Enter Into the Joy of Your Master. First Fruits Adar. The Flight Deck 2-19-2026

Naftali is a hind set free, a deer, a gazelle set free that utters beautiful words. There is freedom in this month. Say there's freedom in this month. There's freedom in this month. See, because when you wrestle, you know it's not gonna be easy but if you have a mindset about prevailing See, if you know the prevailing, then the wrestling suddenly [00:11:33] (27 seconds)  #PrevailingMindset

I have a big long white rope in my office with just a little red end in there, kinda draped around just to remind me of that. Right? The perspective of how short this time is. John Eldridge, the author says, I can I can suffer for something, I can't suffer for nothing? Okay? I can but I wanted to add another part to that. Well, I can suffer for a while. I can't suffer forever. So but here it is. However long that suffering that I have to deal with right now, it's this versus that. [00:21:36] (40 seconds)  #SufferForSomething

But what's out there will will be there. So a couple of references. On the very day, I love this, on the very Say, on the very day. Very day. When the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain mastery over them, the reverse occurred. The Jews gained mastery over those who hated them. Little farther down in chapter nine, the days, this is about the celebration, the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday. [00:09:05] (33 seconds)  #TurnSorrowToGladness

And what I love about Esther, if you if you have haven't yet, start reading through Esther. whatever. Just just read it. There's always new things in there that will speak into you. But part of the key with all that and part of what's gonna be celebrated in Purim when we do that is about this, you reverse the curse. Yeah. Say we got Tammy to pose for that. And, you know, when you read through it, you you and it's it's it's just so remarkably well crafted. [00:07:28] (40 seconds)  #ReadEsther

I want you to get that key, folks. I want you to get that. Lord, show me how to reverse the curse in this month. Hello? We could spend all night in just one part of Esther and I could And it connects to this, then Rachel said, I with great battles, have wrestled with my sister and I have prevailed. So she named him Naftali. Okay? [00:09:38] (43 seconds)  #WrestledAndPrevailed

isn't quite so onerous. Okay? And you can wrestle hard and long if provided you know you're gonna prevail. If you don't know, then it's tough. Go on. hard. But there's this whole sense about freedom, getting free that utters beautiful words. So the combination of all this kinda leads into this phrase that the sages, the old rabbi say, that when a dark comes, joy increases. What's the level of joy that needs to rise up in you? [00:12:01] (43 seconds)  #JoyRisesInDarkness

Joy is a fruit of the spirit. Right? But here's what I wanna get you clear. I have told you these things, says Jesus, that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. There is a big difference oftentimes between the joy that we carry versus his joy. Say, part of what I do on a daily basis when I'm I'm talking with Holy Spirit is I'm thanking him for bearing fruit in me so that my character and behavior, attitudes, and actions are more and more of Jesus. [00:14:38] (36 seconds)  #FruitOfHisJoy

See, in our culture, our joy is typically linked to the to immediacy, to what's current right here. It's contingent on circumstances. Yes? How immediate and what are the circumstances? That's usually the basis of joy. Yeah. I got a new car. Oh, I got engaged. What did, you know, on and on. Got a promotion. Got the idea. It's so much tied into what we feel, what we have, the current context of it all, how we feel about the future. [00:13:04] (38 seconds)  #JoyBeyondCircumstances