1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:38,480 Let's get into it. Come on, if you believe that, 9 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,800 just give God a good old round of applause. 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,760 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,000 Come on. Really quickly. 12 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:56,040 As you are being seated, I need you to tell two to three people 13 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:02,560 around you that today is going to be a good day because you are 14 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:20,320 sitting next to me. How many people came to church 15 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,400 today with some expectation? Amen. 16 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,400 What I do know is the Lord is here to heal, deliver, and set 17 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,760 free. Yeah, go ahead. 18 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,960 Give Him praise for it in advance. 19 00:01:44,420 --> 00:01:46,740 Lift your hands and pray with me for this Word today. 20 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:53,240 Father, we thank you that you have created in us a clean heart 21 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,280 and renewed in US a rice spirit. And so we declare that the word 22 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,000 that is about to be sown, it is going to be sown into good 23 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 ground. My heart is good soil. 24 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:15,920 And Lord, I thank you that the enemy is defeated. 25 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,600 I thank you. Yeah, that the word will be 26 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,200 received unhindered. So, Holy Spirit, have your way. 27 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,200 Holy Spirit, do what only you can do. 28 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,160 Today. I lay down my cares. 29 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:39,440 I lay down my worries. Because I know that you have a 30 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,080 word for us today. I fix my heart, fix my mind. 31 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,440 I fix my posture to receive and I will not just be a hearer of 32 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,600 the word, but I declare right now that I am a doer of the 33 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,840 word. I am a doer of the word. 34 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,360 I believe for 100% of us in this room today. 35 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:10,720 This word is for 100% of you today. 36 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:15,600 So before we go, I'm going to ask you to say something to the 37 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,400 person on the right of you. And if you look to the right and 38 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,240 no one's next to you, look to the left because someone on your 39 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,800 left is going to be looking today, right? 40 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,160 And then y'all going to stare at each other. 41 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:36,880 And I want you to say if you are not going to help me receive the 42 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:47,240 word today, find another seat. But if you come on, come on, 43 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,800 stay with me. But if you are ready to grow 44 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:59,000 with me, consider us growth partners, OK? 45 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,080 I don't see nobody moving, so you must be growth partners. 46 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Here's what I find out today is there has been an immense amount 47 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:16,600 of words spoken over my life spoken in this room in this 48 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,040 church. There is an immense amount of 49 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,400 words, encouragement, inspiration on social media. 50 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:34,680 We are not lacking word. OK, but isn't it funny no matter 51 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,000 how much. Goodness, you experience, no 52 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,560 matter how much word you know, no matter how much you think you 53 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,680 believe God is good. Ain't it funny that when you 54 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,880 wake up in the morning, bills are still there, stress is still 55 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:59,480 there, haters are still there, the job you don't want to go to 56 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:00,720 is still. There. 57 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,000 No matter how much faith you have, you still have to wake up 58 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,240 to your faith being challenged. It's not going anywhere. 59 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,960 Life is going to life. Say that with me, life is going 60 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:21,280 to life. So if life is going life, then I 61 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,160 got to do whatever God said. I'm going. 62 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,560 To do right because life gone life, life been life in since 63 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:36,360 Genesis 1, OK. Now, are you going to say 64 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,360 Terrence gone or Denny's gone? What is Danny gone? 65 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,440 Right for me? I'm going to declare. 66 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:48,000 Terrence going to live, Terrence going to win, Terrence going to 67 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,880 overcome, Terrence going to climb to the top. 68 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,240 Terrence going to walk by faith and not by sight, right? 69 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,600 Life, If life go life, then Terrence going to have to. 70 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,680 Terrence is not submitting to fear. 71 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,160 Terrence is not giving in to lack. 72 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,000 Terrence is not going to be like his daddy was. 73 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,640 Terrence, what are you going to do? 74 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,560 If life go life, what is you going to do? 75 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:16,080 And so I understand that faith is not really faith until it's 76 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,840 antagonized by the wind. Yeah. 77 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:23,480 You you can't say you got faith until you see how your faith 78 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,880 respond to your win. Right. 79 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,640 Everybody in here be like, I got faith. 80 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,840 But how you respond to pressure, how does your faith respond? 81 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,520 So don't call it faith. Call it something else. 82 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,360 Inherited strength. My my Mama was strong. 83 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,320 OK, that's not faith. That's your Mama strong. 84 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,960 And you grew up. Oh, my Mama worked hard. 85 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,480 So you got a good work ethic. You ain't got faith, right? 86 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,840 So call it what it is, but I'm talking about faith. 87 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,720 And so This is why we call it the good fight of faith, or the 88 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,280 Word calls it the good fight of faith. 89 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:03,480 Because Paul was like, it's only one fight that's good. 90 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,040 Can anybody guess what fight is good? 91 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,200 OK. All you guys just like, oh, I 92 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,520 guess. He think no, no, no, that's. 93 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,320 Not what I want to hear. It doesn't matter. 94 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,160 It's still a good answer. But what fight is good? 95 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,560 While you guys are thinking, I'll turn my slide. 96 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,760 You don't, But I will. What fight is good? 97 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:35,400 We got people afraid to answer. Sure, that's good. 98 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,520 But that's not it. It's not what I'm looking for. 99 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,720 Well, fight is good, huh? No. 100 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,400 No. You just said. 101 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:51,960 No, a good fight is the one you win. 102 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:07,800 Come on, praise the Lord. Hallelujah, the good fight is 103 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,080 the one you win. And so if we look at Paul and 104 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,000 all he's went through at the end of his life, he was like, I have 105 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,920 fought the good fight of faith because I have come to the end 106 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,560 of my journey and I look back, no matter what I've been 107 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,880 through, I ended my life being closer to God. 108 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,880 I've ended my life doing what God's called me to do, and I've 109 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,520 ended my life evolving into the son or daughter that God has 110 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,960 predestined me to be. That was a good fight because I 111 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,120 won. Although the devil punched me a 112 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,120 few times, I won. Although I was in the fiery 113 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,280 furnace. I came out and you wouldn't even 114 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,840 tell I was by fire, right? The good fight of faith is good 115 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:55,000 because I win. You can have a word, but you 116 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,080 still got to stand on the word. Look, it's been prophesied to me 117 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,840 that I'll write many books. Well, guess what? 118 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,520 I didn't have a book till I what? 119 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:13,440 Wrote a book. Oh, you mean to tell me prophecy 120 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:19,360 don't do the work for you, right, So I can come here every 121 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,440 Sunday and encourage you, but you have to do things that will 122 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,640 allow the word. You got to make room. 123 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,960 For the word in your life. You, you can't, you can't hear 124 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,680 me say today that the peace of God transcends all understanding 125 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,080 and this week is going to be the most peaceful week you ever had. 126 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,680 And then you go out there and act a fool and you like, well, I 127 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,720 guess God wasn't right. Oh no, you just didn't listen. 128 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:53,520 Faith without works is dead. So some of y'all waiting on God 129 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,840 and he's like my word is always true. 130 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,840 What are you doing to partner with my word? 131 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,760 So you still got to stand on the word and and and and and when 132 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,480 the wind blows, the wind blows and is allowed to blow in your 133 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,040 life because it challenges your posture. 134 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,920 Right A nice. I'm glad the wind has been 135 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,800 blowing because there's some things that I realized was 136 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,760 compromised in my posture and then it was some stuff that the 137 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,720 wind was just like we don't. You're good there, you're good 138 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,440 there. You're doing good right there, 139 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:30,600 right? But the wind is always going to 140 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,680 blow because we always are evolving. 141 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:37,960 Mark 4. Says this. 142 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:47,760 And he arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, hush, 143 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,360 now did you ever have something moving or talking so much you 144 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:57,400 just got fed up and was just like, hush, no, no. 145 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,640 And then they was like but no, no, no, no, don't even explain. 146 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:15,800 Hush, be still muzzled. And the wind ceased, sank to 147 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:22,680 rest as if exhausted by its beating of the wind, ceased, 148 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,920 sank to rest as if it was tired from its own tossing. 149 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,240 And there was immediately a great calm, a perfect 150 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,480 peacefulness. Watch this, you guys. 151 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:45,360 Calm came after steel. Steel and calm ain't the same 152 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,000 thing. You're trying to find calm 153 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,360 without being steel. Watch what he does. 154 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:58,000 He arose posture. He got up. 155 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,520 He rebuked the wind authority. He said to the sea. 156 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Hush, enough is enough. He was very specific and he says 157 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,200 be still, I'm not there yet. Bring it back and rewind. 158 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:26,560 Be still muzzled and the wind. Cease. 159 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,520 Oh. The wind cease. 160 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,880 Sank to rest as if exhausted by its beating and there was 161 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,440 immediate there was an immediate calm after the obedience to 162 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:45,040 steal some of y'all some people that was here in the first 163 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,480 experience could tell you he going to be all in your Business 164 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,920 Today he going to be all in your Business Today enough right he 165 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:57,720 is saying here the C did not argue with the command the. 166 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,640 C did not negotiate. Well, let me get a few more 167 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:06,400 tosses and terms. Let let me just sleep with the 168 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:14,880 frogs one more night, one more drink, 11 more smoke, one more, 169 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,440 one more porn, one more, just one more. 170 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,680 No, it wasn't. No negotiation, He said be 171 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:23,840 still, and it ceased. Then calm came. 172 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,960 When the Lord spoke, it became still. 173 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,400 And I believe the Lord is inviting us into the same 174 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,080 response today. Love quest. 175 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,080 So as the Lord spoke to the sea, I sensed the Lord saying to us 176 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:44,520 today, enough is enough, be like the sea and be still. 177 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,200 Love quest. We we thought peace is the 178 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:57,520 absence of storms, but it's not. We've assumed stillness is the 179 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,520 absence of movement, but it's not. 180 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,320 Stillness is a response to authority, not to an emotional. 181 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,560 Angst. Although the angst may trigger 182 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:14,360 the revelation that I need to be still, the peace of the Kingdom 183 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:22,680 follows command, not effort. And in knowing that stillness is 184 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,080 enabled or activated by obedience, stillness is what 185 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,560 enthroned the king, and peace is the Kingdom. 186 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,400 Peace is the Kingdom. Peace is the presence of God's 187 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:43,640 Kingdom that expands within, overwhelming our lives once He 188 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:50,640 rules and governs our souls. This means if peace is missing, 189 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,120 pay attention. If peace is missing, it's not 190 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:01,240 because God isn't present. It's often because we're still 191 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:09,960 moving anxiously and frantically where he's already conquered. 192 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:15,720 Watch this. You're doing and working and 193 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,280 busy where God has already settled it. 194 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,480 You're talking longer when God is already shut up. 195 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,680 You're you're you're you're you're you're you're moving 196 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:34,680 where God has already ruled. You're, you're you're, you're 197 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,920 fighting for things that God has already blessed you with. 198 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,520 Watch this. You are still praying for stuff 199 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:55,520 that God is like I heard you. I heard you the first time, OK, 200 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,880 he tells Daniel. I'm glad you didn't stop 201 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,360 praying. Watch this. 202 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:08,520 What I pray initially evolves once I know it's done. 203 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,560 So if I know he's done it and it's only a matter of his 204 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,400 timing, then my request goes to Thanksgiving. 205 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:22,920 No, no, no. You. 206 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,760 You already promised. I found the word, so now I'm 207 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,440 standing on it. That by your stripes I am 208 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,880 healed. So now I know that I got the 209 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,240 receipt for my healing. Thank you, Jesus. 210 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,720 Hallelujah. I am healed from the crown of my 211 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,920 head to the soles of my feet. Right. 212 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,760 Faith is the receipt. It's the pink slip. 213 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,000 So the moment I got the word, I got the receipt. 214 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,600 Once I got the confirmation number, I don't. 215 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:54,080 I don't keep calling the hotel saying you sure you got a room 216 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,680 for me? No, once I sent you the 217 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,280 confirmation number, even if I show up, you got to find me a 218 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,920 room or you got to pay for me to stay at another hotel. 219 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:13,720 Faith is the confirmation. So once my faith is on it, I 220 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,599 don't keep asking. But some of us are asking 221 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:19,680 because we really don't believe God can do it. 222 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:24,920 So we're moving anxiously. We're trying to change people 223 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,760 anxiously, which is a sign you don't believe God about your 224 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,120 spouse. You don't believe God about your 225 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,040 finances. You don't believe God about your 226 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,600 career. Because you keep asking, watch 227 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,520 this. And because you keep anxiously 228 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:42,680 asking, you keep on moving yourself into the throne. 229 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,440 And God's like, oh, you want to be the king of your life, Go for 230 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,760 it. Somebody say be still. 231 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,080 Stillness is not calm or inactivity. 232 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:03,720 It is the moment we step out of unauthorized authority. 233 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,640 Stillness begins when we say the battle's yours. 234 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:19,880 It's not mines. Yes. 235 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,880 Watch this. Here's something that gets us 236 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,600 all in trouble. Watch this. 237 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,640 It sounds biblical but has quietly reshaped how many of us 238 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,360 live. Watch this. 239 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,600 Have you ever heard this? God helps those who helps 240 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,880 themselves. Wrong. 241 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,480 That ain't in the Bible. It is a cultural proverb. 242 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,440 God helps those who helps themselves. 243 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,080 So so oh wait a minute, wait a minute. 244 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:02,080 So I gave my life to a God that the only way He can help me is 245 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:07,240 if I help me first. So why do I need His help if my 246 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:17,120 help activates His help? But culture says God helps those 247 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:22,480 who help themselves watch it. It's not scripture but has 248 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,400 discipled probably your whole family. 249 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,840 It's a cultural proverb. It's not scripture. 250 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,280 And this proverb teaches us responsibility equals control. 251 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,120 Hey, watch this, watch this. I'm not going to look at none of 252 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,240 y'all. I'm going to actually say what 253 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,360 I'm about to say, turn this way so I'm not mistaken for nothing, 254 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:51,480 but there's a lot of y'all in here that got control issues. 255 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,600 There's a lot of y'all in here think that you can help God more 256 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:05,840 than he can help you all. Right. 257 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,640 This proverb teaches us that responsibility equals control. 258 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,880 This proverb teaches us that faith means staying in motion, 259 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:22,880 right? It feels like faith because I'm 260 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,600 busy. I'm like, I'm doing it, God. 261 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,800 I'm doing it. Raw shake, raw shake. 262 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:32,240 Get that Bye bye, bye, bye, bye. I'm moving, right? 263 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,640 And then you go to Instagram and it tells you, man, you ain't 264 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,880 doing nothing. Get up off your couch. 265 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,000 You ain't know about this morning. 266 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:40,000 You need to get hold up, man. I'm telling you also, yeah, you 267 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,880 ain't like me. I don't even watch TV. 268 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,040 No, I mean, I do like, what are you talking about? 269 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,680 Like, right, all these cultural proverbs and we're under this 270 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,520 immense pressure and culture that if we ain't moving, we 271 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:01,680 getting behind. Oh, so you a believer more than 272 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,040 a conqueror, but you competing with people who don't even 273 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:10,080 believe this proverb teaches us, watch this, that stopping means 274 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:15,040 to fall apart. I got to keep going. 275 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,160 This proverb teaches us saying no means left all alone, 276 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,360 especially in this young generation. 277 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,120 You get some attention. You're going to do whatever you 278 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,760 need to do. Well, I guess that's what's 279 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,640 going to give me attention. So I'm going to keep doing that. 280 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:36,920 No means left all alone. And here's the fruit of that 281 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:46,320 cultural proverb. It produces restless souls this 282 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,800 generation. Is so red. 283 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,400 Watch this. There comes There used to be a 284 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:58,040 day that you didn't know what other people was doing in the 285 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,520 world unless you picked up a newspaper or watch the news. 286 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,920 If the channel worked, you not only stressed out over what's 287 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,200 going on in your life, but you. Stressed out on what's going on 288 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:16,960 in everybody's life because you looking at everybody's life. 289 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:23,360 Restless souls. Somebody look like they got 290 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:26,200 their life together because they got really cool videos and they 291 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,400 showing you they working out. Some people work out for the 292 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:35,680 length of the clip and you just think they got their life 293 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:50,280 together. We have lost authenticity in our 294 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,720 culture. This thinking produces exhausted 295 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,640 efforts. Some of y'all work so hard, but 296 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,720 most of your efforts is exhausted. 297 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:06,320 You give your spouse exhausted romance, exhausted compliments. 298 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,840 You're like, oh I haven't said I love you today. 299 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,120 I love you babe. Oh I got that out of the way 300 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:14,880 right. You give your kids exhausted 301 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,720 time. You get you come to watch this. 302 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,240 Some of y'all can't even sit in church without giving an 303 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:25,440 exhausted Amen. I hear exhausted claps all 304 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,720 service from some people exhausted because worship time 305 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,680 is not a priority. We take this time watch this. 306 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:42,640 We take coming to church as a gas stop to get get pumped or 307 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:47,360 get, get get get get free from our exhaustion not realizing we 308 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,240 should come into this atmosphere. 309 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,800 Offering life so that those that don't know him there's an 310 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,560 overflow. But we give exhausted efforts 311 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,880 not because life is hard. Watch this guys. 312 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,480 But because we are helping ourselves in places God never 313 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,520 authorized us to govern. Let's keep it real guys. 314 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,640 Let's keep it real. OK, I remember, I remember the 315 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,360 first time I told my I remember I told my wife one time I said, 316 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,280 babe, we are not soul mates. You feel that in the room. 317 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Oh, I'm going to debunk that myth as well later on in the in 318 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,680 the in the in the coming days soul mates. 319 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,200 Oh this thing that God put one person in the earth and I'm 320 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,560 spend my life trying to find them. 321 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,120 Well, let me help some of y'all if that's the truth. 322 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,080 Most of y'all ain't found your soul mate. 323 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,960 What I understood is the 2 become one. 324 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,480 So it is our covenant. We become soul mates. 325 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,520 We're not soul mate. I don't find this one person. 326 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,440 If I didn't marry, PJI could have married another woman and 327 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:07,040 as long as God had way in that marriage and we gave it to him, 328 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,520 that marriage would be successful. 329 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,320 This idea that there's one person in the world. 330 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,240 So watch this if we're honest because I came to help y'all. 331 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:21,280 Some of y'all got married or in relationships and even had kids 332 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,640 and now you have to govern a marriage God didn't really 333 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:34,680 bless. You didn't pray for that. 334 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:42,440 You prayed to get married. You desired kids. 335 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,680 Now watch this. Some of y'all listening to me 336 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,640 and you know I'm telling the truth because you're trying to 337 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,440 govern something that the Bible says the blessing of the Lord 338 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,560 makes rich. It adds no sorrow. 339 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,480 Watch this. So you're trying to fix 340 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,960 something now that you already thought was going to bring you 341 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,440 so much life. And So what happens is we move 342 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,240 before God. We move before we trust God. 343 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,360 Then we say, God, I'm married, bless it. 344 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,400 And then anybody that's trying to lead us in the right way, 345 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,920 which is waiting, they're controlling. 346 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,480 So then the church is as divorced as the world here it 347 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,280 is. And what's as popular as divorce 348 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:40,640 is we live in the same house, but we spiritually are 349 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:50,320 separated. So you're divorced spiritually. 350 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,920 You don't pray together. You don't read the word 351 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,720 together. Oh, but you talk about finances 352 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,920 together because we have to get out of here. 353 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:09,920 That's not the plan of God. Y'all business partners, y'all 354 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,480 partnered on some kids. Well, watch when them kids move 355 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,600 out. Oh, buddy, you better you yeah, 356 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:25,120 you better work on it now because the kid is actually 357 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:30,880 helping some stuff not fall apart when that kid move out 358 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,600 though. But not not in love Quest. 359 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,240 Love Quest has nothing but prosperous marriages in Jesus 360 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:37,920 name. Amen. 361 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,760 Shameless plug. That's why starting in February, 362 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,160 every first Sunday we are having a marriage encounter every 363 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,520 single first Sunday evening starting in February. 364 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,280 Amen, Hallelujah. Amen. 365 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,080 Psalm 46 says does not say right. 366 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,560 It says be still. It does not say pray harder. 367 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,640 It does not say fast more. Although we need to fast, we're 368 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,080 in the fast right now. It does not say sing louder or 369 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,440 strategize better. Be still is a command. 370 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,920 Be still and know that I am God. He is not a whispering or He is 371 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,520 not whispering a word of comfort. 372 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,520 When he say be still, be still, it's going to be OK. 373 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,640 Elder John like. Like just be still, it's going 374 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:23,640 to be OK. I got you. 375 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,960 No, this is God asserting his authority. 376 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,120 Yeah, Cease striving. This. 377 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:32,920 Be still means to cease striving. 378 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,760 Are you all with me? Be still means to drop your 379 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,000 weapons, your way of doing things, your way of getting 380 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,720 through, your way of getting by. Watch this. 381 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:49,640 I have a problem. I can do multiple things, and 382 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,080 I'm a visionary and I'm a pioneer. 383 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,560 I actually have to learn to say no to my vision. 384 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,040 I actually have to discern when God's like I put it in. 385 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200 You. But this ain't the season for it 386 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,640 to come out of you. Watch this. 387 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:17,240 I put it in you so that you can be a disciple to those that I'm 388 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,680 calling to do it. I allowed you to accrue some 389 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,120 business savvy. Not to be a businessman, 390 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,200 although you might own a business. 391 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,080 Big difference. But I am going to put you in a 392 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,680 sphere where businessmen and women will come to you for my 393 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,880 name's sake and business is going to be the medium. 394 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,320 But their soul is what I'm after. 395 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:48,400 Some of you need to close some of your abilities, not shut them 396 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,360 off, but they need to move from purpose to hobby. 397 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,760 But for us watch this, we prostitute our gifts depending 398 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:04,080 on what we need in a season and we call it purpose. 399 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,040 OK watch this. Be careful giving your gifts to 400 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,840 things that will only make you money. 401 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:22,400 OK, OK, OK, OK. Be still means disengage. 402 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,080 Cease your attempts to control the outcome. 403 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,400 Cease your attempts to control the outcome. 404 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,200 Cease your attempts to control the outcomes. 405 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,080 Cease your attempts to control the outcomes. 406 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,720 Watch this. B still means to disengage. 407 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,240 Close the door, lock it, put a muzzle on it. 408 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,440 No, watch this. If I'm going to break up with 409 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,600 somebody, it ain't no in the future. 410 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,240 If it's God's will, No, it ain't God's will. 411 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,680 See, I I was a terrible breaker upper. 412 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,960 No, no, no, stop leaving the door open for the future. 413 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,280 No, God didn't say go kill your son Abraham. 414 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,920 But when you get there, I'm going to ask you not to. 415 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,320 God said go kill your son. What you mean go kill? 416 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:23,080 My God Cole watch this. We struggle to be still because 417 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,040 number one y'all ready for this? It's going to bless a few of 418 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,320 y'all. We struggle to be still because 419 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,600 trauma trained us to survive by controlling I think. 420 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,080 We should do no music during this. 421 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,160 Period of time God watch this. We struggle to be still because 422 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:43,800 trauma trained us to survive by taking control. 423 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,720 Some of us are doing what we are doing because we like, I'm never 424 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,920 going to be broke like my family was growing up. 425 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,080 You're you're doing so much to avoid your childhood. 426 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,960 Watch this. Some of us even stay in a 427 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,240 marriage and our only fight is I promise that I will never have 428 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,640 my kids split between two homes. Oh that's why you're staying 429 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:12,080 together. I think it's worse when 2 two 430 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,320 kids got parents. Same got 2 parents in the house 431 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:21,720 but they don't see love. So trauma trained us to survive 432 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,720 by controlling. Watch this. 433 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,400 Anxiety trains us. Trained us to stay alert. 434 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,240 Fear trained us to never stop moving. 435 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,960 I wish I had some time. To deal to deal with anxiety 436 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,800 trained us to stay alert. That's why we got so many 437 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,200 critical people in the church. They missed the word because 438 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,560 they too alert that that that the sound too loud like or or or 439 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,200 this person is that you so alert and it's so nerved up about 440 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,000 doctrine. You you not receiving the the 441 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,520 Rhema word. Because your anxiety, somebody 442 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,600 hurts you somewhere. So anywhere you go now you are 443 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,800 more alert by the, the, the, the, the, the, what do you call 444 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,000 it? By the the ability of people to 445 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,680 hurt you or the threat of hurt. So you go into a space. 446 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,000 Fear trained us to never stop moving. 447 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:36,280 Performance trained us to prove worth Oh, since the wind since 448 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,480 the wind been blowing, watch one thing coming to Canada has 449 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,800 taught me. Is all of these about me? 450 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,120 I preached about this trauma thing. 451 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,280 I preached about this anxiety staying alert. 452 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,880 This fear trained us how to keep it moving. 453 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,160 We talked about simplifying performance, trained us to prove 454 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,480 worth. And then the hustle trained us 455 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,719 to outrun trust. Oh, we got some hustlers in this 456 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,120 room right now. We got folks in here that know 457 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,920 how to hustle. I talked about that a few months 458 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,840 ago, but man, that's what I grew up in. 459 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,760 The environmental hustle. No dad in the house. 460 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,080 I watched my Mama hustle. We know we got people that know 461 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,679 how to make some. Watch this. 462 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:33,520 Y'all making money ain't hard. Stop, it ain't that hard. 463 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,800 But we got some people in here. You striving for something God 464 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,239 never graced you for. Watch this. 465 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,920 And that's your family's problem. 466 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,280 And in the world being a hustler. 467 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,000 I'm a hustler baby. I'm just saying what some of 468 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,200 y'all was thinking. I just want you to know. 469 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,160 Hey, man, don't judge me at all. I've been some places. 470 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,880 OK? All right, Listen this morning 471 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,880 to this morning's message where I describe what the soul is. 472 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,800 My appetite, desire. Will is my my my thinker, My 473 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,040 feeler is my chooser, my soul. We are spirit. 474 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,840 We possess a soul. We live in a body. 475 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,960 We are spirit. We are spirit. 476 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,640 Who you really are, you are spirit. 477 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,880 God is spirit. He deals with our spirit. 478 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,680 Jesus died on the cross to save our soul. 479 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,760 That's our thinker, our feeler, our emotions. 480 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,480 That's where all of that live. That's where jealousy lives. 481 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,240 That's where motivation lives. All in our soul. 482 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,760 OK. My soul is not merely sinful, 483 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:51,640 it's just untrained. An ungoverned soul never rests. 484 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,640 Psalm 23 says He makes me lie down in fresh, tender, green 485 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,200 pastures. He leaves me beside the steel in 486 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,920 restful waters. He refreshes and restores my 487 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,760 soul. He leads me in the. 488 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,800 Paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 489 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:08,560 Watch this. He makes. 490 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:09,720 He leads. He restores. 491 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,760 He makes. He leads. 492 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,080 He restores. He makes. 493 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,040 He leads. He restores. 494 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,720 How many people in here want God to restore something? 495 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,600 Raise your hand. Watch this. 496 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,880 Watch this. But but, but you, you. 497 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,720 You want to know how He's going to do it first. 498 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,720 Can you let him make you watch this? 499 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,000 What He makes me what He makes me. 500 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,320 Watch that. He makes me lie down. 501 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:35,840 Can you just lie down right? I can't walk in on the day of 502 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,800 surgery and walk around the surgery room and be like go 503 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,120 ahead, give me an open heart surgery. 504 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,800 You're gonna have to catch me while I'm moving. 505 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,880 Catch me while I'm moving. Catch me while I'm moving. 506 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,960 Catch me while I'm moving. Come on, catch me while I'm 507 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,160 moving. Catch me while I'm moving. 508 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,960 Catch me while I'm moving. Catch me while I'm moving right. 509 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,800 You can't do that. It says he makes me watch. 510 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,560 This was adamant that Eve come out of a moving Adam. 511 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:08,240 He made that boy lay down. He said, Adam, if I'm here, you 512 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:12,760 lay down South multiplication came out of a man laying down. 513 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,760 Lie down. He makes me lie down. 514 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,240 Somebody said lie down. He he makes me, and if he can't 515 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,680 make me, he can't lead me. And if he can't lead me, he 516 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:32,080 can't restore me. Some of y'all, the restoration 517 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,880 is on hold now. It's because God's not working. 518 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,920 It's because he can't make you. You trying to make him bless you 519 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,120 outside of making you rest. Here's what I understand about 520 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,000 God. His promises never come before a 521 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,800 time of being still. I know you're busy. 522 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,080 Watch this. I know you got it. 523 00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:57,080 I know you got it popping. I know. 524 00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:59,240 But there's some things that God is saying. 525 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,120 I don't need you to do that no more what I actually have for 526 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:08,080 you can bring you more provision if you can stop being afraid of 527 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,400 if I let this go, how am I going to pay for that now this don't 528 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,880 mean walk away from your job and you don't have nothing at all. 529 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,480 Nothing. Don't please don't hear me 530 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:24,920 nothing in rent doing a week because oftentimes God will 531 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,320 sound the alarm and say prepare for landing. 532 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,120 No, you. Oh, I got a word. 533 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,240 God told me to leave my job. Let me tell you something. 534 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:41,520 Not today, unless you've been preparing for this word to come 535 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,840 and you got a a nice savings that can buy you some time. 536 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,000 No, no, no, no, God, no no no no. 537 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,720 You ain't living month to month and God gave you a word that you 538 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,360 need to leave your job and then you turn in a AA30 hour notice. 539 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,360 No, no, no, no. But God has given you a word 540 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,480 because everything from that word moving forward is about to 541 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,640 lead you to the manifestation of the freedom from where you are. 542 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,480 So he's going to bring relationships. 543 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,360 It might be education you need to get. 544 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,560 You might need to start saving or you might need to start 545 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,360 selling stuff. You might need to stop spending. 546 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,360 When He gives you that word, you are preparing for the day that 547 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,560 that is fully. The time has fully come, man. 548 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,680 It's some words God gave thousands of years ago and it 549 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,400 didn't show up till thousands of years later. 550 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:35,800 But leading up to the cross, what went into that day? 551 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:42,520 There's some people in here. You got some stuff in your 552 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:49,240 possession. God's like I'm not there no 553 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,120 more. Some of y'all he like I ain't 554 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,720 never been there. So rest is not something the 555 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,240 sheep decide. I like that. 556 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,000 I like that. Rest is not something you 557 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,240 decide. It's something the shepherd 558 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,440 initiates. Can I talk to you today? 559 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,120 It's something the shepherd initiates. 560 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,080 You don't decide what? Guess what? 561 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,640 You decide sleep. If some of y'all decide to sleep 562 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:18,400 and can't sleep. God comes in like a word today 563 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,400 and he says I'm coming to bring you rest. 564 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,600 But this started when I'm coming to bring you peace. 565 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,560 I'm coming to give you rest, but you got to let me make you. 566 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:32,160 And then after you let me make you, then you got to let me lead 567 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,080 you. Watch this. 568 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:41,760 The warfare that happens between make and restore can be intense. 569 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,160 But if I understand that my being still is leading to a 570 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,240 season of restoration and the enemy knows it, that's why all 571 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:57,760 hell is breaking loose. Watch this. 572 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,760 Still waters aren't resorts, spas and vacations and 573 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:09,600 destinations. Still waters means waters with 574 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,040 no threat. We live, we live in one of the 575 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:18,120 most beautiful global cities in the world and got some of the 576 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,720 most stressed out people in the world. 577 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:29,240 So I don't care, Vancouver, how close the city is to the water. 578 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,800 Oh, 60 minutes anyway. You can get to the slopes, you 579 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,680 can get to the mountains. There's great hikes, there is 580 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,440 boating, there's. Shut up. 581 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:44,320 How's your soul prospering? I know you can kayak, but how's 582 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:50,600 your soul prospering? I I I see your photos and you 583 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,760 got the the beautiful water in the mountains. 584 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,720 But how's your soul? What have you lived in Baghdad? 585 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,160 What have you lived in a war zone? 586 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,960 What have you lived somewhere where peace. 587 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,000 You can never find it externally? 588 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,720 Is that God's fault that you don't have peace? 589 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:10,760 No, it's he came make you be still. 590 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,520 And yet some folks don't have a choice but to be still. 591 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,560 The soul rests not because danger disappeared, but because 592 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,360 authority has arrived and it abides. 593 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,120 Stillness feels unsafe to a nervous system that learns 594 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,400 survival through motion, right? Listen, I grew up in nothing. 595 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,520 In certain cultures, it was nothing but hustle because we 596 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,160 was trying to survive to make it. 597 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,560 We trying to survive. We trying to make it. 598 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,480 We trying to feed our kids. We trying to. 599 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,640 And I'm telling you guys, all right, cool, if that's how you 600 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,360 grew up and that's how you've gotten to this. 601 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,520 Point. But whoever you are, God is 602 00:42:52,520 --> 00:43:01,680 saying, be still for God alone. My soul wakes in silence. 603 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,320 From him comes my salvation. Silence here means inter 604 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,960 settling or the cessation of noise. 605 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,080 Cessation means voluntary stopping under authority. 606 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,680 When God comes in says enough is enough, it's got to stop. 607 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,640 It didn't. Matter if the seas watch this, I 608 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,840 love it. God made what was causing the 609 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,960 storm cease. So when God comes in and say be 610 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,960 still, he's responsible to deal with the root of what's making 611 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:37,400 you toss to and fro. That's why it says you aren't 612 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,960 in. Charge of the rest that he's 613 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,240 calling you to. You are in charge of your 614 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,440 response. You are hosting your response. 615 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,640 Cessation means an intentional end. 616 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,560 Not because it failed. Can I help a couple people in 617 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,880 here? You don't end it because it's 618 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,920 failing. You end it because it's no 619 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:04,120 longer required for you to be in it because God said so. 620 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,160 Need is not a sign I need to keep moving. 621 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,840 What if God is holding the very thing that you need in his 622 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,680 hands, but you just keep moving? Anybody got kids, especially the 623 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,240 little ones when you're trying to feed them, but they like you 624 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,280 said, we're going to put you That's why we're going to put 625 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,880 you in jail right now. We're going to put you in this 626 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,440 high seat, this high chair trying to feed or or have you 627 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,160 ever tried to change a diaper or the baby that don't realize you 628 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,720 helping them out right now. So they keep turning all over 629 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,000 the place and getting getting stuff all over the bed and yeah, 630 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,560 yeah, yeah, that's how we are. God's trying to get the stank 631 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:52,400 off of us and we just like, yeah, cessation, the soul coming 632 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,080 to rest. This is not inactivity. 633 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:59,240 This is alignment. Watch this how your soul 634 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,080 immediately, if God's dealing with you, some of you are 635 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:06,160 wrestling with thinking about what God is trying to make you 636 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,800 stop doing. That means your soul is 637 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,720 panicking. It does not want to be still. 638 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,000 Because you're going down this list versus understanding that 639 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,680 God's going to make you lie down. 640 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,440 So it's not you discovering what he wants you to put down. 641 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,880 It's not even about you putting anything down for some of you. 642 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,680 It's about making him first, not offloading. 643 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:35,320 It's re prioritizing for some people. 644 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,200 God's like you got to stop going to that place or you got to put 645 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,160 this relationship down or you got to recontextualize this 646 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,440 relationship or I don't need you there no more. 647 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,080 So I'm getting ready to transition. 648 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:52,240 You watch this and the longer you stay where I'm calling you 649 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:58,080 out of, the more trouble you will be in because the only way 650 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,400 that I can get you to know the season is over since you didn't 651 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,160 listen to me tell you it was over, is I got to let you live 652 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,160 in drought. Watch this. 653 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,680 What does that mean? The thing that once fed you, 654 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,080 you're about to experience, it doesn't anymore. 655 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,480 Watch this and I watch this and I'm not talking about because 656 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,680 sometimes you cannot be getting fed from something because 657 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:23,360 you're offended or it's not beneficial for you. 658 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:28,920 This is why we got to be very careful. 659 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,160 I get so many people oh God told me to do this. 660 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:36,800 OK, you are much better off saying I ain't even hear from. 661 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,080 The Lord. But this is what I want to do. 662 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,360 Can you pray for me? Can y'all do that with me more 663 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,440 often? Stop saying God said it because 664 00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,160 you don't have a backbone to take responsibility for your 665 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:51,240 choice. Yeah, and I've, I've learned how 666 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,080 to take that. No, you know, I'm not clear on 667 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,600 what God is saying, but I can't do this anymore. 668 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,040 And I. Am walking away. 669 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:09,240 No, God told me no stop cessation, stopping self 670 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:13,000 initiated actions. Hey, can I I'm the I'm the first 671 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,280 one to admit there's things that God permits. 672 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,760 There's things that God blesses and I'm out here in this world 673 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,280 and I'm trying to hustle watch this. 674 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,200 How do you know if you didn't know me? 675 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,240 How do you know that I had this challenge? 676 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:30,280 Because God sent me to a country to where the only thing I could 677 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,200 do is pastor. Because let me tell you with on 678 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,360 the come up of planting this church, our family has 679 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:44,120 experienced lack, our family has experienced ups and downs and 680 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,320 God has been faithful. But because of how I grew up, I 681 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,640 would be in. Canada working, hustling because 682 00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:56,480 I know how to make some money. But God said no, no, no, no. 683 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,400 What I've called you to do will require you to be still. 684 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,160 Watch this. Coming to Canada was God making 685 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,880 me lie down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 686 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,720 Coming to Canada was God making me lie down. 687 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,720 And the worst thing you can do is when God make you lie down. 688 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:15,080 You ever put your kids to sleep, you go to bed and then they wake 689 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,400 up and we're in the room. What you doing, Mama? 690 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,720 No, no, no. The worst thing you used to do 691 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:22,640 is when God lay you down, you get back up and run back to the 692 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:27,440 place he took you from. So there's been times for 693 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,120 multiple reasons to for our family to want to go back. 694 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,080 But when God make you lie down? Lie down. 695 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:42,920 But God has not only made me lie down, but God has been leading 696 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,000 me. And guess what he's also been 697 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,480 doing? Restoring my soul, restoring my 698 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,840 marriage, restoring my relationships. 699 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:01,440 Sensation is laying down labor because authority has taken 700 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,160 over. There's things I'm dealing with 701 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,560 in my life even in preparing this sermon like right now. 702 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,440 Y'all somebody say right now, all right, don't let it turn 703 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:11,680 red. I'll get I got it. 704 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,000 I got it. Don't let it turn red. 705 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,880 I like green. All right, look, look, y'all, I 706 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,560 am. I'm walking through things right 707 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,680 now, like right now and and the little nosy spirit you might 708 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,280 have. Don't worry about what it is. 709 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,000 It's and I'm not watch this for some of y'all. 710 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,320 It ain't even what you think it is. 711 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,320 But my wife and I are walking through some stuff right now and 712 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:41,520 so when I'm preaching be still, I am in real time having to 713 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,760 release control to God. Watch this and releasing control 714 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,960 in some ways. There are certain ways and 715 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,640 certain prayers I've had to stop praying. 716 00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:54,280 Right. Watch this. 717 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,720 Nope. In this season, you're not even 718 00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:01,000 going to call them. Watch this. 719 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,000 Here's the difference. He didn't say don't talk to him. 720 00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:11,260 But I got to understand that I got to stay laid down. 721 00:50:11,260 --> 00:50:13,020 And some phone calls make me get up. 722 00:50:15,220 --> 00:50:18,020 Some relationships make me get up and walk out of green 723 00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:23,340 pastures. So what I have to understand is 724 00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:27,380 when God when and where he lays me down, I need to stay. 725 00:50:29,180 --> 00:50:32,460 So when the soul does not learn stillness, it will seek relief 726 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,000 through control. And we love busy because we 727 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,480 think busy. It's productive. 728 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,960 Busy is not productivity, it's self production. 729 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:45,680 It's self protection. Watch this. 730 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,800 Some of y'all are busy because you can't sit still a long 731 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:54,720 enough with what you feel. So we got. 732 00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:57,400 I got to go to work because work is a hiding place. 733 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,560 Watch this church is a hiding place. 734 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:07,560 Relationships is a hiding place. It's self protection. 735 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,280 So you stay busy. Because if I be still, I'm going 736 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:17,840 to have to deal with this trauma or I'm busy looking at other 737 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,840 people's faults. Because if I stop being busy 738 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,440 looking at what's wrong with you, then I might find out 739 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,960 what's wrong with me. And I really don't like looking 740 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,240 at me. So I'm going to be busy looking 741 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:33,240 at you. And Jesus says, take the plank 742 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:40,920 out of your own eyes. All right, I. 743 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:47,120 Promise that I will deal OK with one of the most misunderstood 744 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:51,440 stories Jesus ever told, the prodigal son. 745 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,240 He said a certain man had two sons, say two sons. 746 00:51:58,240 --> 00:51:59,960 The younger of them inappropriately. 747 00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,840 What's so inappropriate in how he asked his father? 748 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,160 Might it be the tone? I don't think so, but I also 749 00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,040 don't know. I can't read this like I read 750 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:15,280 some text messages. Father, give me the share of the 751 00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,200 property that falls to me, to me. 752 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,400 Lord, I want my share. Father, I want my share. 753 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:28,160 Watch this. What makes it inappropriate is 754 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,640 your entitlement. You, you really think what you 755 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,360 praying about God supposed to do it worse than that. 756 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,000 Oh well, he said it in his word. If he did it before, he'll do it 757 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,160 again. But you the problem is you think 758 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,000 he's supposed to do it when you want him to do it. 759 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,560 That's inappropriate. So he divided the estate between 760 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:48,200 them. I love it. 761 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,800 The father said, OK, you want it, go right ahead. 762 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,560 You know this is something that you ain't supposed to get. 763 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,720 Until I'm gone. But OK, go on ahead. 764 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,760 Watch this. Few days later, the younger son 765 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:04,480 gathered together everything control, control that he had, 766 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,440 and he travelled to a distant country. 767 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,640 Watch this, you guys. And there he wasted his fortune 768 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:15,040 in reckless and immoral living. You might be thinking sin like, 769 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:16,960 oh, he just, he went to the strip club. 770 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,160 He went. He smoked. 771 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,080 He, he, he. Snorted cocaine. 772 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,880 He was drinking, he was partying, he was abusing when he 773 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,160 was. No, no, no, watch this. 774 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:29,560 We all have spent energy in areas we weren't supposed to. 775 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,640 We all have tried to rule in ungoverned or in territory God's 776 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,760 never called us. We've all got into relationships 777 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,520 that God has not blessed or intended, or we've all done 778 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,440 something that he's told us not to do. 779 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,920 Reckless living. And we see covenant, we see 780 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:55,240 entitlement, we see control. Is he really being immoral? 781 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,760 I've come to discover he's really not being rebellious. 782 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,440 Or shall I say rebellion wasn't the issue. 783 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:08,440 Here's the issue. Before rebellion, his soul was 784 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:12,440 ungoverned. Do you know all the stuff that I 785 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,680 did back in the day? Because I don't do nothing wrong 786 00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,880 no more. All the stuff I did back in the 787 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:23,360 day, before I went to jail, before I put that joint to my 788 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:28,920 mouth, before I did that party and before I was reckless, how I 789 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,520 got there is I didn't govern my soul. 790 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,000 And that was the fruit of an ungoverned soul. 791 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:41,000 James One tells us about that. And this goes back to allowing 792 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,400 the Lord to host our lives. So he had inheritance without 793 00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,920 covering, He had resources without relationship, and he had 794 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:54,400 movement without permission. The father didn't resist his 795 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,160 restless desires. Watch this. 796 00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:00,240 You think because God allowed it, it was His blessing. 797 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,400 You know how much good stuff we call blessing? 798 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,840 Watch this. I've had a lot of really good 799 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,320 stuff. Later to find out it was not the 800 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,800 blessing, it was just a good thing. 801 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,280 The promise was more important than the present to Him. 802 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,080 The adventure was more important than the advantage of waiting. 803 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,760 And he couldn't wait for the appointed time, so he went ahead 804 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,280 of God's timing. Because restlessness always 805 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:34,960 masquerades as freedom. Restlessness always masquerades 806 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:39,040 as freedom. It always masquerades. 807 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:44,280 Watch this. I can't be here any longer. 808 00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,280 You didn't deal with your restless soul. 809 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,320 So when you got watch this. This is what I learned long time 810 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,720 ago. EJ, This is crazy. 811 00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:56,400 We think God blessed it because I felt freedom when I left. 812 00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:02,920 It so the sign that we we heard from God is that I don't have to 813 00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:07,840 deal with that place anymore Elder John don't make me feel 814 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,360 that way because I left elder John versus dealing with 815 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,920 whatever elder John may have been put in my life to stir up 816 00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,720 in me I. Left and so the peace from 817 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:23,200 leaving you, from leaving your presence, the anointing in you 818 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,080 that stirred up some demons in me. 819 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,160 Now I'm like, see, I don't got to deal with that no more. 820 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,320 So it must have been God. And there's people that have 821 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:37,360 made choices in their lives. And because you got a break from 822 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,000 a tension, you thought it was the blessing. 823 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,200 But what I know is the enemy is very crafty. 824 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,560 He can wait. And then two years from now, 825 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:48,480 five years from now, you end this thing. 826 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:52,400 And you like, wait a minute. I thought God told me to be 827 00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,720 here. I thought God told me to get in 828 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:57,120 this marriage. I thought God told me it was my 829 00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:03,280 time. It would be like me telling you 830 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,160 God sent me the candidate and then when he didn't go right, 831 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:11,520 I'm like, I heard from the Lord guys, God said it's time to go 832 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:16,200 back. And that's what God need more 833 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:20,680 people of that will stick through the course to get to the 834 00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,920 other side, because what we selling the people is not how to 835 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:27,600 be led by God. We're we're showing people how 836 00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,520 to be in control of our destiny. And that works in the world, but 837 00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,280 not in the Kingdom. He did not leave angry the the 838 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:39,240 sun or broken. He left authorized by in his own 839 00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,760 mind. Is there any honest people in 840 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:47,760 here that can be like, yeah, I, I, I thought it was the Lord, 841 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,200 but I really authorized it myself because that's what I 842 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:55,120 wanted to do, right? I wanted to go there and I did. 843 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:59,000 And I had fun. I authorized it myself, and fun 844 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:06,200 was the blessing to me. When authority is resisted, God 845 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,640 will sometimes remove the very things that made running 846 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:12,120 possible, not to punish us, but to make stillness unavoidable. 847 00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,680 Some of you are in a season that that you have no choice but to 848 00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,120 be still. You ever been in that season? 849 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,360 People walk out on you, you lose a job, whatever. 850 00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:24,200 And God's like, yeah, I tried to prevent this day. 851 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,400 But because we don't want to take responsibility for our, 852 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:33,040 our, our, our control issues, we like, well, God not done with me 853 00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:38,280 yet, but we'll say some, some, some cultural proverb that's 854 00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:45,760 totally off because we don't want to say I miss God. 855 00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,560 And let me tell you guys, sometimes in my life I have 856 00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:55,360 missed God. Everybody who has ever followed 857 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,440 God hath missed God. God does not mind people missing 858 00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:05,520 Him. So then he goes on and he says 859 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:11,920 that there was a severe famine. He began to do without and be in 860 00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,440 need. That is the divine work of God, 861 00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,280 because now He has to be still because He ran out of money. 862 00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:23,880 Watch this. The little spark in your 863 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,760 relationship ain't sparking no more. 864 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,280 Need some new spark plugs, right? 865 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,200 That relationship that you left everything for you ain't in it 866 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:38,560 no more, right? That business deal you took for 867 00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,680 that season? It's not there no more. 868 00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,720 That business deal actually cost you more money. 869 00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,760 So he went and forced himself on some citizens and he got a 870 00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,760 little job and he eaten what the pigs is eating because watch 871 00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:56,840 this. There comes a time where God 872 00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,760 also will permit people to close. 873 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:05,040 They fit close their hand. Watch this. 874 01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,760 That drought season was God leading you home. 875 01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,640 I I I've learned to thank God for the seasons. 876 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:23,560 He cut the supply off because he led me back to him. 877 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,160 I remember, I remember I had went to jail and and, and my 878 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:29,960 grandma might have got me out of everything. 879 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,280 My Mama got me out of everything. 880 01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,080 And I remember I had went to jail last week. 881 01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,920 No, not last week, just a while ago. 882 01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:42,240 Not last week, a while ago. Come on somebody I can't play 883 01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,640 with y'all. Some people would think I'm 884 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,040 serious, but when I was younger, I remember. 885 01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:48,800 I remember and I remember calling my grandma. 886 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,240 I didn't call my Mama. I called my grandma because I 887 01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,400 knew she would be like, baby, come on, that'd just be a little 888 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,360 less of a woman. She said baby, come on. 889 01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,080 And I thought she was going to bail me out. 890 01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:05,120 Wasn't that much money, at least to me. 891 01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,240 I didn't have none. So. 892 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:11,960 But she always bailed me out anytime I needed something. 893 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:15,680 They always was there. This time she said, all right, 894 01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:18,160 let me know when your court date is. 895 01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,440 You're going to have to stay in there, baby. 896 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:28,800 So either she didn't have it or the strength of God graced her 897 01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,160 to say, son, you going to have to sit in there for a little bit 898 01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,200 and we going to let God have his way in this one watch. 899 01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,720 This ain't never now. If she would have bailed me out, 900 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,040 I probably would have did something else. 901 01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:47,560 I needed to walk in that jail to realize that ain't where God 902 01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,800 made me to be. That ain't how I was raised. 903 01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:55,920 Why I'm in here for the reason I'm in here when I'm I'm I'm 904 01:01:55,920 --> 01:02:00,880 bunking with people. Who parents was murdered but I 905 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,480 got a home that's warm and food on the table all the time and 906 01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,440 they don't mind giving me finances to get what I need. 907 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:11,280 Why am I in here? So I had to be in jail for a 908 01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:15,880 week and 1/2 to learn where my help comes from. 909 01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,920 Never been back and never did the thing that got me in there. 910 01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:28,960 Some of y'all going to go Google me whatever. 911 01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,720 My pastor he went to jail He was just y'all. 912 01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:37,720 So judgmental man Watch this. I don't ever want to be pastored 913 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,680 by somebody that ain't been through nothing. 914 01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,680 Yeah, you just over here pre teaching me off knowledge. 915 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,720 You don't. You ain't encounter Jesus. 916 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,000 Absolutely. If you going to judge me, you 917 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,880 shouldn't read none of Paul. 'S. 918 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:57,640 Letters right Jesus was crucified in between don't don't 919 01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:01,760 get me to preaching show me in the Bible where to yeah no, no, 920 01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,320 no. Anyways, whatever y'all got me 921 01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:08,280 feeling he saw me. Y'all looking at me like he's a. 922 01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,960 Criminal. Nope, I'm not. 923 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:22,240 I am free indeed in Jesus. Name Watch this. 924 01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,640 But he finally came to his senses. 925 01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:30,280 He finally came to his senses. He finally can. 926 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,880 Can somebody can? Can I get 3 people today that 927 01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:38,600 can come today senses before this fast is over like like like 928 01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,080 like like this week starting Monday through Friday. 929 01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:43,720 Guess what we're doing We have revival we we meeting here every 930 01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:47,760 single day for five days to worship and encounter God and 931 01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:52,560 leave any we not going to step out of January with anything 932 01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:56,320 that God is saying he's done with anything he said he's 933 01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,840 overcome or he conquered. So I'm going to see y'all 934 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,520 tomorrow. Hey man, you don't got to 935 01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:01,960 announce that one later. I just did. 936 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:05,840 He came to a census. Here we go. 937 01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:09,040 We got to land this. When he came to his self mean he 938 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,480 came into himself. Literally, that's what it means. 939 01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:13,520 He came into himself. What does that mean? 940 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:15,440 What does that mean? What does that mean? 941 01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,080 Stillness reassembled his identity. 942 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,880 Can y'all help me today? Stillness reassemble pads his 943 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:29,120 identity motion kept him fragmented. 944 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,720 And so you wonder why you 40 you, you 40 something still 945 01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,440 still in pieces because you ain't stopped moving yet. 946 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,600 You wondering why you still ain't over that childhood thing 947 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,360 because trauma has been leading you. 948 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:55,400 Stillness reassembled his identity motion kept him 949 01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:58,160 fragmented. See, people would know the cost. 950 01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,280 For our family coming to Canada, it's been a cost. 951 01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,360 I'm talking about I'm still paying to today and I'm not 952 01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:12,280 talking money the cost, but but what I will I will not get up 953 01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:18,240 from where he laid me down and I am watching the exchange of like 954 01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,960 I wanted help, but I can't because that would then watch 955 01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,240 this helping them would take. Me out of green pastures. 956 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,800 Because he did not ordain me to go there. 957 01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,840 If they won't help, they got to come here. 958 01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,960 And if they come where I'm at, guess where they going to be at? 959 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:39,040 Green pastures. And sometimes you are being 960 01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,480 pulled out of green pastures versus waiting for them to join 961 01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:47,080 you in green. Pastures he He didn't watch 962 01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,080 this. He didn't repent while he was 963 01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:55,200 running. He repented when he stopped some 964 01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,240 folks repenting on the go. No, no, no. 965 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,240 You can't repent on the go. You got to be still. 966 01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:04,200 Stillness is not the end of the story or the promise, but the 967 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,440 moment authority takes over. Yeah. 968 01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,440 This is not a command to calm down or chill out. 969 01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,880 It's a reminder that everything going to be all right. 970 01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,280 Watch this. I want you to see this context. 971 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:23,560 Be still is smack in the middle of God is our refuge and 972 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,760 strength. Though the earth gives way, 973 01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:29,280 nations rage, kingdoms teeter and they totter. 974 01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:31,920 The Lord of hosts is with us, is in there twice. 975 01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:36,800 Verse 10 is smacked in the middle of of of of of war, in 976 01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,600 the middle of darkness, in the middle of chaos. 977 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:45,120 He says be still. So God is whispering in the 978 01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:47,640 chaos. He's whispering in the valley. 979 01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:51,240 He is whispering while you are. Your soul feels restless. 980 01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:58,160 He is saying be still. This is for Psalm 46 is a war 981 01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,080 song. Watch this. 982 01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,080 I'm not waiting for you to be quiet. 983 01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,280 God said I'm waiting for you to be still. 984 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:08,240 It's in the chaos, He is whispering. 985 01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,560 There's no need to whisper when it's quiet. 986 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:16,240 Psalm 46 let be and be still. Somebody say let be and be 987 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,240 still. This simply means step out of 988 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:22,480 traffic. Take a long loving look at me, 989 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:26,080 your high God above politics, above everything. 990 01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,160 Let be and be still means to stand out. 991 01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:34,920 Be still literally means stand down, not stand up. 992 01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,480 It means cease your interference. 993 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,120 It means release, release your grip. 994 01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,000 It means step. Oh, I love this one step out of 995 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:54,240 jurisdiction. Sound like God's saying I don't 996 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:58,160 need your help on this one. And this is so vital. 997 01:07:58,160 --> 01:07:59,880 Can I, can I save somebody today? 998 01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:03,240 Not, not in the name of not in like lordship, but can I save 999 01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:06,320 you by reading this to you? Because the wrong activity in a 1000 01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,640 war zone is more dangerous than no activity at all. 1001 01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:17,520 Oh, Natalia, I have learned that be still is not just God. 1002 01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:18,960 Be still is. Hold on. 1003 01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,080 Watch this. Be still. 1004 01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:21,760 Here we go. Can you give me our struggle? 1005 01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,040 Is not laziness, It's restlessness. 1006 01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:28,200 It's restlessness disguised in responsibility. 1007 01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:31,640 You think you being responsible because of all that you're 1008 01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:33,960 doing. But you're not being responsible 1009 01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:38,920 over your soul because you cannot be still watch this God 1010 01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,840 is relieving you of jurisdiction today. 1011 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:48,920 Some of you still trying to drag your parents along for stuff. 1012 01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,279 Stop trying to convince them he's releasing you from it. 1013 01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:54,439 He's trying to you trying to get your spouse to be. 1014 01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,479 He's releasing you from that. God's saying the battle's mine 1015 01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,479 now. You said enough, you've nagged 1016 01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:00,720 enough. You've bugged enough. 1017 01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,279 You've you've. Prayed enough, let it go. 1018 01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:12,600 Stillness is not inactivity, but the moment we step out of 1019 01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:14,439 unauthorized. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1020 01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,520 Revelation. He said he came to himself once. 1021 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:19,600 He was still. Revelation follows 1022 01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:24,040 relinquishment. Revelation stands up when we 1023 01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:27,880 stand down. You cannot know God as sovereign 1024 01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:32,000 while still competing for control after making 1025 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,560 purification for sins. Watch this. 1026 01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:38,160 God sat down. You don't rest because the storm 1027 01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:40,760 stopped. You rest because the king is 1028 01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:44,920 seated. Am I helping somebody right now? 1029 01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,479 I don't rest because the storm stopped. 1030 01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:52,520 The greatest witness is if somebody see you in a storm and 1031 01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,400 they like why you not flipping. Out. 1032 01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:59,240 Yeah, watch this. Your spouse needs to stop seeing 1033 01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,320 you flip out so much. And then they'll be be willing 1034 01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:06,520 to listen to you. Hallelujah. 1035 01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:10,480 Amen. Peace be still. 1036 01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,560 We can inter rest because the throne has settled everything. 1037 01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:17,720 Stillness exposes who has been surviving instead of trusting. 1038 01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:24,800 Oh here you go, here you go, Here you go, here you, here you 1039 01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:25,280 go. Adam. 1040 01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:30,440 The famine that the prodigal son experienced was mercy. 1041 01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:36,080 It wasn't punishment. What if I told you the pig pen 1042 01:10:36,480 --> 01:10:41,560 was mercy? What if I told you that season 1043 01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,120 of lack you went through was mercy? 1044 01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,320 What if I told you then people walking out of your life was 1045 01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,960 mercy because you made those relationships an idol? 1046 01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:54,360 You thought those people was going to build the church. 1047 01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,680 You thought those people was going to be your way into your 1048 01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,960 successful business and God brought snatched him out of your 1049 01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:03,000 life and that was his mercy because you knew you was about 1050 01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,160 to build something that would not stand. 1051 01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:11,640 The times the famine stopped the running Troy stillness made 1052 01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:16,360 remembrance possible. The famine stopped the running. 1053 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:20,600 The famine stopped the running You got to get that. 1054 01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:23,840 That is potent. The famine stopped the running. 1055 01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:30,720 Stillness forced revelation. Stillness leads to alignment. 1056 01:11:31,400 --> 01:11:34,360 How can 1 be aligned if he can't be still? 1057 01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:37,480 The Father's authority never left. 1058 01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,440 The Son just stepped outside. Of his authority. 1059 01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,240 Father didn't chase him, but authority waited. 1060 01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,120 This is what I'm learning. Authority. 1061 01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:59,440 It takes authority to wait. I used to tell some people, and 1062 01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:03,080 I'm going to tell you today, I didn't need faith to get out the 1063 01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,800 boat. I need faith to stay in the 1064 01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,520 boat. I've gotten in a lot of trouble 1065 01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:12,840 because I I don't mind leaping. I needed to learn how to be 1066 01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:17,000 still and God brought me to Canada to learn how to do so. 1067 01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:22,400 And when God commands stillness, guys, heaven does not become 1068 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:26,800 passive. The Father didn't chase him. 1069 01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:28,880 Authority waiting. Now, what do I mean by this? 1070 01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:31,640 We'll close here. When God commands stillness, 1071 01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:37,640 Heaven does not become passive. Has there been anyone who has 1072 01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,440 been mad that the light turned red? 1073 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:44,680 Yeah. Come on. 1074 01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:46,040 Or those who didn't raise their hand. 1075 01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,400 You just ran it, right? You just ran the red light. 1076 01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:52,200 OK. All right, Watch this. 1077 01:12:53,040 --> 01:13:03,240 Watch this while I have to stop. That gives others permission to 1078 01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:10,990 go. And all you concerned about in 1079 01:13:10,990 --> 01:13:13,470 your life is if your vehicle can keep moving. 1080 01:13:15,430 --> 01:13:19,790 But you don't realize while you're at that stoplight, it's 1081 01:13:19,790 --> 01:13:22,310 heaven's moment to go through the light. 1082 01:13:24,190 --> 01:13:28,400 You can't look at you having to be still as missing out. 1083 01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,960 You should look at being still as activating heaven, moving on 1084 01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:37,080 your behalf. Yeah, you can give God a hand 1085 01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:42,480 right there. I found out that God is doing 1086 01:13:42,480 --> 01:13:47,160 more with my stillness than my activity. 1087 01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:53,680 God is doing more with me, delegating things that I 1088 01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:57,160 actually have no. Ability to do or I do. 1089 01:13:57,160 --> 01:13:59,080 But it's not as good as that person. 1090 01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:08,720 So you might be at a moment where God is saying red light in 1091 01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:13,560 this area, but I promise you, when you be still, heaven is not 1092 01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:17,680 being passive. Heaven is moving. 1093 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:23,000 But in order to keep a healthy flow of traffic, we need red 1094 01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:29,000 lights and we need Gray lights. We need stop signs, we need 1095 01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,480 speed bumps. We need God to give us warnings. 1096 01:14:32,480 --> 01:14:36,880 We need God to slow us down. So in this season, who are you? 1097 01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,200 Were you identified over this time? 1098 01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:46,640 You've identified over this time that I've been speaking, there's 1099 01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:49,160 some areas that I think I've been, I put my hand on the 1100 01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:53,920 steering wheel and God is saying take it off. 1101 01:15:05,100 --> 01:15:08,300 Sometime burnout, and a lot of times especially the burnout 1102 01:15:08,300 --> 01:15:09,540 ain't because you serve too much. 1103 01:15:11,460 --> 01:15:14,940 Sometimes as God is calling you actually to step into more. 1104 01:15:15,780 --> 01:15:18,820 But over here He's saying you got to let that go. 1105 01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:22,000 But because what God is calling you to step in is putting 1106 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:25,400 pressure on this over here, you like, I can't do that over 1107 01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:29,000 there. God, no. 1108 01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:35,160 My family had to let everything go and everyone had to be 1109 01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,800 reorganized in my life so we can come to another country. 1110 01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:44,800 He's going on nine years and we thought we would be out of this 1111 01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:49,880 country after 2. We did not plan to live here. 1112 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:57,400 We planned to serve, get an experience and go home. 1113 01:16:03,670 --> 01:16:09,230 Now I can't leave, but I can't leave because Oakland is not my 1114 01:16:09,230 --> 01:16:14,230 green pasture. He brought me to another country 1115 01:16:14,750 --> 01:16:21,680 and made me lie down in our family's legacy will forever be 1116 01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:25,360 changed. So I'm not speaking to you from 1117 01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,480 studying for 80 years about be still. 1118 01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:34,240 I'm speaking because I'm in the middle of a journey learning how 1119 01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:38,880 to be still when I was raised in a culture who knew nothing but 1120 01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:46,040 hustle. Some of you, God wants to heal, 1121 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:53,440 but he can't even get you still. We're about to sing this worship 1122 01:16:53,440 --> 01:16:54,760 song. Worship team, come up. 1123 01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,280 And I dare you, whoever you are, if you got to go, then do what 1124 01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,560 you got to do. But we're going to respond with 1125 01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:07,000 our hearts and with our singing. We are going to respond to the 1126 01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:09,520 word of God. Now, I don't know about you, but 1127 01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:12,120 I have preached this twice and it's been preached to me all 1128 01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:16,080 week and I have been blessed. If you've been blessed, you're 1129 01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:18,960 offering back to the Lord. Should be your praise. 1130 01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:21,440 It should be your song. It should be you lifting him up 1131 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:23,360 because there is going ahead. Clap. 1132 01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:25,120 Yeah. There's peace in this room. 1133 01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:35,520 I believe in this room there is enough power to break the chains 1134 01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:40,360 of anxiety over your life, depression, suicidal spirit 1135 01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:42,480 there. There's things that God wants to 1136 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:44,720 do in his room, but can you be still? 1137 01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:48,000 And can you let Him? And can you make a commitment in 1138 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,960 your heart, not with your mouth, but in your? 1139 01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:54,440 Heart like I I am not leaving this, no, this will not happen 1140 01:17:54,440 --> 01:17:57,680 another year. I will not give my parent, I 1141 01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,960 will not give my spouse, I will not give my kids. 1142 01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:03,720 I will not give the government. I am not giving anybody my 1143 01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:13,200 peace. And for some, unfortunately, 1144 01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:18,560 peace that transcends all understanding is by way of being 1145 01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:23,240 still. Calm came after still. 1146 01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:25,480 Lift your hands all over the room. 1147 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,360 Lift your hands all over the room. 1148 01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:34,040 And I dare this entire place to lift his voice and give God this 1149 01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:44,200 song in Jesus name. Thank you so much for tuning 1150 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,720 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 1151 01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:50,280 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 1152 01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:53,520 platforms. That's love quest Intl church. 1153 01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:55,960 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 1154 01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:58,960 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 1155 01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,400 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 1156 01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:03,440 But until next time, you know the drill. 1157 01:19:03,440 --> 01:19:06,680 You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see 1158 01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:07,320 y'all real soon.