Don’t Forget To Live | Pastor Touré Roberts

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hey family pastor toray roberts here

such

a blessing to be with you this week i

came out of my writer’s cave

to deliver this word for you and as you

notice the background is a little

different

i just really felt led of god to bring

you to the beach

to bring you to the ocean perhaps to get

you to open up and to understand the

vastness of god

maybe you’re out there right now and and

you feel trapped you feel

limited in a great way and this would be

a visual reminder to you that with god

all things are possible and god is going

to set you in a large place

i believe that your better days are not

behind you

there are in front of you the sun will

shine again

i’m telling you you’re going to see

stars shine more brightly than you ever

have

because the fact that you are breathing

right now is a sign to you that god is

not finished with you in fact i want you

to put it right there in the comments

god is not finished with me just put it

right there right there in the comments

i know god is not finished with me he’s

not and i can’t wait i cannot wait

to share this word with you in fact

let’s get right into it

uh we love you pastor sarah and i have

been praying for you

and we can’t wait to get back into full

swing but we’re also grateful for the

great ministers of our church that have

been continuously

feeding you and uh it’s just a wonderful

time so let’s get right into this word

i want to draw your attention we’re

going to look at two brief passages of

scripture

and i want to share what i believe is a

prophetic word for this season for you

and so the first passage is in genesis

chapter 8

beginning at verse 20 and we’re going to

read verse 20 through 22 and then we’re

going to jump down to a passage

in ecclesiastes here we go the noah

built an altar to the lord

and took every clean animal and of

every clean bird and offered burnt

offerings

on the altar and the lord smelled a

soothing aroma then the lord said in his

heart

i will never again curse the ground

for man’s sake although the imaginations

of man’s heart is evil from his youth

nor will i again destroy every living

thing

as i’ve done and then god goes on to say

while the earth remains see

time and harvest cold and heat

winter and summer and day and night

shall not cease see time and harvest

cold and heat winter and summer

and day and night shall not cease

while the earth remains and then in

ecclesiastes chapter 11

verse 6 it says this in the morning

sow your seed and in the evening do not

withhold your hand

for you do not know which will prosper

either

this or that or whether both

alike will be good father we thank you

for your word

it is a lamp into our feet it is a light

into our path

we thank you lord god for the reality

that we don’t live by bread alone

but we live by the words that come out

of your mouth feed us

we need to experience you we’re exposed

to so many things so many

thoughts so many ideas so many

dispositions

and god right now we need you and so

father

we pray that as this word comes forth

you’ll open our hearts

open our minds let something happen to

us there’s some people

watching right now god that need to snap

out of it literally

and so father we pray that as this word

comes forth there’ll be an awakening

and a entering into this next season

this next dimension of our lives

in jesus name amen

amen hallelujah well listen i

got away recently i just needed it for

my wife’s birthday i took her away for a

few days didn’t realize that i

myself needed it and when i got away

the lord began to speak to me and he

began to reveal some things to me

about this season and more specifically

how i was managing the season

and i’m going to talk a lot about that

today in the short time that we have

together

but ultimately when i came out of that

time with god and

and out of that out of those moments

where god spoke to me and helped me to

understand what was going on

i begin to see the light

and i begin to taste victory and i

didn’t realize it

although we have been preaching victory

the reality of it is

we’ve been preaching victory by faith

and not

with a deep and i’m speaking for myself

not with a

deep conviction that is so profound

that you actually see it and taste it

and i believe that right now we’re

entering into a season i think this

whole thing with

with the pandemic and some of the things

that have been taking place in the world

for the whole earth for the whole world

was much like

entering into a tunnel and if you’ve

ever entered into a tunnel particularly

a long tunnel

it has pretty much four stages in your

experience in that tunnel and

again i believe all of us went into a

dark tunnel the in the beginning of the

tunnel

you you’re first going in and there’s

shock so

for me it was about late february early

march

the pandemic hit the economy

falling to a certain degree what

happened just after that

then there would be a great unrest in

our world

and so in the beginning of it it was

shocking to know that we were in the

middle of this pandemic me not knowing

the things that would follow and in the

beginning

of a tunnel experience all of us are in

a tunnel experience in the beginning of

a tunnel experience there’s shock

sometimes there’s fear but it’s not the

worst

part because when you’re in the

beginning of a tunnel

you’re so close to the light that

you have a little bit of hope because

you spent more time in the light

than you have in the darkness of the

tunnel you know what i’m trying to say

so so when you first go

in it’s almost like there’s shock the

reality of what you’re going through

hasn’t quite set in and so i think that

the world for the most part

is past that that beginning experience

we’re past the shock

we’re past the fear we’re past that

stage where some of us

sometimes aren’t even taking it

seriously because again when you’re

first into it

into a tunnel behind you you can still

see a little bit of light you can go

back and you can glance every once in a

while at the light and get encouragement

and so what it looked like for us is we

were all talking about innovation come

on you know let’s just be 100. we were

all talking about god’s going to cause

it all to work together for good and

and all these sort of things we were

talking about that we were fired up we

had a strategy you know what i mean

everybody was talking about creativity

and innovation and all that and that was

all wonderful it was all great right

until we got a little further in the

tunnel

to the second phase of that tunnel and

the second phase of that tunnel

is the middle and in the middle you have

progressed down a road so much so

that the light from the entry of the

tunnel you don’t see anymore

and and now all you see is darkness

you’re beginning to to wonder what’s

ahead of you because you

you you can’t see a light forward and

you can’t see a light behind you

and here is the most dangerous time of a

tunnel experience

you you can feel stuck you’re too far to

go back

you can’t run back out to the light and

you don’t see the light in front of you

that gives you comfort and and

confidence and

and so here is where claustrophobia can

set in

right here is where you you can you

begin to wonder it’s the most dangerous

time

in fact it is the place where a lot of

people give up

the children of israel when they

wandered in the wilderness many of them

died in the wilderness before they even

actually had an opportunity

to see the promised land see sometimes

you have got to see something

in order to stay alive and what we

children of faith recognize and

understand that that is that through

all of the seasons all of the phases of

the tunnel

we have to come to using our spiritual

eyes

to see the light at the end of the

tunnel by faith and we’ll talk about

that

so this the middle is the second part

and i believe that that some of you

might still be there

uh but we’re getting ready to move into

another part the the third part of this

tunnel experience

is where you begin to see the light it’s

when

you’re not out of it yet but you start

dreaming again

you’re not out of it yet but but you you

realize watch this

you realize that you have survived

see see winning oftentimes is

is very difficult to perceive because we

think that winning

is the big victory winning is when we we

come across the finish line and we

enter into the next thing but no what

you have to understand

is winning is surviving i feel the

spirit

it it is it is it is when you overcome

you have to understand that an overcomer

has to overcome and overcoming is a

process not a destination overcoming is

is the victory in the process and the

reason why you’re hearing my voice right

now and the reason why you are not dead

and the reason why why you had it in

your mind to tap into the word of god

today

is because you’re winning and it’s not a

pretty win it’s not a beautiful win but

i’m telling you right now

you’re winning and and we’re moving into

a time where i believe that god is going

to allow you

to see the light like never before and i

decree right now

that hope is arising in your spirit

right now i don’t care where you are

i don’t care what you’re facing i don’t

care what you’ve been through hope i

just speak and decree

hope in your spirit right now put it in

the comments let hope arise in me put it

right there in the comments

i receive hope right now i feel it the

word says that hope deferred makes the

heart sick but if you you reverse that

when i get my hope

i get my joy back and the joy of the

lord is my strength

i feel joy coming back to your house

right now come on just put it in the

comments

i receive joy come on i receive joy

somebody else

i see the light just put it right there

in the comments your light is coming i

sense it you’re getting ready to come

out of that thing your creativity is

coming back

your hope is coming back your ability to

innovate and create

your ability to believe for great things

is coming back right here in this moment

i’m

so glad you’re watching this in fact

text everybody you know and say you

better get

to church today pt’s got a word that’s

gonna raise you from the dead i believe

it with all of my heart

you’re in that season i’m telling you

you’re in that season you’re not in the

beginning

and you’ve made it through the middle i

hear god saying you made it

you made it you gotta understand what

winning looks like you got to understand

what victory looks like

you are still here you didn’t get weary

in your well-doing and now god

is moving in your life and he’s getting

ready to wake you up and you’re going to

build

something awesome i feel the holy ghost

yeah yeah yeah

you’ve been you’ve been you’ve been

dealing with lemons but god is about to

anoint you to make lemonade

yeah it’s been bitter but it’s getting

ready to be sweet and it’s going to

start in the spirit first

it’s going to start in your heart it’s

going to start in your head and then

it’s going to be manifest in your life

which is the fourth phase of the tunnel

the first phase of the tunnel experience

was the beginning we talked about that

the middle we talked about that

seeing the light that’s where we are and

if you weren’t there this word is

designed to get you there and then there

will be light

and when the light comes when you come

out of that tunnel i feel this

so prophetically to that person who was

ready to die

in the middle the light is coming the

light is coming i feel the holy spirit

the light is coming the light is coming

that no tunnel lasts forever the light

is coming the light is coming

and when you step into the light you

know what you’re going to have

you’re going to have a new testimony you

are so awesome you are so amazing

that you were chosen to go through one

of the most

difficult times the earth has ever

experienced

that’s how awesome you are you have to

allow

the trials and the difficulties that god

allows you to see

to tell you who you are god doesn’t

bring us into things

that are greater than us he brings us

into things

that bring out the greatness that is

within us are you tracking with me

so anytime you go through something

don’t say oh i can’t overcome this

i can’t this is greater than me no no no

no the fact that you are in it is

evidence that if you don’t give up

you’re greater than it

are you tracking with me and so

so when i look at what’s going on in our

world this pandemic and everything i

what i want to shift into now is is

helping you to understand

the the healthiest way to come through

this

there’s a way to do this pandemic

there’s a way

to to do the the the unsettling

of our country the unsettling of our

world there’s a way to do it

and i want to give you kind of three

ideas to think about

so that you can come through this in a

healthy and aligned way

watch this i don’t want you to come

through this limping

i don’t want you to come out of this

season so

traumatized that you cannot be effective

in the new world that’s being created

i don’t want you to come out of this

this time

having left your dreams in the season

having left your dreams in the tunnel i

feel that

some of you you may need to go back and

get your dreams in the tunnel

i don’t want you to come out i want you

to come out right

and there’s a way to go through a thing

there’s a way to see it right and i want

to give you some thoughts

surrounding that the first thought is

this

don’t allow this season

to overshadow you here’s what i mean

here’s what i mean

when you look at the pandemic and you

look at the cray-cray

and the reality of it is all of

the media and social media and

everything right now is talking

about the pandemic it’s talking about

the things that are going on in our

country and i understand that i have

respect for the news we there has to be

a reporting of things that are taking

place

there’s nothing wrong with that but if

you’re not careful

your life will be about the pandemic

if you’re not careful your life will be

about the social unrest

and that will create an overshadowing

you can’t allow the pandemic and the

cray-cray

watch this to overshadow you now let’s

go deeper what does it mean to be

overshadowed here’s what it means watch

this being overshadowed

is what happens when a new challenge

obstacle or situation is

introduced into your experience before

you remember

that god is bigger than it let me say it

again i’m saying again

being overshadowed it happens to all of

us

is when a new challenge

obstacle or dilemma situation dilemma

is introduced into your experience

before you remember that god is bigger

than it

so when when something happens to you

that you have never experienced before

you have never seen it before it comes

upon you

sometimes our natural response whether

we say it or not

our natural response is to have a

question within us

about whether or not god can deliver us

we know he can deliver us

from what we went through before we get

that right we know

that he can deliver us from this and

from that because

we’ve had those experiences before but

when there is a new experience

when there is a new challenge when

there’s a new problem

we can be overshadowed by it until

we remember who god is i want to say to

you

in this season we cannot be overshadowed

and when you’re overshadowed let’s talk

practically what does that feel like man

you can’t produce you can’t create

you just get into survival mode watch

this you almost begin to worship the

problem

you begin to work you spend more time

thinking about the problem

and thinking about how am i going to get

around the problem

then you do your calling and your

purpose

you’re so uh see

worship has to do with meditation right

we

meditate on the things of god we

meditate on positive things right

and all meditation really is about big

picture

is what you put your mind on that’s why

paul

wrote in colossians 3 set your mind on

things above

are you tracking with me and so so if

all i am doing

is minding my problem

even if it cleverly

looks like you are minding it so that

you can figure out how to get around it

it actually is an overshadowing of you

and it’s a waste of energy so

so so we have to get to this place where

we’re not overshadowed

by what we’re going through but we have

to allow

the glory of god to overshadow us i feel

that

and so how do we do that how do you

allow

the glory of god to overshadow

what’s trying to overshadow you i think

it has to do

with this i think first of all

praise is everything i i know that

that you know we’ve got many people and

you’ve got many different ways

how you get down and how you worship god

and and all that’s wonderful that some

are loud some are quiet

some sing songs loudly some dance some

shout all that kind of stuff

but you have to find your praise

you have to find the the spirit within

that that recognizes who god is

and can’t help but to acknowledge it you

know sometimes i just believe this you

know

some of you and you’re in therapy and

that’s wonderful and i think you should

do therapy if that’s with therapy if

that’s what your spirit needs

absolutely i’m full support of it but

some of you just need to have a real

good praise party

a real good talking to god a real good

telling god

a just how big he is magnify him look at

what’s behind me

magnify the vastness of god over your

situation

that ocean has been there since the

world began and nothing

can stop it not even global warming can

stop that ocean are you tracking with me

try to subdue the moon not gonna happen

try to subdue the stars not gonna happen

so you have to understand just how big

your god is and just for a moment

take your mind off of your problem and

put it on god

until you turn back and you look at your

problem and what was a mountain looks

like a mohill

are you tracking with me it’s all about

perspective

don’t be overshadowed by this thing

you’ve got to let

god overshadow us now let me tell you

something

i’m not saying don’t be wise i’m not

saying praise god

take off your mask and go suck in air

everywhere

i’m not saying take off your mask and

take off your

whatever you use to protect yourself and

go tongue kiss a stranger

hello somebody too far too far so that’s

too far pt but you understand what i’m

saying i’m not saying

don’t be foolish put on your mask

take your precautions do all of that

and then get busy building

what god wants you to build into this

new world because there are new

opportunities there are great things

that god wants to build

and the person that recognizes that they

are more than a conqueror

will not be stopped will not be limited

will not be restricted by the season

in this moment but you will be

determined all the more

to lay hold of what god has for you yeah

yeah i’m gonna be a part just put in the

comments i’m gonna be a part of what god

is doing i know that’s a long sentence

but say it if not put it in your journal

i’m gonna be a part of what god’s doing

i’m not going to be on the sidelines of

this thing i’m telling you

i may not know how i’m going to get

through it but i know i’m going to get

through it

i’m going to recognize right now that

i’m winning i’m going to recognize

right now that i’m overcoming i’m going

to recognize right now that i’ve got the

victory

if i have breath in my body it is a sign

to me right now that says that i am a

part of the new world that god is

bringing me into if that’s you come on

say i’m a part of what god is doing

yeah yeah yeah i’m gonna be the head and

not the tail when this thing is over i

feel the holy spirit

the ideas that god gives me they’re

going to be fruitful they’re going to be

product i’m about to burp something i

feel this

i will birth in the middle of a pandemic

if you will birth something right in the

middle of a pandemic when the world is

going crazy say i’ma birth something put

it right there in the comments

i’m gonna birth something i’m gonna

birth something i can’t bring

i feel the spirit of god i don’t even

need an organ right about now is where

my musicians would come in but

and maybe they are who knows what’s

gonna happen but god is moving

and i’m telling you i am trying to speak

i want to midwife you right now

i am speaking to your womb right now and

i am saying that

baby is alive and you thought you just

had one

i feel triplets on the inside of you in

jesus name

it’s coming forth i’m gonna be a part

i’m gonna be a part

i’m gonna be a part of what god is doing

in this new world

hallelujah oh goodness we got some

ground to cover

we got some ground to cover we’re

talking about

doing this thing right navigating this

season right

navigating it in a healthy way and the

first thing is not to be overshadowed

by this thing the devil is a liar i’m

not gonna eat

drink and sleep the trouble of the world

i’m not

going to do that i’m going to eat drink

and sleep jeremiah 29 11

for i know the plans that god has for me

plans to prosper me and not to harm me

to give me a future and hope there is

nothing that can happen to us in this

world

that will annul that promise it’s still

over your life

and so i’m not going to let it

overshadow me

and two as i was thinking about how to

really equip you and prepare you to

navigate this transition properly

the second thing is

doing this pandemic right is really

about new reflections

new reflections new reflections

specifically

about self about god

about service and about purpose

new reflections about self who am i now

who am i now you know it’s so

interesting

one of the things that that this this

time in our world

has done for me is it has made me more

authentic

than i have ever been it has made me

more truer to myself than i’ve ever been

and you know what’s interesting you know

what’s been kind of crazy

i realized that there were a lot of

things watch this

that were connected to me that were

irrelevant to me

i feel that i feel that as we begin to

really

reflect during this time everything got

shut down for a reason

it was time for reflection to do this

thing right

is to to move into a time of new

reflection i don’t see myself the same

anymore

there are some people that i have not

even had the unction to call

because in a season of truth in a season

of revealing they’re not even relevant

to me

who in your life right now

is in your life that’s not relevant to

the real version of you or

maybe a better question is who do you

don’t even have a desire to call anymore

because when you when you stepped into

this time of authenticity

and this time of revealing where where

priorities

became crystallized you realize that you

were only connected to this person

or this situation because of this

falsehood

yeah yeah yeah so so navigating it right

if you if you

if you come through this pandemic

without

new reflections new thoughts you missed

it

you missed it thoughts about self

thoughts about god has your spirituality

deepened

are you closer to the lord now than you

were before

this pandemic was to say

that there are some things in life that

the only one that can control is god

it was to humble us yeah that’s what god

does

god humbles us for our own sake

god is not exalted when we are humbled

god cannot be exalted any more than he

already is so humility

is a gift oh man one of my favorite

prayers is god

god please keep me from pride

because when you’re blessed and and god

has done so many things from you

that’s actually when you have to be

careful because one of the things about

pride

is pride does not introduce itself pride

is very deceiving

because it feels like confidence there

is a difference between pride and

confidence

are you tracking with me so all of these

things

all of these things are designed to get

us to a place of godly confidence what’s

the difference between pride and

confidence

pride is when you think it’s about you

confidence is when you’re bold because

you know it’s about god

and you are about god are you tracking

with me and so so

what are your new reflections about god

and your relationship with god

if you’re navigating this pandemic right

your spirituality should be much

deeper than it was before we went in woe

into any of us

if we don’t come out of this with new

reflections

are you tracking with me about service

what what what are your new reflections

about service

who or what have i been serving

and what adjustments have i made as a

result of it and certainly

it should bring you to a place of new

reflections as it relates to purpose

right what what what it’s action time

what should i be spending my time doing

so you have to understand that every

disruption brings with it a gift

if you’re taking notes write that down

every disruption

brings with it a gift what is the gift

the gift of disruption this is powerful

this is important

the gift of disruption is the

stimulation of new thought

the gift of disruption the gift that

disruption brings

is the stimulation of new thought you

you would be

shocked how rare new thinking

is you’d be shocked how

sometimes how outside of our natural

flow

thinking something new is we’re

creatures of habit

we stay in the same rhythm that’s what a

disruption brings

anytime a disruption comes to your life

once you get through

the shock of it ask god

what is the gift of perspective that’s

disruption are you tracking with me and

so so so

so we’re talking about navigating this

pandemic right

and we say we’re not going to let it

overshadow us we allow the glory of god

to overshadow us so we can navigate it

differently

we talked about new reflections and how

how we have to see things differently

see ourselves differently see

god differently see our service

differently see our purpose differently

and then doing this pandemic right and

this is kind of where i’ll land the

plane

doing this pandemic right is to not

stop living is to not stop living

there’s some under the sound of my voice

right now

and you have been trying to make it and

you haven’t been living there is a

difference

there’s a difference there’s a

difference between

trying to get by with this

this cloud of uncertainty and living

and living there is a big difference

breath in your body is not just for

survival

breath in your bible breath breath in

your body breath in your bible

there is breath in your body but breath

in your body

breath in your body is about creating

something

right it’s the breath of life that’s

what it’s called the breath of life and

that makes you a living soul the breath

of life

and so your the breath that’s in your

body is not just so that you can hold on

but it’s so that you can produce

something so that you can create

something and so

so i got a question for you who gave you

permission not to live

who gave you permission to stop living i

understand quarantine i understand

you know precautions i understand things

are shut down

but who told you it was okay for you not

to live who gave you permission

i want us to look really quickly at

genesis chapter 8 and 22 where we

started

and then particularly at verse 22 and i

want you to see something here

you know the context of this story this

is after the big flood

and after god essentially started over

again as it relates to humanity

according to the bible and

he makes a covenant with noah and he

tells noah

that i’m never going to do this again

so for those who are wondering if the

world is coming to an end

now as long as the earth remains the

world is not coming to an end

hello somebody yes you know the reality

of it is you know there’s all this this

conversation about the last days are we

in the last days etc and my thing is

you’re in your last days and i’m in my

last days

so whether or not they are the last days

when the lord returns and

and reconciles everything hey that

that’s not up for me to know but

i live my life with the understanding

that i’m in my last days and you’re in

your last days and so and so i make

certain that my relationship with god is

the way it should be

i make certain that i’m living life so

that i won’t you know when i’m when i’m

old and gray

have no regrets i’m doing all those

things and so so whether it’s the last

days

or my last days it’s our last days but

in the midst of all that it’s important

for me to say and to say clearly

the world is not coming to an end why

because i see the earth

and the promise that god said was i’m

not going to destroy it like that again

and in fact i’m going to take it further

he says while the earth remains

seedtime and harvest

cold and heat winter and summer

and day and night shall not cease that’s

powerful i see so much there

while the earth remains and i don’t know

about you

but from what i can tell i’m looking

around the earth is still remaining

that means that it’s either sea time

or is harvest it’s one or the other

i don’t quite think we’re in harvest

which means that it’s seed time right

when i see this text i see cycles

i see cycles that’s all i see i see

cycles got promises of cycles

seedtime and harvest cold and heat

uh winter and summer day and night

shall not cease shall not cease and so

this is an ongoing cycle

see time harvest day and night

cold and heat winter and summer

while the earth remains this will always

be happening right so life has a

rhythm has a rhythm it does not stop

god put everything up there and it’s

still in motion that means that your

life

is still in motion so maybe it’s not the

harvest that you expected

maybe the preacher said 20 20 is going

to be the year of whatever whatever

whatever and you got

all excited and maybe they were right it

just didn’t happen the way you wanted to

but you got to understand that

life is about cycles it’s about

cycles see time or harvest and that’s

why

you cannot be weary in your well

doing you are in a cycle you have the

development side

of the cycle and then you have the

harvest side of the cycle it’s either

one

or the other either i’m being developed

which is a blessing or either i’m being

increased

which is a blessing and a lot of times

the greatest increase

happens inwardly first it is spiritual

and then it manifests itself

in the natural are you tracking with me

some of you think that this is about an

ending this is not about an ending this

is a cycle

that’s why you don’t have permission to

not live this is a cycle it’s a cycle

things are happening sowing keep on

sewing

because here is the cycle here’s the

cycle the cycle is development and an

upgrade

development and upgrade you think it’s a

halt

it’s not a halt it’s just a development

side of the cycle

it’s the back side of the cycle watch

this it’s not the pretty side

of the cycle right day and night

right some of you may like the light

night i love the night i like the stars

out there

but the morning is glorious let’s keep

it 100. if you had to choose one over

the other

more than likely you would choose the

day

right we don’t the sun doesn’t go down

at night and we say oh my god

i’m so thankful that the light came no

but when that sunrise and all those

sunsets are beautiful when that sun

there’s something about a new day right

and so but and when you think about even

the human body at night typically under

normal circumstances you’re sleeping

right your body is being developed for

the day that is coming

it’s resting it’s recovering it’s being

restored

it’s being renewed i feel that so i want

you to understand that it’s about cycles

it is not a halt this is development

we appreciate it it’s the ugly side

sometimes

there’s an ugly side to growth man i got

so much to say i guess it’s been a while

since i’ve preached

there’s an ugly side to growth there’s

this passage of scripture and prophets

i’m gonna say this in a move and we can

land the plane this

passage of scripture in proverbs and it

says that

that where there is no oxen

the crib is clean where there are no

bulls the crib is clean

right the stable is clean it says but

much increase

comes by the strength of the ox that’s

powerful that’s powerful in essence what

he is saying

is if you don’t have any oxen and if you

don’t have any bull

tracking with me if you don’t have any

bull everything’s clean

but the only way you’re going to get to

increase is if you have some bull every

once in a while

just stay too far pt too far so so what

i’m saying is

we want this real clean life we want

this life that doesn’t have any issues

we want this life that’s always up but

that’s not the cycle

we’re going to get to increase but we

got to go through dirty

stuff in order to get there and i don’t

know about you but i want to

realize everything that god has for me i

don’t care if it has to get messy

i don’t care if it has to get dirty i

don’t care if i have to cry

as long as i come out and i birth

everything that god has placed on the

inside of me

come what it may because that’s what i

was created for

that is why i am here that is why i

exist

i do not want to die and leave destiny

in the grave are you tracking with me

it’s about cycles the last passage of

scripture we’re going to look at and i’m

close

i want to pray i’m done i’m done i’m

done i’ve just about said it is

and the titleist message by the way is

don’t forget to live

so god promises us in genesis 8 22 that

as long as the earth remains it’s going

to be seed time and harvest

it’s still time to sow we’re not hiding

right now from life

we’re not we’re not tucking our tails

and and hiding beneath things waiting

for the storm to pass

now is the best time to sow the bible

says in psalm 126 or 127 i can’t

remember read the whole bible you’ll

find it

it says those who sow in tears shall

reap enjoy

right sowing is not reserved for happy

times

the smart farmers know that they have to

continuously and constantly sow because

i cannot get a harvest

if i will not sow so ecclesiastes

chapter 11 verse 6 says this

it says in the morning sow your seed

and in the evening do not withhold your

hand

for you do not know which will prosper

either this or that

or whether both alike will be good

okay that’s powerful and that is so

prophetic

for the season that we’re in so we

already know we’ve already established

that while the earth remains

seedtime and harvest everything is in a

cycle god is

we’re not at the end of the world things

are not you know getting ready to

crash and burn and and be lost forever

god says he made a promise that’s what

the rainbow is it’s a promise from god

that i will never ever destroy the earth

like

that again right see time while the

earth remains as long as i see the earth

as i mentioned

as long as i see the earth as long as

the earth remains i’m going to be in

this cycle

either i’m sowing or i am reaping one or

the other all these sort of things i’m

in the cycle right

but this passage of scripture is

powerful because it tells us what we

need to be doing

we need to continue to be sowing but it

tells us

how to sow and how to sow relentlessly

it says

in the morning sow your seed

in the evening do not withhold your hand

that means in the evening don’t stop

sowing now we’re not necessarily talking

about night or day

necessarily we’re talking about in every

season

and in every way we’re talking about a

variety of sowing

what have you given up on i believe that

we ought to be sowing

what we formerly knew and i believe that

we ought to be sowing

at night that could represent in the

dark i i believe that we ought to be

sowing

what we sense also i feel that sowing

not only what is clear not only what we

know we ought to be sowing what we ought

to be working toward

but i also believe that we ought to be

sowing into the future

into this new world that god is bringing

us into in other words

beyond a shadow of a doubt what you and

i need to be doing

is building but you cannot build

if you’re overshadowed you cannot build

if you don’t have new thoughts you don’t

have the right perspective

family i want to land the plane because

i want to get into a time of prayer with

you

but i believe with all of my heart that

the word of the lord is don’t forget to

live

yes be careful yes take your precautions

yes yes be aware of your surroundings

but don’t stop living it’s reminding me

of

the children of israel when they were

rebuilding the wall there the temple had

come down

and their wall that come down as well

and god was

rebuilding them and and under ezra they

rebuilt the temple

and then under nehemiah they were

building the wall

and they were having progress and it was

working and when the wall got up to half

its height they were almost

there they were almost there an attack

came

and this attack caused them to shift

their perspective

and to shift the way that they worked

and so study it when you get a chance in

nehemiah chapter four

but ultimately what happened is they

went back to building

there was an interruption there was a

pause they went back to building but

this time they built

with their work tool in one hand and

their sword in another hand

in other words they were determined not

to let any season

not to let any circumstance not to let

any dilemma

keep them from building you’re builder

there are things in you you’re an

architect you’re god’s architect god is

your

architect and you are god’s architect

and there are things

that are in you that are a part of the

new world that’s being introduced

but if you’re overshadowed and you

forget to live

then you’re going to be bogged down with

the notion of

just surviving and not realizing

that great people destiny people thrive

even in challenging times i want to pray

for you it’s been a wonderful privilege

being here with you

i want you to share this message listen

to this message tons of gems

but i believe this is prophetic i had to

come away from writing

to bring this word to you because i

believe it’s timely i believe it’s now

and i believe it’s designed to break

something off of your life

and push you into the future that is our

reality

father i thank you so much for those who

are watching right now you knew who they

were

you knew what they’d have going on in

their lives and you knew they would hear

this message

father i pray that these truths would

penetrate deep you said a lot of things

and i pray god that not a one thing will

be lost

father we’re not going to be

overshadowed we may have

never seen you deliver through a

pandemic or deliver

through economic or social unrest but

you’re the same god who delivered

your sons and dollars out of all things

in fact your word says

thanks be to god who always causes us to

try it

your word says many are the afflictions

of the righteous but god

delivers us out of them all we thank you

god that

that before we even stepped into the

season the solution

the resolution and the victory had

already been procured

you you decree the end from the

beginning and we claim right now victory

and i thank you god that my friend is

getting up out of that bed literally

i thank you that my friend is someone

who and and you don’t have to i just

know it

you haven’t even gotten dressed

in a long time you’re going to get

dressed today

and you’re going to put on new clothes

you’re going to have creativity you got

to put on

you’re going to put together an outfit

and i don’t care if you put it on and

you walk in your front yard

change your clothes change your attitude

change your mentality

you got this i love you god bless you

we will see you next week and remember

don’t forget

to live

you