Service Date: 05.21.17 11AM
[Music]
God sent Leah texted that he wanted me
to talk about today and it’s in isaiah
43:18 2:19 isaiah 43:18 2:19 and isaiah
the prophet is talking to the israelites
God’s people and Isaiah this particular
book is looked at as one of the richest
books of wisdom in the Bible it has 66
chapters which kind of mirrors the Bible
and right here what I find so
fascinating is Isaiah is saying
something very interesting to the people
of Israel who have gone through and
endured quite a bit on their way to the
promised land all right he says this
verse 18 forget the former things forget
the former things do not dwell on the
past do not dwell on the past see I am
doing a new thing a new thing a new
thing a new thing out with the old in
with the new thing see I’m doing a new
thing that means it’s already in
progress Oh watch out it’s already
happening oh oh oh how do I know because
the next verse says now it springs up do
you not perceive it do you not sense it
do you not feel it the new thing is
already happening why don’t you feel it
there is something stopping you from
sealing the new thing that God has
already doing in your life and then he
says this I am making a way in the
desert and streams in the wasteland God
wants me to talk to you about getting
back to the future
back to the future get your neighbor and
say you got to get back to the future
turn to your other neighbor say it you
got to get back to the future anybody
ever seen the movie back to the future
where now watch this
how many of you all are in the film
industry in some capacity or aspire to
be I need to see your hands raising high
okay
all right close put your hand down and
how many of you is seen back to the
future of those are just raise your hand
okay all right okay good because I’m
about to say if you want to be in the
movie industry and um seen Back to the
Future then you don’t want to be the
movie industry this is cinema history
right here so for those of you who may
have not seen Back to the Future I would
encourage you to watch it it’s one of
the movies that inspired me as a young
kid to want to get into entertainment
and to make movies and what was so
powerful about that film is it takes
place in the 80s and the lead character
is Marty McFly and Marty McFly has a
friend who’s like a crazy uncle named
Doc Brown remember Doc Brown crazy hair
and all of that and so Doc Brown takes a
DeLorean and he creates a time machine
with what they call the flux capacitor
and I remember that and so what Doc
Brown is able to do is create a time
machine that allows him to go back in
time now in this particular trip Marty
McFly ends up going with Doc Brown back
to the 50s thirty years before the
present now what’s so interesting is
that they go back to the time when Marty
McFly’s parents were about to meet that
means in this particular time in the 50s
Marty McFly did not yet exist and what
was so cool at first when he got back to
the path back to the past was that he
was able to look around and say wow look
at how the town used to be and all the
things that the town was in the present
he saw the origins of it in the past and
so at first when he was in his past it
was kind of fun this is cool look at
this and look at that look at the cars
and look at the food and look at the
diner and then problems start he ends up
meeting his mother when she is his age
and she doesn’t know if that’s actually
her son so the more that he’s in his
past his mother starts to fall in love
with him
watch the movie and so what at first
seems like fun he understands that
bibbling and dabbling in his past comes
with heavy repercussions he took a
picture from his present to the past and
he realizes the more his mother falls in
love with him the picture of his present
and his future begins to get erased the
more he stayed in his past the more
disruptive it was to his future so what
he realizes is I have to get my mother
to fall in love with my father and I
have to exit the past without any
fingerprints in order for me to still
have a life in my present and my future
and that becomes the main thrust of the
film can he get back to the future while
preserving his past or will his past
consume his future such that he no
longer exists
might I submit for your consideration
that maybe you are too much in your past
to the degree where you are about to
squander your future you don’t even
realize the reason why you can’t pray
the way you’ve been produced afraid the
reason why you don’t have your strength
is because you’ve been in your past so
much your future is starting to get a
little bit fuzzy I need to talk to
somebody right now you have to come out
of your past because it is behind you
why would you spend the majority of your
time to focus on what you have already
come through if you are here right now
and you understand the words that are
coming out of my mouth you’ve already
come through something you’ve already
defeated something you’ve already made
it through something so why are you so
determined to live in what has already
happened instead of what is and what is
yet to come why you got to get out of
your past forget forget forget the
former things but be
we can even get into forgetting there’s
something you have to remember if this
is ever going to work how many know and
you have seen visions of your future
that God has given you who am I talking
to don’t get shot come on how many have
seen it I need both hands both hands all
right here’s what I want you to do what
I have found is the enemy works overtime
to get the vision for our future that we
see in our mind
cloudy he wanted to be cloudy because if
we don’t know what we’re living for we
will make decisions that betray where
we’re going
Oh Lord why do you want me to say this
um see the reason why some of you were
able to do what you did last night it’s
because the vision of your future got
cloudy and so in a moment you threw
caution to the wind and said it does not
matter and you did something that you’re
not only paying for now but it’s
betraying where you know you’re going to
go might I submit for your consideration
that every check you write in this life
will hit the bank one time or another
yep
so you know as a man lord I got to get
back to my note but you know how like
we’ll eat something and then the next
day we get up and say oh my goodness hey
I was able to eat the whole piece of
cake and nothing bother me and it’s not
showing up haha give it a week that
thing is in circulation it’s on here
eventually come on now so what does that
mean it means my decisions matter and my
life becomes a sum total of decisions I
make so I have to be mindful over the
decisions I’m making and not treat any
decision as a small decision every
decision you make has long-term
repercussions I promise you this so in
order for us to get where we need to be
back to the future I need you to get
reacquainted with a future God has
showed you take your hand and put it
right here right here
right here I want you to close your eyes
Lord now I didn’t say repeat after me I
just said close your eyes and put your
hand on your stomach if we were doing
Simon Says all y’all would’ve lost
hallelujah amen alright let’s try this
again
put your hand on your stomach do not
repeat after me I am I am asking God I’m
giving God some instruction to help you
out alright here we go put your hand on
you some Lord I want you to give your
daughters and your son’s the vision for
their future I want you to download it
again into their spirit right now
work through their resistance work
through their doubt deliver the vision
show it on give them glimpses of scenes
they’re yet to come
show them relationships that are on the
way Lord I want you to eat them give
them an idea of what the house is going
to look like Lord go ahead and just show
what the car is going to look like and
then I want you to show them what the
people will look like that they have
been ordained to reach on your behalf
now whatever your response to God is
based upon what you have seen I want you
to let him know how you feel about what
you see
[Applause]
how many have seen it now now here’s
what happens if you’re anything like me
on one hand you see it and you get
excited okay
but but on the other hand what restrains
you is your frustration and your doubt
because as much as you’re excited about
it you begin to ask the question how
come on let’s be honest right
how how how’s it going to happen God how
is it going to happen how in the world
am I going to get this house how in the
world am I going to walk into my calling
how in the world am I going to reach all
the people when I can’t even reach my
best friend right now how how you are
asking the wrong question the how is
what God does so you got to stay out of
what God does let God do what only God
can do what we’re required to do is see
the vision and to have enough faith to
walk it out even before it manifests
that’s what we’re required to do alright
so so so so I want you just to breathe
in real quick oh and then breathe out oh
that now you’re breathing out you’re
down ok so I want you to breathe and
your future I want you to breathe out
that down because that that wants to
keep you back that doubt wants to hold
you in your past but will you breathe in
your future the aroma of your future is
so strong you say Lord I got to get the
negativity out of my spirit about the
how about the why and let me just do I’m
talking to somebody right now okay so
now that we have a level set okay so you
can see it how many can see your future
you may not see the whole picture but
how many see glimpses of it okay okay
okay great great so now we have a level
set from which we can talk Isaiah says
to the Israelites forget the former
things forget now this word forgetting
is very different in the Hebrew
how we currently understand it
forgetting like when someone does
something bad to you where you have come
through tragedy when you have come
through difficulty I don’t care how hard
you try to forget it you’re never going
to forget it right you know you might
forget what you ate for dinner yesterday
but you’re not going to forget when
somebody has done something wrong to you
so so so if we only understand the text
from a surface level it seems impossible
to do and in some tech and in some ways
annoying it’s like well Lord how am I
going to forget what happened to me
that’s not what is being asked of you
for getting means to stop reliving it to
stop proclaiming it what it means is you
have to stop reliving your past to the
degree that it’s disrupting your present
and your future let me ask you a
question do you know what year you’re
stuck in oh I do not assume just because
all of us are here physically that means
that there were in this moment mentally
spiritually and emotionally because some
of you are stuck in a previous time
mentally I mean spiritually and
emotionally some of you are stuck so I
do not assume because you are here
physically that you’re here here you
know what I’m saying do you know what
year you’re stuck in some of you are
still stuck in a bad breakup okay Lord
somebody just go ahead and get call live
just call live for me uh-uh and some of
you are stuck in a bad breakup that you
just keep replaying the scene over and
over again or why didn’t it work out I
thought this person was going to be the
one I introduced this person to my
family my family said oh this is it but
then somehow we are without each other
right now and I cannot seem to get over
it
some of you are stuck in a bad breakup
some of you are stuck in a moment where
someone made you feel less than who you
knew you were to be someone violated you
some of you are stuck in a moment where
you were
and in that denial for you are going for
your future you were you know applying
for the job either you lost your job or
someone said you’re not good enough and
instead of moving on to the next thing
you’ve been stuck because you’ve
internalized what somebody spoke over
you that God did not speak over you some
of you are stuck not only in 2016 but
some of you are stuck back in 1975 oh
don’t get it twisted there’s some people
here in one church said we’re born in
1975 or before amen
all y’all young people be getting on my
nerves okay do you know what year you
are stuck in what is the moment you keep
reliving that you don’t think you can
get over what is it what is it in order
to stop reliving your past you cannot be
in denial about the moment in your past
that you can’t seem to get over you got
to go back to it for me growing up you
know my father died at the age of 36
when I was nine years old he died of a
heart attack
all right and and so much of my
adolescence and then getting into my 20s
when I was trying to embrace my future I
was having great difficulty why because
I never wanted to look back and let go
of my past the death of my father was
traumatizing me even when I wasn’t aware
of it and so it wasn’t until I went back
to my past and said you know I don’t
know why God took my father at that time
Lord let me make peace with it and let
me now own what you’re doing now and let
me live my life so I can finish the work
my father wasn’t able to finish but Lord
let me not continue to replay these
moments because you know what happens
when we keep reliving the moment in our
mind we want a different result
but it’s not going to happen we keep
replaying it and we keep wanting our
ending to change but it doesn’t but it
doesn’t this is why the text says we
have to stop proclaiming the past you
have to stop living in the past to the
degree where it’s disrupting our present
I need to get three words in your spirit
it is over it is over it is over it is
over it is over it is over I don’t say
this to depress you I say this to
liberate you because whatever you’re
focusing on in your past and you keep
reliving you need to keep speaking to it
it is over it is over even if we wish it
was different we wish it had never
happened the reality is it did happen
and you’re living with it right now and
you have to keep speaking it is over it
is over it is over why is it so
important because there are some
situations that have no you know no
license and your presence in your future
but because you have not declared it is
over you’re bringing a dead thing into
an alive thing okay let me go ahead and
make a little bit clear there are some
people that are not qualified to have
admittance into your future there are
some people that God says that’s about
your past
they don’t have qualification to your
future anybody ever seen the movie
weekend at Bernie’s where they carried
the dead man around anybody ever seen
that that’s what you’re trying to do
right now with some relationships
they’re dead and you’re trying to bring
them into a new thing and because they
have no life in them you have to prop
them up and it’s wearing you out because
God says that person does not qualify
for your future so you have to have
enough faith to let them rest and say it
is over some of you right now oh my
goodness some of you right now if you
gave me your phone and we go through
your phone you have some people that are
stealing your contacts that God already
told you it was over but because you
don’t want to let it go
you keep them in your phone just in case
don’t get all holy on me just in case
just in case so the just in case fights
what the it is over I’m talking to
somebody right now here’s the truth the
longer you keep aligned to your pass
that line will act like a chain that
keeps you from your future okay so
here’s what’s gonna have to have watch
this I promise you watch this there’s
somebody you still have in your phone
that God has already told you it is over
every time you dealt with them it
started off good but it ended bad every
time you’re around them you know as much
as you get excited your spirit begins to
really feel not good because you know
they’re not good for you but for
whatever reason there’s a connection
watch this I promise you after this
service whether it’s right after or
sometime this week somebody you know
it’s over it’s going to text you they’re
going to hit you up they’re going to DM
you watch watch and in a moment you’re
going to be like ooh whether they hit me
up but then the other part of your
spirits like oh they’re still thinking
about me don’t play with me watch Kurtz
don’t play no fly don’t play don’t play
come on out and then you wonder why you
can’t get back to your future because
you are too connected to your past let
me tell you something you got to get the
gospel if it’s over in your life that
means when that person texts you
sometimes you got to act in a moment
right you got to do things that your
future self will thank you for all right
so some of you are thinking about that
person right now that you know you need
to let go but you don’t have the
strength in the natural don’t get all
holy on me I’ve been there before before
I got married
listen I was a horrible data at times
why because I knew something was over
and I would end it and then months later
I’m like oh well that was so nice we
should go hang out again and then I
started up again trying to resurrect a
dead thing
and then once we started dating again it
reminded me why we weren’t dating in the
first place
don’t play with me one church and then I
had to end it over again and so then I
added insult to injury because the thing
was already dead nothing wrong with them
nothing wrong with me just wasn’t right
but because I could not commit to my
future I kept digging up my past causing
more of a mess that I had to deal with
that impacted my future I’m trying to
help somebody right now when that person
reaches out to you I want you to go
ahead and catch it is over and drop the
phone is up and then have you have your
have your brother or your girlfriend go
pick it up okay okay I want you to
delete their number now delete it
because if I get back over there I’m
gonna be waiting to see if they respond
and oh my goodness come on y’all go play
with me won’t hurt you got to deal with
the reality of what’s going to be
required to get back to your future you
know why because your future is worth
fighting for okay
your future is worth fighting for your
future is worth fighting for
don’t you understand the amazing thing
God has planned for your future it’s
worth fighting for Paul said for getting
those things which are behind and
straining towards those things which are
before so I have to forget and I’ve got
to strain I’ve got to forget and I’ve
got to strain and sometimes you got to
do both at the same time hallelujah
somebody in order to get back to your
future you have to master the order for
getting master the art of forgetting
okay stop reliving it stop turn to your
neighbors they just stopped
turn together named neighbor and say ok
I’m going to stop when I need you to
pray for me alright listen you got to
speak it sometimes before you do it
hallelujah you got to speak it out of
your mouth so your body can get in line
once you just smoke amen amen
so forgetting forget the former things
the former things are those things that
are past in order to get back to your
future you have to know the difference
between a former thing a present thing
and a future thing the future thing is
that which is yet to come the present
thing is the current thing that you’re
dealing with and the past thing is what
you already come through all right okay
do you hear the words that are coming
out of my mouth so if you want to get
back to your future stop confusing a
past thing or the thing that you have to
come this is why you have to let go of
what has already happened to embrace
what is yet to come and this is where
your faith comes in because what we
don’t know even though we can see our
future so clearly in our mind in the
natural in the present our future still
is an unknown you get that because
emotionally and psychologically we try
to fight what we see but sometimes our
flesh gets depressed by what we see so
where our faith comes in is letting go
of our past because at least with our
past our past as I can anchor it acts
like an anchor because we know we’ve
come through and we know we can
literally hold onto it because it
actually happened our future in our mind
has not yet happened okay so we have to
let go of what we know in order to
embrace what is yet to come
and that’s where faith comes in all
right you got to have faith you got to
believe and here’s the thing it’s not
about a belief in yourself all the time
that’s part of it but the main source of
your faith has to be a belief in God and
what he can do when you doubt what God
can do you are impacting negatively your
future why regent read your Bible
he says faith our faith is the only
thing that makes us acceptable to him he
said he does not like it when we’re
double minded he said someone who has
faith one day and doesn’t the next is
unstable tell me all their real unstable
lately come on you know it’s the truth
you came in here saying oh I got to see
and you can democratize me I’m not sure
in order to to get out of the form of
thing you got to understand that in the
present God is doing a mighty work to
prepare you for your future all things
work together for the good of those that
are called according to his purpose I
need you to know everything in your past
God is using it to set you up for where
he wants to take you everything go ahead
give him praise for that
now in order to get back to your future
after you are discerning between the
former the present and the future things
in your life right here’s what I want
you to do here’s where your faith really
begins to come into play when you know
where you’re going and you know who you
are becoming you must begin to act like
it in your present okay okay okay okay
what does that mean
what does that mean that means too often
we’re waiting for our future to get here
before we align our life to believe that
it’s actually going to happen okay so
what does that mean discipline
discipline discipline discipline doesn’t
listen okay um some of us are saying one
day I’ll get in shape listen uh maybe
there’s a helicopter y’all give me a
helicopter out here oh man okay see I
gotta tell you what God tell me tell you
see the body is the temple of the Living
God all right
and why would I teach you to have a good
spirit if your temple crumbles all right
what if your temple betrays your destiny
I’m trying to talk to somebody right now
and God has already told you this was a
year he wanted you to start getting your
physical temple in shape and you keep
saying oh Lord maybe next year and next
month you got the gym membership with
the gym membership don’t got you I’m
talking to somebody right now you’ve
been paying that thing monthly and you
have not used it if you ain’t gonna use
it let it go what are we doing why are
you wasting the money if you plan for
you might as well use it I don’t know
who I’m talking to right now but you got
to start aligning your life with where
you’re going to go even if you don’t
feel like it even if you don’t feel like
this oh listen listen I I don’t care if
you feel like it or not I don’t care I
don’t care you know watch because there
are souls attached to your destiny there
are souls attached to where you got to
go so I need you to get to where you
need to be so that people who don’t know
about God can know about God so I don’t
care if you feel it I gotta push you
into where you know you’re supposed to
be we mean in our present this is why in
our present what happens is in our
present we get down on ourselves and oh
I don’t have this and I don’t have that
getting about you and about you
it’s about what God wants to do through
you in the earth we all were created for
an assignment and here you are crying
your assignment away oh one of these
days oh god listen you better cry and
get up and work cry your way to work
cry your way to sleep cry away you are
you on the Stairmaster
cry why you on the elliptical just keep
crying and just keep do it oh stop
letting your feelings kill your future
stop it stop letting your feelings till
your future you all up in your feelings
you ever seen that on Instagram hashtag
in my feelings I’m you know what I’m not
in my feelings I’m in my future I don’t
know who I’m talking to right now you
hashtag I’m in my future you can stay in
your feelings out in my future I’m doing
some stuff now that my future self will
say thank you Devon my 2020 self will
say thank you 2017 Devon because of the
discipline you had in your present you
now can enjoy your future this is why
you got to get your life in shape you
got to get your life in order that’s why
you have to treat your present like it’s
your future so that when somebody comes
across you they can see who you’re
believing for something they can see it
all you don’t even have to sleep you run
say a word have you ever come into the
presence of somebody that was believing
for something your belief will ship
atmospheres your belief will turn hearts
oh okay see cuz here’s the thing what
you don’t even realize is this there’s
somebody God has put in your future that
is observing your presence and that’s
somebody listen to me
watch this there’s somebody in your
future that is observing your present
has the ability to bless you and bring
you into your future there’s somebody
right now watching you who has the
ability to bless you oh my goodness oh
my goodness I don’t know who I’m talking
to right now this is why you got to get
your act up this is why you got to get
your life together this is why you got
to get your mind right why because would
you
squander your future blessing because
you have messed up your present self it
doesn’t even make sense
this is why you have to look at every
area of your life and say itself I gotta
get myself together when you get home
stop keeping your place a mess go and
clean that thing up clean your car out
go ahead and get a car wash why did you
go in somewhere you’re going somewhere
and I can have no mess in my life I’m
cleaning it all up all of it all of it
get your life together get it together
no I’m sorry guess what you cannot live
however you want to live and expect that
you won’t get what God has promised you
I’m listening listen listen okay yo
listen just just send me repairs you got
just parachuted out here but here’s the
truth here’s the truth I’m so tired of
us thinking that we can live how we want
to live and that it’s just covered by
the blood and then everything we do is
under grace no no no obedience is better
than a sacrifice read your word
obedience obedience obedience obedience
this is why it’s so important to not
give yourself passes for when you act
out of your character and against your
calling no you got to hold yourself
accountable and say Lord yes I’m in the
flesh and I struggle okay but do not
ever get to the point where you get
comfortable with your struggle and what
you struggle with you hear what I’m
saying see oh man see some of the future
you guys only think you you know is the
future that’s on the radio that’s that’s
what some of y’all come on that’s the
truth it’s like oh yeah I know future
the moment I said feature y’all went to
him and you started saying oh yeah you
start hearing that flute didn’t you know
oh don’t play with me want to church but
see here’s the problem here’s the
problem here’s the problem there’s a
text in Romans chapter 12 look it up
when you get a chance from the message
Bible don’t fit into your culture so
well that you do it without thinking
listen you know listen I when you listen
the reason why I say this is because
sometimes when you hear stuff if you
just let it get your spirit you didn’t
think about it do you understand what
mask off is saying and you have your B
knowledge as it could be
oh really I guarantee you if you choose
to take the two things in the chorus it
will disrupt your future
I guarantee it I guarantee it why
because you have to be incredibly
mindful over what you do in your present
in order to achieve your future you do
man C listen I’ve seen what living a non
sober life does to a family I’ve seen it
I’m living it my father was an alcoholic
pretty much my entire life before he
died I’ve seen it he came home drunk
would come home multiple times drunk
driving keeping us from school he and
his brother acting crazy so when I see
people act out of their mind I don’t
have any time for it because I realized
it’s not just a good time you know why
because here’s the thing too much of too
many of us get fixated on the party all
right
the party the party everybody that
parties with you does not celebrate you
newsflash newsflash everybody that
parties with you does not celebrate you
they want to party with you but they
don’t want to celebrate where you’re
going they don’t want to celebrate what
gods can ready to do but they do want to
have you hey come out one oak come on
Ojai gets quiet in the truck that’s what
you know you doing some damage it is
quiet oh come on now sir I got the new
main go come on now you got to take this
come on now and we can barely pay
attention in church and why because
Ciroc got the glory not Jesus Christ it
is so important you got to look at how
you’re living right now and say Lord if
I’m not living according to your will
and your word help me get my life
together help me get my life together
turn to your neighbor say I need help I
need help
forgetting the form of things we got to
keep moving
do not have your feet have your seat do
not dwell on the past
what that means when you do not dwell on
the past it means so interesting we look
up in the Hebrew it means like it’s not
trying to decipher stop trying to
understand the understandable there are
certain things about your past that that
here’s the truth you’re not gonna know
why it happened until you get to heaven
so stop driving yourself crazy trying to
understand something you may never
understand
that’s what dwelling on your past looks
like okay so we have to stop that there
are certain things in my life I said God
why did that happen
and he said Devon you’d like to keep
moving forward anyway there are certain
things you will not understand until you
get to heaven so do not terrorize
yourself any longer we’re trying to
decipher what you’re not going to be
able to understand why did God allow
certain things I don’t know I don’t know
I wish I knew if I knew I tell you but I
don’t but I do know what he has planned
for you and I do know it’s available to
you but you got to live forward all
right do not dwell on the past
stop trying to understand the
understandable now verse 19 see I am
doing a new thing it’s very interesting
text see I’m doing a new thing wait so
so while I’m asking you to forget what
you’ve already come through stop
reliving it I want you to see that a new
thing is already in production
haha why can’t we catch the new thing
because he in the next part of the verse
it says now it springs forth
do you not proceed it why don’t we
perceive the new thing that God is doing
how many of you have a cell phone
alright how many got iPhones I’ve homes
all right there’s a greater anointing on
the iPhone I’m sorry droid users Android
users
amen amen I don’t know why God did it
that way that was just what he want to
do alright man even so I can’t speak
about the Android phone all right but
what I can tell you about the iPhone
as much as I I know there’s an anointing
on it one of the things I don’t like one
of the things I don’t like is that
almost every single month I get a notice
that says it’s time to upgrade to iOS
2.55 million whatever dot dot dot and I
hit decline no I don’t want to do it No
so they say okay no problem no problem
you keep hitting decline and then we get
to one point I get to one point where
we’re all of a sudden my phone stops
working who am I talking to
who am I talking to anybody anymore you
know why it stops working because I’m
trying to do the new thing with the old
software huh in order to receive the new
thing in order to function in the new
thing I have to upgrade where I was and
get into where I am so it can function
to where it’s getting ready to go I need
to talk to you right now some of you
can’t receives a new thing because you
still have the old software you’re still
downloading what God did yesterday at
the beginning of the year don’t you
realize you are in May of 2017 God is
doing a new thing why are you still
caught up in what he did last year we
serve a God who has a breakthrough for
you every day you may have had a
breakthrough last year because I got a
breakthrough for you today you got an
upgrade how you’re living in order to
receive the new thing now what is
keeping you from perceiving it you’re
allowing the old idea of who you’re
supposed to be disrupt the new idea of
who you really are we got a little bit
of time I McGuiness you and we gonna be
out of here on time watch this either
somebody told you or you told yourself
you were one thing so as God begins to
do the new thing in your life because it
doesn’t align with who you told yourself
you are you are continuously rejecting
it rejecting it rejecting it well bless
your heart
who told you you were only that thing
why are you putting yourself in a box
that God never intended you to live in
huh there have been times in my life you
know for a long time I thought okay you
know I’m just going to be a movie
executive and I was an executive for
Columbia Pictures for ten years right
and during my tenure as an executive
there I got an opportunity to write a
book and when the book agent came to me
and said you have a book in you I
laughed I said I’m not an author
she said well Devon I’ve been doing this
for a long time I know him he will have
books in him I said well you might have
been doing it for a long time but she
made a mistake
I’m an executive at the time I said hey
I’m an executive I’m not an author watch
this
God is bringing in the new thing through
a messenger on assignment and because I
have a limited view of who I am and what
I’m supposed to do I’m rejecting it
what are you rejecting right now what
are you rejecting what are you rejecting
who told you you aren’t who told you who
told you who told you you can do all
things through Christ Jesus and
strengthens you all things all things
who told you who told you so catch this
ditch this a year later a year I’m in
Beijing working on the Karate Kid and
while I’m there God gives me an idea
oh wow faith is not the obstacle to
success it’s the path to it and I said
because what I’ve done in Hollywood is
I’ve used my faith as the way to become
successful by not hiding it by not
compromising it by being bold with it by
identifying it by speaking about it you
know I mean that’s what I said listen
I’m not gonna hide you god I will be in
in in in I don’t care if I’m front of
Will Smith I don’t care from from the
head of Sony I will be in front of all
these people I’m gonna talk about Jesus
that’s just who I am all right I’m not
hiding you I’m a high to you so so so a
year later I got the idea Wow that’s the
book I heat up the book page and say um
you know I don’t know if the offer is
still good but I
I got the idea for the book and I said
faith is not the obstacles and success
it’s the path to it
she’s like there it is and I had to go
to my bosses at the time and said look
you know I have an opportunity write
this book and they said write a book you
usually write a book when you get fired
or you retire why do you want to write a
book right now I said you know why is it
because there are people out there that
need it and they said we’re going to
allow you to write the book because it’s
who you have been since you got here in
Beng 2011 I released my first book
produced by faith how you can enjoy real
self it up for success without
compromising yourself but I share the
story because I almost missed it
I could not perceive the new thing
because I was too committed to my old
mindset oh oh boy listen I’m messing
somebody all up right now in order to
perceive the new thing watch what’s
going to happen God is going to send
messages to you from your future
almost like messages in a bottle of who
you are and what you’re supposed to do
any message that comes to you that seems
absolutely crazy do not reject it pray
on it and say Lord is this you is this
you is this you
is this you is this you because I
promise you when you embrace the new
thing you’re going to see him do the
impossible how do you get back to the
future
you have to inspect the impossible
what’s the last part of the verse it
says I am making a way in the desert and
streams in the wasteland a desert is an
area of land not only is it hot but
there is no there’s no water it’s not
it’s not habitable but God says even in
a dry time I’m going to make a way for
you some of you right now
you’ve been in a desert of depression
you’ve been in a desert of doubts you’ve
been in the desert of denial what God
says when you begin to perceive the new
thing I’m going to make a way even in
your depression I’m going to make a way
even
your doubt and then he says I’m gonna
allow streams to come through the
wasteland you think your path is a
wasteland but God says I’m putting a
stream through what you came through to
take you to where you’re going to I
don’t know who I’m talking to right now
but he’s going to say listen this stream
that’s going to take you from doubt
depression into destiny into power into
victory into your future God says don’t
worry about how messy it looks I’m about
to make a way even through the Meza
anybody need God to make a way this
morning anybody need God to make a way
this morning
anybody believe that God is already
making away who am I talking to right
now
who am I talking to right now you got to
go ahead and get into your future and
thank God that he already made a way
praise God for your future do me a favor
I want you to praise God I want to a
future self but your 2020 self to praise
God like you never had before the deal
has already happened the deal has
already happened the agent has already
found you all right you already have the
promotion you already have the house you
already have the car you already have
your calling you’re walking in your
purpose you got it already you got it
already
you’ve got it already you’ve got it
already you’ve got it already you got it
already say I’ve got it already I’ve got
it already I’ve got it already
anybody received this right now do you
believe it you better go ahead and thank
your God you better thank you
don’t you pattycake them whew thank you
thank you Jesus what you brought me
through thank you for providing a future
for my life thank you for not holding my
past against me thank you lord thank you
lord thank you lord
now now if there’s anybody that you know
that you’re present has not yet been
aligning with your future and you got to
change your life today get down to this
also right now right now right now right
now right now right now right now make
room make room make room make room make
room make room make room make room come
on right now come on come on I don’t
care if we fill up every aisle
I don’t care come on just make a move
towards your future make a move make a
move make a move my brother Josh make a
move miss you man and love you man I
love you make a move make a move make a
move see you all don’t even understand I
just saw a good friend of mine and I
need you to know this is why God is
already in our future because a few
weeks ago I ran into his mother and his
mother said can we just pray for my son
and I said I haven’t seen him but I’m
praying that everything is all right and
right now this altar call we have
reconnected do you understand what God
is doing do you understand what God is
doing he’s already in your future amen
he’s already in your future amen
hallelujah I want you to not feel guilty
over your past okay it happened if you
had the knowledge you had today you
would make a different decision so allow
yourself to just say you know what I may
not be proud with what happened but I
make peace with it because there’s too
much waiting in my future for me to
never receive it because I’m carving my
past all the guilt needs to go away go
away
he’s already forgiven you you’ve got to
forgive yourself he’s already forgiven
you you’ve got to forgive yourself
he’s already forgiven you you have to
forgive yourself you have to forgive
yourself forgiveness of self helps
loosen the chain that’s connecting your
present and your past
when you forgive yourself and say Lord I
make peace with it you release yourself
from what was and you prepare yourself
for what is yet to be I wish we had
enough time I’m here to tell you I see
such a peace at this altar
I see restoration at this altar some of
you you’ve been so under stress that you
haven’t even been able to breathe
clearly but right now your breath is
coming back your breath is coming back
it’s like God is resuscitating your
spirit your heavenly father I pray right
now for all your sons and daughters at
this altar right now I pray dear
Heavenly Father for those that are
standing in the aisle and those that
could not make it down but they’re in
their seat I’m praying right now for
their future I’m praying their heavenly
Father that they will be so excited and
committed to their future that they
would be obedient in the present
whatever sin is keeping them from living
how you want them to live I prayed their
Heavenly Father you would give them
victory as they overcome that sin let
them not get down on a sin their
Heavenly Father because we’re a flesh
and so sometimes there are things we
struggle with but let them continue to
struggle so you can give them the
victory through it I pray that your sons
and daughters would not just acquiesce
and say okay well I’m just going to give
myself over to a life of sin because I
just can’t see him seem to get out of it
lord I pray that even as you’re making a
way through the desert their heavenly
father that they would commit themselves
to making a way through their sin
sometimes Lord you deliver us but that
delivers doesn’t always show up
immediately so let them know that in
their future they are delivered and let
them align their present to walk that
out and I am praying during Heavenly
Father for every dream that’s in the
house every visions in the house I’m
praying their Heavenly Father for for
every good thing that you have planned
that you would release to your children
in the right time and I’m praying their
heavenly father as they leave this place
they were
get excited about their future and that
they would fight for tooth and nail
do not let anyone your heavenly father
get the victory over their future they
have the future it is theirs it is
theirs by divine right and I pray they
would fight for it until they receive it
in the name of Jesus give got your God a
hand prays right now if you receive it
give them a hand prays don’t pattycake
them don’t pattycake don’t patty take
him
don’t patty take them anybody excited
anybody received your future today
anybody receive it anybody feel it
hallelujah hallelujah amen amen
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