Hey this is Lance Wallnau back again wearing my cool denim jacket you like
this style? I was trying I was wondering if I was if
it was still in style I got it like 10 years ago and people were like saying
don't wear that and I bring it out every year and someone sends me back in to my
closet and say don't wear that I experimented today guess what my
millennial staff goes hey that's in so just goes to show you just hold onto
your clothes people they're coming back in style all right now we were talking
about gold medal performance this is this is important because last week I
was talking about Do you remember what I talked about last week some of you are not
paying attention to all the broadcasts and and so I got to give you a quick
reminder I was talking about how all of us create a certain culture in our head
in our home and in our life and the culture is created by something very
simple it's the experiences you have the experiences you have you have good
experiences then you're gonna form some good beliefs what happens though if you
have bad experiences and you're around the wrong people if you're around the
wrong people they become the lenses through which you interpret stuff and
this is really scary because right now the schools are teaching your kids world
events and they're putting a spin on it and I'm sorry to say it's a toxic
Marxist leftist liberal spin and you know some Christians are desperate to get
their kids out of these public school systems to go quarantine them and hide
them it doesn't the world is like permeable they're in social media
they're in school they're watching movies they're listening to musicians so
what happens is the world's system is being inundated by people who are
putting lenses on us all the time to reinterpret experiences to make them bad
if the stock market goes up the left says it's going to crash if the
president the United States has a meeting with with with the president
North Korea I don't care whether that thing pans out well or doesn't work out
at all and Bill Maher God bless him at least calls out his own group and says
why are we always against everything Donald Trump
is it possible and then he does a comedy routine about how much him and
Kim Kim jong-il and Donald Trump have in common
they're both eccentric their personality driven they're both obsessed with they
both have unusual hair you know you just goes on this classic comedy list but
it's point is the left always has a narrative and that narrative is drip fed
like the Chinese water torture into your head from the time of your child on up
these kids are trained for global warming now they're being trained to
march out of school for political purposes where does that have any
experience that happens your beliefs can shape it you got to make sure you're
listening to the right teachers you got to make sure you listen to the right
people because your beliefs are going to shape what your choices what you believe
about the world I'm afraid I'm not gonna go to Europe you know what terrorism
event happens friends in Belgium right away people are canceling flights all
the time I'm not gonna go to Belgium and so everybody's getting killed in Belgium
well this is just the reality this is the psychology of how fear works the
experiences create beliefs beliefs great choices choices create outcomes choices
create your harvest or if I'm a businessman I'm going to put it this way
the by the way this model was developed by business coaches and they talked
about results if you want to get different results in terms of
profitability for your company you've got to look at the choices your
management's making your choices your management making are based on their
beliefs about the market about the company and about what's possible and
that's based on their previous experience so here's what these guys
came up with then I want to share with you an interesting innovation that one
of our team here had during the break after our last broadcast if you want to
have a new culture that's a new culture called c2 in your house in your business
then first of all you're going to have to have some new experiences new
experiences so you know what your old experience was over here I'm not a
Christian I don't believe in God then evidently you must have had a new
experience where you met God you must have met a Christian you must have had
an answered prayer you must have heard a broadcast you must have had a knee
but notice how this whole new culture happened for you pay attention to this
this was the old you over here the old you relationally financially physically
and spiritually if you want to see your life change the formula is compellingly
obvious what you must do is you must be open to a new experience then then it
forms a new belief oh wait a second God's real you mean the Bible is real
you mean I can have what I asked for when I pray oh my gosh it's like a whole
and then you suddenly discover Christians exist I don't know we are like
an underground community until somebody gets born again it's like no so what so
does a Christian I found out well new beliefs come out of new experiences so
if you want to really have a new life you're gonna have to have some new
experiences but the new experience I'm going to go back to this in a minute the
new experience doesn't have to be a miracle it could simply be you're open
to a new experience and God starts to invite you into stuff going on around
you all the time but you never stepped into forms new beliefs new beliefs by
the way what are they what do they create new choices well I'm gonna choose
to go to church well I'm going to choose to watch this broadcast I'm going to
choose to read the Bible I'm going to choose to read that but I'm going to
choose to hang out with so-and-so and go to their house or have coffee with so so
new choices always lead to new results what you sow
in terms of your belief system you reap in terms of results because of the
quality choice you make so right now Bitcoin cryptocurrency new word new idea
people that think they're gonna just gonna you know jump in and make money
will probably lose money however this Bitcoin thing ain't gonna
go away so smart people would start to rather than just jump in they would
start to get educated they'd start to get some new beliefs about it what's
stable what's not where is it where's it going so they can make some new choices
because sure is anything there's going to be people making money in the stock
market people making money in real estate people making money in any area
because of the quality of choice they make not because they just jumped into
this from quality of choice so uh anyway we're
talking about this during the break a Christian is somebody who has a new
experience that forms a new belief that results in new choices were creates a
new harvest if you want a new world you've got to be very careful who is the
lens interpreting reality for you and you better make sure that you become the
lens because the Holy Spirit will teach you by the Word of God what's right and
here's that here's a great cue God isn't in the business of depressing
and traumatizing people so whatsoever is good whatsoever is pure whatsoever
builds faith that's where God's at does that mean there isn't bad stuff
happening of course there's there could be bad stuff happening that's why we
have words like discerning pray for discerning so you can have discerning of
what spirits because spirits are working through the media through arts
entertainment through teachers through school through culture through
corporations we have to be able to discern what spirit we're dealing with
but that doesn't mean we have to be dominated by that spirit you could be
filled with the Holy Spirit all the time so anyway here was our discussion now
that we're seven minutes in and we're all up to date on this if we want to
create a new America if we want to create you know make America great again
we really have got to create some new experiences for people that are going to
form some new beliefs and so the question we were running into the other
night we ran into a young man we were out after a meeting I was preaching that
and of course the young guy comes out I was out there like it was kind of cool
the guy was trying to turn on a heater he could get the heater working but you
know you kind of noticed evangelist in moments because one of the guys that I
was with says John 6 and starts quoting something from the Bible and the
guy lights up over there goes yeah John 6 now you're talking we thought is
this guy a Christian we find out he was raised and he is Catholic and then his
parents took him to the Assembly of God Church he was raised in the Assemblies
but became a botanist major in school and started to lose his faith when he
got into science and he didn't lose his faith when he got into science he lost
his faith when he got around teachers who were teaching science against what
he was taught because he could out of Christian science teacher and it would
have been a different world but science began to not whether or not
Christianity was real and then there was this incident where somebody said they
were gonna pray for a healing for someone they knew and the guy dies and
so he takes that experience of the guy dying compounded with his beliefs
questioning the Bible and everything he grew up with and now he's made a new
choice and the new harvest is he's an enlightened unbeliever and just thinks
the Bible is a philosophy book well here's where and I got I got it I got to
be sympathetic with something here here is where it really pays to be a believer
that believes that God does the supernatural because but this guy needs
zap is a new experience and we were talking about this after we talk to him
because you know after a while we realized that we could spend our whole
night evangelize him or we could actually have the meeting I was trying
to have with these people sitting out there and the cold and the heater wasn't
working anyway and I wanted to get out of here I'll tell you the truth I prayed
for the heater I prayed for the heater and God didn't like the heater and so I
was a little frustrated as I thought look there's a new experience but
evidently God wasn't lighting heaters that night so anyway or I didn't have faith for
it so here's the deal so we were talking about man what if we got words of
knowledge or what if we got a prophecy or what if that guy got touched right
now well that's power evangelism I'm gonna
tell you something many times the way that we're gonna see people get
transformed is they need a new experience my friend Che An is so great
at this he's such a great apostle whenever we go out and eat he
evangelizes and he does it so elegantly he basically is nice and smiles and
ask the person their name and where they're from and and then he says you
know by the way we're all people here that really believe that God is real and
he does and he does miracles and answers prayer that I would love to be
able to pray for you for any need in your life if there's anything in your
life that you'd like to see happening it's not happening
anything is challenging you or are a weight that you're carrying tell us what
it is and I'm gonna believe God to answer that prayer what a great man this
is like you know he takes the time to evangelize every time he's done this
we've always run into a response where it was well I need this or my mother
needs that or that I need it says all right let's do it right now and he prays
right there and his faith and his belief often
touches their heart what I want to say to you is it does sometimes it doesn't
even matter if you actually if the person has an experience in the
supernatural you are the experience that changes them
you are the new experience because they've never met a Christian who
actually has faith like that and just the fact that you do and here's the
amazing thing listen to me please get their name write it down because if
this is some place you frequent like in your own hometown go back there and then
when you go back ask them what's happening because you actually need to
pray about that and you'll be amazed how frequently and how easily God
demonstrates the supernatural for some reason when as evangelism related it's
almost easy pickins it's like but you're first gets aid prayers getting this just
so fast it's amazing I can't explain the phenomena I don't think I'm making it up
I've heard a lot it's it sounded in my experience but it's so the generosity of
heaven is poured out when you first come in in such a way that it's easy pickins
so you'd be surprised that person's aunt revived she's kind of doing better or
they got the job or they got the raise what I'm saying is new experiences
simply means we have to give people a new experience and what are we doing
we're redefining in a moment their beliefs about Christianity because they
met a Christian a Christian it's a nice Christian that's not an angry Christian
and that makes a new choice they're being open and it produces new results
if you can read that you have a gift my friend because I can't even read it
myself I'm just gonna erase it right now it's such a mess
this is why people worry about me sometimes because that's going on in my
mind 24 hours a day what you just saw you know what I'm looking at this screen
right now I'm seeing there's so much material we've covered let's stop here
and we're gonna pick it up again with the next broadcast because I believe you
got the idea here that your experiences don't really shape your life it's the
beliefs you have and they lead to the choices you make which leads to the
results you get and we want to think about that in terms of creating new
experiences for other people that's the secret of evangelism for the body of
Christ they really need a new encounter of Jesus
new and of fresh encounter with God and it doesn't really always require a
miracle it requires you to show up in a way that creates a different impression
of what a believer is and what an exciting opportunity that is we're going
to cover wisdom favor and the unique formula that worked in
Daniels life that relates to you in modern day Babylon
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