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 --> 00:00:28,640 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:42,520 Let's get into it. Psalm 46 has been a pretty 9 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,000 popular verse around here for the last little bit, and it 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,840 reads let be and be still, let be and be still. 11 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,240 Somebody say let be and be still. 12 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,720 Let be and be still and know. Somebody shout out and know come 13 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,640 on, No, shout out. Somebody when they say shout 14 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,600 out, shout out. Somebody shout out and know 15 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,520 that's a shout right there. Recognize and understand that we 16 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:21,480 turn this off, OK? That I am, God I am. 17 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:23,760 I'm not. I'm not going to be. 18 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:31,120 I am, I is. I'm him. 19 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,080 Let be be still. And no one more time. 20 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,160 You don't got to yell at your neighbor. 21 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:44,400 Just say and no that I am God. This is very important before we 22 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,760 move forward. We've been on let be and we've 23 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,080 been on be still. We've been on let be. 24 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,320 We've been on be still. We've been on let be and we've 25 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:00,560 been on be still. And no, that I am and know that 26 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,440 I am. For the last few weeks we've 27 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,440 been sitting in something extremely intentional. 28 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,440 I don't take God's word when He's repeating himself. 29 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:15,360 I do not take that for granted. He's clearly being intentional 30 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,760 in how He is. He is moving in this house, how 31 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:25,040 He is speaking to us. He is being very intentional and 32 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,920 we've learned, remember this. We've learned that stillness is 33 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:33,480 not calm. We've learned that stillness is 34 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,960 not calm and rest is not activity. 35 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,520 Rest is not inactivity. Sorry. 36 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,840 We've learned that stillness is not calm and rest is is not 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,640 inactivity. Do we have that? 38 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:55,080 Stillness is not calm. Stillness is not about your 39 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,800 discipline. Stillness is not about you doing 40 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,080 less. Because there's plenty of people 41 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,680 in the Bible that will kick our butts when it comes to busyness. 42 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,240 And rest is not inactivity. Stillness is the moment we step 43 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,920 out of unauthorized authority and motion. 44 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,920 It is the moment we step out of unauthorized authority and 45 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:28,920 motion. We've probably mentioned this 46 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,120 for several weeks, so I'm going to keep going. 47 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:37,880 We saw that stillness is not the absence of storms, it's the 48 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,120 recognition of who is ruling in the storms. 49 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,960 We learned that peace does not come from changed conditions. 50 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:53,280 Peace comes from awareness of government, recognized 51 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,760 government. And if we are honest, stillness 52 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,840 has been confronting us. That's why we don't like being 53 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,400 still. What if I told you it's not 54 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,040 about you choosing to be still or choosing to be busy? 55 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,160 But subconsciously we are all running from an area in our 56 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:21,839 lives that God is running after. And sometimes He or He 57 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,840 orchestrates or allows. He can orchestrate by allowing. 58 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:30,080 He does not have to orchestrate by 'cause He can orchestrate a 59 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:37,320 moment in our time that will force us to be still so that we 60 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:42,760 can hopefully, in the stillness and the quiet, become aware of 61 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:51,200 an area that he's after. Stillness does not just quiet 62 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,760 the room. Stillness reveals the heart. 63 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,040 And here's what the spirit is, is, is is doing in US. 64 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:10,520 You guys, He hasn't just been calling us to slow down in 2026. 65 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,560 He has not just been causing us or asking us to even go deeper. 66 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,800 Watch this. He has been asking us to trust 67 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:35,490 deeper, trust deeper. Watch this. 68 00:05:36,090 --> 00:05:46,280 Trust longer, trust wider. It's like if, if, if, if if if I 69 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,760 am just getting back on the bike or just getting back in the 70 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,200 weights. I assume right? 71 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,320 Have you? Some of us are those people who 72 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,680 like. I haven't rode a bike for four 73 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,840 months, so I'm about to do 90 minutes on my first bike ride 74 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:00,080 back. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 75 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,520 Like like know yourself. Maybe you can do 60, but it's a 76 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,520 kind of ride. Take it easy because the point 77 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,040 is not. The point is you're not only 78 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,880 watch this, it's very important. The the goal of getting back is 79 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,080 to not just get back. You have to create momentum to 80 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:24,280 stay back. So my first few bike rides back 81 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,280 is to create momentum and excitement to be back. 82 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,720 Not I see why I didn't ride for four months. 83 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,120 So it may just be 30 minutes enough to break a sweat, enough 84 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,120 to get the, the, the, the blood flowing. 85 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:47,480 And then when I finish, I shall want to get back on track. 86 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,720 What I'm saying? So if that's the case with 87 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,760 working out that I'm going to start off at 30 minutes, but if 88 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,760 I keep riding, I might be able to do 2 hours of long distance 89 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,880 riding or I should be lifting 50 lbs when I get back. 90 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,600 But a year from now I should be at 200 lbs. 91 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:17,440 So, so, So for me is I got a trace where I am consistently 92 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:26,040 tapping out in the faith race. I normally give up when it gets 93 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,840 hard in this area. What has been too long for your 94 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:38,800 faith or we've been aware of our patterns or or maybe it's not a 95 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:44,160 length of time, but it is circumstantial that you normally 96 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,040 your faith gets weak and weary if you're easily offended 97 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,360 person, if you have an orphan spirit when certain things don't 98 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,400 happen for you, are you tempted to grab a hold of the steering 99 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,360 wheel and take control? Everybody let me tell you 100 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,040 something till you go see Jesus, your trust can go deeper, your 101 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:12,840 faith can get get wider, you can trust longer, OK? 102 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:21,560 Because stillness without faith becomes passivity, stillness 103 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,680 without faith becomes passivity. You just twiddling your fingers 104 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,200 because you thought stillness meant inactivity. 105 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,400 You thought stillness meant don't do nothing. 106 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,080 You thought stillness meant do less. 107 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:42,919 What if stillness meant do efficient, do alignment, Do what 108 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:49,240 God has asked you to do, and be OK with him filling the blanks. 109 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,040 Watch this. Because stillness without faith 110 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:00,200 becomes passivity. Stillness without faith also 111 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,760 becomes wandering faith. It's not going to pop up on the 112 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:03,720 screen. It's not going to change 113 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,880 wandering faith. What is wandering faith? 114 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,080 If I asked some of you, you couldn't tell me right now 115 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,240 where's your faith employed? Watch this. 116 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:23,080 What if I told you that faith is not directed for everything in 117 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,120 my life? I don't need faith to go take 118 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,720 out the trash. I don't need faith to go pick up 119 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,480 my kids. I don't need faith to no, no, 120 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,320 no. And what we do, we just got 121 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,800 wandering faith. Your faith is not targeted to 122 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,080 nothing. So then first we got to get your 123 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,440 faith targeted and then we got to get it targeted on the right 124 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,000 thing. Because when God uses your 125 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,240 faith, it is for what He needs your faith for. 126 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,280 And we've been using our faith to get a job when all you needed 127 00:09:55,280 --> 00:10:00,640 was an application. We we've been using faith for a 128 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,240 man or what? All you needed was patience and 129 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,040 to work on yourself. You didn't need faith for a man. 130 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,720 You needed faith to become a wife. 131 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,640 You didn't need faith for a wife. 132 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,240 You needed faith to become a husband and and and a wife don't 133 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:23,520 make you a husband. Characteristics of Jesus make 134 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:32,120 you a husband. So there's wandering faith and 135 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,880 then there's misdirected faith. But stillness rooted in faith 136 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,840 becomes power. Elder John, Stillness rooted in 137 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:45,440 faith becomes power. Tonight, we're not, we're not 138 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,880 leaving stillness behind. We're just going deeper into 139 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,840 stillness, guys. We're talking about faith, but 140 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:58,040 we're not talking about not like faith getting loud or faith 141 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:04,880 becoming performative. We're talking about settled 142 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:12,360 faith, confident faith, the kind of faith that doesn't flinch, 143 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,160 the kind of faith that refuses to waver. 144 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:27,840 Somebody say target practice. The kind of faith that can say I 145 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:38,760 know that I know, I know, period. 146 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:45,680 Convinced you can't unconvince me that I know this kind of 147 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:52,200 sounds like tell them I am that I am. 148 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,600 I love that because it's like just tell them I am that I am, 149 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,560 but I love I love that I am that period. 150 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,200 Yes, I am whatever that is healing. 151 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,520 I'm I'm, I'm, I'm Rafa provision, I'm Gyra, I am that 152 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,120 whatever because everybody's blank needs a different feel. 153 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,360 So I am that double down. I am. 154 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:24,240 And for us, our response should be I know that I know. 155 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,640 Come on, I'm going to talk to anybody on this Wednesday night. 156 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:33,200 A faith that does not flinch and refuses to waver. 157 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:39,160 Say I refuse to waver in 2026. Come on, tell your neighbor you 158 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:49,480 should consider stop wavering. I'm getting stirred up right now 159 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,960 because listen, you guys, great faith does not rise from effort. 160 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,440 It does not grow from effort. It does not grow from from from 161 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,280 more work. Great faith rises from 162 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:07,280 recognizing who is in control. Great faith comes by you 163 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,040 releasing the other end of the rope and letting Jesus have his 164 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,280 way. It does not come. 165 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,440 Great faith does not come from you doing more. 166 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,160 That's not even Bible. Faith does not come by doing, 167 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:30,720 but doing does prove faith. Faith without works, he's dead. 168 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:32,400 And it's not just doing. Watch this. 169 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:35,560 The doing that the Bible's talking about is not talking 170 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:41,760 about faith without busyness. It's it's it's about faith that 171 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,720 does not have corresponding action in what I got faith in. 172 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:56,520 It's not I got faith in getting this thing done, so I'm going to 173 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,600 do a lot of work to get the thing done. 174 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,560 No faith is I am going to do what the provider tells me to do 175 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:06,880 because he's going to get the thing done. 176 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,280 My faith is in him more than the thing. 177 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,760 So once my faith is in the one that can provide the one, the 178 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,600 one that the God of the impossible, I am not worried 179 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,040 about the thing. I have not. 180 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,800 I'm not worried about if it comes. 181 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,280 If it doesn't, I'm not worried about if somebody else get the 182 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,640 house, if the car don't come, if the promotion don't come because 183 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:34,280 my faith is not in the thing. See, when your faith is in the 184 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,400 thing, it comes into your life. And then when it leaves your 185 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,280 life, you, you, you have this depression moment. 186 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,120 Your your life slows down because your faith was in the 187 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,760 thing. Your faith was in the 188 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,760 inheritance, like the prodigal son. 189 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,360 It wasn't entrusted in the father's timing and the Father's 190 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,720 plan and the Father's love. Your faith was in the 191 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,280 inheritance. And because your faith was in 192 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,880 the thing, you pursued everything that the thing 193 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,920 promised to have. And then God said, go ahead. 194 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,760 Here it is. Once you know who's in control, 195 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:19,280 you guys, once you believe and know who's in control, you don't 196 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,600 have to rush, you don't have to manage, and you don't have to 197 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:29,680 strive. Striving ceases managing. 198 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,480 How many of y'all trying to manage your life in areas that 199 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:43,320 God is left? Like what what did, what would 200 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:48,240 your look life look like if you were only partnering with God as 201 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,480 it pertains to what He has planned for your life? 202 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,560 He said my yoke is easy, my burden is light. 203 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,720 When you are managing stuff outside of God's will, guess 204 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,440 what? It's yo yoke. 205 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:13,400 It's your burden and it ain't light because you carrying it by 206 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,640 yourself. You yoked up with your resume, 207 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,320 you yoked up with your with your with your bank account. 208 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,280 You yoked up with who you know. You yoked up with resources. 209 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,640 You not yoked up with him. You yoked up with gifts, you 210 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,280 yoked up with ability, but you not yoked up with the anointed 211 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,880 one. You don't have to strive. 212 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:40,960 You don't have to strive. You can be still and you can 213 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,280 know. You can let be. 214 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:50,680 You can stand down. Be still and know that you know 215 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,600 that you know. I want you to see something 216 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,720 before we leave. Be still and know is a mandate. 217 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,240 It's not a suggestion, it's a mandate. 218 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,200 We're going to go from this mandate and we're about to look 219 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,480 at a model, Matthew 8 says. But the Roman officer 220 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:23,280 interjected. Lord, who am I to to have you 221 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:29,400 come into my house? I understand your authority, for 222 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:35,000 I too am a man who walks under authority and have authority 223 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:42,800 over soldiers serve under me. I can tell one thing. 224 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,080 One to go and he'll go and another to come and he'll come. 225 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,240 I command my servants and they'll do whatever I ask. 226 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:55,240 So I know. So I know. 227 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,240 OK. I wanted to make sure your brain 228 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:03,200 is connecting. Be still and OK. 229 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:13,400 So here he comes, so I know. All of what we about to look at 230 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,200 is because he know the Lord has gave you a mandate. 231 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:23,000 Be still and know. So I know that all you need to 232 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,760 do is to stand here right where you at. 233 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,800 You don't need to take another step, Jesus, and command healing 234 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,720 over my Son, and he will be instantly healed. 235 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,600 Jesus was astonished when he heard this and said to those who 236 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:46,640 were following him, He has great faith than anyone I've 237 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,080 encountered in Israel. What kind of faith he got? 238 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,240 Come on, what kind of faith He got? 239 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,920 One more time, shout it out. What kind of faith he got? 240 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,800 He has great faith. Now what you got to understand 241 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,560 here guys, is he's coming as a Gentile. 242 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:05,000 Watch this and and watch this. Luke gives a different account. 243 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,200 What we're reading in Matthew says it's reading as he's 244 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:15,160 talking. Luke says he sends elders and 245 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:20,160 then friends later. So he actually never shows up 246 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:27,840 and talks to Jesus. But it's not wrong because one 247 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,240 writer decides to write it. In a way. 248 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,800 Watch this. Because back then, when you sent 249 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,040 your word, it was as good as you being present. 250 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,880 So Matthew speaks as if he was present because back then your 251 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,280 word was your presence. That ain't today, though. 252 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,240 That ain't today. You got to double check. 253 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,200 You got to do background checks. You got to double down, triple 254 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,800 down, quadruple down. Because not everybody word is a 255 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:03,200 presence. So Luke, because he's a doctor, 256 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,320 he's a physician, he's writing in detail. 257 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,800 So he's like, here's what happened this way. 258 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:22,080 The man, the centurion sent elders with a word, and as Jesus 259 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,120 was on his way, I guess he heard Jesus was on his way. 260 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:27,840 And he's like no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 261 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,200 The reason he sent people is because he didn't feel worthy. 262 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,000 So then he heard Jesus on the way to his house, and he sent 263 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,400 friends and said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 264 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,760 He does not want you to come to the crib. 265 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,680 He doesn't feel worthy, but he tells us to tell you. 266 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:55,760 He knows if you just send your word, that my servant will be 267 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,280 healed. Watch this Jesus do it for him 268 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,560 because he's a good man. Although Gentile, He used his 269 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:12,000 own resources to build a temple. There's so much in here, but 270 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,680 it's not pertaining to tonight's message. 271 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,240 I'm just giving you some background. 272 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,080 This is a man. He's not a disciple. 273 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,720 He's now following Jesus. Watch this. 274 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:32,080 But because he's in authority, he knows authority. 275 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:40,480 I know that I know that I know. So I know, Jesus, you're a man 276 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,920 of authority. And the reason I don't need to 277 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,360 talk to you face to face is because I know the power of when 278 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:52,960 you say something, it happens because at home, I tell one to 279 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,080 go, they go. I tell one to come, they come. 280 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,520 I tell one to sit, they sit. I tell one to cook, they cook. 281 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,840 So all I need you to do, Jesus, is stand right there where you 282 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,800 are. I am not worthy. 283 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,840 I watch this. I know I'm not worthy. 284 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,720 So he is. This is a picture of his 285 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:19,640 humility. Jesus, you don't owe me nothing, 286 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:30,560 but I know I've sown. And I know the power of your 287 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,080 word. If you just speak it and send it 288 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:42,360 to this situation, my guy will be healed. 289 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,480 The Bible says the friends and elders, they came to the house 290 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,840 and when they got there he was well, Jesus did not go watch 291 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:56,280 this, nor did the elders and the friends come back and say Jesus 292 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:02,400 said and then healed. The word was sent faster than a 293 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,080 letter can get into Centurion's hands and the man got well. 294 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,520 So Jesus says, man, I ain't seen no faith like this. 295 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,080 This is great faith. Someone that don't need me to 296 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,160 touch them, someone that's humble and know that without me 297 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,200 they're nothing. Someone that understands the 298 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:30,160 authority of my word and that confidence and resolve and 299 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:36,080 unwavering to say watch this in the faith in the sender. 300 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,840 Watch this guys. What kind of faith is this that 301 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:47,080 I trust you to get a message to Jesus to to fulfill a desire I 302 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,520 got? No, no, no, no. 303 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,440 I want this so bad. I want to go talk to Jesus 304 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,640 myself to make sure what I'm telling Jesus it gets there to 305 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,920 him just like that. So there's such great faith 306 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,040 here. And here's he says, I know that 307 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:11,280 I know that I know if you send your word, he says, so I know 308 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:18,840 all you need to do is to stand here and command healing over my 309 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,200 son and he will it be instantly healed. 310 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,880 Watch this target. He didn't say Lord, bless my 311 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:34,000 house. This target some of y'all right 312 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,800 now you can't be still because you don't got focus on your 313 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:41,480 target and then you haven't surrendered your target to see 314 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,960 if that's his target. And now once I've gotten that 315 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:52,880 down, man, it's what's this Jesus fuels my faith when I'm 316 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:58,360 willing to get out the boat to pursue him. 317 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:16,680 Oh man, the Scripture says only, only say the word, only say the 318 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,880 word. You remember that Only say the 319 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,400 word. I have not found such great 320 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,160 faith. Jesus says. 321 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,600 The man says only say the word. And then and then Jesus says, I 322 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,800 have not found such great faith. Watch this. 323 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,480 He recognizes the centurion recognizes authority. 324 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,960 Do you recognize? Are you aware of the that? 325 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,520 Now be honest with yourself. Do you really understand how 326 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,160 much authority the word of God has? 327 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,520 Now I know you sing about it. I know you read it, but do your 328 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,240 actions do your do your do, do how you go about things look 329 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,640 like? Does your rest reflect your 330 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:58,120 recognition? Does your rest reflect your 331 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:04,520 recognition? Says I understand how command 332 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,200 works. He says I understand how command 333 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,760 works. I understand how command works. 334 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,240 If you speak, it's settled. It's the next slide. 335 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,760 If you speak, it's settled. I understand how command works. 336 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,200 If you speak, it's settled. I understand how command works. 337 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,960 If you speak, it's settled. If, if, if, watch this. 338 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,960 How many of our prayer lives would be more mature if we 339 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,840 understood if we're praying something he spoke, then it's 340 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,880 settled. So I don't need to keep on 341 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,040 praying. Watch Jesus says this with many 342 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:42,560 words. Why are we praying so long? 343 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,480 The same words right? So mature praying is I can pray 344 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:55,840 for 30 minutes and not repeat myself some for some people, 345 00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:06,910 repetition reflects doubt. I understand how command works. 346 00:27:06,990 --> 00:27:09,830 What are you saying man? Look, you better off praying a 347 00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:15,470 Jesus wept prayer and it's on command like it's it's it's 348 00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:18,870 efficient. It's not short, it's efficient. 349 00:27:21,430 --> 00:27:24,110 But somehow we think we're more spiritual if we could pray 350 00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:30,400 longer. Long prayer is great, but long. 351 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:38,240 The longer the prayer, I say the deeper we go. 352 00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:46,710 It's not the longer and we still on surface. 353 00:27:48,430 --> 00:27:51,390 Like how long you going to stick the shovel in the ground and you 354 00:27:51,390 --> 00:27:57,560 ain't getting nowhere. So then I got to discover how do 355 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,120 I go deeper in my prayer life? How do I go deeper when I'm 356 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:01,800 speaking? Man? 357 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,600 That's what's praying in the spirit is. 358 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,720 That's what worshipping is. Watch this. 359 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:11,400 That's what shutting up is. Watch this. 360 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,280 Just because you quiet don't mean you're not praying. 361 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,240 Watch this. Your spirit is praying Romans 8 362 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,800 to tell you the Holy Ghost prays for you. 363 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,480 OK, Jesus, watch this. I understand how command works. 364 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:31,800 Jesus marvels not because of confidence, but because of his 365 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,520 clarity. Now we got to see this. 366 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Can we go deeper? Can we look at Scripture beyond? 367 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:43,040 What is this, the man's clarity? He says no, don't come to my 368 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,520 house. I am clear that I am not worthy. 369 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,800 I am clear. Watch this. 370 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,440 I am clear because I'm a Gentile. 371 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:54,640 It's not my time for a miracle. I'm aware that it's not my time, 372 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,000 but I need a favor and I've shown something. 373 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,240 I built something with my own seed and resources. 374 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,960 All I'm asking you to do is send your word. 375 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,360 I'm not asking you to come to my house. 376 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:11,920 I'm asking you to just speak to the sickness, right? 377 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,360 And way too much. Our prayer life is like, do me a 378 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,920 favor, not speak to the thing that's not of you. 379 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,920 No, it's not God. I need you to give me more 380 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,720 money. I need you to break poverty. 381 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,600 And once poverty is broken, I know what I need comes. 382 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,800 And what's this? It's not that what I need has 383 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,080 not come. But when the poverty spirit is 384 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:45,880 upon me, I don't know how to steward it, but everything is 385 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,120 like God do me a favor, I pray for this. 386 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,600 I pray for that. Can you do this for me versus 387 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,040 this is not like you get this off of me. 388 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,280 Get this off of me. Get this out of my life and the 389 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,880 result of this not being in my life. 390 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,280 What did he say? What did he say? 391 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,800 Watch this. He said I will rebuke the 392 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:11,400 devourer. He said you, so I'll rebuke the 393 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,360 devourer. I will get the thing out. 394 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,600 Your life that's eaten your harvest. 395 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,400 Hallelujah. Great faith. 396 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,320 Watch this. Great faith knows and is certain 397 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,960 of who's in control and it rests there. 398 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:38,040 It's coming and it rests there. Somebody say rest there. 399 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,040 No, no, no. It's not tossing and turning 400 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,040 there. It rests there. 401 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,240 Great faith knows and is certain of who's in control. 402 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,720 Does your rest look like you know who can control? 403 00:30:58,430 --> 00:31:00,670 What's this? What's this guy's Hebrews? 404 00:31:00,750 --> 00:31:01,990 Hebrews. Hebrews. 405 00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:06,670 But without faith it is impossible to please and be 406 00:31:06,670 --> 00:31:11,150 satisfactory to him. Without faith it is impossible 407 00:31:11,150 --> 00:31:17,440 to please and be satisfactory to him, for whoever come here would 408 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,920 come near to God. Must somebody say, must 409 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,760 necessarily believe that God exists and that he is, that he 410 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,320 is. Whoever is going to come to him 411 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:37,320 must believe that he is. It must be settled that he is. 412 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,080 I'm not praying trying to stir God up. 413 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:45,200 You can't stir God up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 414 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,040 You can stir yourself up to be more aware of God. 415 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,680 But I must believe that God exists and He is somebody. 416 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:59,440 Say He is one more time. Say He is the rewarder of those 417 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,640 who earnestly and diligently seek Him. 418 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,400 What I see here is a lot of your restlessness. 419 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:19,440 Watch this guys is you are restless about the reward of 420 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,120 being saved, the reward of sowing the reward of being 421 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,520 diligent, the reward and you get antsy because you see no reward, 422 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,800 the reward of changing your spouse behavior, the reward. 423 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,360 But the Bible says if you're going to approach him, you must 424 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:44,280 believe and know that he is, which means it's the focus is 425 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,480 not the reward. The focus is on the rewarder. 426 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,160 He is the rewarder. He is that that that speaks to. 427 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,960 I know again, you got to see this. 428 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:05,960 I know that I know whoever approaches him must believe that 429 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,200 God exists like he's alive and he's not just out there 430 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:17,800 somewhere. He's in it with me that he is He 431 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:24,280 is the reward. He is James One says this only. 432 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:28,240 It must be only it must be only it must be. 433 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,680 Watch this. Let's go back real quick, real 434 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,080 quick. I don't want to scoop past this, 435 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,080 but without faith, it's impossible to please God. 436 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,800 There's no way around it, guys. So if, if, if, if, if I don't 437 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:45,600 want to displease God and I found out what this watch this. 438 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,480 It didn't say watch this, watch this. 439 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,360 It didn't say walking and saying displease God. 440 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:53,880 We know that, right? Huh. 441 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,560 I know. Oh, did you think that another 442 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,400 way you can displease God? No, no, no. 443 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:04,720 Sin separates you. A lack of faith displeases him. 444 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,760 Sin separates. That's what the blood came to 445 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,600 do. OK. 446 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,679 It came to handle that. So that's handled your sin not 447 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:18,719 going it's not separate. If you're a child of God, the 448 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,280 blood has the blood if you're in it, if you're if he's in you, if 449 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,159 you believe you're good. So move the sin conscious out 450 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:29,040 the way. And how many believers are 451 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,480 watching over they faith like they watching over they sin? 452 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,199 How many people faith conscious? I know you sin conscious, I know 453 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,120 you're trying not to do wrong, but what about not? 454 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:46,520 Are you trying not to not be in faith? 455 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,360 Are you trying to attack doubt like you trying to attack sin? 456 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,040 He said it's impossible without faith. 457 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,160 It's impossible to please him. Now watch this. 458 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,240 We go on to James only. It must be in faith only. 459 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:06,280 It must be in faith. Say that with me only. 460 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,440 It must be in faith one more time only. 461 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,240 It must be in faith that He asked with no wavering. 462 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:17,560 Who is he? You, y'all, us only. 463 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,160 It must be in faith that He asked with no wavering, no 464 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:26,560 hesitating, no doubting. For the one who wavers. 465 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,960 For the one who wavers. Who are we talking about? 466 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:38,120 The one who wavers is like a billowing, the billowing surge 467 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:49,480 out at sea that is blown, hit her and thither and tossed by 468 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,680 the wind. You guys got that? 469 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,720 Only it must be in faith that he asked with no wavering. 470 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:57,560 Who? Who is he talking about? 471 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,120 Us. We ask in the Lord, right? 472 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,000 You go back to this Gentile? He asked with no wavering, How 473 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,600 do I know that? Because he said I know he's very 474 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,480 clear. I know if you do XYZ I know this 475 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,080 is the result. Watch this. 476 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,880 He did not say Lord please like can you? 477 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,280 He did not say if it's your will. 478 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:26,960 He said, I know if you do this, it equals that I know, I know if 479 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,960 I sow so I don't got a bag for harvest because I've sown and 480 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,760 what I know about the seed is when I give, he gives press 481 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,960 down, shaken together and run it over. 482 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:42,440 I know, right? It's it's it's like sometimes 483 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,320 you just don't know or you're wavering because you don't 484 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:51,000 believe what he said. The sower can have the 485 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,000 confidence that he shall provide seed to the sower. 486 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:02,840 So the sower never goes without what I know that. 487 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,400 So if I don't got no seed, what's happening? 488 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:12,920 I must ain't sowing. And we need believers that what 489 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:20,200 no, act like, you know, move like, you know, pray like, you 490 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:25,400 know, worship like, you know, so like, you know, go like, you 491 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:32,800 know, you must know. It's wavering confidence. 492 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,760 And this is not just with church stuff. 493 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,000 If you are a believer, everything you do is church 494 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,120 stuff. You play sports, it's church 495 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,200 stuff. You work in the marketplace. 496 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,840 It's church stuff. It's all church stuff because 497 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,840 you're the light of the world. And when your confidence waivers 498 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,280 and dwindles, you're not shining. 499 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,520 You got to know if you know to my son. 500 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,240 You got to know when you step on the basketball court. 501 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,680 Now watch this. It's not I'm the best player on 502 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:07,960 the court. No, no, no. 503 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,240 I know a legion of angels is on the court with me, so no weapon 504 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,960 formed against me shall prosper. You might have a better left 505 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,840 hand than me, but your light ain't shining brighter than 506 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,520 mine. I know my purpose. 507 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,720 I know, my God, I know what I'm doing. 508 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,600 I know if I get injured, what I'm going to do and what I'm 509 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,480 going to be. This ball, this job, this 510 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,400 career, this spouse does not make me who I am. 511 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,760 This is not about all these external things. 512 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,000 This is about an internal knowing. 513 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,800 I'm a child of God. I know the orphan don't know. 514 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,360 This wavering confidence. And then we look in the world 515 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,400 and it looks like people got this extreme confidence. 516 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,000 You can only be so confident without God. 517 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,920 Why? Because you don't know. 518 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,840 But for the believer, we got to know that we know that we know. 519 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,600 We got to know it's going to be all right. 520 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,240 We got to know he going to bring our kids home one day. 521 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,520 We got to know that he going to heal our body. 522 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:21,480 We got to know we got to know he going to fight our battles. 523 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,440 We got to know we going in that building soon. 524 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,800 We got to know that God's going to provide. 525 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:37,520 We got to know says watch this. The TPT says it this way. 526 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,640 Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith. 527 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,920 Just make sure whatever you asking for because right now 528 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,440 verse five is talking about he he'll give you wisdom. 529 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,200 We're going to get context in a second. 530 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,880 He'll get it's hot in here. It's hot in here that that's a 531 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,120 good heater. I'm glad I'm gay. 532 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,200 Yeah, Hallelujah. Amen. 533 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,640 Amen. Just just just just make sure 534 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,480 you ask. Empowered man, this is powerful. 535 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,520 Whatever you pray for, ask. Empowered. 536 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,880 Don't ask to get power, ask empowered. 537 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:20,760 That means ask knowing with confidence, by confident faith, 538 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,800 without doubting that you will what receive. 539 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:29,120 For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts 540 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:34,400 the next. Woo, being undecided makes you 541 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,200 become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. 542 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,200 You're up one minute and tossed down the next. 543 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,240 I know for me, I'm tired of living like that man. 544 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,600 Start some don't finish it because I really don't know if 545 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,160 God's calling me to do this right. 546 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,600 I know I got a word. It's a difference between it 547 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:01,560 don't feel good then like I'm stepping out like did was that 548 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:10,520 God that told me to do that? One translation says a double 549 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,640 minded man unstable in all his ways. 550 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,920 He didn't say double minded in all his ways. 551 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:22,720 He say you unstable in all your ways, double minded. 552 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,200 Somebody step out on the court, on the field, in the job, double 553 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,000 minded, meaning your confidence is waving. 554 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,480 I don't know if I'm good enough. I don't know if I belong here. 555 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,000 Look, that's going to impact every aspect of your game. 556 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,960 Every aspect of your game, every aspect of your life is impacted 557 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,520 by the level of confidence that's sustained in your life. 558 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,200 And it's time for you to have sustained confidence. 559 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,480 It's time for you to stop being moved, tossed to and fro. 560 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,760 We got no, you got to know that you're called. 561 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,600 You got to know you're anointed. You got to know that you're a 562 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,720 child of God. You got to know that you know 563 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:57,480 that you know somebody shout out. 564 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:08,240 I know he says ask in faith with no doubting this word. 565 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:12,800 Doubting means to be divided, to hesitate between two judgments 566 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,000 and to internally argue. Watch this here. 567 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,360 Here's you're hesitating between two judgments. 568 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,520 You can't make up your mind. You're not clear about either 569 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,760 one. Like in some areas of your life, 570 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,360 it ain't going to hurt you. I don't know if I want Italian 571 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,760 food or Mexican food tonight. I just can't decide you just 572 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,600 going to be hungry for longer than you desire to be hungry. 573 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,120 That ain't going to kill you. But sometimes that same type of 574 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,880 idea comes when it comes to purpose and and life and my 575 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,560 emotions and trying to move past hurt and past bitterness and 576 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,280 past life's failures. And you're stuck between these 577 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,840 two judgments and understanding every way, every air of your 578 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,520 life. And watch this last one you 579 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:01,680 guys, you guys don't understand how much this one hurts your 580 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:10,200 faith. The internally to internally 581 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,840 argue watch this. That's why some of y'all grumpy 582 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,840 all the time because inside you have an argument about two 583 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,760 different things in your life and you watch this. 584 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,760 You grumpy because you ain't settled. 585 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,440 I'm helping somebody today. Don't be mad at them because 586 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,160 they push your buttons. Because when you happy you let 587 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,400 stuff bother you. Notice how less stuff bother you 588 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:38,000 when you happy. Some of y'all running from God 589 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,880 and you have good days. You have bad days and you wonder 590 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,640 why. You wonder why you're so grumpy 591 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,080 and you've been in a season of just I'm Moody and some people 592 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,440 you ain't grumpy. You're sad because that's the 593 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,200 way you're made. You will cry before you lash out 594 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,640 at somebody. You'll isolate before you lash 595 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,160 out at somebody and some of you are external. 596 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,480 You don't care. You don't got no brakes on your 597 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,920 mouth and you just going to lash out and you don't cut somebody 598 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,040 out or you going to say get out of my face or you going to pick 599 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,600 on somebody or some of y'all are very argumentative. 600 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,080 So you're going to pick a fight because watch this. 601 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,480 You're picking a fight because you need a release from the 602 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,200 fight that's within you. So you're picking a fight with 603 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,680 Troy. You're picking a fight with 604 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,520 Pastor Daniela because you need a break from arguing with 605 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:22,800 yourself. Come on, somebody. 606 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,920 So I need somebody to argue with. 607 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,560 What's this it this is divided allegiance, not intellectual 608 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,880 doubt. That's what I'm saying. 609 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,400 Like like like, I mean, I don't know if I want burgers. 610 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,680 You know, some of y'all married couples and got in arguments 611 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,320 like you pick tonight and then it's like I don't know what I 612 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,000 want and I'm like, well, I don't know what I want either. 613 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,480 I don't feel like the side. Well, I don't feel like the side 614 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,160 neither. We're going to eat whatever and 615 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,440 then everybody unhappy because we was just settled for like 616 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,240 microwave pizza or something. This is whatever in the freezer. 617 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:08,200 Hallelujah. Watch this, watch this. 618 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,080 Indecisiveness will have you living out the pig pen. 619 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:20,440 A double mind will have you living out the pig pen, he says. 620 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,520 How long will you be between two? 621 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:28,280 Give me some time. Give me some time. 622 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,160 Give me some time. You translate me whenever I talk 623 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,320 like that to you. You know what that means? 624 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,960 Now I'm getting you here. I'm giving some time. 625 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,280 Hey, man, how are you? That's between me and day. 626 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,640 Give me some time. Give me some time. 627 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,320 Right. You get what I'm saying that 628 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,360 like you're divided. This goes back to the throne. 629 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,200 This is why getting aligned with God's perfect will should be the 630 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,240 priority in your life. So then everything flows from 631 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:54,440 there, right? Being aligned with God allows me 632 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,760 to say that's not, yeah, that that's not going to work. 633 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,320 But when you're constantly in between these two places, you 634 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,040 just invite all kind of stuff in your life that look good, and 635 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:10,600 then you wonder why it went bad. Can I wait? 636 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,800 I don't feel like waiting. I could wait sometime. 637 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,120 Well, whatever. And while you in between, that's 638 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,720 when the enemy's like, watch this. 639 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,000 When you're in between, the enemy brings you suggestions, 640 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,160 right? Watch them, watch this. 641 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,160 And those suggestions in your mind, because it's weary, become 642 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,160 solutions. Now you're no longer trying to 643 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,760 get purpose. You're trying to stop waves 644 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,400 because your soul is tired of wavering. 645 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,000 So then you try a solution is suggested and you think homeboy, 646 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,080 home girl, new job, more money, go shopping, whatever, a job, a 647 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,760 callback or whatever that's going to stop the wavering and 648 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,040 then you going to get the thing. Guys like, go ahead, take the 649 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,560 inheritance. He like, oh, the inheritance 650 00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:00,240 didn't solve the wavering. This was an internal argument 651 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:04,240 within my soul that I thought doing something was going to 652 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:08,440 bring peace and it's not. We're children of God. 653 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,840 We're sons and daughters. What he's called is I've come to 654 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:17,320 understand that nothing is worth no thrill is worth no talent, no 655 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,040 hobby, nothing is worth compromising the peace of God. 656 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,800 Watch this asking faith with no doubting. 657 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,880 He says this word doubting is the wave. 658 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,000 Watch this. Pay attention. 659 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,520 He says you're like a wave. He didn't say you're like an 660 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,000 anchor. The wave has no anchor. 661 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:44,400 The wave has no direction. The wave is ruled by external 662 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,760 forces. This is watch this the wind. 663 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,560 So you wonder why God sent the wind and then when the wind blew 664 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,000 you got people caught in the wind between two decisions. 665 00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,240 But prior to that God's like make your mind up. 666 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,440 He sent the word 2 years old. Make your mind up you either all 667 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:10,320 in you either in or all in two minds, 2 minds that that word 668 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,360 came. The woman sat right here on the 669 00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:17,920 old stage right here, right here. 670 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,480 Why? Look at what she addressed. 671 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:29,920 You're either in all in the wind is blowing and those that didn't 672 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,960 make their mind up the wind came and watch this. 673 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:38,760 I became you became we became the speakers became the paint, 674 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:44,280 became the garage, became the reason because watch this, I 675 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:50,160 relieve myself from being still. I relieve myself from where I'm 676 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,320 being exposed. So where if you relieve yourself 677 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,000 from where you're being exposed, you automatically initially 678 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,040 think you just walked in peace. So you walk away and say, I know 679 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,960 that God told me to do this because I feel calm. 680 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:08,920 No, that is not peace. You just walked away from 681 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,280 exposure. You just walked away from having 682 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,880 to face yourself. You just walked away from having 683 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:18,360 to press into that. And the crazy part is you can go 684 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,040 23456 years and then look back and be like, Dang, I should have 685 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,360 did that a little different. I'm a witness of that. 686 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:36,000 You just want relief versus pressing in to what the wind is 687 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,920 revealing within you. Watch this. 688 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:45,560 James is not rebuking questions. He's exposing unsettled trust. 689 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,320 He's not rebuking our questions. He because he because the 690 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,120 scripture prior to that says you can ask God for wisdom and he'll 691 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,880 give it to you. He shows no partiality. 692 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:01,680 If you need wisdom somewhere, He got you. 693 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:09,080 So he's not rebuking you, asking God for something He's rebuking. 694 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:13,160 You're wavering in the ask. Watch this because somebody 695 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,120 hears the waiver you like. Well, no, I didn't. 696 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,120 I didn't ask for two things. No, watch this. 697 00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:21,360 What you asked for don't align with what you believe in. 698 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,760 Watch it. OK. 699 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,000 How did you get saved according to the word? 700 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,640 You believed in your heart and confess with your mouth. 701 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,680 These things got to work together. 1 Without the one 702 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,160 without the other ain't faith. You can't just believe and be 703 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,160 quiet. You got to speak it. 704 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,880 Life and death is in the power of the tongue, right? 705 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,400 So you got to understand that you must. 706 00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:54,200 So you got to do the work to get your heart to the same place 707 00:50:54,200 --> 00:51:00,280 your mouth is, because some of y'all pray for stuff, but then 708 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,240 you curse it the moment you get up. 709 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,680 So I have to have a corresponding action. 710 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,320 I can't just believe it, I got to speak it. 711 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,320 I can't just speak it. I got to believe it. 712 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:16,240 And This is why you got to find the scripture to stand on, which 713 00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:18,640 are confession. And I got to speak it. 714 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,800 You don't mean I got my it don't mean that my faith in it is as 715 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,480 strong as I'm confessing it, but while I'm trying to believe and 716 00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,280 that's why sometimes you got to get away from certain people 717 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,360 because you working on getting your faith up in your heart. 718 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,480 So I'm I can, I might be in a season where man, I'm believing 719 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,880 for this thing, believing for my daughter. 720 00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,240 I'm believing for my son. I'm believing for my marriage. 721 00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:46,920 I'm believing for this job. I'm believing. 722 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:53,360 So I got to make sure that I am guarding my heart, for out of it 723 00:51:53,360 --> 00:52:01,560 flows the issues of life. Like, like, like the rough seas. 724 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:07,880 He says, watch this. The rough seas represent little 725 00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,480 faith. It's the image of little faith. 726 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,240 Watch this. The sea has no anchor. 727 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,440 The sea has no anchor. The boat might. 728 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,200 But he says you're like the sea, not a boat. 729 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:29,360 You're like the sea. The wave has no direction and 730 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,920 the rough seas are ruled by external forces. 731 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,040 Watch this faith that hasn't settled. 732 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,920 Who's in control will always be moved by circumstances. 733 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,960 You have to settle who's in control. 734 00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:46,480 You got to settle. The battle ain't mine. 735 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,000 You got to settle that. You can't confess it and then 736 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,920 open your mouth and cut somebody out. 737 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,920 You mad at No, no, no, no, no. The battles, the Lords. 738 00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,840 It's settled. Don't call again. 739 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,280 Don't call them again. Might not even be able to answer 740 00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,280 the phone. Don't even don't even go eat 741 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,800 next door. It's settled. 742 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,160 I'm. And now I'm working on getting 743 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:14,080 my heart to a place where it agrees with my mouth, right. 744 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,960 So I'm declaring it settled now. I got to stay away long enough 745 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,320 for my heart to line with my mouth. 746 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:25,000 Some of y'all are, are, are, are, are, are are delaying your 747 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,040 healing because out your mouth you saying you want to be 748 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,400 healed, you want to be over this situation. 749 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,000 But your absence, you're not giving yourself your hard time 750 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,640 to heal in your lifetime to get refreshed. 751 00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,200 Watch this. Motion without direction creates 752 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:49,920 exhaustion, not progress. Motion without direction. 753 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,880 You're like the waves. Motion without direction creates 754 00:53:53,880 --> 00:54:05,240 exhaustion, not progress. Watch this, this Why sometime if 755 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:07,280 you caught up in the middle of the storm and you ain't in the 756 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,480 boat and you just find yourself in the middle of the sea, guess 757 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:13,760 what you're going to have to do? Be still and just and pray God 758 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,240 make this water get me somewhere. 759 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:21,080 Because the longer I try to swim against the current, I'm not 760 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,880 making progress. I'm fooling myself. 761 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:29,920 So I got to I got to surrender. I'm trying to swim against 762 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,560 something that don't have direction. 763 00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,080 Watch this, this test and James One. 764 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,960 This test reveals whether faith is settled. 765 00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:53,800 Doubt shows up as instability, and instability produces motion 766 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,640 without progress. Faith that hasn't settled is 767 00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,920 never rest. It will never rest. 768 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,400 You can never rest when you don't have a settled faith. 769 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,880 It is why some stuff with me and my my wife, you know, maturity 770 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,600 has taught me if there are certain things we believe in for 771 00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,840 no, we're going to have to fight to get to settle. 772 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:19,320 Both of us need to be settled. It's not not do whatever you 773 00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,360 want to do. OK, some stuff again, back to 774 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,600 OK, we eating pizza. We no, I don't care. 775 00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,640 Order whatever, but but but in and there's some stuff in life. 776 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,040 You can't just order whatever when you when cup when you and 777 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,880 covenant with people, because you ever had somebody say go 778 00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,400 ahead, do it and then when you did it, they was mad you did it. 779 00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,600 But man, you told me to do it right, But they they gave you 780 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:41,800 permission. Watch this. 781 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,320 Be careful getting a blessing because they wasn't settled. 782 00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,920 So they give you permission because they don't want to make 783 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,720 a decision. That's Mary stuff right there. 784 00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:56,040 That's so this is where you got a right. 785 00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,920 This is this is watch this. This is where you got to know 786 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,760 your spouse, those that's been married long enough, your wife, 787 00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,240 your wife or your spouse be like, yeah, babe, it's OK. 788 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,560 You call your friend back and be like, bro, I ain't going nowhere 789 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:12,600 tonight. I I think it's I ain't going 790 00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:14,160 nowhere tonight. We I'm good. 791 00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,200 I'm staying right here. I'm staying right here. 792 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:17,680 We we're going to stay at the crib. 793 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:23,040 I I know that that that I know that it's OK, babe. 794 00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:28,080 I know I know. And while you getting dressed, 795 00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,800 she quiet she not responding. You OK? 796 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,880 Hey, buddy, I'm not going out tonight. 797 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:37,160 I I hit you back. But but my wife it it watch 798 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:38,600 this. It doesn't even mean something's 799 00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:43,440 wrong. And she might be saying go, but 800 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,480 I'm torn in between. Do I ask you to stay like I 801 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,560 don't mind you going. You have my blessing to go, but 802 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,560 if I had it my way, but I also don't want to have to ask you to 803 00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,840 stay. I want you to notice that I want 804 00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,000 you here. Pay attention guys. 805 00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:02,960 Pay attention. You guys, I'm helping some 806 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,600 fellows out right now. I got some wives here they go. 807 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:06,680 They husband right now I'll be here. 808 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,160 They're going to be like babe, rewind, rewind this part. 809 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,680 They're going to be riding in the car and act like they've 810 00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:15,520 rewinding it for they self. Hey man, watch this guys look. 811 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:20,960 But that's how it is with God, Troy, we got to learn as sons 812 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,520 and daughters, when God is like, sure, go ahead, take the 813 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,040 inheritance. Sure, go ahead, start the 814 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:30,560 church. You got the ability to let it do 815 00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,840 it. And if it fails, I got you see, 816 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,120 that's what we forget. God, God, his grace and mercy 817 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:40,960 can clean up any mess. Maturity says no, no, no, no, 818 00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,720 no, no. I the Lord, I don't want the 819 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,960 permission. I want the blessing. 820 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,040 The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow. 821 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,240 I found out that permission makes sorrow. 822 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,240 Permission got a little sorrow in it. 823 00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,120 That's just in faith that never rests will always feel the need 824 00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,800 to be in control. Faith that never rests will 825 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,600 always feel the need to be in control. 826 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,600 Now I'm going to give you guys some. 827 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,120 I'm not going to get past James, it looks like tonight because 828 00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:18,040 James got me caught up tonight. But James is not calling us to 829 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,920 bigger and louder faith. He is calling us to undivided 830 00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,520 faith. He's calling us to undivided 831 00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:27,240 faith. He's calling us to undivided 832 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,000 faith. He's calling us to undivided 833 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,400 faith. He's calling us to undivided 834 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:35,680 faith. The test is not about endurance 835 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:40,280 alone, guys. The test is not about endurance 836 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,280 alone. The test is about whether faith 837 00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:48,800 knows where to stand. Does faith know where to stand? 838 00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,400 Watch this. Great faith knows who's in 839 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:58,080 control again and rest there. We got to get that. 840 00:58:58,080 --> 00:58:59,640 Great faith knows who's in control. 841 00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,120 Let them be in control and rest there. 842 00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:13,200 As we land this, we are going to now go backwards to verse 2 to 843 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,480 4, my brethren. James 1-2. 844 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:22,960 We read James 16. James 1-2 says count it all joy. 845 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,840 When you fall into various trials. 846 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:30,120 Watch that. What's that next word? 847 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,040 Come on, one more time, knowing that the testing of your faith 848 00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:39,840 produces patience. Follow me, but let patience have 849 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:44,240 its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking 850 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:45,400 nothing. We're going to break that down. 851 00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:50,600 Watch this count it all joy when you fall into the It's not fun 852 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,360 falling into various temptations, but I can count it 853 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,280 all joy because of this keyword right here. 854 00:59:55,680 --> 01:00:00,800 Knowing, knowing this that the testing of your faith produces 855 01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:05,320 what patience. Watch this Count it all joy when 856 01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:09,480 you fall into various trials. Watch this this word count. 857 01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:15,120 It means to lead the mind to govern one's perspective. 858 01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:20,480 To deem esteem and make a deliberate intellectual decision 859 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,240 to regard something in a specific way. 860 01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:28,040 Watch this. Not to passively feel this is to 861 01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,400 lead the mind. OK, this reminds me of 2nd 862 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:35,320 Corinthians 10. Three Somewhere 3 to 5. 863 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:40,520 Taking every word captive. Lead the mind to the mind of 864 01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:45,080 Christ. Count it is is is like a money 865 01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:46,560 term. It is intentional. 866 01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,400 It's not passive. Count it. 867 01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:55,920 All joy. Knowing this, knowing that the 868 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:57,920 testing of your faith produces patience. 869 01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,520 Please watch. Testing means proof. 870 01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:07,800 There is a season where some things have to be proven for me 871 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,240 to move forward. There's things that have to be 872 01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,760 verified. There's things that have to be 873 01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,400 refined. Watch this. 874 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,560 And our faith has to pass the genuine test. 875 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:26,960 Is your faith genuine? Well, if your faith is based on 876 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:31,000 things working for you, it is not genuine. 877 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:36,920 Look at it, write it down, write it down. 878 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,920 Got to move on. You got that, you got that, you 879 01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:44,440 got that. You got that knowing, testing, 880 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:49,360 proof count it all joy knowing is that the trying or the 881 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:54,920 testing of your faith, the testing of your faith produces. 882 01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,920 This is going to bless you. This is going to bless you. 883 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:03,000 Watch it. This is not temptation to make 884 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:06,640 you fail. The the storm is not to make you 885 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,840 fail. The trial is not to make you 886 01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,200 fail. It is examination to reveal the 887 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,720 quality of what is already there. 888 01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,280 So count it all joy knowing this, that the the trying of 889 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:24,120 your faith produces endurance. But I don't get endurance if 890 01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,920 where my faith is is not exposed. 891 01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:35,280 So the trial is to expose the truth of the size of your faith. 892 01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,240 Cause some folks be talking big faith. 893 01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,920 Put them in a storm, put them under pressure. 894 01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,360 You know itty bitty itty bitty faith. 895 01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:50,080 Watch this. You ain't been believing, you 896 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:57,440 just got resources. You just got resources and you 897 01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,840 know how to work them. OK, Be assured and understand 898 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,760 that the trial and proving somebody say proving the trial 899 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,520 does this is so important. The trial does not create faith. 900 01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:15,280 It exposes your faith's maturity. 901 01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,200 Watch this. The Bible nowhere says the trial 902 01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:25,560 produces faith. Faith comes by hearing and even 903 01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:30,480 if I go through a a trial and I never had an encounter, when I 904 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,640 come out of that trial, I'm going to find myself still a 905 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:38,880 baby in my faith. That's why you got people year 906 01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,200 after year after year after year, still struggling with the 907 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,520 same old. What's this? 908 01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:46,880 The trial does not create faith. Please understand that. 909 01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,920 Please get that the trial does not create faith. 910 01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:51,640 This is why it's important during this. 911 01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,160 Your posture during the trial is vital. 912 01:03:55,640 --> 01:04:00,600 Don't waste time in a trial and don't come out complete. 913 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,240 Watch what it says. Be assured and understand that 914 01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,640 the trial improvement of your faith, the trial does not create 915 01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,480 faith that exposes it. Watch this. 916 01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,880 It says that proving of your faith brings out endurance. 917 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,840 The proving of your faith brings out endurance. 918 01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:20,880 It produces steadfastness. Watch this. 919 01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:24,760 Remaining under pressure, staying put, not fleeing when 920 01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:30,800 pressed. So on one hand I want to build 921 01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,680 my faith, but what's more important to build my faith is 922 01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:38,800 endurance to stay under. Because it's the longer I stay 923 01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:44,040 under, the more I know. Watch this. 924 01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:49,120 It's knowing this, so I can't try to tap out when God is like 925 01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,920 I'm giving you grace to stay in. I can't try to go around the 926 01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,040 fiery furnace when God said I gave you the grace to go in the 927 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,160 fiery furnace. I can't try to flee the lion's 928 01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,160 den when God says I didn't just anoint you to go in the lion's 929 01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:03,720 den. I anointed you to go in the 930 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:07,600 lion's den and sit down. Come on. 931 01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,320 That's a grace right there. I didn't get. 932 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,320 He didn't say go in the lion's den and run around him. 933 01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:22,560 He's like, no, no, he said, go on that lion's den and sit down 934 01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,400 and be still and let, let let that let them teeth just come 935 01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,320 all over. Go all right in your face. 936 01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:40,080 And you just yeah, watch this. That is powerful because what? 937 01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:47,720 What what God has for me, it is produced through remaining 938 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:56,960 under, staying put, not fleeing when pressed, but press in. 939 01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:02,800 Some folks want their marriage to get better, but you don't 940 01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,240 want to stay under and you don't want to feel pressed. 941 01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:16,360 And this you got to dig. Watch this steadfast and 942 01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,800 patience, it's stillness under patience. 943 01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:22,920 So as y'all, so y'all know, this is our first night back. 944 01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,760 I'm laying down the foundation. It's probably be the longest 945 01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,920 night of preaching that you're going to get for this season of 946 01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:33,880 Bible study. OK, because we, we just so you 947 01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:39,360 know, we going worships going to be a lot shorter, like 10 948 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,880 minutes, Max 8 minutes. So we can stay longer in our 949 01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,600 groups. So there'll be a word, but it's 950 01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,760 going to be very short. It's really going to be around 951 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,080 us edifying and equipping one another. 952 01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:55,560 So what I'm doing tonight is I'm laying a foundation for whoever 953 01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,800 speaks, whoever preaches. We're going to be dealing with 954 01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,240 faith for a while. OK, We're going to be dealing 955 01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,240 with faith for a while. So I'm laying a foundation to 956 01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:09,240 give whoever's going to be called to speak plenty to pull 957 01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,040 from. OK, but this will be a 958 01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:14,080 foundation for like, the next, I don't know, 810 weeks or 959 01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:15,440 something like that. Eight weeks or so. 960 01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:21,480 OK. What time we start Bible study? 961 01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,480 8645? Good. 962 01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:24,960 I got two more hours. All right, cool. 963 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:26,920 I'm just playing. Y'all. 964 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:28,160 OK. Jesus Christ. 965 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:31,000 Oh, my God. Breathe. 966 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:38,640 Yeah, I got you. I got you. 967 01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:42,640 We doing real good, so he says, but let somebody say let we got 968 01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:44,760 we. No, no, no, that was terrible. 969 01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:50,680 Somebody say let. He said, let endurance and 970 01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,000 patience have full play. You got that full play. 971 01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,400 Somebody say full play. OK, watch this. 972 01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:05,080 Let requires human cooperation. Let is your part. 973 01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:12,680 Watch this. Patience is doing its part. 974 01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,920 So you thought patience was something you do? 975 01:08:21,359 --> 01:08:23,840 It just said let patience have its work. 976 01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:30,160 So there's a stillness that that allows patients to There is no 977 01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:38,240 patience without stillness. Steadfastness matures when we do 978 01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:47,399 not interfere. Steadfastness matures when we do 979 01:08:47,399 --> 01:08:55,240 not interfere. Somebody say full play or the 980 01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:57,160 other word for full play is perfect. 981 01:08:57,880 --> 01:08:59,800 Let patients have it's perfect work. 982 01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:01,960 You got that perfect? Here it is. 983 01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:07,359 It means whole, mature and brought to its intended end. 984 01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,840 Did you know that that storm, no matter what it's doing to you, 985 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:16,040 God has a plan. You just your main job in the 986 01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,800 middle of confusion and not knowing what to do. 987 01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:22,439 The one thing you have control of is coming to a settled 988 01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:27,200 decision. Watch this when you know you can 989 01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,800 endure, write it down. Sounds simple when you know you 990 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:31,880 can endure. That's why you got to be careful 991 01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:36,399 what you know in this season. Be OK, man I'm I'm it's some 992 01:09:36,399 --> 01:09:39,319 people I'm just I don't even want to know like I want to know 993 01:09:39,319 --> 01:09:41,720 it'd be good for entertainment, but I don't even want to know 994 01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:47,920 because I I, because my knowing is very important and depending 995 01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,240 on what I know, what I know watch this. 996 01:09:50,319 --> 01:09:53,920 What I know can can can be if I know two different things they 997 01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:57,400 can it can it can create a fight within me because wait a minute, 998 01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,160 you said that and wait a minute. You said that. 999 01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,960 Who's telling the truth? You would have been better off 1000 01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:08,160 like and This is why the Bible says I ain't taking nobody's 1001 01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:10,800 side. I'm on God's side. 1002 01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,360 So I'm not telling you to know and be nosy that this is not be 1003 01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:17,880 nosy and know that he God. No, you're not going to be nosy 1004 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,800 and know that he God. You're going to know that he God 1005 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:25,880 because you're going to know God perfected is realized when we 1006 01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:33,440 allow the play to run. The word complete here means 1007 01:10:33,440 --> 01:10:35,880 intact. At the end you will be complete. 1008 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:42,160 There's a plan to have you come out of the fiery furnace intact. 1009 01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:47,440 Preach somebody come out of the lion's den Noel intact. 1010 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:52,440 Come out of poverty intact come out of grief intact. 1011 01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:55,920 Come out of a tumultuous relationship intact because 1012 01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:59,080 somebody praise God for it being intact despite what we've been 1013 01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:03,720 through. Come on, I'm, I'm still intact. 1014 01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:07,360 I don't look like what I came out of that God has brought me 1015 01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,360 out intact. I grew up without my father in 1016 01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,200 my life, but guess what? I'm intact. 1017 01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,000 You would have never knew what you've been through because you 1018 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:19,160 look so intact. God's promise is that you will 1019 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,560 go through this son, you will go through this daughter. 1020 01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:25,680 But if you let patience have it's perfect work, you will come 1021 01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:31,600 out intact. Somebody say intact, see some of 1022 01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:34,440 us come out of storms trashy because we grabbed the steering 1023 01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:37,800 wheel. You lost your teeth because you 1024 01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:46,240 wanted to be in control. Yeah, if if the if Shadrach, 1025 01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,520 Meshach and Abednego tried to put things in control, they 1026 01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:50,600 would have came out burnt. They would have came out sins. 1027 01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,720 They would have came out smelling like fire. 1028 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,360 If Daniel wouldn't have been still and tried to fight the 1029 01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:59,960 lions and then let be God, he would have came out all bit up 1030 01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:05,560 if not dead. So how much of your bruises in 1031 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,480 your scars is because you took control when God said be still? 1032 01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,840 Whoa, self-inflicted. self-inflicted. 1033 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:22,680 But I'm here to tell you, God redeems his plan for you is that 1034 01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:26,680 even when you come out of this, you will come out intact. 1035 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:32,480 You will come out undivided with no internal fractures, no 1036 01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:37,440 internal fractures. I said no internal fractures. 1037 01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:46,280 Some of you, God, my one hair brought you out of a situation 1038 01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:51,320 and you are hurt enough. You are damaged enough, but 1039 01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:56,520 that's not the end of the story. Now you got to be patient for 1040 01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,040 him to heal. You got to be patient for him to 1041 01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,240 redeem. And I promise you, you're going 1042 01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:06,400 to come out of this and there will be no internal fractures. 1043 01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,320 Watch this. That means trauma won't stick. 1044 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,360 Come on, that's for somebody. Trauma won't stick. 1045 01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:25,560 Trauma won't stick. Come on, declare that over 1046 01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,120 yourself. Trauma won't stick. 1047 01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:32,440 Abandonment won't stick. It won't stick. 1048 01:13:32,440 --> 01:13:46,280 It won't stick. 1049 01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:47,800 It won't stick. It won't stick. 1050 01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:55,320 It will not stick. I'll leave you with this. 1051 01:13:55,320 --> 01:14:00,680 Before God changes circumstances, he stabilizes 1052 01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:07,760 confidence. Before God changes 1053 01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,800 circumstances, he stabilizes confidence. 1054 01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:16,120 Watch this. The best confidence you can get 1055 01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:21,160 is the confidence that was birthed in the situation. 1056 01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:24,240 Not confidence because it's over. 1057 01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:32,320 I have learned to trust in God. Yeah. 1058 01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:34,880 If we had to wait on this building for three more years, I 1059 01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:39,160 I don't know what I'd do. But I can tell you that there's 1060 01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:47,800 a confidence within me that waiting has not torn me apart. 1061 01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:51,480 I can tell you I've come out of some stuff. 1062 01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,320 Family members have come out of some stuff, children have come 1063 01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,200 out of some stuff. And I promise you, unless we 1064 01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,680 tell the test, that's the power of the testimony. 1065 01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:05,840 Elder John, if Bernadette told you what she has been, how she 1066 01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:09,600 what she's come out of you, the power of the testimony is not 1067 01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,920 just the story. It's just I don't look like my 1068 01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:21,880 story. Thank God I don't look defeated. 1069 01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:24,680 Thank God I don't look depressed. 1070 01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,440 Thank God I don't look mentally ill. 1071 01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:35,200 You going to tell somebody I didn't have confidence and 1072 01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:38,560 they're going to say what? You got all kinds of confidence. 1073 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:39,640 Yeah. That's the power of the 1074 01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,200 testimony. Because I was blind. 1075 01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:50,720 But now I see I was lost. But now I'm found that's the 1076 01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:54,920 power to testimony. It's because he kept me intact. 1077 01:15:54,920 --> 01:16:00,760 And I want to encourage a few of you. 1078 01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,600 Just because you fell down, just because you quit some time, just 1079 01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,640 because you didn't get it right the 10th time. 1080 01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,480 Watch this. If you hear standing up, you 1081 01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:12,080 still got a measure of endurance. 1082 01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:18,920 You still here. Come on, you still here, You 1083 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:23,840 still fighting. Come on, you still here, you 1084 01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:34,520 still fighting. Come on, tell somebody. 1085 01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,560 I'm pulling my faith out of retirement. 1086 01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,840 I'm pulling my faith out of retirement in Jesus name. 1087 01:16:46,460 --> 01:16:48,620 I'm pulling my faith out of retirement. 1088 01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:55,280 Lot of times we think with God that quitting and all I got to 1089 01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:56,960 start over. No, you know, no, no, no, you 1090 01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:59,640 just got to get up. Watch prodigal son came home and 1091 01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:00,520 celebrated. Why? 1092 01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:04,360 Because he he came back and continue where he left off. 1093 01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:10,240 Watch this. He left Rich out there. 1094 01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,800 He also left broke. You got to hear what I just 1095 01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:17,720 said. He left broke. 1096 01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:20,640 I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it two more 1097 01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:21,960 times. Still a couple people get it. 1098 01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:27,000 He left his house rich. He left the world broke. 1099 01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:30,040 He left broke. Came back home. 1100 01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:35,480 What was he rich? Some of y'all getting ready to 1101 01:17:35,480 --> 01:17:39,320 leave broke. Leave insecurity. 1102 01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:46,480 Leave poverty, Leave brokenness, Leave trauma, Leave mental 1103 01:17:46,480 --> 01:17:51,160 illness, Leave depression. And when you come home, you go 1104 01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:58,200 be home. We don't serve a father like 1105 01:17:58,200 --> 01:17:59,880 that. You come home and he, like you 1106 01:17:59,880 --> 01:18:02,080 got to work your way back up. No, no, no, no, no. 1107 01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:06,440 No. You going to come back the same 1108 01:18:06,440 --> 01:18:09,760 way you left. Your seat was never taken. 1109 01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,200 You'll watch this. Your name was never erased. 1110 01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:24,000 Lord, we lift our hands right now and we say thank you for not 1111 01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,040 just giving us a seat, but when we got out the seat and 1112 01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:30,720 abandoned the seat, you still kept it reserved for us. 1113 01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:37,120 We stand here as a knowing people. 1114 01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:40,240 We know that you're good. We know that you're faithful. 1115 01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:43,600 We know that you're on time. We know that you're ever present 1116 01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:47,200 help in time of need. We know that you're the God that 1117 01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,080 will provide for us. We know you'll never leave us 1118 01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:53,160 nor forsake us. We know that you know every hair 1119 01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,160 on our heads. We know that you have our 1120 01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:59,880 household salvation in mind. We know that you're a healer. 1121 01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:03,920 We know that you're a provider. We know God that you are Gyra. 1122 01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:07,200 We know that you're Rafa. We know that you're the Lord of 1123 01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,680 the breakthrough. We know that you are the Lord of 1124 01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:11,640 hosts, that you will fight our battles. 1125 01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:15,280 We know that vengeance is yours. We know that there's more for us 1126 01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:19,000 than there's against us. Come on, come on. 1127 01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:19,800 What? You know. 1128 01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:21,760 Say it. What do you know? 1129 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,240 I know that you're a mender of marriages. 1130 01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,040 I know that you can fix the broken hearted. 1131 01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,360 I know that you watch over us. I know. 1132 01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:35,360 I know that you're the Lord of the Pray. 1133 01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:41,160 I know that you're the Redeemer. I know you have our children. 1134 01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:44,520 I know you have our parents. I know you have our family 1135 01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,040 members. I know you have our coworkers. 1136 01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:52,360 I know you have our cities. We know you have our nation. 1137 01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,600 We know that you're never sleep nor slumber. 1138 01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:00,960 We know that you watch over us. We know that you love us when we 1139 01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:07,320 don't want to be loved. We know, We know. 1140 01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,360 We know that you're strong and mighty. 1141 01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:13,720 We know that you're our refuge. We know that you promised us 1142 01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:17,040 long life and you'll satisfy us with long life. 1143 01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:24,960 We know you know that you're the same God yesterday, today, and 1144 01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,800 forevermore. We know and we fix our eyes on 1145 01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:30,360 you. We know you're the Prince of 1146 01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,400 Peace. We know. 1147 01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,880 Come on. We know what the enemy meant for 1148 01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,960 evil. You'll turn it around for good. 1149 01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,000 We know that we're more than conquerors. 1150 01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,520 We know that we're more than conquerors. 1151 01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:48,640 We know. We know. 1152 01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,760 We know. We know that there's more for us 1153 01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,320 than there are against us. We know that when we keep our 1154 01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,280 eyes on you, you give us perfect peace. 1155 01:20:57,280 --> 01:21:00,640 We know. We know you're the God that 1156 01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,240 healed the leper. You're the God that redeemed the 1157 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,400 adulteress. We know that you're the God that 1158 01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:10,200 sent your only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in us 1159 01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,760 should not perish but have everlasting life. 1160 01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:17,520 We know. We know you're a generational 1161 01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,880 God. We know that favor surrounds us 1162 01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:22,840 like a shield. We know. 1163 01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:29,200 We know that victory is ours. Healing is ours. 1164 01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,440 Peace is ours. We know, Father, You're the 1165 01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:36,880 anchor to our soul. We know you're the Rock of Ages. 1166 01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:40,400 We know that we stand on a firm foundation. 1167 01:21:46,930 --> 01:21:49,090 We're sure. We're convinced. 1168 01:21:50,410 --> 01:21:51,650 We know. We know. 1169 01:21:51,650 --> 01:21:53,930 We know. We know. 1170 01:21:55,130 --> 01:22:01,800 We know. Thank you SO. 1171 01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:03,600 Much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1172 01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:06,920 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 1173 01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,160 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1174 01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:13,200 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 1175 01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,560 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1176 01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,800 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1177 01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:21,080 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1178 01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:22,720 the drill. You know the motto. 1179 01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,560 Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.