It’s Fun Month at TC! This week’s special guest is the lead pastor of Social Dallas, Robert Madu! He’s been sharing the Gospel around the world for 20 years with wife Taylor and their family. Check out this message as Pastor Robert teaches us what it looks like to have confidence in the Lord in the midst of pressure. If this message has encouraged you, let us know in the comment and share with a friend!

i want to look at two passages of

scripture i want to look at hebrews

chapter 10

verses 35 and 36

and then also i want to look at the

gospel according to matthew

i want to look at chapter 26 we’ll start

in verse 36 and go down to verse 46 when

you ready to read and say yeah

if you’re not ready say hold up

all right well hurry up come on come on

hebrews chapter 10

starting in verse number 35 and it

declares

so do not

throw away

your confidence

it will be richly rewarded

you need to persevere look at your

neighbors say don’t quit

so that when you have done the will of

god

you will receive what he has promised

whoo that was so nice i want to read it

twice and plus pastor mike said i could

take my time today the writer of hebrews

says so do not throw away your

confidence

it will be richly rewarded you need to

persevere so that when you have done the

will of god you will receive what he

has promised can you say amen

and i want to look at a moment in the

life of jesus in matthew chapter 26

and it says then jesus went with his

disciples to a place called gethsemane

and he said to them

sit here while i go over there and pray

you took peter and the two sons of

zebedee with him and he began to be

sorrowful and troubled then he said to

them

my soul

is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point

of death

stay here and keep watch with me

going a little farther he fell with his

face to the ground and prayed my father

if it is possible

may this cup be taken from me

yet

not as i will but as you will

then he returned to his disciples and

found them calling on the name of the

lord

speaking in tongues and walking back no

no they wasn’t that spiritual ah they

were sleeping

and he said to them uh couldn’t you man

keep watch with me for one hour he asked

peter

watch and pray so that you will not fall

into temptation

the spirit is willing

but the flesh

is weak he went away a second time and

prayed my father if it is not possible

for this cup to be taken away unless i

drink it may your will be done and when

he came back he again found them

sleeping because their eyes were heavy

so he left them and went away once more

and prayed the third time saying the

same thing

then he returned to the disciples and

said to them are you still sleeping and

resting

look the hour has come and the son of

man is delivered into the hands of

sinners rise

let us go

here comes my betrayer

who

what intimate insight

into the personal prayer

of jesus

this prayer is distinctive from any

other prayer that jesus prays yes he

taught the disciples how to pray but

that was a model for prayer yes he

prayed for us and john and said i prayed

that they would be one but this prayer

is different

this was an intimate

moment where he was experiencing

pressure

i’m sorry my my mouth is a little dry

can i get some water just a cup of water

real quick i’m sorry your feet good stay

standing

appreciate that thank you for that cup

cup oh come back come back come back

because three times he prayed

that the cup

would be

removed from him

the cop

thank you for bringing this cup you

didn’t do anything to this water did you

okay i’m just making sure

what could come back what

i love tc because i said i need somebody

to bring me a cup

to set up the message and they picked

him

to bring the cup

they could have picked anybody they

picked him and what’s your name will

whoo

what do you do

when god’s will

brings you a if it was the devil

bringing me the cup i say i rebuked this

cup in the name of jesus but it’s hard

to rebuke

the cup

when is god’s will

you can’t pray this cup away you it’s

almost like you got to be cuffed

to this cup because this is the cup

of his will

now thank you for bringing it well the

reason i asked you if you poisoned it

or if it was all right

because that’s how they would kill kings

in biblical antiquity

they would put poison

in the cup

that’s why you needed a cup bearer who

would test the cup first

who wants that job

they just watch you drinking everybody

waiting to see if you die first

it was important

to make sure that the king’s cup

didn’t have poison before he drinking

but tc what do we say of a king

who knew there was poison in the cup

and yet he chose

to drink it anyway

thank you will i want to preach today

from this thought cup

cup cup if you in the chats just type

cup that’s what i want to talk about

today cup cup cup you need a cup because

i want to talk to you about how to have

confidence

under pressure

confidence

under pressure you need

a cup i feel like preaching today let’s

pray and then y’all can sit down because

i know your right toe is hurting right

now father thank you for your word thank

you for your presence that knows no

limits and no bounds father speak to

every single person today that has an

ear to hear what your spirit is saying

god we are ready we are receptive we

want to receive all that you have for us

lord we did not tune in today to be

entertained

god we’ve come to be drastically changed

have your way in jesus name everybody

said

you may be seated in the presence of the

lord

somebody say cub

confidence

under

pressure

ooh this fun month we may as well just

jump straight off the diving board how

many of you in here or even online would

say that you do good

under pressure can i see your hand if

you say i work well

under pressure a lot of hands a lot of

hands how many of you the opposite said

no no no don’t put no pressure on me i

need to know 10 months in advance i need

a massage and some nice classical music

playing don’t throw anything on me can i

see your hair you don’t do good on the

version oh goodness of your hand so

we’ve already separated the champions

from the chumps

no i’m playing i’m playing i’m playing

but the reality is there is something

about pressure that really reveals who

you are

pressure has a way of pulling things out

of you that you did not know was there i

believe that pressure is the litmus test

for greatness

it is the litmus test for greatness see

pressure really separates the good from

the great

the challenge is not can you do the task

the challenge is can you do it under

pressure pressure is a revealer of who

you are pressure will show you your

character

pressure will show you how much courage

you have and pressure is inevitable so

the question is not the pressure is can

you be confident when the pressure is

coming on you anybody can do the task

but the moments that we watch over and

over again are when people accomplish

great things while they’re under

pressure oh boo-boo i know you can sing

in the shower but if i put you on stage

with a microphone could you sing then

because there would be pressure pressure

i know you can sink that putt and put

put golf

oh yeah you’re real good at top golf but

that doesn’t make you a master if you go

to the masters and you have millions of

people watching you then can you sink

the putt because pressure is always the

litmus test for greatness it’s amazing

to see what pressure will pull out of

you there is a movie that i love it’s

one of my favorite movies because i

believe it is a picture of leadership

and the name of the movie is the king

speech and in the movie actor colin

firth plays

king henry vi

and the movie chronicles the pressure he

was under as his life pushed him to be

king he didn’t even want to be king

anybody ever been there well you didn’t

want to do something but god said oh no

you’re going to anyway and it pushed him

into this place and every time he had to

give a speech every time he had to speak

the pressure would mount and he would

oh the opening scene of the movie is

powerful it’s a picture of pressure

because it shows him walking up to the

microphone his hands are clammy his

heart is palpitating his upper lip is

sweating and all of a sudden the whole

crowd turns around and looks at him and

he goes

today

and he starts stuttering and all of a

sudden the crowd starts losing

confidence in him and he notices them

losing confidence and then he loses

confidence in himself and he buckles

under the pressure oh when i watched

that movie it spoke to me it spoke to me

particularly because of what i do i’m a

leader but i am called to communicate to

preach the gospel and how many know this

right here

oh it’s pressure you don’t believe me

come on up here

this is pressure i’m not trying to get

you to feel sorry for me but i’m just

saying i do have empirical evidence

statistics will tell you that the number

one human fear is public

speaking

y’all death is number two

yes yes that means people would rather

have a funeral than speak at a funeral

because of the pressure of what it is to

get up in front of people and then to

think about the unique nuance of this

right here because this ain’t a ted talk

i’m giving to you this is not a cute

speech whenever you preach the

infallible incorruptible unchanging word

of god you are coming up behind a pulpit

with your head held high saying that

you’ll put your heart to the very

heartbeat of heaven and you are speaking

on behalf of the preeminent pre-existent

incarnate omnipotent all-seeing

all-knowing all-powerful god

that right there is pressure and i

didn’t come to tc to get you to feel

sorry for me i’m called to do this but

i’m willing to bet anything

that if i was to put

your thoughts on speaker phone today

there would be so many people in this

room and even watching online who would

say pastor robert

i’m not a preacher

and i’m not a public speaker

but please believe that i

am under

pressure

what are you doing with the pressure

that you’re under right now

the pressure to perform

the pressure to meet the deadline

the pressure to fulfill

expectations

the pressure to fulfill the unrealistic

expectations of other people

the pressure to be the parent that you

never had

the pressure to raise kids in this

climate and this atmosphere in which we

pressure the pressure to walk into a

boardroom of a job that you got but you

don’t feel like you deserved it and you

trying to give your powerpoint

presentation and you try to be confident

but on the inside of you you are sweet

and shaken because of the pressure

pressure

does not care what your age is pressure

is not prejudice pressure is not racist

pressure is not sexist pressure will hit

you wherever you are it’ll hit a ceo in

a board room it’ll hit a little girl in

a junior high classroom pressure you

would be shot at the pressure the person

sitting next to you is under so much

pressure

pressure purge sometimes people will say

stuff to you and they don’t even realize

that the statement caused pressure

pressure to get married are you still

single

pressure to get divorced are you still

with him

pressure people will tell you little

statements that cause financial pressure

oh i thought another double date i put a

hundred and five dollars in my tank a

hundred and five dollars in texas and

then i went in my car and saw the

temperature and it was 105. i said now

this is hell on earth right here how in

the world is the temperature and the gas

price is the same but it is

it is pressure

for pressure

pressure to be the spouse that was there

before you

that you’re constantly being compared to

pressure to walk into environments where

people have more education than you and

the enemy whispers in your ear

intimidation

because they have so many degrees and

they’re talking about their

dissertations at the table and there you

are talking about uh y’all hear that new

drake album

and all of a sudden

you’re struggling

with the pressure i want to know how you

handle the pressure because hear me it

is a trick of the enemy to get you to

buckle under the pressure to get you to

walk away from the call of god that is

on your life because of the pressure

that will come with the call see here’s

what i’ve learned about the enemy which

is good news to me the enemy cannot

touch your calling

i’ll shout right there some of y’all

give him too much power the enemy cannot

touch your calling if you’re worried

about the enemy messing with your

calling can i tell you relax today the

enemy cannot touch your calling as a

matter of fact the enemy can’t even

touch your gift oh the bible says the

gifts of god are without repentance

means he just gave you the gift because

he’s a good good father he said you can

have it some people don’t even choose to

use the gift to give him glory but he

still was so kind and so gracious just

to give you the gift the enemy cannot

touch your gift he cannot touch your

call oh but he can touch your confidence

and he will attack your confidence

because if he can get your confidence

you will shrink away from your call and

you will deny the gift that is in you

and you will buckle under the pressure

and the fear will stop you from stepping

out

god is looking for somebody

that has the cup

confidence

under

the pressure would you wake up your

neighbor and just elbow them and say you

need a cup you need a cup tell them come

on tell them you need a cup

you need confidence

under

the

pressure

and hear me today tc

i think pressure

mounts up for believers more than any

other group of people

oh yes i think pressure mounts up for

believers more than any other group of

people first of all because of the

attack that comes against us okay you

know you are being hit right now from

three different sides

you are being hit right now sound

effects make preaching better you are

being hit right now from three different

sides

every believer is always at war hear me

with the world

with the enemy satan and with your flesh

those three things have an incredible

ability to put pressure on you because

they are always there we are at war with

the systems of this world how many you

know the systems of this world are

completely antithetical and opposed to

the kingdom of god this is an upside

down kingdom everything in this world is

completely opposite of the kingdom of

god you got to be real careful if you’re

always going with the flow if you’re

always following the current of culture

because we serve a kingdom that is

diametrically opposed to the kingdoms of

this world how many know the kingdom of

this world says kick people down do

whatever you got to do to get to the top

the kingdom of god says no serve people

because the last shall be first this

kingdom is upside down the kingdom of

this world says get all you can and can

all you get be selfish but the kingdom

of god says no no no no you serve a god

that has been generous with you so you

be generous with other people and freely

give i’m telling you this kingdom is

upside down

and so i’m fighting

the principles and the systems of this

world and then i’m fighting the enemy

who is real

who has

a target on your forehead

and the way he attacks you hear me is by

always trying to get a lie

lodged in your mind

the bible says in john chapter 8 that

all he speaks is lies he is the father

of lies and i found that the enemy

always is trying to get a lie

lodged into my mind that i will embrace

as truth

and there’s nothing scarier than a lie

that you have accepted as truth

so i got the enemy

and then i got

my flesh

if the other two wasn’t enough i got

stuff on the inside of me

that is still being transformed i got

stuff on the inside of me that does not

line up with the will of god see some of

y’all acting bougie right about here

don’t act like just cause you gave your

life to christ and you’ve been walking

with god for a long time and you know a

few scriptures that you always holy that

you always got spiritual thoughts the

devil is alive you have some flesh on

the inside of you that’s why you should

never turn up your nose at other people

who are still in process cause you are

still in process i’ve seen you in

traffic any crazy when a car cut you off

oh i didn’t know that was in me i

thought it was just tongues but

sometimes circumstances and situations

will show you that my flesh is still in

prison

[Music]

and so all

of these attacks

are causing pressure

on top of the reality who

that church people love to pretend like

they’re always okay

have you noticed this

see sometimes it’s not even just the

pressure it’s the pressure coupled with

the pressure to pretend that you’re good

yeah come on we’re always in church i’ve

church people are the only people that

will hide pain depression through

christianity oh i’m blessed

i’m highly favored i’m the head or not

to tell yeah no it’s good it’s good you

know god is good all the time i know

he’s good are you good

well i want to do this this exercise i

do this often i want to help some of

y’all in the room and the tc nation

would you do me a favor just look at

somebody around you and just say

neighbor

oh come on look at him say neighbor

god is good

all the time

and all the time

god is good

look at that same never say neighbor

news flesh

i’m not god

didn’t that feel good right there just

to let them know don’t get it twisted

god is good all the time i am not good

all the time sometimes i’m upset

sometimes i’m annoyed sometimes i need

extra prayer sometimes i’m frustrated

sometimes i’m perturbed sometimes i

don’t even like coming to church and

talking to my neighbor because my

neighbor is the one that’s causing me

all the drama in the first place

don’t you carry the pressure

of pretending you’re okay

along with the pressure of life oh i

knew i was supposed to preach this

because we pulled up true story we pull

up to transformation church and the car

gives a signal as we pull up that the

tire pressure

was a low

y’all pray i’ll make it back to dallas i

gotta go fill it up

and get some tire get some air back in

my tire and it’s interesting because

they mandated in 2007 that every car has

to have what they call a tpms

it’s a tire pressure monitoring system

they did it because so many people were

having blowouts they were having

blowouts how many know a blowout is

generally caused because you don’t have

enough air

in your tire and when you are going on

your journey and you’ve got the weight

of the car and there’s not enough

pressure in the tire you blow out

consequence coincidentally that is the

example really of burnout is when

there’s a level of requirement

of you that you don’t have resources to

sustain

so your tire can blow out if you don’t

have enough air

but your tire can also blow out

if you got too much hair

so the challenge is to have just the

right amount of pressure see some of

y’all are frustrated and blowing out

because you don’t have enough pressure

you need more pressure in your life it’s

not that the weight is too much is that

you don’t have enough pressure in your

life some of you don’t have enough and

some of you have too much

the challenge of life is to go on my

journey with the right amount

of pressure

i love what the apostle paul says in

second corinthians y’all good look at

what paul says this this is paul that’s

why you can’t tell me you don’t have

pressure look at the dude who wrote

almost all of the new testament look at

what he says in second corinthians

chapter 1 verses 8 through 10 i love

what paul says he says we do not want

you to be uninformed brothers and

sisters about the troubles we

experienced in the province of asia we

were under great

pressure far beyond our ability to

endure so that we the spirit of life

itself indeed we felt we had received

the sentence of death but this happened

that we might not rely on ourselves but

on god who raises the dead he has

delivered us from such a deadly peril

and he will deliver us on him we have

set our hope and he will continue to

deliver us oh do you see what the

apostle paul is saying he said i’m going

to keep it 100 with you i had some

pressure it felt like a sentence of

death he said but now i can look back on

the pressure and see that the pressure

actually was serving a purpose the

pressure was necessary the pressure made

me not rely on my own gift my own talent

or my own ingenuity the pressure made me

rely on god i don’t know who this

message is for right now but you

actually ought to pause and start

thanking god for the pressure that

pressure is making you pray that

pressure is making you have a prayer

life that pressure is making you worship

you didn’t worship before but now that

you got some pressure you’ve learned how

to lift up your hands you’ve learned how

to call on the name of jesus oh you’re

not gonna help me as a matter of fact i

don’t think you can really worship until

you’ve worshipped under pressure

anybody can praise god when they get a

raise anybody can praise god when they

get a spouse anybody can praise god when

they get win the lottery but i want to

know can you praise god when you get a

divorce can you praise god when there’s

sickness in your body can you praise god

when your kids are going crazy and about

to repossess your car can you still walk

to church and say i will bless the lord

at all times and it’s praised

shall continually be in my mouth i feel

a praise break somebody in the room

right now would you just give god some

praise in the middle of the pressure and

let the enemy know this pressure is not

going to keep me quiet as a matter of

fact the pressure is producing something

great

i’m better under pressure

i’m better under pressure enemy i’m not

backing down my praise

is incubated

when i got pressure

oh

this is

this is the confidence hear me that we

must have

in these last days

we are in the season

across the world

of great pressure

and now more than ever we need believers

who won’t back down

who won’t be quiet

who won’t be intimidated

because of the pressure

and thank god for the model that we have

in jesus

because he said i’m not just going to

show you the parts of my life where i’m

walking on water

taking two fish five loaves and making

the first red lobster

hit on the sick and raising the dead it

would not

be right for me to show you my victories

and i’ll show you my vulnerabilities

so thank god for the garden of

gethsemane

we see jesus

under pressure

and by the way all that was my

introduction

[Music]

because there’s

there’s four things

that i see in the life of jesus

that help us today

to have confidence under pressure hear

me you under pressure you’re under

pressure right now and you’re trying to

see how do i have confidence under this

pressure i want to give you four things

that will help you have this confidence

under pressure and stop passing off a

cup

that you have to drink

the first thing

first thing

is a preview

you gonna have confidence under pressure

you need

a preview

hear me your god

loves to work in previews

generally whenever

you’re about to step into your purpose

before it ever happens he’ll give you a

preview

he’ll give you a preview of what he’s

about to do and the reason you need the

preview is because it is the preview

that you have to hold on to

when you have the pressure

the bible says in hebrews we get insight

into jesus preview it says in hebrews it

says that for the joy that was set

before him

he endured the cross scorning is shame

that’s what jesus did who was the joy

that was set before him you and i

we were the joy so he says yes i’m in a

place of pressure right now but there is

a joy that is set before me i’ve got to

go through this because on the other

side of this is communion with humanity

i’m going to be able to bridge the gap

that was created by adam’s sin in the

garden and he had to have that preview

if you don’t have the preview oh there’s

no way you’ll stand under the pressure

god will always give you a preview all

right how many of you in here uh you

like to go to the movies can i see him

you like to go to movies and chance you

let’s go to the movies okay i’ve learned

i can’t go to the movies with everybody

can’t go to the movies for everybody

because there’s some of you there’s some

of you whenever you go to the theater if

the movie starts at seven o’clock you’re

trying to leave the house at 6 55. i

don’t go to the movies with y’all okay

because you’re like it’s the previews i

don’t go to the movies with y’all i go

to the movies with people who know if

the movie starts at seven you gotta

leave the house at 5 50. yes you got to

get there you got to get comfortable i

got to go and get my peanut m ms i got

to get the popcorn and make sure they

don’t feel it all the way up to the top

hallelujah just all the way almost close

to the edge so i can put the butter in

it and shake it around i need to have

some time to get my seat and relax in my

seat because i ain’t trying to miss the

previews i want to see the previews

because the only thing better than going

to see a movie is going to see what

movie you’re going to see next while

you’re seeing the movie i

love the previews

go get somebody who’s just the previews

though i need the previews and it blows

my mind how they can give you the

preview of a movie and it is so powerful

how they show you certain little scenes

of the movie and you will be so excited

you’ll be like

i can’t wait till this drops this is

going to be good and right after you’ve

just gotten your heart all excited from

the preview they’ll hit you with this

coming 2050.

i gotta wait till 2050 for this book you

just got all my hopes up and i gotta

wait till 20 50. sometimes they won’t

even be that precise they’ll be like

coming soon

that is how your god works he will give

you a preview but i’m telling you in

between the preview and the premiere day

there is pressure but if he gave you the

preview hold on to the preview it has to

come to pass

uh who am i preaching to today the

enemy’s trying to get you to walk away

when you know god gave you the preview

he wouldn’t have gave you the preview if

it wasn’t gonna come to pass

[Applause]

see that’s i gotta stop right here this

is why i’m glad for where we’re filming

this right here i never forget i’m never

giving pastor mike took me right in this

room right here where it all started and

i couldn’t have a context for the spirit

bank arena until i saw this place right

here because god ain’t gonna give you a

preview in a beautiful place he will

give you a preview in a place that looks

completely opposite of where you are and

he wants to know where you hold on

even when there is pressure

abraham and sarah

look up

see the stars

see the saying why it’s your preview

you’re going to be the father

of many nations

joseph

you got a dream

while i got this dream

because it’s a preview

but don’t shout too soon

the pressure

it’s gonna come in the pit

it’s gonna come in the palace and god

always wants to know will you hold on to

the preview

even when it seems like the premiere

date

is taking forever

you need a preview

you need a preview if you’re going to

have confidence on the pressure but you

don’t just need a preview you also

number two

you need a place

you need a place

this is gonna blow your mind one time

jesus

is in the garden of gethsemane and if

you just read matthew and mark’s account

you will think that this is his first

time in this garden that he just

stumbled upon this garden

and now he’s praying

but i love dr luke’s account because

luke is a doctor and he is thorough

and luke gives us a little blues clues

that made me shout

when i read it look at luke 22

verse 42

he says um

he says uh

jesus went out

as

usual yeah verse 39 jesus went out as

usual to the mount of olives and his

disciples followed him on reaching the

oh come on somebody say it

okay about about 20 years somebody say

place

on reaching the place he said to them

pray

that you will not fall into temptation

did you hear what dr luke said

he said he went to the place as

usual

this was not jesus first time in this

garden praying

he had a regular routine he had a

consistent place of communion with the

father this was not an emergency prayer

because the pressure was mounting no no

no this was a place that he had already

been before god i feel you in here today

the reason why many of us are buckling

under the pressure is because you don’t

get a prayer life until life starts

going crazy no wonder you can’t handle

the pressure but god said if you were

just find a place if you would just find

a consistent place of connection with me

of communion with me you would be

shocked at the strength you would be

shocked at the fortitude you would have

if i could just have you in a consistent

place this is not a message of

condemnation this is a message of

encouragement to tell somebody

transition from being a 9-1-1 believer

you know i was like oh lord this bill

dude i need you now transition from

being a 911 believer to a psalm 91 1

believer

it says he who dwells in the secret

place of the most high he who dwells in

the secret place of the most i shall

abide under the shadow of the almighty

because my strength is in the dwelling

as simple as it is some of you right now

could actually have more power in the

pressure

if you just had a place

a consistent place and don’t let the

enemy intimidate you you ain’t gonna

start with six hours of prayer just

start small do something

take two minutes three minutes because

the enemy is after that place

you don’t believe the enemies after that

place don’t you find it strange that

whenever you’re getting ready to netflix

binge a show you’ve got all kinds of

energy you can watch the whole episode

but as soon as you get ready to open up

the word of god that sleepy demon with

you

and you wake up in your bible talk about

you know my heart jesus thank you

why the enemy’s trying to block your

place

because he knows if you ever get in that

place

you can handle the pressure

jesus says i’ve been to this garden

before

i wasn’t waiting for the pressure to

mount up

to find a place

you gonna have confidence under pressure

you need a preview

you need a place

that’s not enough

you also need

people

you need the right people

it’s not enough to have the preview

it’s not enough to have the place

if you do not have the right people

look at your god who was a fully god and

fully man

and yet he did not go by himself to this

garden

i’m thinking if i am god in flesh i

don’t need y’all to go to this garden

what y’all gonna do for me

y’all ain’t get on the cross with me i’m

good but no no no he’s modeling

something for us that when you are under

pressure you need people

and i come against this spirit of

isolation

that has started since the pandemic

where you want to isolate yourself and

you want to get away from community you

fight for community you fight to be in a

connector whatever you have to do

because you need people

but

you need all kinds of people

you better have the right people who

this is going to bless you this trip me

out look at it real quick in matthew 26

this is going to mess you up

he he didn’t just get

any type of people look who’s with him

in this moment matthew 26 it says then

jesus went with his disciples to a place

called gethsemane and he said to them

sit here while i go over there and pray

he took peter and the two sons of

zebedee along with him that’s james and

john and he began to be sorrowful and

troubled

you read what i just said yeah let me

read it one more time it says then jesus

went with his disciples to a place

called gethsemane and he said to them

sit here while i go over there and pray

and he took peter and the two sons of

zebedee along with him and he began to

be sorrowful and troubled

y’all didn’t catch it do you see the

shade

that was just thrown in that verse right

there

he takes all 12 of them imagine being

the 12. just imagine being the 12 and

walking with them can you imagine i

don’t know how they walked i always

that’s why i want to ask when i get to

heaven how did they walk was like a

single fall line all behind jesus was a

six on this side six on this high and

they just took up the whole highway i

wonder how they walked when they walked

together all 12 of them are walking to a

place and then your god and my savior

who is full of love and compassion

pauses and says uh

hold up

y’all stay here

peter

uh james

john

y’all come with me

and left the other nine of them right

there can you imagine being the other

nine

oh okay cool nah that’s fine now we stay

here y’all go ahead y’all go ahead can

you imagine he took only those three

peter

james

and john what is jesus teaching us

that when you are under pressure

you’ve got to have the right people with

you

because often when the pressure gets

greater your circle will get smaller

when i am under pressure i am vulnerable

and i cannot have everybody around me

when i’m under pressure i got to have

the right people around me under

pressure i don’t need negative people

around me when i’m under pressure when

i’m under pressure i need your

encouragement i need you telling me not

who i am but who i could be if i would

just keep going

peter

james

and john i don’t know why he picked

these three but he often

chose these three

actually two other moments he chose

these three

remember when he healed jairus daughter

and he cleared the room he said oh y’all

get out why because she about to get up

and you messing up the atmosphere

remember that

kicked them all out they said peter

james and john

tells her to lethal and

a girl gets up from the dead

tells her give her something to eat and

then he does something strange she walks

out and says oh yeah

don’t tell

anybody can you imagine

being in that room you saw a girl who

you knew was dead

get up

because jesus

took her hand and now you’re going out

to the other now and say what happened

in the room oh man

can’t really tell you about it

it happened on the mount of

transfiguration these three

he starts revealing his glory

his clothes become whiter than anybody

could ever bleach it moses and elijah

people who are dead show up

only these three got to see this they

walking back down the mountain they bout

to post it and jesus ah

keep it to yourself come on you know you

know you would have had it on tick tock

just just just contextualize it can you

imagine going on a mountain with jesus

and then tupac and biggie just show up

right there

you would be posting it

and do it

it kept it

because

i know you’re the right person if i can

trust you

i know you’re the right person

if i can show you who i really am

and you stay connected to me

some of you right now

the pressure is mounting because you

have the wrong

people

and god’s saying when was the last time

you did an audit

of your circle

to make sure that the people that are

with you are not adding to the weight

and the pressure that you’re under

you you’re gonna have confidence on the

pressure you need a preview

you need

a place consistent communion with god

you need people but not just any people

the right

people

there’s levels to intimacy some of you

are too intimate too quick with

information and with yourself to other

people that have not earned that level

of intimacy

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somebody says i gotta have the right

people

and here’s the last one

and i’m done somebody can play real soft

make this sound spiritual as i land

because here’s what trips me out

is that even

though we had

the right people

peter james and john

their behavior in this vulnerable moment

shows you the frailty of humanity

these are the only three

that get to see him sweating blood

i’m thinking come on y’all all he asked

you to do was just pray with him for one

hour all the miracles you saw you

couldn’t just pray with everyone out

and they’re asleep

and finally jesus after checking a few

times says go ahead and go back to sleep

it’s fine

you know why because at the end of the

day you’re just flesh

you’ve got to have the right people but

ultimately people cannot be your source

of hope and power

the reason they cannot be your source of

hope is because

they are flesh

they’re flesh

and all flesh

falls asleep

i don’t care who you voted for i don’t

care what’s your culture what your race

is i bet you’re gonna go to sleep

nobody is so spiritual you just awake

all the time

he never sleeps or slumbers we do

but he finally gets to a place where he

says sleep on

and some of us hear me are so

heartbroken

because we put too much hope

in other people

and when they fell asleep on us

we got bitter

and we walked away

instead of giving grace you know why

because you fall asleep too

isn’t it funny how you have so much

grace for when you fall asleep

when i can’t believe you would sleep on

me you sleep

too so many times we put so much hope in

other people

and my other people cannot be the source

of my hope

ultimately i gotta go somewhere else

i gotta have

power

that’s the last p

you need power

not regular power supernatural power

show us in the text i’ll show you

again matthew and mark don’t give us

these details but luke does

he’s in the garden

under pressure

sweating blood

the ones he thought he could trust

they were the right people but they fell

asleep too

there’s no other place to go but back to

the father

he says if it is your will

if it is your will

i’ll take this cup

and right after he prays the most

powerful thing you can pray which is not

my will but god’s will be done

look at what happens he says father if

you’re willing take this cup for me yet

not my will

but yours be done

an angel

from heaven

appeared to him

and strengthened him

and being in anguish he prayed more

earnestly and his sweat

was like drops of blood falling to the

ground did you read what i just read

jesus prayed not my will but your will

be done and right after he prayed that

the bible says an angel appeared and

strengthened him when i read that i took

some issue i took some issue with mel

gibson i took issue with mel gibson

because i watched the passion of the

christ i watched it a couple times and

nowhere in that gethsemane scene did i

ever see an angel come to strengthen

jesus i saw the little evil character

with no eyebrows that was bald-headed

they had this snake i didn’t see this

angel and i’m thinking if you’re gonna

produce a movie please show the angel i

need to see the angel i need to know

that when i’ve been given a preview of

the promise and when i found a

consistent place of communion with god

and that when i found the right people

but even those people have let me down i

need to know that if i’ll just humble

myself and surrender and say god not my

will but your will be done i don’t like

it it doesn’t feel good but it’s your

will i need to know that an angel will

come that i got supernatural assistance

and power even in my moment of weakness

oh i don’t know who this is for today

but you’ve been focusing on the sweats

of blood that you didn’t even see that

you got strength you got power that god

already released angels to give you the

strength that you need come on you know

you said you wasn’t gonna make it in

2020 but look at you you’re still here

you’re still standing you said you were

gonna have a nervous breakdown but you

still got your right mind how is that

possible because strength come that’s

coming

oh i need somebody right now to give god

the best praise that you got like you

know that if you will surrender strength

is coming to you hope is coming to you

life is coming to you i got straight

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you can be so busy

seeing the sweat of blood

can be so busy

focused on who fell asleep on you

and who’s betrayed you

and who’s left

and you don’t even see

that strength

power

has come to you

because god will always give power

when you give surrender

some of you right now are still

complaining about the cup that you’re

supposed to drink

saying god i’m not gonna do it

but he’s waiting for

a prayer that says

not my will

but your will be done

need a cup

you need to drink the cup confidence

under the pressure

nobody else can drink it for you

only you can pray that prayer of

surrender

and if you would surrender

god says i got power

i got strength

that will come to you even

with the sweat

that’s coming off your forehead

i’m gonna ask every head be bowed eyes

be close i

sense the power of god in the presence

of god

i don’t know who this is for today but

you will not

back down

you can’t give up

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there’s too much purpose on your life

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come against every lie and whisper of

the enemy that says you won’t make it

trying to get you to kill yourself no no

no no

he came that you might have life

life more abundantly

i know it’s a lot of pressure

can i tell you the pressure is not going

away you need confidence

under the pressure

comes with the cup

and so wherever you are

watching online in this room would you

just bow your head and close your eyes i

i want to pray for

somebody who says you know what i need

that confidence

for the pressure i’m under i don’t know

which one of those points

was for you but you know how god is

speaking to you

maybe he’s calling you to find a place

consistent place

you cannot

have a part-time prayer life

when you have a full-time enemy

it’s coming against you

you need a place

maybe you’ve been giving up on the

preview now you’re starting to doubt

what you saw no no no he gave you the

preview

because there is a premiere date

there’s pressure in

between maybe it was the people and

even as i was preaching god’s revealing

people in your life that he’s saying no

they’re not bad but they can’t have that

level of intimacy with you

some of them they are bad and you need

to cut that relationship up i know god

is speaking to you

and i know he wants to give you power

that’s you in this room hold on would

you just lift up your hand if you say

one of those was for me and today god

i’m i’m giving it to you thank you jesus

thank you god thank you

thank you god that you know what we need

god i speak fresh confidence and

boldness over your people today

we will not shrink back from our call or

our gift

but we will

having done all to stand stand there

for

hallelujah one more thing heads are

still our eyes are still closed if

you’ve never surrendered your life to

jesus

i’d love to give you that opportunity

somebody right now you’re watching this

at home

maybe you stumbled on this on youtube

and you couldn’t stop watching you

wonder why tears are coming down your

face it’s because god knew you were

gonna watch this

and i’m gonna give you that opportunity

to say lord my life is yours you don’t

have to wait to get yourself together to

come to him you come to him just as you

are

i just want you to repeat this prayer

after me we’re all going to say it with

you but you say it from your heart would

you say this say dear jesus

i need you

i cannot do life

without you

jesus i know

i’m a great sinner

but i also know

you’re a great savior

so today

forgive me of my sin

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make me brand new from this moment

forward

i’m walking with you

in jesus name

amen amen amen if you meant what you

prayed would you give god praise today

oh come on you can do better than that

would you give king jesus some praise

today

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faith how many were blessed by the word

of god today

come on this is just the appetizer fun

month is going to keep going from glory

to glory and strength to strength don’t

miss a single week but until next sunday

go out and live a transformed life come

on somebody give god some praise

you