PATRICIA: You know we all make mistakes but God’s a Redeemer. And you don’t have to live with a mindset of saying “Well I’ve failed, I’m a, I’m, I’m, I’m, I’m a failure and everything’s bad for the rest of my life. I’m going to pay the price.” Do you know that in the Bible the blood sacrifices were also for the consequence of sin as well? And Jesus loves you so much that He wants to redeem any harsh consequence in your life. And so just repent from those actions and ask for His blood to cover the consequence. And then at that point of time say Jesus I just decree a transition.
I decree a change. When you catch a thief in the act he has to restore seven-fold that which he stole and you get to plunder his whole house. Now when you lock in on that and you’re firm on that and you believe that, it’ll start coming to you because you create that “realm of return.” All right. Next is to repent from distractions to your devotions? Okaaay! How many of you relate to this one? Hohhh… I relate to this one. It just seems like, you know, I like doing my devotions first thing in the morning because I like to give the Lord the first and the best. So the moment my eyes are, are open it’s like it’s “Good morning, Lord” and try to walk in an awareness of His presence all the day long. And, and I’m not perfect in that yet, you know, but I’m working on that and it’s been fun to partner with God for that asking for Holy Spirit’s help. And when you go into your devotion time, you know I, uh, had the blessing of being with Oral Roberts, uh, just prior to, to his departure.
He actually knew that he was going to be going to glory so for the last 18 months of his life he would bring leaders by invitation into his own home about 20 at a time and he would say “Okay, you get to ask a question, any question you want, all of you can ask one question.” And the question I had for him was how is it that you could do so much, like so many responsibilities like as a televangelist, as an author of many books, as a, as the founder and, and um, and creator of actually medical institutions and missions and universities and, and, and, oh so much more. And I said how can you do all that and yet keep a vibrant devotional time with God a priority? He said, “Oh, that’s easy!” he said. I call that my sacred time and my sacred place. And he said I just know that God is the most important one in all the universe. There’s no one that deserves higher priority than Him. And he said because I believe that, every day I would mark a time and a place, wherever he was travelling he would find a place to, and that would be his sacred time and sacred place.