Jesus help. Asshole that's just amazing. We seem to be hitting levels that were unattainable before it's still sizzling. Let the Seine part of our audience introduce our brother Samuel, please. Yeah. Hello everyone welcome again to this episode of Oh my God, aren't we just basking in the ambience of the Lord because we have such a treat today. First of all, let's introduce our friends. Dr. Robin guesses. Hi guys and Pastor Tony Casas and we have a special friend by the name of Samuel. Hello. Whoa singing say oh my God. So we if you haven't heard yes, if you haven't heard, you know our new rendition you will eventually or you probably already have heard it but I'm gonna break it down a little bit because it was new challenge them during the challenge people that seem portals where we blow your mind. Yes. The flesh is but I want you to sing Sam's right? First of all we Have to get the download of What Sam's rendition was I think so. It wasn't Arabic and it wasn't American Indian and it wasn't tongue. It was Hebrew is Hebrew. Yeah, so he was singing about portals and Hebrew your first gem. Thank you. Thank you. Fun fact there actually was some some some parts of the rendition were Aramaic as well. Oh, it's fancy. Well, you gonna handle things. Well, welcome Samuel. We are glad to have you. He's our newest member of torque New York. So we want to definitely welcome him to the porters podcast. Of course, he's listening before and now he gets to play a pot if she does it gets to play upon Place apart and you know, it's he's playing a part. Because some something in his life opened up he had some things that he wants to share before we bring the subject of God venting. Yeah, he came to torque he came as I knocked on the door and said, can I come in now? Just listen for a second. He's not just an ordinary person. Really? He's an orthodox he an orthodox Jew And he was and he's probably even now a rabbi could she's not giving that up. And on top of all that he sings the scriptures in the synagogue because it's a Kento. Oh my well you sing in scripture and he came tonight and he sang and he brought such an awesome power of God into the church. Absolutely. Oh my goodness, if you guys haven't tuned into our Sunday service, which would have In what was the date October something the sick? There you go. The six Sunday the six service. What day is it Shania know what had happened was what? You know, I got stuck in a porter and I lost track of time. Anyway, if you looked at our service on YouTube from Pastor robbing our service on YouTube, you can get a glimpse of what that sound like in man. Not to Hype up experience because we know God is not a god of experiences. We've established that but truly cannot Bear. Yes. That was that was a melting of the hot he always sees a god of true experience. And the thing that was brought forward tonight was Holiness. Oh my I don't know and just how holy and how glorious his presence is. Yes. Oh my goodness the weight of his friends they now wear Team did an awesome job. Could the horse bring it in ushering in the spirit one Spirit? Mmm the right Spirit the right spirit because they definitely assure us and but yes, let's kind of unpack that sham you if you will. What is some of the things that you saying first of all hello. Hello. How are you? Don't sing. Yeah. Yeah, but you know, you can tell us a little bit about you know, you came knocking on torques doors like hey, can I come in? What was that like for you like to even want to come into a church? Well great question. I growing up. Growing up in the coming from the Jewish religion and experiencing life. We all experience life through our experiences with our family our upbringing all that. We are associated with me and when you grow up and you we all as human, beings yearn for true relationship trust love We all need that right whether we want to admit it or not want to admit? Yeah, we need to admit it. That's the facts of our existence. Yeah, then you look for something authentic for something real you look for real relationship and as we know We go around and yeah, we have acquaintances. We all have acquaintances. Do we all really have friends? We only have people who care about us and people that we care I think and as I told pastor and the pastor is before I think we we we we love our sandwich do we actually love? Each other yeah and the reaction so so so tell us a little bit about like your standpoint, you know, I get as a whole, you know, we kind of search for those things. But why was that so essential for you particularly? Like did you feel like you were missing some truth or did you feel like you were seeking as far as from your perspective? Yes growing up in coming from the perspective of religion religion to me was a divide a divide of family. Wow, you dirty really cuz I I have got to do this be this. Or you or you're not in existence? Whoo. So even in your Jewish background you experience that did you experience that, you know growing up as a you know, practicing Jew or well just in family Dynamic both. Well family Dynamic is affected by by the Jewish culture the culture that the faculty lives in. Yeah and the community that lives in rights. Yeah, so you obviously you, you know, we couldn't go to each other's bar mitzvahs because Your Orthodox and your reform or movement or even if you are a thugs but you're different levels of worth lakhs. And if it doesn't match, I know I actually know in Washington Heights. There is a family that's part of our congregation. She's a grandmother. She has grandchildren who she sees once every once a year or two. She's a grandchildren because her Her her child when so extreme in Orthodoxy that she wants. She wouldn't allow her Orthodox grandmother a mom to see her grandchildren limits. She would limit it is just an Excel for the separation. Yes, so based on. Okay, so your experience religion and that perspective you were kind of sensing that there was a bit of a separation and you know despairing a family a little It so now you're maturing you're practicing and being an orthodox Jew. What made you then step out? Like wait, let me see what this Christianity is all about. Yeah, so great question. I was always thinking I have to step out and find God. I don't know where he is, but let me go find him. Let me go figure it out. And then and then you start thinking. Well, you're going to find him probably going to find them somewhere where people are practicing and having to do with religion. Now. Here's the thing if you look around and you and if you look around Almost I don't know if it's almost or every religion that I know is associated with culture. Whether it's the Jewish real. Okay, Jewish religion you Jewish. Yeah, if you're a Hindu yeah, you know, if you're Muslim or whatever it is. Yes, it has to do with it's tied to something hmm Christianity actually, although Jesus comes from the Jews, but the Seeing as a whole is not associated with any nationality. Wow. That is so true. Why don't you just make a comment on that Journey? Well, it's it's basically the gospel is for everybody. The good news is for everybody and Samuel has noticed that you know, Christianity isn't a specific people group. It's not a specific culture. It's across the board. That's so true. So you what is observing is correct? Yeah, so that stood out to you more than say Hinduism Muslim Ray or like Orthodox Judaism. Right? Right. Let me first go and see. Hey here are people who are just some clips the here are people who are just serving authentic God. That's it not associated with anything. Let me go find that out find out what's going on there. That's where I that's that's that's what made me so you're saying can I just You're saying that when you came seeking God you were going after God not a man's belief exactly with culture to do with Traditions to do with forms to do with programs. You really wanted to find God the god of love that you were told about all your entire life. So actually what I was told about and actually what Jesus grew up on himself. Yeah, right. Wow. Yeah. So what what prompted you to leave your home that particular day last week and use you told us. I told pass through myself you wanted to go and experience a church, but your first experience was not exactly all that. Good. Tell tell the audience. What happened? Yeah. Well names or no names? Well, you asked two questions Pastor. What made me do it now? Yeah, and then what happened? Yeah. Well all my life I was seeking all my life. I was always questioning this can't be this can't be yet. I knew it can't be I just didn't know what yes, I needed to. get over a lot of emotional baggage that comes from thousands of years. Mmm. You understand. It's not easy for growing up as an orthodox, Jew with that extreme religious heavy religious situation when your mother I'll share if you don't mind your I grew up my mother my mother grandmother. Passed down they would tell you Don't Go Near those Christians because they practice Halloween and Halloween. Guess what they teach our children to do you go and receive candy from all you go knock on doors and get some candy trick-or-treat get some candy. They're teaching their children to take a guess how we celebrate our Purim Purim is like the Halloween guess how we celebrate our perm we go and give out baskets and we're giving out, you know treats to all our neighbors and Community. This is this is the real religion. This is what I was told and then of course on top of that you got thousands of years of Jews, you know, the separation with Christianity, it's not so simple. It's not so simple. However, however, I and by the way just interject. Esther's reminded me that we don't celebrate Halloween. So FY. Yeah, exactly. Are we do not support that even trying to redeem it would go to where they from a dry place. Anyway, yeah, so so then I then when you have that and then with all the thousands of years of of you know, the Christianity with the Jews and there's a Lot of our institutions prosecution, which I said was. Yeah. It was it was a lot of years and passed the Tony light enlighten me we had discussion about then if you can share soon but but but there is that fact and in and it's almost like you define you're going against your people your tradition if you know and it's very very deep. It's very hard as much as you know, the one part of my heart will say, hey, let's come to Christian. Because let's go find like I said before the one religion that has remained unassociated and has disassociated themselves with any particular group or culture. However, there is that side which makes it very difficult. So it took me a while to actually get the courage. Yeah, and then and then guess what happens and this has to be divine I I start researching a good church. It was on it was on Saturday morning. I woke up. I got this Revelation. I said I gotta go. I'm gonna go and find I said what what what's going to happen? I walk in that gonna kill me right nothing, but we hope that you know that you know, but you know, I'm not gonna kill, you know, let's go find out what's going on now. So yeah, so I say We got your question. Yes, we're going to take a second give the listeners a breather because you're sharing so much that is Blessing Me is definitely a blessing me and I'm sure it was a blessing the past as well just to hear your testimony, but we're going to give the list of the break and then we'll be right back. Hi everyone. We are excited for the soap fall season to commence with life-changing courses that will deepen our relationship with Jesus starting Saturday, October 5th. Dr. Robin Casas will kick us off with counsel by God. This course is so powerful to help heal emotions and memories and learn to let Jesus be the wonderful counselor of Our Lives you will be renewed with her. And Life as we learn to let God turn the scars into Stars sign up now by visiting soap and why dot-org. And we are back. Oh my goodness. I don't know how many of you listeners are being blessed by this testimony come from Samuel and believe it or not. We put them on the spot. So we're not coaching him to say these things. This is his true experience often take as we try to keep portals as possible just kind of unedited and as raw as it comes and we just allow the Lord to minister to through that way prophetically. See you being prophetic Sam. You didn't even know it anyway, so you ended the first segment bike kind of leading us to you know that morning where you just kind of got a revelation to seek God and you are impacting so many gyms will catch you up on what Jim is actually mean and things like that after portals, but you were you know, really just expounding the experience coming to torque. So, can you just kind of pick up where you left off when? Where you know you woke up that morning and you started a Google search about churches. Yeah, so I wake up it was a Saturday morning. I wake up and I say What's the worst that can happen? Let me just go walk in and see what's going on. Check it out. And I'm searching and I find a church in New York. That actually has a service on Saturday. So I said hey and they actually have a service in the morning and in the evening very convenient and they talk about the father of God the mother of god without mentioning any names of the church. But there's that there's that that detail very interesting very different I said, hey, it's an experience. Let's go find out what's going on. I come to church. Nicole train rides a whole trip Saturday afternoon a knock on the door and they say hi. What's your name sir? A casual conversation so you can't come inside this by appointment only? I said by appointment only is this doctor's appointment. I should know this by point. I said what's going on? No, like no. No, go ahead. There's an event going on right now. I said, oh sure an event. I would not disturb. When is the next service time eight o'clock this evening? Oh, okay. I'll be back at a clock for service. No, no. No you get you we have to first that's by appointment only week first. Yeah, we We don't just invite her service. I'm like wait, did you just say service by appointment only? Yes. I said when wait wait who owns this church? They said Jesus Christ. I'm like Jesus. Let me tell you something. I'm Jewish. He was Jewish. I guarantee you. He don't make no appointment. Ugh. Oh my God. Well, I run away I responded I'm like this is no way this is a Church of God. Oh, I'm sorry. I actually this reminds me of where I come from shabbat shalom. So it was like a religion again. Here we go. Oh my God. I walk downstairs in the Bowman who was part of the church. I explain to him what happened. He was very nice and he said, you know, I'll tell you really this is this is this doesn't make sense. I'm going to talk to the past. I haven't reach I said no no. No, this is a pastor. This is not a church. This is not a pastor. I'm sorry. I did this, you know, I'll totally he actually gave me his number he wanted to be in touch but you know because he said he felt bad but same time he actually saved I was going to walk out like this is original all real. I was done and he actually gave me a little saving which I will say that I'm going to go back. I want to go back and thank him and thanked the church for kicking me to talk and my gratitude is going to be that I'm gonna introduce you to some real Pastor, right? So, how did you how did you find torture that though? Okay, so that's just an aside. No, but anyway, I walk out support. Oh, I'm walk out and I say and I say okay I got I got a I'm going to try one more. That's it. One more I can do more than one more than the number two. So I go on my phone and I'm like searching churches in the area. I said God brought me here for a reason to this area. Right you go find a church in this area. I'm gonna look for the top Google reviews in the area to figure out what church I'm going to go to that's gonna be my sign. I guess what talks got a 4 point 9 Oh my goodness. Yes. Oh so and in the whole area for and this is a busy Church areas this list of churches. This is Times Square. This is no and and I say, okay, that's it. I walk I come in and I'm greeted by Sonja when a nice warm smile. An unbelievable. She invited me in real people's person beeps. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I still think her till today. She was the one who saved you was the worst. If not of that, you know, wow, so and then the irony of that you came and come in and then you're in a class, right? So she said there's actually actually no service today, but this is seminar tonight which costs $50 but if you want Can pay it but it's not you know, you still invited I said aha. So you're naughty so you're going to invite me to the seminar even and there's no appointment that services for sure. No appointment on my okay, that's it. And just to just to give a little back story. Did you say that would I'm home. He did was heard it right. I'll say it again. Oh, yeah. No right away. I said I'm home. That's it. It's interesting for one because you came. During a class. That wasn't yeah, and it wasn't one of those, you know, easy swallowing classes. You came to a fragmented Soul. So you got in the Deep stuff before we can even explain it. That's great. I've been to your side my God. So yeah, so you were welcomed in you attended. The seminar was excellent it continued from there are the seminar was so deep and and it was stuff that I've never heard and I and it was it was stuff that I've never heard and and deep stuff that literally blew my mind and then I went over to Pastor afterwards and she she said come stay for the second half. I remember right it would middle but a break and she said stay and then we talked after was a Pastor Tony and passed a night and we had a conversation and told the wee hours of the morning and I said these pastors they're not they're not running a business there. There is a father there's a mother there's assistant as a brother. Yeah. I'm like, this is family. This is unbelievable. And then and then what I what I Koreans was something so tangible results. Then you still have to get over the in the mind you still have to get over is Jesus God is he not God is he? Where's he from his if you know is he where is he coming from? And then you got it and you remembered all that computation we go through to get through all undo all that baggage all that's all those years. Yep of of upbringing and and and Heritage that you come from right? So it's not easy. You gotta go you gotta Got to go through all that. Yeah through all that. So you have the conversations with pastors and I remember, you know, you guys just sitting there and really unpacking the scriptures. But one thing I just really loved about you know, you come and get it was refreshing to see that you really were inquiring you aren't like trying to challenge or try to prove it down. You know, you really were inquiring and it was a beautiful thing to see that Dynamic happen, especially with Pastor Tony because you I believe has Tony is very knowledgeable in the scripture and if he like comes to life when he's talking about those scriptures Tony was so deep and kids and so straight cut them up and you were saying with Pastor Nate and you know, Pastor Robert and even a few of us, you know, just some fellowship just asking questions. So that was a beautiful thing, you know about that just come conversing with each other. I think that one of the things that really really Lee spoke to you and here's the big thing. You came up to me afterwards after we'd I did the seminar with pasta Nathan and you said to me you said pastor God speaks. How does he speak to you? And I said, well I suppose with me he prompts he prompts his voice to me and some people see Visions other sense how that others have impressions. And you said what about a gut feeling and I said well, I wouldn't call it a gut feeling but if that's your lingo then that's your lingo and if that's the way you see it nicked understand it then that's the way he will will speak to you through your way. Here's the key. When we finished pastor and I was speaking over you and we were giving you the word of the Lord and one of the things that Pastor said to you, you will know by your gut. Now. Let me tell you that conversation that you had out in the church was between you and me Pastor. Tony did not hear a word. That but when he was prophesying his statement was you will know in your gut so it's like God knew his language what I understand more can he have that God is showing him emotion and I want to say this to you. He was showing you that you had a motion that was never allowed to come forward because it was suppressing. Rest and brought down into sort of like an image where you had to live in that image of God. And so you never even got to explore your emotions. Let alone their God had the motion on believe what I if I can add if I can add to that the word talk. How did that come about in your understanding? Yeah. Torque, it's interesting t o RC C. So it's torque is your the 0 your tea is the 0u r @ EO your the 0 you are closed 0 in the the O is the closed you are your emotions are suppressed. You're absolutely close and you cannot be open until you walk into torque and you hear the r which is the right word of God and then you get to the Sea where you now you're open now you're open and you can open and then you become the chosen the second see that was enough to really digest we're going to go on break and introduce and talk about what we talked about on this Sunday. Nervous, we hope Samuels, you know, testimony is bless you. He has much much more much much more to come and you'll see a lot more of him. Just come around just come around come to talk that's wrong clothes and then come open and chosen. Anyway, we'll be right back. Hey guys. Want to hear God speak to you personally, then join us here at dipping night. It's every first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. To find out more information or to RSVP. You can visit us at dipping night dot torque. And why c.org? Hope to see you there. I think we're going to sing polos right now. I need to take a pill the red or the blue one. Excuse me. Let me come in and just say guess what? I think Jesus might have had to make appointments to oh, okay. Oh. Oh my God, you know what? Yeah, Jesus would if you had to make one as a Jew he would have had to make one. This is say, oh my God, I'm gonna give you a gymnast shape because I gonna come in I'm just gonna say something that needs to be said then Shanaya can Bring us seen because we've got some things we want to share with the people tonight, but you know, you had to discover your emotions. And that's what God wanted for you be you to discover your emotions. So then you could discover that God had emotions. That is so true. Wow, that's all I'm saying. Is that is wow. That's that hit me in the gut not the guy. He's got it. So we have tagged Paris for Nathan. And what else he has a scum gone tonight tonight's word really was birthed out of the word that we shared with. Yeah Church in Sydney. Mmm, and I had the privilege of sharing our Genesis 20 and 21 and the two chapters that deal with, you know, Sarah becoming pregnant finally and then giving birth to Isaac that the topic of Abraham being the only person in the scripture that in the Old Testament least that is referred to as the friend of God. And so that led us to speak about friendship and we can understand friendship between like humans and and family and so forth we have relationship with so many people in our lives when but when God calls you a friend that's something really special that's a special French friends and then Not the government doesn't remember parcel Robin making the comment because I ended up saying by the spirit because I didn't have any notes at the time, you know, we often vent to our friends. There are people that we feel comfortable and you know, letting whatever is happening deep down inside, you know, come up without them judging us or without them, you know, really making any kind of criticism and we get comfortable with that because that's what friends are for. What? Yeah like to think that That was what friends are for but I asked the question who does God meant to you know friendship with God is a two-way street that we all we all want that part where we benefit from that friendship. But what if we were to allow the Holy Spirit occasionally to turn that around and let God vent what he is concerned about well, maybe If I could come in on that that was the major challenge for me. I know that God has emotions. Wow, we're supposed to have his emotions which is love joy, peace long-suffering meekness. Mom as Temperance. These are these are emotions and gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit. They mean the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Yeah, and that gross that's God and kid that grows seen us, you know, he's loving he's kind. He's all these things. Eggs, and we too should be the same way. But when you said that to know last night, I went home and I had a miserable night with cramps from standing all day teaching and and and then, you know going home very late. And so I I sort of you know that in Jesus name. Yeah. Amen. I kept cried out on the Lord all night and I had people praying for me. I had Debbie get up and pray for me because I knew my family. It was pretty worn out themselves. Yeah, and so is Debbie but she's young. She can't and so anyhow, Pastor I turned around and I got up this morning and my legs were still saw, you know, the kranti just from standing and I went to turn around and say oh God. My legs are hurting me tonight. Oh my God. Can you do something and then I stopped And I said, hang on I'm venting about my situation. Now. I'm in pain. It's discomforting for me or such a and then that turnaround they said no. What's bugging you Lord? Wow, what do you want to say to me about what you feel and I'm telling you guys from that moment on I had things come upon me a burden. Like I had never experienced in my life. I am Jewish. I'm a Christian. Yeah, but I'd never experienced a wait. A burden for Jewish people. Mmm. I was excited about Sam's conversion. I've been jumping I've been sitting and I'd been bubbling up and excited about everything that just gets revealed to him. Now. You've been quite excited about just so we did it. I mean I asked the Lord last week what's happening and he said Sam is seeing men as trees. Wow. I'm lifting. The veil and he's beginning to see he will eventually see the whole picture now that's exciting to me. I don't know if you know that it's not an easy thing less God lift the scales offered Jewish eyes. They can't be lifted because God chooses to Blind them. So only God could take them off. Yeah, but do you know just like Paul they had to be taken off by an act of God bringing someone into his life to do that, very thing. And so So I just I was so heavy heavy heavy heavy and I try to find reasons now we do this we do this Shanaya. We tried to find reasons why God might be venting. All right, he might be angry or hurt. Wow, and you know what those is it always points back to well. Undo is something wrong. I must not be whoa. King properly. Oh, I'm not overcoming in this area. I'm not even getting getting this sorted out. I need to pull myself together. But do you know something I couldn't do that and every time I tried to find a reason for why I was feeling heavy and I mind tell you that I was on the verge of crying every second I had tears in my eye. I couldn't even get my makeup on it was just what watering off. It was really hard. And so finally I'm sitting in the car coming to church. We're late. Everything seems to have happened and I'm thinking well, maybe I just need to get someone to pray for me. They prayed didn't lift and then I prayed myself didn't lift and I knew something's not going to lift. So I said I think we need to sing more when I get. T church we need to Signal we've had enough of the word. Let's sing. So I come down here expecting to be an instant answer. Yeah, that's it. Hey, and it didn't work yet because there was more to it and it wasn't until the Lord spoke to me and he told me this is something me. Wow. This is of me. This is not something you're doing wrong or to rebuke or to rebuke you this is of Me as a Jew I'm Awakening something in you that I need to vent if you're going to be my friend my always about him trying to tell you those things are fix you or you know. Get about everybody even someone else. You know that you may have been praying for he honestly just wants to share his heart sometimes and and it's a key to yes. If you don't mind. I'd like to just take you to something that I teach very strongly in one of the courses and that is your other times. Yeah, and I think that's in Council does it in no communion communion with God and these yeah, they're times ugh had different different places that you You can go and and it's like if you were to look at as a relationship with God you can have casual. Yeah, you can have casual prayer you talk to God about everything on the outside. Hmm on the outside like you would talk to any man on the street. Yeah afraid not just so much a friend to could talk to any acquaintances on the street. Wow. Look at this hot day. Look at this rain pouring their law looks. No, aw live in New York City. I hate the black ice all that all that stuff and it's all on the outside of you owe on the outside of you. Yeah, and that's the first place. I believe you go to. Yeah, and that second place is where you start to talk to him about what makes you tick what's going on in you you let it out you let him know that you're in pain. You're letting know that you're having all these things inside you so it's not an outside thing anymore. It becomes an inside thing and and and you let him know because you trust him because you trust your friend. You trust your friend. God is your friend and you begin to open up your inner parts, you become transparent you loud all of this to happen. Then the next point and the Next stage is where God begins to talk to you about what goes on in him? Wow, that is incredible. I mean how many of us have them friends? Right? Oh, I love that song. Anyway, we're gonna take a short break because you are coming in hot. Dr. Robin about this here friendship. And just I want to bring out definitely you know what you were saying about how the Lord has to trust us just like we trusted friend and we trust him. He also has to trust us but will will you know unpack that when we come back from this break all those? Hey guys, welcome to the portal podcast with dr. Alban Casas and anything are we and we pass the Nathan and we faster Tony Cassius will see you soon. I used to like a little mini and but I'm not gonna call you in as well as the money Compass back in posture up and because you know nothing yeah, I think it is. I think we went up to where you know, we're starting to trust God we're starting to tell him what really we feel inside us and that's not an easy thing guys. That's really not easy because you know, we've been hurt so many ways and we don't want to trust anyone but oh, Oh my God, but we open it. It's crazy how there's such an attack on the Friendship so and even in the world because they always saying No New Friends. Oh, no, fake friends or everybody's faked it is and it just kind of close you off from a true friendship. Yeah, and there's a true friendship in Jesus and you know, it's so easy. I mean every second word is love, you know, you love this. I love you. I love you. I never say in that unless I No that made right good talk to a stranger and say I love you. I love eating some sort of food, but I'm not going to compare that to the true. Love of God. Yeah, love is so Universal these days. It's so misused. Yeah, it's definitely so let me go back to this very point of your data and said and let me tell you that, you know when you start to trust God he and tell him what really hurts. And he listens and that's a great place to be with God and with people. Yeah when you could trust people to be your friend because you could trust God to be your friend. Do you understand? Sorry. Let me give you so we can't to another place that I think it's exciting. It's where God in this stage trust you and he starts telling You what hurts him. Wow, and what bugs him and what he is concerned about. Yeah, and he is and he just opens up like a real friend to you. Yeah, and he trusts you you seek. It can't be God's friend unless he trusts you. Mmm. You can't you can be his child. But you can't be his friend unless he trusts you. Well, I mean, it's good. Scripturally. He said David is a man after my own heart. You didn't say David is a man after my own words. Oh my ways promises. Yeah. He said heart, you know, so that implies he trusted him on a heart-to-heart level, you know, I was finished. I think besides Abraham, maybe maybe David was a friend of God to because we often hear David. Yeah, he's alms the Psalms are basically event of the emotions that David was experiencing and I'm sure there were times when David's at before the ark like he often did and God would speak to him what he was he was feeling so that brings us to Abraham. Obviously. There's only a few people in the scripture that God actually expresses Intimate Relationships. Sorry. It details about what's going on in his heart. You already mentioned Abraham and Abraham was just minding his own business and one day Three Angels turn up. Mmm and they sit down and have lunch. They have lunch with Abraham. And one of those three Angels is actually the angel of the Lord which is like a pre-incarnate Christ. Wow, and it was during that Fellowship of having lunch that you know, the Lord said to Abraham this Makes G. Sarah will be be holding a son. So that tells us a lot about how important fellowship with God is because when you fellowshipping with God God begins to reveal what he's about to do a set this up know Abraham was ready and available to talk with God. This is why you know, Jehoshaphat is the the man who refers to him as the friend of God. God forever. Yeah, I am your friend forever. And so Jehoshaphat knew something about Abraham's relationship with God and that's possibly the reason why God made him the father of many nations based on relationship geez, and then the other time we see Jesus, we've got to talk about Jesus. Yeah. Yep. We sure do. I often ask ask, you know, the Lord how come Peter James and John were sort of like the Favorite three and I think out of the 12 these guys were friends the most okay, and that says a lot because I Think Jesus shared with Peter James and John but especially John things that he didn't share with the other 9 the disciple that he loved. Yeah, and he had an inner circle he did and so it wasn't because they were favorites. No because they listened And there's the key they listened. They zipping the Libby actually wanted they actually wanted to you know, hear what he had to say. There it is there listening. They're listening. They're not talking they listening. Anyone that listens you can make a friend, right, you know, someone who does all the talking it's all about them, but when they listen they're listening to Being about view the interesting thing with Abraham is after that lunch, you know under the you know, the memory trees the Lord gets up and he's about to walk towards Sodom and Gomorrah and he stops and he talks to himself. He says shall I not revealed to Abraham what I'm about to do. Here we go. Seeing that he shall be a Great nation, in other words, he stops himself and he goes I got to share with my friend what I'm about to do. Wow knowing full. Well that Abraham is friend is the only man that has enough boldness. Yep to stand in the gap for Sodom and Gomorrah. Well, he's actually standing in the Gap through his nephew. Yeah, but even God overlooks that selfish part. Yeah, he uses Abraham to intercede for the two cities. Unfortunately. There's Not ten righteous people there and judgment has to fall but it tells us that God will always vent to people he trusts with what he's revealing and you know, you know about listening, you know, God loves a listener. He calls it in his word Proverbs that speaks. Yeah, you're a fool. If you do all the talking, but a wise men is one that listen. Yes, and and so this is an important part of God and just you're mentioning about friends and you mentioned about Abraham being a special friend and you brought that up about sudden Sodom and Gomorrah, but I want to bring up about how he was such a good friend to God. God had Pray for the wounds of those women were Barren from Abby Miller. Yes. Yes. Yeah. It had to be my friend has to pray for you. Even though my friend is doing the wrong thing at the moment that my friendship Trump's what he's doing wrong. That's exactly right. So so friendship with God and you he talks to you Do you he opens up to you? He trusts you. Yeah, he trusts you. Yeah. Wow, I'm coming back. Yeah with more. Yeah you are and I just love I just want to close this one out this portion before we go to break when you believe it. Was you Pastor Tony when you bought out the fact that you know, you may not tell your family as much as you tell your friend. Yeah, and I think this really will highlight the difference. As I feel like we stay at the family portion with God and each other but there's there's a difference there's a difference. Come on. When is the friendship I just finished you get two gems. That was put up that in your pocket right now one more come on getting heavy and we'll be right back. Hi, everybody passed an 8 here and boy we excited to invite you to a new event that we have happening on Sundays at 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. The new Bible study that starting at talk called connecting the dots. This is going to be a great way for you to come connect the dots of your faith reintroduce yourself to the Bible or introduce yourself to the Bible. Like never before Pastor. Tony will be leading this class. You don't have to come to every class you can drop in also, it will be recorded and Available later on on talk TV. So we're excited to take this journey and for you to come on this journey with us. We'll see you there Sunday at 3 p.m. dada thank you for being a friend speaking of friends. I got a friend of mine. He lives. He's a Bedouin in the land of Israel. Are you ghost is just outside. Jerry go and you can't miss it. It's totally black. He's got a Toyota Hilux truck. Wow, parked out a sword. Listen to this. You can't miss this tent because it's got this gigantic TV. Aerial. Oh, it's about 30 feet high has always watching soccer now a friend. Yeah. I just want to say hello. The last time you said that best tell you about your Prison, Alaska, we did had a Siberia. He's looking at and viewers. Yeah brothers and sisters out there. Okay, and I literally have like cable television or what is it? You know. Yeah. Well serial casting say something to them in your friendship language of Arabic so they can understand salaam alaikum. Tell them all they made more than Michelle. Um, why did you say you need to listen to portals? It's good for you. All right. I don't have the commander language that might maybe maybe small can do it. I'll give it I'll give them the shallow my life him from Israel to put some Israelis on our audience list. Come on, including some Arabic Israelis as well. So let's go back. Let's go back to this yard at a time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah my new work. Yeah, that's how everybody one two, three Lord Jesus now, we're going to go back to you know this. Out of time you were saying about God trusting you. Yeah, what do you feels? Yeah, and so he you know, this is a great place to be this is a great place for everyone of us to be where you know, this is when you really really invest in Friendship, this is where you really see friendship when God the Creator trusts you to be his friend by telling you his secrets of his heart. He talks to you about his heart. Yeah, this is amazing. Yeah, and so even that you would think would be the ultimate place to be I was going to say, can we go deeper? I'm sure there's plenty many more places, but let's go one more place deeper will go to where say it's not even talking anymore. You're not even talking about what makes you tick what hurts you he's not even talk. To you. He's not even talking to you about him and how he created you and how man has disappointed him because he sent his only son to die for them and they've rejected him. He's not even talking about that. There's a place where you can come to where it's like when you're married when you're married for 50 60 70 years. Yeah, and that's impossible these These days it's a miracle is another portal. That's a miracle working power to today. I claim it in Jesus name and I wanted to say this one thing where but if you are, it's like, you know one another you don't even talk, you know, what that person thinks next. You know, what they think of the subject, you know, what's going on in them because it's like you've become one in this Everett and that's a place for us to get to listeners people that's a place for us to get to where we don't have to talk. He doesn't have to talk that we could just be one in the spirit and we could just know what each other thinks and I don't call that psychic psychics all about you it's all about you when you being God and you having the envelope. As the flash Sizzle, this is the Pledge burning here at pop your crap just to finish that statement off one day one day. Mmm, we will be with him at the marriage supper of the Lamb on and now form of communication will be greater than any form of the five senses damn mouth. Eyes and the ears. So anything else it'll be a spiritual expansion. We will know each other by the spirit. Wow of the Saints, you know, I've been listening because I'm I was convicted when you said a full tox much knows. I don't want to talk too much but something that you said before to about each of these men of Faith being able to hear from God. Yeah and the Lord brought me into the story as I was listening of job and how I remember past attorney saying once if everybody had just shut up. Yeah one chapter would have been God would have spoken because finally at the end of Jobe Lord says can I speak like, you know, are you finished and but I don't nobody vented all four of them vented flat 38 chapters, but I want to take us to another step but a waste of time because I believe that step. One but I believe the Lord is revealed a greatest step. We can't he God vent until he hears us spent because it's about relationship love is about a response. Well, that's what happened with Sam. He had to discover here. Some of shouldn't before God could show Sam that he had emotion. So even us discovering our emotions is in God's Divine planting to show us his emotions, right? We think it's all about us. Us discovering who we are but really because you've been saying something later lately pass the robin you've been saying stop looking at what man is doing, you know and use I'm going to say this very lightly used what the enemy is doing to point you to what God is doing I look at what God's doing. You know, you brought something up. I'm teaching Council by God and my first key mmm to being counseled by God is you see God Everywhere everywhere. That's What Makes You pure in heart. Yeah, let's turn it around. If you see God everywhere in every situation, then you will have purity of heart and what's funny is that we always go to God and conversation because we're prophetic so we understand that we can have conversation but the word conversation means there has to be a response right from the other person. You can't just keep going and God and say well I feel this I feel this I feel this cycle this one way and then I walk out walk out because you're robbing yourself of closer because it's not closed. It's not a conversation until the other person has told you what they're feeling. Otherwise, it's just you hearing yourself speak that that can't be you gotta had two people dad conversation. Exactly. And that's why job and his friends. It was just a whole lot of blabber and not once did anyone stop to say well, what is God saying? What is God what are you saying? You know what? I mean? You see in this situation. He's saying something here, but he's not saying something about you. Yeah, he wants to talk about what he's feeling and people say well really does God have a motion. Of course, he does. He says, you know, if you're lukewarm then I'll spit you out of my mouth. I think that's someone that has emotion. Yeah, you know what? I mean? Yeah. God was infuriated when the children of Israel moved into idolatry at the at the foot of Mount Sinai, you know, so he said to Moses move aside let We wipe these people out. Yeah, Jesus said you stiff neck and people where's the emotion? There's a motion in that. Yeah. So here's a motion it whipped them out of the temple, but that's pretty emotional. That's my favorite emotion. I think a key here is because I'm all for Christians finding the process and you know understanding so I think the key for our listeners to understand what the Lord's revealing to me as I'm listening to this portal is we can have our emotion but until we get Is emotional response? Yeah, our emotion can't go anywhere. Yeah, because you know what I'm saying. We leave it in our prayer closet at our emotional Lord. I feel disappointed. Oh Lord. I feel this I feel that I feel this and then we say about God I can't then we apply the face steps, but I know you're going to answer prayer and I know you're gonna do this and I know you're going to do that, but we never actually draw from him what he feels. Mmm. And you know, what do you feel about my workplace? What do you feel about my husband? What do you feel about my wife? How do you feel about my what are you doing? What are you doing? You know, how does it hurt you to see this? Yeah. Yes, then that can really lead us to the true emotion because I was having a conversation with someone last night about how do we get God's emotion to be our emotion. Well, you got to hear what he thinks. Yeah, you can't just tell me what you think. So the whole thing is here and he's a good key to do this to end at this session. And that is God's Response it never react. Yes, come on, and I've been saying this lately Shania and it's so it's so important. This is the thing that I've been living by lately anytime you react it is going to be void of a conversation yet. But anytime you respond whether it's to people whether it's to God whether it's to the enemy it's going to have to include a conversation you can't respond without Conversation conversation leads you back to relationship. So what passes been teaching in Council by God a communion with God abiding all these things. You can't have faith hope and love when you react because that their emotions that God fills you with their fingers that God fills you with and you can't had that if you're filled with you and how does he fill you with it through the conversation come this so you have to hear about Faith he is love he has hope his life what he wants to do what he wants to show you about who he is, you know, we sang a song tonight and I love the I love the bridge lyrics, you know, it's the one of the new songs and it says, you know, you take what the enemy meant for evil and you turn it for good, you know, and I think that like the concept of the Christian can be like, oh, well, once the enemy's done it then the Lord will see it and go. Okay. Well now I'm going to turn it for good. He knows what the enemy's going to do before they even the Enemies done, right? You know that he wants you to know it right? It's already planned to use the enemy as the garbage man to reveal who he is. Yeah in the Situation's just to scoop off the the dross of the gold. Yeah gold comes to the surface. It boiled some boils and he drops and the dress comes to the surface and that's how you separate that which is not pure and that which is not It just comes to the surface you just scoop it off and throw it away. And then you've got the pure gold and that's what God does With the Enemy. Yeah. He just lets it come to the surface to scoop it off and to throw it away and you know what? If this is what we're got we're heading now tonight and this is the end of this portal tonight. Yeah, let me say this to you say it explore being a friend of gods. Yeah. It's worth it. We're going to continue this next week. We're not finished with this subject. We want to go into it. So it will become deeper and deeper because Shit has to be two not one. Wow. You guys able to sing and friends are friends forever, but I thought that was just like wow. No. No you did it. Anyway, so if you have friends, please share this portal with him because friends are important. It really is an is definitely an investment. Hmm. Not just a one-way Street. You better go Chiefs. Another YouTube. I think it's getting hot in here. Yeah color gems. Any who is this has been another episode of see you next time. Bye now.
"And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God." - James 2:23 In this episode of portals, host Shenaya Annise interviews our Senior Leadership -- Dr Robyn Kassas, Ps. Tony Kassas, and Ps. Nathan Kassas -- on what it is to be called the friend of God. Great patriarchs of our faith not only had a saving relationship with their creator but were called friends of God. They had intimate dialogue and connection. Which brings us to the point, that they were able to hear God's heart -- He would share what He was feeling with them. Are we able to come to the place where we can hear God "vent" to us about what troubles His heart? Or are we too concerned with what is going on in our own world that we don't realize the importance of being quiet to hear His response. Dr Robyn unpacks such a key and challenging revelation of the "yada times" as we reveal that the Lord wants to let us in on what His heart is feeling because that is true relationship -- not a one sided conversation. If that wasn't full enough, we also are joined by Rabbi Sam, a recent convert from Orthodox Judaism to now a believer in Jesus Christ. Samuel shares his testimony and the power of breaking free from religion so that you can have a real relationship with God, hear his voice, and come to the conclusion that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Scripture. Let the snap, crackle, pop commence! 