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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
the Love Quest International 

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Church Podcast, where we seek to
love all nations, equip the 

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church, mobilize the equipped, 
and serve all. 

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We're super glad you're joining 
us from whenever and wherever 

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you're at in the world. 
Welcome to the family to get 

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your Bibles ready, get some 
water, get some coffee, maybe 

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some tea, and get ready to 
receive. 

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Let's get into it. 
Now, how many people understand 

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that you actually play a part 
with what flows through this 

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house? 
You play. 

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You play a part, Bible says if 
you're hungry and thirsty, you 

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shall be filled. 
So those that are in here, your 

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hunger and your thirst, your 
pull on the Word will cause God 

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to flow through this vessel to 
speak words that will activate 

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what he's trying to flow through
your life. 

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There's things that he wants to 
speak to you today. 

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But what I do realize is God is 
not speaking to everybody per 

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SE. 
He is speaking. 

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He is here to feel the hungry 
and thirsty. 

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So if you just come to see 
community get just look next to 

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you, your mission is 
accomplished. 

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But if you've come here to be 
changed and you hungry for that 

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and you want to be edified and 
you want to hear something that 

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God says, guess what? 
Lean in and just know that you 

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are good ground. 
And by the blood of Jesus, He 

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has made a way. 
The veil has been torn so we can

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come to the throne of grace 
boldly today. 

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Somebody say boldly today. 
Understand when you play with 

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the words you play with your 
life. 

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John 6 y'all forgot John 612. 
I believe it's 612. 

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I don't know. 
I just looked at it because I 

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was prompted to and then 
actually, you know what let me 

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let me let me let me find this 
real quick. 

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I promise you I got a prepared 
word, but I'm not in charge, so 

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I'm also going to. 
I want you really, really 

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quickly, really, really quickly.
We're going to end up at John 

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612. 
Go to Romans 11/5 and go to the 

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order matters. 
Go to Romans 11/5 and then go. 

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To John 612. 
And then go to Isaiah 19. 

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You got that, You got that. 
All right, go ahead. 

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Yes, Lord, So too, at the 
present time there is a what? 

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A. 
Small believing minority right 

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you, you sound like you hungry 
because you you attentive right?

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Small believing minority 
selected. 

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That's me, chosen by grace, by 
God's emeritus favor and 

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graciousness. 
There is at this time in the 

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earth. 
Go back a small there is a 

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remnant, a small believing 
minority. 

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Very specific. 
The remnant is not a small group

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of people. 
A remnant is not survivors. 

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A remnant is a small believing 
minority. 

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So if you are in this place, at 
this time, in this city, you are

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hungry, you're thirsty, you are 
after what God is after. 

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And you cannot wait to be used 
by God. 

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You cannot wait to be released 
by God. 

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You cannot wait to see what God 
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And you believe in God, then 
he's talking to you. 

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Say I'm the remnant. 
If that's you. 

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If that's you. 
If that's you, there is a 

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remnant. 
There is a remnant. 

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There is a remnant. 
There is a remnant. 

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OK, just so you can receive a 
little bit better for some. 

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This is not an offering compel. 
OK, so this is not about next 

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door. 
This is about you. 

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OK, awesome. 
Let's do it. 

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John 612 when they had all 
Hallelujah had enough. 

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This is when the miracle of 
feeding the 5000 plus it was a 

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little over 10,000, it was 5000 
men and then there was women and

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children. 
So too many to count but we can 

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count around 5000 men. 
So lots of people and two fish 5

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loaves. 
When they had all had enough, 

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they all had enough. 
What does that mean in this 

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situation? 
They all were full. 

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It wasn't time to go back into 
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getting dark. 
Everything was going to be 

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closed. 
And then God, I don't know how 

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many people shut down their 
businesses because they heard 

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Jesus was up the road, so a 
miracle was necessary because 

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they have been out all day, son,
beaten on a baseball cap and. 

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The miracle fed everybody and 
then there was these baskets and

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not only did it start with two 
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start with not enough, it ended 
with enough leftovers to fill 

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baskets. 
Somebody say leftovers. 

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I love leftovers. 
Somebody say remnants, right, If

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you get from a good southern 
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of culture you from, all grandma
and them needed was some 

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remnants. 
A little bit of his, a little 

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bit of that, and she would make 
something something real good. 

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All she needed was some 
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She'd be like, baby, tell me 
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OK, OK, bring that. 
Put that on the counter. 

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What's in the fridge? 
What we got left put. 

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OK, grab that. 
Go out in the garden, grab some 

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inn if you had that or something
like that or some whatever basil

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or whatever. 
All you needed was a remnant. 

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He says gather up now the 
fragments. 

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The broken pieces that are 
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Remember the scripture we just 
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There's a small believing 
minority that's still in the 

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earth, that still haven't fallen
away from the faith, that still 

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got integrity, that still love 
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that still love they wife, that 
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There's a small remnant left in 
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So now we see this and he says, 
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Guess what God is doing in these
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He's gathering the, the, the 
remnants, the broken pieces that

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are leftover, those that don't 
know you broken you, you've, 

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you've yelled in some areas, but
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You have some areas that are 
broken, but guess what Jesus is 

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doing? 
Watch this, watch this, watch 

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this. 
Just because you broken does not

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disqualify you from being a 
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Watch this. 
This is the broken that still 

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remains. 
Hallelujah. 

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This is the broken and still 
hopeful, the broken and still 

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faithful. 
The broken. 

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The broken but still rooted, 
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That's leftover so, so that 
nothing may be lost, he says. 

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Gather the remnant so that 
nothing may be lost. 

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I just want, I just feel like 
God wants to encourage some of 

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you, all that you've been 
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All the broken pieces that you 
have, the Lord says gather those

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so that no part of your story is
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I got some overcomers in here 
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Gather the priestess, gather the
remnants, because what's being 

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gathered is going to be a loaf 
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Your testimony is going to bless
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Your survival is going to test. 
It's going to bless somebody. 

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Come on, you still standing and 
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The devil meant it for evil, but
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Look here, neighbors say, gather
the remnants. 

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No, no, you might have counted 
it as Dong, but God says no, no,

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no, Put it in the basket. 
Put it in the basket. 

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Put it in the basket. 
I still have need of you. 

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There is glory on the remnants. 
There is a glory on the It's 

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quite frankly, the strongest 
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Those that didn't give up on 
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Even though you wavered, guess 
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You still remained last. 
Scripture. 

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Encourage yourself man. 
Watch this. 

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Except the Lord of Hosts had 
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survivors. 
Survivors. 

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We should have been like Sodom 
and we should have been like 

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Gomorrah. 
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It would have been over. 
If it wasn't for a few 

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survivors, let me tell you 
something I don't. 

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I don't know. 
I've I've gotten too many 

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stories all the way up until 
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Voicemails. 
I cannot wait to get the full 

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stories of the family. 
That had the auto Body Shop next

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door, their prayers for this 
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But let me tell you something. 
I just believe that this block, 

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this city and our church is not 
the only people with with the 

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remnant that's being gathered, 
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Without the remnant that God has
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almost left to be like Sodom and
Gomorrah. 

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But there is a remnant of 
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There is a remnant of people. 
Watch this. 

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Your family is one person away 
from being Sodom and Gomorrah, 

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but God left a remnant in your 
family, your coworkers. 

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The public school system is 1, 
just one, one person away from 

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being like Sodom and Gomorrah. 
But God has a remnant of people 

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to preserve a land. 
Come on, lift your hands and 

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say, I still believe. 
Last week we established 

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something foundational. 
We learned that stillness is not

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calm and rest is not inactivity.
Stillness is the moment that you

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and I step out of unauthorized 
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Stillness in scripture begins 
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We saw it in the storm. 
Jesus did not negotiate with the

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sea. 
He commanded it to peace. 

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Be still. 
Peace followed authority. 

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Guys. 
Stillness came before the 

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atmosphere. 
Changed. 

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We saw it in the Prodigal Son. 
The famine was not punishment, 

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it was mercy. 
When authority was resisted, God

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removed the very things that 
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God removed the very things that
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Not to punish him, but to make 
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I remember I've gotten a job 
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I got out of the fullness of my 
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See some of you are are busy and
you still love God and you still

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serve God and you said, but 
you're not in the fullness of 

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your purpose. 
And I remember, watch this. 

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I was Jonah to my own dreams. 
I got in the boat of my own 

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dreams and because I was going 
another way, my dreams start 

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sinking. 
I was living in the land of just

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enough and I was working for 
just enough instead of resting, 

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doing what I need to do and let 
God do what I'm not authorized 

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to do Hallelujah. 
Rest is the evidence that you 

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trust God to govern what you 
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That was forced stillness. 
It was forced to be still. 

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Otherwise, death by distraction.
God stopping motion. 

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We refuse to stop. 
I don't think I'm the only one 

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in here today where you just was
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What happened? 
How did how did this stop? 

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How did I get in this 
relationship that I that that 

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like brought some value to my 
life and I thought we had a 

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bright future together, but then
all of a sudden it seemingly was

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snatched away. 
Might I have been depending on 

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it in a way that God didn't mean
me to to to to depend on it? 

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Watch this. 
Did someone that I'm called to 

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disciple become a resource for 
me? 

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So now discipleship is 
compromised because now I need 

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you. 
So now you've become a business 

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partner and I can't disciple you
because you, you got leverage on

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me, right? 
But that was me trying to force 

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purpose, trying to make it 
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And it happens all the time, 
right? 

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God. 
God will dry something up 

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because the context has gotten 
twisted either by you or others 

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are too immature to see and keep
boundaries so things can move as

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designed. 
Today we move into another 

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dimension. 
It's not crises, it's not 

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famine, it's not storms. 
It's everyday discipleship. 

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It's everyday devotion. 
It's just everyday distractions.

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This is not about today. 
We're going to expose you 

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sinning. 
This is not about you doing 

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something immoral. 
This is about you doing some 

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good stuff. 
It's distraction. 

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Watch this. 
I need everybody to lean in on 

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this. 
I need everybody to lean in on 

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this because many of us do not 
resist God with rebellion. 

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We resist him with busyness. 
It's not going to pop up on the 

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screen because it's not I, I 
kept some stuff from you so you 

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can just listen. 
Watch this. 

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You're not rebelling, you're 
just busy, and your busyness is 

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resisting what God has to say. 
And you want God to speak loud 

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enough that you can hear over 
your busyness and you like, well

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God must be permitting because 
he ain't said nothing. 

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No, he's talking but you. 
He's what? 

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He's going to talk at a volume 
that causes you to lean into 

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him. 
God is not going to turn up the 

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volume volume because you have 
turned up your busy. 

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So here's the warning, you might
do it for one year, two years, 

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or three years, but there will 
come a time where you will you 

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will be forced to be still. 
Last week, Love Quest, God 

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enforced stillness, spoke to us 
about stillness, and then 

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throughout the week He dealt 
with us about awareness. 

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This week He invites you and I 
to release your grip and let the

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Holy Ghost ride the whip. 
Look at your neighbors, say 

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release your grip. 
Let the Holy Ghost ride the 

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whip. 
Yeah, there are moments you can 

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start it. 
There are moments where God does

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not stop the storm. 
Please, we've been begging God 

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to stop storms and then we get 
mad at him because he don't let 

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me help you real quick. 
This is not where I'm going, but

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just a little drop of nug. 
He didn't start the storm, you 

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did. 
So sometimes you want the storm 

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to stop. 
Guess what you should do? 

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Be still. 
Stop storming, stop storming, 

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stop storming. 
There are moments when God does 

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not stop the storm. 
He does not send the famine, 

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right? 
Because some of you are like 

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God, if you just show me, I'll 
stop. 

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If you just if, if it just 
turned bad, you don't even say 

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this. 
But you know, if something 

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happened, you'll stop. 
So you saying God punish me and 

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I'll stop. 
Why would you want to build a 

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relationship off of punishment 
that God's not going. 

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You cannot manipulate God that 
way. 

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Well, if I get sick by doing 
this, then it must mean it's 

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really time to stop. 
No, when you sick, you, you sick

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it ain't. 
It's been time to stop. 

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Now you sick because you didn't 
stop being sick. 

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Ain't a sign to stop being sick 
is. 

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It's too late to stop now you're
sick. 

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Some signs, they're not 
warnings. 

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It's fruit. 
And some fruit remains. 

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Send the famine. 
He's not going to do that and 

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he's not going to command the 
wind to stop. 

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He just letting yo some of y'all
both been rocking on the waves 

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for years and all you've done is
adjust your seat. 

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You didn't been on the front of 
the boat, you didn't been on the

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bow, you didn't been on the 
stern. 

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You didn't be you didn't bend 
all over the boat trying to find

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balance when God is inviting you
into his rhythm and it's not 

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going to work there there there.
There are moments when God is 

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not confronting rebellion made 
my eyes are open. 

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I'm like, God really just let me
do that. 

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God did not ask me to come out 
the club he didn't like Why God 

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asking you to do something you 
actually know not to do? 

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He not he's not entertaining 
that conversation right. 

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It comes a time with a child. 
If they keep on doing what you 

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asking them to do, you go like, 
OK, you just have to learn. 

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That's how I got a burn on my 
chest. 

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Hot grease poured on my chest 
when I was one years old freaked

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my Mama out and she was on the 
phone doing what Nana do and and

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you know she fried food and then
you know when you fry food, you 

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pour the grease in the cup, let 
it cool off and it. 

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She poured it in my favorite 
fruit cup, my favorite fruit 

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basket. 
So she on the phone, busy doing 

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her thing. 
I go in the kitchen and I pull 

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it down and it was still hot. 
Oh man, rush me to the hospital,

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third degree burn. 
And but guess what? 

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I ain't never like. 
I like fried chicken, but I 

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ain't never touched that grease 
again. 

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How many times she must have 
told me state Terrence, 

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Terrence. 
And then one day, OK, it wasn't 

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like she was like, OK, go ahead,
touch the grease. 

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But you going to learn one way 
or another and then you get 

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marked. 
I remember when I was so 

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insecure about the burn on my 
chest. 

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Now is it look good? 
Like it just it's a part of me. 

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It's like it's a part of me. 
Like Seal. 

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It's like, you know what I'm 
saying, but not quite. 

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Look a little better. 
It's just a little spot. 

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It's not, it's not, it's not 
going up. 

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Can you play some music right 
now, please? 

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Play some music right now. 
It's it's not no music, not 

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chimes. 
But that's the wrong spot to do 

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that. 
Amen. 

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But but I remember I remember I 
was so insecure about it. 

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I'm like, wait a minute, I'm 
it's like I got busted my head 

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right here. 
I got a scar here. 

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I got AI had chicken pox one 
time. 

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I was just picking everything 
and it just left me with it left

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me with one mark. 
My mom was like, stop picking at

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your chicken pox. 
OK, you gonna have a mark. 

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I got a mark. 
But then I learned like I'm I'm 

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I'm good, like whatever, It's a 
part of me. 

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But I remember when before I get
in the swimming pool, I used to 

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wear my shirt all the way to the
edge and I'll just be like, I'm 

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like, you know, I'm about to get
underwater. 

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I'll just stay underwater just 
like this. 

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But now it's just like, 
whatever, I'm like, I'm just 

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flowing in the wind. 
I'm just good. 

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I'm good. 
But but, but that's how many of 

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us live, though. 
Some of us are so prideful. 

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We're willing to just cover the 
scar. 

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Don't mind. 
We got the scar because we got 

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the experience. 
But you don't understand the 

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venom that that experience has 
brought into your life. 

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And while you're covering it up,
you still are dealing with the 

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trauma from not listening. 
You're still dealing with the 

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loss. 
You're still dealing with the 

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bankruptcy, you're still dealing
with the third marriage because 

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you just didn't want can. 
You just couldn't let go of 

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control. 
And then kids suffer and then 

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people suffer and, and then you 
get to old age and then you just

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regret because you cannot get 
your youth back. 

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You cannot get this time back. 
So he's not correcting 

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disobedience, guys. 
He is addressing control. 

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And that brings us to this 
mountain. 

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In First Kings 19, a hurricane 
wind ripped through the the 

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mountains, shattered the rocks 
before God. 

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But God wasn't to be found in 
the wind after the wind and 

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earthquake. 
But God wasn't in the earthquake

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and after the earthquake. 
A fire. 

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But God wasn't in the fire. 
And after the fire, a gentle 

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quiet whisper. 
When Elijah heard the quiet 

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voice, he muffled his face with 
his great cloak in reverence, 

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went to the mouth of The Cave 
and stood there. 

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A quiet voice asked. 
Watch this. 

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So, Elijah. 
Now tell me, what are you doing 

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here? 
Like Adam? 

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Adam, where are you? 
God knew what Elijah was doing 

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there, and God knew what Adam 
where he was hiding. 

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But God needs you to trace your 
steps. 

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He's asking you a question 
because transformation without 

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ownership will not remain so He 
tells you or ask you, how did 

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you get here? 
There's not one place I've been 

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in my life that I look back that
he's brought me out of and I've 

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overcome and I've conquered that
I do not. 

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I have not traced the steps. 
I know exactly how I ended up in

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that house. 
I know exactly how I ended up 

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with that girl. 
I know exactly how I ended up in

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jail. 
I know exactly why I was 

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smoking. 
Wanted to stop, didn't stop 

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smoking. 
I knew exactly why I wasn't 

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honoring my wife. 
I knew exactly why I was. 

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Talking to her any old kind of 
way, I knew exactly why I was 

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running from being a present 
father. 

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Exactly why I would quit jobs 
and get another job. 

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I knew. 
Exactly. 

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I have come to a place of 
maturity where God has asked me 

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the question and I've had to do 
the hard work, not point the 

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finger. 
Oh, my dad wasn't there. 

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Oh, I grew up in Oakland. 
Oh, I grew up in poverty. 

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Oh, she shouldn't have talked to
me that way. 

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Her, him, her, her, her, her, 
him him him. 

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And I finally realized that all 
them footsteps was mines. 

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My response is my 
responsibility. 

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So how long you going to blame 
your childhood? 

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How long you going to blame 
mental illness? 

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How long you going to blame how 
you was raised? 

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Was it raised? 
How you going? 

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How long you going to blame 
trauma? 

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How long you going to blame 
Canada? 

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How long you going to blame a 
diagnosis the doctor gave you? 

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How long are you going to blame 
the church? 

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How long are you going to blame 
the distance? 

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How long are you going to blame?
How long are you going to blame 

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the wavering? 
How long are you going to blame 

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the anger? 
How long are you going to blame 

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getting whooped when you was 
little or beat when you was? 

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How long are you going to blame 
your husband? 

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How long are you going to blame 
your wife? 

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How how long are you going to 
blame not realizing you are not 

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enjoying something you chose to 
be in? 

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You watch this. 
No one gets to determine the 

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outcome from the beginning. 
This is why you got to count the

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cost, This is why his death do 
his part. 

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This is why covenant is 
important, and This is why 

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obeying God because you do you 
know, who knows what's going to 

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happen 20 years from now in this
relationship? 

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God does. 
He's all knowing. 

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So watch this. 
So to not confide in God for a 

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distance of time is absolute 
foolishness. 

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To get in any relationship, 
especially in the name of love, 

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and not get counsel from the 
Holy Ghost and let Him lead you.

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Now you got to trace your 
footsteps and say what got me in

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this relationship? 
What got me starting this 

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business? 
What got me, Was it fear? 

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Did I think I wasn't enough? 
Did I get into a season where I 

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was exhausted of singleness or I
was exhausted from doing 

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business by myself? 
I was exhausted from trauma and 

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I made some decisions thinking 
partnership. 

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Would solve brokenness. 
God knew exactly how Elijah got 

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there, but he needed Elijah to 
be awakened to why he got there.

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Elijah said, watch this. 
I've been working my heart out 

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for God, my heart out for 
family, my heart. 

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I've been working, I've been 
working, working, working, 

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working, working. 
And the God of Angel armies, 

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because the people of Israel, 
here you go pointing, but the 

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people of Israel didn't get them
in The Cave. 

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Leading the people of Israel got
them exhausted. 

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It is what he did or didn't do 
in his exhaustion that got him 

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in The Cave, destroyed your 
places of worship and murdered 

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your prophets. 
I'm the only one left, and now 

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they're trying to kill me. 
Brother, you not the only one 

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left, You not the only one that 
could do the job. 

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You're not the only one that can
run your business. 

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You're not the only one. 
If I don't go do this, ain't 

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nobody going to do it. 
You're not the only one in 

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nothing. 
God got plenty of people right 

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and that's a syndrome. 
When you think you don't only 

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one, that's that's the problem. 
Watch this. 

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Here it is. 
We need to hear this, especially

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our men, but all of us. 
No man is greater than his 

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prayer life. 
You don't got a prayer life. 

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You're going to end up in the 
pig pen sometime soon. 

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No man is greater than his 
prayer life. 

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Watch this God is saying this to
this man, Elijah, this prophet, 

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this mighty man of God, you. 
Did not arrive here by 

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obedience. 
You didn't get to this cave. 

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I didn't be. 
I didn't lead you to this cave. 

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You arrived by overload. 
Your life got so consumed you. 

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You didn't plan to be this. 
But nobody planned to be this 

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busy. 
But you got to be able to see if

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I do this, then that's going to 
lead to that, the potential of 

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it. 
And then be honest with your 

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motives. 
I'm doing this because I want 

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this to be big. 
I'm doing this because I want it

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to be successful. 
But a lot of times we make 

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commitments at the lowest form 
of what we hope and now we're 

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working against ourselves 
because I actually can't handle 

457
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,760
if it grow, but I want it to 
grow. 

458
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:46,080
So the best thing to do is allow
God to grow you and it at his 

459
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:52,440
pace. 
Elijah fought for God publicly 

460
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,000
without resting in God 
privately. 

461
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,040
He fought for God. 
He did ministry. 

462
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,800
He loved his wife. 
He he but, but privately, he 

463
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:09,000
didn't rest in God. 
To the public he was successful.

464
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,720
Oh, wow, look at what God's 
doing through your hands. 

465
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:17,200
No, look at what God's doing for
God for his name's sake. 

466
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,640
And the worst thing is that you 
can be successful to the public 

467
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,560
and look like you got it all 
together, but in the private God

468
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:35,120
is not pleased. 
God slowed him down to save his 

469
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,800
life. 
I thank God, I thank God for 

470
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,920
slowing me down. 
I thank God for pressing pause 

471
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,120
in areas of my life. 
I thank God for certain losses. 

472
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,360
Because if it if I was 
successful at that one thing or 

473
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,360
if I stayed in that one thing, 
it would have took me somewhere.

474
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,320
Watch this shut doors guide you 
as much if not more than open 

475
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,920
doors open. 
Doors can be deceitful to the to

476
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:05,440
the immature right Them closed 
doors is what shape you right 

477
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,000
you, you, you you play who my 
son, he's shooting, he's 

478
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,320
shooting 500. 
He's shooting shots and shots 

479
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,920
and shots. 
And when we working out, I'm 

480
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,920
like, bro, that miss is a Rep. 
You mad it didn't go in. 

481
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,000
You should be excited. 
You got the Rep up because it's 

482
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,360
the reps that align you for game
time because the game winner you

483
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,200
see Kobe make, how many did he 
miss in that same spot? 

484
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,320
So is it worth missing 1000 in 
private? 

485
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,640
Is it worth being with God alone
in private and he expose you 

486
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,080
versus parading through life and
getting the fame and approval of

487
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,920
others. 
And then God say, OK, I'm gonna 

488
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,720
let them be your Lord. 
And he like where you go, Oh, 

489
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,920
that's drought season. 
God had to. 

490
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:03,240
Allow removal of the thing that 
allowed you to keep running. 

491
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,280
Yeah. 
God, thank you. 

492
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,920
Thank you for snatching that old
booger bear out of my life. 

493
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,480
Well, I was like, I was trying 
to hold on the booger bear and 

494
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,960
I'm like, all of a sudden she 
was gone. 

495
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,440
And I chased her for a little 
while, and then I was like, 

496
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,040
booger bear is bad for me. 
I was smoking. 

497
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,720
Weed with booger bear. 
I was doing it. 

498
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,640
She wasn't reinforcing Jesus to 
me. 

499
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:29,840
Like no, but I was hurt, I was 
hurt and I was like, praise God,

500
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,640
folks will walk out your life 
and you like no, because you got

501
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,040
rejection issues, but you see 
the hand of God like no, you was

502
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,880
actually in that you was 
allowing me to ignore what God 

503
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,880
was trying to do in my life. 
Thank God for the pause. 

504
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,280
Thank God for the droughts. 
Thank God that when I needed the

505
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,920
money, it didn't come right away
because it caused me to learn 

506
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,640
some things about myself. 
It caused me to lean on God in a

507
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,280
different way. 
If it would have came too soon, 

508
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,880
I wouldn't have learned how to 
depend on God without the money.

509
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,720
Now I know how to depend on God.
Like Paul said, whether it's 

510
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,120
good, I'm good. 
If it's bad, I'm I could like 

511
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:09,880
it. 
Don't matter. 

512
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,120
I am not moved by provision. 
I'm not moved by God vision. 

513
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,480
I'm not. 
I'm not moved by none of it. 

514
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,639
And that's where God's trying to
get some of you. 

515
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,159
You are too moved by if things 
working, if it ain't working 

516
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,199
even in my marriage, OK. 
If if I'm in a good mood, my 

517
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,840
wife ain't in a good mood. 
Hey, babe, how you doing this? 

518
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,280
Yeah. 
I don't want to talk to you. 

519
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:30,800
OK, I'm not going to talk to 
you. 

520
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,040
But I'm not about to give you my
joy today and vice versa. 

521
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,080
We both, we watch this. 
We have also given each other 

522
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,760
permission. 
So if my wife is like, oh, you 

523
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,320
crappy today, I'm gonna leave 
you alone. 

524
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,360
I have to also give her 
permission to leave me alone. 

525
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,800
Immaturity is like, no, you can 
if you leave me alone. 

526
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:01,880
You contributed to my funkiness,
so it's this manipulative game 

527
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,440
because I want you here, but I 
don't know how to get rid of my 

528
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,320
funky. 
So I give her watch this. 

529
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,240
I give her permission to create 
boundaries that protect her 

530
00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:14,000
piece. 
So I'm not going to ask her to 

531
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,120
come to my side of funky because
I want funky and I want her. 

532
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:26,280
I'm talking at least two people.
Two people, two people. 

533
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,400
There's two. 
Exhaustion. 

534
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,560
Exhaustion will also always 
exhaustion will always distort 

535
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,800
perception. 
I've made some terrible 

536
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,120
decisions simply not because I 
was insane, not because watch 

537
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,680
this, not because it was a bad 
idea. 

538
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,560
I was exhausted. 
Have you ever went on an 

539
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,720
exhausted date? 
No, no, just everybody picked 

540
00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:02,000
right the first time. 
You just like you. 

541
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,440
You never went out with somebody
because you was tired of looking

542
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,880
and it was just like, well, this
person want to hang out, so 

543
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,360
let's go hang out. 
They kind of cute, so whatever 

544
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,840
it don't it wouldn't hurt to 
have some ramen with them. 

545
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,040
Yeah, yeah. 
That was an exhausted date. 

546
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,080
That was an exhausted date. 
You ever make an exhausted 

547
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,960
business decision and then you 
came to your mind, you like, why

548
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,880
did I just do that? 
You ever have kids and they 

549
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,800
wearing you out and they want 
something in the store and you 

550
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,160
like, just go ahead, get it. 
Go ahead, get it. 

551
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,800
Go and play the video game. 
Go on. 

552
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,880
Go ahead. 
Yeah. 

553
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,960
Exhaustion always distort 
perception. 

554
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,520
He was exhausted. 
The Bible says if you look up in

555
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:52,200
the right corner, he fell asleep
under the loan broom Bush. 

556
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,640
He was exhausted. 
He was running. 

557
00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,760
He had just watched this. 
He ran after victory, he fainted

558
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:07,480
after breakthrough. 
Watch this some of y'all think 

559
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,760
you won't breakthrough but you 
not ready for the warfare that 

560
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:15,480
comes with the breakthrough. 
Now he gets a letter from 

561
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,160
Jezebel saying I'm about to kill
you. 

562
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:25,280
He runs along the way God feeds 
him and strengthens him. 

563
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,880
Watch this. 
Don't get it twisted because 

564
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,320
God's still providing and you're
going the wrong way. 

565
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:40,000
He's a good, good father, so 
he's going to provide so many 

566
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,920
times we've like God broke me 
through. 

567
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,560
No God provided He's. 
Going to get kicked out your 

568
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:45,760
house. 
He was going to be starving. 

569
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:51,440
God is committed, but them steps
he didn't order. 

570
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,000
He ordered you some food, but 
not them steps. 

571
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,720
Jesus Christ, you better get it.
We have made God a God that only

572
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:12,480
provides if we do what he say. 
I'm a good parent and I don't 

573
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,720
even do that. 
The extra stuff, sure, he's a 

574
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:24,920
better. 
Father than me, he provides even

575
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,920
when you're rebelling. 
Oh, think back in some of your 

576
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:35,160
nasty days and you like, wait a 
minute, I was still kind of 

577
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,280
blessed there. 
Yeah, he provided. 

578
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,120
God was not absent from the 
storm. 

579
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,080
He was just refusing to be known
through the storm. 

580
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,680
God refusing to be reduced to 
spectacle. 

581
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,640
People that need to see signs 
and wonders in order to know 

582
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:11,280
that he is with them. 
God was correcting his 

583
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,560
expectation rather than 
withholding power. 

584
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,760
Power does not always announce 
itself with noise. 

585
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,800
Silence wasn't the lesson. 
Better yet, discernment was the 

586
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,680
lesson. 
Elijah had to learn how to 

587
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:32,480
discern God without drama. 
He's used to fire. 

588
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,040
He's used to earthquakes. 
He's used to God doing the MARAC

589
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,160
like crazy stuff. 
And God said no, we're going to 

590
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,120
a new level. 
So I have a new lesson. 

591
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:47,920
You're not going to continue to 
know me moving in your life the 

592
00:39:47,920 --> 00:40:01,870
same way I used to. 
God did not move Elijah out of 

593
00:40:01,870 --> 00:40:05,230
the circumstance. 
He just adjusted his perception.

594
00:40:07,070 --> 00:40:09,990
Sometimes God will not change 
our circumstances. 

595
00:40:10,510 --> 00:40:13,630
He changes who we're listening 
for. 

596
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:22,860
God does not correct him 
immediately. 

597
00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:29,840
He recalibrates his perception. 
First we want to get out the 

598
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,680
storm. 
When the storm is the project, 

599
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:38,000
it's the Lesson plan. 
Oh, the storm is the Lesson 

600
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,160
plan. 
The storm is the Lesson plan. 

601
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,000
Watch this. 
He he turns everything for what?

602
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,840
So even that joker you chose, he
like great. 

603
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:57,480
I didn't plan this for you, but 
Lesson plan, Watch, watch this. 

604
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,560
His purpose is to mold you like 
to be like him. 

605
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,040
So you can let him choose the 
Lesson plan or you could choose 

606
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,240
the Lesson plan, but he works 
everything together for good. 

607
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,840
And I've given God some lesson 
plans that I'm like, Nah, why 

608
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,520
did I? 
I didn't even want to go to my 

609
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:17,360
own class. 
Yeah, not when I'm the 

610
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,240
assignment. 
Like, I don't want that class. 

611
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:22,400
I don't want that class. 
Now, I got to sit in this class 

612
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,920
for a semester, and no, no, no, 
no, no, no, no, no. 

613
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:33,080
And we said it a while ago. 
There's already planned testings

614
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,000
for your life. 
Stop adding extra homework. 

615
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,840
All right, We're going to go 
through this really quickly. 

616
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,800
I want to get to a couple of 
young ladies you've heard about 

617
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,120
before. 
You can listen to this. 

618
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,480
I went over this this morning, 
but I wanted to do a little 

619
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:02,000
review, but I could park here 
all day and I don't want to do 

620
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,120
that. 
So I'm about to throw it in, 

621
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,760
drive and move forward. 
And if you really want to get 

622
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,000
this section of the word, you 
can start listening to it 

623
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:19,360
tomorrow. 
From the first experience last 

624
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,440
Sunday, you heard about Peace be
still. 

625
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,200
Stillness is governance and 
unity of heart, not emotional 

626
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,480
calm. 
Stillness is not self-discipline

627
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,480
per SE. 
So it's not me doing less. 

628
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:39,320
It is me being aware of who's in
charge and letting him be a man 

629
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,080
and Hallelujah. 
I feel like I'm in a room where 

630
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,520
there's some folks may not think
that they don't got no control 

631
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:50,200
issues and I'm I know I'm not in
here in a room where God is in 

632
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:56,160
control of everybody's life. 
I know that for a fact this will

633
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,840
be one of the greatest lessons 
you can learn this year because 

634
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:06,160
this reveal stillness reveals if
you really trust God, you want 

635
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:10,800
the Holy Spirit to comfort and 
calm the storm and he was sent 

636
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,640
to you to confront and cause 
reform. 

637
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,240
Stillness begins when you 
release the rains of the Spirit,

638
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:29,320
now by might, not by power, but 
by His Spirit God Zechariah 4 In

639
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:36,680
your own time, study it. 
Stillness is spirit dependence. 

640
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:42,520
Spirit dependence, Those that 
are led by the Spirit are what? 

641
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,440
Sons of God. 
I know I'm a son, I'm a son, I'm

642
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,400
a son. 
Can anybody said I'm a son 

643
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,360
because I'm LED? 
I'm a son not because I'm a 

644
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,880
Christian, but I'm led by the 
life of the Spirit. 

645
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,080
You cannot produce stillness 
while governing yourself. 

646
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,720
Stillness is where the Spirit 
fixes our focus. 

647
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:12,800
He fixes our focus stillness. 
Is where the Spirit fixes our 

648
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,840
focus. 
I've come to understand that it 

649
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,320
will be hard to be still without
the Holy Spirit helping you be 

650
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,400
still. 
Because being still is not like 

651
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:28,280
we try to make kids be still. 
Being still is about governance.

652
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,360
It's about who's in charge. 
It's about taking your hand off 

653
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,840
the whip, off the wheel and let 
the Lord drive. 

654
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,280
Luke 10. 
Yes. 

655
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,680
Luke 10. 
I'll wait till they pull it up. 

656
00:44:50,240 --> 00:45:02,840
Luke 10 As they continued their 
travel, Jesus entered a village.

657
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,720
A woman by the name of Martha 
welcomed him. 

658
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:14,160
And made him feel quite at home.
Look at Martha, she made Jesus 

659
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,880
feel quite at home. 
Not just feel at home, but quite

660
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:24,560
at home. 
She had a sister, Mary, who sat 

661
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,960
before the Master, hanging on 
every word. 

662
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,360
He said. 
So who's the 2 characters here? 

663
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:35,960
Martha. 
Mary. 

664
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:43,080
Mary Martha, who's the main 
character in this script Look, 

665
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:48,200
he's so cute. 
Jesus, you guys are so cute. 

666
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,440
Oh my God, Jesus, you so proud 
of yourself too. 

667
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:58,640
He's like Jesus, that is too 
funny. 

668
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:08,800
Watch this Mary was. 
Sitting at Jesus feet, Martha 

669
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:15,480
welcomed Jesus into the house 
and made him feel quite at home.

670
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,080
I just got, I don't know why I 
get a certain picture of of her 

671
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,880
when Jesus walked through the 
door and how she made him quite 

672
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,000
at home. 
But she made Jesus feel so at 

673
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,680
home. 
It made the scriptures. 

674
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,760
He felt so welcome. 
He felt like watch this. 

675
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,960
Jesus found a place he could 
rest. 

676
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,760
Now watch the tension though Now
Jesus found a place he can rest,

677
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,000
so I'm assuming he's sitting 
down on the couch. 

678
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:51,880
And then Mary sat before the 
Master, hanging on every word he

679
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,880
said. 
See, watch this. 

680
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,000
This is what I believe. 
Spirit filled people who really 

681
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,240
bought that business. 
Don't just share Jesus at 

682
00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:07,240
church. 
Like he just chilling and he 

683
00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:14,200
must be saying something so 
quality that she is sitting to 

684
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,400
hear everything that's coming 
out of his mouth because he's 

685
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,760
not wasting any words. 
But Martha was pulled away by 

686
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,680
all she had to do. 
Now watch this. 

687
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,840
Who's Martha? 
I just go on here and say it. 

688
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,800
Don't be scared. 
Come on, marry sister. 

689
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:35,560
OK, you watch it. 
I only want to look at some of 

690
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:36,960
y'all y'all. 
Like you tell me. 

691
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:43,080
You tell me. 
I just read it, Huh? 

692
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,920
That that's just a test. 
It means that means that it's 

693
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,760
not sticking. 
So we got to start over, not 

694
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,840
from the top of the sermon, but 
just at the top of this. 

695
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,440
Go, go, go back. 
It's very important. 

696
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,960
I said it this morning. 
Many of us need to read our 

697
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:06,520
word, not like our app, like 
study, sit with Jesus, take our 

698
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,880
time. 
Some folks trying to read a book

699
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,840
of the Bible a day, man, if you 
don't sit down and read one 

700
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,040
verse, just one verse, guess 
what? 

701
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,960
Jesus is in Genesis and he's in 
James. 

702
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:26,800
Like read one verse and and and 
if you can take apart one verse 

703
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,800
and then and then zoom out and 
get contacts, man, I'm telling 

704
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,720
you. 
And then go research words and 

705
00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:36,800
Hebrew and Greek and get 
definitions and Herman 

706
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,400
hermeneutics and and exegetic 
and expository. 

707
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,240
And then by the time you 
finished that man, you would 

708
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:44,320
have been. 
Sitting there for 4-5 six hours 

709
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,200
on like 3 verses. 
You over here trying to I read 

710
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:49,040
Genesis. 
No, you. 

711
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,400
And you listen to Genesis while 
you texting. 

712
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:54,560
Amen. 
All right. 

713
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,200
Whoever that's foe hungry and 
thirsty, hungry and thirsty, 

714
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,960
hungry and thirsty as they 
continued their travel Jesus 

715
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:07,720
into the village and a woman a 
woman by the name of Nice 

716
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:11,560
welcomed him and you guys going 
to like this part and made him 

717
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,720
feel she. 
I could tell people are good 

718
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:21,000
readers in here. 
You said quite at home she had a

719
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,920
sister. 
What was her name who sat before

720
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:33,200
the master hanging on every word
he said some people was like we 

721
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:37,720
only supposed to read that was 
underlined PT yes every word he 

722
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:45,080
said next verse next verse. 
Watch this but Martha was pulled

723
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,920
away by all she had to do. 
Who's who's the two young ladies

724
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,760
here? 
Martha, Mary, Mary. 

725
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,600
Martha. 
Who's the main character here? 

726
00:49:54,600 --> 00:50:00,480
You're so cute to me. 
I think we got some children's 

727
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,840
ministry workers in here. 
I'm telling you, I hear them. 

728
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,880
I hear them. 
I hear them. 

729
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:09,920
Some teachers in here. 
But Martha, Martha, Martha was 

730
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,640
pulled away. 
Now, who was Martha in the first

731
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,080
couple scriptures? 
Who was Martha? 

732
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,320
I marry sister, The one that 
made them feel quite at home. 

733
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:22,640
She made him. 
Watch this. 

734
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,640
She's serving Jesus. 
She is serving Jesus. 

735
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,240
Watch this. 
Both people are serving Jesus. 

736
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:40,720
One is serving him by hosting 
him and making and making sure 

737
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:47,040
he has his needs. 
Water comfy seed he served 

738
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:54,360
attended to another one is 
hosting his presence and his 

739
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,520
anointing and she's hanging or 
watch this you didn't think 

740
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:04,640
receiving was serving. 
Let me tell you something that 

741
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,720
makes me more happy when I go to
to to deliver something to my 

742
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:12,560
children and they give me back 
the the greatest attentive 

743
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,480
gratitude focus. 
They served me well. 

744
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:28,400
Receiving and sewing is acts of 
service, but Martha was pulled 

745
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,720
away by. 
All she had to do, all she had 

746
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:33,440
to do. 
Remember, Elijah had. 

747
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:37,840
He was the only one doing all. 
He had all the work for Jesus. 

748
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:43,040
And here go Martha way later, 
doing all the work for Jesus in 

749
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,920
the kitchen later. 
She stepped in. 

750
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Who is she stepped in? 
Sure. 

751
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,200
In interrupting them, Who is she
interrupting? 

752
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,040
Jesus and Mary and Mary and 
Jesus. 

753
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:08,280
Master, don't you care that my 
sister has abandoned the kitchen

754
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:16,040
to me? 
We can go so many ways we can 

755
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,440
deal with leadership right now. 
We can deal with all kinds of 

756
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,600
stuff right now. 
Right now we just dealing with 

757
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,800
stillness right now. 
We can deal with all jealousy 

758
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,840
and we could deal with we could 
deal with wrong motives for 

759
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,640
serving. 
We could deal with all kinds of 

760
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:33,240
stuff. 
Both people serving Jesus right?

761
00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:35,440
You know the folks be like I 
don't want to serve because I'm 

762
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:43,360
a miss the word, but both people
serving Jesus right tell tell. 

763
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:51,320
Her Jesus, she she's snitching. 
She like she just, I'm like tell

764
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:56,120
her to lead me, lend me a hand. 
Tell her to lend me a hand. 

765
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,440
Tell her to lend me a hand. 
I love Jesus. 

766
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:03,360
He always gives right answers 
when he is in the middle of 

767
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:09,760
stuff. 
Tell her to lend me a hand next,

768
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,200
the master said to Martha. 
Wait, did he? 

769
00:53:15,240 --> 00:53:18,400
She said. 
Martha said tell Mary Jesus 

770
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:23,680
responds to who? 
So all the Martha's listen. 

771
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,920
I got a feeling we got more 
Martha's than we got Mary's. 

772
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,560
Amen. 
Amen, Martha. 

773
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:40,400
Dear Martha, you're fussing far 
too much and getting yourself 

774
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,320
worked up over nothing. 
Don't don't you hate it when 

775
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,800
people don't agree with you and 
they won't go do what they don't

776
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,920
want to do The Dirty work, but 
they're there. 

777
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,480
Here's the kind of people you 
need in your life that will 

778
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:59,320
reframe your mindset. 
What you want is a Jesus that's 

779
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,640
going to go tell them. 
Yeah, Martha, you just sitting 

780
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,880
here staring at me while I'm 
talking and I feel weird right 

781
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,640
now. 
You need to go help your sister 

782
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,920
because. 
Because right in the Kingdom, 

783
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,640
the, the, the, the, the greatest
is a servant. 

784
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:21,080
That's what he said. 
The one that's serving, he 

785
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:26,240
corrects her and says one thing 
only is essential. 

786
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,040
So what we talking about right 
now? 

787
00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:30,440
Essential. 
Watch this. 

788
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,360
If the speakers was upside down,
guess what that ain't essential.

789
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,720
If the music is too loud, guess 
what that ain't. 

790
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,560
And the body of Christ is in 
division all over stuff that 

791
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,120
ain't essential, right? 
I get it. 

792
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,760
You. 
Oh, why you dressed like that? 

793
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,440
Is that essential? 
Is the word of God coming out my

794
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,920
mouth? 
Oh, service is long. 

795
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,360
Is that essential? 
Are we preaching Jesus? 

796
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,120
Are we pursuing Jesus? 
What does the fruit say? 

797
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,920
One thing and only is essential.
Why you over here getting upset 

798
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:12,760
because you chose to do what you
doing now you resentful because 

799
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:19,840
somebody else know how to? 
Rest and Mary has chosen. 

800
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,760
Watch it. 
It is only one thing that's 

801
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,600
essential, and Mary has chosen 
it. 

802
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,040
It's the main course. 
What Mary is doing is the main 

803
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:29,480
course. 
It's the main thing. 

804
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,880
It's the main thing. 
In other words, if you don't get

805
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,760
this part, it don't matter how, 
how, how well you hosted me. 

806
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,320
It don't matter how well your 
worship was. 

807
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:42,200
It don't matter how how long you
was at the altar on your face. 

808
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,040
It don't matter how many 
goosebumps you got if you don't 

809
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:49,440
got the essentials, if you don't
got the one thing, if you don't 

810
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,600
got the main course and won't be
taken from her. 

811
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,040
It won't be taken from her. 
It can't be taken from her. 

812
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,920
It won't be and it can't be. 
Watch this, the master said 

813
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,840
Martha, dear Martha, you're 
fussing. 

814
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:05,760
And then he goes forward. 
Watch this. 

815
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,200
And he corrects her and watch 
this. 

816
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,080
You guys, Martha's activity is 
not rebuked. 

817
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:21,120
You notice what was. 
Rebuked her focus no I'm here 

818
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:25,640
today to let you know stillness 
ain't less activity so so you 

819
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:29,280
might hear so cuz you walk away 
last week and you like Dang God 

820
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,400
what would you have of me to lie
down at the. 

821
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:37,840
Altar, Where's the Lord? 
I lay it all down. 

822
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,760
He's like, OK, first of all, you
ain't really laying it down. 

823
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,600
Martha's activity is not 
rebuked. 

824
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:51,400
This should set somebody free. 
God, watch this because there's 

825
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,520
plenty of people in the Bible 
that was busier than all of us. 

826
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:02,960
You think you busy? 
Martha's activity isn't rebuked,

827
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,160
it's the focus that's off 
center. 

828
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:14,360
So he rebukes her focus. 
The truth of the matter is, 

829
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:18,640
guys, there's people who God is 
graced with the capacity to do 

830
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:26,520
multiple things. 
Mary's, I love this. 

831
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:31,120
Mary's stillness isn't laziness,
it's attentiveness. 

832
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,480
Come on, come on, come on. 
Walk with me, guys. 

833
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,600
Walk with me. 
Mary's stillness isn't laziness,

834
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,440
it's stillness. 
I mean, it's attentiveness. 

835
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,520
Oh, I love this. 
Stillness is maintained by 

836
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,320
fixation. 
Those that fix their eyes on 

837
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:56,160
here. 
Stillness is maintained by 

838
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,320
fixation. 
The Bible tells us if we keep 

839
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,680
our eyes fixed on Him, He'll 
keep us still. 

840
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,720
Yeah, we've been listening. 
We see. 

841
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:12,240
See, I love the intercession of 
Jesus because he didn't let 

842
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:17,680
Martha's complaining jump on 
Mary's discipline to stay fixed 

843
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:22,160
on Jesus. 
When the wind blows, guess what 

844
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,760
happens? 
God's using the wind to get you 

845
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,680
fixed. 
The complainers is using the 

846
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:35,800
wind to get you off center. 
Stillness is maintained by 

847
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:37,680
fixation. 
Isaiah 26. 

848
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:44,160
You will guard him and keep him 
in perfect and constant peace. 

849
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:49,480
Whose mind both his inclination 
and it's character is stayed. 

850
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:54,080
Somebody say stay stay. 
Didn't didn't Jodeci have a song

851
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,880
called Stay? 
No, no, somebody don't even know

852
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,800
what Jodeci is that. 
Y'all think that's a cough 

853
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,120
medicine or something? 
All right, I'm sorry. 

854
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:03,800
I got distracted. 
I got distracted. 

855
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,840
Inclination and its character is
stayed on. 

856
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:14,480
You stayed on, you stayed on. 
You stayed on uninterrupted. 

857
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,720
For how long can you stay 
focused? 

858
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:21,120
On man, it's so many people, 
man. 

859
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:24,960
Sure you was locked in for a 
while, but can you? 

860
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,320
Can you backtrack your steps and
see where offense came? 

861
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:32,720
A wavering or fatigue or tired? 
Where did it creep? 

862
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,240
How was you so strong in this 
season? 

863
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,440
And then all of a sudden now you
doubting if you want to be where

864
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,360
God called you, if you want to 
do what God called you to do. 

865
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,600
Now it's it's it's it's you 
second guessing it. 

866
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,040
Yeah, guess what probably 
happened. 

867
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,080
You stopped. 
You took your eyes off of him 

868
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,760
and you start listening to the 
noise. 

869
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,960
You start listening to the fire,
you start listening to the 

870
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:57,880
earthquake, you start listening 
to the wind. 

871
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,840
And God said in this season, I'm
going to let all the noise 

872
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,560
surround you. 
But where I'm at is I am going 

873
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:10,600
to be in the quiet. 
Watch this God was around the 

874
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:14,200
drama. 
He only spoke in the quiet. 

875
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,280
Watch this, God was around the 
drama. 

876
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:25,600
He was in it. 
But He spoke over here because 

877
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:30,720
it has been a season where he is
retraining you how to or 

878
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,200
introducing a new form of 
communication with him. 

879
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,320
Watch this Intimacy with God is 
supposed to elevate. 

880
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,520
As my children get older, our 
conversations evolve. 

881
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:43,520
Talk. 
To me, somebody. 

882
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,160
You know, sometime Nana, if you 
watching Nana, I love you, but 

883
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:52,240
sometime Nana to today walk in 
the house to to to to to 20 year

884
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:56,520
old Malia and 18 year old 
Malachi and 11 year old Micah 

885
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:59,320
and say, how about Nana's 
bananas doing come here, give 

886
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,040
Nana's bananas or kids give 
Nanas. 

887
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,800
No, no, no, no, no, she is 20. 
She's not Nana's bananas no 

888
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,520
more, right? 
At least say it with a little 

889
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,160
right? 
It's just like, man, how my 

890
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:11,880
Nana's banana's doing? 
Come here. 

891
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:13,680
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 
No. 

892
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,440
Hey, how you doing, Malia? 
Good to see you. 

893
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:17,680
Nana's bananas. 
Come, give. 

894
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:18,840
Come. 
Give your grandma. 

895
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,160
Give bananas a bananas a kiss. 
I love you. 

896
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:25,720
Look at you, girl. 
You all growing up, right? 

897
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,440
Our conversations evolved. 
Now we talking about certain 

898
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,720
things that we couldn't we 
couldn't talk about. 

899
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,640
Watch this. 
We didn't talk about certain 

900
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:34,760
things just because they were 
young. 

901
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,000
We didn't talk about them 
because they didn't have the 

902
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,920
capacity to hold the 
conversation. 

903
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:46,000
I will talk to a young person 
about sex if they have the 

904
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:53,000
capacity to hold the 
conversation, right, right. 

905
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,400
Do you like our young people 
need and and this this thing 

906
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,720
like they can't sit in church. 
What how they sit in class 

907
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,040
without the Holy Spirit 
orchestrate in the classroom. 

908
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:12,120
Stop you fooling Why? 
Right, right, right. 

909
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,000
They can't know. 
We got to play, play, play. 

910
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:19,680
No, no, no, no, we got to teach 
them young about the Holy Ghost.

911
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,720
The bet the quicker they know 
about the Holy Ghost. 

912
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,440
See, when you older and learn 
about the Holy Ghost, you still 

913
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:30,160
you got control issues, so you 
got you got to lodge, you got to

914
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,520
filter Holy Ghost through. 
But when you learn as a young 

915
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:36,560
kids, kids are more like how God
want us to be with his Spirit 

916
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:43,200
than us, us adults. 
You'll see kids randomly walk up

917
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,920
here, run from their parents and
lift their hands and just look. 

918
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,880
And then there's adults back 
there where God is pulling on 

919
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:55,880
them and they just stuck. 
Because God is trying to, he got

920
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,360
to get through all of this hurt 
and all of this trauma and all 

921
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,800
this reasoning and all it is 
crap. 

922
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,200
All it is fear, all it is 
timidity. 

923
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:12,960
But little kid is just like, 
hey, no boundaries stay fixed 

924
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:18,640
because he commits himself to 
you, leans on you and hopes 

925
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:19,840
confidently you. 
I love. 

926
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:26,240
This at the top he will take. 
It upon himself to guard, 

927
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:32,400
protect, Garrison and keep 
diligently. 

928
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:41,440
Keep him in perfect so he has a 
responsibility for my peace and 

929
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:44,160
my stillness. 
Watch this. 

930
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:50,200
But my part, Here's my part, 
Here's my part, your part. 

931
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:55,480
Stay fixed. 
So you mean to tell me that my 

932
01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:01,760
hardest test is going to be stay
focused on him, what he said, 

933
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,720
what he called me to do? 
And then you mean he going to do

934
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:11,240
the other side of that? 
The fruit of fixation is going 

935
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:14,800
to be peace that transcends all 
understanding, because I can't 

936
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,960
produce peace that transcends 
all understanding. 

937
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:21,200
Let me help somebody. 
You cannot produce this. 

938
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:29,120
He said stay fixed on me and 
I'll assure sometime that mean 

939
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:32,080
because you stay fixed on me, 
I'm moving people out your life 

940
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,480
sometime because you stay fixed 
on me. 

941
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:41,800
I'm closing doors that you watch
this like Noah didn't have the 

942
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,080
strength to close the door on 
his neighbors and the rest his 

943
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,240
family. 
So God had to shut the door. 

944
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,640
But when you stay fixed on me, 
there's things that you don't 

945
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,840
have the strength or capacity to
do and I have to do it because 

946
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,720
it's for my namesake. 
What if I told you this week? 

947
01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:03,480
Your main job is to stay fixed 
on Him. 

948
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:11,640
Sounds simple, but busy is 
competing with your fixation on 

949
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:15,040
Jesus. 
So it's time to lock in. 

950
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,800
Somebody Say lock in one more 
time. 

951
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:22,080
Say lock in stillness is 
sustained by what the mind is 

952
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:25,600
fixed on, not by how much life 
slows down. 

953
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,600
Yeah, say like, you can write it
down. 

954
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,680
You can. 
Stillness is sustained by what 

955
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:49,120
the mind is fixed on, not by how
much life slows down. 

956
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,400
Get this. 
It's hard to be still constantly

957
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:05,760
focused on moving targets. 
It's hard to be still constantly

958
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:10,280
focused on things that's forever
changing. 

959
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:16,200
That's why he's called the Rock 
Firm Foundation. 

960
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:23,280
You fix your life on his word 
that stays the same yesterday, 

961
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,120
today, and forevermore. 
Guess what happens? 

962
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:27,040
You can't be moved. 
Why? 

963
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,440
Because he can't be moved. 
But when you're constantly fixed

964
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:33,480
on things, that will change. 
The market will change, Friends 

965
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,280
will change. 
People's emotions will change. 

966
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,080
They'll like you today, not like
you tomorrow. 

967
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,760
Watch this. 
Everything is changing around 

968
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:40,600
us. 
But he's not. 

969
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,160
We have the one short thing in 
this world that's Jesus Christ. 

970
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:49,160
Everything's changing, right? 
You might have a business right 

971
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,960
now and there's a need for it 
five years from now, depending 

972
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:53,720
on what happened. 
There's no need for your 

973
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:54,960
business. 
COVID happens. 

974
01:06:55,120 --> 01:07:00,080
Is that a is that a COVID, COVID
safe or COVID? 

975
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,320
Proof, yeah, there we go. 
COVID proof business, right? 

976
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,880
God knows how to start a 
business that's going to make it

977
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,800
through any storm that's coming,
right? 

978
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:12,400
So everything's forever 
changing. 

979
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:16,160
Economy is forever changing. 
Leaders are forever changing. 

980
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,600
Visions are changing. 
People's motives are changing. 

981
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,600
People are maturing. 
People are losing their minds. 

982
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,560
People stability is changing. 
Finances is changing. 

983
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,400
Kids are growing, grandparents 
are dying. 

984
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,800
You're getting older. 
All this is changing. 

985
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:37,720
There's only one sure thing. 
So the only way to have peace in

986
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:44,000
a forever changing world is to 
be fixed on the one that's not 

987
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,400
of this world. 
Yeah, clap about it. 

988
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:53,920
Absolutely. 
And so the Spirit makes us still

989
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,720
by making God present and 
apparent. 

990
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:58,880
This is why we going to put our 
awareness on Him. 

991
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:11,670
We'll close with Exodus 33 and 
2nd Corinthians 5 and the Lord 

992
01:08:11,670 --> 01:08:13,310
said my president shall go with 
you. 

993
01:08:13,310 --> 01:08:16,359
Watch it and I will give you 
rest. 

994
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,399
Anybody out here leading 
hundreds of thousands of people 

995
01:08:20,399 --> 01:08:23,720
across the open ocean? 
Anybody ever had that 

996
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,000
responsibility? 
Huh? 

997
01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:27,279
Next week. 
OK, Right. 

998
01:08:27,279 --> 01:08:29,080
We're right. 
Anybody else? 

999
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:35,000
Any anybody. 
OK, My presence shall go with 

1000
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:41,160
you And and I will give you rest
by bringing you and the people 

1001
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:42,920
into the promised land. 
See. 

1002
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:46,680
Watch this. 
The same Holy Spirit that helped

1003
01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:48,520
Moses lead hundreds of 
thousands. 

1004
01:08:49,319 --> 01:08:52,040
It's the same Holy Ghost that 
can help you lead one kid. 

1005
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:57,720
What you tripping for? 
Right, same Holy Holy Ghost been

1006
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:01,840
helping, Holy Ghost been leading
millions of people and you 

1007
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,680
stressed out about the one that 
you got. 

1008
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:05,640
No Holy Ghost to help you. 
He got strength for you. 

1009
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,080
If he has strength for David to 
take out Goliath, he got 

1010
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:13,920
strength for you to take out 
little Mama, little man, whoever

1011
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,960
it is, no, no, no, no, ain't 
nothing in this world got the 

1012
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:17,880
power. 
He said. 

1013
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,000
I have deprived the world of 
power. 

1014
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:24,880
So my presence shall go with you
and I will give you rest by 

1015
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:27,279
bringing you and the people into
the Promised Land. 

1016
01:09:27,279 --> 01:09:30,040
Here we go again. 
I'm going to take initiative to 

1017
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,080
make sure that you get into what
I promised you. 

1018
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:36,080
I will give you rest. 
Watch this. 

1019
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,840
I will give you rest in the 
pursuit of the promise that I 

1020
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:40,800
promised you. 
I will give you rest. 

1021
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:45,840
Exodus 33 And Moses said to him,
If your presence does not go 

1022
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:49,439
with me, do not lead us up from 
here. 

1023
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,800
I ain't going nowhere without 
your presence. 

1024
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:57,080
For how then, Danny, can it be 
known that your people and I 

1025
01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,760
have found favor in your sight 
without your presence? 

1026
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,560
Watch this resting up on us. 
Here it is. 

1027
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:07,800
Is it not by your going with us,
or is it not by your presence, 

1028
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:14,560
so that we are distinguished? 
How are we as stressed as people

1029
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:19,760
without? 
The spirit, that's a fixation 

1030
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:26,000
problem. 
How are we as worried as the 

1031
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,160
people without the Spirit? 
We got somebody who is 

1032
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:31,120
committed, the Creator of the 
heavens and the earth is 

1033
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,280
committed to get us to what he 
promised us. 

1034
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:41,760
Now the Lord is the Spirit and 
where the Spirit of the Lord is,

1035
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,040
you know what emancipation is, 
right? 

1036
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:54,640
So that's freedom from sickness,
disease, depression, poverty, 

1037
01:10:55,160 --> 01:11:00,440
freedom. 
This is this is freedom, this is

1038
01:11:00,440 --> 01:11:02,760
freedom. 
This is where the Spirit of the 

1039
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:05,760
Lord is. 
There is liberty. 

1040
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:07,840
There is. 
Come on, you can lift your hands

1041
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,040
and you can where the Spirit of 
the Lord is. 

1042
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,040
This is how we keep our eyes 
fixed on Him. 

1043
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:16,120
We lift our hands, we pause, we 
createspace for him. 

1044
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:19,280
No, what? 
What? 

1045
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:22,960
What is it that you give God the
first hour of your day, but 

1046
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,600
don't talk to him the rest of 
the day? 

1047
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:39,480
Or we stay fixed on you. 
Our part is to remain fixed on 

1048
01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:42,320
you. 
Not fixed on you because you're 

1049
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,640
going to do something for us. 
But I think the greatest thing 

1050
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:49,160
that anybody can have in this 
world is peace that transcends 

1051
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,080
all understanding. 
I think that's the greatest 

1052
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:56,760
asset in this world right now 
and forever is the peace that 

1053
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:58,680
I'm not moved by no 
circumstances. 

1054
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,840
I might be in pain, I might be 
crying, I might be hurt, I might

1055
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,960
be sad, but I got peace, right? 
This peace. 

1056
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:08,000
I could have tears rolling down 
my face, but I'm still solid as 

1057
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:10,320
a rock. 
I can feel a little bit of 

1058
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,800
stress, I can have fear knocking
at my heart, but as long as I 

1059
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,240
stay fixed on him, there's a 
peace that just don't make 

1060
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:18,640
sense. 
How am I not moved? 

1061
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:22,440
How I'm not moving frantically? 
How am I not cussing you out? 

1062
01:12:22,440 --> 01:12:25,360
How am I not quitting? 
How am I not throwing in the 

1063
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,560
towel when I should? 
Everybody's quitting. 

1064
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,000
Everybody's walking away. 
How am I still standing here 

1065
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,240
fixed on you? 
And I have Peace of Mind. 

1066
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:37,520
I'm not losing my mind. 
I got tears and a smile. 

1067
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,440
I got tears and joy. 
I feel anger, but I'm sinning 

1068
01:12:41,440 --> 01:12:42,800
not. 
I fear anger. 

1069
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:46,720
I feel anger, but I still can 
lift somebody else's spirits up.

1070
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:50,360
I am not vacant of the presence 
of God. 

1071
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,000
When other people need me 
because I'm going through 

1072
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:56,840
something, I got the presence of
God so I don't disappear on 

1073
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,400
people I'm called to. 
I can stand with you. 

1074
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:04,760
I can walk with you. 
And like Jesus, if it gets so 

1075
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,440
heavy, there is somebody in the 
crowd that God is called to help

1076
01:13:08,440 --> 01:13:15,800
carry my cross. 
Life gets heavy. 

1077
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:18,680
Just like the cross got heavy 
for Jesus. 

1078
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,800
But guess what? 
Jesus stayed fixed on the 

1079
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:28,000
Father. 
Because rest is not geographical

1080
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:32,160
people. 
Rest is knowing God is here and 

1081
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:38,160
He's governing. 
We are yielding to the Spirit 

1082
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:43,360
who governs us. 
And when God governs, stillness 

1083
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,240
follows. 
May we be aware. 

1084
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:49,600
May we be aware and this is our 
last confession. 

1085
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:57,840
We move, but we do not drift. 
We work, but we are not ruled by

1086
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:02,200
pressure. 
We move, but we do not drift. 

1087
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:05,600
We work, but we are not ruled by
pressure. 

1088
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:09,360
One more time. 
We move but we do not drift. 

1089
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:13,120
We work, but we are not ruled by
pressure. 

1090
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:18,960
I am still because he reigns. 
Lift your hands right where you 

1091
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:23,600
are. 
Lift your hands right where you 

1092
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,000
are. 
I am still because he reigns. 

1093
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,040
I am still because he's in the 
driver's seat. 

1094
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:37,040
Jesus don't crash out. 
Jesus is stable. 

1095
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:40,840
He's fixed, guaranteed. 
Every morning I wake up, he's 

1096
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,080
pleased. 
It needs to see me get up. 

1097
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:47,680
He's pleased to see you get up. 
You're still fearfully and 

1098
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,280
wonderfully made after your 
worst night. 

1099
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:56,720
Like his love for you never 
changes, His promises are never 

1100
01:14:56,720 --> 01:15:02,680
changing. 
He's mindful of us. 

1101
01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:05,880
Come on, lift your hands. 
He's mindful of us. 

1102
01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:12,360
He's mindful of us. 
The Bible says he doesn't sleep 

1103
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:16,240
nor slumber. 
He's mindful of us. 

1104
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:19,400
When others are asleep, He's 
still watching over us. 

1105
01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:23,080
When people aren't picking up 
the phone, he's there. 

1106
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:28,160
Yeah, when people don't call you
back to give you some wisdom in 

1107
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:30,520
a situation, don't freak out. 
Just pause. 

1108
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,360
The Lord is there, He has the 
answer. 

1109
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,400
Maybe He allowed them to miss 
that phone call because He needs

1110
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,520
you in this situation to hear 
exactly what He needs from you. 

1111
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:41,960
Be still and know that I am God.
Lift your hands. 

1112
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:43,880
Be still and know that He is 
God. 

1113
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:47,240
Can we take the next 60 seconds 
and pray in our heavenly prayer 

1114
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:50,160
language? 
Come on, lift your voices. 

1115
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:52,360
Lift your voices. 
He's here. 

1116
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,680
We're not inviting him. 
He's here. 

1117
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,480
He's here, He's here. 
Come on. 

1118
01:15:58,480 --> 01:16:00,280
We turn our attention towards 
you. 

1119
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:02,920
We turn our affections towards 
you. 

1120
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:08,320
We turn our hearts towards you. 
We turn our hands towards you. 

1121
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,800
We turn our feet towards you. 
Here we are, Lord. 

1122
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,080
Come on. 
Come on, sons and daughters. 

1123
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:18,600
Come on, sons and daughters, 
come on. 

1124
01:16:19,440 --> 01:16:23,480
You can 2026 before we leave out
of January. 

1125
01:16:23,480 --> 01:16:29,240
This will be the most stable, 
stable year of your life. 

1126
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:35,080
Lord I I make a choice. 
I make a choice to stay fixed on

1127
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:40,560
you when you're still. 
You Can Dance even when it's not

1128
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:44,160
going your way, when you still, 
you could shout even when they 

1129
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:47,920
don't feel good when you still. 
You can clap even when people 

1130
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:51,280
walk out on you, when you still,
even if your house is breaking 

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apart, you can still find a 
praise because you stay fixed on

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him. 
What the enemy wants you to do 

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is focus on circumstances. 
But Isaiah 60 says arise and 

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shine from your prostrated 
position because the glory of 

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the Lord is up on you, love 
quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is up on 
you. 

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Love Quest Glory of the Lord is 
upon your household Love quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your life love quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your family love quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your finances, love quest. 

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01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,000
The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your marriage love quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your children love quest. 

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The glory of the Lord is resting
upon your relationships Love 

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Quest. 
The glory of the Lord is here. 

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The glory of the Lord is here. 
The glory of the the Lord is 

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here. 
Thank you so much for tuning 

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into this week's sermon. 
We pray you were challenged, 

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equipped and encouraged. 
Make sure to follow us on all 

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platforms. 
That's love Quest Intl church. 

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We out here for real. 
We're really doing it. 

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That's Facebook, Instagram, 
YouTube and TikTok. 

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You can find us anywhere you 
need to find us. 

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But until next time, you know 
the drill, you know the motto. 

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Get your love fixed man and 
we'll see y'all real soon.