WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:14.199 You guys are awfully kind, awfully kind. That we have 2 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.559 a Jesus who shed his love abroad for us by 3 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.719 dying on the cross is the most tremendous thing ever. 4 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:24.399 And that we're loved by him, we are so well 5 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.719 cared for by Him, and that we have an awesome church. 6 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.000 Do you know, There's been lots of goofy stuff happened 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:32.799 in the past ten years in the body of Christ. 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.079 And you know, one of the things I love about 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.200 this church is that the leaders of this church there's 10 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.320 such a purity of heart, Like you know, nobody's perfect, right, 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:45.920 but there's such a purity of heart. And this is 12 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:47.679 a good a good place to be. It's a safe 13 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.799 place to be. And so I just love our pastors 14 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.759 Dwayne and Joel and everybody else, including you know, Frank 15 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:54.640 and Angela and Rome. 16 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.000 I mean, we just this is a wonderful. 17 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:02.039 Church filled with really dynamic, powerful leaders of God. And 18 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:07.239 so I consider it that being said, if you if 19 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.239 you feel like you're from a really strong team, uh, 20 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.719 if you have the opportunity to be at batuh, then 21 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:20.280 I that it that means something because it's coming from 22 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.480 wonderful people. Do you get what I'm saying, so I 23 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.519 appreciate the opportunity to be here because you guys are 24 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.560 getting Pastor Dwayne is my favorite preacher to listen to, 25 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.439 and so anytime you're preaching in front of somebody who's 26 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.760 your favorite, it always makes you feel a little funny, 27 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:36.280 you know. 28 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.719 So I'm gonna first start off by giving you. 29 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.560 I'm gonna give you a story of two contrasts, Okay 30 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.200 and I. I have an opportunity to to in my vocation, 31 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.480 to interact with a lot of different people, people that 32 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.239 are professionals, people that lead things, people that run things. 33 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:03.519 And I I had the opportunity over the past twenty 34 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:08.400 years to get to know two gentlemen, and they're kind 35 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.520 of like leaders in there in their industries and professions. 36 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.120 And both of them are really, like I would call them, 37 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:19.520 remarkable individuals. They are really truly what I would call 38 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:24.520 possibility thinkers. Like these are people who, like I would 39 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.879 equate them to like an Elon Musk, you know, you 40 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:32.120 know you, whatever your perceived ideas are about him. The 41 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.360 guys like, we're going to put people on Mars, and 42 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.240 we're going to do this, and we're going to send 43 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.360 up rocket ships and when they come back down, we're 44 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.439 going to catch the the propulsion canisters with something called 45 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.319 a chopstick. I mean, the guy's amazing, like him or not. 46 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.759 And you know what's amazing, This guy doesn't like he 47 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:50.000 doesn't there's no quid in him. 48 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:50.400 Right. 49 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.919 And so these people that are like this, that are 50 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:56.520 in the in the business world, the professional world, the 51 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.879 leading things, frequently they have this character stick about them 52 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:03.520 that I would call like it's like they have a 53 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:07.280 spirit of possibility on them. Okay, they have a spirit 54 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.680 of possibility on them. And and I happen to know 55 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:14.520 two of these people closely. Most of my friends are 56 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.280 all Christians. 57 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.000 The two people. However, because I have a large. 58 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.400 Portion of my life that's dealing in a professional and 59 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.879 leadership community, I get a deal with other people who 60 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:32.479 don't know Jesus. Okay, I prefer the knowing Jesus people better, 61 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:43.599 but there's room for both. And so so there's a 62 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.680 lot of conversations I have on a routine basis with 63 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.400 people that that oftentimes as they're talking, you know, it's 64 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.520 whatever is in our heart that comes out of our mouth, right, 65 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.840 And so I'm talking with individuals and oftentimes in conversation. 66 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.479 One of the things that happens is. 67 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:06.599 That I realize while dialoguing that there's a lot of 68 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:12.159 people who have a walk around conversation that tends to 69 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.120 include a large amount of discontent or what I would 70 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:22.160 call being downcast, okay, being discontent or downcast, maybe even 71 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.560 like a little bit of like mild depression, okay. 72 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:28.240 And I find it day in and day out. 73 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.720 And it's interesting because I have a lot of conversations 74 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.360 with Christian people. I was talking with a gentleman in 75 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:37.480 my office some time ago, and he was telling me. 76 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.519 He was like, hey, Doc, I came to your church 77 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:41.839 and you weren't there. 78 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:43.959 I said, I'm sorry, I was gone at a conference. 79 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.040 But he came here to the healing nights and the 80 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.720 baptismal tanks, and he was telling me about it, and 81 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.040 so I'm ready for him to give me like a 82 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:59.519 really awesome testimony. And anyhow, we're chatting and he says, well, 83 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.319 I ca to your church and I went down in 84 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.600 the tank and and then I got up, and I'm 85 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.279 expecting something real positive. 86 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:12.480 And then he says to me, and nothing happened, and and. 87 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:16.360 So then he starts off with a dialogue about how 88 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.600 if it was the Lord's will, he would have gotten healed, 89 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.399 but but it clearly wasn't the Lord's will. He actually 90 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.959 said to me, I just really came expecting the Lord 91 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.160 to zap me, he said, I wanted the Lord to 92 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.319 zap me. Okay, So this was this gentleman's perspective. And 93 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:38.000 so usually in conversation with people, I usually don't like 94 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.000 to like, if we're having a dialogue and we disagree 95 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.000 on something, I'm probably not gonna say to you, get 96 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:44.959 behind me, Satan. 97 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:46.839 I typically don't do that. 98 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.000 However, that was what rose up within me while having 99 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.959 a dialogue with the individual, and you're I'm serious. This 100 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.639 actually is this all that every time I have one 101 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.519 of these, This is what rolls around in the back. 102 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:01.680 Of my head. This is how I think. 103 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.319 And so however, I would never want to purposefully offend, 104 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:11.519 and so I realize something in a dialogue with this individual. 105 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.439 This is somebody that loves Jesus. This is somebody that's 106 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.079 walked with Jesus for over forty years. This is somebody 107 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:24.199 who's a good husband, a great parent, a good grandparent. 108 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.600 They love the Lord. They're going to be in heaven. Okay, 109 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.759 good person. However, I realized in my dialogue with him 110 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:37.399 that he has a lot of worldview that's being shaped 111 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.439 out of Matthew twenty four. In Matthew twenty four, there's 112 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.639 passage of scripture like in verse nineteen where it says 113 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.759 that it wouldn't be good for you to be a 114 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:53.600 nursing mother or be pregnant, because there's this terrible day coming, 115 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.480 and the day of distress is going to be so 116 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:02.800 dreadful and horrible it will be unequaled from the beginning 117 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.199 of the world until now. And I realize that this 118 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:13.240 gentleman who loves Jesus, his worldview is this. He's actually 119 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:17.839 looking forward to an upcoming event where this is what's 120 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.279 going to happen in his mind. 121 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:23.519 And I kind of want to just sit him down 122 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.120 and say stop it. That actually already happened. 123 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.680 It was in eighty seventy and that's not the purpose 124 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.639 of today. But nonetheless, what I'm going to share with 125 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.800 you is that oftentimes what we have is that in 126 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:43.040 Protestant and Evangelical communities, we have a very large amount 127 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:49.319 of Christian people whose worldview is being eclipsed or shaped. 128 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.680 Their hope is. 129 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.639 Being eclipsed because they are viewing forward or looking forward 130 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:01.680 to something occurring which actually isn't even coming up. And 131 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.439 I think that a lot of Christians have been so infused, 132 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:10.160 if you will, bathed in saturated in this worldview that 133 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:12.680 I think that there's a lot of people, not probably 134 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:14.639 not none of you in here, because Pastor Duane does 135 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:19.000 such a great job at winning victorious eschatology, but there 136 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.399 could be a person or two in this room that 137 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.959 still has that worldview. And what I'm going to share 138 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.079 with you is that it won't breed what it's supposed 139 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:35.639 to do. What do I mean by that? If people 140 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:40.440 in the world think that all things are possible but 141 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.000 they didn't know that that was actually a scriptural verse 142 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.320 and the rest of it says with God, all things 143 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.840 are possible with God right yes, for him who believes. 144 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:51.600 So. 145 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:58.200 Christian people oftentimes don't have this worldview, but the unbelievers do. 146 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.320 And that's not a thing. It's not a good thing. 147 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.960 If doc if a bunch of people I know have this, 148 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.279 anything's possible, We're gonna find a way in a solution 149 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.240 for this. They're solutionaries. They are problem solvers. There's you 150 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.279 can't get them down. There's no quit in them people. 151 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.120 And then all of a sudden, the body of Christ, 152 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:19.399 due to a belief on Matthew twenty four, is actually 153 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:26.879 functioning with a low level of possibility. And I don't 154 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:32.879 believe that that's God's design. So I'm gonna give you, 155 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:36.799 I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a little story right now. So, uh, 156 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.159 it was roughly it was the end of June or 157 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:46.039 beginning of July. What happened is, Uh, I had a problem. 158 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:48.519 And the problem goes like this. 159 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.879 It first starts with my two sons, who haven't probably 160 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:57.639 unhealthy infatuation with late eighties and early nineties two stroke 161 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:00.960 stand up jet skis, and so my I two boys 162 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.759 are they love this stuff and they think it's the 163 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:06.960 coolest thing ever. And so they probably spend way too 164 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.720 much time on Craigslist and offer up than they ought to, 165 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.639 but they do nonetheless, and they they're one of their 166 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.519 things is to try and find the Holy Grail. When 167 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.960 I say the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail is a 168 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.480 two stroke jet ski that is probably hot pink. It's 169 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:29.080 probably shar Truce and and neon green. It's it's late eighties, 170 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.039 early nineties, those of you who are old enough to 171 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.279 remember that time. What happens is they'll find these things 172 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.240 and somebody's had it in their garage. It's been in 173 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.480 there for like thirty years, and they'll find them and 174 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.440 they'll start sending me pictures constantly, Oh look at this, Dad, 175 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:44.879 look at this. 176 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.120 Oh, this one's incredible. 177 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.240 And so they they already each have had the Holy 178 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.559 Grail experience. Both of them have these stand up jet 179 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.480 skis and and but they decided that they wanted to 180 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:56.720 find a sit down. So they've been on this mission 181 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:03.080 and eventually got the heavens opened up and on Craigslists. 182 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:06.720 God used through Craigslist the desire of their hearts to 183 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:10.840 be fully Yes, Pastor Dwayne knows this, fully, the desires 184 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:15.840 of their heart were fully manifested. One evening where this 185 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.600 thing shows up. They get on they're sending me the 186 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.679 pictures and I'm like, if that's what it is, you 187 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:22.600 need to go get that right now. And it like 188 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.559 literally was I'm not gonna say it's free, but it's 189 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.200 like these people were not charging enough. And so they 190 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.360 go and they get this thing, they bring it back. 191 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.000 It's like it literally looks like it rolled out of 192 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.840 somebody's garage. It's been in a time capsule for thirty years. 193 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.399 It's that awesome. So we go out to the lake. 194 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.399 They're riding their stand up jet skis. I'm sitting on 195 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.360 the sit down. I don't do anything like crazy or 196 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.360 dangerous because I don't want to injure myself, okay, and 197 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:50.000 so I lead. 198 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.440 It relatively safe life. 199 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.399 And I'm on the jet ski and I'm kind of 200 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.080 turning it and I'm giving it some throttle, and next 201 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:04.159 thing you know, it throws me off and I'm out there. 202 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:05.639 Literally, I'm not even doing anything. 203 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.200 I'm watching them, Like Lane's like jumping his jet ski 204 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.000 off of wakes of boats and he's porpoising on one 205 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:14.480 foot and doing these tricks and stuff like I can't do. 206 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.080 I can't even like, I can't do any of that. 207 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:18.720 I don't even do anything. I'm sitting on this thing. 208 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.879 I'm literally it's this is terrible. I'm sitting on this thing. 209 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:26.559 I'm barely doing anything. I fall off and I hit 210 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.639 the bones in my hand right here on what I 211 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.720 think is probably it happened quick, but I think it's 212 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.960 the rear view mirror very hard plastic and so I 213 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.679 fall in the water. 214 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:38.080 I get up. 215 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.519 When I get out of the water, I'm realizing my 216 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:44.639 hand's in a lot of pain. And then I'm operating 217 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.399 the jet ski and I'm realizing that as I'm operating it, 218 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.759 there's vibration from it and it's going into my hand, 219 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:56.159 and the vibration is really irritating my hand, and my 220 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:59.879 hand is swelling up real bad fast, and it's disc 221 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.360 and I'm remembering when I was in school. I'm remembering 222 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.080 when I was in school something called a tuning fork. 223 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.679 A tuning fork is a tool that people will use. 224 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:12.960 They'll vibrate it and if you put it on a 225 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.840 broken bone, it'll light somebody up, it'll like send them 226 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.120 through the ceiling. And I'm experiencing this and I'm thinking 227 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:24.360 tuning fork vibration from throttle and I'm like, oh my gosh, 228 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.879 you've got to be kidding me. You've got to be 229 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.960 kidding me. So long story short is that I end 230 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:35.000 up going in. I have some images taken. My hand 231 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:40.799 is in a spleeker cast and my vocation every day 232 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.919 is to serve people and to help them with my hands. 233 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.960 How do you do that? If you don't have one. 234 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.519 It's a bit of a problem. And so the long 235 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:55.360 story short of it is that I've got a significant 236 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:59.360 issue going on. I'm talking to doctors and they're giving 237 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.720 me a progn for how long it's going to take 238 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.000 for this thing to recover. And I'm really it's not 239 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:06.320 going well with my soul. 240 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.159 Okay. 241 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.960 Literally, I'm going to the office in the morning and 242 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.559 I'm like, I don't even know what the heck I'm 243 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:17.440 going to do today. I can't function with one arm, 244 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.639 but I guess I'm going to figure out how. Like 245 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.759 it was like super, it was not good. 246 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:22.919 And so. 247 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.120 Let me share you a little something with you first 248 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:31.279 and foremost. I think all of you know this already, 249 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.879 but believe it or not. If you know Jesus, he 250 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.759 has a calling for your life. He has a mission 251 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.960 for your life. He has a vision for you. He 252 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.879 has something that for you in your day and in 253 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:50.639 your season you are supposed to accomplish that will bring 254 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.480 blessing to mankind, It will bless those around you, and 255 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.919 it will bring the Kingdom to come to pass on earth. 256 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.600 I'm telling you, every single Christian, this is you. Raise 257 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.279 your hand and say this is me. Okay, So here's 258 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:10.240 the deal. The devil is a sneaky stinker, and he 259 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.399 is going to realize that God wired you a certain 260 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.240 way and that there's an anointing on your life to 261 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.480 do a certain thing. Okay, there's an anointing, a gifting, 262 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.399 a wiring that he has enabled, Like there's a grace 263 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:26.200 for you to do a certain thing, and you can 264 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.840 do it in a way other people can't do it, 265 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.519 and God put you here for that, and your true 266 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:32.799 fulfillment only comes when. 267 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.320 You're walking that out. Okay. 268 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:38.080 And so what happens is that I've got an anointing 269 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.679 on my life to help people, and I do it 270 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:42.399 with my hands and my wrists, and now all of 271 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:47.960 a sudden, the thing that I need is messed up. 272 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.919 The devil goes after people differently. 273 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.759 So if you are a if you're a worship leader, 274 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.759 if you're a pastor, he's probably coming after your voice. 275 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.600 He's coming after your vocal cords. Why because he's trying 276 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.879 to shut you up. Because God wants you to open 277 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:07.960 up your mouth and he wants you to preach the word. 278 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.759 He wants you to sing the new melody unto him. 279 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:11.320 He wants you to. 280 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.200 Bring people into relationship jasmine with him as you open 281 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.159 your voice, and he's going to attack you in the 282 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:23.200 area of your anointing. This is how he works. But 283 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:29.440 guess what, who are you hidden in? And who's Christ 284 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:34.039 in the Father? And do you know that because he's 285 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.000 in the Father and you're in him, that you have 286 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:38.120 overcome the devil. 287 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.919 That's a scripture. You have overcome the devil and he 288 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:47.720 actually cannot beat you. He cannot beat you. 289 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.080 So the devil is looking to attack the anointing to 290 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.120 try and get you off of the call of God 291 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.080 on your life. And anybody who walks with the Lord 292 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:01.000 for a little while, you're going to run into this, 293 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.839 if you haven't already or multiple times, you're gonna run 294 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.960 into this. And so what happens is that all of 295 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.880 a sudden, I'm in this place where I'm up in 296 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:14.319 the morning, I've got my I'm getting ready to open 297 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.519 my Bible, and I actually am planning on reading a 298 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.279 certain thing, but it just falls open. And I felt 299 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.200 like that was strange how that happened. And right in 300 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.880 the middle of my Bible, the Lord some of us 301 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.119 are slow, and so the Lord's got to slap you 302 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.200 a couple of times. He's got to like do this, 303 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.000 he's got to get a hold of your attention. And 304 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.000 so he brings me to Psalm forty two, verse eleven. 305 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:46.200 It says, why my soul, are you downcast? Why so 306 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.480 disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I 307 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:56.519 will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. I'm 308 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.000 gonna go down to verse forty three, three through five. 309 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.920 It says, Oh, your light and your truth, let them 310 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.240 lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill 311 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.000 and to your dwelling place. Then I will go to 312 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.400 the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. And 313 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.200 upon the liar, I shall praise you, Oh God, my God, 314 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:20.519 Where are you in despair? 315 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.160 Or why are you in despair? Oh my soul? And 316 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.079 why are you so disturbed? Within me? 317 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:31.119 Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him the 318 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.920 help of my countenance and my God. 319 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.279 Well, so what happened is the Lord kind of woke. 320 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:43.000 Me up to the fact that my countenance was becoming downcast. 321 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.519 And the reason my countenance was becoming downcast is because 322 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:53.480 what happens is that if you've got something that the 323 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.599 Lord's got you to do, you're calling your mission, the 324 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.519 thing he's wired you for, He's anointed you for this thing. 325 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:03.480 And then all of a sudden, you got a problem 326 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.119 that is derailing that or throwing that off track. You 327 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:13.240 know what happens to you. You start to get downcast 328 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:15.960 in your soul. I have a colleague of mine, a 329 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.200 friend does the same thing as me, mentor of mine. 330 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.079 He broke his wrist. And when he broke his wrist, 331 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.440 he had a surgery. He didn't heal up well from it, 332 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.359 he had to retire early. This is rolling in the 333 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.640 back of my mind. That's how the devil will work. 334 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.640 He will get in your head and he will start 335 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.119 to say, but what about so and so. Look what 336 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:46.200 happened to them. Their whole track record was derailed. That's 337 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:50.079 how he works. And if we don't realize that, we 338 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:55.000 can succumb to it. All of a sudden, I'm realizing this. 339 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.720 Is coming on me. 340 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.839 I'm relatively optimistic, like I'm a kind you can't really 341 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:03.160 get hit me down kind of person, And all of 342 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:07.799 a sudden, I'm realizing, what in the heck are you doing? 343 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.559 What are you doing? I had a friend text. 344 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:18.720 Me saying, hey, we were hanging out the other day, 345 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.319 Are you okay? 346 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.200 And I'm like, okay, now, I know I got a problem. 347 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.880 I know I got a problem now because my countenance 348 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:29.279 is not what it's supposed to be. 349 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.920 Proverbs thirteen twelve. Hope deferred. 350 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:43.839 Makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree 351 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.000 of life. 352 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:48.359 So what happens is that. 353 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.000 Your heart is made healthy when you are able to 354 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.640 apply the anointing and the grace that God has on 355 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:01.079 you to fulfill his mission, his calling, and his will 356 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:01.440 for you. 357 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:03.920 And that's where your fulfillment comes from. 358 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.680 It's because you're in Him, but that's how you fulfill it. 359 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.799 Does that make sense? Fulfillment comes when you're on the plan. 360 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:15.240 He tells you to do something, you do it, you 361 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:17.039 see the fruit and you're like, oh, thank you, Lord, 362 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.920 that's so nice of you, thank. 363 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:24.759 You for including me. And so this is first John 364 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:25.440 one five. 365 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.799 This is the message that we have heard from him 366 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.599 and declare to you. God is light and in him 367 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:40.000 there is no darkness at all, no darkness. 368 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.160 I would call it, what's no darkness? No darkness is 369 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:47.359 like zero darkness? How much? So no darkness is what percent? 370 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:51.599 Uh darkness? Zero? Zero percent darkness? 371 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.319 So that means that there can be zero percent darkness 372 00:21:54.319 --> 00:22:08.160 for you, there's no darkness at all. All of a sudden, 373 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.839 I'm realizing the Lord's slap. He's like getting a hold 374 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.839 of me, and he's realized. He's making me realize that 375 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:17.119 I'm becoming downcast. He's making me realize that this is 376 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:19.920 not who I am. I'm starting to function, not how 377 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.880 I am, And all of a sudden, I'm like, I'm 378 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:28.000 not okay with this, And you have to get a 379 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:33.119 little bit like if you don't get ticked off with 380 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.119 the devil and say I've had enough, I refuse to 381 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.079 participate in this. 382 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:37.640 I'm done. 383 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.160 If you do not do that, you are going to 384 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:44.279 have a problem in life. You are going to have 385 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:46.440 a problem in life. And what I'm going to tell 386 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.000 you is that I got to this point where i'd 387 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.400 already heard the Lord tell me when this happened to me. 388 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.160 In not too many days from now, I'm gonna heal you. 389 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:58.400 Problem is I'm like nine days in or something like that, 390 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.839 and I'm having tremendous pain, like it's difficult to pay 391 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:05.640 attention pain. I've got this spleika cast on. This person's 392 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:07.599 telling me how long it's supposed to take me to heal. 393 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.799 I don't like the prognosis I'm hearing. I'm not liking 394 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.799 what I'm feeling. Do you see what I'm saying? And 395 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:20.039 I'm like, I've had enough. And so I started walking 396 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:23.240 around all day morning, middle of the day, during the day, 397 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:26.279 and I just started saying, I'm not okay with this. 398 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.880 And I started saying, thank you Jesus that by your stripes, 399 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:33.440 I have been healed. And surely you took up my infirmities. 400 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.359 I thank you that you carry my pains. I started 401 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:40.720