In Word and In Deed!

2 Corinthians 10;11, Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present!

Have you ever watched an infomercial, where they talk up a product and SOLD!!! Immediately you’re completely taken in?  Hook, line and sinker!

“Yes Mam! This hand-free, voice activated vacuum will not only clean your floor but the walls and ceilings as well.  It specializes in scrubbing the tub, changes the cat litter and has a special setting for rain gutters as well!  And again, compleeeetely hand free!”

You race to the phone, call 1-800- #1vacuum, wait on hold for an hour because they are experiencing a high volume of calls because the demand is overwhelming, and finally place your order! Your expectancy level is SO high.  You can’t wait until your hand-free vacuum arrives so that you can finally live again!  Won’t life be grand?!?

For two weeks, you’ve waited with baited breath!  When it finally arrives, you rip open the box, and there it is and there are no words.  Wall climbing, anti-gravity, gutter grime control my foot! It’s more likely that the cat will clean its own cat litter box before that vacuum sweeper will.

It was such a let down it couldn’t even let itself down!

Obviously, there’s an integrity issue. The character of that product didn’t match the charisma that sold it!

That’s what Paul is saying here.  “Some might say that because my letters are so convincing and so strong, that when you encounter me yourself, I’m a let down.  But hear this! When I arrive, I will do everything that these letters say I will do, because what I say is the same as who I am!”

This is how it is with God and this is how it should be with His children, His representatives here on this earth.

1. We cannot live to a lesser degree what we profess!
2. We should embrace the challenge speaking the “great and mighty things which we know not”!  This is God’s answer for our life!  When God’s Word seems beyond comprehension, we must acquaint ourselves with it by declaring it and declaring it until that attribute is formed in us!
3. We cannot be afraid to advertise God…even if He sounds too good to be true! Many will find it hard to believe that He is what we say but when they encounter His presence in us, they will discover that He is the same in Word as in deed!

 

UNIMPORTANT

After over an hour of unrestrained praise and worship…the atmosphere was electric with His presence.  You would think that nothing would interfere.  No distraction.

But that’s when it happened.  A thought came to me about something completely UNIMPORTANT.  When I realized I was entertaining it, I drew my attention back to God.

In a few moments, it happened again. This time, a completely unrelated thought of something else UNIMPORTANT.  Again, I garnered my heart back to God.

I thought I was in the clear.  And then, (you guessed it), there it was again.  Not the same thought but something else and can I just spell it out for you again?  UNIMPORTANT.

So I finally caught the drift and asked God, “What’s this all about Father?  Why these thoughts?”

Now, let me just say this, before I give you His answer.  It wasn’t “sin” thoughts, or so I thought.  If you really want to know, (and yes, feel free to laugh at my expense), it was clothing, a series of books I have been reading, and I’m too embarrassed to say the last one out loud but God knows about it, OK?

OK. So here’s what He said.

“When you really enter in and worship Me, your idols will draw you.”

The words to one of the songs I had been singing was “Come, walk into my temple Lord.  Overturn my tables.”

Guess that stuff was flying off the table!

I’m in love with you Jesus.  In love.

 

Word vs. Revelation

Anywhere you see the word “word” in the bible, it translates:  a general term for revelation.

I don’t know why but when I read that statement in my study bible this morning, I felt it get GREAT BIG on the inside of me!

The Psalm I was reading took on a whole new light when I exchanged revelation with word.

Psalm 119

Vs. 9, How can a young man cleanse his way?  By taking heed according to Your revelation.

Vs. 11, Your revelation have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Vs. 16,  I will delight myself in Your statutes, I will not forget Your revelation.

Vs. 17, Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your revelation.

Vs. 25, My soul clings to the dust, Revive me according to Your revelation.

Vs. 28, My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to Your revelation.

Vs, 38, Establish Your revelation to Your servant, Who is devoted to fearing You.

Vs. 41, Let Your mercies come also to me, O Lord—Your salvation according to Your revelation.

Vs. 42, So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your revelation.

Vs. 49, And remember Your revelation to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope.

I’ll stop here because there are 176 verses in the Psalm 119.  But it’s remarkable that in the first 49 verses, revelation is mentioned 10 times.

And just look what’s associated with it!

• cleansing
• antibody to sin
• life
• revival
• strength
• establishment
• mercies
• salvation
• answers to reproach
• hope

So, you may be asking, what’s the difference?

The difference to me is this.

Fairytale vs. reality:

Rather than the word being far removed from my life…a story about someone else, it becomes mine.  “Once upon a time” becomes my history.  “They lived happily ever after” is my future.

Prescription vs. medicine:

You can have a prescription written on paper but it won’t heal you.   Revelation fills the prescription.

Instruction vs. function:

If I’m on a sinking ship. I can read the instructions on how to use the life-preserver but it won’t save me.  Revelation causes me to put it on!

Paper trail vs. Presence

What He says becomes (is) His presence.  Words on a page become wind in my lungs and life in my being.

I must have Revelation.

 

Night Seasons

Psalm 16:7, I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My reins (heart) also instructs thee in the night seasons.

David is blessing the Lord in the passage, because He has given Him counsel.  The very next thing he states is that his heart also instructs him in the night.  I believe David is speaking of his heart and the Lord as one in the same.  The Lord was David’s heart.

Day and night are natural occurrences. Generally speaking, in a 24 hour period, there are equally as many daylight hours as there are night.  It’s something we come to expect and even rely upon.  We need those night hours to rest and to be rejuvenated for the daylight hours ahead. If we didn’t rest, the next period of day time hours would not be as productive for us.  Our lives are regulated by it.

However, this passage alludes to something more. Spiritually, night is a season.  This takes the shift work out of it, removing the element of the clock, opening a different plain.  The seasons are supernatural, in every way.  The wind of God brings them and the wind of God carries them away.  With the changing of the seasons, there is both dormancy and an emerging of life.  Depending on which season, there is either barrenness or fruitfulness.

The night season, has gotten a bad rap.  It’s dark and that comes with fear.  It seems to be an accomplice to the enemy of our soul. Truth be told, the word “night” does mean adversity.  But there’s more to it than that.

It also means to fold back, a spiral step or a winding stair.

Sound familiar? (Genesis 28:10-17) The night gave way to Jacob’s ladder (stair case).  Jacob’s heart had instructed him in the night season.  Revelation came to him.  “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it!”

Think for a moment.

If it weren’t for night, the heavens would not be illuminated so beautifully.

If it weren’t for night, Abraham wouldn’t have seen clearly his inheritance.

In the night, when man couldn’t see, miraculous manna rained down from heaven and covered the earth.

It was in the night when Gideon’s army went forth and defeated the enemy.

(This is just a guess.) It’s in the night, when most children are conceived.

The word seasons translates an appointment, congregation, solemn assembly or a place of meeting.

At its worst, night is adversity.  I don’t discount that it is.  All of us will go through seasons of it.  But what if the adversity is an appointment, a place of meeting for you and God? For me and God.  What if adversity will illuminate the heavens for us?  What if it will cause us to clearly see our inheritance?  What if it brings sustenance that we can’t provide for ourselves?  What if it’s a sure sign of the enemies defeat?  What if night is when I will conceive?

Surely the Lord is in this place!

What are your thoughts?

 

Yes You May

A friend of mine gave a me a Hebrew calendar overview a few years ago and I find myself referring to it on a monthly basis.

One thing that really stands out to me about the month of May is that it the month where

1. (zayin) we are given mercy and grace to finish certain things.

2. we are to connect our walk with our decrees.

With that, ( personally speaking) the Lord has spoken that May is the month of YES!

For a long time, I kept hearing the saying, “Mother, may I?”

And, as if in response to that, I heard, “Yes, you may.”

This is the month of finishing!  Father has permitted us to begin some things and I  believe that some of those are about to come into completion.

For others, this will be a time to seek wisdom because wisdom is ”mothering” us.  Wisdom will be justified of her children. (Matthew 11:19 & Luke 7:35)  It’s in seeking wisdom that the yes will come forth, to move forward in the things of God, instructing as to how that should be accomplished.

God is looking for a people who will say YES!

It may be that in our hearts and with our mouths, we have agreed with God on so many things.  Our yes is precious to Him. In no way am I diminishing that.  It’s time, however, for our actions to align with our yes! What we say must be walked out.

Our yes is more than a Word we have voiced.

When we voice God’s Word, it puts on flesh! Our flesh!  It enables us to do it.

Job 22:28 says, You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways.

Oftentimes we can look at the Word and think that to decree a thing is to simply say it but we are mistaken.

No, a decree is much more than that.

To decree something is a direct result of decision-making.

The English Standard Version of Job 22:28 says this,

You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

When someone makes a decision, their will becomes involved, coming to a conclusion or an expectation of the end of the matter.  Basically, the mindset is of finality, “This is how it’s going to be!”

Looking more in-depth, we discover that much more than the will must be engaged.

The New Living Translation states,

You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you.

Agreement with God…our yes…is what we choose to do in Christ, with Christ in us.

He’s not an ”out there” God, taking care of things for me.

No! He’s an “inside, in me” God, taking care of things with me.

This month, things may be taken care of.   It’s up to us!

 

Turn of Events

I was doing some studying this morning and came across this particular passage in 1 Kings 12 (at bottom of page).  Verse 15 speaks so loudly to me and I believe that we have witnessed a “turn of events from the Lord.”

The New John Gill Exposition of the Bible says this about it.

for  it was a turn of events from the LORD    

 ….it was according to his will and appointment; the defection of the people was willed by the Lord, and various things in Providence turned up to alienate their minds from Rehoboam, and dispose them to a revolt from him in favour of Jeroboam; and the Lord suffered the counsellors of Rehoboam to give him the advice they did, and gave him up to the folly of his own heart to take it:

If your heart is burdened by recent days by official political statements and immoral political strategies thought to improve standings and to bring in votes, read the above again and allow God’s peace to settle in on your heart.

The things that have been spoken and will be spoken in the coming days, I believe are according to the will and appointment of the Lord.  Various things in Providence are about to turn up to alienate minds from and to dispose them to a revolt from certain political viewpoints in favor of another.   

“So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events from the Lord, that He might establish His word…”

God’s going to hear me repeating this to Him in the coming days. Every time something makes headlines, I can read these words knowing that it’s a turn of events from the Lord!

King Rehoboam Acts Foolishly

¹ Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. ² Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, he was living in Egypt (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon). ³ Then they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, ⁴ “Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” ⁵ Then he said to them, “Depart for three days, then return to me.” So the people departed.

⁶ King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?” ⁷ Then they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him. ⁹ So he said to them, “What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, `Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?” <sup>10</sup> The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, `Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ But you shall speak to them, `My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins! <sup>11</sup> `Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

¹² Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.” ¹³ The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him, ¹⁴ and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” ¹⁵ So the king did not listen to the people; for  it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

 

Abiding With Abandon

John 15:1-8,  “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;  and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will  ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”

I’m startled as I read this.  It has become glaringly obvious that there is a difference between simply being in Christ and abiding in Him.

Jesus tells us that any branch that is in Him that does not bear fruit will be taken away.  He goes on to instruct us, abide in Me.

That word abide means to remain in, to continue to be present, to remain as one, with an emphasis on time. In reference to time, we must understand that there is no expiration date.  Abiding is an enduring, eternal work.  Abiding is never a complacent, take it or leave it attitude.  We must take up residence and live in His midst.  It’s a choice.

So, in reality, and I pray that I am relating this well enough, we can be in Him and not really in Him.

Like a woman can have her husband’s last name and not live with him.  There must first be

1. a union

and then after that

2. communion

Abiding is truly the revelation that without Him, we can do nothing.

It’s interesting that Jesus says we are already clean. (vs. 3)  We can look at that as step one of the process: Union (or in Me)

Step two: Communion (abide in Me) is the process.  As we abide, we bear fruit.   This is where we are purged. (vs. 2)

The words clean and purge are very closely related.

The Greek word for clean is katharos.  And the Greek for purge being kathairo.

The initial (cleaning) cuts us away from.  It divides or separates us from corruption, sin and guilt, the false, and makes us unstained.  The second (purging) is a deeper work.  It continues to cut from us the unnecessary things, the useless shoots. The purging keeps us blameless, sincere and guiltless.

In repentance, we yield those shoots to Him again and again.  In our communion with Him, we are enlightened to the “of itself” and the “apart from Me’s” in our life.  It’s in those moments that He lovingly prunes.

 

Bearing Fruit

Since the beginning of the year, God has been speaking to me about the fig tree.

It’s a desire in my heart that my life would bear fruit because in the end, I want to stand before God and have something to show for this life He has redeemed.  With all my heart, I want something of worth to remain after everything is tried.

But I’ve discovered there’s more. The Lord is hungry.

Oftentimes we think that we must bear fruit for the sake of the sinner, so that they might eat and be made righteous.  I agree.  Also, our fruit is essential for the building up and edification of the body of Christ.  The fruit of our life is necessary for our households and brothers and sisters in Christ.  Yes, bear for one another’s sake!

But there’s a reverence that settles in on me when I consider that Jesus saw the fig tree and approached it because He was hungry.  There was something He was looking for in that particular tree that would satisfy Him.  He wanted to eat.

Surface Christianity just isn’t enough.  All the showy leaves that indicate that there is life in me are worthless unless I produce something that will satisfy Jesus.

James tells us that faith without works is dead.  Anybody think of the fig tree when you read that? What if those leaves are faith without works?

Jesus tells us, have faith in God!  I have it!   And the account of the fig tree in Mark 11 says the same. “And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves…” 

The footnotes of my study NKJV study bible state that the fig tree represented professed adherence to God but possessed no spiritual reality.

Full of promise but empty.

Whatever is not producing spiritual realities in my life must go.  Anything that has capped the flow of productivity in my life needs to be removed and here’s the thing, it’s not God’s responsibility to remove it.   I can speak with Him about it all I want but nothing will ever change.

Look at Matthew 21:19-21

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

The Lord has given us the responsibility.  He will not do what we must do ourselves.  It’s time to curse what must be cursed and release the blessing to grow and produce in our lives!

Most Christians don’t like the idea of “cursing” but it’s an weapon in warfare that we can’t allow to become idle.  Jesus used this weapon (Mark 11:21), not on people (I stress that) but on oppressing, depressing, hindering, suppressing spirits. 

To strengthen the idea of this, you might like to know that the word curse is rooted in the Greek (685) meaning prayer (as lifted to heaven).  Cursing is part of prayer.

It’s also rooted in the word exsecratus which translates execration.  (ex-out of/ secra-sacred)

When we utilize this arsenal, we are using our authority to evict some things.  Come out of my sacred!
We must say it and mean it!

Luke 13:6-9, He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it use up the ground? But he answered and said to him, Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well.  But if not, after that you can cut it down.

Friend, when I read the account of the barren fig tree in Luke 13, I don’t want to be just another tree that “uses up the ground”. 

Prophetically speaking, we have one year.  Within one year, if we will utilize the tools given us, there will and must be change. Our life will bear fruit that satisfies a hungry God.

We must dig around the roots and expose them.  What are our roots growing in?  We must be rooted and grounded in the love of God.  Nothing else will do.  Dig.  Prayer is your shovel.  Time alone with a loving God will reveal some things.  Don’t be afraid to discover.  And then fertilize.    As you pray for discernment over your life, allow the things that have been limiting you become the dung that will add to your development.

You may be surprised what may suddenly become refuse.

Philippians 3:8-10, But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him…

 

 

Separation of Church and State

This morning as we came together for prayer here at the church, I heard a terrific statement in my spirit.

“There is coming a true separation of church and state.”

Here is my disclaimer:

I am not talking politics, or am I?  I guess the best claim to make is that because this is of the Spirit, I don’t know the difference. 

What followed was this word from Philippians: 4:11-12, “…for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.  I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

For a moment, consider that this was not simply Paul speaking but rather the voice of the church! I sense that the church is coming into such a contentedness…a soundness.  What Paul was speaking of was true prosperity.  He knew what He had whether it was in His hand or not.  Regardless of the circumstances, He lacked for nothing.  Not relationally, physically, emotionally, financially, etc.  Nothing.

After this, I saw coins with Caesars image.  (Matthew 22:15-22).

Clearly in my spirit, I heard, Who’s image do you see?

What God was implying here was that prosperity has a different image.  We can look at money and clearly see the face or head of a particular man representing a government.  But it’s not that simple. Money is not prosperity. Not with God.  If it were, Peter and John would have been speaking out of a poverty spirit when they approached the lame man at the gate Beautiful. (Acts 3)  “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.”

 

 

It’s time to render what is due to the Spirit of the Living God!  There is a separation coming between church and state.  I believe it!

2 Corinthians 8:10-12, And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago;  but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.  For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

What do you have?

God is asking.

 

Don’t Be Flattered

Ever walk away after being slathered with compliments thinking, “Well, that was a bit much” or feeling unsettled in some way?  What they said was nice enough but it just didn’t sit right.  Maybe you’ve been on the receiving end.  Maybe you haven’t.  Perhaps you merely witnessed a conversation that nearly bordered on idolatry.  Or worse yet, (and I would be willing to bet that most of us reading could testify to this) it was you who was overheard or left someone feeling that way.  (Ouch, I know it hurts.)

It’s called flattery.

I want to bring some definition to the table before I go any further.

flatter: to praise excessively especially from motives of self-interest; to beguile, to display or take advantage

encourage: to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to urge, spur on, stimulate

edify: build, establish, to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge.

Keeping that in mind, on Sunday morning, I was teaching the children on the basis of the scripture, Mark 3:25, And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

The visual I used to demonstrate this for the kids was to take a pencil for each child represented in the room.  One pencil could be easily broken.  We established that right away.  But when you put all the pencils together and bound them with rubber bands, it was impossible to break them.

I began to describe some things that might pull us away from unity and one example was flattery.

What I said, surprised even me and I learned from it.  The kids had no idea that I was having a major revelation but Holy Ghost was teaching. What came out was this…

“When someone flatters you, it will make you love yourself more than other people and even God.”

We must not mistake flattery for encouragement and edification.

Psalm 5:9 warns us, There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.

Where there is flattery taking place, a lying spirit is at work.  Psalm 5 even goes on to tell us that this sort of nature is “rebellious against God” (vs. 10).

In Colossians 2:1-3, Paul was writing a letter, using encouragement and edification…

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;  That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;  In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And in verse 4 warns them of being beguiled or flattered.

 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

He illustrated beautifully genuine encouragement & edification so that they (we) would recognize flattery and not be enticed by it.

There are certain elements noted above that will be evidenced in it.

1. Our hearts will be comforted. (Comfort is a work of Holy Spirit, not of the flesh or soul)

2. Our hearts will be knit together in love.

3. There will be riches of the full assurance of the understanding (of God and who we are in Christ)

4. The mystery of God, the Father and Christ will be acknowledged.  (in other words, it will be laden with the gospel through and through)

5. Treasures of wisdom and knowledge will be accessed.

Jude 21 tells us “build yourself up in our most Holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit”.  I emphasize, yourself.  When we understand that it’s our responsibility to build ourself, to encourage ourself, we won’t fall prey to flattery.  Prayer inoculates us.

One statement made in my lesson plan was that “Satan can never make a house fall from the outside.”  That’s a bold statement and one that could be challenged.  It made me do a double take. But if that’s true, that means that division will always come from within.  Somewhere, “a pencil” isn’t praying or co-operating with Holy Ghost and crumbling on the inside.

Romans 14:19 instructs us to ”pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.”  

Peace means we are no longer at war with God.  Every matter between us is settled.  We are to pursue this and acknowledge it in one another.

The true key to edifying without entering into flattery is found in 2 Corinthians 12:19, “…we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.”  We should always speak to one another with an awareness that we are before God in Christ.

Edification ministers grace unto the hearer.  Ephesians 4:29

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go do some praying in the Holy Ghost! I want to be “built Spirit tough”! Sorry Ford!