Spiritual Insights For 2023 & Beyond (Part 9) Obedience & Foundation - Lucy Cantrell 

​Throughout Scripture we see God reveal to his people His plans and highlight certain focuses for the coming season of time. Each year, we pray and seek the Lord for His guidance, insights, and direction for the upcoming year. This series is an overview of some of the prophetic insights God is highlighting to the AeroNova spiritual family for the year 2023 and beyond.

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​Thank you. Thank you, Lord, thank you for this day, thank you for allowing us to gather in your presence to hear your words into fellowship with one another, and be able to share what the Lord has been doing in our lives of us sharing. I was listening to what pas pastor Desi was saying, and testifying about them miraculous works of the Lord in Halo and in what he's doing around the church. It's like it was just so encouraging. It builds our faith. That's why we tell testimonies because he really builds our faith. And when we, the Lord was just speaking about testimonies, like about a year ago, and just to truly appreciate the types of testimonies, to truly pause, and to receive what the Lord is imparting in a testimony. Because a testimony is not just a story of what God did. It's not just a celebration, because we celebrate what God did, right. And we rejoice with the brothers and sisters, when we hear about just a victory of something that the Lord has done in their lives we rejoice, right, that causes us to celebrate and rejoice. Not only those things are happening, but when we are again, telling the stories, that's what God in the Scripture keeps telling the end, given the command to remember, he causes the people of Israel over and over and throughout the scriptures, remember, Intel to your generations, what I have done, is not just that, they will forget about what the Lord has done. But something happened when we share about what God did, is almost like if we as we are telling the testimony, we are also opening like a door for the presence of the Lord to come in impart upon that person, upon that group of people that we are sharing the power of what God has done. So we come and be imparted upon their lives, and upon their situation, about the things that they are going through. So it's almost like as we tell the testimony, it's almost like the door opens. It's almost like if we do you will see a spiritual door opening up. And the Spirit of God and the power of God, and the heart of God and the blessings of the Lord, coming through that testimony and being parted upon the people. So yes, we celebrate, yes, we rejoice, but we also position ourselves to receive also the breakthrough, that everything that Gus wants to impart that testimony. So just just just an encouragement, because I know that the Lord is building and is doing so many testimonies around you and around your communities, share them, because you are opening a gateway, you are opening doors for the Spirit of God, to come and impart that in those who are listening, those who need hope, those who may not know the Lord, but there's something that in that moment, that spirit of God touches them, because they are able to just receive and get that impartation of what God is doing. So, amen. Right. He's so good. He's so good. Okay, so we were talking about building in preparation, right? So I'm just gonna just share just a few more things about Noah here. I just have my notes now. And we were saying at the beginning, I was able to share a little bit with you that the season of building and preparation, they are interconnected. Right. And then when we are in a season of building, we are also preparing because we build to be prepared for what's coming. This is the reason why we built Okay, not the only reason but part of the reasons of why we build is because we build to prepare here for what's coming. That's what happened to Noah. Right? He prepare for the flood that he was coming, he prepare for the judgment that God was going to bring upon the earth, right? So he built to prepare, like we saw in Genesis six through nine, and the call of Noah to build an ark. Okay? The Ark itself. We can see throughout the scriptures that it became almost like a silos, like a silos like a place of storage, you know, when, like what they Ark was filled with? Well, we can say that he was filled with animals and he was filled with what else people in wish, who are the people know us Noah's family. So as we can see, not only the ark was filled with what God said that he was going to be filled, but it was the heart of God, not only to save a man, but to save a family, the heart of God is not to just save us is to save our families is to have a legacy for our generations. And even something greater. No, one man, one man two, that chose to obey God, one men that choose to work with God to hear the voice of God and to become faithful to the words of God. God use him and his family to be able to save the whole earth. It was for something greater, which is another point when God causes us to build not only is for ourselves, but he for something greater is for a greater good for our generations and the generations to come upon the earth. They are part of his plan of salvation upon the earth. This is huge. Once we see, okay, my work with God is not just about me, it's not just about me to receive the blessing, but it's about my family, my generations, and part of this great plan and love of God for humanity to save the whole world. And part of that that is greater than myself. So when we build with God, and we work with God, God does something in our lives, he begin to remove the selfishness, of just wanting to build for our own good. And we're going to see in a few scriptures. And a few moments, okay. So again, the Ark itself became the silos that I was going to be filled with the people that God will spare, and he became the place the Ark itself became the place of security and protection for Noah, in his family in the midst of judgment. So when we choose to say yes to God, God, we're going to build according to your words, and what you want us to build in our family, how are we going to build our lives, how you were going to build in your kingdom, and we are going to become obedient to Your words that we are building is going to become the place of protection is going to be the safer place that we are going to be in a time of great judgment. So that's why we want to build now, we want to be obedient to God because this is going to be the best place that we're going to be in the midst of great darkness and in the midst of great judgment is going to be in what we have been obedient to build with God, for the safety, even of our families. Because this is the heart of the Father. If we could see the heart of the Father, I think that we will be completely overwhelmed, completely overwhelmed about his goodness in his heart. Second Peter three nine, he tells us, The Lord is not slow about His promise, or some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not willing for any to perish before all to come to repentance. This is again this is part of the mercy of God. That's why his merciful his like his heart as a father is that I don't want anybody to come through this judgment. I don't want anybody to perish because I must do this. He must because of his love. Remember that the judgment is because of His great love for us. But his heart is to all come to repentance. They all come to him him. Okay, so we see that that's why part of the of the delay will not delay but the how long it took for the building. Okay, that's why waiting impatience in, in, in keeping our eyes focused on Jesus is so important in the waiting, okay okay, something that we talk a little bit too is that we need to make sure that we don't become offended with the leadership of Jesus, right? Whether it's just delaying or whether it's judgment or how things are happening in our lives, we can become offended as people, we can become even offended more. But that person got the breakthrough. I've been here praying for many years I just got saved, they just pray and you gave them the T answer what I'm waiting, what I've been waiting as human beings, we can become offended. Now. This is very important I believe in this is why God is saying we need to address this, this is part of the foundation that he's building upon us right now then he causes keys causing us to build this way. And it is to not be offended. Offense is one of the greatest things that the enemies has always have us. And right now he's using to bring separation to bring people to become whether offended with God or we can be offended with one another. Right? Now, this scripture tells us when we go through the Gospels, when you read the words about Jesus talking about the end times, going read the gospels and see the different dynamics that Jesus, in his words, when he talks about the end times, there are several dynamics. Now, this is not the only dynamic that we see. But it's one of them. Okay, we see the great offense is going to come in the end times great offense is going to come is going to come great deception. People are going to deceive even the elect's says the word, they're going to be deceived. That's why it's important they we walk in truth and in the truth of God's Word. Right. And we follow the Holy Spirit who is comes and reveals, reveals Jesus reveals the Father to us, okay, it's so important to, to want this way. So we have offense, we have deception, we also have a sexual sin is one of the things that are going to be so prevalent, and as well as fear. Fear like Pastor Robertson, and only fear of death, like it says, we don't have to be afraid of death anymore. But not only fear of death, but he can become the fear of man, the fear of you know, we can become afraid of many things, just like during this time of COVID, we were afraid of getting the virus or wearing afraid of like he was talking about right now a lot of people becoming afraid because of their financial situations and things like that we can become afraid with many things. So these things, we see them already, and they already have been here on the earth for a long time. But Jesus is saying, what you're what I'm trying to tell you is that this is going to be so strong. This is going to be so much in the End Times. And I feel like the Lord is preparing us right now to deal with your fence to deal with deal, deception, to deal with the fear, to deal with all the sin in our lives. So when these things intensified, we are going to be ready and we are going to be able to stand and to stand in the truth and to stand in the light and to stand with Jesus. Because if again, just like we don't build when the flood comes, is going to be harder when these things intensified. And then we tried to take a stand when there is great offense and we're talking about a spiritual forces, spiritual darkness that is going to come so strong. So Jesus is saying now is the time to deal with the offense in your hearts. In our hearts, now is the time to deal with the the section in our hearts. Now is the time to deal with the sin now is the time to deal with the fear. And this is why it's so important. And we're going to talk about how important it is to have the fear of God. Because when we have the fear of God, what is the greatest fear and not afraid of God we just spoke in the last session Write this reverence is so much more than just, it's not about being afraid of God. Okay? It's not that. But when we have a fear, reverence for God, what he happens is that is the greatest fear. And that fear is going to come and swallow up. Every other fear in our lives, is going to solve this fear of man, these other things, we're not going to be afraid of death, we're not going to be afraid of all these other things. Because this fear of God has a component. I don't know if that's the right word, but the fear of God what he does better say this way. What it does, is did draw us nearer to God, the fear of God actually draw us nearer to him. And it causes us to have a greater relationship with him. Okay, fear of man and the fear of the world. Or when we are in sin, what it tends to do, pushes us away and separated us from God. That's what happened to Adam and Eve, right? What they did when they knew that they had sin, they hid the heat from God. When we have fear of the Lord of dryness is like a force of justice near near the Father because we understand his heart of love, we understand his heart of compassion, we understand his heart of mercy, we understand that he has to judge those that has been those things that has been separating us from him. In we know that he in in that fear is the safest place and the fear of the Lord, the safest place, just like Brad was saying, we don't want to get out of those boundaries that God has given us. Right. Okay, so one of the things that the Lord was just sharing with me during this time of, of, of preparation and building, it was about Matthew 25. And it was see here the story of when Jesus has given this parable, the 10 virgins, five were wise and five, were fools, right? And it says that when the bridegroom came, there was actually there was a big Midnight Cry, that he says that the bridegroom was coming is referring to the Second Coming of Jesus. Okay, this is what the parable was. And it says that the 10 Virgins fell asleep. Five were full, and five were wise. The five find that they were wise, they had vessels that they were filled with oil, their lamps, and their vessels were filled with oil. The full ones didn't have vessels filled with oil. Right? And when the midnight hour came, the king is calm and the bridegroom is coming. What happened that day Firewise, one got their vessels, and they were ready to meet the bridegroom, right, ready to go meet Jesus. And then the fifl was like, Oh, give us some of your oil, gave us some of your oil, because we don't have enough. We don't have enough to go and meet the bridegroom. And the wise one said, we can't go and buy for yourself oil from those from the vendors. So those who are going to give you the oil that you need, right. And I just gotta be honest with you. I have a ton that I rent this crypto is like, well, more or you understand that sounds kind of selfish. I can spare a little bit of oil or the other one, maybe between the five they could feel a little bit of all the lamps until the Lord began to just share with me about part of what this oil is. And the Lord begins to say, you see this oil of the Holy Spirit as the scripture tells us right? The Holy Spirit we can see that is a presentation of the oil. The glorious like see loosely these oil that these vessels will filled is only produced in an intimate relationship with me. That oil is the Oil of intimacy, the map the you and each one of my people have with me. So I cannot. Even as much as I love you. I cannot give you the oil of my intimacy. I can invite you and I can show you the things that I'm doing to get the oil but I cannot give you the oil that God has produced in Me, and then the vessels, because of this relationship that I have with him with that relationship that you have with him, I cannot have your oil, I can only point you out how to go get that oil, your own oil, because it's available to each one of us is available now. That's what the Scripture says, going by the oil going by right now. So I think that is the five, five wise virgins were to say something to the five, four ones ahead of time, I think that they wouldn't have told them going buy oil right now, as we are going to fill our vessels go fill your vessels now. Because just like in this in when the flood comes in is no time to build. When the bridegroom is coming. It is too late to go get the oil. When we see Jesus coming through those clouds, it's too late to go get the oil. And that is the reality that the king is coming in again. So I just that's why it's so important that these time that we have right now is a preparation is an invitation to displaces intimacy with God displaces a deeper relationship with him. Okay, so I want to talk a little bit more about obedience. And let's go to Luke, the gospel of Luke and chapter six. Okay. And Pastor basically talked about this. Luke chapter six and verse 46. I love that I love that my Bible, the title that is written here for these verses from the 46 through 49 is build on the rock. Right? And that's what Pastor Ron was saying the importance to build on the rock, my other Bible gave it a little bit of a different title. It was my Spanish Bible. And it says, If I had to translate it, the title that it gave is this, two foundations. And the more that I was reading, I said, I like this title, two ways of building. And I think that we see in this parable, two ways of building and the difference on the two ways of building. Okay, so I'm gonna read it, verse 46. And I don't know if Pastor Desi, if you don't mind, then read description chip, as well. So I'm going to read verse 46, and 249. It says, But why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do this things which I say this is Jesus speaking, right? So he's saying, but why asking the question, do you call Me, Lord, Lord? And do not? No not do the things? Which I say, basically, why are you not being obedient of my will? To my words? Whoever comes to me, this is Jesus, right? And here's my saying, again, they were so nearness to him, Whoever comes to me. And whoever hears my saying, and does them. So we see here, come near to Jesus. And we were talking about at the beginning, position herself to hear his words. When we come near to him, we're going to position ourselves to hear the words, okay to hear his saying, and then then it's the next one that we see as well through Noah and throughout the scriptures. They not only heard the words of God, but they obey them. That's what Jesus is saying here. And here's my saying, and does them. I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. So he say, if you want to build a foundation on the rock, you have to come near me. You have to hear my words, and you have to do them you have to obey. And when the flood the flood arose, the streams beat, be a mentally I say the curricula against that house and could not shake it. For II was founded on the rock. And just as Pastor Ron was saying, you know this word about the shaking, the Lord is built on the foundation. Come near to me, hear my words, and obey them and do them And then you build them in the foundation, the building that strong foundation. And when the shaking comes in will not shake. You will not shake you, it will not shake your family's okay, it will not shake what the Lord has cost us to build because it's founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house. Listen to this, this is just really interesting, but he who heard or heard his words, okay. And, indeed nothing. This is very interesting, dead here. It's not did that person maybe did not draw near to God, maybe they drew nearer to God because he says that they heard the words of God. So they draw near to God, the position themselves to hear his word, but this is the difference, did nothing, they did not obey. They did not walk in that obedience, they did not put into practice what God was saying to them. And it says, it's like a man, this kind of man, this kind of person is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation. Now, it's not saying that it's kind of like, not a good foundation is just simply has no foundation, in what happened with a house with no foundation. This is what Jesus says exactly against wish this dream, be it be a mentally, any immediately fell immediately. The moment that the stream BBM. Mentally, it says that fell in these are the sovereign words, I don't know why this words just like shook all the inside of me, in their ruling of that house was great. The ruling of that house was great because of disobedience. To be able to build we need again, to position ourselves to listen to the words of the Lord. We need to come to hear them, but we need to obey them. And we need to be ready to obey just quickly just like Peter did. That's why Pastor Ron and Mike are saying, Peter obey, he was quickly to obey the words of the Lord, right? It says, God tells us what to do the same way that he told Peter. Okay. Take the net en and throw that net into that side, right of the sea. He's not just telling Peter do it for the sake of just obey because I said so just like most of us tell our kids, what do you want me to do? Because I said so. Right? Now, it's not like that. Jesus actually is getting ready by causing Peter to obey what he's telling him to obey His Word. Jesus is about to reveal himself and the father to Peter, said, Peter, if you knew what is behind that obedience, I'm about to reveal myself to you, Peter in your life will be changed forever. Peter am about to reveal. I'm about to reveal the heart of the Father to you, and the love and the great love that the father and the plans that the Father has for you, Peter has the power to rebuild to reveal to you the greatest gift, the greatest gift that you will ever have. I'm about to reveal Myself and the Father to you. And this is what God does. This is what Jesus does. When we come nearer to him. And we hear his words and obey them. This is what he wants to do in our lives. It's like I want to reveal myself to you. I want to reveal to you the heart of the Father. I want to reveal the purposes and the and the in the goodwill of the Father for you his love for you and for your generations I'm about to receive a to to reveal and to impart this because this is what is going to transform you. This is what is going to give show you the purposes which God has called you. So we see here that this call of hearing the voice of Jesus and to hear his Revelation is, it demands an obedience on our part when God gives us revelation, it will demand an obedience on our part. And obedience. My brothers and sisters would always bring blessings. Sometimes we pray, Lord, bless this, Lord, bless me, Lord, I want to rescind the Lord's I wanted to bless you. Come near to me, hear my words, I'm going to reveal my reveal myself to you. But this revelation is a call to obedience, and that obedience is going to bring blessings into your life. So we see how important it is not only to draw nearer to God, hear His voice, and obey them, because it comes with a blessing. And then we are building the foundation according to God's will into God in God's purposes. So when the shaking comes, we will be secure. Okay? So again, obedience will protect us in times of difficulty, and it will protect us in hard times. Because we're going to have troubles in this life that is promised to us. But there is something there is a protection of heaven, that comes in the midst of difficulties, there is something that God does when we become a bunion. And is because it's the result of this relationship is the result. Basically, that obedience becomes a delight in our lives. I can't wait to repeat those words, Godspeed because I just, it is out of this love and of this relationship that I have with you that I desire to obey you. Now, it's not like you know, a toddler, when you tell them don't touch that. Don't touch them don't cross the street along the Congress is not like that. Like when the toddler doesn't want to do it right? Or they throw a tantrum. Sometimes that's what we do with Rod tantrum in the presence of God and kind of say, Come near me, come, come, let me let me show you that actually obedience and then in this relationship, obedience is going to become a delight for you. So this is, that's why it's so important to build according to God's ways. Okay, so another place in the Scriptures. And our place in the scriptures that we see, this principle of building is in the construction of the tabernacle of Moses in Genesis chapter 19 to 44. And we see that God meets Moses at Mount Sinai during this chapters. Okay, after they have been delivered from Egypt after they have crossed the Red Sea after God takes him into this journey in the wilderness in the desert, right and he takes them to this place is I am going to meet with you in Mount Sinai, right? So Moses meets with God there in Mount Sinai, he goes up the mountain, and God a lot of things happen. This is actually the when God gives the blueprints Oh, Exodus, thank you. So Genesis. Okay, sorry, Exodus 19 to 40, Chapter 19 to 44. And we see that this after? Well, is it the second time the most assistant the mountain because the first time they Moses went to the mountain? What happened when Moses was whenever soon the 10 commandments, what the people began to do? Yes, yes, build an arrow and worship idols, yes, correctly. So we're going to start with circle around to the first one of the first things that we said at the beginning of this teaching of building to build into don't be discouraged when you're waiting. The people of Israel didn't know how to wait. And instead of waiting on Moses, instead of waiting on God, instead of trusting that God has done all these things have delivered them has done all these things. And he they the only the only thing that they had to do is to wait. Because God was giving them the words of life. He was given them the law and the 10 commandments, right. So God was speaking to Moses to give instructions to the people but the people of Israel didn't know how to wait. In this is the dangerous that we all have, when we do not have to wait in the promises of God in the season of building them. We are still waiting. The danger that we have is that we can, if we don't wait on God, we are going to be tempted to build our own things. And when we build according to our own desires, and what we think that we need, according to what we think that is necessary, we build idols. Because we do not ask apart from God, or own desires are going to build idols. And we're going to end up worshipping idols that we have built to satisfy our own needs. Every time that you go after something that you alone, are trying to satisfy that need in you. Without God, you build in a golden calf. And we cannot be deceived, we're going to be worshiping that calf, we are going to be slave to that calf, isn't that interesting that they build, that calf is a representation of the very thing that got to them and deliver them from from the very gods, the God judge in Egypt, they came and built an image of those very gods, that God had delivered them. This is what happens sometimes God delivers God brings us into this place of freedom. And then sometimes we can become discouraged in as we wait in the promises of God as we wait, as we're building and we waiting, these is the greatest danger that we have, we can go back to the very thing that God has delivered us and build idols that we are going to worship and keep us again in bondage. And by the way, God has judged again this, right? So we see that then in the second time that Moses goes into the mountain right after God, exercise mercy because he was so merciful to the people of Israel, right, and then calls Moses back into the mountains in here. God gives them the blueprints, detailed blueprints on how to build the tabernacle. Say, Moses, I'm going to give you the the blueprints, the design, or how you going to build this tabernacle so specific. Okay, and we see here, okay, the Moses become obedient to build the same exact way that God has told him to build. And we see the word God was built in here, what's the tabernacle? So his presence will come, his glory will come in, he could dwell amongst them, you know that that's what God is building right now, in our lives. That's what God is building right now in your life. That's what God is building right now in your families. He's building a tabernacle for his presence to come. So he can dwell as he dwells in us, and He dwells among us. So that way, can you imagine that, as you come in agreement with God built in with God blueprints, and you begin to build like he builds in your homes? Now, everybody that come to your house? Can you imagine now, if that's a tabernacle of the dwelling presence of God, when people go in, they are going to come into the presence of the gutting habit, we will be able to have an encounter with God. That beautiful, especially when, you know, I think that your culture is a lot like the Hispanic culture that we are big and family, right. And then our families are always doing like a birthday. It's never just three people, birthdays, it's like, extended family, the uncles, the aunts, everybody, Ryan, holiday is not just five people. It's like many people. So can you imagine those beautiful things that the Lord has done in our cultures, but he's like, ah, but it's not just about that. Now, I want to use the culture of the kingdom to come in and be established in your houses, so not so now your family, your extended family can come into this place that I'm building my presence live in, in you and among you, and then people can encounter me so they're not only we're not only going to be enjoying the, the this family that God has blessed us, right. We are built in the family of Qatar. They are welcome to join The family of God in us just because of flesh and blood that we're related, this is the greatest gift that we can give our families, to allow God to build this in our lives, and in our family. And by the way, as a spiritual family, this is what you guys are doing. This is what Pastor Desi pastor Alpha doing, right. And as you keep building you help, you are inviting others to come into the family of God. That is just the greatest building, I believe, that we can do in this season. And it's this, and when going to stop there. I think there's just other places that as the day goes, we can, we can see this kind of, of building, because this is the heart of God. And again, as we see the importance to build, according to God, God's blueprints to build a foundation, this is what he's doing. He is taking the time right now to teach us how to build how to prepare, how to prepare for us to build the tabernacle. So his presence can come and dwell and dwell among us and others can experience him. Isn't this beautiful? How many of us wants to build according to God? Blueprint? How many of us want this for families? How many of us want this for communities? How many of you wants to go back to Hilo want to go back to the to check how many of you wants to go wherever the Lord sends it and say, Lord, here I am a living tabernacle, more common law presses be here in our midst, so other can come and experience in you. That is the greatest, the greatest, I believe, purposes and calls that we have is to be able to have a relationship with God, to walk with God, like Noah, like Moses, like a friend spoke to a friend, face to face and have that deep relationship with God, and then become that tabernacle. When God presents well and says, Come to others, come, come and experience him. Come, come and see for yourself, come and receive for yourself, and for your family, in your generations. What the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is capable of doing. Amen. So let's just pray. Father, we just thank you. We just thank You, Lord, for this song nation that you build. And I just thank You, Father, that this is the season of building this is the season of preparation, Lord, and we saying yes and amen to your building, a saying yes and amen to your design. We don't want to build according to the world, we don't want to build Lord according to our own ways, because our own ways is only going to lead us Lord to build a golden calf. We don't want to we want to wait on you. We want to wait upon the Lord. We want to wait in expectancy Father, we want to build according to what you build in with the foundation of the rock, Lord, we don't want to build with that foundation in disobedience. We want to become a obedient law so we can build on your foundation more. We want to become that obedient, but that obedience be the result of that relationship with you that our obedience will become a delight. Their obedience will be part of that of the fear of the Lord of just spending time with you and coming near to you Help us Father, to not become people who collect collects words and does not obey them. Help us learn not to become disappearing and be just collectors of words. As your word is saying. That is the equivalent of building with our foundation. Help us learn to be obedient children's of God, because we understand the blessings that it comes from obedience, that delight they become, that they can become that obedience from their relationship with you as a result of their relationship with you. We love you Jesus, we love your father, we love your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Thank you, Lucy. And there's so much more here. There's several things that were on my mind as Lucy was sharing, and one is the urgency of Noah. Now imagine the day Now that God spoke to Noah, to start building an ark, just imagine that you're in that place. And let's just go back there for a second when Noah and God spoke to Noah, and said, Noah, you need to build an ark. Well, first of all, the guy is not a ship builder. He doesn't know anything about shipbuilding. And the Lord says, You need to build an ark. Now, if the Lord told you that there was going to be a great flood, and you needed to build an ark, would you feel like you need to get started pretty quick. Would, would you? I mean, like, for me, I would be like, Oh, Lord, let's close the service right now. We gotta go out and start building, because I don't want this flood to come in me get caught without a boat without a ship. So there's this urgency. And so Noah starts building. And he's doing what Lucy's bringing from the Scriptures to us build, build, build, build? Well, do you think? Do you know how long Noah built the ark? Anybody here? No one really knows for sure. Right? Some, some scholars believe it was 90 some years, some scholars believe is 120 years. Some believe it was actually longer than that. They used to live long in those days that people live a lot longer before the flood. But the point is that it was a big, big, big, big, big project. Are you with me? So he's urgent in his spirit. But he's not just urgent in his spirit for a day or for a week or for a month. So as we are working and doing what God's called us to do, and we're building in, what do we build? First? We're building his kingdom in our families in in our spiritual families. Well, have you ever known anyone in their building? And after about 10 years, they start kind of going, you know, nothing's happened. There's no, you know, there's no flood yet, brother, Alfred. There's no way you know, and they lose that urgency. They lose that immediacy that need stay focus, guys, come on, stay with it. Now. This as what I believe is one of the biggest challenges of what you're sharing right now, Lucy with us from the scriptures is to build. But we don't know the timing of when God's judgments come when God's tribulations come and trials. We don't know the time of His return, we don't know the day or the hour of His return, or the difficulties that come before then that we need to be prepared for. So how do we stay urgent? How do you stay like, just as like, man, today, I need to be urgent. Now I've been alive a little while. I'm not an old guy. But some of you probably think I am. But I've been alive long enough to to have served the Lord with people. And some of them honestly, some of the people I was serving the Lord with when I was in my teens, when we hit our 20, some fell by the wayside. And then I hit my 30s, and some fell by the wayside. And then I hit my 40s. And some start falling by the wayside. But you know what, there's some and there's, there's, they're still, they're still at it, they're still continuing with the Lord. And the key to what you're teaching us, Lucy about building. And having that urgency is our encouragement, and our gathering to one another. Because you inspire me by the Holy Spirit. And I inspire you by the Holy Spirit, and we share what you said loose, we share the testimonies. God comes into the situation. And he goes, come on, let's go. Let's keep building and God keeps showing up. And it keeps showing up and it keeps showing up. And so we build the kingdom first. Now, he may tell you something physical to do. I don't know if he's going to tell you to build a ship. If he tells you to build a ship, build a ship. But I don't know what he's going to tell you to build physically. But we know right now how to start. We start by building the kingdom in our own families and spiritual family. What Jesus says Seek first the kingdom and all these other things they'll be added to you. And so we seek first the kingdom and this is this call to build in the fear of the Lord. And the fear of the Lord is a strange thing Lucy was touching on it again. It's not easy to understand. I'm going to try I'm going to attempt by giving you a metaphor I think of a, let's think of a campfire. We've all cooked around the fire, right? We've all been around the fire. So when you when you build a fire, when you build a campfire, and you're walking up, like let's say you're 30 feet away, and you're walking up to the campfire, are you scared of the campfire? No, you're not afraid you don't go, Oh, you're not scared of the campfire, you walk up to the campfire, the closer you get to that campfire. You're not really scared like a bad dream, right? You're not, you're not going, Oh, but you have a tremendous respect for that fire, don't you? Because you've seen people get burned. Maybe you've been burned. or god forbid one of the children falls into the fire and gets burned. Right? So now you're close to the fire. But the closer you get to the fire, the more reverence you have for the fire. Right? Because you understand that fire doesn't have anything against you. But it's dangerous. And remember, in the scriptures, when they were carrying the Ark of the Covenant in the presence of God was in the ark. And then they didn't carry it properly. And then the Ark started to fall, and a guy reaches out to grab it. He's not supposed to touch it. Remember what happens? Yeah. Because he wasn't, it wasn't the proper respect for the presence of God. He didn't. They didn't have that reverence for the presence of God in that situation. So what do we talk about the fear of the Lord? We're talking about deep reverence for who he is. The Scripture says, Our God is all consuming fire. He's intense. Can we just say it that way, he's more intense than any fire. And so we have a deep reverence or a deep respect for him. And the closer you get to God, the more deep respect you have, right, the more reverence you have. It's intent. He's intense person, right? So that might help us a little bit. But I just am so inspired by this word that she's sharing, about building and the fear of the Lord and they go together. We'll explore this later on in some other schools, because there's a lot more to teach on in this to understand, because we want to be builders of the kingdom builders of the art builders have for God's people to prepare the way for what's coming. And the Lord. He, he's working with us in this Okay, so in other words, God's not going well, you better do it all today, because tomorrow, everything's gonna go bad, right? He's actually working with a saint. Come on, let's get this done. Let's get this done. Did you ever notice it didn't start to rain until after Noah finished the ark? Did you ever notice that he wasn't out building the ark. And they're putting on the last 10 boards. And while they're putting the board on and getting the sheep on, or whatever, all of a sudden, it starts raining, no, that didn't start to rain until he was finished. Now, he didn't waste a lot of time, I don't think. But the point is, is God's calling us to build. So let's get our families and let's build the kingdom. And yes, there will be other things to build other things to do. But if we will not know what to build physically or do physically, if we do not build the kingdom first, the kingdom must always be first. And that's what I love about this spiritual family and spiritual community is you have put the kingdom first. And you're building the kingdom, you put God's business first, his family, his people, and you're ministering to them. And when you do this, you will come into your destiny, you will come into your calling, you will come into your your eternal wealth, and you will discover the purpose of your life here on Earth. And we will discover our purpose because we we set our heart toward the creator and toward his purposes and what he's doing. You know, guys, there's a lot of people out there, especially younger people going, man, what's my purpose in life and I know people older still trying to what, what's my purpose in life, whatever, and they're struggling to find their purpose, but they're focused on themselves, instead of focused on God and His purposes. And when we focus on his purposes, in the midst of our pursuit of the kingdom We will start to discover and learn his purpose his calling for our lives. Amen.