The Invisible Vision
Pastor David T. Elms Preached on 1/26/2025
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms explores the 'better' way of Christ through the book of Hebrews, urging believers to develop 'invisible vision' that prioritizes eternal rewards over worldly convenience and mass-produced spirituality.
Key points
- •The book of Hebrews presents Jesus as 'better' in every way-better than angels, better than the old covenant, and the source of a better hope and substance.
- •Faith involves seeing the 'invisible' reality of God's kingdom, which gives one the strength to choose spiritual rewards over worldly pleasures and convenience.
- •Choosing God over the world (as Moses did) often results in three specific costs: heartbreak, loneliness, and the weight of personal cross-bearing.
- •Spiritual intimacy cannot be mass-produced; it requires a personal, circumspect walk where one values internal growth and 'betterment' over outward scale or applause.
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Worship
Sacrifice Spirit
Christology
Life application
Commit to a 'media fast' or a quiet hour of worship this week to silence the noise of the world and sharpen your vision of the invisible King.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life have you been settling for the 'menial' instead of pursuing the 'better' things of God?
- Moses chose to suffer with God's people rather than enjoy the pleasures of Egypt. What 'Egyptian' comforts might God be asking you to set aside for His sake?
- When you feel lonely, do you view it as a void to be filled by the world or as an invitation from God to commune with Him in secret?
- How does the knowledge that everything done in secret will one day be 'shouted from the mountaintops' change how you serve and worship today?
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0:02mass production has its
0:05blessings being able to scale something
0:08definitely brings its profits and it is
0:10the exercise for which business is
0:14adequately
0:15assessed whether one can start with just
0:18a simple project is not as special as
0:23being able to ramp up that project and
0:25do it on a larger scale
0:29mass-produced Mega institutional
0:32projects and products are fast and
0:36penous convenient as the process ramps
0:40up they become cheap but not nearly as
0:43interesting and
0:45fresh as being the unique things that
0:49they could be there is a
0:52Reawakening to the glory of homecooked
0:56homegrown homemade
0:58Boutique creations of the heart to many
1:03the mega shopping mall along the super
1:05highway with the mega church is
1:08appreciated but it's not intimate and as
1:12life goes on as you begin to filter
1:14through the processes of things in your
1:16life you start to appreciate more than
1:19ever before Grandma's cinnamon
1:22rolls and mother-in-law's banana
1:26pudding and it becomes more than just
1:28the name of a dish it takes on a life of
1:32its own to where the process of the name
1:36informs the dish and so when you eat it
1:41you're doing more than just taking in
1:44calories it is an experience of the
1:48Soul not everything ladies and gentlemen
1:50that counts can be counted and not
1:53everything that can be counted counts
1:57bigger is not b better smaller is not
2:01better better is
2:04better I have never wanted to have a
2:07great
2:08church I've wanted to have a church
2:11that's consumed with becoming better I
2:16don't care how amazing you might have
2:18reached in your Heights of
2:19accomplishment I have failed you if I
2:22sit there and give you Applause all day
2:24long because Applause is a drug that can
2:28take you
2:29down it's not a matter of how high you
2:32have reached or how fast you have run it
2:34is a matter of whether or not you
2:37stopped assessed your day and
2:41circumspectly moved forward see then the
2:45scripture says that you walk
2:47circumspectly to whom much is
2:50given much is required now to one their
2:54much seems to have been the
2:55accomplishment of others but when you
2:58walk up to the Lord it matters not how
3:00much you have what matters is what
3:03you're doing with what you have and when
3:06you stop and assess that that is the
3:08measuring stick by which I walk then you
3:10stop and say I've got to live by more
3:13than the measurement of the menial and
3:15the place where the little things abide
3:18right nothing is wrong with the little
3:19things little is much when God is in it
3:23but the process is not a matter of how
3:25far I have run or how high I have jumped
3:27but am I improving and getting
3:31better Hebrews is an amazing book we
3:34just read from it it is a book that has
3:36a romance in it with the word better it
3:39is a description of how the kingdom has
3:43graduated from an Old Testament reality
3:45under an old Covenant which was
3:48wonderful and that it provided access to
3:50the Lord and yet Along Came this brand
3:53new realization that Jesus came was born
3:56and was buried and rose from the dead
3:59and everything in the book of Hebrews
4:01brings along this anticipation and
4:04infatuation with the word better it says
4:07in 14 he was so much better than the
4:10angels I know some people that are in
4:12awe of angels angels show up I just say
4:14God bless you let me go by because I'm
4:16not in awe of angels they're Servants of
4:19mine they work for me they are there on
4:21my behalf I appreciate Angels one day
4:23I'm going to have a conversation with my
4:25angel he's been tardy one or two times
4:27and I'm going to have to to let him know
4:28you know what we do operate on time here
4:31in this earth uh just because you're in
4:33a Timeless existence doesn't mean you
4:35can't keep military time from me so I've
4:38got a little thing to talk to about my
4:40angel but I have given him some
4:42compassion realiz realizing just like
4:45the angel that came to minister to
4:46Daniel he said 21 days I have fought to
4:49come to get to you it was very bad
4:50because the Prince of Persia resisted me
4:53so maybe there's battles my my angel has
4:55fought that I'm not aware of therefore
4:57I'm seeking seing to have compassion for
4:59my
5:00angel but when you get in the book of
5:02Hebrews you recognize that the angels
5:05are good but he is so much who is he it
5:09is Jesus who is so much better than the
5:12angels having a more excellent Name than
5:18they oh what a lovely name that name of
5:23Jesus reaching higher far than the
5:26brightest star sweeter than the song
5:29they sing in heaven let the Earth
5:33Proclaim what a lovely name the New
5:36Testament tells us in the book of
5:37Hebrews that it is not just a better
5:39name and a better than the Angels but it
5:42says he has a it's a better hope it's a
5:45better Testament it's better promises
5:47it's better sacrifices that we have a
5:49better country that it's a better
5:51resurrection and that this thing is a
5:53better substance and it is a better
5:56thing I love the way they ended up there
5:58it was just so big he couldn't just
5:59describe it and it was about the there
6:01have been more uh uh horror movies I
6:04think I've never seen one so I don't
6:06know and the Lord knows that uh but but
6:08I I don't have an aptitude for
6:12that not better than anybody I'm just
6:14telling you hogwash on
6:16horror but isn't there one called the
6:18thing out there well let me tell you
6:21about the
6:22thing the book of Hebrews said it's a
6:25better
6:26thing so
6:28this this this God that we serve this
6:30amazing Revelation no New Testament
6:34writer devotes more or as much space to
6:37the topic of worship as does this writer
6:40of the book of Hebrews it's an
6:42astonishing book if you knew the Greek
6:44you would find out that the most
6:46talented writing and the most gifted
6:49Exquisite descriptions in a literary
6:52manner is found in the book of Hebrews
6:54while Romans is the most litigious book
6:58it comes and stacks stack upon on top of
7:00stack of the most perfect layout of
7:03building a case when you get to the most
7:05Exquisite expression of that of the
7:08silver tonged eloquent Prophet you would
7:10read the book of Hebrews as that and we
7:14are allowed to look at the essence of
7:17this book and if you would deduce it
7:20down to just a sentence it would be
7:22essentially this come away from the
7:24novelty the transience the diversity the
7:28alienation the Oblivion the conflict
7:32come away from your GLE your grief and
7:34your many disappointments of of Life
7:37come away from all of that and focus
7:39your attention on the air of all things
7:43the heir whose name is Jesus and it
7:47opens with this extravagant word play
7:51and iterations of the name of Jesus and
7:54I'm about to read to you a adequate
7:57description of how it opens this is not
7:59King James version this is more updated
8:02for our hour but if you read it in the
8:05book of of Hebrews in the King James
8:08Edition it is a long sentence that opens
8:10the book but listen to this and don't
8:12get lost in the word iness because the
8:16eloquence of this writer was just trying
8:18to offer his most uh eloquent
8:21description of this better thing he said
8:25in the epics of old when the eons
8:27whispered their secrets God the grand
8:30architect articulated his Essence
8:33through manifold Messengers and in
8:36diverse dialects he spoke to our fathers
8:39through the prophets but in these final
8:41days he has uttered his ultimate
8:44utterance his singular son the appointed
8:47heir of all that hums and Hees through
8:51whom he also crafted the cosmos this sun
8:56shining with the sheen of God 's Glory
8:58the exact expression of his entity
9:02upholds all by the utterance of his
9:04power when he has by himself purged our
9:10perversities he sat down on the right
9:12hand of the Majesty on High having
9:15become so much better than the angels as
9:19he has by inheritance obtained a more
9:23excellent Name than they
9:28and with that same measure and skill the
9:30writer gives us the rest of this book
9:33the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews
9:35is one we all love it's the faith
9:36chapter and in it we hear the story of
9:39Moses which is our text by faith Mo by
9:41faith Moses when he was come to years
9:43when he was
9:44mature whatever that age was in that day
9:47a lot of uh they did not have this this
9:49uh fraudulent thing called adolescence
9:53which is a creation of the last era we
9:55have created this fraudulent fate makeb
9:58believe era that's known from 12 to some
10:01people think 35 where you can play video
10:04games all night sleep all day and live
10:05on your mom and dad's
10:07money hogwash repent and get a
10:13job yes you can work and go to
10:16school I worked at UPS we got some you
10:19upsters in this place I won belt of the
10:22month pd3 in December
10:28all of you all know what December's like
10:30not all of you know but and so all of
10:34this process um Moses when he was come
10:37to years at 12 maybe 15 somewhere there
10:40he assessed all the options that he had
10:43on his plate as a inhabitant of the
10:45Egyptian Palace adopted by the royalty
10:48of that time and he chose to understand
10:52that the esteem of the things of God was
10:54greater than all the pleasures in Egypt
10:57and he had more respect unto the reward
11:00of the Lord than the reward of the land
11:03of Egypt that he had and the Bible says
11:05he chose in that process rather to
11:08suffer Affliction with the people of God
11:12than to enjoy the pleasures of
11:15sin for a season I know it's ridiculous
11:18that we have fasted three days a week
11:20this month I know it's ridiculous that
11:22we are going to have a media fast the
11:24world sees that and thinks you guys are
11:26nuts so half of your churches are going
11:28to pretend that they do it and not do
11:31it Hey listen all I got to do is report
11:35you get to decide but the truth is is
11:39that these rewards of the Lord are not
11:41given by the cathedral they're given by
11:43the king and the reward of the Lord is
11:45Unstoppable and when you understand his
11:47reward he will respond to you you give
11:51and then it shall be given unto you
11:54pressed down shaken together and running
11:56over it doesn't come from the account of
11:58the cathedral it comes from the King and
12:01so that's why you understand why there
12:03are going to be a church full of people
12:06that this week will Fast media and then
12:09there will be those ah you know my
12:11wife's one of those crazies as seeing
12:14one who is invisible is going to come up
12:16here from 3:30 to 4:30 are those hours
12:19correct oh look how many of oh we're
12:22going to see how many show up and act
12:24like they're awake out here anyway uh
12:27for from 2:30 through3 she was hoping
12:29you would forget that U but she just
12:31leave her alone because she's already
12:33announced that there's going to be time
12:34she may even lay down face to the Ground
12:37full body Lay Down and Worship the Lord
12:39on her face before the presence of the
12:42Lord why because we got a king and we're
12:44in awe of this King and oh my Lord my
12:47praise isn't enough My Worship isn't
12:49enough my
12:51Hallelujah are not enough I I started to
12:54tell you that the Hallelujah the ha is
12:56for what he has done for me but the lah
13:00is for all that which is coming my way
13:03it's Unstoppable it's marching in our
13:06Direction you can't stop it the
13:08president can't stop it the European
13:10Union can't stop it
13:13bu corporations can't stop it
13:16billionaires can't stop it Russia can't
13:18stop it the CCP can't stop it nobody can
13:22stop it the king is coming
13:29the movie Matrix which I haven't seen
13:31but I've heard a lot about some of you
13:33have seen it one or two don't raise your
13:35hands uh is a multimedia commentary on
13:38one verse of scripture found in 2
13:40Corinthians 4: 18 which says so we fix
13:44our eyes not on what is seen But on what
13:48is unseen for what is seen is temporary
13:54but what is unseen
13:58is
13:59eternal you know I I often try to get my
14:02wife to give me a compliment on my
14:04preaching yesterday I waited all day
14:07long to see if my what I said for my
14:09father was adequate and when I asked her
14:12after several hours did I say anything
14:16that made sense she literally instead of
14:19going straight to the compliment she
14:21said oh so you need to know if you did
14:24good or not
14:30and then she asked that question are you
14:32feeling badly about that well why do you
14:34think I'm
14:35asking just go ahead and press the
14:37default Button he's feeling badly okay
14:40just go ahead and do that all of you in
14:42the Spanish Church automatically know
14:44brother Torres even though is gifted and
14:46talented he's got his beautiful daughter
14:48beside him which I seek to embarrass
14:50every chance I can get because she loves
14:52me like that brother Torres is gonna
14:54walk out of the pulpit today and he's
14:56gonna feel like I fell short of what I
14:59thought I could reach and there will be
15:02that feeling of failure it's what Alex
15:04simmer learned to have to endure it
15:07doesn't go away with time you don't with
15:08practice get better than that you have
15:11to sort of fake yourself out and walk on
15:13and say I fell short but I'm still
15:15swinging I fell short but I'm still
15:18going to give my best because he's
15:20worthy of my
15:23best and I so I asked my wife how how
15:27was it and with her tongue in her cheek
15:29she'll say
15:31good I mean I know what it means I go
15:34home and my dog won't even wag his tail
15:36her tail at me Laney just walks away and
15:39looks down to the ground even my
15:40daughter's cat won't come to me and let
15:43me give them milk I've just all the
15:44animals are turned away the birds hush
15:46they're singing and the flags are
15:48flowing at half staff in
15:50heaven I mean I come home and
15:52automatically I saw how I did from the
15:54flags in the Perkin
15:58Moses
16:01though when need'd come to
16:07years chose
16:12rather to
16:15fast turn off the
16:18media to worship with a
16:21headache go to church work day when only
16:24they five were showing up
16:27to still give their best in preparation
16:30for
16:32communion to decorate the house whether
16:35or not a compliment ever came to teach
16:38the children on Sunday with great
16:41preparation whether or not a parent
16:43would ever stop by and buy him a
16:46gift
16:47they see him who is
16:55invisible and then they laugh at the
16:57oddest
16:58times they cry in unusual
17:02moments because it's not
17:05logical they have heard a sound from a
17:09far away Place Moses chose to serve God
17:13rather than all the riches in Egypt how
17:16how did you do this Moses what's going
17:19on you've turned down the rolls Ro of
17:21Egypt to suffer with the people of God
17:25uh I would like to rephrase that word
17:26and say it's not suffering you know you
17:28get around apostolics very often they'll
17:30say we love to fast shut
17:34up you're not that
17:37spiritual I I I get so bored with some
17:40folks I get around that are always out
17:42showing you like a be scratch on the
17:44tree they're always out showing you how
17:46they're more spiritual how they get more
17:48Visions how they're more holy and
17:50they've got seen things and it's like
17:52but you just be
17:54quiet all of us suffer
17:58there's a lot of suffering with the
18:00people of God and I don't care how they
18:02repackage the kingdom of God in this
18:05hour if you're going to make Heaven your
18:07home you're going to have to learn to
18:09take up your cross he didn't say you
18:11could carry it he just said take it up
18:14in other words your cross is going to
18:16knock you down your denying of your
18:18flesh is going to make you feel left out
18:20the taking up of your cross is going to
18:23make you feel ostracized at times the
18:25Bible said we bear the rep approach of
18:27Christ going without the camp in other
18:30words where everybody else is having a
18:31party the call of the Lord at times
18:34calls us away from the laughter and away
18:37from the song and away from the dance
18:39and into a secret place where we
18:41encounter a voice that others cannot
18:45hear or choose to not hear or do not
18:48hear but we're not judged for what they
18:51do we're judged for what we do so we
18:54push back from the table we push back
18:57from the media and we sing at odd times
19:01for one hour in the presence of God or
19:04like the month of gratitude for five
19:06minutes on the side of our bed before we
19:08go to sleep at
19:09night why as
19:12seeing him who is
19:15invisible we walk through these doors
19:17and people praise the Lord and if you
19:19are not accustomed to that you would say
19:22why are they doing that don't they
19:23understand the platform does all of that
19:26and many churches that I've visited
19:27that's the truth the platform does all
19:29of that and everybody just stands there
19:31and the lights are real low so there's
19:32no accountability in the Pew to whether
19:34or not you're going to praise or not uh
19:36listen this pastor in this church sees
19:40things a little differently than that
19:42we're happy we are quality enough to be
19:44somewhat of an entertainment device for
19:46you but our object is not entertainment
19:48you can get that A Hard Rock 10 minutes
19:50away our object is to bring you in to
19:53grab your heart to pull you in to the
19:57presence of the Lord so that you grow
19:58accustomed to hearing your voice say
20:02hallelujah enough to where your neighbor
20:05is surprised to hear you and then you
20:07stand there without embarrassment as if
20:11you shouldn't be S shocked at hearing me
20:13say that you don't know what he brought
20:15me through this week and so just sit
20:18there and wonder why I had to do that
20:21but I couldn't stop it if I tried
20:24because I have been brought out and he
20:26br me through so I have to say
20:31[Applause]
20:34hallelujah this is not a style this is
20:36not a call and response I've sat in all
20:39the the University classes where they've
20:42tried to say well that's what
20:43Pentecostals do and act as if it is a
20:46style ladies and gentlemen if it's a
20:48style then be quiet we don't want style
20:51here we want substance if you're just
20:53doing it because you think oh that'll
20:55make the preacher happy I'm happy
20:57without
20:59you I mean I'm not trying to be mean but
21:01I'm pretty well taken care of God is
21:05good all the time to me and I live with
21:07nothing I can get there again and I'm
21:10okay without your stuff but I come to
21:12tell you if you ever get on the team if
21:15you ever realize that we walk arm in arm
21:17and heart in heart and wallet in wallet
21:20and song and song and dream and dream
21:24then you realize there's coming a day
21:26when the me measurement shall be
21:29revealed and everything done in secret
21:31shall be shouted from the
21:35mountaintops yeah that hasn't happened
21:37yet by the way I know you can go on Yelp
21:40and find out if the restaurant is four
21:42star
21:433.8 I know when I get hotels I'm always
21:46seeing if it's a 4.2 or a 4.8 star hotel
21:50I'm not all that happy with the
21:55threes you can't do that with Saints and
21:58you can't do that with preachers so
22:00there's some two star preachers out
22:01there and there's some two star
22:03Saints and on that day it's going to be
22:06shouted out and all of your fakery is
22:07going to be revealed it's going to be
22:09shouted from The Mountaintop all the
22:11fraud and all the fakery it's not going
22:13to be popery it's going to be fakery and
22:15on that day all of this preaching is
22:18going to matter that's the reason all of
22:20you beautiful hearts in this place that
22:22show up and show out and worship and
22:24praise God and you're accountable to
22:26yourself you're accountable to your giv
22:28and you're accountable to your worship
22:29and you're accountable to your prayer
22:31and you're accountable to your fasting
22:33on that great day when everything done
22:35in Secret's going to be shouted openly
22:37on that day it's going to be a day of
22:40rejoicing oh what singing oh what
22:42shouting on that happy morning when we
22:44all shall rise oh what Glory
22:48Hallelujah when we see our Jesus on the
22:51other side there's three things that I
22:55am going to give to you because you know
22:56preachers have to have three
23:02points I'm really a onepoint
23:05preacher but these three things are are
23:08are what comes when you see him who is
23:10invisible
23:13heartbreak heartbreak comes when you
23:16have invisible
23:18Vision because you say goodbye to some
23:21things you say goodbye and you say hello
23:24to some things which you used to to love
23:27you don't love anymore what you used to
23:29not love you begin to love God
23:32transforms you little by little and
23:35Heart By Heart and step by step you
23:38understand and you have to say goodbye
23:40and there's heartbreaks and I'm sure for
23:43Moses when he had to leave Egypt there
23:45was heartbreak and relationships he was
23:48a high futin power broker in Egypt
23:51ladies and gentlemen he had good people
23:54that he knew in Egypt every Egyptian was
23:56not bad just like everybody in the world
23:59is not bad but when you begin to seek
24:02the Lord there's going to be a
24:03separation that occurs not because of
24:06exclusivities but because of
24:08consecrations heartbreaks happen when I
24:11left San Diego I cannot tell you the
24:13price I was not willing to pay I had to
24:16pay because of my father's call I cried
24:19because I left Danny and Stanley
24:21markwell my best buddies I cried because
24:24I left my playground back yard where I
24:27love to make mud Pancakes on the 2x4
24:30that was on the right side of the
24:32backyard I hated leaving the tree that I
24:35climbed when the moon landing happened I
24:38TI tied myself in ropes to the top
24:41branch that I could reach as a
24:435-year-old boy and all tied in I was an
24:47astronaut for a
24:49day and I had to leave that place
24:51because my daddy heard the invisible
24:55sound and and then I W walked as a nomad
24:58and rode as a nomad with Mom and Dad
25:00going around getting one we friends and
25:03I would leave them in a week and get a
25:05friend in a week every once in a while I
25:07got to spend the night the day over
25:09somebody's house never the night but
25:11some Sunday afternoons between the
25:13Sunday morning service and Sunday night
25:15service my four-day friend I got to go
25:17home with I'll always remember one
25:19friend out in New Mexico I got to go
25:21home with him and that afternoon his
25:24mother made plenty of coffee and I was
25:26never allowed to drink coffee but she
25:28believed children were made for coffee
25:30and I love the fact that that day I had
25:33my first cup of coffee in fact I had my
25:35first two cups of coffee and I drank all
25:39of that coffee at my uh I was probably
25:42seven at that time and then after the
25:45coffee got in me there was some big
25:47fields near that church that me and this
25:49buddy went and he had matches and we
25:52discovered fire it was awesome it was
25:55wonderful oh we lit that fire up and all
25:59of a sudden it got bigger than we
26:01thought it should be and panic hit my
26:03heart and we both went to
26:05stomping I danced more that day because
26:08of the fire than because of
26:12church but me and my fire friend with
26:15coffee
26:16Delight would never meet again after one
26:22week went to
26:24Charlotte my daddy who had a college
26:27education major in English literature
26:30was a brilliant man who didn't need the
26:32English literature because he was
26:34already an engineer fixing that4 Phantom
26:36planes you've heard this 100 times I'm
26:37going to tell you 100
26:39more in the clean room at the derivative
26:42of McDow Douglas on North
26:45Island big
26:47money good money new cars he had all the
26:52toys he had movie movie cameras and he
26:57loved to film and everywhere we went he
26:59got video of us kids we're talking about
27:021969 and 1970 and 1971 eusee
27:07vacations uh Big Bear vacations Carl's
27:10Bad Cavern vacations oh yeah Daddy had
27:13all the toys in fact the back seat of a
27:16brand new car I'll never forget it he
27:18thought it wasn't good coming from the
27:20factory so he got a pure clear pullover
27:24cover to go on the back seat which to me
27:27was genius because while a seat wasn't
27:29very slippery that plastic cover I could
27:32slide all the way
27:34across and nobody cared
27:37about car seat
27:42belts I lived without riding in car
27:45seats ladies and gentlemen listen the
27:47car seat for a child was that little
27:49thing that folded in the
27:51middle in the back
27:54seat just enough for me to throw my legs
27:57over both Sid and act like I was on a
28:00horse but the best place in the car was
28:03the spot that was flat at the back
28:06window long before sunroofs I had a full
28:10sunroof I laid up in that back area
28:13where the the glass came right over me
28:16and I saw the whole Sky laying up there
28:18and Nar a person thought that that was a
28:21dangerous place for
28:24me so all of you
28:27modern people with your 10,000 plastic
28:30pounds PSI seat
28:34belts observe the
28:40law first thing sister elm's com to help
28:43me close it's
28:46heartbreak next thing is going to
28:48happen if you see the invisible is
28:52loneliness it's the price of seeing him
28:55who is invisible
28:57my my mother always told me when I was
28:59growing up
29:00Davey when you're
29:02lonely realize it's the voice of God
29:06calling you I've heard others say that
29:09through my life but the first person I
29:11ever heard that say that was my mom she
29:14said that's the voice of God calling you
29:17so I never got
29:19lonely soon as I got lonely I wasn't
29:22sitting there acting like something was
29:23wrong with me I thought I've been
29:25visited yes the
29:27Lord is wanting some
29:30time it'll help your anxiety when you
29:33realize loneliness is not because of you
29:35but it's because of him he needs that
29:37he's calling you to a secret place where
29:40you can
29:41commune yep you've heard about the Lone
29:45Ranger in Tonto haven't you Tonto we
29:49used to call them Indians but because
29:50we're uh learning and understanding
29:53things better we now call them Native
29:55American
29:57Tonto was the Native American companion
29:59of the Lone Ranger they went out to the
30:02desert in Texas and uh 10,000 Native
30:06American Indians attacked them from the
30:08north and so they got on their horses
30:10and started running to the South and
30:12then 10,000 from the south showed up so
30:15they decided to
30:16turn uh left and go
30:19east and uh 10,000 from the East showed
30:23up so they went the only way they could
30:25go west and 10,000 Native Americans
30:28showed up from the West
30:3040,000 warriors were converging upon
30:33them and The Lone Ranger looked at Tonto
30:36and said Tonto what are we going to
30:39do Tonto looked back at him and said
30:42what do you mean we white
30:48man I'm talking about
30:51loneliness there's
30:53times you're going to be abandoned even
30:55by the person you're married to not
30:58necessarily because they want to but
31:01because you're in that space your kids
31:04don't understand the one you're married
31:05to doesn't
31:06understand there is times and there are
31:09times of loneliness that will overwhelm
31:12you
31:13remember after Wilma and the hurricane
31:16went through terribly and we had a lot
31:18of damage here on a property tree damage
31:21I'll always remember the vision that God
31:22gave me as I was exhausted laying at the
31:24school pool there I had gone to this in
31:27between zone of sleep and not sleep I
31:30thought it was full sleep until I heard
31:32a noise I heard the sound of wagons it
31:35was crazy and I woke up and realized as
31:38soon as I heard those wagons it was a
31:41little sound from an invisible place the
31:43sound of the
31:45wagons that were coming full of the
31:48evidence that God was for us we have
31:52preached about that and told of the
31:53story of uh
31:56Jacob when he had lost his son Joseph
32:01supposedly he would not believe that he
32:03was alive now because he had buried him
32:06a thousand times and walked to His
32:09bloodstained Garment
32:11gravide imagining that his son had been
32:14devoured by wild
32:16beasts but his children came back and
32:18said no Daddy Joseph is alive in fact
32:22he's in charge of all the wealth of
32:24Egypt right now he's got it all stored
32:27up and Jacob said uhuh don't don't
32:31trouble me with this I have been through
32:41two I've endured enough don't play with
32:44me like
32:47that the Bible said but when he saw the
32:53wagons he he said okay
32:57what they're telling me is real I know
33:00wagons and those are rollsroyce
33:04wagons he's sending
33:06plenty and the Lord impressed that on me
33:09and that was many years ago I believed
33:13the wagons were coming ever since then
33:16but loneliness still
33:17comes more than anything else Hard Times
33:20make us we sometimes need to be broken
33:23and lonely and Forsaken and Evil even
33:27forgotten we need enemies some
33:29heartaches and some battles because
33:32those are the things that push us to the
33:35Lord to see that God is so good and so
33:39wonderful it's about the time that we
33:41get to the bottom of the barrel it seems
33:43as if God cracks Heaven's window and
33:45said now can you see
33:48me you've been filled with all the noise
33:51of society and time are you able to hear
33:56the Eternal
33:58[Music]
34:00sound
34:03so the songwriter said where do I
34:07go when there's nobody else to turn
34:10to who do I talk to when nobody wants to
34:16listen who do I lean
34:19on when there's no Foundation
34:23stable I go to the Rock
34:27I know he's
34:29able I go to the Rock shall We Stand
34:32where do I
34:34hide till the storms have all passed
34:38over who do I run
34:41to when the Winds of Sorrow
34:44threatened is there a
34:46refuge in the time of
34:49tribulation when my soul needs
34:53consolation I go to the right
34:57I'm opening this Altar for some folks
34:59who want to come and talk to the king a
35:01little bit if you've not received the
35:03Holy Ghost you can only get it by
35:05seeking not by quoting words of logic
35:09you got to get in his presence and get
35:11spiritual say I'm not used to getting
35:13spiritual that's why we model it around
35:15here you just get and begin letting the
35:17songs of praise come out of your mouth
35:21Our Praise Can't Get You There Our Song
35:24cannot get you there you're the one
35:26who's got to close out all the things
35:29that are pressing your attention span
35:31and get yourself in the presence of the
35:34Lord and Shout Out
35:36hallelujah hallelujah I love you Jesus I
35:41worship you Jesus I magnify you Jesus
35:45you are my king you are my Lord you are
35:49my God you are my maker I Adore You
35:53Jesus I worship you Jesus Jesus with all
35:57my heart I need you with all my heart I
36:00love you you are the dream of my soul
36:04you are my aspiration you are my
36:07inspiration you are the song that I want
36:10to sing you are the poems I want to say
36:14you are the purpose I want to live for
36:16I've got to have more of you I'm not
36:19satisfied with just a little bit I need
36:22more fill me with your spirit oh Lord
36:26accept my praise dear Jesus let me stand
36:29in your presence and tell of your
36:32goodness let me stand in your presence
36:34and tell of your beauty let me stand in
36:37your presence and tell of your strength
36:40let me stand in your presence and tell
36:42of your love oh you are my hope you are
36:46my
36:47joy it there's room in this Altar for
36:51everybody who will let's come and
36:56[Music]