What has God built into our lives? God put into us is a legacy, which can become part of yours. I remember I was in a meeting in Indonesia, and there were about 2000 people; about 1000 come up in the altar call, it was just Dave and me there, and I'd asked them: please set it up so we do training first. After the training - then we've got leaders - more people to pray in the ministry team, then we'll get going...
There was none. They didn't do it. They just set it up so there's 1000 people there for prayer, just Dave and me. I said: okay Dave - this is your great day! I'm going to pray for half of them - you've got to do the other half. Here's your 500, here's my 500 - there's the line down the middle there.
Anyway I got praying, and there was a great move of God - the power of God came, people were being delivered - all sorts of things happening! I thought: oh Dave - I wonder how Dave's doing? I looked around and WHOA! People are down everywhere; and he's kept up - about the same level I am - and people are going down under the power of God, demons are coming out - people screaming.
I'd never seen him do that before; and I talked to him about it afterwards. He said: I realised three months ago, and began to pray, that what is on your life would become - it's my inheritance and I've a legacy in that. It can be on my life; and so he said: I began to pray for it to rest on my life. He saw the truth of legacy.
It comes not just to natural sons and daughters; it comes to spiritual sons and daughters. It comes to those who are connected in right relationship, who allow God to work through a person (or a man of God) to help them.
You're not to actually copy the person - you have to be yourself. God wants you to be unique; but we need people with skin on, to show us what faith looks like in real life.
We need people who model the life of Christ; so you can say: man, it’s good to be around that person! They're just pumping with faith - and I see the journey they've taken - and boy, there's something there! You can't explain it - it can only be God.
There are people who influence our lives. In another session, I'll talk about who those people were; and what we had to do to receive from them and grow it. I have taken what they gave - and made it bigger, expanded it, and greatly increased it. What they gave me was free to get.
I remember sitting in a meeting with a group of people, and I was the only one who took away what that leader had. It took time, I had to learn what to do, but God showed me what to do. I can share with you how to receive and grow what God wants to put in your life; but your part is to pay the price of developing it, and expanding it to others.
In this new season, my role now has to shift to be an equipper of people, but not leading activities and things in the church. Someone else needs to do that - who can motivate and mobilise. The next season is pulling up all the gifts that everyone has - finding out what God put in you, finding out the dreams and the visions in you, getting you to start to think about what God has put in you - and then to grow up so you can fulfil it.
Just because you've ‘got a dream’ doesn't mean you can do it. You do have to be prepared, and helped, and discipled in that; or grown into that. That is the next season - that's what God is doing.
Saints are being matured - you don't mature on your own. Lone Rangers become unusually weird strangers! They don't usually attract people very easily, because there's something ‘a bit strange’.
We work out our relationship with Jesus in the context of a small group, of connection in the church - that's why we all need to be connected into a group.
There are things which are built into our life, which are part of who we are. If I were to go somewhere else, and have to build another work, these things would all turn up there - because they're in me. It's DNA. It got in; and I want to share about (in another session) how it got in; how it got to grow; and how I managed to keep it, when most people lose it.