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hey what’s up everybody not and I want
to invite you personally to our grand
opening transformation Church on
February 9th is the only place for you
to be as we celebrate 21 years of being
a ministry and but it was the grace of
God the grace of God allowed us to be
pastors for 5 years and I believe the
grace of God is gonna allow you to get
here and celebrate with me yes TC nation
we want you in the building
bring your mama daddy your cousin’s best
friends everybody bring them we want you
to be here it is free and we can’t wait
it’s the perfect time to come if you’ve
been wondering when’s a good time to
come this is the event and really what
it’s it’s symbolizing is the mark of
something that has happened in our
church that we want you to be a part of
in crazy faith so Saturday the 8th were
having a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon
at the building to officially open it up
and Sunday morning we are going in at
11:00 a.m. we’re going to worship and
it’s gonna be phenomenal because there’s
a word in the house and that Sunday
night we are having a live worship
recording where we’re gonna sing some of
the songs and record them that have been
marks of this movement and we want you
to be in the place we can’t wait for you
to be there hey February 9th
transformation church grand opening
let’s do it
we’re in a series called stronger and
every year at the beginning of the year
we take time to pick a word that’ll be
our focus for the entire year and kind
of shape what we do and we’ve done this
for the past couple years and this year
the word is stronger say it again
everybody say stronger we’re believing
that this year we’re gonna get stronger
this year we’re gonna grow and what all
of our calling everything God’s given us
what he’s called us to do and in the
purpose that he’s
on the inside of us we’re getting
stronger and really we’re getting
stronger because we know what God has
for it and sometimes it’s easy to think
that we would rather God just get us out
but really there’s two ways of relief
either someone getting out of a
situation or strengthening the person
that’s in the situation so they can
carry it what I’m believing what I know
is this year our church your family your
marriage your relationships your
business is getting stronger come on
does anybody believe that you’re getting
stronger this year and as we’re going
into the series week one we talked about
the value of vision you need to know
that vision has value the Bible says in
in Habakkuk 2 that where there is no
vision the people perish one translation
says the people cast off restraint or
they stop caring we recognize that
vision has to be clear it has to be from
God and it has to be valid but once we
have that vision we got a value it
throughout the year the reason half the
people in this room have stopped on half
of you new year’s resolutions hello it’s
okay I’ve done skipped over a couple of
months but the reason is is because
sometimes our vision gets tainted or or
it gets switched what I realized is you
never actually lose vision you just
trade vision like some of you think you
lose vision you set a vision of you know
what I’m gonna be financially stable and
I’m gonna steward my money well that’s
your vision but what happens is is you
get on Instagram and you see all your
friends on vacation and you don’t lose
vision you just trade vision to being on
vacation and so now you spend your money
and now you’re doing all different kinds
of stuff you don’t lose the vision but
you traded but what we decided is we’re
gonna value vision last week we talked
about winning in weakness was that
message that message help anybody last
week it was so amazing winning in
weakness we don’t have to wait till the
end of the year or wait till we have it
all together but God’s gonna strengthen
us in our weakness and we’re gonna be
able to win and I’m really excited about
the word that I have for you today so if
you have your Bibles
have a real Bible like you didn’t have
to charge your Bible come on the really
saved people we don’t get into heaven
way quicker than everybody else I just I
believe that
second Corinthians 12 6 the second
Corinthians 12 6 is where we’re gonna be
if you don’t have your Bible no worries
at all we got the sky Bible as I like to
call it on the screen so you can follow
along with us there this is what the
Word of God says starting in verse 6 if
I wanted to boast I would be no fool in
doing so because I’ll be telling the
truth but I don’t want to do it because
I don’t want anyone to give me credit
beyond what they can see in my life or
here in my message even though I’ve
received such wonderful revelations from
God so to keep me from becoming proud I
was given a thorn in my flesh scripture
says it was a messenger from Satan to
torment me and keep me from becoming
proud three times I begged the Lord to
take it away at each time he said my
grace is all you need my power works
best in weakness so now I’m glad to
boast about my weakness so that the
power of Christ can work through me
verse 10 that’s why I take pleasure in
my weakness in the insults in the
hardships in the persecution in the
trouble that I suffer with Christ for
when I am weak then I am strong listen
we can shut it down right there and just
go home that isn’t some Bible if you’re
taking notes today and I make this joke
every time because it always gets you to
laugh so I’m gonna keep doing it you’re
taking notes if you’re not taking notes
notes operate as a fast pass when you
get to heaven so you show them your
notes they put you in the short line and
you go right in so I would encourage you
to take notes the title of my message
today is my glitch is my gift
my glitch is my gift I’m about to preach
right now but I’m gonna pray for slow
God we love you so much Lord Jesus we
ask you to come in Lord Jesus we ask for
your presence we ask Holy Spirit that
you would meet us in this moment Lord
God I thank you that you’ve annoyed to
me Lord God not to say what I want to
say but say what you want today so your
people are here we’re open and we’re
listening it’s in the beautiful name of
Jesus and everybody said umm me my wife
we have a little boy his name is Arlo
Fenix he’s the cutest little boy in the
world he’s 10 months old and tomorrow
actually he’s 10 months old and this was
our Lowe’s first Christmas and it was
super exciting because it’s just his
first Christmas and we were so excited
about it and we started thinking what
are we gonna get Arlo for his first
Christmas and honestly we got a little
stressed about it we were going back and
forth of what should we get him and what
would he like and we were laying in bed
one night and I had this revelation that
he has no idea what Christmas is at 10
months old he don’t know what’s going on
really I mean somebody like oh he’s
gonna remember this he’s not like he’s
really not gonna remember it but you’ll
remember it and so it’s more so for you
than it is for them and that’s great but
we were just like you know what we’re
just gonna get him a couple things so he
got him set up for Christmas but I love
just thinking about what is Arlo gonna
like and and I love giving him gifts
matter of fact the other day we were in
Dallas my friend Dylan he started a
clothing company had a fashion show it
was super awesome and we were there in
Dallas and we went and afterwards we
went to the mall and we were in there
and there was this little sweatshirt and
it was super tiny and everything’s just
cuter when it’s tiny like it’s just it
just is like I never understood that now
I’m a dad and I’m just I’m just soft and
I cry all the time and everything’s just
cuter so we we I saw the sweatshirt in
ahead Buzz Lightyear on him now I love
to Buzz Lightyear going up like if you
liked woody that’s cool but we’ll pray
for yet for service no I’m joking but I
like the Buzz Lightyear and so the fact
that my son he has a little tiny Buzz
Lightyear that he actually has like
halfway chewed the face off of it’s kind
of weird but it’s like a faceless Buzz
Lightyear it’s getting a little strange
anyways but he loves Buzz Lightyear Wow
all this sweater that had buzz lightyear
on it he’s actually wearing it today
I’ll probably post it on Instagram later
cuz it’s so cute
but I picked I was like oh he likes Buzz
Lightyear but I didn’t know if he would
recognize like it’s his little toy that
he plays with and so I walked over to
him I was like hey but and I showed him
literally he started like screaming and
smiling and he was like oh so we got him
the hoodie and it was amazing and I was
just I was so excited now summer you try
like Charles I don’t care about that
well I have the mic and you don’t so
sorry that I’m not that mean I promise
it’s just anyways but it made me start
thinking of some of the best and worst
gifts that I’ve ever ever gotten have
you ever gotten a good gift like raise
your hand if you’ve gotten a good gift
before like somebody got you something
and it was exactly what you wanted one
year for Christmas I got a velour I know
I’m wearing this leather right now but I
got a velour Allen Iverson jumpsuit and
Allen Iverson do-rag now if you don’t
know what that is you need to get
educated but it was I was so happy and I
was just I was way too thug for how
light-skinned I was and it was just
people were confused like no my dad’s
black like trust me it’s cool but being
mixed is honestly the best like I could
make black jokes I could make white
jokes that was so random what are we
talking about oval or jumpsuits Oh so is
he ever gonna read the Bible just calm
down so one year there was gifts that I
got every year for Christmas that
honestly were so confusing and some
people say it’s the thought that counts
and I don’t think that’s true because if
you were thinking you wouldn’t have got
me this like you know you know I don’t
but one year there are three things that
I got every Christmas from my Mamaw and
my aunt Lowell or hey I’m on it Lowell
or if you’re watching this I love you
and I’m so grateful for you but I’ll get
three things I will get socks
deodorant and fruit of the Loom
underwear every year without fail socks
deodorant and fruit of the Loom
underwear and every time I opened it I
thought why like why are you getting me
sucks I have socks I have underwear it
like I just I didn’t understand why they
would give me that now as a kid I didn’t
really understand that there are like
two types of gifts there are gifts that
you would celebrate that are really
unnecessary and there are other gifts
that you would never celebrate but
actually most needed you see as a kid I
didn’t have the maturity to decipher
between that which I needed and that
which I wanted and so there were times
where I would get certain things and I
would freak out and scream only to
realize it was adding no value to my
life and there were other things and
about the preacher I told you there were
other things that were gifts that I kind
of passed over because I didn’t
understand the significance it had in my
life I wonder today if there are some
gifts that God has given you some things
that he’s put in your life that right
now you’re looking at them and you’re
not cheering you’re not excited about it
you’re not celebrating but actually it’s
the very gift that you didn’t want but
you needed it it’s the very thing that
God is trying to use but because it
doesn’t look the right way or because
you you wanted something else or you
were planning on getting something else
at a different time you haven’t
necessarily identified the value it has
in your life I think in this room there
are tons of gifts that God has given us
and what I want to talk about today is
your relationship to those gifts your
relationship to specifically things that
you may not identify as gifts today I
want to talk very specifically about
your relationship with your weakness
your relationship with your weakness now
some of you are thinking Charles we
already did the weakness message last
week I’m ready for strength but here’s
the thing
weakness will always be relevant as long
as you are alive as long as you are
breathing on this earth there will be
areas of your life that you’re weak in
and it’s so important that we identify
these areas that we talk about these
areas because until we do we are
standing and acting in a space and
putting on for people and trying to
present ourselves in a certain way like
we got it all together like we have the
money like we have the relationships and
really were weak in that area but what
you don’t realize is God doesn’t share
spotlight let me explain as long as you
are acting strong God can’t be strong
for you
God does not share the spotlight as long
as you are your provider God cannot be
your provider as long as alcohol is your
peace God cannot be your peace he does
not share a spotlight so when it comes
to weakness as long as you’re trying to
be strong as long as in your own power
you’re just trying to act like you have
it all together what you’re failing to
realize is you are taking up the place
of God and I want to talk about weakness
today I want to talk about how are we
gonna get stronger and it’s gonna start
with identifying our weakness my first
point write this down God cannot cover
what you are covering God cannot cover
what you already are very practically if
you want God to step into your weakness
you have to step away from it and give
it to him some of us we talked about
this last week we’re acting like we have
it all together we’re acting like we
don’t struggle with that certain sin
we’re acting like it doesn’t really
bother us and we’re trying to to just
pass over our weaknesses are not focused
on our weaknesses but as long as you are
covering or trying to hide it or trying
to act like it’s not there God can’t
cover that and I just want to set this
groundwork as we’re talking today that
we have to identify our weakness it’s
only insane god I I don’t I don’t have
to figure it out like I’m not strong in
this area like I don’t know how
I’m gonna get through this relationship
I don’t know how I’m gonna get through
this year of college god I like the
scripture says be strong in the Lord not
act strong in the Lord Pastor Mike
talked about this last week but I think
there’s another level of vulnerability
that’s gonna have to happen if you want
to get stronger if you want to be
stronger in your marriage you’re gonna
have to admit that you don’t have the
answer all the time if you want to get
stronger in your finances you’re gonna
have to admit that maybe you didn’t have
the best picture of how to steward money
if you want to get stronger as a father
you’re gonna have to admit you know what
maybe I didn’t see a great picture but
if you want to get stronger you’re gonna
have to admit that you have weakness but
here’s the thing when it comes to your
relationship with your weakness what I
think has happened in some of us has I
have identified our weakness as just the
way I am look if you said that that’s
just the way I am like it’s just I mean
it’s just always I always struggle with
lust I’ll always have those perverted
thoughts it’s just the way I am all my
family my family’s always been like that
like it’s just we always we’ve never
been able to kind of manage money or
I’ll always be afraid of commitment or
all what you know that’s just my
personality you know I’m I’m a ninny
grim 7 so I just I’m not that’s my thing
or I’m that’s what you know like I’m
just that’s just the way I am and the
problem is it’s not that you’re even
trying to hide your weakness but you’ve
gotten so close to it that you don’t
even recognize it’s stealing everything
from your life but when you step up and
identify that thing it gives God the
opportunity to step in and be strong for
me there was definitely and their
silliest times where I’ve thought like
well that’s just that’s just how it is
you know growing up at 15 years old I
was in a locker room and and I got
introduced to pornography and in that
room I knew it was wrong and I had great
parents and I grew up in a Christian
home but I didn’t know how to handle it
and and so it created this cycle and for
years and years and years I would try to
not do it or not look at the wrong thing
or pray more or say the right thing or
try to get an accountability partner try
and I tried all of these things
try to fix this issue that I had but
what happened is is in a moment I
literally read the scripture that we
just read and I just said you know what
it’s just my thorn I always struggle
with it and if you’re not careful this
is what the enemy did from the beginning
the enemy will use what God did say and
he’ll use what he didn’t say and he’ll
twist it so in the Garden of Eden the
devil didn’t live he just said is that
what he said like I think I think you’re
hearing it just it’s a little different
than what you said and what’s careful is
with your weakness with whatever it is
that you struggle in you’ll look at
scriptures like I was given a thorn in
my flesh and I asked God to take it away
and he didn’t and you’ll just be like oh
yeah so I’m just always gonna be in this
lust I’m just always gonna be in this
doubt I’ll just always walk in fear
I’ll just but God didn’t put that there
to torment you or to take from you but
he’s actually trying to teach you
something through that thing he said my
grace is sufficient it’s not supposed to
push you to do it again but it’s
actually supposed to push you to him but
you’ve your weakness is just your buddy
you wake up with your weakness you talk
to your weakness throughout the week but
I’m believing that God wants to
strengthen us in our weakness
now something I would do when it came to
even struggling with lust and
pornography is I would ask God like why
like why is this my weakness have your
Ascot back like why why did I have to
struggle with that like why why did why
did you give me that like God if you
loved me why did you make this the thing
that I would struggle with why did you
watch God if you love to me why did you
not have my father in my life God if you
loved me why wasn’t I born into a
different family God if you look like
why you start asking why of your
weakness and after you ask why for so
long you move on to trying to just wish
it away that’s what Paul’s doing Paul he
said I asked God three times like just
take it away just give it have you ever
done that have you asked
like God if you just get me out of this
situation if you just take that away
from me if I just didn’t struggle with
that I would be who you’ve called me to
be and Paul he says in Scripture in 2nd
Corinthians 12 I was given a thorn and I
begged three times for him to take it
away and he said my grace is sufficient
now there’s a lot of speculation on what
this thorn was some people say it was a
physical ailment that Paul had intense
headaches some people believed that it
was the way he was perceived by other
people and scriptures are clear on what
it was but it’s very clear on why it was
there it says the thorn was given to
keep me from becoming proud now this
starts to mess with your theology this
starts to mess with what you believe
about God because some of us because
we’ve experienced so many good things
because we’ve experienced God because
we’ve made the money because we’ve had a
good life we have trouble dealing with
that your weakness may not have been
from the devil like let’s read the
scripture let’s not like it says I was
given there are two words to me in this
scripture I want to read it to you just
because it really stuck out when I read
it there are two words that stick out so
much to me it’s in 2nd Corinthians he
says so to keep me from becoming proud I
was given a thorn in my flesh a
messenger from Satan to torment me and
keep me from becoming proud two words
that that were kind of stuck out to me
it was the word given and torment now
when we’re talking about a thorn the
word torment makes sense to me like
isn’t what that what your thorn does
like your weakness that area that that
you’re not full like it’s there and it’s
tormenting you it’s there and that’s
what happens with our weakness it feels
like it’s there just to steal from us
just just to hurt us to torment us but
there was another word that didn’t make
sense
it was given he’s talking about a thorn
and he said it was given to me I want to
read this scripture in the message
translation because it opens up
something
so special it says because of the
extravagant revelations and so I
wouldn’t get a big head I was given the
gift of a handicapped wait what the gift
like I was given the gift of a
handicapped god that’s not a gift like
come on my that weakness the thing that
I struggle with that’s not a gift God
like surely you wouldn’t give that to me
as a gift but look what Paul says he
says at first I didn’t think it of as a
gift so I asked God to remove it he said
my grace is enough once I heard that I
was glad to quit focusing on the
handicapped and appreciating the gift I
want to break this scripture down for
you he says once I realized I had God’s
grace I stopped focusing on the
handicapped and I focused on the gift
now what’s interesting in this scripture
is he’s talking about the same thing
when he says handicap and when he says
gift he says I was given a thorn but
then when I realized I had Grace on my
side I stopped calling it that thing
that was there to torment me I stopped
calling it a handicap and I realized it
was a gift now some of you like Charles
you don’t you don’t know my thorn like
you don’t know what I struggle with you
don’t know the things that I’ve been
through
but what if just maybe Paul had a
perspective that we can borrow today
that the weakness that the struggle that
the pain like his how could his thorn be
a gift how give that that financial
tension that you have in your marriage
how could that be a gift like what what
would happen if you saw as a gift like
what if it’s that gift that you didn’t
want but you actually needed like what
if what if it’s the one that that right
now he said at first I didn’t think it
was a gift like at first when they broke
up with me I didn’t think it was a gift
but looking back on it now I realized
that it wasn’t a handicap but it was
actually
a gift come on at first I didn’t think
that the business shutting down was the
gift because I didn’t understand but
when I realized his grace was all I
needed it it became a gift the weakness
or the struggle or can I say the glitch
that you have like that thing about you
that’s just it’s just a little off the
thing about you that people talk about
like oh yeah you know them they say
struggle with that yeah that’s kind of
their thing they’d always been like that
that glitch that’s been there since you
were a kid
the thing that’s caused you to
second-guess your purpose since you were
born that tension that’s in your
relationship that fear that anxiety what
if God’s grace could turn your glitch
into your gift what what if God was so
good that it wasn’t an accident that it
wasn’t just happenstance but what if he
was trying to do something in your life
so special that he would use the very
thing that tried to disqualify you and
your glitch is what made you great now I
would love to preach the Bible right now
before a second I’m gonna preach Disney
have you ever seen wreck-it Ralph if you
have a seen wreck-it Ralph there’s a
couple characters one’s name is Ralph
and there’s another character called
vanellope and vanellope has this issue
she has a glitch she’s in this video
game and she’s supposed to race and
she’s supposed to drive this car and and
be like kind of Mario karts and she has
a glitch that literally causes her to
not be able to race like everyone else
and because she has a glitch the people
in the game tried to kick her out of the
game the only problem is is they are
inside the game so they can’t see the
full picture of what’s supposed to be
happening fast forward to the end of the
story
the glitch that vanellope had was
actually the thing that set her apart
the glitch at the end of the story was
what actually saved all the people who
tried to cancel her because she had a
glitch could I present to you today that
the very thing that people have tried to
label you as the very weakness that
you’ve been praying to get out of is the
glitch that God wants to use to make you
great but as long as you’re doing life
in your power and not with that with
God’s grace it’ll always be a curse
you’ll always look at that part of your
personality as your handicap as the
reason why you can’t do it as the reason
why you you’ll never be or never have or
never be able to but Paul called his
glitch his gift he said it was actually
the thing that I didn’t want but it was
the thing I needed
what if God’s grace my second point
God’s grace turns your glitch into your
gift like what if the thorn that he gave
you wasn’t there to torment you I was
looking at this scripture and God said
this he said Charles my grace is the
flip factor my grace is the flip factor
to God what do you mean by that well as
long as you’re doing things in your
power your thorn is there to torment you
but when you understand you have my
grace you flip it somebody say flip it
as long as you have my grace you flip it
your torment flip the syllables becomes
meant or when you understand that you
have God’s grace the perspective on your
weakness is not that it’s there to
torment you but you realize that God’s
grace allows your glitch to be your
mentor
the problem is with where you are in
your weakness is you’ve been asking why
– your weakness but what you should be
asking God is what – your weakness God
what are you trying to teach me through
this weakness God what are you trying to
show me through this broken part of my
marriage God what are you trying to do
with that area that I haven’t
surrendered to you all the way God what
are you trying to do with my weakness
God’s grace it flips it it changes the
the areas that you’ve been praying to
get out of as the things that he uses it
changes your perspective on your
weakness as not the thing that I need to
run from but what if God is using that
to make me who I am it changes the
things that other people would talk
about for you to step up and like Paul
say now that I’ve got God’s grace I’m
proud to say that I got the weakness
because when I am weak he is strong
God’s grace turns your glitch into your
gift but the only problem is is you have
a part to play the only issue is is
you’ve got to be the one to surrender it
to him like you’ve got to be the one to
allow God to use that weakness you know
Paul in Scripture there’s a portion in
2nd Corinthians where he’s talking to a
group of believers and the Corinth the
church at Corinth is what this letter is
from they were kind of stuck up they
thought they were really good they
thought they were better than other
people and in this time they actually
Paul was the one that planted the church
and they actually say to Paul you need
to prove that you have like the
credentials to be doing this like you
you like and literally the scripture
says they said about Paul on when you
got his letters it was good but in
person he wasn’t really that impressive
and they were looking at the outward
surface of Paul and they thought you
know what when you when you see one part
of his ministry
is pretty good but when you meet him in
up close he’s not even they would say
this in second Corinthians 10 you can
read it they said he’s not a good
communicator
it was his glitch but there was another
guy named Apollo’s and Apollo’s was an
amazing communicator like he was the
best but I realized that the thing that
was actually pause glitch is what made
him great if Paul could speak really
well how much do you think he would have
written down you’ve never read a
scripture from Apollo’s like you’ve
never heard a Polish was the most
beautiful communicator but you never
heard it because Paul realized that the
thing that everyone else said was my
issue was actually the thing that pushed
me into my purpose it was the thing that
allowed me to walk into what God had
called me to be I’m believing that for
you today the thing that people have
said oh come on y’all the thing that
people have said is counted you out the
thing that has caused that marriage to
fall is going to be the thing one day
that pushes you into your purpose it’s
gonna be the thing that makes you who
God has called you to be your glitch is
there gonna come your gift come on does
anybody believe that today see this is
what God does he uses the foolish things
to confound the wise he uses situations
that seem broken situations that seem
like they can’t work out and what he
does is he flips it on his head let’s
look at the life of Joseph Joseph his
brothers they literally beat him up
throw him in a cave he gets sold into
slavery he’s in slavery and somebody
lies about him he gets thrown into jail
again one day he ends up being the king
and his brothers show up and he says you
know what you meant it for bad like you
thought this weakness was gonna hurt me
but God meant it for my good yeah there
are things in your life I promise you
that right now
like Paul it don’t feel like a gift the
tension and that relationship it don’t
feel like a gift right now the the
financial pressure that
you have you don’t feel like a gift
right now the lack of purpose that you
feel I know it doesn’t feel like a gift
right now I know it doesn’t feel like
God’s working it out I know it doesn’t
feel like everything’s gonna come
together I know right I know right now
it looks like it’s dark it looks like it
doesn’t make sense it looked like
there’s no way it could come together
but I promise you without a shadow of a
doubt in my mind that God is working
behind the scenes and one day you’ll
stand up in front of people and say I
know you meant it for harm I know you
tried to come for my marriage I know you
tried to come for my purpose but God
meant it for good and he used the very
thing that tried to take me out to set
me up for what God had called me to do
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we sing that song at the end and was
talking about I want to be tried by fire
that’s a dangerous thing to say like you
was in here like and you gonna get in
the car and start arguing with your
husband a bit like God where are you at
but what if like the short of it the
reason I’ve talked for these minutes is
just to get you to look at your weakness
differently like it’s just I just want
to challenge you that may be the thing
you’ve been writing in your 21 days of
prayer and fasting journal that God
should get you out of let’s be like the
very thing that you’ve been saying God
if you could just take this away from me
and you’ve spent 14 days journaling
about it what if he’s like mm I don’t
see you can’t see it right now but you
you actually need that and if I take it
away if I if I just get you out of it my
end goal of making you stronger the see
I wonder and this is what I’m gonna
close with band and the team could come
back up I wonder if your weakness is
like
socks deodorant and underwear like right
now you’re asking God why would you why
would you give me that like why would
you give me that struggle why would you
give me that weakness but you you don’t
know it and you didn’t want it but you
needed it like the break-up you didn’t
want it and you don’t know it yet but
you needed it like the the tension
that’s in your relationship right now
the frustration that’s caused you to be
stuck in that same spot of your marriage
and it feels like why haven’t we got
past this yet you don’t know it and you
didn’t want it but I bet two different
that there will be a time in your life
that you will say you know what I needed
it I didn’t realize there are so many
different areas that I was trying to
wish away and say God like if you could
just get me out if you could just but
like now I could say you know what I
needed that
like I needed that that struggle with
lust I didn’t want it but I needed it
and right now I just I want to challenge
you to look at your weakness different I
want to challenge you to think like
maybe maybe gods using this thing like
maybe maybe he’s trying to do something
that’s bigger than anything I could ever
think my last point that you need to
know is god never wastes a weakness he
never wastes a glitch and right now is
we’re closing service I’m gonna ask you
if it’s not an emergency – please stop
moving this is one of the most important
times of service we’re about to close
and we’re gonna get you out of here but
some of you in this room there’s an area
of your life
that feels like it’s tormenting you like
there’s a weakness that feels like I
just can’t I can’t get past it I can’t I
can’t I can’t get through it I don’t
know how I’m gonna make it I don’t know
what what God’s trying to do this to
enter and I can’t see what he’s trying
to do what I know is that that weakness
is not by accident but I’m believing
that that thing that you struggle with
that thing that other people have tried
to say has made you not a qualified the
thing that people have said has made you
not be able to walk into your purpose I
believe him that you are gonna have a
different perspective as you leave today
you’re gonna realize that God is not
trying to torment me with that thing
but maybe he’s trying to mentor me maybe
he’s trying to teach me something maybe
he’s trying to show me what that area of
my life that that has caused me to be
afraid of commitment
what if he’s using the tension in the
relationship now to work the issue
that’s on the inside of him what if he’s
using the pressure of being someone or
the pressure that you feel what if he’s
trying you know what I’m trying to
adjust if you would just hold on and
that’s my final encouragement today
Galatians 6:9 it says don’t grow weary
in doing good for at the proper time you
will reap a harvest if you don’t lose
heart
today I’m believing that as we walk out
of here today there’s gonna be a
different perspective on our glitch
thing that we’ve tried to hide from
other people we’re gonna realize that
God’s grace is with us his grace is
sufficient his grace is more than enough
his grace is all you need and here’s the
thing grace isn’t the thing that covers
it when you mess up but grace is the
thing that gives you the ability tonight
get in that situation I was reading this
scripture and it just came back to my
mind thank you so much Holy Spirit I
literally the time when I was struggling
so much unless I would read that
scripture and it would say my grace is
all you need my grace is all you need my
grace is all you need and I always
thought about grace as the after fact
like grace was when I messed up
God had Grace when I when I did the
wrong thing
God has grace but the biggest moment of
God’s grace was before I was even ever
here His grace has always been before
his grace was 2,000 years ago when he
stepped up on a cross and said I know
what you’re gonna go through I know the
weakness you’re gonna have and my grace
is sufficient His grace was enough on
the cross so His grace is enough today
and I’m believing that that weakness
that you’ve had that struggle that you
had you’re gonna realize that you know
what His grace is all I need and now I
walk with my head held high saying yeah
I don’t have it all together yeah I got
issues yeah I got weaknesses but I also
got grace and I’m gonna look at the
things that I’ve tried to get out of and
I’m gonna realize that when I am weak I
am strong another name for our God is I
am when he steps up into the situation
we realize that you know what God is
making me stronger God is making my
family stronger come on does anybody
anybody getting stronger in here today
God is making my finances stronger God
is making my children stronger God is
making this church stronger come on God
is making my mind stronger he’s making
my emotion stronger come on some of
y’all need to believe that right now
come on God is making you stronger he’s
building something in you he’s
something for legacy he’s building
something for your children’s children
he’s building something in your mind in
your sauce in your heart come oh you
were gonna prosper as our soul prospers
and we’re gonna allow God to use our
weakness everyone’s standing in this
room if you’re in this room right now
and there’s a weakness that you have
that you want to let God use I want to
pray for you if there’s an area that you
say you know what I’ve been struggling
with it and I didn’t think I would get
past it and I didn’t know how I would
make it but I want to I want God to use
it I want him to change my perspective I
want to see it in a different way I want
to see it in a new way I want God to use
the thing that’s tried to trip me up and
I’m gonna surrender it to him I’m gonna
let God use my fire I’m gonna let God
use the thing that feels like I just
want to get out of it but I’m gonna
realize that he’s not gonna get me out
because he’s trying to build me up he’s
trying to make me stronger if right now
you’re in this room and you say you know
what I have a weakness that I need God’s
shrinks in like I’ve been viewing it not
as a gift I’ve been trying to get out
I’ve been trying to wish it away I’ve
just been praying God just get me out of
this but today I’m gonna make a decision
to see my weakness as a gift I’m gonna
make a decision to see that struggle as
a gift from God because I don’t know it
yet but I’m trusting that I needed it I
don’t know it yet but I’m trusting that
God’s using it right now if you want to
just have a moment of Prayer we say you
know what I’m gonna let God use my
weakness would you lift your hand right
now I want to pray for you look out you
see your children Lord and we’re saying
we want to be used by you Lord we want
you to use our glich we want you to use
our weakness we want you to use our pain
look out I thank you right now by the
power of the Holy Spirit Lord
perspectives are changing Lord our view
on our pain our view on the struggle our
view on the insecurities look god the
lord literally your scripture says look
God that the enemy tried to use it to
take me down and it actually broke me
down so much that I ended up on my knees
look up and I surrender to you in a new
way so right now look how were your
children and we’re saying we surrender
to you
we give it all to you right now Lord
Jesus with every head still bowed every
eye still closed no one moving there’s
some of you in here right now and you
need to surrender your life to Jesus
that plain and simple until you give
your life to Him there are always be
areas of your life that you won’t have
the strength that you need the bible
says he said my grace is sufficient the
gospel the good news of Jesus is that
before you had that glitch before you
were in your weakness before you had
troubles God saw it and he said you know
what I’m gonna die on the cross for them
just to give them an opportunity to say
yes you don’t have to clean up you don’t
have to stop doing a bunch of bad things
the Bible says this if you believe in
your heart and confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord you shall be saved
some of you that’s the reason you’re
here today that’s the reason you’re
watching online right now is to come
into a relationship with Jesus Christ
and all you got to do is surrender all
you got to do is say yes to say you know
what god I’m gonna let you use every
part of my life I’m not holding anything
back I’m not trying to be somebody I’m
not but I’m gonna surrender right now if
you’re in this room and you want to
accept Jesus into your life you want to
say you know what I’m done doing it by
myself and I need help I’m gonna admit
that I’m weak so God can be strong in me
right now if you want to give your life
to Jesus I’m gonna count to three
and what I want you to do is lift your
hand on the count of three I believe
that when you lift your hand it
solidifies what God is doing in your
heart right now you know it’s you don’t
think oh what are they gonna think about
me and I came with my friend and what
are they gonna say no right now you can
have an encounter with Jesus that’ll
change your life forever one he loves
you too he is proud of you three lift
your hand right now if you want to
accept Jesus into your life I see you
right here ma’am I see you in the
balcony I see you back here so proud of
you I got you right here girls so proud
of you
come on Church with people I got you
brother I see you he
he’s proud of you come on you’ve got a
purpose I see you right here ma’am he’s
so proud of you he loves you I got you
buddy
hey listen we’re gonna say this prayer
all together everybody can pray right
now with me repeat after me say dear
Lord God thank you for dying for me I
admit I’ve made mistakes
I pray you it saved me that you changed
me that you would make me new god
transformed me it’s in Jesus name I pray
amen
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