Beyond Sunday: The Holy Spirit Empowers Us
Catch up: this week’s Sunday morning message.
We have connection to God the Father, through Jesus, by the power of the Spirit. The invitation is to walk with Jesus not because of a set of rules but by the very nature of who God is and who we are because of Him. The Spirit empowers us to walk with Jesus.
Catch up: this week’s Sunday morning message.
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00:00:11 Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Beyond Sunday where we decided to take the conversation beyond Sunday. And so in this week, we get to um record this together. And so I'm here next to me is Shay. How you doing? I'm good. Good. Welcome. It's good to be here. This episode of Beyond Sunday is is Beyond Sunday Pentecost edition. And in fact, what we just discovered a moment ago is that we are um in fact coordinating is that say coordinating, but it is coordinating. We're coordinating Pentecost colors of which we discovered
00:00:41 what Pentecost colors were a week ago. Yeah. Shout out to Pastor Courtney for that. This was not intentional, but apparently the colors of fire. Colors of fire. So I think we're all we're missing is red. Do you know that? Do you know what colors are being right now? Yes. for for everyone color deficient here. I think we've already talked about this. If they're following along, they know, right? But Pentecost colors, here we go. Okay. All right. Hey, check out check out this video before we dive in.
00:01:41 Heat. Heat. All right, we're back. And uh this this week, like we said, is Pentecost. This last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday. And so our scriptures, Acts 2, the Pentecost story, uh of the Holy Spirit, um descending upon the apostles and then everything that transpires after that. Um but then um uh went to some other places like I went to John chapter 14. You were in a a few different passages, but our our big idea for this week was that the Holy Spirit empowers uh for this journey. And in fact, this is um
00:02:37 what part one of two of the Holy Spirit empowering us in this journey. And so um yeah, what was uh some of the big the points for you as walking like you I went to Acts 2 and then John 14, but on on on this um last Sunday, it was God had something else in store than what was in my notes, which was really kind of cool. Uh also terrifying at the same time, but um it was it was really kind of cool. And then um even maybe you as well. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the same. Um we were in Acts 2 uh Exodus 40
00:03:12 and First Kings 8 and then also John 14. We were all over. Um but yeah, similarly um I woke up I felt like God woke me up on Sunday morning uh with this prayer of like okay this is Pentecost. Um, God, would your would your spirit come the the in the song rest on us that like fire and wind come and do it again? That was kind of the prayer in my heart when I woke up early Sunday morning of like um would the spirit move uh in that same kind of way. And then in that prayer, it felt like God was saying like um just
00:03:50 recognize that that's a dangerous prayer. like are you um and I I think I was telling you but even in reading Acts too what kind of stuck out I think sometimes we romanticize the stories in scripture and so we we think about the the Pentecost story and it's like I don't know there's like this image of they're all sitting at the table eating a meal and it's like the little cute little flames over their head and they're like put your little flame up there and when you read Acts two it talks about like the sound of a rushing
00:04:20 wind we were having a conversation uh last week about the bomb cyclone that came through in November. Um and it hit us really hard. Yeah. 75 mph wind gust or no just not gust but full blowing of 75 miles an hour. Right. And we I' I've talked about this on the podcast too after that but um that night my family like we're all literally huddled in one corner of our home listening to trees fall and like huge trees fall and crack around us. Um, and like, okay, God, um, I mean, this sounds dramatic, but like,
00:04:55 if you're going to take us, take us quick. That was the like prayer in my in my heart. Um, and just that sound is crazy. And so then with that in mind, reading Acts two, it's like I don't know that this was so much of a like, oh, the spirit's here. Look at your little tongue of fire as as it was like, what the Yeah. And then also being able to um uh preach the good news or share about um who Jesus is um coming out of that room in different languages, ones that they um didn't know before, right? And
00:05:27 that they h the spirit enables them in this way to to everyone who is around and then it's such a commotion, right? That's what kind of what we read in scripture is that this like there's something going on over here and it's kind of crazy like it's compelling them into that was the other thing I had heard a um I think it was in the lect the um lectio 365 just like a prayer app that morning Sunday morning they were talking about um we think about like oh they're in the room and the spirit came but it compelled them in it's it's
00:06:00 almost like it was talking about it like a wind so powerful and strong it blew them into the streets. Yeah. Uh to to be having that. Yeah. Um so I just think that was the that's what it felt like on uh in that morning. I woke up with this like fire and wind come and do it again. And God's like yes, but do you know what you're like are you ready and are you willing um to pray that prayer and and be okay if I do show up in that way? Um and so in that uh then then the other piece of that was like God uh whatever
00:06:35 comes out of me today let it be you in in my that that should always be the prayer. But um I think especially I had a lot of I had a lot of stuff up here for this topic of being empowered by the spirit. And so I was like I I just need whatever I say to be you. Um and so yeah my the whole second half of my message was like well that's not in my notes. I wasn't, in fact, I said multiple times like actually wasn't planning on sharing this, but here's where we here's where we are. So, and and um how interesting
00:07:07 that both of us on Pentecost Sunday um again have notes that were going off of scriptures that that we sense God leading us in. But in in that moment, um God's like, I've got something else and it's already I've already put it within you. like you say my head was full or I had a lot it was a lot swirling up here that um then what flows out of us is actually what God is already seated within us that gets birthed and in fact actually sorry but actually the like the night before the day before you sent me
00:07:40 um uh this pastor's I put a like here's Pentecost here's what Pentecost is and that was really powerful for me there are pieces in there I'm like it's so good Yeah. Well, and that uh we can we can read that and share that with everyone, but that um even as you were just talking like there's something um I don't want to I don't want to equate that with the speaking in tongues, but there is something about that day of Pentecost that people are are speaking words that are so clearly from the spirit and from God because it's
00:08:14 like this is not my language. These are not my words. And it's or and it's being heard in that way. And I wonder if in a similar fashion um for both of us on Sunday, it's like God, whatever comes out of me, let it be you. And this is not anything I planned today. Yeah. Um yeah, God, the Holy Spirit had seated something in in that moment. Um and you know, yeah, even in Acts 2, it's like here. It was a powerful message. Thousands of people respond to it. Yeah. And are baptized. These are the words I
00:08:46 need you to say now, so get out of my way. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. Yeah. I'm gonna The wind's going to blow, you know. And um this is um this is my redeeming message to the world, right? Do you want me to read this? Yeah. Okay. I I had offered that we could do this every other word, but you thought that would not be You're a better reader. Okay. Don't do voices or Did you do accents? I'm really good at accents. I'm not doing accents. Which one? Can you do the the avatar accent? I don't know what
00:09:21 that is. What does that mean? No, I'm just going to do a normal in editing. I'm going to make you blue. Okay. Well, I'm going to talk in my normal voice. So So smurf. Sound like a smurf. Okay. Just uh this is from I don't know if you already said this. This is from Pastor Ian Simkins. um something he had posted on Instagram and it says before the church had a pulpit it had a prayer meeting before it had programs it had Pentecost at its core Pentecost is about prayer presence unity and life that's what came into the
00:09:54 church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost a day I imagine that was like any other day Jesus followers simply gathered together praying and seeking God they were told to wait to receive God's power instead of trying to go out in their own strength In a lot of ways, Pentecost is the antithesis, the answer to the hubris of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. At Babel, there was a spirit of pride. At Pentecost, there was a spirit of love. At Babel, they were divided. At Pentecost, they were united. At Babel,
00:10:25 there was confusion. At Pentecost, there was clarity. At Babel, they were full of themselves. At Pentecost, they were full of God. At Babel, humanity tried to build a name. At Pentecost, God gave them a mission. At Babel, they were scattered by fear. At Pentecost, they were sent with love. The Holy Spirit enabled the disciple to speak in other tongues and enabled them to speak about Jesus with boldness, to endure hardship, to perform miracles, to serve the poor, and to discern. These are the kinds of
00:10:53 things that spirit enabled people do. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit empowered the disciples to get out of their comfort zones and abide in relationship with people from different nations, tribes, and tongues. Pentecost isn't a ticket to go to heaven. It's the power to go to the world. When the church stops dreaming, it starts dying. The spirit give the spirit gives us new imagination not for escape but for renewal. Bethlehem is God with us. Calvary is God for us. Pentecost is God within us. And
00:11:21 on that first Pentecost Sunday, it's Peter who preaches. Peter, the one who denied Jesus, the one who by most metrics fell away short. The kingdom of God is for those who miss the mark. The spirit empowers those the world overlooks. This Pentecost, may the Holy Spirit bring light to our darkness. Turn hatred into love, sorrow into joy, and doubt into hope. Come, Holy Spirit, ban into flame what has grown cold. Wake us up. Send us out. Empower us to live the gospel wherever we might be. Yeah. The piece too in in that uh that
00:11:55 then was a part of even our notes was uh the story or of like we we we've been filled with the spirit but we haven't learned to walk in the power of the spirit. Yeah, that's how I opened. Um because that was when I read that that's a story from Pastor Tyler Stton. And um when I read that, it felt like it gave words to what I've experienced in myself um in my own walk in the last couple years. Yeah. Um and and then so then I asked the question like it's probably not just if if it's him and if it's me, it's
00:12:29 probably more. Yeah. Um, and that idea of like um I mean I use the illustration of a like I brought a present um up onto the platform and like no if if I gave you this present you wouldn't be like thank you so much and then go put it at home and never open it. Um like we wouldn't we don't do that but we do. Um we're like God thank you so much for your Holy Spirit. Yeah. And it's like I know God the Father as my creator and my, you know, uh, redeemer and my Lord and whatever. And I know Jesus as my
00:13:04 savior and the my example and my way to the father. And then I'm like, thanks for the spirit. Let's move it over here. And then I'm like, God, this this thing you're asking me to do, the way you're asking me to live in this world, it's too hard. It's so hard. And he's like, why don't you open my gift? Yeah. I've I've offered Yeah. I've given you something. Yeah. Um yeah. Yeah. And that and and the idea that um so for me, well, this was uh like I said, this there was a lot up here because this is
00:13:35 I've been living in this in the last two or three months because we just came back from uh our our district board retreat. Um, and this was the word that God had given uh a couple months ago was like, I want I want you to uh reflect on, pray through, talk about what it means to be empowered. Um, and so coming out of that and then looking and like, oh, we're going to talk about being empowered by the spirit for the next two weeks. Okay, something here. Yeah. Um because even in that space, sorry to
00:14:08 interrupt, but even in that space the in that room I was like what what is what is empowered, right? And and yeah and so I pulled that we we were in a meeting that weekend um having that conversation and somebody brought up like well empowered is kind of a buzz word right now, right? Frank had looked it up and um I don't know the exact definition but I talked about this on Sunday because whatever whatever the like current Webster dictionary definition of empowered it's something about like I can do whatever I want in
00:14:38 my own power. Yes. Which is the like literal opposite definition. Um and so um that that's what we're all out here trying to do. Um yeah to to I don't know that that idea of like that's that's what we're trying to do and God's like so um yeah what's one of the definitions comes up having the knowledge confidence means or ability to do things or make decisions for oneself. Yeah. It's not that's not the Holy Spirit empoweredness. Well that also doesn't work. That's the problem. And this we've tried all of humanity has
00:15:15 tried. It's it's the reason the self-help section at the bookstore is so big. And it's the re I mean we're like um just reclaim your power and don't give others your power. And there's this whole like push for that um as if I have any power to give or or whatever like the or the ability to reclaim it when actually the Holy Spirit is the one that empowers us. Right? So because it's not my power, it's not my power anyways. Um and that's that's where for me it's the filling piece. Um and that's why we were in
00:15:52 Exodus 40. We were in First Kings 8 because there just um there's something about this this uh understanding that like God created humanity um to be a people filled by him uh to dwell with him and then to fill the earth with his glory. Um, and then of course Genesis 3 and the choices and and there's um uh our access to the father's limited after that. And and yet he's like, I uh I still desire to dwell with you. This is what I created you for. This is the purpose here. And so we see in Exodus 40, we see him fill the tabernacle and
00:16:31 dwell like he's called his people. You will be a tabernaclebearing people. And so he dwells with them. And then in first kings 8 like okay Solomon you can build my my temple and I will fill my temp I'll fill the temple and I'll dwell there. Um and that those are both like and tight talks about that being a sheer act of grace where God's like uh I don't have to do this and you you destroyed this thing but I'm still going to come and fill this space. Um but then it's like God's like that's still actually
00:17:00 not quite good enough. Um because what and I love um I love in in pointer. Well, and in second Samuel, I think it is 7 or something where David's actually talking to God. David realizes, right, he's in his own palace, whatever, and he's like, "Oh, well, shoot. God's out there in a little tent like, God, I want to build you a house." And then God's response, and this is totally paraphrase. Well, and it's uh And he tight talks about it this way. I'm going to paraphrase what his paraphrase of the Bible, but he talks about God being
00:17:30 like, "That's so great, but I'm going to do you one better." and out of your line, like yes, sure, your son can build me a a temple, and that's great. We'll let that happen. But actually, what I'm going to do is out of your line, I'm going to build a temple that's actually a family, and I'm going to embody uh like my my divinity, my spirit is going to embody humanity, and that's the house I'm going to choose to live in. Um, and so even seeing mission uh uh be fulfilled through that, which is uh my
00:18:00 glory filling God's glory filling the earth. Yeah. Because in Exodus 40, God's glory fills the tabernacle, but it's limited. That's where it stops. Yeah. In in First Kings 8, it fills the temple and it's limited. And then in Acts 2, Yeah. it's like uh like that that idea of the the powerful wind that blows them into the streets. Like it's blowing his glory. It's like it blows the doors off the building and his glory is just like and 3,000 people added to the number that day or whatever, you know? And it's
00:18:30 like, yeah, that um and and I I guess that's the other thing that was my at the end of Sunday that the the prayer echoing through my heart was like that seems so um we have settled for we've settled for such so much less because I read that and that this is so this is Tyler's story, right? Well, he says he he struggled because he's like on paper things are going well at my church and it looks good, but I read Acts 2 and there's a disconnect and and it is we've romanticized that all of the things in
00:19:05 scripture like oh my gosh 3,000 were added to their number like oh they people are being healed and the disciples are you know boldly preaching the word and we're like what a cool time that would have been and it's like what God said yeah was God still why isn't that not a thing but but we've settled for like wow that that song really moved me Sunday morning. It was so great. Like that's and I I just um that that piece at the or for me at the end that was the prayer in my heart of like God, I don't
00:19:35 I don't want to settle. Um I do I want to pray pray a dangerous prayer of like would you blow the doors off of this place and would your glory just um I don't know would it just would I be moved um in a way that I don't even actually have control over? Um yeah, I don't know. I um dangerous prayer, but one of which like there there is a um an aching in my bones for for that as as dangerous as it is. an aching in my bones for um uh as God as I as I see and sense God moving as I see his Holy Spirit breaking
00:20:22 in empowering um and and seeing certain things take place around me in such moments I had no I had no expectation no thought of um God answering prayer and then he does and uh it was like a an aching a yearning in my bones of like more God more of that. Well, and I think the thing that strikes me is that um sometimes it is in that way of like a prayer being answered that that uh you just didn't see coming or there's no other way or or whatever. Um but there's also this like I I think the aching for
00:21:02 me is like I've I I've tasted and seen. Um, I have in the last couple years in this journey of uh getting to know the spirit. That's that's how I talked about it on Sunday. Like feel like I know the father fairly well. Feel like I know Jesus pretty well. Nice to meet you, spirit. Um, and in the last couple years, there's this like um like we we've talked about this intentional like uh foray into the prophetic like we're going to we're going to see what this is and what the spirit has to offer. And the way that
00:21:36 for me, the way that that has transformed uh my relationship with all parts of the Trinity and my my understanding of who God is and what who I am because of him, that's the aching for me. And sometimes it's in big powerful um unexpected and unbelievable ways. But sometimes also like I I think even of this morning is we're praying and we're sitting in quiet like just like uh you've talked, I've talked, now we're like your turn, God. and we're just sitting in the quiet and that this this prayer in my heart is like actually
00:22:07 kind of just want to stay here in your presence, God. Um that's that's the filling of like um and and so my ache is is to recognize like people that gift is wrapped up, but it he wants to fill you if you just open that. He wants to fill you. And I've it's almost like I I don't know. I don't even have words to describe that. Yeah. fill you and and walk in power and authority that propel you, right? Move you like in even in ways and in spaces that you u didn't think you would go ever uh or or take that step. Um you
00:22:47 know, I sensed that last week uh at our retreat and like God just moved me in a direction like physically and I was like, "Oh, okay. Here we go. This is what we're doing." Uh that there was it was um it was such a moment for me of um I would have loved to anyway, but God was like, "You've hesitated too much and too often. So um I'm not waiting for you to respond to my prompting and to my leading. I'm going to move you." And he did. And um and and and then and then and and then um uh uh dowsted any fears that I had prior, any
00:23:33 doubts that existed like those got burned away and the Holy Spirit moved me in a direction and it was um prompting me already but I had hesitated. Yeah. Well, when you talked about that, you talked about in that moment after the the spirit like physically moves you um of recognizing like I am I'm in his will right now in this moment. Yes. And like at in that in that literally everything falls away in those moments um where you're like I actually have no question. Yeah. That I am doing exactly what I'm
00:24:13 supposed to do in this moment. I'm where I'm supposed to be. And in back in that space like there are no words. I was just agreeing with what was taking place. God was already in like you. It was almost as if Deon you've hesitated. I prompted you. I gave you opportunities. You waited or you didn't respond um faithfully, obediently. Here, I'm going to move you in this direction. And as that took place, I found myself, yes, in line with the spirit in in the presence of God, in his will, in in his
00:24:46 way, that I didn't have words to offer back other than just agreeing what was with what God was already doing with what was taking place in that moment. which then for me was like I don't actually have to come up with anything. I just I I just have an invitation to step in and that actually trusting God to lead and the Holy Spirit to fill and to empower that's uh he will he will provide. Yeah. U well as you're talking about that and I uh I'm realizing because I was involved in that moment also. Um,
00:25:25 and because of that, so as we're talking about being empowered by the spirit, and it's it's actually the spirit in that moment, um, I felt seen by God, not not you, um, not Frank. um in that so so very much it was like God's spirit coming around me not um it was not like oh here's two friends that have noticed something um it was like it it was like me and this the father in that in that space of like um God sees me God sees me right now um he sees exactly what I need and um holding up of Yeah. Um
00:26:13 like uh it didn't feel like Frank and Devon are holding me up right now. It felt like the father's wrapped his arms around me. Um Yeah. Yeah. And and uh gosh, you God is so good. You're so good. Okay. So, we didn't have that on there. Um but as we um uh share Chyros and what we're hearing from God in in this Pentecost Sunday, uh what is what is he inviting you into? What are you hearing from him and how is he inviting you to respond? Um so I'll go first. My this chyros for me was um some of what I
00:27:00 shared even on Sunday of of Philip's question to Jesus. Jesus says, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." profound uh powerful words there in John um was it John 14 and and Jesus's his response to Philip is like have you not been with me like if you've seen me you've seen the father um and and then he uh finishes off this kind of conversation with the disciples with Philip of um all that um in verse 25 all this I have spoken while still with you but the count uh but the counselor of
00:27:34 the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you and peace uh I give you. Um uh then that I I for me that question of Philillip of show us the father and that'll be the no and um like I think I'm in I ask that question maybe often god just one more thing right the gideon of like here's a if this is if this is wet in the morning um I'll believe okay well that's good but if this is dry in the morning then it doesn't Right. So I
00:28:15 there's a sense for me Philip's question of um uh just show us the father and that'll be enough. And and I find myself in that place of unbelief um and God moving me in ways to belief of um and I I went over to Isaiah 40. Yeah. Of the um twice it's asked in here um uh do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an everlasting God. creator uh of the ends of the earth. Uh he will not grow tired or weary. In his understanding, no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increase the power of the
00:28:51 weak. Um even the youth uh youth grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will will renew their strength. And there was something in there that the the will soar on wings like eagles will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. Um and backing this portion of the scripture up in Isaiah 40 was like um get your uh lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? It's more like moving me from unbelief to belief. I don't desire to
00:29:26 ask more questions like I read Philip asking, but I find myself doing that. that I'd so um want to be filled by the spirit to overflowing and walking in his and empowered by the spirit. And there are moments that that takes place. And so the chyros for me is um Lord, where there is unbelief, move me to belief. Um not in a way of like I need a sign, I need a wonder, I need a I need proof, right? Well, like if you're gonna in some ways, God, to move me from unbelief to belief, you have to move me
00:30:06 there. Like took that took place um at the at the retreat, you have to move me in there so then I can just uh be there agreeing with what you're already doing. Um and so I I want to be more in that space. And so that's the chyros of me like Lord um if I am if I am in any way have have um not responded to your prompting have not listened well um or I'm asking questions like I read what Philip asking Jesus you're going to have to help me move from unbelief to belief and maybe take away those those questions or let those
00:30:45 questions actually maybe stir up something within me of no here Here's what I here's who I am. Here's who you are because of me. Here's what I have for you. Walking this way. So, um, that's probably not a one-off chyros. It's probably a you're going to spend some time in that one forever. Always, but um, God's too good to to leave me in that space that and then the same way Jesus didn't leave Philip in this space, right? Just peace I leave. I'm like the Holy Spirit's coming, the counselor is coming. um and will and will teach you
00:31:17 and remind you all the things that you that I've taught you and and peace. Yeah, I think so that that's for me the chyros um is is in a similar way or maybe it's a I don't know there's a connection in that because what comes to mind first of all as you're talking is like uh let's not miss um God is so good that even in the moments where you have hesitated or overthought or or just not obeyed a prompting he's like I'm still going to use you this time I'm going to make you go um but I'm still going to use you um
00:31:51 and that that's true for all of us. We see it in Philip. We see it in Peter. Um so let's let's not miss um like thank you God for for still using us and and for your patience. Yes. But but I also wonder if those questions I wonder if that is not the difference between living with the knowledge of the spirit and being empowered by the spirit. Um and and actually like without the power of the spirit we can't get past those questions. And that's I think the thing for me that sits I think in this week is
00:32:22 the reminder. Um we we ask we we call them chyros questions, right? We ask them pretty much every week. What is God saying and how will you respond? Um but in this as I was thinking through this and what does it mean to be empowered by the spirit? This this thought uh this word that God's been already giving us in the last month or so of like first will you dwell with me? Will you just dwell? just be with me and let me fill you and then listen and respond. Um, and what that does for me is it reminds me
00:32:55 that it's actually not something I I do not have to fill myself with the spirit. Um, because there's going to be a tendency in me to say, "Okay, so as a Jesus follower, I'm supposed to be filled and empowered by the spirit. Give me the four step, fivestep, 15 step, I don't care, but tell me what to do and I'll do it." You can give the top. Here's the three steps to Yeah. Okay. It can be an Instagram post or whatever. I just I like a good to-do list because because what it means is I'm in control.
00:33:23 So if I do enough of these steps, then I'll be filled by the spirit enough or whatever. um this reminder of like just stop. Just be with me and trust that all you have to do then if I'm if if you will stop and be with me, trust that I will fill you and just listen for my voice and when I tell you to move, you move a little bit. Yeah. Um, if you if you have a question or get messed up, my power in you, if you will let me because you the truth is you you could have stopped the you you talked about the spirit
00:34:00 physically moving you, but you also uh maybe not, I don't know, you also could have chosen not to respond or hear or whatever in that moment. Um, would you just dwell? Would you just dwell with me? Just be with me. And that um That was a word. I don't know. I guess that's just an echo for me in the last month. Um that like that's what we were designed for. Yeah. Right. That's what I've created from from the the tabernacle to the temple to you. Yeah. Well, and and again, I I keep referencing him, but NT, right? Talks
00:34:38 about the very law, the rules, the the all the things, right? Jesus says it's John 14, I think. If you love me, you'll obey my commandments. Right? That idea of obedience, those commandments, uh he says God gives those to his people so for the purpose of them being a tabernacle dwelling people so that like I want to dwell with you and fill you. So here just do these things so that I can be and and that so flips what what I have like what my tendency is. I got to hit these checklists and then God's spirit might
00:35:14 dwell with me. Yeah. And and because of So that's true. That's that's the here's the law so that you can be a ton bearing people. Then Jesus shows up. And in Acts two, it's like stop. You actually couldn't do those things well enough. You could not hold up your end of the covenant. I did this for you. Just now just be with me. Yeah. Which reminds me of Isaiah 40, which is like wait on the Lord. Will you wait on which which we talked about here you can put your little uh noise in there because the
00:35:45 Hebrew word for wait the Hebrew word is kava which means uh so it's translated to wait to hope to trust but the the image in Hebrew is this idea of being bound together like three cords in a rope. So you're bound so tightly to something God's like will you just be dwell with me, be filled with me, be bound to me. Yeah. Yeah. And if you do that, then I'll give you strength, right? Yeah. That's the Yeah, that's the strength to the weary. Yeah. Yeah. Just be with me. Yes. Why we over complicated a ton.
00:36:24 Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. Why else? What else will we do? Yeah. And and yet he's patient, waiting. It's good. Was that your Kyros? Yeah, it's good. And you even got a Hebrew word in there. You're welcome. It's been a while. It's a hot minute. Hard to get up to submit. Okay. Yikes. All right, guys. Well, thanks for being with us on this episode. We uh hope and pray that your conversations are going to be on Sunday and uh that actually maybe they're stirring something in your heart and
00:36:56 soul. Um maybe a tear is falling in the midst of what God is speaking. But it's good. It's good and he is good. Um so we are grateful for a good God. um who desires to dwell with us and in us and overflow uh his spirit from us. So have a blessed week guys. Take care.
