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 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:40,200 Let's get into it. I think today is the best day 9 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:52,400 for transformation. Faith is not really faith until 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,160 the wind begins to antagonize your faith. 11 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,840 I was thinking about all the wonderful, powerful word that 12 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,000 God has been given us, and it has been wonderful and powerful. 13 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,080 And then you just kind of open your eyes the next day and you 14 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,480 like, whoa, trouble didn't go anywhere. 15 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,840 Oh, crap, temptation is still there. 16 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:35,760 Oh, bills are still there. Oh, that person actually still 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,520 get on my nerves and I'm filled with the Holy Ghost. 18 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,920 But faith is not really faith until the wind begins to 19 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:57,800 antagonize your faith. You can have a word, but you 20 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:06,160 still got to stand on it. I've seen some familiar faces 21 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,759 this morning and I wonder if the word is working for you. 22 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:12,880 Here's what I do know. The word is working for 23 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,120 everybody, but are you working the word? 24 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,200 You still got to stand on it. This is why it's called the good 25 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,680 fight of faith. You cannot call yourself a good, 26 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:28,080 good athlete, a good boxer, if you don't know how to stand. 27 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,560 If I can get you off balance, this is what the enemy loves to 28 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,680 do in our lives is get us off balance. 29 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,640 Somebody say off balance, Paul calls it the good fight of 30 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,120 faith. It's a fight, right? 31 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,120 Watch this. Your faith ain't good if you 32 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,200 don't know how to fight by faith. 33 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,440 I think everybody in here know how to fight. 34 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,480 And some of you really good at picking fights. 35 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:03,960 I could tell, I could tell. But can you let your faith fight 36 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,960 for you? The good fight? 37 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:14,280 Somebody say the good fight. And when the wind blows, here's 38 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,200 what it does. It challenges our posture. 39 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:25,360 So have you ever seen like these stories, tornadoes and Hollywood 40 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:30,000 exaggerates it and they're holding on to a pole and the 41 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,640 wind is blowing. Or you see those news anchors 42 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:39,600 whose jobs is to go report smack in the middle of a windstorm and 43 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:46,640 they're really reporting it. The wind comes to challenge your 44 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,880 posture. Don't be mad at the wind for 45 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,920 blowing. You should probably thank the 46 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:58,040 wind for exposing you actually aren't as strong as you thought 47 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,840 you was. You're not as healed as you 48 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,080 thought you was. That vice is not working as much 49 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,560 as you thought it was. So today I pray, Lord, that you 50 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:20,959 strengthen our faith and align our posture to the Word today, 51 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,120 for we need you not just today, but forevermore. 52 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,240 And he arose and rebuked the wind. 53 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:52,560 He arose and rebuke the wind. He arose and rebuked the wind 54 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,800 and said to the sea. He got up. 55 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,640 He rebuked the wind and said to the sea. 56 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,920 Somebody said to the sea, He said to the sea, Hush now. 57 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,480 Hush now is a little different than be quiet, please. 58 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,400 Hush now is a little different than why you bothering me still 59 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:29,240 Hush now, be still muzzled. And the wind ceased, sank to 60 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:34,400 rest as if exhausted by its beating, and there was 61 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:40,600 immediately a great calm, a perfect peacefulness. 62 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:48,960 Once you see this, he got up posture, he rebuked the wind 63 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:58,320 authority, He said to the sea, Hush, be still. 64 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:04,440 And the wind ceased. I need you to see something. 65 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,520 The wind was the source of chaos. 66 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Now if you was to say, who am I in this story, I will help you. 67 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:32,920 You are the sea. The sea did not argue with the 68 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,720 rebuke. It did not negotiate with Jesus. 69 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:43,800 When the Lord spoke, the sea became what still. 70 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,560 And I believe the Lord is inviting us into the same 71 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,200 response today. So as the Lord spoke to the sea, 72 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,360 I sensed the Lord saying to many of us today, enough is enough. 73 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:07,160 Be like the sea and be still. Today I'm here to talk to your 74 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:14,200 soul. Whenever a person is anxious, 75 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,800 it's in the soul realm. Whenever a person is depressed, 76 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,000 it's in the soul realm. When you lose control, when you 77 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,280 are renewing your mind, it is saying you are renewing your 78 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,040 soul. It is your thinker, your filler, 79 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,960 your chooser. And it comes a point where you 80 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:42,160 have to rebuke the sea. God has to send a word to you 81 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:54,200 and say enough is enough, be still, Love quest. 82 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,360 We've thought peace is the absence of storms, but it's not. 83 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,560 And we've assumed stillness is the absence of movement. 84 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,040 But it's not. Stillness is a response to 85 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:19,640 authority, not to an emotional angst, although the angst may 86 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:24,720 trigger the revelation that I need to be still. 87 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:34,480 The peace of the Kingdom follows command, not effort. 88 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:43,720 And in knowing that stillness is enabled by obedience, I want you 89 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:50,600 to see calm was a result of stillness. 90 00:08:52,320 --> 00:09:00,720 Stillness is not calm. Calm came after steel. 91 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:12,360 Stillness is what enthroned the king, and peace is the Kingdom 92 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,360 that expands within, overwhelming our lives. 93 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,040 Once he rules and he governs, watch this. 94 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Peace is the Kingdom expanding. Stillness is what enthroned the 95 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,000 King. Peace is the result of the king 96 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,640 being enthroned. What'd you say? 97 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:49,240 The he is the Prince of peace. If the Prince don't got a seat 98 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,360 then peace don't have a place to roam. 99 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:04,000 Pay close attention. This means if peace is missing, 100 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:13,200 it's not because God is not present, It's often because we 101 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:20,200 are still moving anxiously and frantically, concerned where 102 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,040 He's already conquered and ruling. 103 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,240 What's this? If I'm not experiencing peace, 104 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:33,120 it's not because the Prince of Peace isn't present, it's 105 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,600 because I am still moving where he is ruling. 106 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:48,120 I am still trying to make stuff happen where he's already made 107 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:56,080 it happen. Peace is always present and if 108 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,680 you are not experiencing it, it's because you are still 109 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:04,880 moving where he has already settled it. 110 00:11:13,990 --> 00:11:22,950 Stillness is not calm or inactivity. 111 00:11:25,230 --> 00:11:27,390 Do they know Today's message is be still? 112 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:31,990 If I haven't said it already, it's be still. 113 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,160 It's be still, It's, it's be still. 114 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,800 And throughout this experience, you should probably just as the 115 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,760 Holy Ghost moves upon you, or if you hear it, if I trigger it 116 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,960 somewhere, just whisper under your breath to your soul, be 117 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,520 still. Because what's the truth is, 118 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,120 things are going to stir up. Things are going to come up 119 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,040 while I'm talking about being still. 120 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,200 Your anxious mind is going to have some moments, promise you 121 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,440 even now for some of you, here it is. 122 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:12,480 Watch this. Stillness causes your soul to 123 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,520 panic. So even me talking about being 124 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,000 still, if you pay attention to your soul, it's panicking. 125 00:12:26,540 --> 00:12:34,200 Stillness is not calm. Stillness is not calm or 126 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:40,440 inactivity. It is the moment we stop or step 127 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:46,200 out of unauthorized authority. Yeah, yeah. 128 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,000 Stillness. It's not calm or inactivity. 129 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:59,160 It is the moment that you and I step out of an unauthorized 130 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:05,000 authority. Some of us in here and a lot of 131 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,880 us in here are entangled, busy, entertaining things, places, and 132 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,800 people. God never told you to help. 133 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,080 God never needed your opinion. He didn't need your hands. 134 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,560 He didn't need your money. He didn't need your time. 135 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:28,000 And you over here busy in areas God already handling stillness 136 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,600 is not calm or inactivity. It is the moment we step out of 137 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:39,120 unauthorized authority, right to watch this. 138 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,640 I'm about to help you with something. 139 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:50,280 There is a statement that has discipled us all our lives, and 140 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,960 some of you think it's in the Bible, but it's actually a 141 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,760 cultural proverb. It sounds biblical, but has 142 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,160 quietly reshaped how many of us live. 143 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,880 And here's the statement. God helps those who helped 144 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,480 themselves. You thought that was in the 145 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:15,040 Bible, didn't you? Cultural proverb. 146 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,040 God helps those who helps themselves. 147 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,760 Yeah, be still and pay attention to that. 148 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,280 How that really sound under the government of the Holy Ghost 149 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:38,280 right now. God helps those, but you've got 150 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:50,680 to help yourself. It's not scripture, but it has 151 00:14:50,680 --> 00:15:00,720 discipled generations. It's a cultural proverb, not 152 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,480 scripture. Understand this? 153 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:08,880 This proverb teaches us responsibility equals control. 154 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,240 This proverb teaches us faith means staying in motion. 155 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,360 If I'm not moving, I'm not faith in. 156 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:25,480 If I'm not working, I'm not in faith. 157 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,240 This proverb teaches us, watch this, that stopping means to 158 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:39,680 fall apart. I got to be doing something or 159 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:44,160 my dreams will never happen if I don't do something. 160 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:50,880 I'll never get that account if I don't do something right. 161 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,400 God helps those who help themselves. 162 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,360 Let me ask you, how has helping yourself helped you and God? 163 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,560 This proverb also teaches us that saying no means you will be 164 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:10,520 left all alone. So I got to go and do this 165 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,600 because if I don't, I may lose a friend or I may never get this 166 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,400 opportunity again. I mean, never get a man again if 167 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,800 I don't take this one, this woman, if I don't take this one, 168 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,480 this opportunity, if I don't take this one, this amount of 169 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,560 money if I don't take this one. So let me sign the contract. 170 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,800 Let me let me date the person, let me marry the person, let me 171 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,400 have the kids now because I may never get kids because I'm 172 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,120 getting older. Oh, so that means you have not 173 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,160 submitted your womb to God. OK. 174 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:48,160 Saying no means left all alone. Watch this. 175 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,760 And we know seed time and harvest. 176 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,840 So there's fruit with this thinking. 177 00:16:53,840 --> 00:17:00,080 So the fruits of this thinking produces restless souls. 178 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,200 The fruits of yeah, God don't help me, but I got to help me 179 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,680 first. In other words, I got to help 180 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:14,319 God help me. It produces restless souls. 181 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:22,520 It produces anxious minds. It produces. 182 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,720 Watch this. This is good, exhausted efforts. 183 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,600 Oh, I see you. I see you serving. 184 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,240 I see you showing up. I see you working. 185 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,080 But you're exhausted. Your efforts are exhausted. 186 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,280 Your efforts aren't maxed. Your efforts aren't potent. 187 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,800 Your efforts aren't anointed. Your efforts aren't strategic. 188 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:47,440 Your efforts are exhausted because you are not aiming your 189 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,480 efforts at divine purpose. You are aiming your, your 190 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,360 efforts and your your. Here's what it is You shoot dice 191 00:17:55,360 --> 00:18:03,040 with your efforts, wonder why you crap out so much and hit 192 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,400 every now and then. When are we going to? 193 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,720 Where are we going to be still long enough to be efficient in 194 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,240 our planting the seeds and our efforts and our time and our 195 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:21,360 energy? Sure, if you shoot 100 times, 196 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,440 you're for sure going to make at least one. 197 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:29,200 And that's how we shoot in life is let's try all of these 198 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,720 things. It feels like faith. 199 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,600 It looks good to my peers because look at what I'm doing, 200 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,600 look at what I can do. But then you're barely 201 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:47,640 successful at 1:00. Watch this. 202 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,680 This is not because life is hard. 203 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,840 This fruit is not because life is hard, pay attention, but it's 204 00:18:54,840 --> 00:19:00,840 because we are helping ourselves in places God never authorized 205 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,600 us to govern. I know you want to start that 206 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:06,920 business. I know you want to start that 207 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,520 ministry. I know you want to help them 208 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,160 people. I know you want to buy that 209 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:11,480 house. I know you want to rent that 210 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:12,960 place. I know you want to go here. 211 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,640 But let me ask you something. Did God authorize you to govern 212 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,720 that Whatever you take possession of, you are required 213 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:28,760 to govern? So if you understand that, then 214 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,640 you should understand that you need God to govern it or you 215 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:42,560 don't have the grace to have it and you are left sole ruler of 216 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:53,560 the thing. It's because we are helping 217 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,880 ourselves in places God never authorized us to govern. 218 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:08,040 Psalm 46 scripture says be still. 219 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,480 Somebody say be still watch this. 220 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,200 The scripture does not say pray harder. 221 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:18,360 It does not say fast more. It does not say sing louder or 222 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:22,000 strategize better. It says be still. 223 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,880 This is going to bless us today. It says be still. 224 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,240 No, go back to my slide. It said be still. 225 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:37,320 Be still is a command. Be. 226 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,600 Watch it, Be still and know that I am God. 227 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,120 It didn't say no, I'm God. Then be still. 228 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:45,920 It said be still. Then know. 229 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,640 Some of you wondering why you lack intimacy with God? 230 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,040 It's because you don't know Him, and you don't know Him because 231 00:20:53,040 --> 00:21:00,640 you ain't still. He is not a whispering or 232 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,560 whispering a word of comfort or encouragement to soothe us. 233 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,000 Be still is not a word of encouragement or a word of 234 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:15,520 comfort or a word to soothe you. This is God asserting authority. 235 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,680 Oh God is throwing. When God says be still, he is 236 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,440 throwing his weight around. He is asserting his authority. 237 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,640 He is saying that this watch this. 238 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,520 Remember what we said, this is his year, not my year. 239 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,000 So since it's his year, he said I need you to what? 240 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:37,760 Be still. God's like this is my time and 241 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,720 you can't be running all around on my time. 242 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,520 Ain't got no time to chase you around. 243 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:49,600 This is 2026 is my year. Be still God's like every time 244 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,360 you in the way stuff get messed up. 245 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,800 Be still. What does be still mean? 246 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,080 I'm glad you asked. It means cease striving. 247 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:10,440 It means drop your weapons. Oh, the weapons of our warfare 248 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,720 are not carnal. We wrestle not against flesh and 249 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,920 blood, right? It says drop your weapons. 250 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,040 That's what be still. Watch this. 251 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,760 Drop your weapons. In other words, how you are used 252 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,040 to coping. Drop your weapons how you are 253 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,880 used to fighting back. Drop your weapons how you are 254 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,760 used to hustling to get by. Drop your weapons how you are 255 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,480 used to getting back at people that hurt you. 256 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,040 Drop your weapons. This may be the season that you 257 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,480 can't work the five points to get $1,000,000 because that has 258 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,520 become a weapon against God's plan. 259 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:02,880 Drop your means and then it means stop contending for what 260 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,280 God has already settled and conquered. 261 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,000 Stop contending. Oh, I don't know if I'm gonna 262 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,840 have time to get to it, but I'm so I'm gonna say it right now. 263 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,640 There is some stuff be still means stop praying for it. 264 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,880 Watch this. There's some people. 265 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:27,320 Stop praying for it. Right, right. 266 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:31,840 See you thought see here it is because you won't stop praying. 267 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,080 Here it is. Some of you are praying from 268 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,680 stress. You are praying because you 269 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,560 actually don't believe. You are praying because you 270 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,360 actually have doubts. So you're tossing up prayers 271 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:48,120 like God, I don't know if you heard me, but no, no, no, no, 272 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:54,400 like really get to the the why of why you keep on praying in a 273 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,520 way and a posture like he didn't hear you before. 274 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:12,480 So sometime we pray because we're stressed instead of 275 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,640 believing because we're stressed. 276 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:24,800 You are contending for a person that you have already fasted and 277 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:30,040 prayed for. Watch this your prayers, the way 278 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,120 you praying watch this. You got it. 279 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,720 You got to align your prayers with the word. 280 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,480 But you can't pray when somebody ain't working the word. 281 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:49,160 If God says if you if you eat from this tree, you will be 282 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,040 exposed to the knowledge of good and evil. 283 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,720 Just say Eve was my sister and I'm like over here like Lord 284 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,040 Jesus in the name of Jesus. She she eat from the tree and 285 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,400 then I'm praying she don't get the knowledge of good and evil. 286 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:10,160 Some of y'all praying for people who are living in sin and you're 287 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,120 praying they don't get a harvest from they sin. 288 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,160 So you're praying against the word, not the word. 289 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:29,240 Do you know how hard that is to pray against something that God 290 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:35,840 has already settled? The best thing I can pray for 291 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:47,640 your rebellion is Lord grace them to make it out right. 292 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,240 Don't, don't, don't punch me in my face. 293 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:56,480 Then pray it don't hurt. We have a lot of faithless 294 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:08,040 prayers and we're praying from a still less or a anxious soul. 295 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:19,400 Be still means to disengage. Drop your weapons or sorry, 296 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,760 disengage and cease your attempts to control the outcome. 297 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,400 Cease your attempts to control the outcome. 298 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,520 This has nothing to do with how what is going on. 299 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,600 This has nothing to do with how what is going on is making you 300 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,960 feel or what is going on and how it's making you feel. 301 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,400 This has nothing to do with that. 302 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,400 So I get it right. You continue to want to explain 303 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:54,080 how you feel and God's like that's why I gave you a word for 304 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,320 how you feel. My word overrides the feel. 305 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:08,120 So are you going to focus on my word or the storm? 306 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,880 Remember, he spoke to the see you. 307 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,760 He told you to be still, but what you then said, well make 308 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,600 the wind stop blowing. No, no, no, no. 309 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:24,400 When God is speaking this, he didn't tell the wind to calm 310 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,160 down, He told you to be still. Watch this. 311 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:33,120 The wind may not ever change speed, but I can still 312 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:38,880 experience calm if I be still. So instead of desiring the wind 313 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:44,480 to shift its force, won't you stop the angst inside of you so 314 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,080 that you can experience the wind differently, right? 315 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,800 Be like a sail and use the wind for your advantage. 316 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,920 If you posture yourself right, the wind can actually advance 317 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:05,880 you into the promised land. The wind can actually accelerate 318 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:11,360 you. Here we go, Here it is. 319 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,720 You ready? We struggle to be still because 320 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,280 #1 Trauma trained us to survive by control. 321 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,000 Trauma trained us to survive by controlling. 322 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,040 The moment you experience the wind, you start grabbing the 323 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,160 handlebars, right? You, you, you ever, you ever, 324 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,280 you ever in the passenger seat or even in the back seat. 325 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,320 You can be in the trunk and somebody about to somebody 326 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,960 driving about to get in the car accident and you automatically 327 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,280 start, you reach for the steering wheel or you, you or, 328 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,000 or have you ever have you ever, have you ever you, you in the 329 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,480 passenger seat, but you feel like you can put your foot on 330 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,280 the brakes. That's the scariest feeling, 331 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,520 That's all. I don't like people driving me 332 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,400 around because I I want to have control. 333 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,800 Trauma trained us. We struggle to be still because 334 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,120 trauma trained us. Trauma trained us. 335 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,400 I could, I could just put a period on that. 336 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,920 Trauma trained us. Trauma trained us. 337 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:20,400 Grief trained us to survive by controlling #2 we struggle to be 338 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,360 still because anxiety trains us to stay alert. 339 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,000 You see this, Michael? The anxiety trained us to be 340 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:37,720 alert. I'm so aware of the storm, less 341 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,880 aware of God's presence in the storm. 342 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,640 Anxiety taught you how to be alert. 343 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,280 You, you, you. Do you know somebody and if you 344 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,840 next to them do not look at them. 345 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,720 Do you know somebody that always makes you aware of problems? 346 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,720 Gossipers. You got that friend that always 347 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,560 share you. You need this. 348 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,160 Why the Drewski thing went viral? 349 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,480 Because all the people shared it. 350 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,720 Ain't it funny? Go look at how much how much 351 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:14,000 darkness you share and how much light you share, right? 352 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,240 We are so aware. We are so on pins and needle. 353 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:23,400 We're alert and the Lord says get rid of the swivel on your 354 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:29,640 head and focus on me #3 We struggle to be still because 355 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,920 fear trained us to never stop moving, right? 356 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:40,920 We play dodgeball in life, right? 357 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,720 We never stop moving. Watch this. 358 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,240 Why are you? Why do you think you're such an 359 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,960 easy target? Because you be still. 360 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,480 Do you know this? It's harder for the enemy to 361 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:59,640 detect a steel person in the Kingdom flipping around. 362 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,560 The more steel you are, the harder you are to detect in the 363 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,240 heavens. The enemy loves movement. 364 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,720 He knows anxiety. He knows. 365 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,480 He knows these running thoughts. He knows a person that just 366 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,400 can't be still. We struggle to be still because 367 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,560 performance trained us to prove worth. 368 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,920 Come on, come on. Somebody just tell you so. 369 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:25,880 Be still. Be still. 370 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,320 Be still. Somebody say be still right. 371 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,760 Every time you yawn today after you yawn, be still, OK. 372 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,240 If you're yawner in here, you're tired. 373 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,240 That's fine. Just as you go, Michael, just 374 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,080 say be still, OK. Be still. 375 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:45,080 Somebody say be still. OK, We struggle to be still. 376 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,080 Michael ain't alert now because the Saints ain't in the 377 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,040 playoffs. Amen. 378 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:48,920 Not Amen. Hallelujah. 379 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,160 All right, all right. Chicago Bears in the playoffs, 380 00:31:53,200 --> 00:32:02,330 though. All right. 381 00:32:03,010 --> 00:32:04,930 As icebreaker is over. OK. 382 00:32:05,370 --> 00:32:10,410 We struggle to be still because performance trained us to prove 383 00:32:10,410 --> 00:32:13,010 worth watch. This and we struggle to be still 384 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,800 because the hustle trained us to outrun trust. 385 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:34,120 Oh, the hustle trained us to outrun trust. 386 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,880 And sometime the worst thing that can happen is fast success 387 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,320 because now you have a pattern that you going to try to rework 388 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,200 because it worked before. Not knowing that although you 389 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,200 can't, you reached your goal. You didn't develop trust for God 390 00:32:54,200 --> 00:33:00,560 because you left him behind. So you got to prioritize what's 391 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,520 important. The season of learning to trust 392 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,480 God or the season to get from God. 393 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,800 Like I'd much rather as I get older, I understand the greatest 394 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,720 value I can have is the characteristics of Jesus, the 395 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:19,640 fruit of the Spirit and to learn how to trust God because more 396 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,080 often than not, I need trust to be still. 397 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,080 And the and when life get to life, and if you don't know how 398 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:35,640 to be still, you're going to be on some pills somewhere, be pill 399 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,040 instead of be still. Hey, man, I just, I couldn't 400 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,840 help myself. Hey, man, that's the that's the 401 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,040 creative in me. That's the creative in me. 402 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:49,440 Listen, before we keep going, let's look at what the soul is. 403 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,960 Some people just we lump it all together. 404 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,360 This is soul, spirit by air. It's all the same, OK? 405 00:33:55,360 --> 00:34:04,160 The soul, the fesh in Hebrew, appetite, desire will, inner 406 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,440 drive, survival, instinct. When we talk about our soul, 407 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,360 it's our thinker, our filler, our chooser. 408 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,880 It's where our appetite, our desires, our hunger is in the 409 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,719 soul realm, we are a spirit, We possess a soul, we live in a 410 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,920 body, we are tripart beings, we are spirit. 411 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:27,880 We possess a soul and we live in a body, but we are spirit and we 412 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,679 possess a soul. That's where our emotions are, 413 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,760 That's where our thinking is. That's where we get jealous. 414 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,880 That's where we covet. That's when he say renew your 415 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,239 mind. It's to restore, renew, refresh, 416 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,159 get back to the garden. As it pertains to my soul, 417 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,639 appetite, desire, will, inner drive, survival, instinct. 418 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:53,000 The soul is my thinker, my feeler, my chooser. 419 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,360 Watch this. My soul is not merely sinful, it 420 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,960 is just untrained. See, we're so sin conscious, 421 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,080 Andrew, that we don't realize we're just really untrained. 422 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,800 Watch this. Because we were trained before, 423 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,240 we fail. So now we need the Holy Spirit 424 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,000 to renew our minds and train us so we can get back to garden 425 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,680 realities and garden behavior. The soul, Watch it. 426 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:31,480 An ungoverned soul never rests. An ungoverned soul never rests. 427 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:33,960 Psalm 23. Watch this. 428 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,520 He makes me lie down in fresh, tender, green pastures. 429 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,000 He leads me beside the still and restful waters. 430 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,480 He refreshes and restores my soul, my, my, my life. 431 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,320 He leads me in the paths of righteousness, uprightness, and 432 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,880 right, standing with Him, not for my earning it, but for His 433 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,160 name's sake. Watch this. 434 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,040 His name is on the line as it pertains to you. 435 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,240 So there comes a time where He takes control for His name's 436 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:07,120 sake, not for you to impress people, but His word is on the 437 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,680 line as it pertains to your life. 438 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,800 So God steps in and says be still because my name is on the 439 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,720 line and I got to do some stuff so people can know I am who I 440 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:22,600 say I am. I'm healing you for my name's 441 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,160 sake. I am advancing you for my name's 442 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,000 sake. I am intervening for my name's 443 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,120 sake. Yeah. 444 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:36,040 Yeah, it is for his name's sake. It's not so you can be famous. 445 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:41,440 It is for his name's sake. He wants to prosper you for his 446 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:48,920 name's sake. Watch this. 447 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,400 He makes, he leads. He restores. 448 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,080 He makes, he leads, he restores. That's order intentionally. 449 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,800 He makes, he leads. He restores. 450 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,360 He makes, he leads, he restores. Ain't no restoring if he can't 451 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,880 lead you. Ain't no leading if he can't 452 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,040 make you. If he can't make you sit down, 453 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:11,200 he can't lead you. So he comes in and he says be 454 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,360 still. Why? 455 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,440 So I can lead you. Why do I want to lead you? 456 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:22,040 So I can restore you, but we wanted to work backwards. 457 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,520 Lord restore me. He's like you trying to make me 458 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:34,200 act out of order. So watch this some of y'all like 459 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,200 restore my family. And he said OK be still. 460 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,360 Restore my finances, Lord. OK. 461 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,680 Be still. Restore my identity, Lord. 462 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:50,400 OK. Be still. 463 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,080 Restore my reputation, Lord. OK, Shut up. 464 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,880 Be still. Give me strength, Lord. 465 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,400 Be still, Lord. My marriage is falling apart, 466 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,280 OK, I got you. Be still. 467 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,160 Because watch this. Your trashy marriage ain't 468 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:20,760 helping my namesake so I'm I'm all for restoring my children 469 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,400 because you're my children and you got my name and you making 470 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,320 me look bad. So I'm very ready to help you. 471 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:32,960 But guess what you got to do? Be still Lord save my family but 472 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,440 but but why you you showing your family following God means 473 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,240 anxiety. They got anxiety without God. 474 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:41,080 They got anxiety at a bad church. 475 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,240 They got anxiety. So why should they follow you 476 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:44,440 and you don't know how to be still. 477 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,560 They got what you got without what you offering them 478 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,080 Hallelujah. Tell your neighbor. 479 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,800 I think you need to I think he talking to you. 480 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,120 I think he talking to you for sure. 481 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,320 He talking to you. Watch this. 482 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,680 He makes, He leads, He restores. Come on, say it with me. 483 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:10,520 He makes, He leads, He restores. Rest is not something the sheep 484 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:16,520 decide. It is something the shepherd 485 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:23,080 initiates. Hallelujah. 486 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,880 And you wonder why the storm don't cease when you ready to be 487 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,840 still. No, no, no, no, you don't 488 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,000 decide. You don't get to decide when 489 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,320 rest that no God initiates, right? 490 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,320 He says, hey, it's the season 2026 be still. 491 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,640 I'm ready to give you rest. I'm I'm ready to give you peace. 492 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,320 I'm ready to transform some things in your life. 493 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,560 But you going to need to be still. 494 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,880 Rest is not something the sheep decide. 495 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,280 It's something the shepherd initiates. 496 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,880 Watch this. Still waters are not resort spas 497 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,320 and vacation destinations. I need y'all to know this is 498 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:12,120 real Bible talk right now. OK, this is real Bible talk. 499 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,720 This is not still waters, right? You looking at this beautiful 500 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:19,160 picture right here, you're like, Oh my God, I want to raise all I 501 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,280 want to get all this money because I want to go. 502 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,840 I want to go to Italy. I want to go to Greece. 503 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,880 I want to go. And you see the Kardashians 504 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,760 jumping off of boats and you see all these people and you like, 505 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,520 wow, they must be really enjoying their lives. 506 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,080 Really. You think they are. 507 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,160 I think they are, but understand this. 508 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,000 Still waters aren't resorts, spas, vacations or destinations. 509 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,360 Watch this. This is so powerful. 510 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,480 Still waters are waters with no threat. 511 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,680 When the Bible talks about still waters in Hebrew, it means 512 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,560 waters with no threat. He leads me. 513 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,320 He is trying to lead you to a life. 514 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,400 No matter the waves or the storm, it's no threat to you. 515 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,360 When is life going to stop being a threat? 516 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,040 When is that person rejecting you going to stop being a 517 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,080 threat? It doesn't mean rejection won't 518 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,840 hurt, but when rejection becomes a threat to your identity, you 519 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:25,360 are not trusted in God. It just mean He's leading you to 520 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:39,120 a place that there's no threat. The soul rests not because 521 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,720 danger disappeared, but because authority has arrived and 522 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:48,720 abides. I enter rest not because the 523 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,680 threat or danger has disappeared, but because 524 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,200 authority has taken its seat in my soul watch. 525 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,560 This stillness feels unsafe to a nervous system that learns 526 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:08,040 survival through motion. Oh, buddy, I'm tell. 527 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:14,640 Let me just start with me. I have trouble not doing nothing 528 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,720 right now. I'm not telling you stillness is 529 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:19,760 not doing nothing. But I have. 530 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:24,360 I like my soul, shall I say, wrestles on a day where I decide 531 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,440 to be still. My soul is just like what we 532 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,160 doing like get moving, you lazy you. 533 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,720 No 4:00 AM, fool, get up at 4:00 AM. 534 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:34,400 No, I'm not getting up at 4:00 AM. 535 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,080 And it's just this wrestle. And before at the end of the 536 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,760 day, you have lost all your nerves because you've been 537 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,040 wrestling on the inside. You have not trained your soul 538 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,920 to be still, right? Ask Andrew. 539 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,840 How many people come to a spa do all this, Really. 540 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,400 You relax while you're there. You relax because you have 541 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:03,360 resources to relax, right? Some people got weed to relax. 542 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,720 And then when it goes down, you got to smoke some more. 543 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:10,800 You got to buy some more than you got to walk out the weed 544 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,720 dispensary like this, like you Hollywood or something with your 545 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:16,200 hat on. Because you, you go to church 546 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,440 and you don't want nobody to know you. 547 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:22,280 You'd be shopping for weed, right? 548 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,200 So you already Hey man, OK, you get what I'm saying? 549 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:32,560 So then people people will leave the spa and within 24 hours all 550 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:40,880 the calm his space provided. They give it away because we 551 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:48,680 think that peace and rest is a spa or it's in quiet or it's 552 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,800 breath work. Those things should be 553 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:56,720 supplementary to the church. It should not be the source to 554 00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:59,040 the believer. For those that don't follow 555 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:07,440 Jesus, it's the source. But man, I might not be able to 556 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:12,000 make it to the to the spa. I can't wait till I can go. 557 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:18,600 Some of us can't afford to spy. I might not be able to wait to 558 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,200 get to Andrew or to get to Pasadena or to get to my 559 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,000 trainer. To have some peace, to have some 560 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,320 rest in my soul. When last time some of y'all 561 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,480 been on a like a vacation? Not a staycation, a vacation. 562 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,400 You got up out of everything familiar. 563 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,000 When's the last time, right Time, money. 564 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,000 Some of y'all got kids and you think you going to get rest when 565 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,760 they grow up? No, you actually going to be 566 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:50,120 more stressed out. Watch this, he says. 567 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:56,400 For God alone my soul waits in silence. 568 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,720 For God alone. For God alone, for God alone is 569 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:04,920 the only one I'm waiting for. For God alone my soul waits in 570 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,960 silence. From Him comes my salvation, 571 00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,920 from Him comes my peace, from Him comes my prosperity, from 572 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:20,880 Him comes my strength, from Him. So because it comes from Him, he 573 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:29,080 is the only one that I surrender my soul to, to be at rest. 574 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,720 Inner settling. Silence, right? 575 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:35,800 This word Silence here means inner settling. 576 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,040 The cessation of noise. This is going to be so good. 577 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,080 It's going to bless a few of you. 578 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,400 The cessation of noise you like. Well, cessation. 579 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,880 What's cessation? Sensation. 580 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,120 PT. You spelled that wrong. 581 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:47,920 You mean sensation? No cessation. 582 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,240 I know what I'm talking about. Cessation. 583 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,360 Everybody say cessation. Watch this. 584 00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:01,400 This means voluntary stopping under authority. 585 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:06,160 Oh God's going to initiate. He ain't going make you. 586 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,720 This is you making a choice to stop under authority. 587 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,040 Watch, Watch this. This cessation means an 588 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:21,520 intentional end. No, Watch this this way, he says 589 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,160 stop wavering. No, no, I am going to make a 590 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,800 decision today. It this has to end. 591 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,920 I'm not going to wait. Well when they get older or when 592 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,240 the sun come out or or or when they stop leaving me alone or if 593 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:36,760 they stop calling me. I don't need you to stop calling 594 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,400 me to have peace. If you don't stop calling me, 595 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,360 I'll change my number if I got to but I am not going to lend 596 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,160 you my soul until you ready to give it back. 597 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,640 Oh I can't wait till school is over. 598 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:58,320 These terms stress me out. Test week is so stressful 599 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:05,280 because you let it be stressful. Well this is exam week, most 600 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,680 stressful day of the year because you make it that way and 601 00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:14,720 then you pass and then you pass and you like I got my peace 602 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:18,880 back. You know you didn't have peace 603 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:24,280 in the first place. What's this cessation? 604 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:30,320 It's intentional. And I don't stop because 605 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:35,160 something failed. I stopped because it is no 606 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,600 longer required to keep moving in it. 607 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:43,280 Watch this. You can have your strength on 10 608 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,760 like you can have like, like this is the cool thing. 609 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:51,720 God will then ask you to see something when you have all the 610 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:55,840 resources to keep going. He'll ask you to leave something 611 00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,600 while it's at its peak in good, right. 612 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,200 This is like we're not going to do Michael Jordan. 613 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,960 We're not going. We're not we're not going to 614 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:09,160 come back and and come inside this. 615 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,720 That's a bad analogy. Some of y'all don't know who 616 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:12,680 Michael Jordan is. And if you don't, that's that's 617 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,200 a shame. That's a shame. 618 00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:18,800 And some of y'all got Jordans on it. 619 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,320 Didn't even know it was Michael Jordan. 620 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:26,840 He thought it was. No, no. 621 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,200 Listen guys, this is what I'm learning. 622 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,280 Can I help somebody? Don't let it end on you. 623 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,520 Don't let the thing make you retire. 624 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:50,920 Retire after you want a ring. Determine when something's done 625 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:57,160 before it expires. Determine when a relationship 626 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:03,360 it's time to evolve or kick rocks versus it turning sour. 627 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:08,440 Now somebody that used to be a friend becomes an enemy because 628 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,040 you didn't realize it was time to transition at AT bare minimum 629 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:18,120 to shift your relationship into a different context. 630 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,280 So in one season we were this. In another season, we might have 631 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,480 to be this. And some of us have trouble with 632 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:33,040 transitions because we not ready to let it go. 633 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,920 See, I was never the dude. I was never the dude that would 634 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,440 break up with a girl. Now I didn't have a lot of 635 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,040 girlfriends. I was I was a good dude. 636 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,080 I'm I'm serious. What y'all talking about? 637 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:52,560 I heard the little Yeah, right. TT I'm glad you think I'm worthy 638 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,800 of a lot of women. OK, whatever. 639 00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,920 Get out of here. He's like, yeah, right. 640 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:01,440 P TS lying. He's from Oakland. 641 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,320 He's a tall black man. He's has fashion. 642 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:13,600 Stop judging me. But I would never ever. 643 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,080 I just couldn't do it because I was raised by women. 644 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,160 I'll talk about this. And yeah, anyway, I was raised 645 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,440 by women. So I I just never did it. 646 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,880 I was like, if I'm going to break up with someone, when I 647 00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:31,360 break up with them, it's over. Ain't no, ain't no back and 648 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,000 forth. Ain't no make up to break it 649 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:41,520 ain't no and I don't care if the relationship was trash. 650 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,240 I'm like, I'm going to keep trying. 651 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,960 I'm going to let her break up with me. 652 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,800 Then I'll be good. See what I'm saying? 653 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:55,760 Like there's things in your life that aren't good for you and 654 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,320 you're waiting for it to leave your life or somebody to walk 655 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,440 out of your life, or you're waiting for this thing that you 656 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,920 need to say. Enough is enough, but you should 657 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:10,240 never get to the point where you're leaving something out of 658 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:17,040 anger or trauma. You should be paying attention 659 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,960 enough that you see when seasons change and you initiate 660 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:26,560 transition. But I remember one day I'm back 661 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,280 and forth and I and I was just like, no, you're not. 662 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,760 I had a dream that the girl was, you know, fooling with somebody 663 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:34,760 and she thought she was going to play me. 664 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,240 And then she. Yeah. 665 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,680 And I asked her and she couldn't lie to me. 666 00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,080 And I'm like, man, we went to college together. 667 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,080 Now. I was AI was a professional 668 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,640 baseball pitcher. And I had a. 669 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,080 If I have some in my hand when I'm mad, it's not good. 670 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,400 Now I've grown, I've grown, I've grown, but there's times I had 671 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,120 to till I grew, I had to drop it. 672 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,400 If I got mad and I had some in my head, I had to drop it. 673 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,360 And I just remember the girl, she told me and I'm like, watch 674 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:13,280 this because I tried and tried and tried and tried hoping in 675 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,320 you while I was hoping in you, you was moving on. 676 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:26,240 So I'm more angry that I stuck around and man, I walked away. 677 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:28,840 I was just so mad. But I knew it was over. 678 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,920 Had a tennis ball in my hand and I threw a strike. 679 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,440 I threw, I threw, I threw it. I threw that tennis ball hit her 680 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,600 right on her forehead. It bounced up, hit the wall and 681 00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,120 rolled into a classroom. It was right in front of a 682 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,200 classroom and I walked away and we haven't talked ever since. 683 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,840 Watch this. But I waited till it failed. 684 00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,920 I didn't listen to my Mama. I didn't listen to my friends. 685 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:15,720 The end came because it failed, not because I listened to wisdom 686 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,920 and made a decision to say this is no longer going to benefit 687 00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:24,600 me. Well, no, I promise I'll change. 688 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,960 You need to change, but you're going to change without me 689 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:34,680 around. Stop being manipulated into 690 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:39,600 staying longer than you supposed to stay because someone has 691 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:51,050 potential. Cessation is the soul coming to 692 00:53:51,050 --> 00:53:55,490 rest. This is not inactivity, this is 693 00:53:55,490 --> 00:54:00,480 alignment. Sensation is stopping self 694 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:07,840 initiated actions, ending unauthorized effort and laying 695 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,920 down labor because authority has taken over. 696 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:17,480 Watch this God, man, I, I, I, I've been, I've been tracking 697 00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:22,080 God a little bit and he will help you in something. 698 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,400 He's not making the phone call for you, but he'll prepare a 699 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,160 heart for you to say it's over or you'd be surprised the person 700 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:37,440 you're scared to say it's over already thinking it's over, but 701 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,360 they not brave enough to say it's over. 702 00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:47,600 God will orchestrate a situation and if you're not paying 703 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,240 attention, that was your perfect time to transition. 704 00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:54,200 He gave you a reason, you know, sometime when you don't want to 705 00:54:54,200 --> 00:55:00,400 go to work and all of a sudden the weather is bad and you like 706 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,920 like it's snowing, but they ain't called a snow day yet. 707 00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:09,040 But you like they, they haven't, they haven't plowed my street 708 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,360 yet. So I'm not going to be able to 709 00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,600 go to work today. But you all you see, you watch 710 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,600 this. You took advantage of an 711 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,760 opportunity to be released without costs. 712 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,960 And God always makes it a way. Makes a way. 713 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:33,880 But are you paying attention? Watch this restless, somebody 714 00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,320 say. Restless is when the soul does 715 00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:43,600 not learn stillness. When the soul does not learn 716 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,200 stillness, it will seek relief through control. 717 00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,920 So you control circumstances, right? 718 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,880 You can practice you got kids. You can practice stillness 719 00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,280 today. Let your baby cry for a little 720 00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,520 bit and keep enjoying yourself. Now if they in danger, don't let 721 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:02,360 them cry. Help them out. 722 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:06,000 See see watch this. That threatens some parents, but 723 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,080 some of y'all have let your kids steal your peace. 724 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,760 Watch this, watch this, watch this. 725 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,560 Let them throw a tantrum. Watch this. 726 00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,440 Stop trying to calm your kids down because they're throwing a 727 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:29,280 fit at your nose. Yeah. 728 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,840 Hey, man, you see how you can feel it in a room? 729 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,480 Some parents are just like, no, my baby's crying. 730 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,000 OK. Your soul is too. 731 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,600 So here it is. So we love busy. 732 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,600 Some of you might not want to admit it, but you love busy. 733 00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,240 We love to feel productive. Like being busy means 734 00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:03,160 productive. No busy means busy. 735 00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:10,760 Busy looks like that. Oh, I learned something in 736 00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,640 parenting. It's OK to let the laundry sit 737 00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:20,400 for a day or two if it means I need rest. 738 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:27,440 Yeah, yeah, it's OK to let laundry sit and the baby crawl 739 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,680 instead of doing laundry with the baby on my hip with the 740 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:35,640 phone like this. Yeah, watch. 741 00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,040 Hey, here's God. He's initiating rest because 742 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,920 some of y'all are trying to even parent in ways God never gave 743 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:48,320 you permission to parent. Yeah, take it. 744 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,880 Take some lessons from somebody who's parented for a little bit. 745 00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,400 Busy is not productivity, it's self protection. 746 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,280 What are you running from by staying busy? 747 00:58:09,770 --> 00:58:11,970 Some of you watch this. I love cleaning. 748 00:58:13,290 --> 00:58:16,170 You know, you to, to to not feel something. 749 00:58:16,170 --> 00:58:18,570 You mean you will wash that sink for three hours? 750 00:58:18,570 --> 00:58:22,200 You did and then got the nerves to be mad at somebody else. 751 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:26,040 They don't see mold like you see it how you find that mold and 752 00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,400 then like the PJB like did you see that mold? 753 00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,720 I'm like, no, it was in the shower. 754 00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,400 I'm tall though that she was in. It was in the corner right 755 00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,800 there. I don't I don't get in the 756 00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,800 shower and be looking around. You ain't going to catch me 757 00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,000 cleaning in the shower. Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah. 758 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,320 I'm in the shower to clean me. Not the Amen. 759 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,920 Amen. Busy is not productive, it's 760 00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,600 self protective. I'm just saying it's OK. 761 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,320 We should all be clean. We should all want to take 762 00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,680 walks. We should all but but but make 763 00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:01,560 sure you are not using a blessing as an escape. 764 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,440 A chore should be no my house is dirty, I just need to clean up 765 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:08,920 and I'm going to have peace in the chaos. 766 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,920 But some of you clean up man. And if you married or got 767 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,760 family, everybody got to pay when you clean up. 768 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,040 Yeah, I'm hitting the nerve today. 769 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,600 You cleaning up and you serious? You just somebody walk on around 770 00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:26,680 your little dust pile. You. 771 00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,080 First of all, nobody asks you to clean right now. 772 00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,720 And then you want to look, you ain't going to help me. 773 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,440 Well, I didn't. We didn't schedule clean up 774 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:46,720 time. The game is on right now, right? 775 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:51,680 So watch this, you're not doing it with joy, you're actually 776 00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:55,520 cleaning with resentment. So won't you talk about who you 777 00:59:55,520 --> 01:00:00,080 mad at because the house is dirty and then clean up with joy 778 01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,200 because it's a blessing you got something to clean up. 779 01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:09,800 Hallelujah we helping people today. 780 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,880 Watch this when rest is not learned through trust. 781 01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,520 It will be learned another way. Somebody say control, how are we 782 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,680 going to land this plane? A restless soul. 783 01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:23,400 And this is where we're going to pick up in the second 784 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:25,560 experience. But I want to get it to you real 785 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,240 quick. A restless soul. 786 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,640 We have one of the most misunderstood verses in the 787 01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:35,000 Bible, and it's one of the most popular verses in the Bible. 788 01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,240 I'm going to start it and then we're going to pick it up in the 789 01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:42,960 next experience, one of the most misunderstood stories Jesus ever 790 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,560 told. Then he said a certain man had 791 01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,760 two sons. The younger of them 792 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,880 inappropriately said to his father, Father, give me the 793 01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,440 share of the property that falls to me. 794 01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,320 So he divided the state between them. 795 01:00:58,560 --> 01:00:59,920 Watch this. He asked for it. 796 01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:02,480 His father said, here you go. It was out of time. 797 01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:03,720 But his father said, here you go. 798 01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,160 I ain't going to argue with you. A few days later, the younger 799 01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:11,520 son gathered together everything he got, everything he got his 800 01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,600 inheritance, and he got everything that he had and 801 01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:20,240 traveled to a distant country. And there he wasted his fortune 802 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,360 in reckless and immoral living. Oh, this is going to bless you. 803 01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:28,280 Watch this. A man had two sons #1 We see 804 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,960 covenant. Father, give me the share #2 we 805 01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:35,000 see entitlement. Oh, see yourself in this. 806 01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,360 OK. When we pray, we pray with 807 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,280 entitlement. Why this ain't showing up yet? 808 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,040 God, why you put me in this situation? 809 01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,760 He like that, I'll put you in this situation. 810 01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,280 He gathered everything and went to a distant country. 811 01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:50,720 Watch this. He gathered everything. 812 01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,760 Here it is control. We see covenant, entitlement and 813 01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,040 control. Watch this. 814 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,640 Is this really rebellion or immorality? 815 01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,320 Which one do you think this? The way we preached it, we 816 01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:07,400 preach it either him coming home and we preach about God's grace 817 01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,920 and we preach about the covenant and we preach about rebellion. 818 01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,040 And we love to tell this, this, this story to our children. 819 01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,560 And we got prodigal sons and daughters and we're believing 820 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,400 for them to come home because they're rebellious and they're 821 01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:20,760 immoral. Watch it. 822 01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:26,880 Before he rebelled, his soul was ungoverned. 823 01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:39,120 He got to the place of rebellion because he lived with an 824 01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:44,080 ungoverned soul. Watch it. 825 01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:49,480 Here's the pattern. Inheritance without covering, he 826 01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,400 got it. Resources without relationship, 827 01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,680 he got it. And then there was movement 828 01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,480 without permission. Watch this. 829 01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:04,440 The father did not resist his restless desires. 830 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:11,600 The father did not control him by holding on to what he was 831 01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,480 asking for. Watch this. 832 01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:18,880 And some of you call it a blessing because God released it 833 01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,720 to you. Watch this. 834 01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,960 He didn't give it to you. He released it to you because 835 01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:29,000 you wanted it so bad. So he's like, since you not 836 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,920 going to let me teach you the lesson, I'm going to let it 837 01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:38,040 teach you the lesson. Oh, this is going to bless some 838 01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,360 people today. The promise was more important 839 01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:48,040 to him than the present. The adventure was more important 840 01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:54,200 than the advantage of waiting. He could not wait for the 841 01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:59,880 appointed time. Because restlessness always 842 01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:11,800 masquerades as freedom. Restlessness always masquerades 843 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:16,280 as freedom, and then we call it blessing. 844 01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,200 I'm restless to get to my dreams, so I'll take a 845 01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:27,080 counterfeit before I get there. And then now I got it. 846 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,760 I'm like, I'm free. I got what? 847 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:35,640 Watch this. I got what I wanted, watch this. 848 01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:40,360 He did not leave angry y'all. He did not leave broken. 849 01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,800 He left authorized in his own mind. 850 01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:55,040 He prayed about it, He asked for it, but he authorized himself 851 01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,680 watch this. He asked for something he wasn't 852 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:04,480 going to take no for it. Some of y'all praying to God 853 01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:08,480 knowing even if he says no, you're not going to take it. 854 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,680 You almost have courtesy prayers. 855 01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,760 Lord, I know I got to pray to you, so let me just let you know 856 01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,480 what I'm doing, but I'm a format as a question. 857 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:27,120 Can I help you? Our soul is addicted to motion. 858 01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,560 What's next? Where it's at, Where he at? 859 01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,840 How much more, more and more more is addicted to motion. 860 01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:37,280 Watch this. When authority is resisted, God 861 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,720 will sometimes take it off this slide. 862 01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,800 Take it off this slide because we have really fast readers. 863 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:46,600 I need y'all to really get this next statement. 864 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,880 I need y'all to get this. If you don't get nothing else 865 01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:54,480 today, before you go, please get this. 866 01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:01,560 When authority is resisted, God will sometimes remove the very 867 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,080 things that made running possible. 868 01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:16,240 Not to punish us, but to make stillness unavoidable, I says. 869 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:20,960 When authority is resisted, God will sometimes remove the very 870 01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,120 things that made running possible. 871 01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:28,000 It's not to punish you, but it is to make stillness 872 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,120 unavoidable. Some of you are here today. 873 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,760 You are in this very season, and I'm about to explain to you 874 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,600 really quickly what this mean. Watch this. 875 01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,240 You go on into Luke 15. It says now when you don't even 876 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:38,800 have to play right now you'll know when to play. 877 01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:45,920 Now when he had spent everything, now the money gone, 878 01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:51,920 God permit a severe famine. See, watch this. 879 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,480 You saw the inheritance. You didn't see the famine that 880 01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,000 was going to eat your inheritance. 881 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,360 See, sometime when God is withholding, it's because He 882 01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:05,920 sees stuff that you don't see. A severe famine occurred in that 883 01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:10,120 country, and He began to do without and be in need. 884 01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,840 Oh, that person you really wanted to be with. 885 01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:16,800 Watch this. What they fed you in the 886 01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,760 beginning, they no longer satisfy you. 887 01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:23,000 Watch out. And you've been praying God fix 888 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:25,640 this and he's like no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 889 01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,760 Now you're eating the fruit of your desire because you didn't 890 01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,600 want to wait like I asked you to. 891 01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:36,200 So now I tried to give you stillness 3 years ago, but you 892 01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,560 insisted. So I let this lead you to 893 01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:42,880 stillness because it no longer feeds you no more. 894 01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:49,840 The excitement has replenished, the joy has to play. 895 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,920 Watch this there. The attraction for them has the 896 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,880 plenished. They don't talk sweet to you 897 01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:59,680 like they used to no more. And God like I knew this day was 898 01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:02,320 going to come. But by this time now, if you 899 01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:08,720 waited on me, they would be who you I wanted them to be, or you 900 01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,720 would be where you wanted to be. Watch it. 901 01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:14,880 So he went and forced himself on one of the citizens of that 902 01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:18,800 country who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 903 01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:24,120 And he would have gladly eaten the pods that the pigs were 904 01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:25,439 eating. Watch this. 905 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:31,120 But what he was eating in that season did not satisfy his 906 01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,279 hunger. Some of y'all here you got what 907 01:08:34,279 --> 01:08:37,640 you thought you wanted, but you are not satisfied. 908 01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:44,240 The blessing of the Lord makes rich adds no sorrow. 909 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,399 But you got what you want, got the house you want. 910 01:08:49,399 --> 01:08:52,040 You got the man you want. You got the the the city you 911 01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:55,040 want you you some of y'all even thinking about man. 912 01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,479 I'm a move because they got more opportunities out there. 913 01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:01,640 OK. And God's like you can do what 914 01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:08,359 you want to do. No one was giving anything to 915 01:09:08,359 --> 01:09:11,560 him. I've been in that season where I 916 01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:18,439 know they got it, but God has said Nope, don't give it to him. 917 01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,920 I have had to make some very hard decisions when people have 918 01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:25,399 come to me in need. But I knew God showed me they 919 01:09:25,399 --> 01:09:28,000 were where they were because of rebellion. 920 01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:32,279 And God said if you bless them in this moment, the lesson that 921 01:09:32,279 --> 01:09:35,040 I am trying to teach them right this point right here, I am 922 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,680 trying to lead them to stillness. 923 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:48,800 And so now all help runs out. But when he finally came to 924 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:55,520 himself, he came to a senses, he said I am dying here of hunger 925 01:09:55,600 --> 01:10:00,760 and watch what he says. He said I am dying here of 926 01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:04,240 hunger. But he says, how many of my 927 01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:08,120 father's hired men have more than enough food? 928 01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:11,680 I decided to go take this over here. 929 01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,960 And these people that decided to be still, look at how they're 930 01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:18,560 prospering. Watch this. 931 01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:23,920 I may have more than them, I don't have the joy they have, I 932 01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,800 may have more than them, I may even be having more fun than 933 01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,080 them, but look how satisfied they are. 934 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:40,360 Next experience will jump in. And he came to himself, and that 935 01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:45,600 mean he came into himself. Watch this because stillness led 936 01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:57,560 him to revelation, not movement. God is not trying to keep you 937 01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,440 still because he is trying to keep something from you. 938 01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:06,560 He's trying to keep you still so he can get something to you. 939 01:11:09,480 --> 01:11:12,920 If you believe that, lift your hands right where you are and 940 01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:17,560 just say peace be still. Worship team, say peace be 941 01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,280 still, not worship team. You can come up but everyone say 942 01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:28,360 peace be still, peace be still. As we sing this worship song and 943 01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:33,200 respond to the Word, I challenge you to imagine yourself and make 944 01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:38,560 a decision to lay your burdens down. 945 01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:45,720 Man, it was it was stuff you could stand to your feet. 946 01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,600 It was stuff that I was thinking about over the last during this 947 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,040 fast. And it's stuff that I'm paying 948 01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:56,880 for monthly that I was like, sometimes that thing you wanted 949 01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:03,800 a while ago that you thought was so cool and now you're paying 950 01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:09,920 for it. You ever thought about selling 951 01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:14,960 it or giving it back or releasing it to somebody else? 952 01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:20,360 Right. Increase is not all about 953 01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:24,680 income. Sometimes increase is about 954 01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:31,400 release and God is challenging some of us in here today that 955 01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:35,280 you have some stuff that you've been holding that he's like, I 956 01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,520 didn't make you responsible for that. 957 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:43,000 You're just codependent. I didn't ask you to rent that. 958 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,800 I didn't ask you to buy that. I didn't ask you to go there. 959 01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:51,640 Release it. Or are you going to let that 960 01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:56,960 thing become the thing that forces you to be still? 961 01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:58,400 Lift your hands right where you are. 962 01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:09,280 I speak over you and I speak directly to your soul today, by 963 01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:16,280 the authority of Jesus Christ, by the blood of Jesus, be still. 964 01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:23,000 Be still. Be still child of God. 965 01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,760 Release it to him. Be still. 966 01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,240 Be still. He's still on the throne. 967 01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:35,080 Be still. Tell your soul. 968 01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:40,280 Be still. In a world full of chaos and 969 01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:46,400 movement, Be still. Genesis 1 showed this perfect 970 01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:51,840 picture of chaos in the world and darkness, and God was just 971 01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:56,120 still, and he spoke and there was light. 972 01:14:00,440 --> 01:14:05,520 In this first month of the year, make a decision that the battle 973 01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:16,520 was the Lord's, not yours. Thank you so much for tuning 974 01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,040 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 975 01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:22,640 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 976 01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,840 platforms. That's love quest Intl church. 977 01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,280 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 978 01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,280 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 979 01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,720 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 980 01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:35,760 But until next time, you know the drill. 981 01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,000 You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see 982 01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:39,640 y'all real soon.