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0:00The last words you speak before sleep
0:02are the first words your subconscious
0:04repeats all night.
0:06Say the wrong ones and you wake up
0:07defeated.
0:09Say these seven and you wake up already
0:12in position.
0:13>> [clears throat]
0:13>> Kenyon called this the quietest, most
0:16powerful moment of the believer's day
0:18and almost nobody uses it.
0:21Think about that.
0:22There is a window every single night,
0:25roughly 90 seconds long, where your
0:27spirit is louder than your circumstances
0:30and your mind has stopped arguing.
0:3290 seconds where the day has finally
0:35shut its mouth.
0:37And what do most believers do with it?
0:39They lie there and rehearse the
0:41argument. They replay the bill. They run
0:44the diagnosis through their head one
0:46more time.
0:47They fall asleep confessing fear.
0:50And then they wonder why they wake up at
0:526:00 in the morning already tired,
0:55already heavy, already losing.
0:58You have been fighting a battle in the
1:00daylight that was actually decided in
1:02the dark.
1:04There are seven words. They are not a
1:06mantra. They are not a trick. They are a
1:09legal statement lifted straight out of
1:12the new covenant.
1:13And when a man puts them on his tongue
1:15as the last thing he says before he
1:17loses consciousness,
1:19something begins to work in him that
1:21religion never told him existed.
1:24Kenyon knew it.
1:26He wrote about the hidden man of the
1:28heart, the part of you that never
1:30sleeps, the part that keeps working the
1:32whole night through on whatever you
1:34handed it last.
1:36Most people handed it a complaint.
1:39Tonight, you are going to hand it a
1:42covenant.
1:43Before we go one sentence further, do
1:46something for me.
1:47Type the word ready in the comments
1:49below. Just that one word.
1:52I want to know how many of you are done
1:54sleeping like an orphan in your father's
1:56house.
1:57Because here is the shock line, and I
1:59want you to sit with it.
2:01If you have been going to bed in fear
2:03for the last 10 years,
2:05you have not been sleeping.
2:07You have been rehearsing.
2:10Now, let me tell you exactly what you
2:12are going to walk away with.
2:14By the end of these next minutes, you
2:16will know the seven words. You will know
2:18why they work, and you will know it from
2:21the King James text, not from a feeling,
2:23and not from somebody's opinion.
2:26You will be able to open your Bible and
2:28put your finger on the verse and say,
2:30"There it is. That is my legal ground."
2:34You will know what actually happens
2:35inside a man between the hours of 11:00
2:37at night and 5:00 in the morning. Not
2:40the psychology of it, the spiritual
2:42mechanics of it.
2:44You will understand why the same problem
2:46that felt manageable at 2:00 in the
2:47afternoon feels like a mountain at 2:00
2:50in the morning.
2:51And you will know what to do about it in
2:53about 11 seconds.
2:55You will never again lie in the dark and
2:57let your imagination preach a sermon to
3:00you.
3:00You will preach to it instead.
3:03You are going to learn three exercises,
3:06not theories, exercises. Things you can
3:09do tonight, before you sleep tonight,
3:12with no book, no app, no candle, no
3:15music, and no special conditions.
3:18If you are lying in a hospital chair
3:20beside somebody you love, you can do
3:22them.
3:23>> [clears throat]
3:23>> If you're in a truck cab at a rest stop,
3:25you can do them.
3:26If you're in a marriage where you cannot
3:28say anything out loud without starting a
3:30war, you can do them silently, and they
3:33will still work.
3:35And I will tell you exactly why.
3:37And you are going to walk out of this
3:39teaching with something most believers
3:41never get in a lifetime of church
3:43attendance.
3:44Confidence in the dark.
3:46That is the phrase. Confidence in the
3:49dark.
3:50Anybody can have confidence at 11:00 on
3:52a Sunday morning with 400 people singing
3:55around him and a band [clears throat]
3:56behind him that costs nothing.
3:58The test of what you actually believe is
4:01not what you shout in a crowd. The test
4:03is what you say to yourself when the
4:05house is quiet and the lamp is off and
4:08there is nobody left to impress.
4:10What you say then is what you actually
4:13believe. Everything else is performance.
4:17This teaching answers four questions and
4:19I want you to hold them in your mind as
4:21we go.
4:22The first question.
4:24Why do my prayers feel strong in the day
4:26and weak at night?
4:28The second question.
4:30What is actually happening in my spirit
4:33while my body is asleep?
4:35The third question.
4:37What exactly are the seven words and why
4:40these seven and not some other seven?
4:43And the fourth question, which is the
4:44one that really matters.
4:46How do I make this a permanent habit so
4:49that six months from now I am a
4:51structurally different man?
4:53I'm going to answer all four flatly
4:56without hedging. But before I can build
4:59anything in you, I have to take
5:01something out. Because there is a lie
5:03sitting in the foundation of your life.
5:06And until we get it out, nothing I build
5:08on top of it will hold weight.
5:11So let me describe your condition and I
5:13want you to know something before I
5:15start.
5:16I am not describing you to shame you. I
5:19am describing you so that you know you
5:21have been seen and so that you stop
5:23thinking you are the only one.
5:26Here is your life.
5:28You pray. You pray sincerely. You pray
5:31with words you learned from people who
5:33prayed before you. And somewhere in the
5:35middle of it, a thought crosses your
5:37mind that you would never say out loud
5:39in a small group. The thought is I do
5:42not think this is doing anything.
5:45You push that thought down. You feel
5:47guilty for having it. You pray a little
5:50louder to cover it up, and you get up
5:52off your knees exactly as heavy as you
5:54were when you knelt down.
5:56You read your Bible.
5:58You read it in the morning because
6:00somebody told you the morning was
6:01better.
6:02You read three chapters, and by the time
6:04you have showered and gotten in the car,
6:06you could not tell me one thing you
6:08read, not one sentence. It went through
6:11you like water through a screen.
6:14So, you conclude that you are bad at
6:16this, that other people have some gift
6:18for it that you were not given.
6:20You make confessions.
6:22You heard a teaching somewhere about
6:24speaking the word, so you stood in your
6:26bathroom and you said, "I am healed. I
6:29am prosperous. I am more than a
6:32conqueror."
6:33And the whole time you were saying it,
6:35there was a second voice in the back of
6:37your head saying, "No, you are not. Look
6:40at your body. Look at your account. Look
6:42at your marriage."
6:44And after about 9 days, you quit because
6:47it felt like lying.
6:49It felt like a man in a hole shouting
6:51that he is on a mountain top.
6:53You have a Bible with underlining in the
6:55first third and nothing after that.
6:58You have a prayer list with names on it
7:00that have been there for 6 years.
7:02You have a moment, usually around 2:00
7:05or 3:00 in the morning, where you wake
7:07up for no reason at all, and within 4
7:09seconds, your mind has located the worst
7:12thing in your life and put it under a
7:14spotlight.
7:15Not the second worst, the worst.
7:18And you lie there in the dark, and you
7:20have a full conversation with the
7:22problem. You argue with people who are
7:25not in the room. You lose the argument,
7:28and then you fall back asleep somewhere
7:29near 4:00, and you wake up at 6:00
7:32feeling like you have been in a fight.
7:34You have been in a fight. You just did
7:36not know you were allowed to fight back.
7:39Now, here is where I'm going to say
7:41something that is going to cut across
7:43nearly everything you have been told.
7:45Your problem is not sin.
7:48I know that is where your mind went. It
7:51always goes there. When a believer's
7:53life is not working, the first thing
7:55tradition teaches him to do is go
7:57looking for a sin to blame it on.
8:00So, you comb through your week trying to
8:03find the offense that shut heaven.
8:05Maybe I lost my temper.
8:07Maybe I looked at something I should not
8:09have looked at.
8:10Maybe I have not been faithful enough
8:12with my giving.
8:14And so, you spend your spiritual life as
8:16an amateur detective investigating
8:19yourself.
8:20And you never once consider that the
8:22case was closed 2,000 years ago by a
8:25signature in blood.
8:27Your problem is not sincerity, either.
8:30Nobody is more sincere than a believer
8:32who is desperate.
8:34Sincerity is not your issue.
8:37There are sincere men lying awake
8:39tonight in the exact same condition you
8:41were in.
8:42Sincerity does not move a legal
8:44document.
8:45If a man loses his house because he
8:47never read the clauses on page four of
8:49his mortgage, his sincerity does not get
8:52the house back. He was sincere the
8:54entire time he was losing it. And your
8:57problem is certainly not that God has
9:00gone quiet.
9:01Let me be very direct with you. God is
9:04not silent. He is not in a mood. He is
9:07not turned his face. He is not
9:10withholding until you get your act
9:11together.
9:12Every one of those ideas came out of
9:14tradition. And tradition is a liar with
9:18a nice suit on.
9:20Here is what your problem actually is.
9:22You are ignorant of a legal reality.
9:26That is all. That is the whole thing.
9:28Not stupid, not rebellious, not unloved,
9:32ignorant.
9:34There is a document with your name on
9:36it. And there are rights inside that
9:38document, and nobody ever taught you how
9:41to read it.
9:42And so, you have been living beneath a
9:44standard that was purchased for you, and
9:46deeded to you, and legally transferred
9:49to your account before you were ever
9:51born.
9:52And here is the specific ignorance this
9:54teaching is going to destroy.
9:57You think your spirit sleeps when your
9:59body sleeps.
10:01It does not. It never has.
10:03Your body sleeps.
10:05Your reasoning mind, the part of you
10:08that argues and calculates and worries,
10:11that part finally lets go.
10:14But the hidden man of the heart, the
10:16recreated human spirit, the real you,
10:19does not shut down.
10:21He keeps working. He keeps holding. He
10:24keeps repeating.
10:26And whatever you hand him at the door of
10:27sleep, he works on all night long.
10:31Not in a mystical sense, in a functional
10:33sense.
10:34It is how you were built.
10:36Which means every night of your life,
10:39you have been assigning your spirit a
10:40task. Every single night, without
10:43knowing it.
10:45And most of you have been assigning him
10:47fear.
10:48You have been handing the strongest part
10:50of you a fear to meditate on for 8
10:52hours, and then acting surprised when
10:55you wake up believing the fear more than
10:57you did the night before.
10:59That is not a mystery. That is
11:01mathematics.
11:02Whatever a man's spirit rehearses in the
11:04dark becomes what his mouth defends in
11:07the light.
11:09The enemy does not need to defeat you.
11:12He just needs to be the last voice you
11:14agree with before you close your eyes.
11:16Once you see that, you cannot unsee it.
11:20And the church has largely lost this.
11:22We built entire ministries around what a
11:24man does at 9:00 in the morning, and we
11:27surrendered the most fertile 90 seconds
11:29of his day without a single sermon on
11:31it.
11:32Not tonight. Tonight, you take it back.
11:36Now, let us build this out of the book
11:39because I am not asking you to trust my
11:40experience. I am asking you to stand on
11:43a text.
11:45Open with me to 1 John chapter 4 verse
11:474.
11:48The Bible says, "Ye are of God, little
11:51children, and have overcome them because
11:54greater is he that is in you than he
11:57that is in the world."
11:59There it is. That is the sentence. Read
12:02the second half of it out loud right
12:04now, wherever you are.
12:06Greater is he that is in me.
12:09Count the words.
12:10Greater is he that is in me.
12:13Seven words. That is not a coincidence,
12:16and it is not a gimmick. That is the
12:19shortest complete statement of your
12:21covenant standing in the entire New
12:23Testament.
12:24Seven words that contain your identity,
12:27your resource, your location, and your
12:30legal advantage, all in one breath.
12:33And it is short enough that a man half
12:35asleep, with his eyes already closed,
12:37can still say it.
12:39Now, let me open the Greek for you
12:41because there is a word in that verse
12:43that has been flattened by 400 years of
12:46familiar reading.
12:47The word translated greater is the Greek
12:50word mazon.
12:52And in plain English, mazon does not
12:54mean nicer. It does not mean more
12:56spiritual.
12:58It is a comparative word of size, rank,
13:01capacity, and authority.
13:03It is the word you would use for a
13:05larger vessel against a smaller one, a
13:07higher officer against a lower one, a
13:10greater weight against a lesser weight.
13:13When John says, "Greater is he that is
13:15in you," he is not offering you comfort.
13:18He is filing a comparison of ranks.
13:21He is telling you that the one resident
13:23inside your spirit outranks, outweighs,
13:26and outsizes anything that is currently
13:29standing in your living room, your body,
13:31or your bank statement. You are not
13:34evenly matched with your problem. You
13:36never were.
13:37The fight was never fair. And it was
13:40never unfair in the direction you
13:42assumed.
13:43Now, hold that and go to 1 Peter chapter
13:463 verse 4.
13:48Peter is writing about adornment, and in
13:51the middle of it, he drops a phrase that
13:53Kenyon built half a lifetime on.
13:56The Bible says,
13:57"But let it be the hidden man of the
13:59heart, in that which is not corruptible,
14:02even the ornament of a meek and
14:04[clears throat] quiet spirit, which is
14:06in the sight of God of great price."
14:09The hidden man of the heart.
14:12Peter is telling you plainly that there
14:14is a man inside the man.
14:16There is a you that nobody has ever
14:19seen. Not your wife, not your mother,
14:22not the mirror.
14:23That hidden man is not corruptible,
14:26which means he is not subject to decay
14:28the way your body is.
14:30He does not age. He does not get tired
14:33at the end of a shift. He does not need
14:358 hours.
14:37He is the real you.
14:39And he is described as being of great
14:41price in the sight of God,
14:43which is legal language about value and
14:46worth.
14:47And that hidden man is awake right now.
14:50He will be awake tonight when the rest
14:52of you shuts down.
14:54Which brings us to a verse most
14:55believers have read 100 times and never
14:58once stopped on.
15:00Psalm chapter 16 verse 7.
15:03David writes, "I will bless the Lord who
15:06hath given me counsel.
15:08My reins also instruct me in the night
15:11seasons."
15:12Now, the word reins in the King James is
15:15the Old English word for the kidneys.
15:18And in Hebrew thought, the kidneys stood
15:20for the innermost, deepest, most hidden
15:23part of a man.
15:24It is the exact same idea Peter is
15:26reaching for. The part of you that sits
15:29underneath your reasoning.
15:31David is saying that the deepest part of
15:33him gives him instruction. And notice
15:36when.
15:38In the night seasons. Not in the morning
15:40devotional, in the night seasons.
15:43David had discovered that something in
15:45him keeps working after the lamps go
15:48out.
15:49He is telling you that the inward
15:51monitor speaks most clearly at the hour
15:53when your senses have finally stopped
15:56shouting.
15:57All day long your five senses are
15:59testifying. Your eyes are testifying.
16:02Your ears are testifying. Your bank app
16:05is testifying. And your spirit cannot
16:07get a word in edgewise.
16:10Then the house goes quiet.
16:12And suddenly the smallest voice in the
16:15building is the only voice in the
16:17building.
16:18That is why the enemy fights so hard for
16:21that hour.
16:22He knows that whoever gets the
16:24microphone at 11:00 at night gets the
16:26man.
16:28Now take Proverbs chapter 6 verses 21
16:31and 22.
16:33Solomon is speaking about the
16:34commandment and the law of his father.
16:37And he says,
16:38"Bind them continually upon thine heart,
16:41and tie them about thy neck. When thou
16:43goest, it shall lead thee.
16:46When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee.
16:48And when thou awakest, it shall talk
16:51with thee."
16:52Read that middle clause again.
16:55"When thou sleepest, it shall keep
16:57thee."
16:58The word you bind on your heart is
17:00described as a keeper while you sleep.
17:03Not a keeper that watches you from a
17:05distance.
17:06A keeper that is bound on, tied about
17:09the neck, attached.
17:11And then look at the last clause.
17:13"When thou awakest, it shall talk with
17:16thee."
17:17Whatever you bind on at night is the
17:19thing that will be speaking to you when
17:21your eyes open.
17:22So, the question is not whether
17:24something will be talking to you
17:25tomorrow morning. Something will.
17:28The only question is what you hired for
17:30the job tonight.
17:32And one more. Psalm 127 verse 2.
17:36The Bible says,
17:38"It is vain for you to rise up early, to
17:40sit up late, to eat the bread of
17:42sorrows,
17:44for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
17:47Eating the bread of sorrows.
17:50What a phrase that is.
17:52A man at midnight chewing on his
17:54troubles, feeding on them, turning them
17:57over and over in his mouth like a piece
17:59of gristle.
18:00And God calls it vain, which means
18:03empty, which means it produces nothing.
18:06You have eaten that bread. You have
18:09gotten up at 3:00 in the morning and
18:11served yourself a full plate of it. And
18:13by dawn, you will not $1 richer or 1°
18:17healthier for it.
18:19He giveth his beloved sleep. That is a
18:22covenant provision.
18:24Sleep is not simply a biological event.
18:27In the new covenant, it is a place of
18:29supply.
18:30Now, put all five of those together and
18:32see what you are holding.
18:34There is a hidden man in you who never
18:36sleeps. He instructs you in the night
18:39seasons.
18:40Whatever word you bind on him at night
18:42keeps you through the night and talks to
18:44you in the morning.
18:46And the one resident in that hidden man
18:48outranks everything arrayed against you.
18:51That is not inspiration. That is a legal
18:54brief.
18:55And it means the last sentence of your
18:57day is not a small thing.
19:00It is the most strategically important
19:02sentence you speak in a 24-hour period.
19:05And you have been throwing it away on
19:08weather reports and worry.
19:10Let me tell you a story.
19:12Slow down with me here, because this is
19:14the part I want you to still be thinking
19:16about next Tuesday.
19:18Picture a walled town in the dead of
19:20winter, somewhere in old Europe 400
19:23years ago.
19:25It sits on a low hill with a river on
19:27one side and forest on the other.
19:30It has one main gate banded in iron and
19:33a smaller postern gate on the north wall
19:35that only the watch uses.
19:38Around this town for 19 days an army has
19:41been camped.
19:43The town is starving.
19:45Not dramatically. Slowly.
19:48The kind of starving where the bread
19:49gets darker every week until one day it
19:52is not really bread anymore.
19:55The horses are gone. The dogs are gone.
19:59Children have stopped playing in the
20:00square because they do not have the
20:02energy for it.
20:03Every morning the men on the
20:05[clears throat] wall count the enemy
20:06campfires. And every morning there are
20:09more of them, not [clears throat] fewer.
20:11Inside the town there is a council of
20:14seven men and they have been arguing for
20:16six days about whether to open the gate.
20:19The argument is simple. If they
20:21surrender now, they can negotiate. If
20:24they wait until the wall is breached,
20:26there will be no negotiation.
20:28There will only be what soldiers do to a
20:30town that made them wait.
20:33And on the 19th night, with the vote
20:35scheduled for dawn, a rider comes.
20:38He comes alone in the dark from the
20:40north through country that no one
20:42thought was possible in that snow.
20:44He has ridden four days. His horse is
20:47finished.
20:49The watch on the postern gate almost
20:51kills him before they realize he is not
20:53one of theirs.
20:54They drag him in over the ice and he
20:56cannot stand and he cannot really speak
20:59and they carry him into the guardhouse
21:01and set him by the fire.
21:04And there is a man in that guardhouse.
21:06Let us call him the keeper of the north
21:09gate.
21:10He is 51 years old.
21:12He has buried a wife and two of his four
21:15children.
21:16He has been on that wall every night for
21:1819 nights.
21:20And he has stopped believing that
21:22anything is coming.
21:24The rider reaches inside his coat and
21:26pulls out a leather tube.
21:28And out of the tube, he takes a
21:30document. And the document has a seal on
21:32it. Wax, deep red, pressed with the sign
21:36of the sovereign whose lands these are.
21:39And he presses it into the keeper's
21:40hands. And he says four words before he
21:44loses consciousness.
21:45He says,
21:47"The relief is coming."
21:49Let me slow down on that seal, because
21:52the seal is the whole story.
21:55In that world, a seal was not
21:57decoration. A seal was jurisdiction.
22:01A man could not read, and it did not
22:03matter, because a man could recognize a
22:06seal.
22:07That pressed wax meant that the words
22:10above it were not the opinion of the man
22:12who carried them. They were the will of
22:14the man who pressed them.
22:16The rider had no authority at all. He
22:20was a body on a horse, but the thing
22:22inside his coat carried the full weight
22:24of a throne. And it carried that weight
22:27whether he was believed or not, whether
22:30he arrived warm or half dead, whether
22:33anybody in that guardhouse liked the
22:34look of him or not. That is important.
22:38The power was never in the messenger. It
22:41was in the wax. And the wax was red,
22:44because in that house, the sovereign
22:46sealed in red. Every order of relief he
22:49ever issued from the first year of his
22:51reign went out under red wax. Any
22:54officer in that country could have
22:56picked it up in a dark room and known by
22:58the color alone what he was holding. The
23:01keeper knew. He had seen that color
23:03before.
23:04He knew exactly what red wax meant.
23:08Now, here is where the story turns, and
23:10here is where I need you to pay
23:12attention.
23:14The keeper of the Northgate takes that
23:15document. He looks at it, and he does
23:18not read it.
23:20Why not?
23:21Not because he cannot. He can read. He
23:23is not a peasant. He is a gate officer.
23:26He does not read it because it is 3:00
23:28in the morning, and he is exhausted, and
23:31he has been disappointed 19 times.
23:34And somewhere in the last 2 weeks, a
23:37thing broke inside him that he cannot
23:39name.
23:40He looks at that red seal, and instead
23:43of hope, he feels a kind of irritation.
23:46Another promise.
23:48Another piece of paper from men who are
23:50warm tonight.
23:52So, he sets it on the table by the fire.
23:55He tells himself he will read it when it
23:56is light.
23:58He puts his head back against the stone
24:00wall of the guardhouse, and he closes
24:02his eyes.
24:03And the last thing he says to himself
24:05before he sleeps is this.
24:08It is over.
24:09We will open the gate at dawn.
24:12That is his last confession.
24:14It is over.
24:16We will open the gate at dawn.
24:19And he sleeps for 3 hours with the
24:21relief of the entire town lying face up
24:24on a table 20 in from his hand.
24:27At first light, the council meets.
24:30The keeper walks into that room carrying
24:32nothing.
24:33He does not mention the rider because in
24:36his mind, the rider does not matter.
24:39And the vote goes the way exhausted men
24:41vote.
24:42They open the gate. They surrender the
24:44town. They accept terms.
24:48Men are marched out. The storehouses are
24:50opened.
24:52It is all done by 11:00 in the morning.
24:55At 2:00 that afternoon, the relief
24:57column comes out of the tree line to the
24:59north.
25:0011 men, cavalry on the flanks, 4 days
25:04out from the capital, exactly as the
25:06document said.
25:07They came over the same country the
25:09rider came over.
25:11They arrived 3 hours too late to a town
25:13that had already opened its gate because
25:16the man holding the writ went to sleep
25:18on it.
25:19And here is the detail I want burned
25:22into you.
25:23That document was not a prediction. It
25:26was not encouragement. It was not a nice
25:29word from a distant king to keep morale
25:31up.
25:32It was an order of relief, signed and
25:35sealed, which meant that from the moment
25:37the seal was pressed, the town had a
25:40legal claim on that army.
25:42The relief did not become real when it
25:45came out of the trees at 2:00 in the
25:46afternoon.
25:48It became real when the seal went into
25:50the wax 4 days earlier in a warm room
25:53100 miles away.
25:56Everything after that was just the
25:57paperwork arriving in physical form.
26:01The town did not lose because help was
26:03not coming.
26:04The town lost because the man who was
26:06holding the proof that help was coming
26:09fell asleep saying, "It is over now."
26:12I want you to see the object, not the
26:15army, not the war.
26:17The document sealed in red wax lying on
26:20a table by a fire with a man asleep next
26:23to it.
26:24That is the picture.
26:26Hold it because you are that man.
26:30You are that man
26:31>> [clears throat]
26:31>> and you are holding a weapon you do not
26:33know how to use.
26:35You have the document. You have it right
26:37now.
26:38It is in the drawer beside your bed or
26:41it is on a shelf in your living room
26:43under a stack of mail
26:44or it is on your phone in an app you
26:47opened twice in March.
26:49And it is not a prediction. And it is
26:52not encouragement. It is a sealed legal
26:55instrument, and the seal was not pressed
26:57in wax.
26:59The Bible says it was pressed in blood.
27:02And for 19 nights, or 19 months, or 19
27:06years, you have been laying it on the
27:08table and going to sleep saying, "It is
27:11over."
27:12You have said, "I do not see a way out
27:14of this."
27:15You have said, "This marriage is
27:17finished." You have said, "My body is
27:20just going to be like this now." You
27:22have said, "I am too old. I am too far
27:25behind. I missed my window."
27:28Those are your last confessions.
27:31That is what you have been handing the
27:33hidden man of the heart at 3:00 in the
27:35morning.
27:36And then you wake up and you vote to
27:38open the gate, and you call it being
27:40realistic, and you have no idea that 3
27:44hours out from your position, there is a
27:46provision already dispatched with your
27:48name on the order.
27:50Do you understand what I am telling you?
27:53Every time you go to sleep agreeing with
27:55the siege, you are not being humble. You
27:58are not being sober. You are functioning
28:01as a gate officer who will not read his
28:03own relief order.
28:05And notice something else about that
28:06keeper.
28:07Nobody in that town ever blamed him.
28:10They never even knew.
28:12He died an old man, and people spoke
28:15well of him at his funeral.
28:16He lost the town, and it cost him
28:19nothing socially.
28:20And that is exactly how this works with
28:23you.
28:24Nobody at your church is going to
28:25confront you about what you say to
28:27yourself at 11:40 at night.
28:29There is no accountability group for
28:31your final sentence of the day.
28:33The most costly words you speak are the
28:36ones nobody will ever hear,
28:38which is why nobody has ever corrected
28:40them until tonight.
28:43Tonight, somebody is finally telling you
28:46what is on the table by the fire.
28:48And tonight, before you sleep, you are
28:50going to pick it up, and you are going
28:52to break the seal, and you are going to
28:54read the seven words out loud in the
28:57dark.
28:58Greater is he that is in me.
29:01That is the writ.
29:03That is the relief order. That is the
29:06sentence that says the fight is not
29:08even.
29:09The odds are not what the campfire
29:11suggests, and there is a column already
29:13moving through the trees.
29:16Now, let me show you where that seal
29:17came from, because a document is only as
29:20good as the authority behind it.
29:23There was a night in a garden where a
29:24man knelt down and made a decision on
29:27your behalf.
29:28And what happened over the following 18
29:30hours was not primarily an emotional
29:33event. It was a legal transaction.
29:37Kenyon called it the great exchange, and
29:40until you see it as an exchange, you
29:42will keep treating the cross as a rescue
29:44from punishment and nothing more. And
29:46you will keep living like a pardoned
29:48criminal instead of a seated son.
29:52An exchange means two things move.
29:55Something leaves, and something arrives.
29:58If only one thing moves, it is a gift or
30:01a theft. It is not an exchange.
30:04And the new covenant is built on the
30:06fact that two things moved. Hear what
30:09Paul writes in 2 Corinthians chapter 5
30:11verse 21.
30:13For he hath made him to be sin for us,
30:16who knew no sin,
30:17that we might be made the righteousness
30:19of God in him.
30:22Read the traffic in that verse. Sin went
30:25one direction. Righteousness came the
30:27other.
30:28He took the thing that legally
30:29disqualified you, and he was made it.
30:33Not treated as it, made it. And in
30:35exchange, you were made the
30:37righteousness of God in him. Not
30:40declared slightly better, made
30:42righteousness. Those are the two
30:45heaviest words in your Bible and they
30:47are sitting in the same sentence and
30:49they traded places.
30:51Now, I want you to run that through your
30:53whole life because Paul did not intend
30:55it to stay theological.
30:57Your sin went to him. His righteousness
31:01came to you. That is the first pair.
31:04Your spiritual death, the thing you
31:06inherited from Adam, the thing that made
31:08you an outsider by nature, went to him.
31:12His life, the God kind of life, came to
31:15you. Second pair. Your sickness went to
31:18him.
31:20Isaiah chapter 53 verse 5 says, "But he
31:23was wounded for our transgressions. He
31:26was bruised for our iniquities. The
31:28chastisement of our peace was upon him
31:31and with his stripes we are healed."
31:34His health came to you.
31:36Third pair. Your poverty went to him.
31:40Second Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9
31:42says, "For ye know the grace of our Lord
31:45Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
31:48yet for your sakes he became poor that
31:50ye through his poverty might be rich."
31:53His sufficiency came to you.
31:56Fourth pair. Your weakness went to him.
32:00His strength came to you.
32:02Fifth pair. Your shame went to him. His
32:05glory came to you.
32:07Sixth pair. And this is the one nobody
32:10preaches. Your orphan status went to
32:13him.
32:14On that cross he cried, "My God, my God,
32:18why hast thou forsaken me?"
32:20And he was made an orphan in that moment
32:23so that you would never be one again.
32:26His sonship came to you.
32:29Seventh pair. Seven exchanges. Seven
32:32words. Greater is he that is in me.
32:36Now, here is what I need you to
32:38understand about the timing, because the
32:40timing is where most believers get
32:43robbed.
32:44Not one of those exchanges is scheduled
32:46for later.
32:48That is the great theft of religious
32:50tradition.
32:51Tradition takes everything that was
32:53legally deposited at the cross and
32:56postpones it to heaven.
32:58Tradition says, you will be righteous
33:00when you die. You will be whole when you
33:03die. You will be free from want when you
33:06die.
33:07And so, the believer spends his entire
33:09earthly life as a man with a full
33:11account who has been told the bank does
33:14not open until after his funeral.
33:17Read the tense in your Bible.
33:20That we might be made the righteousness
33:22of God in him. Made.
33:25With his stripes we are healed. Are.
33:29That ye through his poverty might be
33:31rich. Might be. Right now. Not might
33:35have been. Not [clears throat] will
33:37someday be. The New Testament is written
33:40in a tense that tradition cannot afford,
33:42which is why tradition preachers around
33:44it.
33:45So, let me tell you what legally changed
33:48in your identity the moment you
33:50believed.
33:51You did not become a better sinner.
33:54You became a new species.
33:57Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17
34:00says,
34:01Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he
34:04is a new creature. Old things are passed
34:07away. Behold, all things are become new.
34:11That word creature is the word for
34:13creation. A new creation. Something that
34:17did not exist before.
34:19God did not renovate you. He did not put
34:21a new roof on a condemned house. He
34:24recreated your human spirit from the
34:27inside out.
34:29You did not get put on probation. You
34:31got adopted with full legal standing.
34:35Romans chapter 8 verse 15 says, "For ye
34:38have not received the spirit of bondage
34:40again to fear, but ye have received the
34:43spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
34:46'Abba, Father.'"
34:48Adoption in the Roman world was a court
34:50proceeding.
34:52It was witnessed. It transferred name,
34:54inheritance, and debt. An adopted Roman
34:57son could not be unadopted. That is the
35:01word the Holy Spirit chose.
35:03And you did not receive a visitor, you
35:05received a resident. That is the whole
35:08basis of the seven words, "Greater is he
35:11that is in you." Not near you, not
35:15watching over you from a comfortable
35:16distance, in you.
35:19The same one who spoke and the sea
35:21flattened out and the fever left the boy
35:23and the dead man came out walking, took
35:26up permanent residence in the hidden man
35:28of your heart. And he does not check out
35:31at night.
35:32Now, map the story onto this and watch
35:35it lock into place.
35:37The document by the fire is the new
35:39covenant. The red seal is the blood. The
35:42distant sovereign is the father, and he
35:45is not distant at all that the keeper
35:47thought he was, and that thinking is
35:49what cost the town.
35:51The siege is your circumstance. The 19
35:54nights are the years you have been going
35:56to bed defeated. The relief column
35:59already moving through the trees is the
36:01finished work, which was completed
36:03before your problem ever started. And
36:06the exhausted man asleep on the table is
36:08you. And you are 3 hours from the tree
36:12line and nobody has told you.
36:15Understand what this means. You are not
36:17fighting for a victory. You are
36:19enforcing one.
36:21There is an enormous difference, and the
36:23difference will show up on on face.
36:26A man fighting for a victory is
36:28desperate. His voice goes up. He
36:31negotiates. He tries harder every year
36:34and gets tired every year.
36:37A man enforcing a victory is calm. He
36:40has a document. He is not asking. He is
36:43informing.
36:44His voice comes down, not up, because
36:47volume is what men use when they do not
36:49have authority.
36:51Stop begging. Start [clears throat]
36:53enforcing.
36:54Stop pleading for what has already been
36:56signed over. Start announcing it. And do
37:00it at the 1 hour of the day when nothing
37:02else is competing for the microphone.
37:04So, why are you not doing it already?
37:07Because there is an enemy of this truth,
37:10and I want to name him precisely.
37:12Because a vague enemy cannot be
37:14resisted.
37:15The first enemy is religious tradition.
37:18Jesus said it himself in Mark chapter 7
37:21verse 13. He said, "Tradition makes the
37:24word of God of none effect through your
37:27tradition, which ye have delivered."
37:30Read that.
37:31Tradition does not attack the word. It
37:33does not have to.
37:35It simply renders it inoperative. The
37:37way a document is rendered inoperative
37:40when it is filed in the wrong drawer for
37:42100 years.
37:43The verse is still in your Bible. It
37:46just does not do anything in your life.
37:48That is tradition's entire job.
37:52And tradition's favorite tool against
37:54you is false humility.
37:56Let me be very direct here.
37:59There is a spirit in the modern church
38:01that has convinced sincere men that
38:03self-contempt is a virtue.
38:06That a man who calls himself worthless
38:08is being humble. And a man who calls
38:10himself righteous is being arrogant. And
38:13so believers compete quietly over who
38:16can think the least of himself.
38:18And they call that reverence.
38:21It is not reverence. It is unbelief with
38:24good manners.
38:26If God says you are righteous, it is not
38:28humility to call yourself a miserable
38:30sinner.
38:31It is rebellion.
38:33You are taking a document signed by the
38:35sovereign and writing across the front
38:37of it in your own handwriting, "I do not
38:40accept these terms."
38:42That is not lowliness. That is a refusal
38:45to sign.
38:47Real humility is agreement.
38:50Humility is a man saying, "I did not
38:52earn one inch of this, and I'm going to
38:55take every inch of it because the one
38:57who paid for it told me to."
39:00The second enemy is sense knowledge.
39:03This is Kenyon's phrase, and it is worth
39:0510,000 sermons.
39:08Sense knowledge is knowledge that comes
39:10to you through the five senses. What you
39:12can see, hear, taste, touch, and smell.
39:17It is not evil. You need it. You would
39:19walk into traffic without it.
39:21But sense knowledge has one fatal
39:24limitation.
39:25It can only report on the visible.
39:28And your covenant is not visible.
39:30So, when your eyes look at the campfires
39:32and count more of them than yesterday,
39:35sense knowledge files a report, and the
39:37report is accurate. And the report is
39:40irrelevant.
39:42The relief column is not in the report
39:44because the relief column is in the
39:46trees.
39:47Sense knowledge cannot see the trees.
39:50And here is the trap.
39:52When a man makes his decisions off sense
39:55knowledge alone, he will always, every
39:57single time, vote to open the gate.
40:01Revelation knowledge is different.
40:04Revelation knowledge is what your spirit
40:06knows because God said it, whether or
40:08not one single sense confirms it.
40:11And the reason night is so powerful is
40:14that at night, in the dark, with your
40:16eyes closed, sense knowledge is finally
40:19at its weakest position of the entire
40:21day.
40:23You cannot see the bills at 11:40. You
40:25cannot see your reflection.
40:27The senses are off duty. That is the
40:30hour when revelation knowledge can get a
40:33clean word in without being shouted
40:35down.
40:36The devil knows that, which is why he
40:38works the night shift.
40:40The third enemy is what I call the worm
40:43of the dust mentality.
40:45It is the man who has been taught to
40:47approach God the way a serf approaches a
40:49lord who might be in a bad mood.
40:52Hat in hand, backing out of the room,
40:54apologizing for existing.
40:57That man will never speak a bold word in
41:00the dark because he does not believe he
41:02has standing to speak at all.
41:04He believes prayer is a request
41:06submitted to a busy office, and he is
41:09grateful when it is acknowledged.
41:11Hebrews chapter 4 verse 16 says,
41:14"Let us therefore come boldly unto the
41:17throne of grace, that we may obtain
41:19mercy, and find grace to help in time of
41:22need."
41:23Boldly. That is a legal word about a
41:26right of access. You are not sneaking
41:29in. You are on the list.
41:32The fourth enemy is the beggar
41:34mentality, which is what the worm
41:36mentality produces in practice. A beggar
41:39asks. A son enforces.
41:42A beggar hopes he catches somebody in a
41:44generous mood. A son knows the terms.
41:48And there are believers who have been
41:50begging for 30 years for something that
41:52was deeded to them in year one. And they
41:54call that persistence, and heaven calls
41:57it a filing error.
41:59And underneath all four of them sits the
42:02root, sin consciousness.
42:05Sin consciousness is a permanent
42:07low-grade awareness of unworthiness that
42:09follows a man into every prayer he
42:11prays.
42:13It is the reason your confession felt
42:14like lying. It is the reason you cannot
42:17say, "I am healed." without a second
42:19voice starting up.
42:21You were not fighting doubt about God.
42:24You were fighting doubt about your
42:25standing.
42:26And a man who is unsure of his standing
42:29will never enforce a document because in
42:31the back of his mind, he is not certain
42:34the document is really his.
42:36Righteousness consciousness is the cure.
42:39And it is not arrogance. It is accuracy.
42:42Now, who benefits from your ignorance?
42:45Not God. Let us kill that idea
42:48immediately.
42:49God does not gain anything from you
42:52living beneath your covenant. There is
42:54nothing in it for him. He gets no glory
42:57from a son in rags.
42:59The one who benefits is the one who is
43:01currently occupying territory that does
43:03not belong to him.
43:05He benefits every single night that you
43:07go to sleep agreeing with the siege.
43:10He does not need to break your wall. He
43:13needs your last sentence.
43:15And the tragedy is that he cannot make
43:18you say it.
43:19He can only suggest it.
43:21He can put the thought in the room.
43:23You are the one who has to put it in
43:25your mouth.
43:27Now, let me answer the three objections
43:29that are already forming in you because
43:31I know exactly what they are.
43:33The first one is this. You are thinking,
43:36"But I do not feel it."
43:38You are lying there and you say,
43:40"Greater is he that is in me." And you
43:43feel absolutely nothing. No warmth, no
43:46electricity, no sense of presence.
43:49Just a tired man in a dark room saying
43:52words to a ceiling.
43:54Good. That is exactly right. Here is
43:57why.
43:58Feeling is a sense knowledge product.
44:01Feeling reports on the visible and the
44:03physical. You are making a statement
44:05about the invisible and the legal.
44:08Asking your feelings to confirm your
44:10covenant is like asking a thermometer to
44:12tell you whether you own your house. It
44:15is a fine instrument. It is measuring
44:17the wrong thing.
44:19The Bible says in 2 Corinthians chapter
44:215 verse 7, "For we walk by faith, not by
44:25sight."
44:26Walk means normal daily operation. Your
44:29normal daily operation is not supposed
44:32to be governed by what registers on your
44:33senses.
44:35And notice that faith comes first in the
44:37sentence and sight comes second, which
44:39is the order God intends and the exact
44:42reverse of how you have been living.
44:45Feeling is not the entrance to this.
44:47Feeling is the caboose.
44:50It shows up eventually and it shows up
44:52last and it shows up only for people who
44:55kept speaking when it was not there.
44:58The second objection.
44:59>> [clears throat]
44:59>> You are thinking, "But I tried this and
45:02it did not work."
45:04Let me tell you what you actually tried.
45:06You tried it for 9 days in a bathroom
45:08mirror in a state of emotional crisis
45:11while simultaneously rehearsing the
45:13opposite for the other 15 waking hours.
45:16That is not a failed experiment. That is
45:19an experiment that was never run.
45:22Here is the honest question.
45:24When you tried it, were you saying the
45:26words to change your circumstances or
45:29were you saying them because they were
45:31already true?
45:33Because those are two entirely different
45:35acts.
45:36The first one is a man using a Bible
45:38verse as a lever to move a boulder.
45:41When the boulder does not move, he
45:43concludes the verse is weak.
45:45The second one is a man stating a fact
45:48about his position.
45:50He is not moving anything.
45:52He is standing on something.
45:55And there is a third possibility, which
45:57is harder to hear.
45:59It may have started working and you quit
46:01before you could see it because you were
46:03watching your circumstances for
46:05confirmation instead of watching your
46:07own inner man for confirmation.
46:10The first thing that changes is never
46:12the mountain.
46:13The first thing that changes is the man.
46:17And if you are not watching the man, you
46:19will miss the only evidence that was
46:20available in week one.
46:23The third objection.
46:25You were thinking,
46:26"Is this not arrogant?" Ask it plainly.
46:29Is it not arrogant for a man to walk
46:31around saying, "Greater is he that is in
46:34me?"
46:35Read the sentence again, slowly.
46:37Greater is he, not greater am I.
46:42He, the entire statement is a confession
46:45about somebody else who happens to be
46:47living in you.
46:48There is not one syllable of
46:50self-promotion in it.
46:52You are not claiming to be greater than
46:53your problem. You are announcing your
46:56tenant. Arrogance would be saying, "I am
46:59strong enough for this."
47:01Humility says,
47:03"He is, and he is in me, and I did not
47:07put him there."
47:08And I will go further.
47:10It is not arrogance that offends heaven.
47:13It is the false modesty of a son who was
47:15handed an estate and insists on
47:17describing himself as homeless.
47:20That does not honor the one who bought
47:22it. It insults him.
47:24Every time you say, "I am nothing," you
47:27are telling the world that what he paid
47:29produced nothing.
47:31So, drop the objections. All three of
47:34them are just sense knowledge wearing a
47:36theological coat.
47:38Now, let me give you the practical work.
47:41There are three exercises, three, not
47:4330. And every one of them can be done
47:46tonight in the bed you already own with
47:49nothing added.
47:50The first exercise is this. I call it
47:54the last word.
47:55Here is the definition.
47:57The last word is the discipline of
47:59making the final complete sentence you
48:01speak in a day a covenant statement
48:04rather than a status report.
48:06Not the final thought.
48:08You cannot control your final thought.
48:11Your mind will do what it does as it
48:13drifts.
48:14But you can absolutely control your
48:17final spoken sentence
48:19because speech is voluntary and your
48:21tongue answers to your will.
48:24The scripture is Proverbs chapter 18
48:26verse 21.
48:28Death and life are in the power of the
48:30tongue
48:31and they that love it shall eat the
48:33fruit thereof.
48:35Notice the word fruit.
48:37Fruit is not immediate. Fruit is
48:40agricultural.
48:41There is a delay built into the verse
48:44and that delay is precisely where most
48:46believers quit.
48:48Why does it work?
48:50Because the last spoken sentence is the
48:52one your inward man is still holding
48:54when your reasoning mind releases
48:56control.
48:57All day long your intellect stands
49:00between your spirit and your words like
49:02a lawyer objecting to everything.
49:04At the edge of sleep that lawyer sits
49:07down. The sentence goes straight
49:09through.
49:10That is why one sentence at 11:40 at
49:13night does more work than 40 minutes of
49:16anxious prayer at 2:00 in the afternoon.
49:19Here is the common mistake and almost
49:21everyone makes it.
49:23Men treat the last word as a summary of
49:26the day.
49:27They lie down and they narrate.
49:29Well Lord, it was a hard one. The truck
49:32is making that noise again.
49:34I do not know how we are going to do
49:35this.
49:37And they call that honesty and they call
49:39it prayer and it is neither.
49:42It is a status report filed with the
49:44wrong department.
49:46God already has the report. He does not
49:48need your intelligence briefing. He
49:51needs your agreement.
49:53Your last word is not a description of
49:55where you are. It is a declaration of
49:57what you are.
49:59And there is a second mistake, quieter
50:02than the first.
50:03Men wait for a good night to start.
50:06They think,
50:07"I will begin this on a night when I'm
50:09not so upset, when the day has gone
50:11reasonably well, when I'm in a better
50:13frame of mind."
50:15That is exactly backwards.
50:18The nights you least want to say it are
50:20the nights it does the most work.
50:22Because those are the nights your spirit
50:24is being handed the worst material.
50:27A man who only confesses the covenant on
50:29easy nights has built nothing.
50:32He has a hobby.
50:33The man who says it through his teeth on
50:35the worst night of his year is the man
50:38who wakes up different in March.
50:41There is a third mistake as well, and it
50:43is the mistake of volume.
50:46Men think intensity is faith, so they
50:49get loud, and they strain, and they try
50:51to force the words to feel powerful.
50:54Stop.
50:55You are not persuading God, and you are
50:58not persuading the devil.
51:00You are stating a fact in your own
51:02house.
51:03A judge does not shout the verdict. He
51:06reads it.
51:07Calm is the sound of authority.
51:10And your spirit can tell the difference
51:12between a man who is declaring and a man
51:14who is pleading with extra effort.
51:17So, here is your concrete instruction,
51:20and you can obey it in the next 12
51:21hours.
51:23Tonight, when you are already lying
51:25down, already in the dark, already done
51:28with everything else,
51:30say these seven words out loud.
51:33Greater is he that is in me.
51:36Say them once, clearly, at
51:38conversational volume.
51:40Not a whisper, not a shout.
51:42The volume you would use to tell
51:44somebody in the room that the door is
51:45locked.
51:47Then, say nothing else.
51:49Do not add a prayer to it. Do not
51:51qualify it. Do not say, "And Lord,
51:54please help me with."
51:56The moment you add a request, you have
51:58converted a declaration into a petition,
52:01and you have moved yourself from the
52:03position of a son to the position of a
52:05beggar.
52:06Say the seven words, close your mouth,
52:09and go to sleep.
52:11If your spouse is asleep beside you, say
52:14it under your breath, with your lips
52:15moving. Lip movement is enough.
52:18The requirement is that your own ear
52:21hears your own voice.
52:23Because Romans chapter 10 verse 17 says,
52:26"So then faith cometh by hearing, and
52:29hearing by the word of God."
52:31Your ear was designed to feed your
52:33spirit, and your own voice is the most
52:36trusted voice your spirit will ever
52:38hear.
52:39That is the first exercise.
52:42Do it tonight, and do it for 30 nights.
52:45The second exercise is this.
52:47I call it the midnight watch.
52:50Here is the definition.
52:52The midnight watch is a pre-decided
52:54response to the moment you wake in the
52:56night, so that the decision is made
52:59before the moment arrives.
53:01Because you will wake up, not every
53:03night, but often.
53:05And the pattern is always the same.
53:07Your eyes open at 2:00 or 3:00.
53:10Within 4 seconds, your mind locates the
53:12worst thing in your life and puts a
53:14spotlight on it.
53:16And then, you lie there for 40 minutes,
53:19losing an argument with a person who is
53:21not in the room.
53:22The scripture is Psalm chapter 63 verse
53:256.
53:26David says,
53:28"When I remember thee upon my bed, and
53:30meditate on thee in the night watches."
53:33He named it night watches.
53:36He had a plan for that hour.
53:38So did the keeper of the north gate, and
53:40his plan was to go back to sleep,
53:42saying, "It is over."
53:44And it cost him the town.
53:47Why does it work?
53:48Because the mind cannot hold two
53:50meditations at once. It is not built for
53:53it.
53:54The reason you lose the 3:00 in the
53:56morning argument is not that the
53:57argument is strong. It is that it is
54:00unopposed. You are not fighting it. You
54:03are hosting it.
54:05The moment you introduce a competing
54:06sentence and repeat it, the fear loop
54:09breaks. Not because you argued it down,
54:12but because you starved it.
54:14Fear runs on rehearsal.
54:17Cut the rehearsal, and it has no fuel.
54:20The common mistake here is trying to
54:22solve the problem at 3:00 in the
54:23morning.
54:24You wake up and you think, "Well, since
54:27I am awake, let me figure out the
54:28mortgage."
54:30Do not ever make a decision, run a
54:32number, or draft a conversation between
54:35the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 in the
54:36morning.
54:38Your reasoning is running at partial
54:40power, and your senses are reporting in
54:42the dark,
54:43which means every conclusion you reach
54:45will be catastrophic.
54:47Men have quit marriages at 3:00 in the
54:49morning that they would have fought for
54:51at 9:00.
54:52Men have accepted a diagnosis as a life
54:55sentence at 3:00 in the morning that
54:57they would have challenged at 9:00.
54:59Your assignment at 3:00 in the morning
55:01is not to solve. It is to occupy.
55:05So, here is your concrete instruction.
55:08Decide right now, while you are calm,
55:11what you will do the next time you wake
55:13in the dark.
55:15And here is the decision.
55:17The instant your eyes open, before you
55:20check the time, before you look at your
55:21phone, you say the seven words, "Greater
55:25is he that is in me."
55:28And then, you say them again and again,
55:30slowly, in rhythm with your breathing,
55:33until you either fall asleep, or you
55:35notice that the spotlight has moved off
55:38the problem.
55:39Do not check the clock.
55:41Checking the clock is how the enemy
55:43starts the math.
55:45It is 3:11. I have to be up at 6:00.
55:48That is 2 hours and 49 minutes. I am
55:51going to be wrecked tomorrow.
55:54Now, you are not fighting one problem.
55:56You are fighting two, and one of them
55:58you invented.
56:00Seven words. Repeat. That is the whole
56:04watch.
56:05And let me answer the question you are
56:07already asking, which is What if I fall
56:09asleep in the middle of saying it?
56:12Then, you have done it perfectly. That
56:14is the ideal outcome.
56:16A man who falls asleep with a covenant
56:18sentence half finished in his mouth has
56:21handed his spirit exactly the right
56:23assignment. You are not being graded on
56:25completion.
56:27There is one more mistake here, and it
56:29is the mistake of self-condemnation.
56:32>> [clears throat]
56:32>> You will wake up some night, and you
56:34will lie there for 25 minutes in the old
56:36loop before you even remember there was
56:38a plan.
56:40And then, you will remember, and the
56:42first thing that will rise up is disgust
56:44with yourself.
56:45I cannot even do this right. Cut that
56:48off immediately. That is sin
56:50consciousness trying to get back in
56:52through the side door.
56:54The correct response is not repentance.
56:56It is repetition.
56:58You simply start the seven words from
57:00wherever you are, 25 minutes late, and
57:03it works exactly as well as if you had
57:04started on time.
57:06The covenant does not have a punctuality
57:08clause.
57:09And here is why that matters more than
57:11it sounds.
57:13The men who fail at this do not fail
57:15because they missed nights. Every man
57:17misses nights.
57:19They fail because they use the missed
57:21nights as evidence that they are not the
57:23kind of person who can do this.
57:25Miss a night. Miss four. Start again on
57:28the fifth without a speech about it.
57:30Consistency over 90 days is built out of
57:33restarts, not out of a perfect record.
57:37The third exercise is this. I call it
57:40the morning seal.
57:42Here is the definition.
57:44The morning seal is the deliberate act
57:46of speaking before you are spoken to.
57:49Because there is a window in the
57:50morning, roughly the first 90 seconds
57:53after you wake, where you are unusually
57:56open.
57:57Every advertiser on earth knows this.
58:00Which is why the first thing your phone
58:01does is show you something designed to
58:03produce a feeling.
58:05And most believers surrender that window
58:07before both feet are on the floor.
58:10The scripture is the one we read
58:12earlier, Proverbs chapter 6, verse 22.
58:15And when thou awakest, it shall talk
58:18with thee.
58:19Something is going to talk to you when
58:21you wake. That is not optional. The only
58:24variable is who gets to go first.
58:28Why does it work?
58:30Because whatever is confessed in the
58:31first 90 seconds sets the interpretive
58:34frame for the entire day.
58:36Not your mood, your frame. The lens
58:39through which every event of that day is
58:41read.
58:42The same email lands entirely
58:44differently on a man who woke up saying,
58:47"Greater is he that is in me." than on a
58:49man who woke up scrolling.
58:52Same email, two different men receiving
58:54it.
58:55The common mistake is reaching for the
58:57phone.
58:58I'm going to be blunt with you. If the
59:00first voice you hear in the morning is
59:02an algorithm, you have subcontracted
59:05your frame to a machine that does not
59:07know your name and does not have your
59:09interests in view.
59:11That is not a moral failure. It is a
59:13tactical one. But you will pay for it by
59:1510:00 in the morning.
59:17The second common mistake is waiting
59:19until you feel spiritual enough to
59:21speak. You will never feel spiritual at
59:246:00 in the morning. Nobody does. Your
59:27feelings are not invited to this. Speak
59:30first and let them catch up whenever
59:32they get around to it. So, here is your
59:34concrete instruction, and you can obey
59:36it tomorrow. Before your feet touch the
59:39floor, while you are still horizontal,
59:42put your hand flat on your chest and say
59:44the seven words out loud. Greater is he
59:48that is in me.
59:49The hand matters, and I will tell you
59:51why. It is not superstition, it is
59:54location.
59:56It teaches your mind to stop pointing
59:58outward at the sky and start pointing
1:00:00inward at the residence.
1:00:03You are not addressing a distant
1:00:04sovereign 100 miles away.
1:00:06You are acknowledging a tenant who was
1:00:08in the house all night.
1:00:10Then, and only then, put your feet on
1:00:13the floor.
1:00:14Then, get your phone.
1:00:17And there is one more mistake worth
1:00:18naming because it will cost you weeks.
1:00:21Men try to make the morning seal into a
1:00:24devotional.
1:00:25They think, "Well, if I am going to
1:00:27speak in the morning, I should really do
1:00:29this properly. I should get up 20
1:00:31minutes earlier. I should get coffee
1:00:33first and sit in a chair with a
1:00:35notebook."
1:00:36And within 9 days, the 20 minutes have
1:00:39collapsed, and the whole thing is
1:00:40abandoned.
1:00:42And the man concludes he lacks
1:00:44discipline.
1:00:45He does not lack discipline. He built
1:00:47something too heavy to carry.
1:00:50The morning seal is 4 seconds long.
1:00:53Hand on chest, seven words, feet on
1:00:56floor.
1:00:57That is it. It is designed to be so
1:01:00small that it survives a head cold, a
1:01:02bad night, a hotel room, a hospital
1:01:05waiting chair, and a week where
1:01:07everything is on fire.
1:01:09Small things that survive beat large
1:01:12things that collapse every single time.
1:01:16And notice the architecture of the three
1:01:17together.
1:01:19The last word closes the day.
1:01:21The midnight watch holds the line in the
1:01:23dark.
1:01:25The morning seal opens the day.
1:01:27You have now put a guard at all three
1:01:29doors, and the same seven words stand at
1:01:33each one.
1:01:34That is not repetition for its own sake.
1:01:37That is a man building a perimeter.
1:01:40Three exercises.
1:01:42The last word before sleep, the midnight
1:01:44watch when you wake in the dark, the
1:01:47morning seal before your feet hit the
1:01:49floor.
1:01:50Notice something about all three.
1:01:53Not one of them requires an hour.
1:01:56Not one of them requires privacy, a
1:01:58quiet house, a study, a journal, or a
1:02:01good mood.
1:02:02They fit inside a life that is already
1:02:05too full. That is deliberate because the
1:02:08reason your last five spiritual
1:02:10disciplines died is that they required
1:02:12conditions you do not have.
1:02:15These require nothing but a mouth and a
1:02:18decision.
1:02:19And 30 days of this will do more in you
1:02:21than 3 years of the way you have been
1:02:24going about it.
1:02:25So, let me show you what your life looks
1:02:27like 6 months from now because I want
1:02:30you to see it before you live it.
1:02:33It is a Tuesday.
1:02:35The phone rings at 4:00 in the
1:02:36afternoon, and it is [clears throat] the
1:02:38number you have been dreading.
1:02:40The one from the office that called last
1:02:41time with bad news.
1:02:44Now, the old you had a physical response
1:02:46to that ring.
1:02:47Your stomach dropped. Your hands went
1:02:50cold. You let it go to voicemail, and
1:02:53then you paced the kitchen for 20
1:02:54minutes before you could listen to it.
1:02:57Watch the new man.
1:02:59The phone rings. You look at the number,
1:03:02and something happens that you did not
1:03:03manufacture and could not have faked.
1:03:06Nothing drops.
1:03:08There is a settledness underneath your
1:03:10ribs that was not there in January.
1:03:13And it did not come from a technique.
1:03:15It came from 180 consecutive nights of
1:03:19your spirit being fed the same sentence.
1:03:22You answer it on the second ring.
1:03:25You listen.
1:03:26>> [clears throat]
1:03:26>> The news is not good news.
1:03:29And while the person on the other end is
1:03:31still talking, there is a voice
1:03:33underneath the conversation.
1:03:35And it is your own voice, and it is
1:03:37saying, "Greater is he that is in me."
1:03:41You hang up.
1:03:43You do not pace.
1:03:44You stand at the counter for about 11
1:03:46seconds, and then you say it out loud in
1:03:49your empty kitchen.
1:03:51>> [clears throat]
1:03:51>> "Greater is he that is in me."
1:03:54And you go make dinner.
1:03:56That is not denial. Do not confuse this
1:03:59with denial.
1:04:00You heard every word. You will make the
1:04:03appointment. You will do what a wise man
1:04:06does.
1:04:07You will take the counsel of the people
1:04:09who are qualified to give it.
1:04:11Denial pretends the siege is not there.
1:04:14Faith looks straight at the campfires
1:04:16and says, "And yet, the relief is
1:04:19dispatched." Here is another one.
1:04:22It [clears throat] is the end of the
1:04:23month. You are looking at the account,
1:04:25and the number is not enough.
1:04:27It is short by an amount that a year ago
1:04:30would have kept you up until 3:00.
1:04:32You have run the math four times, and
1:04:34the math does not care how you feel
1:04:36about it.
1:04:38Old you sat in that chair and did the
1:04:40thing men do.
1:04:42You built a disaster in your
1:04:43imagination.
1:04:45You saw the car going back. You saw the
1:04:47conversation with your wife. You saw
1:04:50yourself at 50-something explaining to
1:04:52somebody that you had failed.
1:04:54You did that for 2 hours, and it cost
1:04:57you a night of sleep, and it produced
1:04:59nothing.
1:05:00Watch the new man.
1:05:02You look at the number, and you notice
1:05:04something.
1:05:05You are annoyed, but you are not afraid.
1:05:08Those are two entirely different states,
1:05:11and the difference between them is a
1:05:12legal document.
1:05:14You close the laptop, you put your hand
1:05:16on your chest, you say seven words, and
1:05:19you sleep. Actually sleep on a night
1:05:22that would have destroyed you last year.
1:05:25And then, in the morning, somewhere
1:05:27between the shower and the truck, an
1:05:29idea shows up.
1:05:31Not a lightning bolt, just a clear,
1:05:34quiet thought about somebody you should
1:05:36call, or something you already own that
1:05:38you had forgotten about.
1:05:40That is the inward monitor.
1:05:43That is the reins instructing you in the
1:05:45night seasons and reporting in the
1:05:47morning.
1:05:48And you would never have heard it over
1:05:50the noise of the disaster you used to
1:05:52build.
1:05:53Here is another one.
1:05:55You are in a room with somebody you
1:05:56love, and there is something wrong
1:05:58between you.
1:06:00Words were said last week that neither
1:06:02of you has taken back.
1:06:04And in the old pattern, you would have
1:06:05gone to bed with your back turned,
1:06:07running the argument, sharpening the
1:06:09thing you were going to say tomorrow.
1:06:12Feeding your spirit 8 hours of a
1:06:14grievance, and then wondering why you
1:06:16woke up harder than you went to sleep.
1:06:19Watch the new man.
1:06:21You lie down with the thing unresolved,
1:06:24because sometimes it stays unresolved
1:06:26overnight. And that is life.
1:06:30And you feel the pull to rehearse it.
1:06:32You feel your mind reaching for the
1:06:34transcript, and you catch it. You
1:06:37actually catch it, which you could not
1:06:39do a year ago, because 30 nights of
1:06:41practice taught your inward man to
1:06:43notice.
1:06:45And you do not argue with the grievance.
1:06:47You do not fight it.
1:06:49You simply refuse to hand it to your
1:06:51spirit as the last assignment of the
1:06:53day.
1:06:54You say seven words instead.
1:06:56Greater is he that is in me.
1:07:00And in the morning, the thing that was
1:07:01going to come out of your mouth at
1:07:03breakfast does not come out.
1:07:05Something better does.
1:07:07Not because you rehearsed a better
1:07:08speech, but because you did not spend
1:07:11the night rehearsing a worse one.
1:07:14Here is one more, and this is the one I
1:07:16most want for you.
1:07:18It is 11:40 at night. The house is dark.
1:07:22Your day was long and ordinary and
1:07:25mostly disappointing.
1:07:27And you are lying there, and you notice
1:07:29something so quiet you almost miss it.
1:07:32You are not dreading tomorrow.
1:07:35That is it. That is the whole miracle.
1:07:38There is no dread in the room.
1:07:41There used to be dread in that room
1:07:42every night, and you had come to think
1:07:44of it as furniture.
1:07:46And now it is gone, and you cannot point
1:07:49to the day it left.
1:07:51You say the seven words, "Greater is he
1:07:54that is in me."
1:07:55And you go to sleep like a man who has
1:07:57read his relief order.
1:07:59Now, let me tell you what happens if you
1:08:01do not do this, because I would be
1:08:03dishonest with you if I only showed you
1:08:05the upside.
1:08:06If you close this teaching, and you
1:08:08agree with everything I said, and you
1:08:10change nothing tonight,
1:08:12here is what happens.
1:08:14Nothing dramatic.
1:08:16That is the danger.
1:08:17There will be no crash. There will be no
1:08:20moment where the lights go out, and you
1:08:21realize you have made a terrible
1:08:23mistake.
1:08:24There will just be a dimming.
1:08:27The inward monitor gets quieter.
1:08:30Not because God withdraws,
1:08:32but because a voice you consistently
1:08:33ignore becomes a voice you stop hearing.
1:08:37Paul warned about a conscience seared
1:08:39with a hot iron in 1 Timothy chapter 4
1:08:42verse 2.
1:08:44Seared tissue is not dead tissue. It is
1:08:47tissue that has lost sensation.
1:08:49You can still see the scar. You just
1:08:52cannot feel anything through it.
1:08:54That is what happens to a man who hears
1:08:56the truth about his covenant and does
1:08:58not act on it.
1:09:00He does not lose his salvation. He loses
1:09:03his sensitivity.
1:09:05And a year from now, he will hear a
1:09:06teaching like this one, and it will not
1:09:08move him at all.
1:09:10And he will think it is because the
1:09:11teaching was weak.
1:09:13And the years go.
1:09:15That is the part nobody prepares you
1:09:17for.
1:09:18Not the drama, the arithmetic.
1:09:2119 nights becomes 19 months, becomes 19
1:09:25years.
1:09:27And every one of them looks survivable
1:09:29on its own.
1:09:30I keep thinking about the keeper of the
1:09:32north gate.
1:09:33He lived another 25 years.
1:09:36He was well thought of, and every night
1:09:39for 25 years, he lay down in a bed in an
1:09:42occupied town, holding nothing, having
1:09:45never read the document that was sitting
1:09:4720 inches from his hand on the one night
1:09:50it mattered.
1:09:52That is the picture.
1:09:54Not a man who lost a battle, a man who
1:09:57slept through his own deliverance,
1:09:59holding the spear and never once turning
1:10:02it around.
1:10:04Do not be him.
1:10:06You have heard it now. You cannot unhear
1:10:08it.
1:10:09From tonight forward, every time your
1:10:11head hits that pillow, you will know
1:10:14there is a sentence available to you,
1:10:16and you will know exactly what it is.
1:10:19And the only question will be whether
1:10:21you say it.
1:10:22So, do not wait until tonight to start.
1:10:25Start now. Put your hand on your chest,
1:10:28right where you can feel it. Flat, not a
1:10:30fist.
1:10:31That hand is not religious. It is a
1:10:34marker. It is you telling your own mind
1:10:37where the greater one actually lives.
1:10:40Now, say this after me, out loud, and do
1:10:43not mumble it. If you are somewhere you
1:10:45cannot speak, move your lips and let
1:10:48your own ear catch it.
1:10:51I am a new creation. I am not what I
1:10:54was. I am the righteousness of God in
1:10:57Christ Jesus.
1:10:59I have a covenant and it is signed in
1:11:01blood.
1:11:02I have a resident and he never sleeps.
1:11:06I have legal right to peace in this
1:11:08house. I have legal right to health in
1:11:11this body.
1:11:12I have legal right to provision for this
1:11:14life.
1:11:15I refuse fear as my last word. I refuse
1:11:19the report of my senses as my final
1:11:21authority. I refuse to lie down in
1:11:24agreement with the siege. I will speak
1:11:27before I sleep. I will speak when I wake
1:11:30in the dark. I will speak before my feet
1:11:33touch the floor.
1:11:34The relief is dispatched. The document
1:11:37is sealed. The one in me is greater than
1:11:40the one against me.
1:11:42Greater is he that is in me. Greater is
1:11:46he that is in me. Greater is he that is
1:11:49in me.
1:11:50Say it one more time and mean it in your
1:11:53chest and not in your throat.
1:11:55Greater is he that is in me. Now, do two
1:11:59things for me before you go.
1:12:01Type these words in the comments below
1:12:03exactly as I say them in the first
1:12:06person. Type, I am not sleeping like an
1:12:09orphan anymore.
1:12:11And on the next line, type, greater is
1:12:13he that is in me.
1:12:15I want to see that comment section fill
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1:12:28Not because a number matters to me, but
1:12:30because I release these teachings on a
1:12:32schedule and the ones coming are going
1:12:34to build directly on this one and I do
1:12:36not want you to miss the next piece of
1:12:38your own inheritance because a machine
1:12:41decided not to show it to you.
1:12:43Every scripture I quoted tonight is
1:12:45listed in the description below in
1:12:47order. Open your own Bible and read them
1:12:49for yourself. Do not take my word for
1:12:52it. Take the book's word for it. That is
1:12:55how this becomes yours instead of mine.
1:12:58Now, hear this as you go.
1:13:00The Lord bless you and keep you.
1:13:03The Lord make his face shine upon you
1:13:05and be gracious unto you.
1:13:07And may the greater one in you rise up
1:13:09in the night seasons and instruct you
1:13:12until fear has no last word in your
1:13:15house ever again.
1:13:17You are holding the document. The seal
1:13:19is red.
1:13:21Break it tonight.

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