Far too many of us are satisfied with a revelation of God that is best described as crusts and crumbs. We are content to listen to sermons and podcasts and retweet the leftovers of another person’s banquet. However, the truth is that God wants you to feed on His faithfulness. Lisa whets your appetite as she reveals the vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you. Watch my full Course on MessengerX: https://app.messengerx.com/en-US/watc…

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I know what your passes look like but

that’s not who you really are because a

lot of us are not who we really were in

our past and God wants you to get into

his presence so he can actually begin to

unpack who you really are

[Music]

the next session we’re going to be

talking about is don’t settle for crumbs

and rumors

too many people settle for something

less than what God has for them you know

when Austin was a little boy we got him

this um

if it’s like rocking bouncing horse that

was on Springs and it was his favorite

thing to strip down to his underwear and

ride that bouncing horse to when finally

we had good Christian music does anybody

remember you guys were probably all

young but we used to have bad Christian

music you had to pretend like you liked

it but it was bad and the Integrity

Hosanna had just come out with you know

some cassette tapes and we were playing

Rejoice Africa and that my boys were

like so excited to not just have white

men singing to them but to have a black

brother singing to them and there was

this Rejoice Africa song and Austin

would ride to this song and whenever the

praise and worship leader would say

talking about God he’d say there’s

nobody like him he’d say that nobody

like him and my son would be like nobody

like him nobody like him and he’d be

bouncing on the horse and I thought wow

how interesting that he like pulled out

that phase and he would just have his

mullet bouncing and just totally excited

so one day he came down he goes mom

why nobody like God why nobody like him

and I said no no no no he’s not saying

that nobody likes God he is saying that

there is nobody like God and I said it’s

not like God is lonely and he doesn’t

have anybody to sit with you know we’re

all doing the little signs like you can

sit with me that is not God’s issue that

he’s looking for somebody to sit with

him because he’s lonely he didn’t create

us because he is lonely he is God alone

and repeatedly in scriptures

predominantly in the book of Isaiah God

asks who is like me

who is like me

there is nobody like the most high

and we might be tempted to think it’s

just kind of like I’ll just ponder that

thought

but the truth is when you actually stop

treating that statement

like a rhetorical question

and acknowledge it as truth and say

there is nobody like you when God comes

to you and says who is like me say

nobody nobody my husband isn’t like you

my children aren’t like you my friends

aren’t like you my Pat there’s nobody

like you God

you alone

are The Giver of Life you alone are the

Lord most high

we have a culture right now that is kind

of dumbing down God’s image reducing him

to kind of our BFF that might follow us

on Twitter but the truth is

that God

alone

God Alone

is to be worshiped and to be praised and

when I Was preparing for this I began to

think about why it’s really important

that God has no rival

see everything that happened with the

fall didn’t begin in the Garden of Eden

it actually began

when Lucifer who was the star of the

morning who was the covering Archangel

over worship

began to imagine

that he was like God he began to see

that God was receiving all this worship

and because he was the Bible says

perfect

and beautiful

and full of wisdom

he thought I think I’m like God

I think I’m like God

and the Book of Ezekiel and the book of

Isaiah talks about how iniquity rose up

in his heart

and he was cast out but you know this

wasn’t just a random thing one-third of

the Angels went with him

so we can’t think

that this is just something that was a

isolated insulate because we have a

world right now where people think

they’re actually like God and I’m not

talking about

a reflection of his attributes I’m

talking about a people who think they

have the right to rival him

God will not share his glory

and God will not share his position

with anyone else

even though our God is invisible

his existence is undeniable

The Book of Romans tells us in chapter 1

verse 19 but the basic reality of God is

plain enough

open your eyes and there it is

by taking a long and thoughtful look at

what God has created

people have always been able to see what

their eyes as such

can’t see

eternal power for instance and the

Mystery of his Divine being

so that nobody has a good excuse

you know we walked in today we saw those

mountains and I don’t know if you saw

them earlier this morning I was up super

early I was up at Dark 30 and I got to

see those mountains in their pink and

purple Majesty

and I tried to take a picture through my

shower window of of those mountains but

the truth is it was a very limited

reflection and no matter how many

filters I tried to put it through on

Instagram it didn’t capture the essence

of what I felt when I saw that sun

coming over the mountains

the existence of our God

is undeniable and everybody’s like well

how do you know there’s a God look at

everything that is seen and it declares

what is unseen

his reality is one thing

his definition

is another

Our God

supersedes Earthly definitions

Our God actually is the undefinable one

because how can we Define the one

when we are limited by an earth-bound

language do you understand that we don’t

actually have words that were created in

our Temple realm that can actually

describe God who lives in the Eternal

realm our language is limited by our

experience and if we have never

experienced anybody like God then we

have no words to reference God so we

can’t even describe him he is the god

that is Indescribable by anything that

we would know as language

it says in first Timothy that our God

dwells in unapproachable light

this is what it says it says he’ll show

up right on time his arrival guaranteed

by the blessed and Undisputed ruler the

high King High God he is the only one

death can’t touch his light so bright

that no one can get close

he’s never been seen by human eyes human

eyes can’t take him in honor to him an

eternal rule

if our eyes can’t even process him

then we couldn’t draw more than a stick

figure of an outline of him

I asked some women I said what what is

it

that shuts down your ability to identify

with God what is it that keeps you out

of his presence

first woman said distractions I think we

all live in a culture right now that is

trying to distract us

always drawing us into the presence of

something else instead of the presence

of God we have social media we have

Netflix we have phones we have

everything interrupting us and the truth

is God won’t interrupt your

interruptions God will just wait and it

is easier to go into the presence of

things than it is to go into the

presence of God it is easier to go into

the presence of people than it is go the

presence of God but if you learn how to

draw near

then he will manifest himself but you do

come in

calling him who he is

holy

calling him who he is your utmost

desires number two busyness to me is

into this whole realm of distractions

and the truth is you know sometimes I

think that people are like okay we’re

going to stop being busy we’re just

going to stop everything no we actually

need to be

have well have full lives not just busy

lives we need to be effective it’s okay

to be busy if you’re not just busy for

busyness sakes but you have a full

effective life you will be miserable if

you do not have a full life number three

guilt and shame we think God is in there

just getting ready to yell at us well

the truth is he’s not he’s not looking

for a reason to condemn us he’s looking

for a reason to connect us to our future

and to say this and this is taken care

of number four legalism

legalism legalism is an interesting

Dynamic one of the women said it’s the

beginning of the new year and this

Forest reading plan every single year I

fail it I’ve already missed a day it’s

only like January 10th and I’m already

in trouble so you know the thing is

anytime you begin to hear the words I

have to I have to read my Bible I have

to pray I you already have the wrong

motive

I mean if my husband said I have to

spend time with my wife I’d be like you

know you can just skip that buddy

it’s been about a have to

it’s about a want to you know I know for

myself you know again growing up in the

80s was just a really awkward legalistic

time and you know there was this whole

teaching about can you not pray an hour

and you know and I couldn’t I couldn’t

I’d fall asleep I had a brand new baby

if I was you know if I was in the closet

in the dark so I wouldn’t be distracted

I would fall asleep on the shoes if I

had the light on then I began organizing

my closet and I totally forgot that I

was supposed to be praying and so I

couldn’t do it and God finally was like

stop this I want you to want to come to

be with me

this isn’t about me this isn’t like oh I

can’t do anything in heaven unless Lisa

prays I’ve been completely disempowered

he’s like I need Lisa to pray so I can

actually float through her life

and too many of us are living

on crusts and crumbs

and if we get a revelation

like job had a revelation of The Wonder

of God

then we will want to go into him in job

42 verses 5-6 I love how the message

unpacks it

job has had God show up after all the

counselors which I one time thought were

sounding really good uh there after all

the counselors God shows up in a

whirlwind

of Wonder so he doesn’t see God he just

sees the what’s around God he just sees

the cloud he just sees the

inapproachable light and he says I admit

I once lived by rumors of you

now I have it all firsthand

from my own eyes and ears I’m sorry

forgive me I’ll never give live on

crusts of hearsay and crumbs of rumors

you know I love that we have so much

available to us right now I love that

you can watch podcasts and you can go

listen to sermons online but the truth

is those are crumbs

they’re good crumbs but they’re like

Hansel and gretel’s crumbs

that you’re supposed to follow the path

of those things

so that it brings you into God’s

presence nobody has a podcast so that

you just come into their presence they

have a podcast because they want to lure

you into God’s presence

but you won’t go into God’s presence if

you actually don’t know who he is and

because we have this inapproachable

light and this language barrier God says

I’m going to send my son Jesus

so that they can understand how they can

approach me and what I would do and how

I would interact with them but even in

Jesus day he had to like deal with some

of this with his disciples in Matthew 16

starting with verse 15 Jesus is pulling

his disciples they’re walking around and

caesarea Philippi and he asks his

disciples

what are the people saying about the son

of man

and they replied some think he is John

the Baptist

some say Elijah some say Jeremiah or one

of the other prophets

and you know people will tell you who

they think God is

but Jesus pressed his disciples

and when you get into the presence of

God

he’ll press you

and he’ll ask you the same question that

Jesus asked his disciples here

he said and how about you

who do you say I am

Simon Peter said you are the Christ

the Messiah the Son of the Living God

Jesus came back and said God bless you

Simon son of Jonah you didn’t get that

answer out of books

or from teachers you didn’t get it from

rumors

and you didn’t get it from crusts and

crumbs

he said my Father in Heaven God himself

let you in on this secret of who I

really am and now

I’m going to tell you who you really are

see when you have a revelation of who

God really is

then he is positioned for the first time

to tell you who you really are

he said you are Peter

a rock it wasn’t just like hey I like

the name Peter better so I’m going to

stop calling you Simon I’ve had some bad

experience with Simon’s you’re going to

be a Peter no he was saying you’re solid

Peter you’re not going to be up and down

all the time

you’re stable you’re a rock I know what

your passes look like but that’s not who

you really are because a lot of us are

not who we really were in our past and

God wants you to get into his presence

so he can actually begin to unpack who

you really are

and he says this is the rock on which I

will put together my church what is this

rock personal revelation of God presence

in our lives beginning to talk to us and

tell us who we are he said this is the

rock on which I will put together my

church a church so expansive with energy

that not even the Gates of Hell will be

able to keep it out and he goes on to

say and that’s not all

you will have complete and free access

to God’s Kingdom keys to open any and

every door no more barriers Between

Heaven and Earth

Earth and Heaven a yes on Earth is a yes

in heaven and a no on Earth is a no in

heaven

I told you in the last session you’re

really a child of God

but then even in that child thing there

is a unique representation of who you

are I actually had God tell me who I was

one time and it was a really interesting

Dynamic I was arguing with an editor on

the phone about wording on a book and

you know when God gives you something

with specific wording you don’t want to

have it edited differently and so I said

but that is not how he gave it to me and

so when I hung up the phone my husband

was like whoa whoa whoa you were really

adamant about that and I said I am

adamant I am adamant about that because

you know what I I’m going to answer to

God and so that day the most unusual

gift came home to me this little

treasure box came at home and sometimes

I get random gift size like okay and but

I opened it up it had this big stone

that fell down that looked like a a

diamond

and then it had a scroll and opened up

the scroll and it said you are my

adamant

and it said the stronger the enemy gets

the stronger you’ll get and I didn’t

know this but an adamant is a diamond

and God has something that he wants to

speak over your life that’ll be an image

like he gave me to not back down that no

matter how hard the enemy came against

me to continue to be adamant see our

identity is intimately related to our

revelation of who Jesus is

so I’m going to ask you who do you call

them

who do you call them you call him savior

yeah he’ll save you you call him

good teacher he’ll instruct you you call

him wise counselor he’ll give you wisdom

do you know Islam calls him a prophet

and a Healer and a worker of Miracles do

you know that history says that Buddha

actually prophesied that Jesus would

come

but that doesn’t mean

they hold him in the place

that you need to hold him into

those Revelations are crusts and crumbs

because when we call Jesus the Christ

the Messiah

the Lord

the son of the most high Living God

we experience a revelation of all he is

not just a few things first John 4 15-17

says whoever confesses that Jesus is the

son of God God abides in him and he and

God that is why we have unlimited access

because we live in him and he lives in

us so we have come to know and believe

the love that God has for us God is love

and whoever abides in love abides in God

and God abides in him by this is love

perfected with us so that we may have

confidence for the day of judgment

because as he is

so are we in this world

our connection is made through our

confession

there is something that is bridged in

the gap

when we deny ourselves and choose to be

found in him

he reveals himself as I press in to God

he reveals me

so I’m going to close out with declaring

certain things about him

because of who he is you are who he says

you are because he is love

you are loved

and you can be loving because he is life

you are alive because he is able you are

capable

because he is my brother I am God’s

daughter because he is Almighty you are

mighty because he is a Healer you are

healed because he is wisdom you can be

wise

because he is you are

fearfully

and wonderfully made

let’s invite the word of God to gain

full expression in our lives

heavenly father because of who you are I

am who you say I am

show me who I really am father as I am

in your presence and I ask that you

would create moments for each and every

one of these daughters

that your presence would Astound them

with your Wonder

and that in your presence they would

accept everything that you say about

them

as a gift

father that they would find out what you

have made them to be capable of that you

would whisper a secret name

to them that would ignite something in

their spirit with a picture that they

would know beyond a shadow of a doubt

that you are a god without rival in

Jesus name

amen and amen

in this session we learned about the

identity that God has given us you know

we can’t even know who we are in our own

human mind our confines we discover who

we are in the presence of God so we want

to actually position you we don’t want

you to be like oh that’s a beautiful

concept we actually want you to have a

date with God we want you to put

something on the calendar see if I’m

gonna have a date with my husband it’s

not going to happen unless we put it on

the calendar because the things of Life

are going to come up and then we’re not

going to do it but you don’t want to

just be like oh I have to do a date with

God we want you to do a date with God

doing something you love doing something

that is unique to you maybe you’d love

to go for a walk maybe you like to sit

and be still maybe you just want to ride

your bike this is going to be a time for

just you and God and you are going to

ask him to reveal a portion of himself

to you and when you have a revelation of

who God really is he’s going to begin to

whisper a revelation to you about who

you really are I can’t wait for you to

be in the presence of God I can’t wait

for you to hear his whisper I can’t wait

for him to draw forth this real you this

time together is going to be so

significant that you are going to leave

his presence changed so I need you to do

this you don’t need to settle for crusts

and crumbs that everybody else’s

Revelation and time with God this is

about you having a banquet with him