Get ready to receive! This episode of the David Spoon Experience emphasizes the importance of being expectant and believing in God’s promises as we navigate our Christian journey. David Spoon delves into Romans 8, discussing the groaning of believers as they await the fullness of redemption and the new bodies promised by God. He encourages listeners to cultivate an attitude of anticipation, urging them to actively believe in what they are praying for and to seek a deeper connection with the Lord. With personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, this episode aims to inspire faith and reinforce the notion that God is always at work, preparing great things for His people.

Listeners are invited into a heartfelt discussion on the complexities of faith, as David Spoon delves into Romans 8 and the dualities of the Christian experience. He articulates how the presence of the Holy Spirit offers a taste of future glory, yet Christians continue to grapple with earthly pains and longings. This episode serves as an exploration of the profound tension between hope and suffering, emphasizing that such feelings of groaning are not only common but significant in the journey of faith. Spoon encourages his audience to embrace their feelings of displacement, recognizing that they are indeed foreigners in this world, longing for the eternal promises of God.

In his engaging and personable style, Spoon blends humor with poignant reflections, inviting listeners to consider how their struggles can deepen their relationship with God. He stresses the importance of faith, humility, and surrender in accepting God’s gifts, portraying Jesus Christ as the center of their spiritual journeys. Spoon’s insights into the transformative nature of prayer and community underscore the necessity of sharing experiences and supporting one another in their faith walks. He encourages listeners to actively engage with the Lord, promising that the more time spent with God, the richer their lives will be.

The conversation culminates in a powerful exhortation to believe in God’s promises and to be ready to receive the blessings that come with faith. Spoon’s infectious enthusiasm and deep passion for his message resonate throughout the episode, leaving listeners with a renewed sense of hope and encouragement. The episode not only addresses the struggles of living in a fallen world but also highlights the assurance of God’s glory that awaits believers, making it a compelling and uplifting experience for all who tune in.

Takeaways:

• The Holy Spirit resides in believers, providing a foretaste of future glory while still experiencing present struggles.
• As Christians, we eagerly anticipate the full rights of our inheritance, including new bodies promised by God.
• We need to accept God's gifts with humility and faith, acknowledging our reliance on His grace.
• Our present groanings remind us that this life is temporary, driving our longing for eternity with God.
• To prepare for God's blessings, we must be ready to receive and actively believe in His promises.
• Prayer, scripture reading, and fellowship are essential practices to strengthen our faith and readiness.

And now for something completely different.

Here's what's coming up this hour on today's Experience.

It's totally terrific, totally transforming and totally triumphant Tuesday as we find unity from the Father, through the Son and by the Spirit, all for the glory of God Almighty.

First, as we continue in the book of Romans, we come to some very powerful and glorious passages of the New Testament, particularly as we are in chapter 8, beginning at verse 23, the apostle Paul writes that even though we as Christians have the Holy Spirit inside of us giving us a foretaste of future glory, we still groan.

We also long to be released from the pain and the sufferings of this present walk.

Do you ever feel like you just didn't belong?

Uh huh.

Wow.

Next, for those Christians who become uneasy when the Holy Spirit's discussed.

Knock it off.

Right.

The bottom line is that we accept by faith, with reverence and humility and repentance, the glorious gift that God the Father has given us through his love and by his grace, so we can be engaged with God forever.

This comes through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, who lives in our hearts by faith.

And when we acknowledge and surrender to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit takes up residency in us.

So finally, let's not miss the teaching.

We are groaning.

In other words, as good as it is, it's not enough.

Ah.

The reason is that our old self, our flesh still existing in the new self and the tension between the old and the new make us long to get out of it and just be in eternity with God there.

When we're in eternity with the Lord, of course there'll be no more fear, no more sorrow, no more hurt, no more pain, no more discomfort.

So here it is.

We eagerly look forward to the day and the freedom that hanging out with God will bring.

David Spoon's life has been an experience.

While growing up in a Jewish family, he made a wrong turn towards drug abuse.

Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

The more he studied the gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

He joined KAAM and this radio program began.

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Here's what else we're looking at during the show.

Lessons for surviving living and prevailing politics, entertainment and current events.

Maybe not that much today.

Personal revelations, spiritual observations, my life's insanities.

Nuy ve so much more.

Remember, it's not professional radio.

And yesterday we talked to the leader of the pack of professional radio and he agreed with us.

This show ain't pro, but it is pretty interesting.

In fact, it's just radio.

You're lucky if it's two cans and a string.

I do think that often we're asking you though, what do you think?

So now you can contact us and you can engage with us.

You can email us during the show.

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Talking to Jim and Jacob is like sharing a cheat meal on your diet with your favorite person.

Thank you, David.

Happy Tuesday.

Happy Tuesday to you, my friend.

How about this for some of the cheat meals?

Homemade cheesecake and carrot cake and ice cream.

Let's just say that sounds like a fun time.

I had to be at the gym.

I had to go to the gym.

This is not even a joke.

People are gonna think I'm kidding.

Nope.

I had to go Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and I'm going today.

Was it back open?

It'll be open.

It'll be closed tomorrow.

So it's.

But I put on a little.

I went the other direction on the whole thing.

But it was good.

It was really good.

I liked it.

So anyway, it's okay.

Gotta get your cheat meals in before the new year.

I do gotta finish it off.

I'm still trying to convince myself all calories today, don't count on the ledger.

It's over anyway.

So I'm moving forward in that.

But I'm moving in a direction where I just want to present myself before the Lord.

But every once in a while I still want a good old fashioned big chocolate ice cream.

Anyhow, bottom line to this whole process is this.

Why would you send an email?

Why would you text?

Why would you call us?

It's pretty simple.

You can do it for appraised report.

Maybe something happened that you were blessed by.

The reason we encourage praise reports, testimonies, whatever you want to call them is because they solidify it in your own life.

They strengthen it and reinforce it in your own life.

They bless other Christians who hear that God, their Father, is working amongst their brothers and sisters and it gives them encouragement for that.

But the most important part is it glorifies God.

In Isaiah 43.

7, it says, we are created for his glory, and when we share that, we bring that glory to him.

Maybe you've got something going on and you need prayer.

Hey, that's a big part of the Christian walk.

Let's not be weird about it.

We need to be praying on a pretty regular basis.

The Bible says in James 4, 8, draw near to God and he will draw near to you.

And so we just take our faith, my faith, your faith, Jacob's faith, everybody who's listening in the audience speak all our faith and put it together and pray for one another.

Why?

Because that's what Jesus wants us to do, that's why.

So we do that and it's a blessing.

And sometimes we cry with one another and sometimes we laugh with one another because we're a part of one another and will be for all eternity.

Maybe you've got something you want to share.

You got a scripture or something that happened or something you just like.

This is really cool.

I want to get into it.

Our goal, our bent, our slant has to do with encouraging one another as we see the day of the Lord getting closer.

We're not against politics, though I often say politics is poly many ticks, blood sucking insects.

I just think our goal for this show is to encourage people to draw closer to the Lord.

That's what the Lord's called me to be and do so.

I'm trying to do that the best I can.

Additionally, we do Bible trivia.

Feeling good, are ya?

I all right, answer this.

In Genesis 18, to whom did God ask?

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Was that Moses?

Who asked Moses that?

God asked that to Adam, Noah or Abraham?

Who did God ask that to?

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Did he say that to Moses, Adam, Noah or Abraham?

Your answer, by the way, is going to be in Genesis 18, 13, 14.

So who did God ask?

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Did he ask Moses?

Did he ask Abraham?

Did he ask Adam?

Did he ask Noah?

Davidemustincrease.org In Genesis 18, God asked somebody, is anything too hard for the Lord?

Did he ask Moses, Adam, Noah or Abraham?

Genesis 18, 13, 14.

In the meantime, we're going to do our DNA because we think DNA is important.

You're thinking, what's DNA?

It's the building blocks of how we should be a Christian.

And we start off with D.

And that starts with D for draw closer to the Lord daily.

Now I've checked and still today, every day that ends in Y is a day.

I've double checked it, triple checked it.

Every day that you are breathing is yet still a day.

So every day you need to draw closer to the Lord.

How much time?

I don't know.

Should you do that?

More in prayer, more in Bible and more Bible and more in prayer?

I don't know.

Why don't you hang out with God and ask him?

But we're talking about separated time unto the Lord.

We do say this and have no reservation.

We'll say it all this next year.

If you spend more time with God, your life will be better.

Period.

That's it.

There's nothing anybody can say about it.

Draw closer to the Lord daily.

That's D.

N Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

People don't like what God has to say, tough.

You don't like it when the church quotes scripture, tough.

Those people don't have a heaven to put you in.

Why do you care?

You're supposed to live for the Creator, not the creation.

Right.

You live for the author, not the audience.

And Jesus said, if anybody's ashamed of me or my words, I'll be ashamed of him when I come in the Father's glory with the angels.

Jesus.

And that's Luke 9:26.

None of that.

Never be ashamed.

You might not understand every single concept.

Congratulations.

Welcome to planet Earth.

But the truth of the matter is Jesus is called the word of God.

And if you are ashamed of Jesus or his words, that's a bad place to be.

God created the universe.

The dude can write a book.

Thanks.

D.

Draw closer to the Lord.

N.

Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A Always be ready.

Ready to serve.

Ready to serve.

Say this.

On your mark, get set, go.

What do you got to be?

You got to be ready.

What if the Lord doesn't want to do anything?

You got to be ready.

You got to be prepared.

You got to be aware.

You got to be connected.

You got to be thoughtful.

You Got to be mindful of the Lord, not just mindful of what you got to do, not just mindful of your errands, not just mindful of your bills, not just mindful of your budget, not just mindful of your family.

We need to seek first the kingdom of God and be mindful of the Lord always being ready to be used for whatever.

Let's use Nick as a quick example.

He what he was in these situations where he saw these really bad things and he would just pray.

Perhaps that was the purpose then, for him to be there.

It's always connected.

The Lord's always working.

He's always doing things.

We're not always listening.

We're not always looking.

We're not always paying attention.

So what we want to do, to do better at that is to more often to be ready.

Get it?

D.

Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A.

Always be ready.

Always be ready to serve.

Your trivia question, by the way, in Genesis 18, to whom did God ask, is there anything too hard for the Lord?

Who did he ask that of Genesis 18, 13, 14.

Couple things to tell you.

Modified schedule.

So let me check with Jam and Jacob.

Jam and Jacob.

Are you coming in tomorrow?

No, I am not, David.

Okay, well, I'm not coming in.

Are you coming in tomorrow?

Nope.

Nope, I'm not coming in either.

So you know what?

There won't be you and I in tomorrow.

Jen won't be in tomorrow.

Don won't be here tomorrow.

A replay will be tomorrow.

That's what I'm telling everybody so you can be aware of that modified, modified schedule.

Okay.

All right.

We're gonna pray for everybody before we exit this show.

Don't worry about it.

We're gonna pray for everybody, for their health and everything.

But I am gonna share with you in the next segment something the Lord shared with me that I do not think is personally for me, but might be for many.

I'm just asking the Lord and praying as I'm talking to you guys, just making sure that I go about it the right way and bringing it before the lo, honoring him the right way.

So I am waiting before the Lord.

In the meantime, I do want you to take a peek at this.

Romans, chapter 8, Romans 8:23 says this.

And even we Christians, this is what it says in verse 23 in the NLT.

Even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of the future glory, also grown to be released from pain and suffering.

Yeah, we could do this.

The rest of the show, I'm not gonna.

But we could listen.

Christians, we Christians, we have the Holy Spirit in us.

When you said yes to Jesus, when you surrendered, when you repented, when you yielded, when you prayed the sinner's prayer, or got down on your face and wept before the Lord, or when you had that introduced to you at a Billy Graham evangelistical association, or you were in Sunday school, or when you heard the gospel and you said, I wanna be a part of that.

I wanna be connected.

Yes, I need it.

I'm connected.

I'm there.

I surrender.

However that came about and you said, yes, Jesus take up residency in my life.

He did.

He's true to his word, he's faithful.

And the Holy Spirit lives inside of you.

You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

And with that there is a foretaste of the future glory.

The fact that you can't get away with everything is a proof of the Holy Spirit living in you.

Isn't that wonderful?

So good.

But Paul says, even though that's going on, we're still groaning.

Have you ever felt like you just, you don't belong on earth?

Hey, guess what?

You don't.

I love it when people go, oh, what are you, one of those Christians?

You're so heavenly minded, you're of no earthly good.

I wish that was true for every one of God's people.

Because Jesus said, lay up treasures in heaven and that's exactly how we should be living our lives to the T.

But until we, we hear that trumpet, until he calls us corporately or personally, it's a groan.

That's why you are strangers and foreigners and visitors on this planet.

That's the fact, Scriptural fact.

That's why you long to be with the Lord God Almighty, who's the architect of the new city.

Read Hebrews 11, 13, 16.

That's why you feel displaced, because this isn't it.

And that groan, just so you can know that's a testimony that you're going, but it's also a groaning, and that's not fun.

Paul says even as Christians, even as believers, we need to at least be aware that's what's going on.

There's that tension from the new us and the old us and it's constantly at war.

When we get back, we're going to talk about what the steps are in that process.

In the meantime, I'm going to answer the trivia question in Genesis 18.

To whom did God ask?

Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Did he ask that of Moses, Adam, Noah, Or Abraham.

He asked that of Abraham, who wasn't supposed to have children.

But that didn't matter, did it?

God had a plan.

It was coming to pass.

All right, we'll take a short break and then come back.

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That is correct, sir.

You are right.

And it's like.

It's like.

I'm not saying I don't want to, you understand, but, like, yuck.

That's all I can say.

It's like, I'm sorry.

That's all I can come up with.

Like, yowza.

Well, he was tricked into it.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I'm gonna go with that.

But I.

I mean, if you're the two sisters, you just got to be thinking, now wait a second here.

Can I.

Can I tell a real quick joke?

Is I won't take up much time.

Hopefully I'll try to make it.

Try to make it biblical, but not scriptural.

I'm with you.

That's about 99% of everything we do on jokes.

Trust me.

I figured you understand to set this up.

Okay, let's set this up.

When I ask the question, you'll have to answer it to the first thing that pops into your head.

Otherwise, it'll.

It's.

It's kind of like those knock, knock jokes.

You have to say, knock, knock, you know, or, who's there?

So anyway, Paul was out in the Mediterranean Sea.

He was sailing across it right before the storm hit.

He was writing some letters.

He was sitting there writing, and one of the sailors came up and looked at him and said, what are you doing?

So I'm writing some letters here.

And he paused, put down his quill and parchment and looked up at the sailor and says, decided this is a time to talk to him.

He says, now here's the question, David.

And this is where you have to answer.

Okay.

What is a pirate's favorite letter of the Alphabet?

And the sailor said, nah, that would.

Be the C making the sea.

That's not good.

Well, it's not the R.

No, it's the C.

It's the C, matey.

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On Christ the Solid Rock.

I stand all other ground.

Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at Kaam 770, the truce station here in Texas.

That's Ka.

Amen.

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Here's your next trivia question.

Your reference point was going to be Genesis 11:1 and 11:1 and 11:4.

That's pretty fast.

Your reference, Genesis 11:1 and Genesis 11.

That should be sufficient for you to figure that out in the meantime, because we just did a joke.

Eric just did a joke.

I've got two really quick jokes that I want to run out, okay?

So I'm going to do two quick jokes.

No point getting upset about it.

I'm doing it.

Get over it.

Okay, here we go.

Ready?

Here's the first one.

Now, I dedicate this to my daughter because her and Jared, who've been staying with us, and they're going to be with us a couple more days.

They just are constantly taking care of the kids.

So this first one is in dedication to them.

It can't really get buzzed, but you don't have to applaud it.

So you got to figure out something.

Here it is.

Husband.

It must be time to get up.

Wife.

Well, how can you tell that, husband?

Because the baby has just fallen asleep at last.

That's pretty good.

This is for kids and food and stuff.

Mother, eat your spinach.

It will Put color in your cheeks.

Her son who wants green cheeks.

See?

See, that's kind of a kid being smarty pantsy right there.

Okay, all right.

You serious, Clark?

Yeah.

Okay.

Sorry about that one.

Here's the last one.

The co ed.

Hey, Daddy.

The girl who sits next to me in class has a dress just like mine.

The dad responds, so what do you want me to do, buy you a new dress?

The coed says, well, it would be cheaper than changing colleges.

Changing colleges.

All right, there you go.

Let's go back to our text.

People who have never heard this show are going, what is this?

When I find out, I'll let you know.

We've only done 3,000 shows.

I still don't know.

Just to let you know.

Okay, cool.

Back to it in Romans, chapter eight.

Very, very, very, very, very interesting.

So Paul starts off and he says, even though we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also grown to be released from the pain and suffering, we too.

That we too, by the way, is in direct reference to creation, which he just talked about four verses before.

He talked about creation being groaning.

We too wait anxiously for the day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

So let's catch something really wild.

You're going to live forever.

You're going to enjoy a place that in its essence, the streets, the pavement, the concrete is gold.

You're going to be in a place that's so powerful and so wonderful.

There'll be no more fear.

There'll be no more discouragement.

There'll be no more depression.

There'll be no more failure.

There'll be nothing that will take away from.

From the joy.

And that joy primarily comes from the presence of the Lord.

In thy presence is the fullness of joy.

We're going to be filled with joy.

We're going to be in this awesome place, and we're going to have new bodies.

Now, it's not that your body is good, bad, or indifferent.

Here's what your body is temporary.

Did you hear me?

You're in a temporary body.

The one you have now might be phenomenal or it might be horrible, but it really doesn't matter because it's only a part timer.

It ain't going to last forever.

In fact, mortality has to put on immortality.

What can perish has to put on what can never perish.

And one of the hopes that Christians have, for some reason, I don't know why this is A bad part of our hope.

And we should be using this and sharing about this.

We're going to have awesome bods.

And I mean awesome bods.

I mean, bodies that will last forever.

Have you noticed if you're more than 6 or even 10 years old, that there are moments in your body where you're like, going, yowcha.

You know, in your 30s, you start to catch on.

In your 40s, that's just when you fart that you start hearing those different sounds.

That was a slip.

Sorry about that.

But you hear different sounds.

In your 50s, you notice that there's different parts and body parts that are making noises that never did before.

In your 60s, you start to notice it but care less.

In your 70s, you don't care anymore.

It's just making noise.

I don't care.

We are getting new bodies.

We are getting new stuff, and that's part of our hope.

And so we're waiting around for the full rights.

Listen to what he says.

This is theologically.

It's so intense.

For the full rights.

What does that mean?

That means that we have certain rights now, but not the fullness of it.

That's why Christians still die, because the fullness of the redemption has not been implemented.

And we wait anxiously for the day where God gives us our full rights as his kids, including the new bodies he's promised us.

I mean, I'm just going to say this.

I don't know if you can relate to this or not, but it would be really nice, after I work out, not to go home and go, oh, it'd be really nice to wake up in the morning and go, I don't have any pain.

Zero wouldn't it?

That's part of our redemption.

That's part of our promise.

That's part of our hope.

Stop getting so caught up in this world and everything that's happening here.

This is temporary.

Well, Dave, we got a bandage of the earth.

I don't want a bandaged earth.

I want the new earth.

I want the new heavens.

That's what it says in Isaiah, in Revelation and in Second Peter.

I want the new stuff.

I want the new body.

I want the promises of God fulfilled.

That's what Paul is encouraging his readers to focus in on.

We get so focused in on all these other things.

Remember, he just came off as saying, what we suffer now is nothing to be compared to the glory that we'll receive later.

He said that five verses earlier.

Wow.

Wow.

It's going to be new.

It's going to be happening.

It's going to be awesome sauce.

Because God has made that promise and you can't even imagine how great it's going to be.

Eye has not seen, neither has ear heard.

Neither has entered into the hearts of men the things which God has prepared for them.

You can't even figure it out in your own thought process.

But it's going to be phenomenal.

And it's the promise of God.

I guarantee anybody who's in their 60s going, oh, righty.

Liking that.

Right?

Even if you're in your 50s.

My son's in his 40s.

He's still looking, he's still thinking.

That is pretty good.

We know it's good.

That's our hope.

We want it to be fully realized.

It's given to us through Jesus Christ.

If you've not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, the time is right now because there might not be a tomorrow.

You say yes to Jesus.

You say, please, Jesus, forgive me my sins.

Please, Jesus, let me be a part of your kingdom.

Please, Jesus, remember me when you go into paradise.

Remember me, Jesus.

Get saved before it's too late.

Get me.

Don't be like those people that live with no hope.

Don't do it.

It's a bad place to be.

All right, back to the trivia question.

Before the Tower of Babel, how many different languages were in the world?

1, 12, 40 or 666?

And the answer is 1.

One common language until the Lord said, time to mess it up.

And so he did.

If it's not part of God building it, you probably can't count on it.

Get it.

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Now.

All right, here you go.

Here's your trivia question.

You think I'm crazy?

It's like, well, maybe.

Here we go.

In Matthew chapter 7, Jesus said, Ask and it will be what?

Matthew 7.

7.

Matthew 7 7.

Ask and it will be what?

What?

What will happen?

Matthew chapter 7, verse 7.

If you think you know, you can give us a call.

Not complex.

Matthew 7:7.

Jesus said, Ask and it will be what?

That's what you got to go with right there.

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Nice, happy cheery time, right?

There it is.

Okay, our trivia question, just so you can be aware of it.

Matthew 7:7.

Jesus said, Ask and it shall be.

And then you got to fill that in.

Matthew chapter 7:7.

We do have somebody on the line that's ready to answer the trivia question.

Let's send him on through Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Happy New Year, David.

It's Deborah.

Hi, Deborah.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Oh, I'm glad that you called.

All right.

Now, I know you are not going to guess this.

Cause you know this.

No, actually, I don't, but I'm gonna try.

I feel.

I feel confident that you will get this.

I do.

Okay.

Jesus said, ask and it will be given.

That is correct.

Yes.

Yes.

Ask and it will be given.

You.

Here's the most novel concept for Christians to realize.

Instead of praying and letting it dribble out of the side of our mouths, we could actually ask and believe he's going to respond.

Wouldn't that be phenomenal?

Ask, it'll be given.

She's like, ask me.

I'll take care of it.

Like, wow, we should have a little more faith then, huh?

All right, well, thank you.

And y'all have a Happy New Year, and I'm praying for you and Noel.

All right.

Thank you so much, Deborah.

God bless you.

God bless.

Bye bye.

Bye bye.

All right, so let's use this as our launching pad for what I want to share.

Okay, this is going to be very weird because this is not the norm.

For those that don't know the norm, this isn't it.

This show has been everything but normal.

But that part's normal.

We'll talk about that another time.

So I'm just letting you know what's taking place.

So I'm in prayer today, and we're going to finish this text because I'm going to.

I mean, what Paul says is just incredible and it fits with what's taking place.

And then I'm going to share with you exactly what happened.

So here's what Paul said.

Paul says in verse 24, now that we're saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom.

For if you already have something you don't need, you don't need to hope for it if you already have something.

But if we look forward to something we don't have yet, we must wait patiently and confidently.

Listen what he says.

If we're looking forward to something we don't have yet, we must wait patiently and confidently.

So there's two elements in that.

Patiently, which means it's not based on your timing or my timing, but on God's timing.

And confidently, which means that we actually believe for things, for the Lord to do things.

Wait, wait, wait.

Let's just use what we just talked about with Deborah to actually answer prayer.

Sometimes we throw up a prayer and we're just like, yeah, whatever.

I mean, if it happens, it happens.

The Lord doesn't like that and we shouldn't like that.

That's not what the Lord wants us to do.

The Lord does want us to have this sense of expectation.

In fact, throughout the passages, and there are multiple passages.

And if you have a short plug for the book, the Faith that Pleases God, it really talks about this at a greater length.

It's pretty simple.

You don't pray not expecting.

You pray with faith.

Jesus says, ask and you receive.

Knock or ask, it'll be given to you.

Knock and it shall be opened.

I mean, these are the things he's asking us to pursue him, to seek him, to ask him.

He says, up to now you've asked for nothing in my name.

Ask that you may receive, that your joy may be full.

That's why we pray in the name of Jesus.

Because Jesus said six times in the gospel of John between John 14, 15 and 16, ask in my name.

It's like, well, how would you not do that?

He told us to do that.

But sometimes when we pray, we don't expect it.

Sometimes when the church prays, it doesn't expect it.

They prayed for Peter's deliverance.

When it happened, they didn't believe it.

So I'm praying this morning and I'm praying.

I'll just tell you, I'm praying.

Started praying about 9:30.

I usually pray for 40 minutes or 45 minutes or whatever.

At 9:40, the Lord, I believe, whispered to me something.

But I don't believe it was for me.

I believe it was for the audience.

So I don't know how I'm yet going to transfer all this stuff.

But I already wrote it down.

So it's already in the marks or it's a memorial.

But I believe the Lord said, get ready to receive.

So when I'm praying, and if something like that happens, I can tell what's going on.

Because I have a train of thought in prayer.

I try to be listening when I'm praying, but I know what my thoughts are.

I know how they go.

I know how I get easily distracted by the enemy.

I know how some of the spiritual warfare goes.

I've been doing it for a while.

It's not new, but when that kind of thing happens, it.

It breaks the pattern of what I'm going through.

And whenever there's a broken pattern like that, I pay special attention.

Cause I.

Well, that was weird.

Cause I know it's different and it was just as clear as can be.

Get ready to receive now I already have this thing and you guys know to have this attitude, great things are coming.

The Lord gave me that a while while ago, and boy, was he right.

Right.

That was before radio.

12 years ago, more than 12 years ago.

But the Lord, the way that he said it, the way that it was communicated, like, it's in route, like, get ready to receive.

So now you have to understand, I'm going to finish my prayer.

So I do that.

I finish my prayers and finish what I want to review with the Lord and go over it.

And I'm spending that next hour.

So after my Bible and after my prayer, I'm spending that next hour in worship.

And I'm asking the Lord, and I asked him this question.

I want you to catch this.

This is so important.

I know I'm not doing everything I'm supposed to do for the Lord.

I know.

I don't think every thought that I'm supposed to think and say every word I'm supposed to say.

I mean, I already know that's going on.

Nobody has to explain that to me.

I'm well aware of my stupidities.

And there are plenty for those that are thinking, oh, spiritually.

He's got a radio show.

It's like, yeah, okay.

So I say to the Lord, because I want to embrace and I want to receive.

I want to have confidence.

Just like Paul says, we look forward to something we don't have.

We must wait patiently and with confidence.

And so I asked the Lord, what do you want of me?

Now, When I said it that way, I wasn't saying in the negative way.

Some people will say, lord, what do you want from me?

It wasn't like that.

It was, what do you want from me?

What do you want me to do?

How do you want me to be?

How do you want me to function?

How do you want me to respond?

Like, how do you want me to do this?

And he spoke again.

I was just amazed.

He said, I want you to believe.

So the first thing he says to me is, get ready to receive.

So I'm asking, what am I supposed to do to believe?

And you think, well, that's so simple.

I mean, that's all throughout the Bible.

Yeah, I know.

But when you personalize it, when you adapt dynamic application principle, it you have to recognize, I don't pray for me, I pray for us.

I do.

I know you think I'm crazy.

I pray for us, and I think that's for all of us.

We need to get ready to receive.

And the way that we need to get ready to receive is to believe.

I believe that's what the Lord wants from us.

Of course, I can easily back it up.

Scripturally, I understand all that.

But I'm talking about that dynamic.

I'm talking about God speaking.

I'm talking about rhema.

When Jesus said man should not live by every.

By bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, that reference is rhema.

That's not the logos, that's the rhema.

That's the spoken word.

And sometimes the Lord speaks to us, affirming things that he's taught us in His Word, gives us confirmation, affirmation.

It's not sign seeking.

It's just helping us keep going forward.

And I'm telling you, and I don't know how this is going to go or how it's going to break down.

I don't.

I'm clueless.

I'm telling you from the bottom of my heart, there's something coming from the Lord.

Is it his return?

I sure hope so.

Wouldn't that be the best of the best?

But the way the Lord was communicating it to me was just a really soft, simple voice.

Get ready to receive.

And then I'm asking him later on, it was probably an hour, probably an hour and a half later because I spent a lot of time in worship.

I was like, what do you want me to do?

I want you to believe.

I got to say, for a moment, I felt like a disciple because you know how many times Jesus said that to them?

I think something as great is coming.

I think we should be ready to receive.

I think to get ready, we need to believe.

I think that's for all of us.

Just going to leave that there.

I want you to think about the power of that.

If you wake up tomorrow and you say, I believe I'm ready to receive, how will that change your day?

How will that change your walk?

Here's my word to you.

Prophetic, I don't know from the Lord.

Definitely get ready to receive.

That's what I'd say.

Okay, we're going to leave that there.

I'm going to take a break and then come back.

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She thought he was a gardener, sir.

She said, if you have taken him away, tell me where you've put him and I will go and get him.

Mary, Jesus said, now you think three words.

Come on, Dave.

Mary, Jesus said, she turned to him and cried out, rabboni, which is Hebrew for teacher, or it doesn't matter if your translation says master, Rabbi doesn't care.

She said, mary, she.

She responded, master, Lord, you see, the resurrected Jesus Christ speaks the name of his sheep.

And Jesus knows your name.

My sheep.

Jesus said, know my voice.

And they hear me.

And you, we're going along in your journey.

Maybe you were young and you were in church.

Maybe you were young and somebody brought it to you.

Maybe you were the middle part of your life, maybe in the later part of your life.

But at some point Jesus said your name.

He said, david, Tierra, Tiffany, Noel, Joshua, Ashley.

At some point, he called your name.

The risen Messiah spoke your name to you.

You know what?

That's when you said, yes, Lord.

Yes, Master.

Yes, Rabboni.

It's the most powerful moment because it's the moment that the divine Messiah speaks to you and pulls you from one kingdom, the kingdom of darkness, into another kingdom, the kingdom of light.

It is the moment that changed everything.

And Billy Graham had a really good piece on it, said some people can really define that moment, some people can't.

Doesn't matter.

It happened for those.

That was kind of like a metamorphosis, but it happened.

And in the economy of God, it happens more specifically.

And maybe the person doesn't know the day.

I know my date.

But maybe the person doesn't know the date that he said yes to Jesus.

But there was a moment where Jesus called your name and you said yes.

And that was the beginning of your understanding of his depth of love.

Foreign welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at Kaam 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

That's Ka Men 770, the Truth Station here in Texas, where there's only about four minutes left of this show.

Remember, tomorrow is a replay.

Nobody will be in the studio.

We will be back on Friday, Thursday.

So don't get too upset about the whole thing.

But I want to just go back to what I was sharing with you and show you this very last verse of this teaching for today and just remind you what it says in Romans 8:25.

It says this.

Paul said, but if we look forward to something we don't have yet, we wait patiently and confidently.

That's the passage, the closing passage on this material that I'm teaching.

We look forward to something we don't have yet.

We must wait patiently and confidently.

And having the Lord share with me that thing.

And people are like, well, Would you say that what the Lord shared with you is as good as the Bible?

No.

And anybody who says so should be very weary of that person.

I do believe it's the Lord.

I'm going to approach it like it's the Lord.

But the word of God is the plumb line.

What we do in our show, we want to be spirit led but Bible grounded.

The Bible is the authority, period.

There's no if, ands or buts.

Does that mean God doesn't speak?

No, that's absurd.

Of course he speaks.

Have you looked up in the sky?

Scripture makes it clear in about four different psalms that God speaks every night in the sky.

Of course he's speaking.

Did he speak this to me?

I believe he did.

And I'm going to approach it as though he did the best I can.

So this approach.

Okay, get ready to receive.

Receive what?

I don't know.

You think, Dave, is that money?

I don't know.

I know what I want it to be, but that doesn't mean that's what I'm just going to before the Lord.

What I want it to be is a lot more of Him.

Let's just put it that way.

But the idea is get ready to receive.

And then what is it that I need to do?

I need to believe.

I need to be confident.

And I understand how this works, because being a Baptistal and just be honest with one another would be so much easier.

99% of all the people between all of the churches are Baptistal.

Look, it's not as crazy as some churches make it, but it's not as dry as other churches make it.

Got it.

I mean, how hard is that?

That's not hard.

But I am absolutely confident that the Lord wants his people to be expectant.

I don't think there's any question.

Nobody can say that that's not true.

It's specifically true in Scripture.

It's like, I think we need to have this attitude of being ready to receive.

To get ready to receive.

And on our part to get ready, we need to believe.

Does that mean we need to pray more?

Yes.

Does that mean we need to read our Bible more?

Yes.

Does that mean we need to fellowship more?

Yes.

All those things.

Every one of those things.

Every one of those things.

That would be accurate.

But I want you to be aware of something not because of the political landscape.

I know everybody's thinking, oh, it's just absurd.

It's God's landscaping, right?

The earth is his.

It's his footstool, so calm down.

But the idea behind this is straightforward.

We should be ready to receive.

And for our part, in order to be ready to receive, we need to believe.

Nobody's going to argue.

Hebrews 11:6.

Without faith, it's impossible to please God.

For those who come to God must believe that he is and and a rewarder of those who seek him.

By that scripture alone, I could stand with what was told to me.

But I'm just telling you it was told to me and I'm sharing it with you.

You figure out what to do with it.

I know what I'm going to do with it.

I'm going to use it to draw closer to the Lord.

Get ready to receive.

And on our part to get ready, we need to believe.

That's what we need to do.

Okay?

All right.

All right, folks, You've been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KWAM 770, the true station here in Texas.

Going to take a 46 and a half hour break.

Then we'll come back.

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Talk to you then.

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