm going to show you guys the power of the Priestly uh Heritage and the picture of the shoulders uh and the six at the table of showbread with the six uh bread on one side and and a pile of six on the other side and the the names of the six tribes on on the on the Priestly left hand side of his his uh his uh His Garment and on the right side another six tribes how it's all related to this passage right here but we'll do that another time um I want to skip down here and start in verse chapter 12 verse one this is a powerful chapter says these are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord God your fathers has given you to possess all the days that you live on in the Earth says you shall in verse two it says you shall utterly destroy all the places where the Nations You Shall dispossessed Serve their gods on the high mountains on the high hills and under every Green Tree you shall destroy their altars break their sacred pillars and burn their wooden images with fire you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name from that place you shall not Worship the Lord God with such things now before listen now before you say you know what I'm I don't serve other gods I'm not I'm not I don't have any carved images listen we do we have those carved images we keep them in our pockets just like they did they're called teraphim and those images is what we use for our security blankets so your image may be your husband your image may be your wife or your kids or your job whatever your security is in that my friend is your carved image so whatever you place your security in that's it and the only security that you should have is in the Lord God it's in Yahweh himself his son Yeshua that came to mediate on our behalf if you put yourself in listen don't listen to the government whatever they tell you to do you know that's probably going to be the wrong thing right because governments are not they're of this world they're not from the kingdom of God so they if you put your security in anything that the government's telling you to do or any any other entity is telling you to do and that makes you feel safe then your security is not in the in the most high our security should be in keeping his Commandments because why the formula was if you love me with all your heart mind soul and strength and he knows that by if you keep his Commandments and by if you love your neighbor as yourself then I'll make the rain fall upon you says the Lord God that's what the formula says for success but unfortunately what happens is we do this in verse eight you shall not all do watch this because this is one of the most powerful verses in the Bible you shall not all do as we're doing here today every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes for as you have yet not come to the rest in the inheritance which the Lord your God is given you but when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord God is giv you to inherit and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell in safety then there will be a place where the Lord your God chooses to make his name abide there you shall bring all that I command you your burnt offerings your sacrifices and so on and so forth let's talk about this for just a second because some of you are looking for the Holy Spirit to do a mighty work in your life but you are having a hard time and seeing and being at the right place at the right time matter of fact let me just say it this way the way he said it you're finding a hard time finding the place that he dwells in and in safety and dwelling in peace because he says in that place is where God is going to make his name abide so when you come to a place where you begin to see peace so here's here's here listen God this is cool I I love this scripture if I could actually get to the place where I can say it articul father help me here because there's something in my spirit the father says this he wants you to go to the place where his name abides how do you know where that place is how do you know where his name abides where is his name name is Authority where does he put his authority where is the anointing coming from that's giving you peace giving you direction it's giving you a a sense of of Hope and life and love and Liberty and all of those things that the scriptures give us right the fruit of the spirit love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control where you see the authority of God manifest you need to run as fast as you possibly can let me put it in Word picture if we're 2 3,400 years ago the time of Moses and you're out in the middle of the desert and all of a sudden you begin to see a fire that is floating over a tent where are you going you're going to go where God Is manifesting So in the earth realm today we need to find out where is God manifesting and where is he not manifesting in our lives if you're doing something in your life and you find out and you begin to to to feel like you are not receiving Grace I do this all the time if if I'm feel like I'm pushing something and it's just not working I quit I quit for that day you know why because God's not giving me the grace for it and because Grace is defined as the is the Divine assistance power of God in your life life so if you're not experiencing the the Divine assistance of God's power in whatever you're doing you need to back the truck up and find out exactly what's going up back up and find out what's happening what are you doing that's preventing the Holy Spirit from giving you the Divine assistance the water from heaven from the shim to flow into your life and bring forth that growth perhaps you're doing something uh what is right in your own eyes and you don't know it see see that's the pride of man the pride of man says I'm right in God's eyes no the pride of man is the one who says that the one that's humble says you know what I'm probably not right in God's eyes I probably have all kinds of problems in my life and I'm probably everything I'm doing right now is probably wrong so father help me in my walk with you so that I can give you uh glory in everything that I do and I can receive the Divine assistance that I need it starts with humility and that's why we're on the eve of of U of A and why it's so important that we take this time this 29 days before Roshes before uh before yam turua the Feast of trumpets to repent and to return that's what this whole scripture is all about God's people are returning to Egypt returning to Egypt let's skip down verse 29 let's go to verse 29 if you're still with me here out there when the Lord your God cuts off before you the Nations which you go to dispossess and you display place them and dwell in their land take heed to yourself that you are not in snared to follow them after they're destroyed from before you that you do not inquire after their gods saying how did these nations serve their gods I will do so likewise watch this you shall not Worship the Lord your God in that way for every Abomination to the Lord which he hates they've done to their gods for they burn even their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods whatever I command you verse 32 be careful to observe it you shall not add to it or take away from it we have here one of the most powerful scriptures if you've watched truth or tradition this I quote this scripture I think eight different times how many times in our lives in our spiritual lives and if you're watching this for the very first time and you've never heard of me or our ministry then listen to what I'm about to say if you don't hear anything else we are so good at saying well that's not what that what means to me or this is what it means to me or that's what this means to me or when I keep Christmas you know it may not be the birth birthday of Yeshua might may not be the birthday of Christ but you know it's not what it means to me God is not really concerned about what it means to you because we're not the ones being worshiped he's the one being worshiped so when it's all said and done the only thing that matters is what it means to him what it means to him that's what it means to God is that when we worship him everything that we do should be from his perspective remember the golden calf right from their perspective they're worshiping Yahweh from God's perspective they're in 100% idolatry unfortunately there's so many people in this world that Define their walk with the Lord and they Define how well they're doing by how they feel about how they're doing and they do what they want to do based on how they feel about it God says this do not be ins snared by that thought don't be ins snared don't look around you and see how the nations are worshiping their gods and borrow from them and then worship me don't do that I don't want you doing that I don't want you worshiping me in the ways that the pagans did so that's why it's so important for us to find out what did the ancient cultures how did they worship their gods and make sure we're not doing so likewise am amen let's see where we're at here let's skip down chapter 14 just going to hit some some uh highlights here we're going to switch topic just for a second here because I get this question all the time chapter 14 verse1 says you are the children of the Lord your God you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the Dead all right look this is misunderstood by so many people I can't tell you how many people that W that when you begin to tell people that you're coming into Torah and you're coming into the instruction manual beginning to keep the front of the book and do Bible things in Bible ways the first thing they say well why do you cut your beard I mean the Bible's very clear it says you shall not cut the corners of your beard but they never first of all they don't know where that scripture is right here and they don't know the rest of it which is for the dead so the Commandment is that you are not allowed to cut the corners of your beard or make carvings in your skin for the dead it's a specific commandment dealing with burial rights of the ancient pagans this was a cultural uh uh uh tradition that the pagans did when people died and God did not want his people adopting these burial rights and these Customs from pagans by cutting their hair a certain way by putting markings on their skin that's where by the way we get tattoos from it comes directly from uh cutting this scripture and the ancient uh pagans that cut into their skin carvings for the dead and so um uh let's actually since we're bringing that up let's just make a quick passion Point here and talk about that are is it okay to have a tattoo is it okay to get a tattoo let's talk about that because that's where we're at in this particular scripture there's a lot of teenagers out there that get get uh you know impressed upon them by their peers and they oh Dad it's not a big deal you know to get I want to get the tattoo of Yahweh on my chest okay well look here's the deal there is no direct scripture that says you cannot have a tattoo none zero if you say there is you don't know your Bible because the tattooing comes from this ancient culture and the forbidding uh or the prohibition is specifically doing it for the debt now however before you teenagers raise your hand and Harrah and take this video straight to your parents and say see Pastor Jim says I can get a tattoo too listen carefully the origin of this comes from Pagan cultures that are wanting to mark on their body for the dead I would be very slow in adopting something from an ancient Pagan culture and changing its meaning so that I can be justified to do something that my flesh literally really wants to do so so on Judgment Day will a tattoo keep you out of Heaven absolutely not if you get a tattoo is God going to send you to Hell absolutely not but and it's a big but and you need to be very careful that you're not adopting an ancient custom from an ancient Pagan society that invented this uh for purposes of satisfying their own flesh and morning purpose morning rights so uh maybe that helps you maybe it doesn't but for me I try to stay away from anything that that remotely has any connotation of a negativity built into it especially if it comes from a pagan culture it's not necessarily something that God condones all right moving forward here chapter 14 the rest of that goes through and talks about all of the different foods that you can eat it's just like Leviticus chapter 11 of what you can eat what you not eat and so let's uh let's move forward here and I want I want I want you to see something here there's a pattern that's pretty amazing in this particular tour portion where God starts off and we're going to finish up here in just a minute because all of this is still a test we're still testing here to see how all this works life is a test did you know that it's just an interview for your promotion how well you do here depends on your promotion when he comes God starts off and he says I want you to love me with all your heart mind soul and strength I want you to love your neighbors yourself I want you to keep my commandments so that I can bring the rain in your life and then he says by the way stop doing what the pagans are doing stop copying off of the world be a separate and holy people then he says if you hear anybody any prophets this is uh by the way out of chapter 13 if you have anybody any dreamer of Dreams any prophets that begins to tell you to start serving other gods stay away from them get away from them walk in the other direction they're not from God if they're not telling you uh to follow Yahweh and to keep his Commandments they're not from the Lord then he says don't be like the pagans cutting your beard on their on their their burial rights he says I want you to eat clean I want you to do the right thing and the very next thing after that for success is in chapter what is this chapter 14 starts in verse 22 and he starts talking about tithing he starts talking about giving and I want you to matter of fact let's just read it real quick and we'll end here turn this over here tithing principles verse 22 says you shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain and the field produces year by year you shall eat before the Lord your God and the where he chooses to make his name abide the tithe of your grain and the new wine in your oil of the firstborn of your herds and the flocks that you may learn to fear the lord your God always how is it possible that tithing or giving is connected to fearing God how is that connected because the Bible says that when we give of ourselves to him through our mind our will and our emotion when we give to others through our mind our will and our emotion our substance our finances our talents our skills our gifts when we help our neighbor and we pick them up and we are are are increasing the Dignity of our fellow man by whatever God puts in front of you that day when we do that we are fearing God we're giving reverence and homage to God to fear God in in other cultures is to bow in reverence okay let me give you the picture of a king you walk into a presence of King and you're a thousand years ago the very first thing you're going to do is you're going to Bow your knee to the king when you do do that when you bow your knee and you bow your head you are creating a reverent uh gesture towards that King saying I honor the throne that you sit on and it's typical to bring a gift in that honor do you guys remember um when kings would come to Solomon right when Sheba came to visit Solomon what did she do she brought all kinds of gifts to the king because coming into the presence of the King was aen to bringing a gift before him in his honor so how many of us really understand this principle because this is in every every single culture on the planet in ancient Civ civilizations where you do not come before the king without bringing something in your hand the Bible says even God says do not come before me empty-handed where do you think the rest of the culture has got that from God himself wants you to bring something before him because it's to be in the presence of the king means you have to give something and you know the greatest gift that you can give is a sacrifice of praise but we don't even know what that looks like we don't understand what what what praise looks like we don't understand what it means to live a life full of praise full of joy regardless of scenario can you imagine one of the greatest gifts that you could give God right one of the biggest pet peeves let's start there of God you know what God God told me this so God told me his biggest pet peeve is complaining how did he tell me that because it's all in the scriptures he can't stand it when his people complain because it's they're too hungry they're they're they're uh they're you know they're too hot they're too cold whatever they're too thirsty God doesn't like that because when we complain and we don't have this the the living sacrifice of praise then what happens is that we are relying on ourselves we're not fearing God we're not giving him honor we're not giving him we're not respecting the throne because to respect the throne is to respect the authority of the one behind it that knows uh that that he's the one in control of the rain he's the one that that that destroys the water wheels that can draw you out of Egypt with one single plague that doesn't touch you but it touches everybody else he's the one that opens up the Red Sea didn't the whole tourah portion start off with this tell God saying this is what I've done for you how do you not remember all the amazing things that I've done in your life how is it that you cannot live a sacrifice of praise when your marriage is bad when your kids don't following the Lord when you lose your job how is it God says that you can't praise me in that moment don't you remember I'm the one that created everything and I can destroy it and just like that I can change your situation so fast says the Lord all you got to do is come into my presence the enemy can't touch you when you're in my presence and God says the only thing I'm asking for you to do when you get in my presence is bring me something bring me a gift and the greatest gift is a sacrifice of praise bring praise before me if you can't do anything else bring praise God Says with tithing test me with this test me you think that that that your gift that you think that you can't afford to give to me you're insulting me says the Lord your God because God says I'm the one that gave you everything God says I gave you the breath in your lungs to be able to create the finances for you to be able to to go to work I gave you that strength and you think that I can't give you more strength listen this is not about uh giving to Ministries or or or or tithing to your local church this is about understanding the concept of how to walk in the presence in the power of the king you cannot just walk into God's presence with nothing to offer him what are you sacrificing for him when was the last time you fasted ladies and gentlemen ouch ouch when was the last time that you gave up television guys when was the last time you put down your video games for crying out loud and grow up and stop being a teenager ow and and putting your family aside God wants to step on your toes I'm sorry I'm not here to make you feel good I'm here to teach you how to get in the presence of God and God says if you want to be in my presence you got to sacrifice something you see Yeshua when he came down on this Earth he was on this Earth he was not in his father's physical presence even though the father's presence through his Spirit was everywhere but he was not sitting at the right hand Throne of God how did he sit come to sit at the right hand Throne of God you know how he came to he sacrificed his life that's how he came into the presence of God if you want to be in the presence of God which creates the powerful rainclouds that bring the water to bring the seeds that are by the way already planted in your life but you're just looking for the water and you're on that water wheel and it's not working the way that you do that is start giving you're meant listen I'm sorry I said we were going to end we're not going to end we're going to keep going for a minute because God firing me up here I need to teach you a principle when we say we're made in the image of God what does that mean we are made to be givers God has no ability listen he has no ability to receive none zero he has no ability to receive how do I know that because he's not lacking anything to have the ability to receive by default means that he is missing something and he needs something and therefore he can receive God only receives back what he already gave that's the only thing he can receive is himself he's perfect within himself he doesn't need anything he is so overflowing of a picture if you will of his living water that he created us to receive for the purpose of giving it out that is what we were created for so the perfect image of God the part of us that is 100% His Image is to give so we receive but the original intent in the garden was for us to receive to give out to others the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil listen what I'm about to say because you probably never heard this before the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil is the idea that we could receive for ourselves that is how it all went downhill from there is we learned that we could keep it that when blesses us financially we can keep it we can buy something else we can build a bigger house we can have a better 401k plan when God gives us a talent we can use it for ourselves it never in the Wildest Dream of Adam before the sin of man of his wife never did he think that all of his gifts that all of what God was doing was for himself it was always to bless his wife it was always to bless his children it was always to bless everyone else it was to increase the spirit of God in the earth realm what has God given you what has God given you because some of you are so talented so gifted but you're wasting your talents you're wasting what God's given you on your water wheel this Earth is so small and if you don't know how small it is let me just I'm going to give you a science lesson right now the sun which is the largest star in our solar system is 20 foot wide on a on a big wall so draw a 20 foot wall ball that's how big the sun is okay scale you take a magic marker and you put a dot on that sun that's the size of the Earth that's the size of the Earth compared to the Sun 20 foot circle one dot that's the size of the earth now raise your hand on that dot and see if anybody else is going to see you nobody but the creator of the universe sees everything every grain of sand he has numbered every hair on your head the love that God has for you is so great but he's asking you to be in His image and to be in His image is the power the holy of holies once a year the the high priest was allowed to go in there and experience the presence of God Moses experienced the presence of God God ripped that curtain wide open when the Messiah died and he says come on in but do not come before me empty-handed I only give Divine assistance for those who have a clean hands and a pure heart and a contrite spirit and a heart of Praise that considers pure joy to face Trials of many kinds why does the bible say that to consider it pure joy to face Trials of many kinds because when you consider consider it pure joy listen when you consider it pure joy to face Trials of every single kind you're fearing God and when you fear the lord God he increases your wine your oil the firstborn of your herds your flocks he brings the Grain and he expands it the more that you give of yourself and everything that God has put around you the more you're proving to the Creator that you don't need anything but him that is the position of bowing thee me and worship that's true worship the word Worship in Hebrew is shakah you know what it means to lay flat on the ground to Bow prostrate yourself before when you're in a prostrated position you know what you are in a position of vulnerability you have no idea what's coming next your eyes are pointed straight down into the dust from which you came you are recognizing the Supreme deity and his greatness in your life that he's got to have your back because you're on your stomach and you can't see anything God's asking you to worship him but in order to worship him you have to Worship in spirit and in truth how do we do that it starts with an attitude it starts with this position of love and giving and generosity of your time it's it's it's guys stop working I'm looking in the camera wishing there was a mirror so I can look at myself and say the same thing stop working and go up and help your wife with dinner I know my wife's watching this you probably like that right now didn't you honey stop working so hard spend time with your children give of yourself when you see a need jump in when there's a need in a Ministry or your local church pay for it step out Pay It Forward oh it's easy to pay for somebody's lunch when they're in line right at McDonald's or God forbid McDonald's or what whatever fast food restaurant that you're at Chick-fil-A doesn't matter we can do that a flip 10 bucks and help somebody out help somebody out but what about something more significant that God might have you do to increase the kingdom God's asking you to have a position of Praise in your life stop complaining about every little thing and give him praise get off your water wheel and watch the power of God begin to rain in your life ladies and gentlemen I think we need to call it a day right there may the Lord God bless you and keep you may his face shine upon you may his countenance be lifted up over you and at the end of your day and at the end of your circumstance and in the midst of your trial may he give you Shalom get off your water wheel ladies and gentlemen and let's watch the power of God move give find someplace somebody to bless right now before the sun goes down sacrifice and watch the father resurrection power and his Divine assistance flow all over you shabbat shalom y'all we'll see you Monday night this Monday 7 PM Central Standard Time same bat Time same bat Channel we're going to talk about the month of Al every single day we're going to do a live broadcast uh right now uh in um in studio guys love you guys from all over the world from my heart to you thank you so much for being a part of our lives and Ministry we'll see you then shalom