The Sound of His Voice — David Wilkerson

The Sound of His Voice

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This morning I want to speak to you on the sound of his voice. The sound of his voice. Heavenly Father, this is just a dead letter unless the Holy Spirit, unless you come Holy Spirit and make it alive and open it to us.

Lord, it's not enough that I've been able to see something and bring it to this pulpit, but it's something now that you have to bring into our hearts and open our minds and our hearts to receive it. Lord Jesus, how we've learned to love you.

How we thank you for your awesome presence. And I'm asking you, Lord, to fill this house with your presence while I preach. I pray that in the annex and in the overflow rooms, your presence would be manifest, that everyone will recognize your presence as the word goes forth and the word would be received in the presence of Christ.

Because when Jesus comes, all the hills melt like wax. Everything melts in your presence. Lord, melt our hearts and help us to understand and hear what the Spirit has to say this morning, we pray in the name of Jesus, amen.

Jesus’ Dependence on the Father’s Voice

I want you to turn to John, the fifth chapter, John, the fifth chapter, and I'd like you to just leave it open on your laps. I'll tell you where to go in this fifth chapter in just a few moments, but turn to the fifth chapter and just leave it laying open on your lap.

And if you don't have a Bible, maybe somebody next to you, folks, if you can, if you see somebody next to you without a Bible, when I direct you to the passage I want you to be directed to, maybe you can just kind of share your Bible and they can see what we're saying this morning.

The sound of his voice. Now folks, Jesus lived his whole life on earth wholly dependent on the voice of the Lord. He did nothing. He said nothing. He taught nothing. No miracle was performed. Anything that he did, everything that he did was done according to what he saw and heard from his heavenly Father here on earth.

And John, the fifth chapter, beginning in the 19th verse, bears this out, 19th verse, chapter 5 of St. John,. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do.

For what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth, and he will show him greater things than these, that ye may marvel.

For as the Father raises up the dead and quicketh them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. You see, the Lord makes it very, very clear that he was led daily. This was a daily walk with the Lord.

When Jesus saw a crippled man at the pull of Bethesda, he said to him, Take up your bed, rise, and walk. And he did, and this was the Sabbath, and the Jews were offended by it because he did it on the Sabbath.

And they were wanting an explanation, and what Jesus said, Well, this is what my Father told me to do. I'm simply doing what the Father said. Jesus answered them, My Father works hereunto, and so I work.

My Father showeth me whatsoever things he himself doeth. These also doeth the Son. He said, I've been taught by my Father. I was told to do this by my Father. I got directions from my Heavenly Father.

And Jesus spake very plainly, I do nothing of myself, but as my Father has taught me, I speak those things. That's John 8, 28. And he that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him.

I speak that which I have seen and heard with my Father. That's what I speak, and that's what I see. Look at me, please. When did Jesus, when did the Father speak to Jesus, and when did Jesus see the Father doing these things?

Was it in eternity before he came, incarnated man? Somewhere back in eternity before the world was created did the Father say, when creation is finished, on a certain Jewish day, on the sixth month, so and so, there's going to be a man by the pull of Bethesda, and I'm asking you to just tell him, rise and walk.

Was this daily plan of God mapped out in eternity somewhere where Jesus said, I knew all these things before I came? Not at all, because that wouldn't be relevant to anything in our lives. We couldn't relate to that kind of a walk, because Jesus came and set a pattern that we, as he is in the world, we would be, we would walk as he walked.

And that wouldn't make any sense to me, and I couldn't follow that kind of pattern. But you see, I believe that this was a daily walk with the Lord, with the Father. I believe that he went to prayer every day, and he heard there was a still small voice inside of the Father that said, do this, do that.

And he was taught by the voice of his Father what to say, and this was a daily walk that the Lord himself practiced. It had to be a seeing and hearing, there had to be an inner working of that voice of his Father at all times.

It was not something back in eternity, it was the way he walked, because he came to walk as a man, to feel like I feel and you feel, to bear our infirmities. And he couldn't have done that unless he walked this and expected his Father daily to guide him.

Prayer, Discernment, and the Beatitudes

Picture Jesus having to make a decision about choosing 12 disciples out of as many disciples, he had to choose 12. Now, where did he get this? Did the Father tell him before he was born as a child? When he was with the Father, begotten of the Father in eternity, did the Father give the names of these apostles?

If that was so, why did he spend a whole night in prayer? The Bible said he prayed, listen closely to what it said, he continued all night in prayer to God. Went alone on a mountain and began to pray and he asked the Father, who do I choose?

And 12 names were given to him by his Heavenly Father, and he chose them and he named them. And while that same night he's on the mountaintop praying along with the Lord, God the Father gave him what we call the Beatitudes, he gave the very next day.

This wonderful truth that he was teaching, he said, I don't say anything except what I hear from my Father. So that night before on the mountain he heard this teaching, this was something that came out of the heart of the Father, and he said, as my Father speaks, so I speak.

And he gave all the blessings, blessed of the poor, blessed of the meek, and all the woes that came in the Beatitudes the next day. Jesus spent time daily, I believe, with the Heavenly Father. He spent hours after every miracle, after every great sign, everything that he did, he rushed back to his Heavenly Father.

You see this clearly illustrated in the 14th chapter of Matthew. The Scripture says that he had been brought a message that John the Baptist had been beheaded. And the Scripture says when Jesus heard it, he departed, thence by ship, into a desert place apart.

He went way out, I don't know if he went to the same desert where John the Baptist had spent many years, but he got alone. First of all, there was a grief in his heart, the human grief, John the Baptist was a friend and a respected worker of his, and beloved prophet of God.

And it was there, in that desert, though, that God began to direct him for the very next day. He shut alone. You see it everywhere. He's gone to a desert, he's gone to a mountain, he's always talking to the Father.

And Jesus came forth out of this desert, and saw a great multitude, was moved with compassion, and healed many. In fact, that very day, he fed 5 ,000 with five loaves and two fishes. And at the end of the day, he sends them away.

Now folks, he's ministered to 5 ,000 people, he's healed as many as came to him for healing. He fed the multitudes, a busy, heavy day. What does he do after he feeds the 5 ,000? Is it a time to get alone with his chosen disciple, maybe Peter, James, and John, and just have a quiet meal somewhere?

Or did he go to Bethany a few miles away, and did he just say, it's time for me to be alone and recuperate for a week or so? So, you know, when I'm out preaching, and I've had a busy day preaching twice to pastors, and then an evening big rally, I usually go out and have a meal with my wife and friends, or those in my party, and we just talk about what God has done.

But that's not what Jesus did. The only way he wanted to recuperate, he immediately escaped to a mountain to be alone with the Father. And the Scripture said he went up into the mountain apart to pray, and he's ministered all day.

And he goes up and he prays, and when evening was come, he was there alone. Now folks, Jesus knew the covenant work that he was to do. That was all planned in eternity. He was to come to set the captives free, to loosen prisoners.

He was to heal the sick and open blind eyes. Those were covenant works that had been outlined to him before he came. But in his daily walk, he chose to be totally submitted to the will of the Father. He chose to do nothing, even though he knew these covenant works, these things that he was sent to do.

Folks, there are things that you and I are clearly instructed to do in the Bible. There are things that we know that this is our work. We're to pray without ceasing. We are to walk in his righteousness.

We're to study his Word. We're to minister to the sick. We're to love one another. There are many, many loving commandments of Jesus given to us. Love one another. We know these things. These are covenant works that are all outlined in the Bible.

But you see, it's not just something that is written here. There are some things that are not written here. Daily things that we meet, daily situations, crises that come, and the walk that we have with the Lord.

And we need that voice of the Lord Jesus leading us, guiding us, and speaking to us for things that we don't see just as a pattern or just a commandment. It's something we have to hear immediately. It's something that has to come to us because we have no one else to turn to.

And we need to hear that voice that Jesus heard, the voice of the Heavenly Father. For all things that I've heard of my Father, I've made known unto you, Jesus said. He said, I told you the truth which I heard of God.

This did not Abraham. He said, you religious Jews. I've come to minister to you, but all you have is the dead theology of Abraham, your Father. You're talking about the past. He said, you have picked up some laws that you've learned from the past, and you have some rules and regulations for your life.

But he said, what I'm giving to you is not something from a dead past. He said, you're living in the past, you're living in a dead theology. And there are a lot of people satisfied when they go to church, there's nothing but dead theology.

And they hear often from pastors who have been through seminary, and all of the spiritual life of Christ has been drained out of them, and there's nothing but a dead theology. But Jesus said, I gave you something Abraham didn't give you.

I've been talking to my Father. I was with my Father last night, and I'm giving you a fresh word. I'm giving you something I heard last night. I gave you something I heard this morning. I gave you something I just heard out of heaven.

I'm speaking to you from heaven. Abraham didn't do that. John the Baptist said of him, what he's seen and heard, that's what he testified, that's what he teaches, and no man receives his testimony. Let me share with you where I am in my life and my ministry right now, at the age of 70.

Hearing God in Daily Prayer

I've been asking the Lord Jesus if it's possible for a man or woman today, not just a preacher but any believer, is it possible to live the kind of life that he lived, totally dependent on the voice of the Father, totally dependent on the voice of the Lord Jesus?

Is it possible to live like that? Is it possible to hear a voice from heaven today, giving moment by moment direction? Can we live with a total dependence on the Lord? Is there such a place in God that we can walk as Jesus walked, saying, I don't speak except what I hear my Father, and I don't do that which I've seen of my Father?

Can we see because Jesus is Lord and now He's in glory, can I hear His voice? Can I know His voice? Folks, I've known the extreme joy of being shut in with Him, and I've been preaching about feeding Christ, those times when you're just silent, and He said, my meat is to do the will of the Father, and the will of the Father was to share His heart with His people and with the lost, and when you just sit and hear His voice and let Him minister unto you, that's an extreme joy.

But I've not arrived at that place where it becomes a way of living, where the greatest joy in my life would be to shut in with Him and then to have an ear to hear what the Spirit says at all times. We live so beneath our privileges in what the Lord has laid out here in His Word.

I've been asking, is it possibly wholly dependent on you, or is this just something that I'm conjuring up in my mind? But then I read of Elijah in the Old Testament, standing before the Lord and hearing His voice.

I read of Jeremiah standing in God's presence in prayer, hearing and perceiving the counsel of God. Here's what he said, for who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, who has perceived and heard His voice, who has marked down His words, in other words, who has their hearts marked with His Word, and who has heard it, who's heard this voice?

And Jeremiah's saying, I've heard Him. I stand before Him. You know, you hear these prophets come before Abba and Abba and they said, I come to you before the Lord before whom I stand. They're saying, I've been shut in with God and here, I'm telling you what God has said to me.

And then you hear it from Isaiah, he said, I heard a word behind me saying, this is the way, walk in it. And folks, why wouldn't God speak in this generation when there's so much fear, so much uncertainty, and we need a voice from heaven more than we have ever needed in any generation than we do now.

When has there ever been a generation with such fear and anxiety and terror and hunger and thirst and reaching? Why would God be silent today when we need Him more than ever? And folks, I think it's criminal now for pastors to go to the pulpit with a borrowed message.

I think it's cheating the congregation. I think it's criminal that men today are not hearing the voice of God and coming to the pulpit with, thus sayeth the Lord. It can be criminal a day like this in an hour that is so troubled as we face in this hour.

In the New Testament, I hear these words of John the Baptist. John said, he that hath a bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom which stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.

This my joy therefore is fulfilled. And in the Greek, it says standeth and heareth him means abiding and continuing with him. And John the Baptist says, I've heard his voice and that's my joy. I heard it because I stood by, I abided and I continued with him.

Folks, he's not talking about that short time that he met Jesus at the riverside when the dove came down and announced this was the Lamb of God. John just spoke a few words with him at that time. That can't be what he's talking about.

But John at a very early age went out and isolated himself in the wilderness. Now this is not the typical Christian thing to do. The guy's not calling you to go to some desert and be a hermit as John the Baptist.

But I can assure you he heard the voice of the Lord. That was before Christ was incarnated. That was before Jesus. Way back, God spoke to generations through his own son. But you see, in the wilderness, John was hearing a voice.

He was being trained by that voice. Where did he get it? He had no books. He had no teachers. All he did was pray and meditate and wait on the Lord. There were no teachers there. This man had no fancy clothes.

He had no pleasures of this world. He had no fancy food, no exotic food. He had no bed to lay his head on. This man was in total fellowship and communion with the Lord. This is where he was taught repentance.

This was where he was taught, behold the Lamb is coming and I'm going to decrease but He may increase. Who taught him? There was no teacher, no preacher, no evangelist. He was taught by the Lord. The Lord taught him.

Cornelius and Detailed Guidance from God

Let me tell you plainly what I'm preaching. Plainly what I'm suggesting to you right now. I'm saying that I'm believing that it's possible to be given to daily prayer and it's possible to give oneself up to waiting on the Lord that He will speak His heart directly into that life even giving detailed instructions.

Did you hear what I said? There's a walk that I see outlined in the Bible. I've not arrived there but I am pressing toward this place in Him, a place where you can give yourself to prayer. You make the time.

You see Jesus went about doing good. He was busy all the day but He set the example. I believe it's possible to have the Holy Ghost set a heart so set on seeking God daily, every day giving Him precious quality time and be able to learn to sit at His feet and just minister to Him and wait and allow the Lord Jesus to speak His heart into our lives and to be directed by Jesus Christ and be taught by Him.

I'm saying that this is available not only to preachers but to laymen and I give an example. Cornelius was a layman. He was a soldier and an angel appears to him. The Bible said he was a devout man, one that feared God with all his house which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God always.

He was always in prayer. Now this is a busy centurion. He's got a hundred men under his command, his immediate command. This man is busy and yet he's praying every spare time he has. And in that prayer the Lord speaks to him.

He calls him and the Bible says an angel appeared but Cornelius recognized him as the Lord. He said, what is it Lord? And immediately the Lord held a conversation with this layman, detailed counsel. He said I want you to go to a certain house by a seaside.

He named the house. He gave the address. He named the man, Peter. And he said I want you to send, he told him to send two men and he gave them directions what he should say and he said he'll come with them.

You bring him to the house, you call all of your family together and I'll tell you what to do next. And at the same time Peter's on a housetop praying. He's a man of prayer and suddenly the Lord speaks to him and said there's going to be some men knocking on your door.

And they're going to tell you a story and you're to go with them. Detailed instructions. He's in conversation with the Lord. It's just a natural thing with this man. Three times the Lord spoke to him, gave him a vision then spoke to him again and again.

You hear it said, there came a voice from heaven and the Spirit said. And you see what happened, the house of Cornelius shook up the whole Pentecostal Jewish church. That God, the thing they couldn't comprehend and the thing that they didn't want to accept in Jerusalem and the rest of the Jewish Pentecostal church that had been baptized in the Holy Ghost was supposed to be full of love.

They couldn't understand how an uneducated layman could hear the voice of God so clearly. To challenge to everyone in this house, Paul testified that the revelation he'd been given about Christ and his gospel was not taught to him by any man.

He said I got it on my knees. He said Jesus Christ himself taught me. Listen to it, but I certify unto you brethren that the gospel that was preached by me is not after man for I never, I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it by man, but I got it by revelation of Jesus Christ.

Personal Revelation and Being Taught by Christ

Now folks, he's not against teachers. Paul said the son was revealed in me, not to me, but in me, that I might preach him among the heathen. I conferred not with flesh and blood. He said, now folks, there were many teachers in Paul's time.

They had received Pentecost long before Paul. I'm speaking of Paul. Peter was there, James, great teacher. All of these teachers, there's Apollos, mighty in the word of God, but he didn't go to man. He went alone and shut himself in with God.

And he said it was there alone with God. Now he's not against teachers because it was Paul who said God has given some prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. He himself was a teacher, but he said I'm going to face a Godless Gentile world.

I'm going to face unbelieving Jews, and I can't have a secondhand revelation who Christ is. I can't have something I get. He said I've spent my life under teachers, under Gamaliel, all of these Jewish teachers.

They filled my mind with all kinds of theology, but he said I want an experience of my own. I want to hear Jesus for myself. I want him to teach me. I want to know who he is for myself. He didn't get it from somebody else.

He had his own touch from God. His own experience of who Jesus was, and from that time on, Jesus taught him. You see, the deep things of Christ have to be revealed by Christ himself. Paul tells us that all believers, every one of us, can be taught by Christ.

Listen to it in Ephesians 4 .21. If so be that ye have heard him. In other words, if you have an ear to hear, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus Christ. Taught by Christ himself. Taught.

Why is there so little revelation of Jesus Christ from our pulpits today? And in the lives of so many believers. We've got a well-trained ministry now. We've got so many PhDs in the pulpit. And folks, when you think of men called to minister the gospel, who spent years in seminaries, and in higher education, and all the books that have to be read, and philosophy, psychology, and ethics, and on and on and on, and the hours, hours to get the mind filled, to have the knowledge, and to study Christ, to spend years studying who Jesus is.

And then stand in the pulpit and it's nothing but death. Because the dear man has never been taught by Christ. He's never had his own experience. He's had it filtered through the minds of men. And he's read everything but the book.

Really asking is, he said, how did you learn Christ? He was saying, we have not learned Christ as the others have. But he's asking us, how did you learn Christ? And that's a question I ask everyone hearing me now.

How did you learn what you know about Jesus Christ? Has everything that you've learned come from a pulpit? Has everything you know about Christ come from a book? Has it come from your Sunday school classes?

That's well and good. That's knowledge. But you need more than knowledge. You have to have a personal word from Christ himself, by Christ. The Bible says all truth is in him. All truth is in Christ. And he alone can teach it.

Now, we're going to get down to you say, well, I thought the Holy Ghost was the teacher. We're going to show you that the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of God, and the Spirit, the Holy Spirit are all one in essence in their work and labors in our heart.

How did you get a knowledge of Christ from just one or two hours a week sitting in church? I don't care how powerful the preaching is. My preaching or anybody else's preaching. You can get what I call the initial, listen closely now, the initial one-time revelation of Christ.

Now, I want you to listen closely where I'm going. Everyone in this house that knows Christ can say, I've had a revelation of Jesus. Yes, you did. Because it's only through the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit that's come, that opened up to you that Christ is God in flesh.

He's opened up to you the plan of salvation. That's the initial thing. Paul had that. He's knocked off his horse. He sees the light. Christ reveals Himself to it. But folks, he didn't go the rest of his lifetime on that one-time initial revelation.

He had to go. You see, that one-time revelation is just an open door to the deeper things of Christ. It's an invitation to come and learn of Him. It's an invitation to have a lifetime of prayer and seeking His face and opening your heart and let Christ come in and tell you all about Himself, who He is, His glory, His power, His might, His goodness, His mercy, His long-suffering in your life.

It's an invitation. And many are satisfied with that initial one-time revelation. They can say, yes, I have a revelation of Christ. And there's a very telling example of this in the 16th chapter of Matthew.

Peter’s Confession and the Need for Deeper Knowledge

Jesus calls His disciples together. And He says, who do men say that I am? You see, Christ at this time was totally rejected. Everyone had rejected Him except His few disciples. Even those who said they were disciples, His word was too hard and they forsook Him.

And He says, who do they say that I am? And Peter, speaking for the disciples, said, you are the Christ. The Son of God. And Jesus said to Peter and to His disciples, no man revealed that unto you, but My Father in heaven revealed that.

You didn't get it just by looking at Me, not even with walking by Me, but a revelation came to you. A revelation came to you that I am the Christ, the Son of the living God. I'll tell you what, turn to Matthew 16.

I want to show you something. Matthew 16. In verse 13, Jesus is saying, whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? Verse 15, you see, but whom say ye that I am? Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona. Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in heaven. Now, verse 19, I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

Whatsoever thou shalt loosen on earth shall be loosened in heaven. Now listen to this. This is an amazing scripture. Verse 20. Then charged He His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ.

Now, think of it. God Himself has already proclaimed Him to the world as the Lamb of God. They've just had a revelation that Jesus is the Christ. And Jesus looks at Peter and says, don't preach it. Don't talk about it.

Why would He do that? Because all He had was the initial, one-time revelation. He really didn't know who Christ was. Because you find Him very shortly after when Jesus began to teach them and show them who He really was and the cross.

Peter reneges about it. He says, you will never go to the cross. How would Jesus allow him to go out and preach a gospel when He doesn't have an adequate revelation of who Jesus is? And what the Lord is saying, unless you have a personal knowledge of Me, unless I have taught you, you have no business preaching.

You have no business proclaiming Christ until you allow Him to work in your heart and show you who He is. So that you're not preaching somebody's theology. You're not preaching doctrine. You have walked with Him.

You've talked with Him. And He's come and revealed Himself to you. I know who He is. I have had a revelation. He's in my heart. He speaks to me. He's shown me His heart. Do you understand? Because the very next verse it says, and from that time forth began Jesus to show unto His disciples how that.

In other words, He began to show them Himself. He said, you're not ready. You say, well, can't I go out and witness? Yes, you can. God will honor His Word. But He's not going to see you through the lifetime of travail and what you face in the days ahead and the pain and the agony.

You have got, when crisis comes, when death comes, when sickness comes, you have got to know Him. You have got to know Him intimately. You have to be taught by Him. Now I perceive a question in the mind of some.

Testing the Voice of God

A question. Brother Dave, isn't it dangerous to open your mind to a still small voice? Isn't that where people have gotten in trouble? Hearing deceiving voices telling them to believe and do ridiculous things.

Oh, I've heard some of the most ridiculous things people say God told me. Or God spoke to my heart. And they're all dumb things that anybody ought to know that God wouldn't talk like that. And what about the devil coming in and knowing that your heart is sincere?

What about the enemy comes in and he whispers and he pretends to be the voice of God, still small voice? And what about the voice of the flesh that comes and mimics the voice of God? Isn't it dangerous?

And then others will say, well, isn't the Bible the only voice? And isn't the Holy Ghost the only teacher? Let me talk about it for just a moment if you would please. I believe, let me talk to you about the Holy Spirit first of all.

I believe the Holy Spirit is in Himself a distinct, living, powerful, intelligent, divine person. Not a human person, but with a personality. I believe that. The Bible says clearly that the Holy Spirit rules the church.

He comforts. He strengthens the weak. He brings divine order. He teaches the riches of Christ. He's the teacher. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. That's just a part of it. It's much broader than that.

Yet in the Scripture, listen very closely, yet in the Scripture, He is called the Spirit of the Son. Galatians 14 .6. God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts. It's also called the Spirit of Christ.

What time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify. 1 Peter 1 .11. In Romans 8 .9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. Now, if Jesus is God, then the same Spirit is in both.

Because He's God. God's Spirit is in them. And the Holy Spirit has been sent by the Father and by the Son. And He represents the mind. He is the mind of Christ. It is the Holy Spirit speaking the mind of Christ.

And it is Jesus. He said, I will come to you and I will speak to you. Folks, don't try to figure out some theological thing and that the Holy Ghost is some kind of a human form. He's not. He's a Spirit.

He's everywhere at the same time. And He's come to glorify Jesus and to manifest Christ in our lives. And everything Jesus said. Now, folks, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. But that Word, every Word that He speaks divinely in our hearts, that can be backed up by this Word and absolutely conforming to this Word we can trust.

Let me give you the Word of protection. How to detect. First of all, the voice of the flesh. Now, folks, you're not going to hear a word from the Lord until you give Him time. As I've said before, pray.

Make your petitions. Worship. Praise Him. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Pray for pastors. Pray for the world. Pray for missions. Pray for workers of the harvest. Spend your time in prayer, but then there's quality time with the Lord.

And when you stop and say, now, Lord, this is your time. And just quietly worship and say, Lord, speak to me. And, folks, I'm not talking about saying, Lord, do I go on vacation on the 5th or the 10th?