1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,160 Please help me welcome Nick. D Cold from Lakeshore Church, 2 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,680 Texas. Hey, so. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,360 Honored to be. With you guys today. 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,120 Like you said, my name is Nick, I am from Texas in United States 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,200 of America and we're. Here with a group. 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,640 Of 18 people, we came to minister. 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,800 All over Davao for the. For about 10. 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,720 Days half of our team is here my. 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,640 Wife. Is in the front row, Liz, we got 10 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,160 some of our team is serving. In your kids ministry and just 11 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,200 excited. To be with you today, but I'm 12 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,960 excited to get into the word and here's. 13 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:34,720 Here's what I know, man. You guys like the worship. 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,720 My goodness, you don't like the music? 15 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,280 Loud at all you like it? Quiet. 16 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,960 I know that. No. 17 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,000 You like it loud. Is it going to be a? 18 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,280 Good day. Let's get let's. 19 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,920 Get into the word if. You have your Bibles. 20 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,160 Turn to Philippians. Chapter 3 I just felt like the 21 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:50,120 Lord put a message. On my heart for you guys that's 22 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,640 going to encourage you today and so let's jump in Philippians 23 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,120 chapter 3 is where we're going to be. 24 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,200 I want to share. One verse before that, though, 25 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,280 to set this up, and here's the Here's the big idea, the premise 26 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,080 of. The message. 27 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,360 That I want. You to get this morning is that. 28 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,200 There is more for your life than what you're. 29 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,680 Currently experiencing right now like it doesn't matter and if. 30 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,800 You're in a good. Season it doesn't matter if 31 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:11,040 you're. In a. 32 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,280 Difficult season. It doesn't. 33 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,400 Matter if you're discouraged. Or down or very very. 34 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,400 Encouraged. The reality is this is there's 35 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,760 always more of God to be had. And God has. 36 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,320 More for your life. Than what you're experiencing 37 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:24,080 right now. So let me just. 38 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,360 Set this up in John chapter 10 verse 10. 39 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,160 The Bible tells us this. There is a. 40 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,640 Thief who comes to. Steal, kill and destroy. 41 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,280 But God has come to. Give you life and. 42 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,640 Life abundantly so the first part of that verse says this. 43 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,840 The enemy of your soul. Has a plan for your life? 44 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,280 That he wants to kill, he wants to steal and he wants to 45 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,080 destroy. That there there is a real. 46 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,040 Enemy, and he's coming to. Attack you to steal from you to 47 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,360 destroy you, but the. Good news of this. 48 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,840 Scripture is this that God who is more powerful, who is 49 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,400 stronger, Who is greater? Than any. 50 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,920 Enemy that will ever face has come to give you life and life. 51 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,280 Abundantly and I want you to get that this morning that there's 52 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,720 more for your life than you're currently experiencing. 53 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,360 So. The SO the title of my message. 54 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,000 If I would give you 1 would be. This don't settle because there 55 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:12,560 is. More. 56 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,600 Don't settle because there is more. 57 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,880 Let's pray. And then we'll jump into. 58 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,760 The word God, we thank you for your word, Thank you that it is 59 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,120 truth. God, thank you, that is a 60 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,200 source. Of life and hope and 61 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,560 encouragement and all. Power and authority. 62 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:27,520 Comes from your. Word. 63 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,200 So God, I pray as we. Dive into Scripture. 64 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,640 God, that you would speak to our hearts individually, your Holy 65 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,000 Spirit. Would minister to each one of us 66 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,360 specifically and individually. God, take the words that we're 67 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,480 about to speak God and speak to every soul. 68 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,680 Every person as they need to hear it. 69 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,320 In Jesus name we pray and everybody said Amen, Amen. 70 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,320 Have you ever had high High. Hopes for something that didn't 71 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,240 turn out. The way you accepted you had it 72 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,400 yet a. Dream, You had a plan. 73 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:54,600 You thought something was going to go. 74 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,360 A certain way. And then just overtime it didn't 75 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,040 happen as. Quick as you thought, maybe it. 76 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,880 Didn't pan out the. Way you expected. 77 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,360 It to pan out my my wife and I, we like to go on on. 78 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,880 Weekly dates we will take. We have Fridays off together. 79 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,480 And we go on a date. So there was one day we went 80 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,280 out. It was close to our anniversary, 81 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,600 so I said let's go to let's. Go to a nicer. 82 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,440 Restaurant, let's go to. Someplace nice. 83 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,040 And so I looked. It up online I found a great. 84 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,080 Place we. Got in the car. 85 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,160 We headed to the restaurant. And when we pulled. 86 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,040 Up to the restaurant we found ourselves. 87 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,760 In the middle of a parking lot and there was no restaurant 88 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,840 around. It was empty, there's nothing 89 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,320 around. And I looked at the GPS and it 90 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,520 was where. We were supposed to be. 91 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,880 They brought us to where we're supposed to. 92 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,720 Go, but nothing was around. So I said it's OK, we'll we'll 93 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,480 find a different spot. It's OK, we'll. 94 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,520 Find someplace else. So we looked someplace else up, 95 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,960 we went to a different place. We got to the front door, we 96 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,200 opened the door, it was locked and it says. 97 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,720 Closed for business strike. Two right it's it's not. 98 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,240 Working out. I had a big plan and it has it 99 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,600 working out. So I found ourselves 100 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,480 discouraged. And we didn't know what to do. 101 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,480 Or where to go. And I looked across the street 102 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,240 and in America there is a restaurant called the Crazy 103 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,960 Chicken. And so I said, let's go. 104 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,880 Over there. And my wife said you're a crazy. 105 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,840 Chicken. She was joking. 106 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,960 She was joking. But we found ourselves with 107 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,800 these big plans, this big idea. But in the midst of things not 108 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,279 going the way we thought they were going to. 109 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:18,600 Go. We got discouraged. 110 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,040 And we found ourselves just settling and we said this. 111 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,440 Is as good as it's going to get, so we should just go. 112 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,280 Here and I think. That's somehow the way that. 113 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:30,520 You and I can go about. In life where we've got God puts 114 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:31,400 a. Dream in our heart. 115 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,200 We feel a sense of purpose. We feel a sense of destiny. 116 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,600 We. We want to do something big. 117 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,360 With our life but. Things happen over time and 118 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,200 don't pan out the way. We thought they would. 119 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,120 And so. We say this is as good as it's 120 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,640 going to get, and we draw circles and we put. 121 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,440 Limitations on God. Because we don't I. 122 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:48,960 Think that things are panning out the. 123 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,200 Way we we thought they were going. 124 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,800 To pan out, and I want to encourage you this morning that 125 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,880 you may have drawn lines around your marriage, you may have 126 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,200 drawn lines and limits around your friendships. 127 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,160 You may have drawn lines around the purpose. 128 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,920 You may have drawn lines around your financial situation. 129 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,640 You may draw lines around your purpose. 130 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,840 But the truth is. This there is more for your life 131 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,320 than what you're experiencing right now. 132 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,920 So Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20 says this. 133 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,600 Now him who is able to do immeasurably more then all we 134 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,040 can ask or imagine according to the power that is in work within 135 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,280 us, that's the type. Of God that we. 136 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:28,840 Serve and as we. Look to God's Word this morning. 137 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:30,760 I just want to challenge our perspective. 138 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,640 I want to lift your. Faith this morning, before we 139 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,920 get into Philippians, I just want, I just want to encourage 140 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,880 you. This morning you may feel empty. 141 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,960 You may be discouraged. You may feel stuck, but let me 142 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,040 just bring some encouragement to your situation that God's not 143 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,480 done with you yet. Come on, I believe. 144 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,280 That God would say this to you That. 145 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,800 You may have drawn limits around your situations, but with God 146 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,120 there are no limits that we serve an immeasurably more type 147 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,800 of God and when you. Read Ephesians 3. 20 you see. 148 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,880 God breaking all. Kinds of natural. 149 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,880 Barriers like you can see if we look all throughout scripture. 150 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,120 We can see from Genesis, Genesis to Revelation. 151 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,520 That we serve a. Supernatural God that he's not 152 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,560 bound by natural limitations. So he's the God who parted the 153 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,440 Red Sea? He's the God. 154 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Who closed the mouth of lions to protect Daniel in the lion's 155 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,240 den? He's. 156 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,800 The God who walked on water. He's the God who fed 5000. 157 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,840 With just some loaves and some. Fishes. 158 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,840 He's the God who raised Lazarus. From the dead and then raised 159 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:33,040 himself from the dead. Come on, we serve an 160 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,240 immeasurably more. Type of God. 161 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,800 Who's not bound by natural limitations? 162 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,720 Who's supernatural? Who can break any barrier even 163 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,640 when you put one on yourself? Come on, we serve in a 164 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,800 measurably more type of God. So Philippians Chapter 3, here's 165 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,560 what we're on it where I want to go with the message. 166 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,600 Today, I believe we see a formula that Paul. 167 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,120 Gives us in the scriptures on how we can see our life move. 168 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,040 Forward, regardless of where you are at. 169 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,760 In your current. Life so if it. 170 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,080 Philippians chapter 313 through 14 says this. 171 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,800 Paul is. Speaking and he says, brothers, 172 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,640 I do not consider that I have made it on my own, but one thing 173 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:10,760 I do. I. 174 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,160 Forget what lies behind and I strain forward. 175 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,920 To what lies ahead. I press on towards the. 176 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,880 Goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 177 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,080 And I believe Paul. Gives us just a 2A simple 2 step 178 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,600 process that. Every single person can do in 179 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,600 this room that will move. Our life forward. 180 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,880 And it's this. It's forgetting what's behind 181 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:33,880 and it's. Straining forward to what? 182 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,040 Lies ahead. He says forget the. 183 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,680 Former things and strain. Forward to what lies. 184 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,720 Ahead but I. Don't want you to catch this, 185 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,120 the first thing he says. If you want to. 186 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,640 Move your life forward if you want to see things progress. 187 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,280 If you want to see the dreams. That in your heart be achieved. 188 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,880 You can't do that unless and until. 189 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:52,760 You forget the. Things that are behind. 190 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,120 That's why Paul says it first. So you got to. 191 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,000 Forget what's behind so. You can move forward to what 192 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,560 lies ahead. I. 193 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,560 Don't know if you guys have this. 194 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,000 Here in the Philippines, but in where? 195 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,160 Where I grew up and where? Where our family is. 196 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,160 We have what's called a hot a hot air balloon festival. 197 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,360 Do you guys? Have hot air balloons here. 198 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:10,840 You may not. OK, let me. 199 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,640 Explain there's this festival where all these giant. 200 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,200 Balloons will go into an open field and they'll they'll raise 201 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,320 up into the sky. And they'll fill up with light 202 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,120 and it's a beautiful, beautiful sight. 203 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,920 But what happens is is is these balloons will. 204 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Be on the ground, but to keep them on the ground. 205 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,000 While the heat is. Allowing them to. 206 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,240 Rise is there's there's. There's weights and. 207 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,840 Bags all over the basket where the people? 208 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,880 Go in to keep them down so. They could essentially rise. 209 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,400 And when I was. At this festival watching these. 210 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,200 Balloons rise, I noticed. All the balloons were. 211 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,480 Rising except for one, and when I looked at the one that wasn't 212 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,240 rising, I said what's wrong with that when it looks? 213 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,400 The same. As all the others. 214 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,200 It has the fuel. That the flame was allowing the 215 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,920 balloon to fill up and to go up, but it's only just. 216 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,960 Hovering a little bit. And as I looked. 217 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,760 Closer, there was all the weights that we're. 218 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,320 Supposed to keep it on the ground initially, didn't get 219 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,600 released in time to allow. It to go up, so it had the 220 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,920 ability to go up just like every other. 221 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,560 Balloon. But they didn't. 222 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:10,120 Let go of the. Weights and the things. 223 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,720 That were strapped to it. And it caused a limitation and I 224 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:14,720 think. This is what Paul is. 225 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,760 Saying in the scripture is if we want our. 226 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,440 Our lives to rise if we want to achieve all that God has for us 227 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,400 if we want to. Experience the fullness of God 228 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,000 and the purpose that He has. For our life, we've got to 229 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,600 forget the. Former things and there's some 230 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,360 things that we need to cut loose from our. 231 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,520 Life so that we can move forward into all that God has us. 232 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,960 So I just want to share. A few of those things this. 233 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,240 Morning. Because I believe this. 234 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,240 I believe this, that we've got to cut. 235 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,000 Some ties cut some things away from our life. 236 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,560 That are old history that that are. 237 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,680 Old history, the things that are slowing you down. 238 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,520 I'm I'm. Talking about that difficult. 239 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,640 Situation you went through I'm talking. 240 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,640 About that that. Thing that's offending you. 241 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,160 I'm talking about the. Person who betrayed you or the. 242 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,200 Disappointment that you have or that financial thing that didn't 243 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,640 go the way that. You hoped it would. 244 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,600 It's old history. It's something that's. 245 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,840 In your past that you just keep. Replaying. 246 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,040 Over and over and. Over in your brain and it's a 247 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,640 it's, it's sucking up bandwidth in your mind that it doesn't 248 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,280 allow you to move forward. See, whatever it is you've got, 249 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,080 whatever that thing is for you, it's. 250 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,480 Stealing your focus and it's limiting what where God wants to 251 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,600 take you. Isaiah 40. 318 and 19 it says 252 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,040 forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. 253 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:27,840 Come on, we read the scripture this morning. 254 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,640 See, I am doing a new thing now. It springs up. 255 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,880 Do you not perceive it? I'm making a way in the 256 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,400 wilderness and streams in the wasteland. 257 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,640 I believe this scripture is for you. 258 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,640 This morning. God wants to do something new in 259 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,400 your life. And you can't fully experience 260 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,120 that if you allow old. History. 261 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,840 Things that are. Are are from your? 262 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,080 Past to allow. To to to tag. 263 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,840 On to stay connected to you as you. 264 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,280 Move forward the second. Thing I think you need to cut 265 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,920 some ties with some weights. Off your life are old habits. 266 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,160 Some old habits, it's things that. 267 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,440 Here's how I like to. Explain habits. 268 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:02,360 It's it's. Things that you. 269 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,760 Pick up along the way that you never intended to pick up. 270 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,800 When you're moving forward. Like I'll give you an example. 271 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:09,920 You're driving out in the street. 272 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,400 You're riding your car. Your motorcycle, your tricycle, 273 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,840 and you get something in your tire and your tire becomes flat 274 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,800 and you got to pull over and you got to change your tire. 275 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,840 You got to. Fix your tire. 276 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,040 A piece of metal gets in it. You're driving. 277 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,520 You didn't, you didn't mean to pick it up. 278 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:23,960 It just happened to it. Just. 279 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,040 Happened to get there and over. Time you find out it's a part. 280 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,720 It's caused you to be to. Slow you down and to keep you 281 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,080 back. And we all have habits in our 282 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,080 life, things that are. A part of us that you look back 283 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,200 and you say how did. How did I start doing that? 284 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,440 How did I get that negative thing in my life I never 285 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:40,880 intended to get? Here, but you got. 286 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,960 Here and it's not. I want to challenge you to look. 287 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,840 At your life to say what? Are some habits in your life 288 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,040 that are holding you back? What do you need to release? 289 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,160 Who do you need to forgive? 2nd Corinthians 517 through 18 290 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,560 says. This therefore, anyone who. 291 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,960 Is in Christ. The new creation has come, the 292 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,680 old is gone, the new is. Here and all this. 293 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:04,200 Is from God who? Reconciled us to. 294 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,680 Himself through Christ Jesus and gave us the ministry of 295 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:11,040 reconciliation. The word reconciliation means to 296 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,520 bring the balance to 0. It's what Jesus. 297 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,280 Did for. Us on the cross, he paid for all 298 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,840 of our. Sin All of our debt brought a 299 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,800 balance to zero. We owe him nothing. 300 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,080 And I believe this. There's some people, maybe 301 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,920 there's some people in your life where you need to forgive. 302 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,800 That you feel like they. Still owe you something now that 303 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,120 since we've been forgiven, we can. 304 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,520 Freely forgive others. We can bring that balance to 305 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,680 zero and leave the old habits behind as we move. 306 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,400 Forward. I'll summarize this section with 307 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,400 this is you can't start the next chapter. 308 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,320 Of your life if you keep. Rereading the last one, you 309 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,480 can't move. Forward into the next chapter of 310 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,040 your life. You. 311 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,200 Keep reliving the last one. The third thing is this is 312 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,960 you've got to cut some ties with some. 313 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Old hurts. So you were. 314 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,440 You were wounded. By somebody and it hurt, and 315 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,280 what that person did was wrong and the pain is real. 316 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:01,680 But I've got good news for you. Jesus can heal it. 317 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,000 Can hurt a healed. Heart he can. 318 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,160 Heal a hurt heart. That God can, can, can take what 319 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,200 was done to you and turn it around and even use it for good. 320 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,680 See, God wants to. Do something new in your life 321 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,840 and the 1st. Part of the process that Paul 322 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,160 gives us. To move. 323 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,000 Forward to experience. The fullness of God. 324 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,520 For our life is to forget the former. 325 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,280 Things and then he has this moment where it's a pivot moment 326 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,280 where you say, you say I'm dealt, I'm I'm dealing with 327 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,240 these things. But now I'm going to move 328 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,360 forward and I'm going to focus on the strain forward, on what 329 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,920 lies. Ahead, so once you've dealt with 330 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,560 the past, you can move. Forward into the future and the 331 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:40,000 and if you. Look at the the. 332 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,080 This idea of straining forward in the Greek the definition 333 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,360 literally means this. It means to lean. 334 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,160 Forward with full effort. With full energy, with full 335 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,240 focus and full determination. It's a. 336 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,640 Picture of a runner. Who's about to start a race? 337 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,440 Who's? Leaning in from the starting 338 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,080 line who? Gives it their all. 339 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,080 Who's saying I'm moving forward? It doesn't. 340 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Say casually walk through. It doesn't say just. 341 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,520 Kind of skip through life, it says to have a focus. 342 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,880 And a determination where I'm so focused on what God has for me, 343 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,040 I'm leaning in with full effort and full energy. 344 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,200 Ephesians 516 through 17 says this. 345 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:22,080 It says make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 346 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,480 Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants 347 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,440 you to do. God's got something specific for 348 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,240 each and every one of us in this room. 349 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,640 Whether we whether we we discover. 350 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:34,960 It or not is. Up to us. 351 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,480 And the. Way to discover. 352 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,400 It is to lean in with. Full effort to strain forward 353 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,280 like Paul. Is saying. 354 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,080 So I, I, I. Would want to give you just a 355 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,240 few practical. Things on how what? 356 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,360 What does it look? Like how do we move? 357 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,080 Our life forward to. Experience the more. 358 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 That God. Has for US. 359 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,400 Number one is this. I want to challenge you. 360 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,680 You got to refocus your life. On what really matters. 361 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:58,600 Because there's a lot of things in. 362 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,680 Life that really doesn't matter and we can spend a lot of our 363 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,280 time and a lot. Of people in life. 364 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,720 Spend their time on things that don't really matter and they're 365 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,760 not going to show up in heaven and we can get. 366 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,600 Stressed out about? Things that don't matter. 367 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,560 And we can. We can be worried about things 368 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,320 that don't matter. But we've got to. 369 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,840 We've got to refocus our life. On what really matters. 370 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,520 You've got to decide. What's important and not go 371 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,360 halfway in, Not go. Partially away. 372 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,840 In to say I'm going to go all in, I'm going to lay my life 373 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,680 down. I'm going all in. 374 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,560 The three things that show up in heaven this really matter on 375 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,440 this earth is God matters, people matters, and eternity 376 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,000 matter. That's all. 377 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,280 That's all that really matters. Focus on what really matters and 378 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,520 your old way of. Living before Jesus, you had a 379 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,720 different set of priorities. People who don't know Christ has 380 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,880 my. Different set of priorities. 381 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,960 There's things that matter to them that don't matter to us. 382 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,120 But that's why we say refocus your. 383 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,920 Life on what really matters see we've. 384 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,400 Got to say yes. To the right things. 385 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,960 We've got to prioritize the right things. 386 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,160 Philippians 3. Seven through 8. 387 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,760 Says this Paul's. Talking, he says. 388 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,400 Whatever were gains to me, I now consider. 389 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,080 It a loss for the sake of Christ. 390 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,000 Whatever is more, I consider everything a loss. 391 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,200 Because of the. Surpassing worth of knowing 392 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,720 Christ Jesus my Lord for. Whose sake I have. 393 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,800 Lost all things. I now consider them garbage that 394 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,120 I may gain Christ. What Paul was saying was this. 395 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,840 In my former life, there were things that I thought were 396 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,560 important, but now that I know Christ, those things aren't 397 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,360 important anymore because there's nothing more important 398 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:29,960 than. What God has. 399 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,880 For me, there's nothing more important than me fulfilling my 400 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,160 purpose, and that's where I'm going to experience. 401 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,440 All that God has. For me and Paul's recognizing 402 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,320 with the same tensions that we recognize. 403 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,480 So there once was things that were important to me. 404 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,160 Now I consider them all lost. They're all garbage in 405 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,480 comparison to the surpassing knowledge of knowing. 406 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,600 Jesus Christ, see the. Only way that we'll experience 407 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,880 all that God. Has for is if we go. 408 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,360 All in SO number one, you got to refocus on what really matters 409 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,800 #2. You've got to prioritize. 410 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,360 The things that matter. So it's one thing to say 411 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,000 something is important to me, but if it doesn't show up in the 412 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,920 way that it lived my life. It's just. 413 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,280 It's just. Lip service, it's really not 414 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:10,880 important to me. Right. 415 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,480 So. So we got to prioritize. 416 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,040 The things that matter. This isn't a profound statement, 417 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,119 but there. There is, there was. 418 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,599 A season in my life. Where I said I. 419 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:21,119 Valued certain things, but they never showed up in my life. 420 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,079 So the truth is I didn't really value them. 421 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,359 They weren't important to me and I came to this. 422 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,520 Reality that that. That I needed to change some 423 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,800 things in my life so let me just. 424 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,600 Throw this out if you say that you you you value your. 425 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,800 Marriage. If you're married and you don't 426 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,680 invest in your marriage, your marriage probably isn't very 427 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,640 important to you. If you say you value your faith. 428 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,040 But you don't spend time with the Lord and get in the Word and 429 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,560 get around other. People of A. 430 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,440 Community of faith, Maybe it's not very important to you. 431 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,960 If you say that you value whatever it is. 432 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,320 For your situation, it's got to show up in your. 433 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,760 Life you've got to. Prioritize them and make it a. 434 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,760 Part of the way. That you live psalms 90 verse. 435 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,920 12 says. Teach us to number our days and 436 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,760 recognize. How few they are. 437 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,440 Help us to spend them as we should. 438 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,400 We we are finite beings, which means this we all have an 439 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,600 expiration date. That we will all. 440 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,880 Have a time on earth where our time is limited that we we don't 441 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:18,800 get to live on this. Earth. 442 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,480 Forever this Earth. Is not our home, but there is a 443 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,960 mission to be accomplished while we're on this earth there's a. 444 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,920 Purpose to be to be fulfilled while they're on. 445 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,280 While we're on this earth and the scripture is saying this. 446 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,760 Hey, we've got to. Recognize that every one of us 447 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,960 have a limited number of days on planet Earth, and we need to we 448 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,880 need to spend them as. We should. 449 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,480 Focused on things and prioritizing the things that 450 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,480 matter and watch the difference it'll make in your life when you 451 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,520 do. The third thing is this. 452 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,240 You've got to remove the things that don't matter. 453 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,080 So you got to, you got to refocus. 454 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,640 Redefine what really matters. Then you got to prioritize what 455 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,280 really matters, and then you got to remove the things that don't 456 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,040 matter. And what I mean by? 457 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,960 This we all have. Things that really don't matter, 458 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,680 that are in our lives, things that just don't belong and I'm 459 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,160 not. Talking about sin issues, we've 460 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:10,720 already talked about those. We've already talked. 461 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,440 About cutting ties with those, but we just have things that 462 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,280 waste time. That aren't effective that. 463 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,040 Don't make a difference that are that. 464 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,800 That are just. Going through the motions and if 465 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,920 we want to keep our life moving forward. 466 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,240 We've got to. Remove the things that don't 467 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,720 matter. 1st Corinthians 1023 and 24 says this. 468 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,800 Paul's talking again, He says. I. 469 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,440 Have the right. To do anything, but not 470 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,960 everything is beneficial. I have the. 471 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,480 Right to do anything but everything is constructive. 472 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:41,840 No one should. Seek their own good, but the 473 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,720 good of others. And again, what? 474 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,800 Paul is saying is. This As believers, we've got a 475 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,760 lot of freedom. There's a. 476 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,280 Lot of things we could be doing and Paul's saying we've got to, 477 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,640 we've got to make sure that we're doing things that are 478 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,480 beneficial, things that are helpful, things that are in line 479 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,200 with our purpose, things that are aligned with what God. 480 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,040 God has. Called us to do and not waste 481 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,840 time but lean in, strain forward. 482 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,840 On all that God has. For us to do. 483 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,320 We've got to learn to say yes. To the right things and not yes 484 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,400 to everything number. 4 is this is. 485 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,800 Is not only you got to remove the things that don't matter. 486 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,080 The last thing is this is. You've got to take. 487 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,760 Regular inventory of your life, and here's what I mean. 488 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,760 You've got to inspect your life and you've got to say, am I in 489 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,560 line with God's purpose for my life? 490 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,160 Am I doing the things he's called me to do? 491 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,920 Is there anything in my life that that's creeped in at some 492 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,440 of those old? Habits that's got back. 493 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,960 In that's limiting and holding me back again, I found it. 494 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,240 I found it's healthy from time to time to stop and ask the 495 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,080 question, where is my life out of alignment? 496 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,840 Where is it not in line with what what God has called me to 497 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,000 do? Need to pause. 498 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,880 Often take inventory, ask questions and say am I in? 499 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,440 Am I doing what God has called me to do? 500 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,040 I remember the first time. I went to a chiropractor. 501 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,520 A doctor corrects your back. And and you guys, you have them 502 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,000 here, right? Yeah. 503 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:02,800 Yeah. OK. 504 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,240 I remember I woke up one day, I, I turned 40 years old and 505 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,040 somehow sleeping made my neck hurt, You know, like, I don't 506 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,840 have to do anything. I don't have to do anything 507 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,120 adventurous. I could go to sleep and wake up. 508 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,960 And I said, my neck hurts, you know, And so I remember waking 509 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,240 up and my neck hurt and I had to, I was walking around like 510 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:19,800 this. I couldn't straighten my neck. 511 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,200 I had to call a friend. Who is a chiropractor? 512 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:23,840 And I said I need to come see you. 513 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,000 I need help. It's like I'm in a lot of pain. 514 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,080 And he said come on in. Laid laid me down. 515 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,160 And I expected him to crack my neck and crack my back and make 516 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,040 me feel better. And what happened? 517 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:35,360 Was he? Said Where's the pain? 518 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:36,040 I said. Right. 519 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,760 Here on the right. Side of my neck so he went down 520 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,520 to the edge of the bed and grabbed my. 521 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,360 Foot and started. Pulling on my leg and I said, 522 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:45,000 doctor, I think you didn't hear me right. 523 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,720 The pain is in my neck, not my. Foot and he said. 524 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,920 Let me do my thing and then he comes around. 525 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,520 To the side. And he grabs my arm. 526 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,400 He starts doing this number on my arm. 527 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,760 And I said, is my doctor death? You know, he my neck hurts. 528 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,400 Not my arm, not my foot, not my leg. 529 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,240 And so he comes and moves my arm and moves it around and moves it 530 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,280 all around. And then, then he comes up and 531 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,240 then he. Says all right, let's let's. 532 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,600 Turn on your side. He turned on my side, made me 533 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,240 cross my leg and elbow, dropped me on my side and I said doctor 534 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,120 my neck hurts. Leave the rest of my body alone, 535 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:22,240 please. And then he says, OK, sit up. 536 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:22,800 We're. Done, I say. 537 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,640 You didn't even touch my neck and he said. 538 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:26,400 What? What you're. 539 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,320 Dealing with is something that we call in the chiropractic 540 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,840 world, referred Pain, which means this you're experiencing 541 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,440 pain in one area, but the problem is somewhere else. 542 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,040 And he was. Addressing something I think 543 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,720 some of us are here this morning as we may be feeling pain, 544 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,520 experiencing pain in one area of our life, and we think the 545 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,840 solution is one way. But it's actually the. 546 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,440 Problem with somewhere else and I think we. 547 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,760 Need to. That's why I said we got to. 548 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,520 Check inventory in our heart to make sure God are we in align 549 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,800 with the. Purpose of our life. 550 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,560 Because our marriage may. Be out of whack, but it could be 551 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,480 because our spiritual life. Isn't solid. 552 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,640 We may be. Struggling financially, but it's 553 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,640 because we're not pressing into the things of. 554 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,240 God like we used to. We may be having friendship 555 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,200 issues and we think I got to fix my friendship. 556 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,040 But the reality is, if you're not. 557 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,600 Out of sync in your relationship? 558 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,200 With God, it affects every other area of your life. 559 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,640 And so you may have pain in one area, but God is saying let me 560 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,520 fix. This area. 561 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,520 Let me get you an alignment. Let me get this thing straight 562 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,440 with me and you. Let's get our relationship. 563 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,440 Right again and watch. All the other areas of our life. 564 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,120 Come into play well. We got to take. 565 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:33,560 Regular inventory. Of our life. 566 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,760 Psalms 139 We see David doing this in the scripture. 567 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,040 You may have heard this. It says this. 568 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,360 David is speaking and he says, Search me, O God, and know my 569 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:45,800 heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. 570 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,240 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along 571 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,440 the path of everlasting life. David's taking a moment where 572 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,160 he's taking inventory. Of our life, the. 573 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,840 The man in the Bible that who's given the title? 574 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,640 The man after God's own heart and we know his story. 575 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,000 He had mess ups, he had victories, he had mess ups, he 576 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,720 had victories and he had this moment where he constantly had 577 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,160 to realign himself to say God thank you for your grace God 578 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:13,760 thank you that your blood paid for it all. 579 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,880 Thank you. And we can say that where we can 580 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,680 thank God and even we have moments of mess up, we can say I 581 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,720 want to get things right in my life because I know if things 582 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,680 are out of sync spiritually in my. 583 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,600 Life it'll affect. Every other area of my life. 584 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,920 And so I want to encourage you this morning, God has more for 585 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,360 you. God has. 586 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,960 More for your life don't settle you may be going through a 587 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,600 discouraging situation you may be you may feel depressed you 588 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,680 may be down you may not see things progressing at the pace 589 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,400 you want to see them but let me just remind you we serve in a 590 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,480 miserably more type of God and if we cut. 591 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,200 Ties with the old. Past in the old, pain in the 592 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,200 old. Habits and we. 593 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,760 Strain forward, meaning take this thing seriously, that God's 594 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,160 got a plan for your. Life that our. 595 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,480 Days are limited, that our days are numbered. 596 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,360 And if we lean forward and say I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm 597 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:03,040 going to forget everything behind and press in the way God 598 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,520 has for you. I believe this. 599 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,840 You're going to see and experience the abundant life 600 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,600 that God has for each and every one of us. 601 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,960 Amen. Amen. 602 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,520 Come on, let's pray together and then I'll close up and hand it 603 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,320 back to Pastor Armand. Father, we thank you. 604 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,160 For your word today. Got to thank you for every 605 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,640 incredible beautiful person in this room. 606 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,960 I thank you for the city of Davao, the nation of the 607 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,360 Philippines. God, I thank you. 608 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,360 God for the, for the. Revival that is going to take 609 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,160 place in this country. Got to thank you for the. 40 610 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,800 churches that. Have come out of this church 611 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,120 alone and the ministry that's taking place in the fire School 612 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,720 of ministry. Father, I pray blessings upon 613 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,920 this house, upon Pastor Armand, Pastor Buddy, and their families 614 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,400 and all the leadership here. And God, I pray that. 615 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,760 They would they. As a church would not settle. 616 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,240 That as a just that they would. Experience all that you have for 617 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,080 them. Thank you that you are an 618 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,280 immeasurably more God and God I pray for any person here this 619 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,760 morning who may have settled who may be be discouraged who's 620 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,840 down. God I pray today they. 621 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,200 'D be full of faith they'd leave. 622 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,240 This place God knowing. God, that you. 623 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,360 Got more for their life and father I pray to anybody. 624 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,880 Who's who's here? Who's out of alignment with you? 625 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,680 Who needs to? Get the right their life right 626 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,800 God, I ask that. Today would be the moment. 627 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,560 Today would be the day where they would surrender their life 628 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,280 fully. To you. 629 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,760 They'd go all in with you. In Jesus name we pray. 630 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:24,200 Amen. Amen. 631 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:25,360 God bless you. Thank you guys. 632 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:30,920 Thank you so much. Are you blessed?