NCCI 8 | Open Q&A

All right, so today we are back in the house, as I always say. And we are actually, um, at the half mark through this 16-week coaching journey. And the first half of this program was very much geared towards how, or the concepts in particular, that must be understood to be able to understand covenant in the Bible. We covered a series of topics that I think that everybody, in particular, say, um, a series of topics that everybody, in particular, would agree that when necessary for you to understand for you to be able to make sense of what you're looking at in the Bible, and to make what you have been reading in the Bible more accessible to you.

All right, um, so since we've actually gotten at the half mark, I thought it would be necessary, before we even proceed, that we pause and just take a session here tonight and open the floor up for any questions that you may have, any, um, anything that you want to actually have clarity on, because it wouldn't make any sense at all that you're not clear on certain things. We can actually have questions, as well as some feedback as to how this, in particular, is, is, is, is helping you to understand a little bit more how to walk in God as the ancient priests and prophets did, and of course, Yeshua and the apostles. And, um, from a perspective, we can then sharpen what we need to sharpen, tweak what we need to tweak, so that as we proceed with the second half of this journey, the foundation is solid.

In the second half of this journey, particularly, we're going to be taking a look at covenant through the Bible, right, beginning with acknowledging the Garden of Eden as a covenant in motion, the covenant of the, of the, um, the garden breathed into the man. And just as we are, are in the New Covenant, so we are back in the garden. The same perspective, we're going to take a look at the different covenants that followed after that that are formally referred to as covenants, and how they would, how it was applied. And then we're going to make our way eventually to the New Covenant, which is not eventually, but we're going to get to the New Covenant and see what that looks like. And having understood how covenants, what covenants look like, we can then be clear as to how to lock what we're doing so that we are never to be moved after that, right? Because the whole objective here is not only to educate you, but for you to actually understand to engage covenant with understanding and be able to to live from it, as well as do everything that you have been, live your life from it, and to do everything that God has told you from the standpoint of the covenant.

All right, so, is, is, is everybody following so far? That making sense? Yeah. All right. So, so far, so far, if, if we, if we are to review what we have covered so far in session, in the very first session, we had, this is just to give a, um, give everybody a little revision as to, um, what we started with, right? Hold one second.

All right, so in the first session, we actually took a look at what was the necessity for covenants, right? Why covenants are necessary. And I included an article with that that, um, pretty much gives context to the understanding that your covenant is pretty much designed to hold you responsible to yourself, right? If we use it in our Western cultural terms, this is designed to hold you responsible to yourself. When the covenant was actually made, I used the example of a lion that actually lost his identity and the covenant. What are the different aspects of that component of, of the covenant, sorry, that brings the lion back to being a lion? And so we took a look at that with regards to the, what is the existence of the, what is the purpose for the existence of the covenant?

The next session that we covered was actually comparing the difference between contract and covenant. We were extensive in that session where we took a look at how the Western world is based entirely on contractual living from in your social arena, officially in your society, the banking systems, schooling systems, governmental interaction, everything is based on contract. And we take a look at what covenant is in the Bible with regards to you making a decision from your heart.

The third session drew the difference between, difference between even vows and the West, which are typically seen as vows of prohibition. And we take a look at covenantal vows. What's the difference between the two? And we see covenantal vows in the scriptures are pretty much commitments to spirit, title, and the vision of that spirit.

All right, in session number four, we took a look at what it meant to walk in the spirit. We pretty much dove into a context of spirit that is not taught in the Western culture as well, which is spirit revealing itself via its pattern, its routine, its prescribed path, right? We took a look at that in the garden narrative so that everybody could have actually understood what that is in the garden, and how the garden, in particular, is a revelation of that, and creation is a revelation of spirit all around you.

Then we took a look at authority, understanding what your authority is clearly, and what was the authority of the man in the garden, and what was, what were the names given for the person, for the priest of, of, of Yahweh outside of the garden in Cain's world, or amongst Cain's world, and what the hierarchy of that authority is.

In session six, we covered, um, the Western perspective of authority, where they get the hierarchy of, of, of authority from, or sorry, Western understanding of covenant, and where on the hierarchy, or where on the divine hierarchy, the covenants that we understand to be covenants from the occult and so on, where it is placed on the, on the hierarchy of authority of heaven. And we also honed in on the fact that spirit and word are one.

And then the last session that we did, which was what covenant is and how to enter it, we ended that session with a commitment of the heart on, um, how one engages covenant, and that is you're starting with the oath. And so we ended the session with an official, an official commitment to the oath to be the person of life, to be the person of the Lord Yeshua. And we should you in the new, in the New Testament, this is actually referred to as confession, in some cases, is also called profession.

All right, and we also, I mentioned both in the Old Testament and what, what that parallels in the New Testament is actually what is being referred to as in the Torah is actually called swearing by the name, right? Which is why the law of Moses actually says, "Thou shalt not call the name of the Lord thy God in vain." All right, swearing by the name.

So tonight, we're meeting here, and what I want to do is open up the floor for any questions before we actually dive into covenant last week of scripture, and we begin to reframe and start to establish a prescribed path for you in the upcoming sessions. Right? I'm going to do it in pieces so that it's not overwhelming. Well, that'll do that, is of course, in the upcoming session, is not overwhelming. We do it in a nice structured flow. So any questions at all? Now, I would imagine that since we've covered these, these, these particular sessions, some of this, if not all, the information has been new. Can anybody attest to that? Yeah. Right. New concepts, a lot of them outside of the Western perspective of, of thinking. And I trust that in going through these different aspects of covenant, you may now see how many assume that they understand what, what they really don't understand.

All right, so holy brother Norman, I notice that you're unmuted. Please feel free if you have a question or you want to share anything. Yes, yes, I have a question. Good evening to everyone. To you, brother. Good evening, brother. Um, my question would be, um, how, having entered into a covenant understanding and awareness now, um, I find that, um, the, uh, how should you say, the, not the concept, but the reality of the covenant is tested. I find it tested in my life. Tested in, in what? In what context? Um, whether I'm going to hang in there or not. Oh, that. Yes, that definitely comes with covenant. Yes, that is the natural progression of the covenant. Yeah. It's not all going downhill, sort of thing, right? I got Monica and I were talking about this thing. It seems like we get different things that crop up. Say, "Whoops, what's that all about?" Something new. So I think of, I think of poor old Job, uh, right, right, right. It's not explicitly said that he's in covenant, but that's exactly what he was, and that's what held him. Yes, yes, definitely. Well, for him to be doing sacrifices is a strong implication that there was a covenant. The covenant is, the covenant is not explicitly stated, but sacrifices, only the burnt offerings are only applicable in, in, in when you come into the covenant of the name. So we know that there's a covenant. We just don't know what it is or what, what exactly it was. But go ahead. So your question is, well, um, it's my question is, it appears, uh, that, uh, we've talked about covenant, but the implications are such that we're not going to, uh, slide into this and, uh, without any, you know, uh, perturbations. If anybody in particular that actually believes that this will be, I'm not trying to scan anybody, but if you enter that, enter that with a feeling that there will be no perturbations, you, you'll have a rude awakening. Yeah.

Okay, so, so the, the covenant, in particular, um, a little while ago, um, and I think as you mentioned, that I will make a concerted effort to hone in a little bit more on the progression of life once you, when, when you come into covenant, because the covenant is coming back to the garden. We could see that you are coming back to being single-minded, right? You, you are, you are covenanting your will to Yahweh, committing to the name and the visions of that name, the thoughts of that name, as your, your life's, your life's, um, your life's greatest priority, and doing everything through that. In the scriptures, when man fell out of the garden, we see how, we see how when man fell out of, out of the garden, um, in Genesis chapter, Genesis chapter 4, we see Cain and Abel representing these two different responses to death. Then we see Cain leave, and then the Seth lineage. Seth is actually, he comes on screen as, on, on the scene as his substitute, then the Seth lineage is revealed, and that leads to Noah's flood, and then there's a restart. And then later on, we see God come, God coming to Abraham as the person that he is making contact with to restore this garden on the earth. Now, he doesn't say it outrightly until Moses receives the, the template of the garden on the mountain, and then he builds it on the earth.

Now, since, um, since Israel, were the descendants of Abraham, Abraham's grandson, Israel, and Israel had this, had this interface with God, and that interface with God is where he received the name Israel. Israel was actually then identified as the garden people, right? The moment that that took place, because of God's inter, interaction with, with Abraham, and Abraham receiving, technically, the vision of the, of where the garden was supposed to go. It started off as a garden, it was supposed to expand and develop into a city. And we know that this is actually was supposed to develop into a city because the first thing that Cain does when he leaves Egypt, uh, when he leaves Eden, is that he goes and he creates his own city, and he names his city Enoch. And then fast forward to Genesis chapter 11, after the earth is restored, we see men who are understood to be of the Cain's mindset, they are then on the earth, which would have actually be connected to, to Ham and Japheth. They come up with the Cain's mindset, with Cain's mindset, and they begin to try to build this tower and this city. And the purpose of building the tower and the city was for them to have to create their own name. And then God comes and scatters them, right? According to the scripture, he scattered their priorities that then gave birth to different languages. Right? The prophet, one of the prophets, I think it's Zephaniah, pretty much communicates what took place in that. Well, he doesn't say out rightly, he just, he, all he, he, alludes to what took place and said, and he prophesied that God was actually going to bring everybody back into one priority, which was one name. And we saw that being fulfilled in the upper room. The upper room is the reversal of the scattering of, of the languages in Genesis 11, or the restoration. So he scattered them there, and he brought them back together after, um, through Yeshua and the reception of the Holy Spirit, which was, yet what Yeshua did. All of that to, um, ultimately for now, I'm saying all of this to say that since the, the, the fall of man outside of the garden, what, what we see is that when Israel is actually identified as the garden nation, Israel being the people who actually given the name by God, that's connected to the garden, we see them go to Egypt and they are enslaved. And it so happens that Pharaoh, his crown had a serpent on it. And then God comes and speaks to, to, to, to Moses, gives him his name, tells him identify with, with Yahweh, and he goes and he tells Moses to go to Pharaoh and command Pharaoh to let my people go.

Now, the moment that happened, the Torah began to map the journey of man, fallen outside of the garden, back into the garden. The moment they were identified as the garden people, Israel, meaning the ones who rule like Elohim, and they go into slavery, and God decides, and God is fulfilling Abraham's promise. Abraham's promise to Abraham was, you could see an expansion and revelation of God's promise to himself to restore humanity back to the garden. But God was doing it in a limited form through Abraham until the Messiah, until the seed of the woman. The moment they identified who identified as the, as the garden people, being in the desert, which is Egypt, um, you can say the land of the dust, and the title, meaning the land of, of blackness or darkness, um, in the etymology of the word, that is what the Torah was actually demonstrating was what it would be like for the man outside of the garden to journey back into the. Is everybody following not so far? Just type "follow" in the comment section.

So when you're looking at Israel, what you're looking at is the, the map of what it is as an event, but also as an allegory for what, what it, what it is like to return to the garden. So Israel's journey from, from Egypt back to the promised land represents the map of return from outside of the garden back into the garden. Now, Moses, Moses is then seen as the, as the garden man who builds, who is going to be building heaven and earth. He goes and he fulfills what Yahweh tells him and commands Pharaoh, who represents his suzerain as king, which is very, very, very significant. Because when the man, where, whereas Yahweh was king in the garden, and he was a king being Yahweh's son, when he fell outside of the garden, and he used the serpent as a reference point, was called the seed of the serpent. The serpent became king, but not, not just the serpent as the serpent in itself, we're speaking about the spirit that he filled himself with. And therefore, the serpent took the place of the kingship. This, the, the enslavement in, um, the enslavement in Egypt represented how man became slaves to the suzerain spirit, which was also, which is also called death. And Paul in the book of Romans then says, "Death reigned freely from Adam to Moses." The fact that death reigned was an illusion that death became the king of man, and were ruled over by death, which is why, which is why man, men could live as, as righteous as they could, and still die, except for those who were fully dedicated and abandoned the, the desert lifestyle, and that would be seen as Enoch and, and Elijah, who were taken because they were not worthy to see death because of how dedicated that they were, how dedicated they were to the name.

Now, the journey starts from them being released from the serpent. Notice I said being released from the serpent, and pay attention to what I'm saying here, because Yeshua repeats this journey. And once you come into Yeshua, you will repeat the journey. Paul makes reference of this journey in 1 Corinthians 10. James makes reference of it, and he also makes reference of it in Hebrews chapters 2, 3, and 4, showing that all believers, it is imperative that all believers go through this journey. So they are released from the suzerain, and then in their release, their decision, which is to leave the suzerain king, they are then faced with the Red Sea. In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul, Paul alludes to them walking through the Red Sea as, um, he alludes that the equivalent of them walking through the Red Sea is what we experience as water baptism. Anybody hearing this for the first time, type FT. Now, I think there's a video on Patreon that I gave everybody to watch when they came in, so that it is something that you should have a general idea of what I'm speaking about, right? So when they, yes, the Apostle Paul taught it. So when they walked through the water, that was actually referred to as baptism. Paul, Paul alludes to this in 1 Corinthians chapter 10.

Then they go to Sinai, and Sinai basically means learning Yahweh, all right? Which is why when you are baptized, Paul says that you are to learn Christ. Now, I want you to see that everything Paul is speaking about, he hasn't made it up. Everything is in the scriptures. So you say you learn Christ, and at Sinai is where the covenant begins, right? You come into the covenant. This is where your covenant begins at Sinai. That is where they received the covenant in Exodus 24. They heard what Yahweh presented, what Yahweh proposed, and they said, "We will do this," and they committed this, committed to this in their heart.

Then from Sinai, as soon as you come into covenant, it is normal that you proceed to the, to the other areas that succeed Sinai, right? After covenant, you go to the wilderness of Paran. And Paran basically is actually understood to be the place of spiritual growth. What is spiritual growth here? Whilst many believe that spiritual growth is learning more scripture, this the context of spiritual growth is where you, where you grow in, um, moving away from double-mindedness and becoming single-minded to the covenant, which means Paran is designed to put you in positions where you are going to have to choose whether you want to, you want to, you choose your allegiance, basically. Paran also means glorification, which means you choose the wisdom that you will glorify. The wisdom that you glorify will be the wisdom that you use as your source of knowledge. And therefore, when you came, when you come into the covenant, as we covered in the sessions, covenant is defined in Genesis with regards to Moses and not Moses, Noah coming in, and the covenant saves you from death. According to King Solomon, if you are not in the covenant of life, which is Yahweh, you belong by default to the covenant of death. Anybody hearing that for the first time? Right. He says it. He says that you are, you have covenanted with death, which is why death is ruling over the person outside of Christ, right? Even though Yahweh was in them, yes, Yeshua Christ is in them, they are still choosing the dynamics of the spirit that was called death. And so they, in our covenant. Now, it's important that that is understood because we see the garden as man just fell out of the garden and he's wandering, and that is not what the scripture, how, how the scripture sees it. The scripture sees that you have your choice. Either you covenant with life, or you covenant with death. And so from the scripture's perspective, the man in the garden broke the covenant of life and he stepped into the covenant with death, right? Yes. In the New Testament, it's called light and darkness. Genesis chapter 1, it's called day and night, light and darkness. So it's either your covenant in the day, or your covenant, or your covenant, you're covenanted with the night. You're covenanted with light, you're covenanted with darkness. And it calls it a covenant because if you're using external reference points, you have chosen that external reference point as your priority. And since the, the Bible, the scriptures, is a, is a directory of spirit, the spirit that does that is the spirit that you have put on. And whether, whether mankind knows it or not, they are in a covenant, and the covenant is going to be fulfilled, whether it's the covenant of death or the covenant of life.

Now, because you are in, when you come into Paran, the purpose of Paran, listen very carefully, the purpose of Paran is to grow you up as a mature son, which means as an efficient and mature priest. That's the purpose of Paran. The scriptures indicate that when you come into Paran, the Holy Spirit is going to drive you, not destroy you. The Holy Spirit is going to drive you towards the things that you used before as priorities so that you can face it and make a decision. You notice that, you notice that when you came to to Anointed Life, one of the things that I have made very clear is that your mind is not renewed until your pre-existing priority has been identified and invalidated, and then you educate and take on your new. And what that, what that comes from this process, which is, you do not come into the covenant and just forget, because your spirit, your heart is covenantal by nature. It has covenanted with a, with a particular dynamic. Your spirit is covenant, and therefore it is covenanting with something. Therefore, for your spirit to release the former covenant, you go through a process of invalidation, which means you, I encourage, I encourage everybody now, we're not going to be doing that aspect within this program. In the program that comes after, is where we will speak about that so that you can renew your mind in the various areas. But basically, what is going, what is taking place is that for you to make the decision, the spirit has to drive you right back there for you to stop and make a decision. Many of us believe that the spirit will just cause it to just disappear because of church doctrines, which is a huge misunderstanding. It's heavily misleading. The spirit is going to drive you right back to the things that you trusted in. That is the purpose of Paran. The purpose, the purpose of Paran is for you to choose, to choose your allegiance.

Now, when you enter into Paran, like when you all come into the covenant, you start to establish it in your life, you're going to see manifestation. And the reason for that is that God is a God that actually works with trustworthiness. The Bible calls it faithfulness, which means that when you come into the covenant, the first thing that you do is that you see manifestation. You begin to experience the power of the spirit. When you experience the power of the spirit, that is the Holy Ghost establishing his trustworthiness with you to communicate to you that this is real, this is true, this is truth. When you are driven in Paran, you're going to be driven into the areas that you trusted before. And that means, holy siblings and holy priests, the things that you were taught in society that you should trust as your source of knowledge and wisdom as solutions, you're going to be driven right there. If you trusted people and their perspectives, you're going to be driven right there. If you, if you trusted the medical system as the wisdom to understand your, your body and to know that you're safe, you're going to be driven right there. If you trusted money, you're going to be driven into a space where there's no money. You're going to be driven right there for you to make a decision.

Now, the desert is the space where there is no water, which means there is no, when you, when you step into the, when you step into the desert, the pattern is that there will be no sign of the presence of the spirit. It would seem as though the power of God has shut off. It has not shut off. It is the Holy Spirit whom you have engaged, not testing you, but respecting you and allowing you to make your decision from your heart before you move on. The Holy Spirit is self-existent, and the Holy Spirit respects your self-existence. Now, if, if you're viewing this from outside of the garden, you will call it a test, right? Which is why God speaks to Israel and he says, "I tested you in the wilderness," because they are seeing it from outside of the garden. They're growing. When you come into the covenant, it's not a test. In the covenant, it's called discipline. Hebrews chapter 12 follows Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11 is about faith, right? After Hebrews chapter 11, the Apostle Paul, who I believe to be the writer of Hebrews, then goes into speaking about discipline. Why? Because the covenant is faith. This is the unity of your covenant. But right after you make that decision, you are going to be placed in a position where you have to choose your allegiance. And the Holy Spirit is not trying to convince you. He demonstrates his trustworthiness from the get-go, and then you are placed in a position where you're going to be disciplined. What does this mean? Discipline here does not mean punishment. For those of you who might have just, who may have just arrived to that, discipline does not mean punishment. Discipline in the New Covenant is, is voluntary. Voluntarily making the decision to stick to what God says, even if, even if the planet is splitting in half. Why? Because the only way to stop the planet from splitting in half is to function from your spirit. And if you use external things to tell you what to do, you, and the planet will die. Is that making sense?

It sure does. So, if you, if you don't mind me mentioning it, brother Zane, that's an excellent explanation of, uh, the, uh, awareness that, uh, we're coming into now. We can differentiate more clearly the, uh, Abel and the Cain difference in functioning, right? Yeah. Um, as a, as a measure, as a sort of like a measuring rod, you know? And the behavior follows, tells you exactly where, where you're going. Yeah. And it's very interesting because, uh, I, I was going to ask you the question, when did the covenant with, with, will begin? But it was at Mount Sinai, right? Sinai. Yes, that's what you said. And that being the case, then off they went, having to deal with the trials, right? The discipline. Yes. We say it's testing in the desert, but they were, they were, how should we say, engaged in a journey of maturity. Exactly. Which is painful, somewhat. Ouch. Yeah, yeah, it could be. So, very, very interesting. All of this is, uh, um, yeah. So, I, so Monica, you know, she's like a mirror for me, okay? She mirrors whether I'm in the Cain spirit or I'm in the Abel spirit. And I don't know, the Holy Spirit can go on vacation when she's, yeah. Anyway, excellent, excellent explanation. Okay.

All right, all right. So, so I want to add some things to this here. In the desert, what you notice with Israel is, notice, I want you to notice that if you are in transactional thinking, the desert is going to filter you out like a beast. The, the temp, the, what, what we call the desert, James calls trials and temptations. The purpose of the desert is to reveal. It is to, is to reveal the truth of your heart. Let me say this again, the purpose of the desert is to reveal the truth of your heart. The purpose of the desert is to reveal the truth of your heart. If you have come into the covenant transactionally, the desert is going to filter you out without effort. Transactional thinking means that you came into the covenant and you're treating God as though, "I do this, and you need to do this." You know how the whole Western church lives? "I do this to get this, and if I do it, God's supposed to do this." The opposite of transactional thinking, go back to the sessions that we did before, is making a heart, a vow to your heart, a vow in your heart that this is what you're going to live. You will not pass the desert if you're living in transactions. You're going to be angry, you're going to be hurt, and you're going to leave. And this is what John spoke about in his letter, that there were many who were among them but were not of them, and he calls them the children of the devil. That might sound harsh, but in the context of the scripture, it meant that they were not there by their heart commitment to be Yeshua. They were there looking to get something. And so the desert will filter you. The desert will, the, the desert is the heart filter. And if you have committed this to this by your heart, then you will, in your heart commitment, in the most difficult situations, you will maintain your discipline. You're going to see it. And, and trust me, everything I'm saying here, I walked through it myself. Now, you all are now easing your way into this. I walked through this, and I had experiences that where I had little to no food. Listen to me very carefully what I'm saying. Everything Yeshua said is true, even what he went through in the wilderness. Yeshua going, being driven by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness for 40 days, was the reflection of man, of the, of Israel being driven into Paran for 40 years. That's, that is what you're looking at there. Is Yeshua reliving the journey he had to go through it, and you have to go through it too.

Now, it says, it says, it says that when he was there, he was a hungered, which means he was fasting. Most of us have been taught fasting as a transaction. Whilst we're on the topic, fasting is not a transaction. Fasting is designed to help you to fast from the knowledge of good and evil, which is why you stop eating. Some, in some fasts, you can actually choose to stop eating food because what you're doing is fasting from external priorities, external necessities. Fasting, and a fast is supposed to be something that you isolate from the world. You isolate from being involved in things that are not driven by Yahweh, what you're doing, or driven by Christ Yeshua, or the Holy Ghost. What you're doing is fasting from the knowledge of good and evil. That is the ultimate purpose of a fast. If you go to Isaiah 58 and 59, you realize that the fast, when they were fasting, God said to take their food and give it to the poor. What they were doing, taking the same things and instead of using it as a necessity, start to use it as a servant. That is the purpose of your fast. How many say this the first time? Right. Fasting is not to get you closer to God. Well, indirectly, it'll get you into more covenantal discipline, but it is not to get anything from God. The prophet says that he says, "You do not fast to be heard on high." It was clearly stated, "You do not fast to do that. You fast to, to discipline yourself." So even if you want to use fasting now, it is to burn all other priorities. Well said, consume it. That's the purpose of the fast, right? And you don't need, if you, if you, if you understand what the fast is for, and you just make your lifestyle that, you will have no need to fast. If you make your life independent of external priorities, which is why you're here to learn how to do that, establish the covenant in your, in your, in your life.

No, in the, in the, watch this. I'm going to explain this, and then I'm going to show you it in about two to three verse 22 scriptures in the two, three, um, excerpt in the scriptures. When you come into the covenant, you enter Paran. The, the purpose of Paran is for you to grow. It's for you to mature. It's for you to choose your allegiance. All of these things are synonyms. Spiritual growth means progressing in eliminating external reference points. This is why you see Paul says that faith is not a puffing up, it's a settling down. That's what you do in the wilderness. You settle down into what God says. The immature person is constantly driven by external reference points. They live like the victim. Things are happening. The mature person is the person that comes into the responsibility and is settling down like, like, um, like gravel settling, yeah, concrete settling, is settling into the foundation. The priest in, in the wilderness is, this is, is supposed to be the, is supposed to make the decision to be disciplined to the covenant, no matter what they see around them.

Now, the, as I said, the desert is a space where there is no water in sight, which means when you come into the covenant, when you come into that space, it's going to feel as though, especially if you're now stepping into Christ and you're accustomed to external priorities and you had all these wonderful experiences, as soon as you come into the desert, all of a sudden, it feels like, okay, something has arisen, and I feel as though, where's the Holy Ghost? Why, why am I not experiencing the, the, the presence of the power? And all these things, you know? You know what? I experienced Paran firstly financially and with food. Do you know why Jesus rebuked his disciples? If you go and you check Jesus's, where Jesus rebuked the disciples, he rebuked them in three things. Three things. Three: food, money, spiritual manifestation. Why? Because Yeshua taught his wilderness experience as a formal teaching. That's how the disciples could write it over. Jesus chose his disciples after the wilderness. They were not there with him. If they are reciting the wilderness experience like Matthew and Luke, they were taught it. He had no disciples when he went into the wilderness. They were not there. And Jesus taught through that wilderness experience that when you enter the wilderness, you're going to experience a lack of food, a lack of money, and a lack of spiritual manifestation. The purpose of this is so that you discipline yourself to what God says and do not validate yourself with manifestation and results. You are supposed to validate yourself by the spirit. When he taught them that, you'll notice that when they begin to pay attention on food, he rebukes them. When they're focusing on money or provision, he rebukes them. When they focus on spiritual manifestation, like when he, when he came off of the, the Mount of Transfiguration, and they met the disciples casting out the devil, and they couldn't get it out, he rebuked them. Why? Because they were using manifestation as the validation for truth. That is not the covenant. The covenant is the Holy Ghost is your validation. If you use manifestation as validation, you're going to not get any manifestation. If you use having food, you're not going to have spiritual power. And if you use money, you're not going to have spiritual power. This is the same thing that God told the children of Israel in the wilderness. The first thing that Jesus told the Satan, and what is the Satan here? The Satan is a spirit, but it's, it is the spirit of the identity that you had before, which is darkness. When you come into the covenant, you're coming to the light, and that former identity usually functions as a tempter. That's why you are not, you're not tempted with the same thing that the other person is tempted with. That is the Satan, and you have to subdue it. Is this making sense?

Here's another piece of information that you should be aware of as well. When these quote unquote trials and temptations come up, it's a temptation to use your former identity, which is to use your former reference points, to use your former priorities. When it comes up, you have a choice. Either, how long did it take? How long was the journey through Paran in, in, in, in the Torah? How long was the journey? It's supposed to be 11 days, right? How long did it take? 40 years. What do you understand about that? If Paran is where you are being driven by the Holy Spirit for you to be, for you to mature, maturity means, both Peter, James, and Paul talks about this, maturity means that you become immovable and you become patient, using what God says as a reference point. Both Peter and James says that patience is onto godliness, meaning that the situation may be in front of you, and why is everybody is shouting, "You need to act now because this could happen"? You settle down and say, "This is what God says." You act upon that, and you maintain discipline. And that discipline teaches you patience with regards to the manifestation of the spirit. How many say now for the first time? What I am saying here is not just what is written in the Bible, because I went through it. The Bible just made sense after that. Everything these guys said made sense when I was in the process. I was tempted with food and money. I came to the point where I was actually having meals twice a day and sometimes once a day. Hold one second for me, please.

All right, sorry. So sorry for the interruption. Right. So when I was going through this, I actually had gotten to the point, this was in 2017 and 18, and 2019. I was at the point where, well, 2017, 18 in particular was where that was tested. And it came down to the fact to the point where I was actually just, it was just rice and peas, a small bowl of rice and peas, sometimes it's twice in it, and sometimes once. And when I began to experience that, I had persons around me telling me, "Go and ask for help. Go and ask your family for help." And I had a vision. And in the vision, in this vision was one, one green plant, a small plant in a massive field of rich brown fertile soil. It was, it had just been plowed. And this is one plant in the field, looking green. And I heard the spirit of God tell me, tell me, while it's in the vision, "I, the spirit," I heard the spirit say, "Do not look for anyone to come and water you, fertilize you, or to cause the rain to fall. Look towards me, and me alone." And when I had that vision, I understood that this is where I was. And since I had come to understanding that this was the purpose of Paran, I buckled down, sat down in my, in my one room alone, and said, "I am not going anywhere. I trust God, and God will provide for me." And I sat in my room and, and he made the decision. I'm not looking for help from anyone. And if God is my God, then he would provide for me. And I sat there with nothing. The following day, somebody contacted me and just decided that they're bringing food for me, just like that. And the next thing you know, right after that, I made a decision, finances started to come in in small pieces. And I realized what was taking place was that I was actually receiving any manner, any willingness. Similarly with finances. Now, please, this is another verily, verily moment. Many people come into Christ, and because of what you've been taught, you're looking to follow God to be blessed. And you're not, not following God, you're following the money. And when you're not blessed, you feel disappointed, you feel hurt. It's because you're not there because you want to be the fullness of what God created you to be, what created Yahweh to be, or or Yeshua to be in the earth. You're, you're there trying to use the system to get money, to get blessings. And I did not know until 2019 that I was doing that, because I found myself in a space where my family reproached me for my decision. I left my profession, left my professions. I had been a translator, a, a occupational, occupational health and safety trainer, and also functioned in 14 different fields in the oil and gas industry under the, under the, the, the occupation health and safety arena, in both English and Spanish. I left all of that when I had my experience with the supernatural and I began to question everything to get into this. So I had family around me reproaching me for my decision because to them, my decision was a stupid decision. I had a reproach, and I was in a space where the elders and the family, which was my father's siblings, decided that they didn't want the family house again, they wanted money. They found our buyer, decided to, they said they want to sell the home and just, and then put us into an illegal situation, which I wouldn't dive into. But then we found ourselves in court. So I was in, I was in doubly an uncomfortable situation. On top of that, I had family members that actually began to make money and to, to try to take hold of certain aspects of the property that we were living on, and then began to use that as an opportunity to show me as

Incompetent, or try to show them up, show themselves up as the better person. This situation, I sat, I sat down in. And when it came to finances and understanding that the garden was about reference point, where what the reference point is, and this was the, this was therefore then my Paran. I buckle down in that situation and made the decision that is what Yahweh says. Is it? And everybody else's opinion, I couldn't care less.

I am not saying this to say that you're going to experience any difficult situations. What I'm saying is the situation is not designed to break you. It's designed to give you the opportunity to make the decision under pressure. And when you're feeling the pressure and you make the decision, when you come out of that pressure, you will walk in the name effortlessly. Because if you could do it under pressure, you trust, you learn once you could, once you make that decision under pressure, doing it under pressure gives you the experience of walking in the covenant discipline to what God says, despite any voice around you. And when you come into a place of rest, you no longer have to try. It flows from you effortlessly. This is basically what this is for. This is what all of the Apostles are trying to tell you. Peter, James, John, Paul, they're all trying to tell you that this is God's way, or the Holy Spirit's way of getting you to walk in the fullness of who you are. And you have to face the music. And this is what param, this is what pan is for. If you choose not to do it, you're going to go around the mountain again. You can bet your last dollar that God may intervene and help, but there's another thing coming, and you're going to have to make the decision. Ultimately, you choose whether you do it in 11 days or you take 40 years. Is this making any sense? Right. It is a buckling down. Buckle down and just maintain the reference point and only act from what God says. This is where you learn to stop listening to external sources. This is where you stop looking for external assistance, and you begin to live from your spirit and your spirit alone.

When you do that, then the next phase of the covenant is Moab. Your growth process is in Moab. Moab means the firstborn son. That's when you now begin to walk. Yes, when thine eye is single, you know, then you be, then you begin to walk as the firstborn son. That's why when Jesus leaves the wilderness, it says that he left, he came out the wilderness, and he, he, he, he went, he went forth in the power of the spirit. The power of the spirit is not something that you acquire. Power is a decision. Power is a decision. The promises of God are the promises of power. Therefore, power is a decision. It is not something that you acquire. It's not something that you could fast your way into. It's not something that you could memorize scripture your way into. Power is a decision. It's a decision to use your spirit as the one and only source of your wisdom. Power is a decision. Discipline. The discipline that you learn makes helps you to walk in power. Is everybody hearing what I'm saying? Always is the decision to use your spirit. Yes, power is a decision. So many people find themselves in this space where they're listening to doc, they're listening to Google, they're listening to the news, they're listening to the stats, and then they're saying, Lord, where's your power? Big boy, you are making yourself weak. And I mean big boy in a respectful way. That is a Trinidadian way of saying, sir, you are making yourself weak. You weaken yourself by having more than one reference point. Power in the garden was one reference point. You hear what I'm saying? Power in the garden was one reference point. Outside of the garden was two, and there was no more power. So if you're listening to external reference points, the problem is your division of heart. Big boy, not God, is the division of your heart. Is that making sense? Is everybody following this? Right. Yeshua went into the wilderness and negated excellent reference points, which means he walking out of the willingness in the power of the spirit is walking, walking out of the willingness in one reference point. And therefore, all of his thoughts, his decisions, his body, his shadow, everything now is in power. Cuz power is a decision. People don't walk in power by transaction. If you want to walk in power, you need to, you need to definitely make the decision to make the Holy Spirit reference point. But if you want to walk in power, you decide that from today on, I am power. And everybody that you touch will receive power. It's not something that you access. It's something that you choose to be. It's a decision to be. Right. I don't know. Power is a decision to be. It's not something that you own. It's not something that you build. It's a decision to be. Have you not even paid attention that even in the, in the, in the world that you live in, you do not become something. You do not earn your way into becoming into taking up a profession or job title. On your work site, you don't, you don't reach any job site and you're signing contract and you say, well, you have to, you have to, you, you need to, um, bring me a thousand coffees for you to become the coffee boy. Or you need to serve a thousand, you need to, um, distribute a thousand newspapers to become the paper boy. Or you need to, you need to go and take 100 courses for you to become the manager. No, you are given the title. When you're given the title, then you take the responsibility to become efficient at the title. That is power. It's something that you decide to be and then you dedicate yourself to study and application to make sure that you understand how to be that. How many of us hearing that for the first time? This is why Yeshua rebuked the disciples. This is why Yeshua rebuked the disciples when they were casting the devil out of the boy and they couldn't get it out of him. Why? Because they using the manifestation. They were using the manifestation as the validation. What do you think the, the temptation was concerning showing yourself off the pinnacle of the temple? It was testing validation by spiritual manifestation. Power is a decision. Just as you made a decision for Christ in you, Christ in you is power and wisdom in you. Which means power is a decision. The problem is you came into Christ and you're trying to access a part of Christ outside of Christ. If Christ is in you, there's power in you. You just need to make the decision that you are power and to be the person of power, and you will see power. That means that you have to adjust your expectations of power and therefore you, you take on the, you commit to be the person of that and then you learn how to go about how to be efficient at it. And part of that requires that you become one in reference point. Yeah, validation, patience needed here. Well, is what it's, is it's this might sound harsh to everybody here, but covenant is a whole process of decision. I would encourage you to not take the route of trying to grow into letting go decisions or grow into letting go things. You will put yourself through unnecessary suffering. You can grow, but let your growth be in the application of decision and not growth in trying to ease your way into trusting enough to make the decision. That's why most Christians are where they are today. You hear them say things like, I'm not perfect, and we're all growing in Christ, whilst they continue to suffer and they continue to do things that are inequitable to others. And so they're being evil by omission, by negligence. You don't stop doing something by growing in stopping it. You stop it, and you stop it now. That's how the script realm works. Now, I know it might be difficult for you to do it, but trust me, make the decision, and the Holy Spirit will help you do it. That's what he's there for. And even if you, you make a mistake, yes, is to take a promise of God and trust in the Holy Spirit will accomplish it. Means that you, you, the situation arises, you find the promise that is the answer to that situation, and you, you hold, you stand and take action on that. And you stand, you stand by con, by constantly reviewing that promise, reviewing scriptures that support that promise. You, you, you stand by doing that. You see, in the same way, you, you see in the same way, if you make a decision right now to be a bodybuilder, what do you do? You change your profession. Or you want to, you want to step into a new hobby. What do you do? You, you nurture it. And how do you do that? You start watching a lot of videos concerning that. And when you're filled, when your spirit is filled with it sufficiently, then you, then you have a sense of confidence to take action and do it. Even though you may not know what you're doing at first, but you have the confidence to do it. That's what you did. You made a decision that you're going to, you're going to bake a cake. And what you did is that you spent and you watched videos and videos and videos and videos and videos and videos. What you did is, is that you made a decision. And all of that right there is feeding yourself as as you standing, you're standing. You've made a decision, you're going to bake this cake, or you're going to step into this hobby, and you continue to feed it while you stand. And then when you feel, and then when you, you feel you're filled, then you take action and you say, I'm going to do it. This is, this is what walking in God is, right? That's why Paul says, having none to, having none, stand. Stand therefore. And it tells you what to do to stand, which means keep the truth in front of you. The breast, the breastplate of righteousness, meaning stay in the spirit of righteousness, knowing that you're righteous, and you don't reproduce anything that is opposite of that, that, that is opposite of light and power. Your feet shod with the gospel of peace, which means you have to keep yourself aware of the good news of Shalom, fullness. The shield of faith, faith in the, in being the person of the Holy Ghost, yeah, and the word of God, which is your sword. Sword of the spirit is called the sword of the mouth in Revelation one and two. You see, that's how you stand. You keep yourself in the awareness of the truth. You constantly keep yourself in the awareness of the truth. You stand. This is the decision that you make. No, put on on Christ. What you do at the covenant where you commit to being the person of the Lord Yeshua, to being the person of life and power, being the person of wisdom, everything that he is, you be. Put that as you put it on Christ. What you study is how you study how to be efficient at that. Yeah, to, to actually thrive in it. That's why you're leading Christ. Stand is different. Stand is where you're fortifying what you have already chosen. So you keep your awareness and keep the awareness of on that and the truth of that. I'm saying all it is to say that you choose here whether you, you spend 40 years or 11 days like guarding your temple. A nice way of putting it. Yeah, guard your heart. Guard your heart. Right. Which, what I'm saying is, you choose. And if you, if you choose the route of, well, I need to grow into that, I wish you good luck because whatever comes at you while you say you're growing in that, you're going up in problems. And only you doing it. Covenant is decision. And then you, and when you take, when you make the decision, then you learn how to thrive with that decision. The church taught you take your time and grow. You're growing in Christ. The covenant teaches you make the decision and then learn how to be efficient at that decision. How many are saying that for the first time? Make up your mind. Yes. Make up your mind and just be that. That's why most Christians are where they are today and why they die in Paran because nobody gave them this memo. I'm giving you here. Nobody gave me the memo either. I had to say thank God that the spirit drove me to make a life decision and make 20 hours of my day Bible and priesthood and the other four hours was sleep. And because I was just that and I was submerging myself in the priesthood practically, I began to see the scriptures come together as fast as the spirit was teaching me. So now I could give any memo. But many people have died not getting this memo. Many people have spent 30 and 40 years talking about God and nobody gave any memo. And so they never walked in power because the church taught them you need to qualify yourself for power. When power is a decision, just like you being made a decision to be the person of, of, of the Lord Yeshua, the person of the Holy Ghost, you make the decision to be the person of power and then you learn how to thrive as that. And what, what he needs to do to be more efficient at it. You make decisions. Make up your mind. Let, let me, let me also put it like this. Your lack of decision is keeping the whole universe where it is right now. When you make a decision, the universe has to shift to match your decision. The longer you take to make that decision, the longer the universe is staying where it is. And if you take the route of, I need to grow into that, the universe will continue to be where it is. You have to understand as a priest, the breastplate of the priest in the Old Testament was the breastplate of decision, the breastplate of judgment. That means you are created to be a decision maker. What did I just say? You are created to be a decision maker. And you not making decisions is malfunctioning. So the longer you sit down there and you start to speak about, well, I'm growing in Christ, I'm not ready to make that, that step as yet, you are the author of your suffering. I never forgot in studying King Solomon's wisdom literature something that King Solomon said. Now I'm paraphrasing, of course, that never left me. He said, he said, every man suffers as long as he desires. No, my pause. Every man suffers as long as he desires. He or she desires. That means there is nothing going on in your life that is not of your doing. And some of them, you're justifying your suffering, whether you're blaming God for it, or you want to be approved by others. And you're simply not making decisions. Western Christianity taught you to do that. They are masters at no decisions, but they are also very, very efficient at suffering. I know that sounds harsh. Does that sound harsh? But I will not be held responsible for sugarcoating things that shouldn't be. Right. So this is the purpose of pan for you to make decisions. I had to make the decision in that. I had to make the decision with the finances. And I also had to make the decisions. Let me give you one example of what took place within that period of time. In 2018, in 2018, in 2018, I gave this testimony before. In 2018, Cura's son was admitted to the hospital after a 15-minute seizure. Doctors said at 15 minutes, it's very unlikely that he was going to survive. Younger son, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. And even though he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, I laid hands on him and I met him, and he moved from immobility to movement and started to speak, started to develop. And he was committed to the hospital. And I remember everybody arrived at the hospital in tears that they were going, that this was, this was, this was the end. And I took my time when I received the call because God's word is God's word. I took my time when they tell me, please come. I took my time, took a bath, dressed, and walked my way to the hospital in my decision that I'll not be moved by external factors. What God says stands. Arrived at the hospital and called Cura. For those of you who remember who remember Cura, called Cura and literally told her, again, this might sound harsh, especially for the ladies. I called her and I said, if you continue what, what you're doing, you're going to aid in the death of your son. Do you want him to live or die? She took her time, dried her tears, and said, I want him to live. I said, well, make sure I dry those tears because you need to make a decision here that he's going to live. And when she said, yes, I want to make that decision, I took her to a certain corner in the waiting room, cited God's word with Yeshua's triumph, he's healed, and commanding him to be healed, and every two hours, every hour on the hour, I sat an alarm for every hour on the hour, and every hour on the hour, I read verses concerning trust in Yahweh and directed those verses to him and commanded him to be healed and to live. Six hours later, we were called. I accompanied her into the, into the emergency, and he was alive, laughing, rolling. And the doctor approached at the foot of the bed and said, speaking to Cura, said, Mom, we have no response for what took place here. Usually, 50 minutes of seizure means vegetable state or death, and he is speaking, he's laughing, he's moving as though nothing happened. The doctor said, this is just one of those things that we can't explain, but you're free to take him home, but we'd like to keep him overnight just, just to monitor him. Make the decision and support that decision, and he lived. That was one of the experiences that I counted as a parent moment. Make the decision and fortify the decision. Is this making sense, everybody? This is what pan is about. And you can speed it up by understanding what is required of you and just settle down. Or you could take the other way and say, well, I need to grow into trusting God a little more and spend your 40 years. I'm not saying that with a lack of what the world would like to call empathy, but what the world calls empathy is actually called evil in the Bible because your empathy is not doing anything for the person. It's actually encouraging them to stay in the decision. And it's all a decision away. Is that making sense? Type sense. So this is a natural progression of your covenant. Right after that, they went to Moab. Moab being a firstborn son, meaning that's where you see Jesus walks out of Moab, walks out of the willingness, that's a firstborn son walking in power. And then after Moab, they went to Canaan. Right, they crossed the Jordan River and they went to Canaan. And Canaan means synchronicity in its etymological meaning. Synchronicity. Canaan means synchronicity, which means the kingdom of God that you're looking at in your covenant, you're going to step into. Pan, you start to make decisions. You need to become, you need to become super intentional with your decisions. And when you make the decisions, you're going to come out of that in power. Now you become single-minded. Yeah, that's going to help you to walk in power. And once you walk in single-mindedness, you start to walk as if it was born son. Right after that, you progress into synchronicity with all creation, which is mean you make a decision and all of creation is moving in line with your decision. With of course, your understanding that the same spirit as in you, the same spirit in the universe. And therefore, just as the wheels move with the living beings in, in, in chapter two, the heaven and earth will move with you with your decisions. Is this making sense, everybody? Now you see Jesus going through this. Jesus is called out of Egypt according to Matthew, quoting Hosea 11. I, I called my firstborn son out of Egypt. As Hosea 11, identifying Jesus as Israel. Jesus grows, which would be, that's Jesus at sin, learning the father. Then he, he is when he is baptized, he's driven into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. That's where he's going to be tempted to make decisions. So he's going to be tempted. But the other side of that is he's going to, he is, he is driven into the wilderness to practice being disciplined and making decisions to walk from what the father says alone. This is why he, he starts off saying, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. That means the mouth is the spirit. Every word that proceeds out of the spirit of God. Food is secondary here. And as soon as he does that, he walks out of the wilderness as in Moab, which is the firstborn son. See that? And then later on, he's crucified, maintaining the decision whilst being beaten. Let me just slow down here. Paul says in Hebrews 12, that Jesus maintained the decision whilst being beaten and crucified. And then says to the reader, to the Hebrews, what's your excuse? You haven't shed, you haven't shed blood as he shed blood, maintaining his discipline to the, to, to what God says. What that changed my life, you know what that did for me? Gave me no excuse. If I haven't shed in blood, and Jesus did it, shed in blood, I have no excuse. Because Jesus doing it, shed in blood, is a testament that you could do it while shedding blood. And he was beaten, whipped 40 times, and nails going through his hands and his feet, and still maintained this, this discipline to that, to that, to that decision that led to his resurrection. At no point in time, no point in time did he even waver. He maintained discipline under pressure. His pressure was whipping at a whipping post and being crucified on a cross. Is that resonating in your hearts? I can sense in the spirit that it is resonating in your heart. All right, so this is part of your covenantal journey. As a, as a point to make a point, I'll make it. Sorry, I will make it a point to include it in an upcoming presentation so that you have it in a formal, structured manner. So when you need to listen to it, you know where to find it. I will include it in one of the presentations coming up purposefully. All right, but I trust that this answers your question, holy Norman. And I trust that this also gives everybody context to your covenant life. It has more than answered my question, brother Zayn. And, uh, it has intensified the meaning of covenant, underlined it, highlighted it, and underscored it. I tell you, amen. This is really serious business. Yes, it is. It's, um, yeah, it is indeed. It's two paths, which one life or death. They boil down to that, literally. You can't, it can't be put even, it can't be put better than that. You, you are literally at, at a junction of choice. Yeah. And as Monica and I were, were experiencing, we had some altercations a little bit there, but we could see what was going on, the dynamics, right? And it applies as, uh, how should we say, I failed a couple times actually, and I started to sulk. I tell you, it was quite a drama. And then I said, wow, it applies to the very little things, not only big things. No, it's little things. You see, it's the little things that makes the breaking of the principle look as though it's nothing. It's not. It causes you to overlook, break any principle. And if, but if you break the principle in little things, you break the principle in the whole spirit. That's it. That's it. Because it's one spirit. So it's not a sin, it's a principle. It's a principle. Yeah, it's all encompassing. That's very, very interesting. This is, this is absolutely precious what you brought forth tonight. Absolutely. I hope I didn't take you off too much. No, no, no. That's, that was a great question and, and a, a great question at this point of the journey, to be honest. Okay, well, I thank you very much and, uh, it was, most, it's most appreciated. A very humble, holy brother, always. And thank you for the boldness to put the question out there. We made a decision to ask. Amen. Amen. All right, so I trust that that actually helps everyone here to know that you've received the memo, that you understand whatever it is that you're going through, it is not against you, it is for one purpose, discipline for you to choose your allegiance and to be disciplined. That, that is what it is for. It is not for you, it is not against you, it is for you. If you're outside of the garden, then fear and dread will be the result. The same thing that God told Abraham, um, Noah, that the animals will feel for him, you're going to experience that if you're outside of the garden. Cuz that is the nature of that spirit to feel fear and dread. The inside of the garden is discipline, which means rest in discipline, and you're making a decision to make that, to, to, you're making a decision to, to be very intentional with your allegiance. And that is what the, the Apostle Peter and James said, is you establishing yourself as a son of God in patience. They refer to patience as godliness. I can look back and also see clearly situations in my, my life very clearly. Amen. Amen. All right, this literally changed my life. I am not even exaggerating. When I understood that this was what was necessary, everything that we do here came about as a result of me making these decisions. And so I'm not saying this because I just read it, I lived it. I lived it and I lived it and saw that there's a reason why the Bible said have courage. Why Jesus tells them, tells people, have courage. Courage is a decision to be strong in the midst of fear. Without fear, you cannot have courage. Which means fear is just a temptation to believe another, another to, to take wisdom from another reference point. You must always remind yourself that the covenant that you are in is the highest and most powerful covenant in heaven and earth. It is higher than heaven and earth. And therefore, no matter what anybody tells you, their authority is way below the, the authority of your covenant. So you have to make an internal decision. And I would encourage you to choose the allegiance to Christ. If he is alive by being faithful to that covenant, you will live as well. He is the template of what it means to treat God's word with truth. And mind you, let me just also put it like this, also frame something here for you. Decision does not mean keeping your options open. Oh Lord, I feel like I caused, I felt, I just felt like I caused a chill to go through some of us here. Anybody experience that chill? In the Western world, we see decisions as the best option. In the scripture, that is being double-minded. Decision in the Bible is, is making a decision and treating everything else as darkness. So if you choose what God says is what it is, every other thing must be seen as darkness and Satan and should be treated accordingly. Being dedicated to what God says is making the decision to not treat, to not making decisions that darkness is not an option. And everything else that is not, not what God said is darkness. It doesn't matter if it comes in a white coat or a golden sash, it's darkness. And therefore, if you're treating what God says to be true, then you make the decision. Darkness is not an option. And therefore, you treat it as though it is not an option. It does not exist. And your next question would be, okay, if that is not an option, what is? And as where walk in the power of the spirit will become super clear to you. Power is a decision. Notice I'm saying that about 20 times tonight, right? Power is a decision. All right. And, um, what I was about to say with that as well, is simultaneously, I would like to also say this with great compassion for those of you who may be hearing this for the first time. In no form of fashion am I expecting you to treat what I'm saying here as though it's a moral compass. And if you don't do what we're speaking about, I trust that by now everybody here knows that this is not something that you can treat as a rule-keeping system to be considered godly. You have to approach God's word from the truth of your heart and believe that in your own heart. And if you feel like you don't feel, if you feel as though you don't feel confidence to do what I said, do as much as you can and trust that God is going to help you do the rest. But by no way, in no means, and in no way, treat it as though it's okay. Operate in the integrity of what God says and settle it in your own heart. I'm saying not to say this in a different way. Do not look at other people's faith and ride upon their faith or their trust. Settle it in your own heart so that you can function self-existent. Is that making sense to everybody here? All right, your decision. Yes, it's a decision. A decision. It's a hard decision. Don't compare yourself to any other priest here, nor to any other believer. Take encouragement, but do not use them as a reference point. You can't validate yourself before God. You have to be in the position of God. And therefore, if you're not clear, you need understanding to be able to settle it in your heart, then take the responsibility to do so. And you're in a community right now where you can put out the question, and those in the community can chime in and assist you. And I can even chime in and assist you. But do not remain in, in, in, in uncertainty. It's a lack of integrity to your own covenant. This is number eight, which is the half time Q. All right, so any other question? I'm guessing that question answered a lot of questions, or the answer, or the response to that question answered a lot of questions. Yes. Yes. I did. Amen. Um, you're back. Who is that? Yeah, brother Zayn. Brother Rick, go ahead. Yeah, I just have a question with, um, the covenant. So, uh, if you break the covenant, when I say break, you're not holding yourself true to it, right? Is that, is that, because I remember you spoke a while back about the three types, it's like sin, transgression, and, uh, iniquity, right? Is which one does that fall under again? I'm just, I'm a little bit, um, I probably should go back to the other sessions to listen to it, but it's just something I was just interested to see how the, like the, I guess coming into the covenant falls into all of, you know, into those three things. Is that, I hope that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Um, you want to know if you're not treating, if you're technically not keeping up with the covenant, if it, if it falls into those, and if it falls into that, which one of those it falls into. Yes. Yeah. I, I think partly because of the, um, upbringing of like, you know, in church and, you know, the religious setting, is you don't want to break the covenant, you know, that's that fear factor, right? Right. That's what I, yeah. All right, so interestingly enough, in a New Covenant, once one's heart is committed to the, like you have made an oath in your heart, which is to the spirit of God, to, to, to take on the title and the vision of God. Interestingly enough, in the New Covenant, there is no punishment for breaking the covenant. It's not seen as sin, actually. It's just seen as missing the mark. And missing the mark means that what you did, you did it, um, based on the limit of your understanding, or is not something that you're doing, um, well, let me frame it like this then, so let you understand. In the Old Covenant, you could make that decision and if you don't keep it, then you have some sort of divine judgment that actually follows that, right? That is not so in the New Covenant. The New Covenant does not have curses. It does not have darkness nor death because the New Covenant does not include darkness and death. You not keeping up with the covenant is not seen as sin, nor is it seen as death unto you. It's seen as you, um, it's seen as you missing the mark and grace covers you there. This is why in the New Covenant, Paul says, all things work together for good for those who love the Lord. Because once your heart is towards it, then what you're doing is not seen as something that needs to be punished. It's seen as something that you need to grow in wisdom concerning. Which means if it's something that is not, you're not keeping up with in the way that you like to, then what you need is wisdom to be able to do it more efficiently. There's no judgment in the New Covenant. And the only time, um, you see Paul making decisions that could resemble something that is judgment, is where Paul identifies is people who are amongst the body of Christ who were using the covenant to take advantage of others. Which means they're falsely stepping into the covenant and then they're trying to use the others for self-benefit. That person is seen as the person who has, who is crucifying Jesus all over again, according to Hebrews 6. That is the person who just wants to use the covenant for self-benefit and has normalized not keeping the covenant. The mere fact that you ask me that question tells me that you, you are not one of those. You're not showing indifference to it because you ask a question because you love the Lord and you want to walk in it. But because in a New Covenant, you have a process of growth, that is where grace comes in and covers you. And even though you did something that may be outside of the mark, it may not be, it may not have been done in the wisdom of the name or in the fulfillment of what the person that you've committed to be and their vision, it did something outside of that, like you, you were guided by external reference point. The spirit tends to work that for your benefit. It, it is not seen as something that is working against you, right? That's why in the covenant, you commit to the, to the name and to the vision. I want you to think along it. Think think along it along the lines of a company. When you join an organization, an established organization, they might pass you. They might, they may sit you through what you call an induction. And that induction pretty much gives you insight as to what the company's vision is. You are expected to commit to the company's vision to bring it into existence. That means that there may be decisions that you make that was not in the benefit of the decision. It is not seen as something that you should be fired for. It's seen as, it's seen as something that you should learn from. That is exactly the perspective of the covenant. Does that make sense now? H, yes. Thank you. That made perfect. Amen. Clarified. Thank you. All right, that's another good question. Another question. Good question. Holy sister Jean says she had that question too. Amen. All right, so you are, you clear as well, holy sister? Amen. All right, now obviously, if you're breaking your covenant, causing somebody harm, you want to actually take responsibility and apologize. You know, take responsibility for the things that you may have caused amongst men and the damage that you may have caused. But as, as it comes as it comes to the divine realm, heaven, you are not seen as anybody evil. You are, it is seen as something that you need to actually gain more wisdom in. You need to learn from it, right? So for those of you who might feel like, I didn't hear and no acknowledge that you didn't question why you didn't, where am I getting this wisdom from that is causing me to do this and make the decision, maintain a decision, and it will fall off. That's how the New Covenant works, right? That's why Paul, Paul mentions mind renewal in the New Covenant, to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. It means to be renewed in the priority of your mind. All right, the priority of your mind, your spirit. So even your priority is of, is a spirit, be renewed in it. Any other, any other questions? So I think that this Q&A tonight was, was has been fruitful because the first question that came was a question that was very, very timely for everybody to understand. So if, if there are no more questions, we can wrap it up here tonight. All right, and I will just open up the floor for the next 15 minutes for any feedback. Yeah, everybody okay with that? Type okay. All right, so we'll officially bring this to an, to, to a pause here and