Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Chris

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I want to talk to you today about steps to successful living in the kingdom. I actually

have a title which really makes the media people happy. They use the earth chasing me

around on Monday. What's your title? I don't know. Whatever. Just figure one out. But I have

actually four things that I want to talk to you about that will help to, I think, really

create a successful life living in the kingdom. A couple of them come from encounters. Now,

I have had a couple encounters in the last two or three months and I have dreams every

night. I have a night life. Anyone else have a night life? I have a total night life. I dream

almost every night. Typically, I remember parts of my dream. But also, I have this other kind

of, the other part of my night life. I get up every morning at three o'clock. It's not super

natural. It's just natural. And I try to keep the lights off. How many of you have a life like that?

You try to keep the lights off. And I know how to get to my bathroom unless we're in a hotel room.

It's really bad when you switch hotel rooms. Like if you're going from place to place, you're

like, yeah, and then you're like, all right. Oh, yeah, switch to hotel rooms. And so I got up in

the middle of the night to just get close to the throne. When I woke up in the middle of the

night, I heard not an audible voice or anything like that. But you know, one of the ways you know

that it's God is when you're so groggy, your mind isn't working and you're having clear thoughts.

How many of you know this? I don't know how you put that in a manual, but I think that's the

Lord. And so I woke up and I immediately heard these words, you're not present. You're not present.

Am I all right? I'm not present. I really am not present right now. So I made my way to the

restroom and this voice in my mind was going over and over, kept repeating itself. You're not

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