1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:03,900 Thank you for listening to the river. 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,700 Bend Church podcast Reverb in church exists to lead all people 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,700 to know love and live New Life in Jesus Christ. 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:13,000 We hope that you enjoy this message. 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,300 Well, good morning Riverbend Church. 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,100 Good morning here in Gainesville and everybody who made it in 7 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:24,500 through the crazy winner. Again, we had spring a couple 8 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:27,500 weeks a few days ago now we got winter again and so good morning 9 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:29,700 to you guys. Oh quit good morning to you. 10 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:32,800 So, Glad that that you guys are with us today and everybody 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,900 online. My name is Joe and I'm the 12 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:37,700 pastor here and if it didn't get to meet you today, here in 13 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:38,800 Gainesville, I'd love to meet you. 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,100 I know, Pastor Michael would love to meet you if he didn't on 15 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,900 the way in today at Oakwood. And so we're diving into week 16 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:47,500 four of our series, your will not mine. 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,300 And so, this Series has led us through 21 days of fasting and 18 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:53,300 prayer. Today is day 15? 19 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,500 And if you don't think I'm counting, you better believe 20 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:59,300 that I am six more days, six more days. 21 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,400 I you know, One thing I've learned is I look back on this 22 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,000 season and I go God, I'm so glad I did that Lord, it was good but 23 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,900 in the middle of it, you're like, whoa, come on now. 24 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,800 It's when you make a commitment of any kinds of the Lord. 25 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:14,900 I heard some people cutting out sugar, like you're going to 26 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,600 marriage counseling, just because you cut out sugar, you 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,800 don't have to go to counseling to get over this crazy. 28 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,500 The things that we've said, God I'm gonna I'm gonna put aside 29 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:26,100 something in my life that I like her love in order to get more of 30 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:29,200 you and also that you may have more of me. 31 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:30,400 And so, here's the thing. Thing. 32 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,000 Next Sunday, we're calling it break through Sunday, we've got 33 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 baptisms lined up, people that have gone from Death To Life 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,700 over the last several weeks, and they're going to make that 35 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,900 profession in Jesus public through baptism next week. 36 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:46,000 And so both here and at Oakwood, listen, if you haven't taken 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,600 that next step of baptism, what a better day, what better day to 38 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:50,800 do it? They don't break through Sunday, 39 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,200 January 29th. And so all you need to do, let 40 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,900 us know on your connect card. You can go online and shoot me a 41 00:01:55,908 --> 00:01:57,700 message. There, you can find the baptism 42 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:01,300 info there or you can catch one of our Masters our staff in the 43 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:03,400 lobbies on the way out and just say, hey I want to talk about 44 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,900 baptism but we want to loo love to celebrate that with. 45 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:09,000 You also will be taking the Lord's supper together in all 46 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,500 our services, both campuses next week. 47 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:13,700 And so we're pressing onto this new year. 48 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:19,000 And here's what we've said so far in the series 2023, it will 49 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,700 be my best year yet. If I live it under the lordship 50 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,300 of Jesus Christ, not just acknowledging, God, not just 51 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:28,000 saying Lord. You know, I tip my hat to you. 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,900 I do believe in you but saying, God, I'm Already this year to 53 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,600 align myself under your will for my life. 54 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,200 What do you say? What do you want knowing that 55 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,600 that's going to be the most powerful and anointed year that 56 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,400 we can ever have under his lordship? 57 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:46,900 And so, our best year yet comes from the one who wants more and 58 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:49,700 better for us than we even know how to want for ourselves. 59 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:52,700 It really comes down to trusting in this prayer because this 60 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:56,600 really is a prayer and a statement Jesus, your will not 61 00:02:56,700 --> 00:02:59,800 mind God, I want your will for my life and so what I want to 62 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,100 Here today is what I'm going to call for Dangerous prayers for 63 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:06,600 2023 and their prayers. That I really believe that if 64 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,000 you'll take this to heart today, you're going to have an outline 65 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,700 in your notes today in that bulletin there on the back. 66 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:13,700 There's if you take it there's a note guide there and I'd 67 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:16,100 encourage you to use it. And here's why this is going to 68 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:19,200 become a private prayer session between you and God at some 69 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,500 point this week. Maybe even every day this week. 70 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,700 And so when I wrote this, I started walking through it 71 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:27,300 myself and it's been powerful as I have prayed these prayers. 72 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:29,800 The Lord has started doing some new work in. 73 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:31,200 In me. And so it's kind of just me 74 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,000 shared my journal with you today, but when I say dangerous 75 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,200 prayers, there's automatically sort of a roadblock when I say, 76 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,300 I'm going to ask you to do something dangerous. 77 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:44,800 You know why we have conditioned ourselves? 78 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,500 So much to stay away from danger. 79 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,800 You think about, you know what Jeff and we were kids, man? 80 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,000 There's no helmets, no shoes, jump on the bike, you go do what 81 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 you want man. Do a backflip - hey try to stay 82 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,700 alive, Plato dark come home, but nowadays it's like got out of 83 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:00,800 hell. My elbow pad. 84 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,300 No, you gotta take. You can't take the training 85 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:03,200 wheels off. And listen. 86 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,700 I'm not knocking. I said I get it. 87 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:06,700 I get it. Like we have to we have to be 88 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:10,300 safe but sometimes when it comes to God's kingdom, what you'll 89 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:13,100 find out is our prayers are always like this Lord, just keep 90 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:14,700 us safe. Where are the prayers? 91 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:17,399 God call me out into something that I'm scared to death to do. 92 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:19,200 Where are the prayers? Like God? 93 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,200 I'm so ready to have freedom in life transformation in my life 94 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,400 that I refuse to stay safe with you. 95 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:27,300 Of course, we want our kids to be safe and I want to be safe, 96 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:28,700 you know where my seat belt, too. 97 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,100 But I'm just saying, there comes As a point though where I'm like 98 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:33,900 God call me into something. So big that people are going to 99 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:37,100 think you're crazy. You're praying dangerous prayers 100 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:41,300 and so today I hope to convince you of some dangerous prayers 101 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,200 that you can pray, that literally can begin to call you 102 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,100 out. Like Peter onto the water, you 103 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:47,200 know, there's a story in the Bible. 104 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,100 Peter, Jesus came Walking On The Water. 105 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,100 Peter was in the boat. He was the only one that had the 106 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:54,000 courage to say Jesus. If it's, you call me out there 107 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:58,000 in the raging Storm, he didn't say Jesus, just keep us safe in 108 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,300 the boat. He said, help me get out. 109 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,100 And so he Stepped out and he walked on the water. 110 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:06,500 And so we're going to take this lesson today from a man who 111 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,400 originally prayed dangerous prayers, a lot of them. 112 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,700 And the reason that we know he prayed him as he gave us his 113 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:15,200 journal, God allowed his journal to actually be inspired part of 114 00:05:15,207 --> 00:05:17,300 the word of God and we call it the book of Psalms. 115 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:19,500 But if you know what's you've got to know what songs really 116 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:20,400 is. This the book? 117 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,100 It's David's Journal. King. 118 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:25,300 David is his name, a journal. He wrote the 23rd. 119 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:27,500 Psalm the Lord is my shepherd. That's King David. 120 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:31,200 And here's what God had to say about David, as A young man God 121 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,100 was telling the current King Saul. 122 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:36,200 He said, you know what, because of your sin, you're not going to 123 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,900 be king anymore but I want you to look at this descriptive 124 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:41,200 statement about the guy that wrote this dangerous prayer. 125 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:44,300 He says, Saul your kingdom must send for the Lord has sought out 126 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,900 a man. And here it is, after his own 127 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:51,200 heart, a man who has the heart of God, who has the desire, like 128 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,200 the heart of God. And so, this is the only time in 129 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,200 scripture where God says that there's a man after my heart of 130 00:05:57,207 --> 00:06:00,400 person after my heart person who wants to know me, Of me and live 131 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,000 a new life. Now, for sure, if you read about 132 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,300 David, he also had a lot of sin. We know about that, but it's 133 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:09,800 like his prayer life. If you see in his journal, he 134 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,400 constantly put things right size. 135 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,700 He brought himself back to God again. 136 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:16,800 And again through prayer, he prayed dangerous prayers. 137 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:18,800 Do you know why? David prayed dangerous prayers? 138 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,100 Because I've read his journal, several times called Psalms. 139 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,100 I read his story if you can find that first second first and 140 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:28,000 second Samuel but I looked at his story and he prayed 141 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,500 dangerous prayers because that's where true Transformation 142 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:32,800 happened. He prayed dangerous prayers 143 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,100 because they called him to step out on faith. 144 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,500 And trust God for big things, he prayed dangerous prayers because 145 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:40,600 they brought him into a deeper knowledge of God. 146 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,500 He got to know, God, more and surrender to God more. 147 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,600 And so today, it's going to come from to short verses in one of 148 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,400 the kind of his journal entries. Psalm 139. 149 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:56,600 And here's what it says. Search me, o God and know my 150 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,900 heart. Test me and know my anxious 151 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:04,400 thoughts, man. It's just powerful. 152 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,700 Point out. Anything in me that offends you 153 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,400 And lead me along the path to everlasting life. 154 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:20,100 So, if you just read through those words in your mind, you 155 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:24,300 just prayed a dangerous fear, not that they endanger your life 156 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:27,900 actually, Chris, who's over our technical. 157 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:30,100 So one of our elders here, he brought it up when I when I 158 00:07:30,108 --> 00:07:32,100 share this message with a staffing said you know, it's 159 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:34,800 kind of deceptive because you're saying it's dangerous fairs but 160 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,800 really it's prayers that are going to actually lead you where 161 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:37,800 you want to go. They're not really that 162 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,300 dangerous because they're actually good for you. 163 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:40,600 But but listen, what I mean date? 164 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,000 Why do I say they're dangerous prayers. 165 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,900 When you pray this prayer, I'm going to break it down into four 166 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:47,800 prayers. When you pray this prayer, they 167 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,500 don't endanger your life. They endanger your pride. 168 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:55,400 They don't endanger your life. They endanger your confort. 169 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:58,900 They endanger the status quo in your life. 170 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,200 Do you know what else? They also endanger? 171 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,000 The secret sins that have been holding us back for a long time. 172 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,700 That's where the danger comes in. 173 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:10,600 They're dangerous to the enemy, the enemy that wants to strangle 174 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,700 you and choke you back and pull you back and pull you back from 175 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:17,700 God's best for you. They endanger the enemy and so 176 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:19,600 when I say they're dangerous fears, they aren't dangerous 177 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,700 peers, not in the way of like they're going to put your In 178 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:25,800 danger, they're gonna put your pride and comfort in our sin in 179 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,400 danger of losing the battle. So I want to go back through 180 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,400 these four prayers here. David first said this, he said, 181 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,600 God search me. And know my heart. 182 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,100 So here's the first dangerous prayer. 183 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:41,400 Three Little Words search my heart. 184 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:46,200 Search my heart. Lord. 185 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:51,300 Psalms also tells us that we should be still and know that he 186 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:53,700 is God. And when you put these two 187 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:56,600 things together that you're being still in the presence of 188 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,800 God and you're praying a prayer and then you're listening, 189 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,000 you're praying a prayer and you're not talking to God after 190 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,300 that, you're saying one thing in here, search my heart and then 191 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,000 you just pause before the Lord and let him start speaking. 192 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,000 You want to know if God speaks to you I dare you to get along, 193 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,400 put distractions aside get into a place. 194 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,100 Say these three words sincerely from your Your heart to the 195 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:19,500 heart of God. And then listen. 196 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:24,700 Listen to what the Lord may say to you or reveal to you. 197 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,000 When David said search my heart. What kind of search was he 198 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,700 talking about? Well, this week, I told you a 199 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:36,600 couple weeks ago, according got me are pods for Christmas and I 200 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,000 loved it because I listen to podcast, you know, working out 201 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,300 you can tune things out a little better, but I had one in my ear 202 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,000 and we were sitting in my truck and I'm not real good with them. 203 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,500 Like, they fall out of my ears. Sometimes it felt to me or down 204 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:49,900 between the seats. So we get out of the truck, we 205 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:51,900 go around, she's on her side. I'm I'm digging them. 206 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:53,400 I'm not going anywhere till I find this thing. 207 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,200 I just got it so we're digging all. 208 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,800 I couldn't find anywhere. Took everything out of the 209 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,000 backseat. I let the sea. 210 00:09:58,100 --> 00:09:59,700 Seat back and forth. I mean I'm looking everywhere 211 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:02,300 and I cannot find the searching searching searching. 212 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,000 And so I'm like it didn't fall out the door, look under the 213 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,700 truck where we open the doors. And so I take my phone light and 214 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:11,100 it starts shining all around down in between the seats. 215 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:14,300 And I all of a sudden I catch a glimpse of the little shiny 216 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:15,900 piece, a little metal piece on the end. 217 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:19,000 It was reflecting. It was about 18 inches down in 218 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,300 this little cylinder plastic cylinder, right beside the seat 219 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:26,800 belt. And so I looked up online, how 220 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,700 to get to that? You got to take the Over seat 221 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:31,600 out and take the side of the center console off to get to it. 222 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,300 It's so I call Aaron, I called are Mulliken and because I, he's 223 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,400 got a bunch of tools that I was wondering, if maybe had like a 224 00:10:39,408 --> 00:10:42,100 little claw tool or something that I could and he goes no but 225 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:43,300 you may be able to get it with a magnet. 226 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:45,600 So sure enough I went and I got one of those, telescoping 227 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,600 magnets. And I like fed at all the way 228 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,300 down in there and I just happened to pull out. 229 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,200 Barely got it back out, so there there it is, that's the second 230 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:54,400 time. I've dropped him in my truck and 231 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,900 couldn't find him by the way, but that time was crazy. 232 00:10:56,900 --> 00:10:59,900 And so when I, when I thought David said, search my heart I 233 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:02,700 think he's talking about search like Joe was searching for his 234 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,200 lost are R-pod he wasn't giving up on it. 235 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,300 He was going to go get the magnet. 236 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:10,400 Listen, some of us, we need to let God take a telescoping 237 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,900 magnet to our heart and go down there and pull out some stuff 238 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:14,300 that he hadn't dealt with in a long time. 239 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:19,000 Come on, get on down in the god, listen, I'm good, I'm good Lord. 240 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,200 But no no search me God, get the magnet out on me. 241 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,400 God and go down in there and see if there's anything you need to 242 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 pull up that we hadn't talked about in a while. 243 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:29,300 Something you want to set me free from that I hadn't been 244 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:31,900 free from, let me give you a question to help you reframe 245 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,700 this search here. What is going on inside me? 246 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,800 Even if it doesn't make it outside me, this hurt my 247 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,800 relationship with God or hurting your relationship with your 248 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,300 spouse or your friends, or the people around you, what's going 249 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:49,300 on inside. And here's the argument just 250 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:51,900 because it's once it starts going on inside of you, 251 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:53,800 eventually it will make it outside of you. 252 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,900 I would I should have said that hap made it outside of me yet. 253 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:01,500 That is hurt my relationship with God, because think about 254 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,000 it. Where does where does sin start? 255 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,300 It starts in our heart, doesn't it didn't always come out in our 256 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:10,700 hands and our feet and our words, it starts in the heart. 257 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:14,600 Lust lust hides in the hearts and starts in the heart and it 258 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,300 also hides in the heart lust will hide in the heart and see, 259 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:20,600 God doesn't want us just to look good on the outside. 260 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,000 He wants to deal with that, inner hurt, and that inner pain 261 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,300 that's inside of us in that inner sin. 262 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,800 Battle that so he wants to help us in that struggle, anger, 263 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,100 hides in the heart, you can smile and tell everybody else. 264 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:36,600 Everything is Okay, nothing, nothing man, I'm fine today. 265 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,600 I'm having a good day and you can be raging inside rage hides 266 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,000 in the heart unforgiveness hides in the heart. 267 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:48,500 And I'm not saying this to send but we know this to be true past 268 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:51,700 hurt, and Trauma can also hide in the heart and be impacting 269 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:57,100 your entire life right now. And so Jesus was serious about 270 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:58,700 what was going on inside of your heart. 271 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:02,700 Look what he says a person who produces good things from the 272 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:05,800 treasury of a good heart of Treasury of a good heart. 273 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,400 And a person, produces evil things from the treasury of an 274 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,700 evil. Heart treasury's, Like, 275 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:16,700 overflow, overflow of my heart. What you say, flows from what is 276 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,000 in your heart. And on Jesus, Just Dropped a 277 00:13:19,008 --> 00:13:22,600 Bomb here. What he says is if things are 278 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:27,200 making it out of your mouth then there's something deeper to them 279 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,000 because you know, sometimes people say things and they said 280 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,800 well I didn't mean what I said. I'm not saying we don't misspeak 281 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,300 sometimes but if it's a repetitive thing something that 282 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:36,600 just keeps going. It's not just a misspeak. 283 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,100 There's something in the heart and I'm not saying we should 284 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:40,900 point the fingers at everybody else you know where we need to 285 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:43,200 point to first right here this guy. 286 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:46,600 If there's something that keeps coming out of my mouth this 287 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,000 dishonoring God maybe Unholy language may be hating on 288 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,400 people, maybe. Cutting people down, eventually 289 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,300 you got to turn the gun and go, you know what? 290 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,100 It's not just, it's not just how I was raised. 291 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,300 It's not just me. Miss speaking, I got some heart 292 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,500 issues that I need God to deal with. 293 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,200 Do you know what sin does that hide in the living room and 294 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,000 kitchen of our hearts? Either it hides, an unfinished 295 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,200 basement and the dark closets. You know why? 296 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,600 I want, I don't want it to be exposed and so this is a 297 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,200 dangerous prayer. Lord search my Heart. 298 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,500 You know why? It's dangerous because you let 299 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:26,400 the holy spirit in and he's going to start working on you, 300 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:28,800 he's going to start bringing conviction, you haven't felt in 301 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,300 a while. He's going to call you to 302 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:33,400 confession and repentance and maybe even call us to Freedom. 303 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:37,400 So it's a transforming prayer, especially when we act on it. 304 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:41,400 So I dare you to play pray this prayer, this week. 305 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,700 If your pastor can, they are you and that's okay. 306 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:46,700 I dare you to get before the Lord in a quiet, place for a few 307 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:51,300 minutes, and go God search, my heart, searched my heart. 308 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:53,800 Now here's the thing. Once you do that, the spirit of 309 00:14:53,808 --> 00:14:57,200 God won't force you to change. He invites you to change, it 310 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,900 gives you the power and authority, you need to change, 311 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,700 but he never ever forces you. Why? 312 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:06,800 Because he invites us, you know, this is, this is how the Holy 313 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,800 Spirit works. Works on us too. 314 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:11,700 We pray, this prayer. God begins to reveal things and 315 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:15,300 then, he allows us to walk and leave the oldest behind and step 316 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:17,500 into the new. You, it's a little bit at the 317 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:18,900 time, God knows we can't handle it. 318 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:20,800 All at one time, he gives us his Spirit. 319 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,500 Immediately, there's a new me living inside of me, because his 320 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,900 spirit is there, but now I've got a walk that out every day 321 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,500 and sometimes you feel like you went backwards, not forwards 322 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:32,400 some days but you get back up again and you walk for it again 323 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,600 and go God keep searching my heart. 324 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:39,800 Here's the second prayer. Test my mind. 325 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,800 Test my mind. Now there's a lot that I don't 326 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,400 like about this prayer. I actually have become more 327 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,600 comfortable with Lord, search my heart. 328 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:55,000 Then test my mind, Two reasons. One, the mind is where a lot of 329 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,400 crazy stuff goes on. I know. 330 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,700 None of y'all think crazy thoughts and you don't have bad 331 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:01,900 soundtracks in your head. Sometimes about yourself or 332 00:16:01,908 --> 00:16:04,700 about the world around you or about your pastor about your 333 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,000 regret. But listen, sometimes that beats 334 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,100 me up and I don't know if I want to let God in on what's going on 335 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:11,600 in my mind even though he's already there. 336 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,200 But also to say, Lord, test my mind, there's already so many 337 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,200 mental health struggles, the enemy right now. 338 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,600 I really believe this. It is a, it is one of the 339 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,900 tactics of the enemy demonic attack, over the minds of God's 340 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:26,700 people. It's fine. 341 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:30,100 Your heart can belong to God, but it's almost like, don't give 342 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:32,600 him your mind though. Don't let the Lord in your mind. 343 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,200 Because Lord forbid, he may come in and start wanting to heal 344 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,000 that and rewire some things and ask you to change some things 345 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,500 and get some counseling and deal with some of the things that 346 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,300 have been that you've been you're wrong. 347 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,200 Wrong thought patterns, you've been dealing with the see 348 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,000 David's prayer. Here gets to the root of the 349 00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:49,500 mental struggle. Look what he says. 350 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:54,900 Lord test me and know my anxious thoughts. 351 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:59,800 He gets very specific test me and know my anxious thoughts. 352 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:02,500 Do you know why this is a hard prayer because you're asking God 353 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:06,099 to test you. Nobody, I know loves to think 354 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:06,800 about that. I did. 355 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,700 God, will you just test my mind today? 356 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:12,500 Come on Lord, bring your test. I saw a meme and it made me 357 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:14,500 think about it. Some of you felt like this, this 358 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:17,800 last year me calling God to make sure I'm not on his strongest 359 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:23,000 Warriors list again in 2023. I saw this week is some people 360 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,099 told me when we're going into this fast and New Year, they 361 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:28,099 were like, listen, Joe 2022. God tested me. 362 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:30,400 Plenty, I'm not praying this. I'll pray search my heart, but 363 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,200 I'm gonna skip to the third period because I'm not praying 364 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,900 that one. Test me, Lord. 365 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,100 But look, what he was praying, though. 366 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:38,800 He was praying about anxious thoughts worries. 367 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,400 You know what? That gets at that gets it places 368 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,500 in our lives where we're not, trusting God. 369 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:48,800 So, here's the question. What worry Have I made bigger 370 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,700 than God in my life? Life. 371 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:55,000 King David had plenty to worry about you, go read his story. 372 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,400 Here's what you'll find out. He lived at War almost his 373 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,500 entire life. He lived at War either somebody 374 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:02,900 was gonna attack him or he had to go attack somebody when he 375 00:18:02,908 --> 00:18:05,800 was a young man. God anointed him to be the king 376 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,200 and then for 15 years he pretty much was on the run from the 377 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,000 current King King Saul running for his life. 378 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,600 You lived on the run for that long and he'd actually done. 379 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,400 Nothing wrong. This guy was an evil guy that 380 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,600 was just after him at the end of David's life. 381 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,200 One of his sons tried basically Roku and tried to overtake the 382 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,900 kingdom. And so even at the end of his 383 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:28,400 life, it ended in total chaos, and War. 384 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:33,300 And so David constantly had reason to worry and yet here he 385 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:36,000 says, Lord will you test my anxious thoughts? 386 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:39,900 Show me where I'm not trusting you God, where have I made my 387 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,000 worries bigger than my God see this is the crazy thing. 388 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,200 We trust that we have a God who that when we die and our body is 389 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,000 here and our spirit is gone. We trust that he's going to take 390 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,500 us to heaven. But we don't trust that he's 391 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,700 bigger than whatever we're worried about currently many 392 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:56,500 times. Do we? 393 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,100 God, I know you going to take me to heaven when I die. 394 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,100 But do you really care about my day to day? 395 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:03,800 And he does see, this is dangerous prayer, invites the 396 00:19:03,808 --> 00:19:06,700 Holy Spirit to search our minds and point out. 397 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:08,400 Where am I? Not trusting you God. 398 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,500 That's what David was getting at. 399 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,400 God, I'm probably overlooking some things. 400 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:12,500 Where am I? Not trusting. 401 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:14,400 You remember what Paul said about worry? 402 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,600 Philippians 4. He said this don't worry about 403 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,600 anything and that statement always ticks me off because I 404 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,700 love it. Don't you just love it when 405 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:24,200 you're Stressed out and people say hey don't worry. 406 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,000 You just want to go like give a little smack real quick. 407 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,300 It means nothing. Right it's empty words. 408 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:31,600 Don't wear hey hon, don't worry about that. 409 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,800 Do you know? That makes no sense but here's 410 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,300 what happens. Paul gives us what to do here 411 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:44,600 instead. Pray about everything, tell God 412 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,300 what you need, it's okay. God welcomes our prayers. 413 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:49,800 We've used this in our prayer, service God, welcomes. 414 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,900 Our prayers. He wants you to tell him. 415 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Your needs. So when we say I'm praying, your 416 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,900 will not mine. That doesn't mean that I can't 417 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:59,600 pour my desires out to the Lord. He welcomes that. 418 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,500 He says, tell God what you need. But then also, here's part of 419 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:06,000 our prayer life. Thank him for what he has done. 420 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,900 And by the way, gratitude in prayer time will change your day 421 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,100 completely. Another challenge. 422 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:14,000 I'll give th not part of the dangerous prayers. 423 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,200 Another challenge. I'll give to you. 424 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:18,800 Start your journal or start your prayer time with his many, good 425 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,900 things from your past. As you can remember that God has 426 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:23,700 done for you before you worry about the worries of the day. 427 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,800 Thank God for everything he's already done. 428 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,300 I kind of like to do this backwards first, thank God and 429 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,400 then tell him what I need because he gets my mindset. 430 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,500 A lot of times it says that then you're going to experience God's 431 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:36,200 peace which exceeds anything we can understand. 432 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,700 And this is I love this verse because it's in the midst of 433 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:42,000 anxiety, it doesn't say he has to remove what we're anxious 434 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,200 about. We don't have to be healed from 435 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,800 our anxiety, to find his speech right in the middle of it. 436 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:50,400 He can speak peace right over you right in that moment and 437 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,300 sure you may have to go out and keep working on, whatever's 438 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:56,300 making you anxious and get to the root of it and dig down and 439 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,100 get some help and get a prayer counselor and get some friends 440 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:01,200 around you. But but the truth is Is God can 441 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,500 speak peace. That is separated from 442 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,700 circumstances. And it says his piece is going 443 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:07,800 to guard your hearts and Minds as you live in Christ. 444 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,300 Jesus. So let me give you in short what 445 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:13,500 Paul was saying here. If you will let worry prompt you 446 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,500 to prayer, you'll find peace there if you'll let Worry Be 447 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,900 Your prompt to prayer, what do we usually do? 448 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:22,200 When we worry where we start thinking about more things that 449 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,800 could go wrong and we just fixate on it. 450 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:28,600 So one of the rewiring our brains thing that I think David 451 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,400 had learned to do and God wants To do every time we feel 452 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,900 worried, let that prompt us to pray to the God who can change 453 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:38,000 it. One of the things that I've 454 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,500 started to do over the years, I've done this several times. 455 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 When I find myself really stressed and worried whether 456 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,200 it's about family ministry, sometimes the agenda just seems 457 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,100 so long. Like, God, how am I going to get 458 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:53,600 everything done and start worry where he just builds up, 459 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,000 anxiety, can come from that, but I'll make a list sit down and 460 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,800 make a list of everything you're worried about. 461 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:01,700 One thing I've learned is you SLI not as long of a list as I 462 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:03,400 thought it would be. I thought I could fill up a page 463 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,800 and really it's like three or four things maybe five or six 464 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,500 things at the most shot, I write down what I'm worried about and 465 00:22:08,508 --> 00:22:10,800 then I look at the things that would never happen. 466 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,100 Look at the things and go. You know what that that's never 467 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,000 happened to me before. It's probably never going to 468 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,500 happen to me. And so, I just got to give that 469 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,700 to the Lord. And then look at what you have 470 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:24,100 left on the list, Circle, the things on my list is what I do. 471 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,200 I Circle the things that I have control over, God has given me 472 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:28,900 some Authority and control in my life. 473 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:31,400 The things I'm worried about that, I Do something about. 474 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,700 I'm going to prepare for that. I'm going to work on that. 475 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:36,400 I'm going to work towards eliminating that worried by 476 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,800 being prepared and then there's another thing on the list. 477 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,500 There are things that are out of your control. 478 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,000 It's not that they're not important. 479 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,500 Like sometimes, you know, when you know my going to get in a 480 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:48,100 car wreck if some going to happen to me that's out of my 481 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:51,000 control, I can be safe and I can be wise but there's so many 482 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,900 things out of my control you know what you have to do with 483 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,400 those trust. Those to the Lord that loves you 484 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,700 more than, you know how to love yourself and then you can move 485 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:01,300 on with your day sometimes with a And full of things that you 486 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:03,800 can do something about, let me give you the third dangerous 487 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,100 prayer here. Here it is reveal. 488 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,300 I want to tell you what, the first to everybody's going to be 489 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:10,500 okay with these. This one right here, I hate. 490 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:11,900 I honestly sometimes in my flesh. 491 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:13,300 I hate this. One reveal. 492 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:14,900 My sinful actions. Mmm. 493 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,700 He's here. What here's what David said, 494 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 here's how it translates out. Look at look what he said. 495 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,500 Point out anything in me that offends. 496 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:27,700 You who that's a strong prayer, get quiet before the Lord and go 497 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:30,800 God, will you point out anything in me that offends? 498 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,900 You I really believe that this may be one of the keys to 499 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:37,100 Revival in the church and by Revival. 500 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:41,100 I mean us being fully experience of the Holy Spirit completely 501 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:43,800 filled with his Spirit completely led by his spirit. 502 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,600 I believe that prayer point out anything in me, that defends you 503 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,700 an older translation of this says Lord show me my evil ways. 504 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,600 That's where I get the Deeds, the action piece is looking at 505 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,900 the language here. Lord, reveal my sinful actions. 506 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,400 I don't think David was praying about a sin that he was aware 507 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,700 of. I don't think he was currently 508 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:07,000 living in, you know, sexual sin, or living with unforgiveness 509 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,800 openly and just saying, God will you just show me? 510 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,300 I don't think it was a blind eye like that. 511 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:14,000 I think David had already confessed, he wasn't coming to 512 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,800 the Lord playing dumb. I think what he was saying is 513 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,100 God, Is there any sin that I'm not aware of in my life? 514 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,800 See what if there's something holding you back in your prayer 515 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,200 life and you don't even realize it anymore. 516 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,900 Let me give you a question to help. 517 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:36,100 You think about this prayer Dua, have a sin blind spot in my 518 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,800 life. You know, when you're driving 519 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:44,300 down the road and you gon pass, or you going to, you know, 520 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,000 Interstate for changing lanes, every vehicle has some sort of 521 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,400 blind spot even with the cameras and all the technology in the 522 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,400 blind spot mirrors. It seems that there are still 523 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,800 still some blind spots as far as where we can't see and you just 524 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,600 can't see everything around. And so the deal with blind spots 525 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,800 is, you can't know that they're there. 526 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,200 B looking. You just have to assume that 527 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,100 they're there. I just assumed Are there and I 528 00:25:09,108 --> 00:25:12,300 thought about this, we would be better, spouses friends, 529 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,500 Brothers and Sisters in Christ and neighbors. 530 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:17,200 If we started with the assumption that I probably have 531 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,300 a blind spot that I'm not aware of in my life. 532 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:21,700 Think about that for a minute. What if you? 533 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:24,600 And I just decided every morning we woke up before the Lord God. 534 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,200 I know that I think I'm doing pretty good today and I'm not 535 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,800 going to live in the glooms today, but I will say this got I 536 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,300 probably have a sin blind spot. Will you reveal that to me? 537 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,500 I need God and I need others to help me at times. 538 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,800 So many relationships are separated out, so many families 539 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,100 are torn apart because of sin, blind spots, and people 540 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:48,000 unwilling to pray this prayer. God, do I have a blind spot? 541 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,200 Lord, search me and reveal my sinful actions. 542 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,300 So what are blind spots? You know, the first thing that 543 00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:58,100 blind Sparks are blind spots. Are there things that you are 544 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,100 ignorant to you just don't know it. 545 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,300 You don't know that. God's word says, you shouldn't 546 00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,000 do that. You don't know that God's word 547 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,100 says you should be doing something. 548 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:09,600 And so you just live in in a way, maybe hurting yourself and 549 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,100 hurting hurting others and don't realize it. 550 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:12,900 And so this is where we have to get. 551 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,000 So intentional about opening, God's word and saying, God, I'm 552 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,500 not coming to your word with my own thoughts, I'm coming to your 553 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,100 word, to let it speak to me, you speak truth into me. 554 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,400 Also, you can ask a trusted friend and I get that. 555 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,700 This is hard because it has to be somebody that, you know, 556 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:30,800 loves you and they don't have an agenda. 557 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,100 You cannot ask somebody that has an agenda in your life to this 558 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:37,300 question. Do I have a blind spot but you 559 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:39,700 need somebody. If you really want to step into 560 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,400 all God has for you in 2023, you need a brother, a sister, 561 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,900 somebody who cares for you enough? 562 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,100 And you know, they don't have an agenda they actually just want 563 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,000 good for me and get in a quiet place with them and just go 564 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,100 listen, you see my life. You kind of see my behind the A 565 00:26:54,108 --> 00:26:56,300 little bit. Is there any blind spots that 566 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:57,700 you see that I may not be aware of? 567 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,800 No, you got to be careful because that is a painful 568 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,900 question, right? That's why there has to be 569 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:03,900 trust. There has to be love between the 570 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:07,200 people. You could go to a counselor and 571 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,300 I may not be a bad thing. If you tell them your story and 572 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:11,400 go. Hey, do you see any blind spots? 573 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,800 What am I missing here? And that's a question that I've 574 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,600 asked my counselor before is there at what am I missing here. 575 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:19,300 But the second thing is not things, you're ignorant. 576 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:22,600 To is things that you've become callous to, that's a blind spot. 577 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,700 And what I mean by that, you You used to feel the pain of Sting 578 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,700 of conviction, when you send to get Scott in that area. 579 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:31,200 But then over time, you just kept pushing the Holy Spirit 580 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,700 off, push it all, sing God, I'm good, I'm good. 581 00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:36,900 And then eventually even though the Lord wants to convict you 582 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:39,600 and free you of something, it's become sort of a pet that you're 583 00:27:39,608 --> 00:27:42,800 just Catalyst to you, don't, you don't feel the sting anymore. 584 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:46,800 And so we have to get to a point where we're going, I'm not 585 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,100 looking to social media or what's popular to get fed. 586 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:55,300 Because I may be calloused I need to go back to God and say, 587 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:58,900 God, what do you say? I need people who love me and I 588 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:02,200 need to be humble enough to lay down my pride and let somebody 589 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,000 in and say, hey what have I become callous to in my life? 590 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:09,700 I really believe that can lead to a lot of transformation. 591 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:12,200 You need to be careful. Let the spirit lead you if 592 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,100 that's a person but you know if you're married in the room I may 593 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:19,700 be a question for your spouse. And again you got to have trust 594 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:21,500 and love. Y'all are supposed to be for 595 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:23,000 each. Working on your marriage all the 596 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,100 time. And so it may be a good question 597 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:29,100 to ask in the right situation but see we have to have the help 598 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:33,000 of the Holy Spirit and someone who loves us to lay aside pride 599 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,800 and listen. So why in the world would we go 600 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,200 through dangerous prayers? Like this? 601 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,700 Why? Because it's the path to 602 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:43,600 Freedom, that's why sometimes sin can even limit our prayers. 603 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,500 Did you know, that specifically in how we treat the people 604 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,700 around us of our sin is overflowing the people around 605 00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:53,000 us, first Peter, Peter Talking about husband and wife 606 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,700 relationship sand. Here's what he said. 607 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:56,500 I read it to you because what he was saying, he was saying, 608 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,300 sometimes husband's you're praying. 609 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,900 And God is not working in your prayers because of how you treat 610 00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:01,800 your spouse. Look at this. 611 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,800 He said you should treat her as you should. 612 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,500 So your prayers will not be hindered in that crazy thought 613 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:12,800 that God cares. So much about how you treat the 614 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,600 people around you about, whether there's blind spots and calluses 615 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,400 whether you're ignorant, some things you need to be doing and 616 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,900 it doesn't have to just be your spouse. 617 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,900 I think it could be. How do you in your circle? 618 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,900 Maybe God's. Your prayers are being hindered 619 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,000 because of how you've been treating the people around you 620 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,400 and you need help. Show me you need to pray the 621 00:29:30,408 --> 00:29:32,600 prayer with David. God show me pointed out. 622 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,400 I want to be holy. Here's the last prayer, though. 623 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,600 The last piece of this and it piece. 624 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,200 It's really simple. Lead me to New Life leaving two 625 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,500 new life. Look what, look what David said 626 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:47,600 here. He said lead me along the path 627 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,500 to everlasting life, and he wrote this before, For Jesus 628 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,800 walked on the earth before he went to the Cross, before he 629 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,000 ascended. Before, he poured out the spirit 630 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,900 and really the church age was burst. 631 00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:01,500 This was before that. So everlasting life would have 632 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,600 been understood as a path in this world. 633 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,800 That was going to lead you to be with Jesus forever leads you to 634 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,600 be with God forever, everlasting life for us. 635 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,100 So, we know it doesn't start in heaven. 636 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,400 It starts the moment we surrender ourselves to Christ, 637 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,500 that's where New Life Begins. So the prayer prayer like this. 638 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,900 It's not just the Lord lead me to Heaven one day. 639 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,500 It's a I know that you want to transform my life on this Earth. 640 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,500 Before I ever get to heaven, you may want to change somehow, I'm 641 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:30,100 speaking change what's going in my heart, and in my mind, and in 642 00:30:30,108 --> 00:30:32,700 my relationships, and in my actions, I know you want to 643 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:34,900 change that. Jesus is so Lord. 644 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:38,300 Will you lead me to New Life and say we can't pray a prayer like 645 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:41,800 that unless we're willing to put our feet in it, unless we're 646 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,200 willing to put our shoes on and say God I don't want to be so 647 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,100 prideful to think that I've got it, all figured out, Lord I 648 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:51,400 don't, here's what Paul said to the church at Corinth. 649 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,300 Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. 650 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,200 The old life is gone or another way to think about that. 651 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,600 The old life has passing away and the new life has begun. 652 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,500 Ever thought about this. God wants you to live New Life, 653 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,500 probably for every single one of us, there's an old habit or an 654 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,400 old tendency or there's some trauma in your past or some pain 655 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,000 from how you were raised or something you've been through. 656 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,400 And you're just assuming that it's this. 657 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,500 How you got to live the rest of your life? 658 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:24,500 I look at the scripture, I believe God wants to make you 659 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:28,700 new but I don't think you can find the newness without praying 660 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:32,300 these other prayers. God search me, test me reveal 661 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:35,600 myself. To me and Lord lead me into New 662 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,800 Life. See it's still a choice to 663 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,200 follow the leading. Once we pray for leading, we 664 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,300 have to say, God, I'm gonna put my yes on the table just like 665 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:46,600 Isaiah. I'm not going to wait until you 666 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,100 tell me what I'm supposed to do. Lord, I'm gonna put my yes on 667 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,200 the table now. So can I give you a question 668 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:52,900 here? Oakwood. 669 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:54,500 Can I give you this question this morning? 670 00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,700 Where is Jesus calling you to leave some old knee behind and 671 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:05,200 live New Life? What is the area that you still 672 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,200 been holding back from God? And listen, I know I'm harping 673 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,600 on this because the Lord just goes to show, take it back to 674 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,300 him again. Take it back to him again. 675 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:15,100 There's still some people that haven't got freedom, that God 676 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:18,500 wants them to give God wants them to get it. 677 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,800 Maybe the freedom has it come because you've never surrendered 678 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,200 your life to Christ and, you know that he's calling you 679 00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:24,800 today. Listen, there is a God that 680 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,300 loves you in spite of everything you've ever done. 681 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:31,900 He loves you. He desires to give you new life. 682 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:33,200 He doesn't want you to have to live. 683 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,100 Live with the pain of loneliness, separated from him 684 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:40,100 anymore, you don't have to get your act together, you don't 685 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:41,700 have to change yourself to come to him. 686 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:45,200 All you need to do is surrender to him and maybe New Life can 687 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,700 start for you today. But what area of your life, have 688 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:55,300 you been holding back on the Lord and during this 21 days, my 689 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:58,500 prayer has been God search, our hearts and our minds and 690 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,600 revealed our sin and help us confess and repent lead us to 691 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,300 New Life. When we get on the other side of 692 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:06,600 January may we be walking in more new life than we ever had 693 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:12,100 before the new life? Me the anointed me the as God 694 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:20,300 intended me to be version of me. I wrote this in my journal at 695 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:25,200 some point. And I didn't write it for you. 696 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,500 I would think about a message. When I wrote it, I was writing 697 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:32,200 it to me. But here's what I wrote many 698 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,500 times. The only thing standing between 699 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,600 you and that was Joe between you Joe and your best year yet, is 700 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,200 the decision to act on what the holy spirit is prompting you to 701 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,900 do. Will you bow with me across the 702 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:46,400 room Oak? What I want you to stay with me. 703 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,200 Bow with me, if you lose focus, when you bow your head, you can 704 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,500 just keep looking at me right now because we're not done yet. 705 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,800 So I want you to hang with me, hang with me right here. 706 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,200 Here. What is the holy spirit prompted 707 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,700 you to do? But you've been pushing back 708 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:02,400 against it. What area of surrender or what 709 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,800 prayer of search me? Reveal it Lord. 710 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,800 What confession prayer? Do you need to pray? 711 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,900 Where is God calling you to act? But you've been holding back and 712 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:13,900 listen. Today is the day, maybe for you. 713 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,199 It's time to surrender your life to Jesus Oakwood. 714 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,500 Maybe it's time your God, brought you right there where 715 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:21,400 you are to surrender your life to Jesus Christ today, because 716 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,199 that is the next step. And maybe you already know that 717 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:28,600 you've got wrong and you need to be forgiven but you want to 718 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,800 experience his new life. Listen, if you're here in 719 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,500 Gainesville, if you're there at Oakwood, I want you to pray this 720 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:36,100 prayer, if that's you and you go, Joe, I'm ready to experience 721 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:37,900 New Life. Pray it from your heart, to the 722 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,500 heart of God. Just say this Jesus today, I 723 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:47,600 Surrender my life to you. I'm asking you to save me and 724 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,699 forgive me. And give me new life that you 725 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,900 promised. Just tell him say you're my 726 00:34:56,900 --> 00:35:00,600 Lord. I'm going to let you be the boss 727 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,300 in my life, the best. I know how from this day 728 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:05,900 forward. I'm ready to follow you. 729 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,800 Let me just tell him. Thank you. 730 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,300 Jesus, for saving me. Amen. 731 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,500 Listen, if that was you. I want you real quick before we 732 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:14,900 move forward. Just raise your hand if that was 733 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:16,600 you today. He said Joe, that was me. 734 00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:18,100 I just did that. Thank you anybody else? 735 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:19,700 Hear you? Say come on John. 736 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:21,100 I did that. Just thank you. 737 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:22,800 I see you. Anybody else? 738 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:25,000 Praise You Jesus. Awesome. 739 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,800 Listening for you guys. I would love to celebrate with 740 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,600 you Oakwood. We love to Celebrate Pastor. 741 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,800 Michael, would you surrendered your life today? 742 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:33,600 Here's what I want for the rest of us. 743 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,400 We're going to turn this into just prayer session down in the 744 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,200 front here in an oak wood to its. 745 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,600 So I don't want you to feel like you got a hold back today. 746 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,900 If the spirit has prompted you on something, I want to ask you 747 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,500 to let a prayer begin the rest of your week. 748 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,000 And what I mean by that come to a place. 749 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,300 If you're physically able, you can come sit on the front. 750 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:53,900 You can come kneel at the front and begin to pray about the 751 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:56,500 things that the Lord wants to bring new life to you in. 752 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,700 In these areas. I want to pray for you and I'm 753 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:02,600 Invite you to respond to Jesus. Thank you for salvation today. 754 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:06,400 Thank you for these dangerous prayers that endanger our pride 755 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,200 in our sin and our old cells. And God I'm asking you even now 756 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,400 Lord, help us respond in obedience to you today. 757 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,500 Lord, reveal it. That we make forsaken confess it 758 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:18,500 in Jesus name. Will You Stand Together 759 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,500 everywhere? Oakwood stand. 760 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,400 Come on down as the band Legion since morning. 761 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:24,900 Thank you for listening to the river. 762 00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,700 Bend Church podcast. 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