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okay so hebrews chapter 12
not unfamiliar at all you know this
passage you’ve
heard it some of you preached it
it says therefore we also since we are
surrounded by so great
a cloud of witnesses
let us lay aside every weight and the
sin which so easily ensnares us
and let us run with endurance
the race that is set
before us let us
let us run with endurance
the race
that is set before us the race the race
the race the life
the journey
that has been
set oh i feel the spirit
that that has been set before us in
other words your life no matter how
challenging
it may be or difficult it may be in
moments
that race has been set
before you
because you can handle it i feel god
you can handle it you can handle your
race you can’t handle my race
and you weren’t given my race
but you can handle yours i’d never seen
that before until i started studying
this passage of scripture this race this
race
has been placed
in your life
this moment this season the challenges
the highs the low all of those things
boom
have been set before you are we tracking
so
as a result of that let us run with
endurance it’s going to cost you
something
you’re not just going to waltz through
it
there’ll be some seasons where it will
feel like a waltz
there will be other seasons where it
feels like
something else
milliwhop
times a thousand or something anyway
that
so i have to have endurance but but i
can have endurance
if i know the race has been
set
so the set race has been set
and i have been ordained and anointed
to win
[Laughter]
god wouldn’t put you in a race you
weren’t anointed to win
so so it’s just a matter of endurance
that’s why galatians says be not weary
you know this in your well-doing for in
due season you’re gonna reap
if you don’t give up
did you hear me all i gotta do is not
quit
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[Applause]
let us run with endurance the race that
is set before us
looking unto jesus
the author and the finisher of our faith
that’s amazing that’s amazing but we
won’t do that now
who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross
yo in his race was the cross
yo
and before the cross rejection
and isolation
and loneliness
and betrayal
i think i would have died at betrayal
i would have quit i i i wouldn’t have
done galatians 6 9 well
[Applause]
and yet
it says
that
his race
involved the cross it says it says set
in our looking unto jesus the author and
the finish of our faith who for the joy
that was set before him so so there was
something set before him in his set race
we’ll get to it
endured the cross
despising the shame oh man
just he was humiliated
and he knew he was going to be
humiliated and yet and still went on why
because he knew
for the joy that was set before him and
do it across the surprising shame watch
this despise machine and
has set down
at the right hand of the throne of god
he knew the end
in the beginning family if we’re going
to walk with god i’m going to pray we’re
going to get into this if we’re going to
walk with god we’re going to have to
learn how to watch this
receive perceive and experience the end
in the beginning and in the middle
i feel the lord
and that’s what i want to get at today i
want to talk today it’s just it’s a
prophetic
exhortation it’s a word and it’s simply
two words
eyes up
eyes up
eyes up god’s gonna wish for that to you
eyes up one more passage
psalm 16 8
it says
i have set the lord always before me
because he is at my right hand
[Applause]
i shall not be moved
father we love you
we thank you
we need you
and god i just
i sense your rich love for every person
present watching listening it is rich
it is radical it is overwhelming
and it is intentional
and it is not your desire that one
person leave out of here untouched
deeply
and sharpened
in this area of focus
to the extent that they will ride in
their high places
hallelujah and never be shaken to the
extent that they were shaken up to this
point again
i thank you god that you’re going to
show them how to navigate this season
and every season
that hidden in this this this scripture
is an insight
that will cause us
to rise above
no matter what
thank you for the spirit of wisdom and
revelation and insight and knowledge and
prophecy and and full use to heaven’s
resources full access to heaven’s
resources god to produce in your sons
and daughters that which is beautiful
that which is divinely inspired and
ordained that which will change us
from the inside out forever
in jesus name
amen amen god bless you please be seated
[Applause]
so awesome to be here with you um
my wife and i just just celebrated um
seven years of
[Applause]
marriage it’s so so amazing
uh to to see what god
can do when god does something
you catch all you say
it’s amazing to see what god can do when
god does something and we’re so blessed
and we decided to get away
uh we were tired y’all anybody ever been
not tired we were tired like just
just dragging we just drug ourselves to
the airport
it was it was crazy we just come off of
an incredible conference woman evolve
conference who went to woman evolve
oh my sweet jesus what god did at that
conference was just
i mean in fact not what he did what what
he’s doing he’s it’s still happening
what would happen if you just so
happened to be there what would happen
to you is still happening to you
and it will continue to happen to you
that’s the way a touch of god works when
god touches you it is an eternal touch
and i’m digressing i need to stay
focused but
but we were tired because god was doing
a lot of things and there were a lot of
things happening and we just felt so
blessed to to steward
that that moment
um
and so we got away
and we decided to go somewhere we had
never been before
and and we went
um
far away
and
overseas
and
the whole trip was incredible i mean it
was amazing it was breathtaking it was
beautiful it was heaven on earth i mean
it was just awesome except for one part
there there was we we ended up going to
two islands and and and the first island
uh you know everything was fine you know
the plane everything the second island
um
they decided to put us on this this
little
teeny weeny plane
i mean a little plane i wish i had a
picture of it i would i would show you
but it was i mean it was like i’ve never
been on a plane this small before
it was like
i mean the thing was tiny so tiny
that you know
we were sitting sarah and i were sitting
next to each other and we barely had
enough room
in the seat
and then you know and then so so we’re
waiting for the pilot to get in the
plane
and uh we’re waiting for the pilots
plural to get on the plane because
they’re you know the two sets of
controls there and i’ve never been on a
plane that didn’t have more than you
know that had two pi know that’s my
experience is two pilots right you got
your pilot in your co-pilot in case
something happens to the pilot the
co-pilot is there and the co-pilot can’t
ride
so one guy climbs on this little itty
bitty plane
and i’m like where’s your co-pilot like
what
and this little thing we’re gonna need
some backup so i said okay you know i
was feeling adventurous i’m like okay
baby we’re gonna you know we’re gonna
we’re gonna we’re gonna this thing
out a little bit you know what i mean
and uh and it was real cool you know a
little runway and then we lifted up over
that water
and uh things got a little confusing
and uh you know and and so here we are
on this little plane this tiny plane and
we’re gonna be on this plane for an hour
on a little
tiny plane with one pilot
and
i don’t know how to fly
and sarah doesn’t know how to fly
and what i didn’t know until after the
flight is that we were actually both
freaking out inside
but we had too much pride
to tell each other i mean we’re in
tongues and we’re smiling you know
but
we’re in tongues under our breath
and it’s horrible
and then we’re too far from the old i
mean we’re just all you see is water
deep water and there’s nothing around us
and then i’m not gonna lie to you like
you know your your holy ghost field
faith believing in god for miracles this
is a house of miracles now look you hear
me say oh that went out the window
i’ll be honest with you
and i started looking at the water
and then i started looking at the single
pilot
and then my imagination starts running
wild with me
and then i start thinking what if he has
a heart attack
and what’s sad was
it should have been a compassionate
thought for the guy
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oh that would be terrible no if you have
a heart attack you can’t perform you
it was bad i oh i wasn’t very proud of
who i was in that moment
and i started looking at the water
and like
like in i i almost it sounds like a
panic attack almost it tried to overtake
me because my mind as i started looking
at the water and i started looking at
the pilot and i saw the frailty of the
pilot and i saw the massiveness of the
water and i saw the tidiness of the
plane and i’m doing all these
calculations i don’t know how to fly the
plane and so i spent 20 minutes looking
at the gauges
trying to figure out
okay i think that says half a tank of
gas
i mean it was really
i was embarrassed as your leader i was
embarrassed
for you for me
and then i’m looking at the other
control and jaylens and pilot he knows
but i’m looking at the other control and
i’m like okay i think if he were to pass
out you know god bless you but let me
get this let me get the
let me get the reins of this thing
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i think
doing this is up
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it and i think you know on the there’s
then then there’s the speed or i don’t
know what it’s called i’m gonna mess
this all up but but then there’s
something and i think you know
up is more right up is more
i i your pastor i’m on vacation i’m
supposed to be relaxing but my mind is
all over the place
and i’m freaking out and here’s what’s
even scarier this is the truth
i i feel like
my thoughts
and what i was looking at was actually
beginning to produce the um
that i was afraid of
i don’t know if it’s true or not but it
felt like it was like there was
something
trying to overtake me
because of
quite frankly this this this focus
i’m looking at the water i’m looking at
the plane i’m looking at our
circumstances
and man just this this this fear
like came over me in this panic and i
you know and i have control issues and
so again i’m trying to figure out how to
work the plane okay if you guys that’s
all right you know i mean i might even
move you out the plane you know so i can
have no i’m kidding i’m kidding
and then
something within me
said stop looking at the stuff
stop looking at the water
stop looking at the plane
stop looking at the pilot stop looking
at the controls
and
and the more i stopped looking
at those things
the better i felt
and we landed and i blessed the lord
jesus and
gave the pilot an insane amount of cash
as a tip just
you know
but but i knew that that was the
beginning of a much deeper lesson that
god was trying to teach me
a much deeper lesson because because
you know they talk about the the eyes
are the gateway to the soul but your
eyes are also connected to your mind
and so so this this is happening and
then i go
to the gym
two or three days in so i thought i knew
that god was trying to show me something
that was clear but i was done with i’m
safe and i’m not and i’m good now i
don’t have to really deal with it
but i went to work out a couple days
later on the island i’m getting to where
i’m getting
i think
and i go to work out at the gym and and
i don’t know if you’ve ever done this
but like
we were gone for eight days and
like only about
five of those days are really like
restful
because when you kind of get to you two
days out from return
you start kind of picking up work a
little bit again
can we just be honest like like if
you’re like me because we like in order
for us to take a vacation we have to put
a lot of weight down
you don’t realize until you’re gone but
we carry a lot of weight all the time
and you can’t just
go on vacation and then come home and
put that weight back on you have to
begin to put that weight back on slowly
right
so i’m in the gym i’m getting ready to
work out and i just use early in the
morning and
i went to pray because i wanted to put
my life in contact i was context i was
concerned about some things
some things that i needed answers on and
direction on and breakthrough on various
things and so i i went to pray i’m
carrying these things because i felt
like and maybe this is something you can
resonate with i just didn’t feel like i
was on top of things
you ever felt like you had just a lot of
things going on in your life
you know and you trust god and you know
about all that kind of stuff but you
don’t feel like you’ve got it you feel
like it’s got you
has that ever happened to you before
and that’s that’s kind of where i was
amanda i just i
i felt like i’ve got these things going
on and and i know i’m supposed to be
resting but but i rest better when i am
on top of these things and i went on a
treadmill and i just went to pray
and the lord said
put your eyes on me
simple phrase
nothing profound necessarily it’s not
anything that i had never heard before
but it was god’s solution for me in that
moment when i’m trying to
get on top of stuff
and the crazy thing the cr the crazy
thing that happened the moment that
happened
is things got lighter
the the moment that i set
my gaze
on him just look at him it’s almost like
you know i could have said well no god i
got all these things he’s like no no no
just look at me
just just just just look
at me and when i did that
a shift came
and those things were no longer
on top of me
i was
on top of it
things that were
previously daunting
became defeated
in this new space
isn’t that crazy in a second in a split
second
i went from
watch this having weight on me to being
weighty
and all i did the circumstances never
changed
the situation never changed nothing
changed
i changed
and the only thing that i had to do
was to lift my gaze
and when i lifted
my gaze
everything
shifted
i think that this is how peter was able
to walk on water
i really do i think that this this is
how he was able to do it
because i think that the water honestly
figured figuratively represented a
challenge in his life
it represented something that was in his
race
that he needed to overcome
and we all know the story about peter
and we get mad at peter because peter
stopped looking at jesus and he began to
sink
that’s just humanity
i’m more concerned about the divinity in
the story
the divinity in the story
was that peter
walked
on top of his circumstances
oh i feel the holy spirit
it was the difference watch this it was
the difference between the water
drowning him
the circumstance the challenge the
situation even for you make it personal
it was literally the difference between
what he was facing overcoming him to the
point of drowning him
to him walking on top of it and getting
to his destination
and the only
thing that changed
was where he was looking
oh i feel the holy spirit
can i take my time
never underestimate see god was teaching
me a lesson about the power of what you
set your eyes on
oh god i feel the holy spirit
and so
and so
the bible says
let us run the race that was set before
us
looking
unto jesus
the author
and the finisher of our faith i almost
called this message
winning the long game
because what i’m realizing now
is that focusing on jesus is how you win
the long game
because oftentimes we are bogged down
distracted greatly
uh disoriented
by
things that are
short-term issues
all fill the holy spirit
your life family is a race
it’s it’s a race a race that has been
set
and the author and the finisher
of that race
of your faith your conviction the author
and the finisher is saying the way that
you get it done is to look at me
yeah
like
intentionally
back in in in hebrews 12 when it talks
about looking unto jesus this is not
just glancing at jesus
this is not just periodically what it is
convenient
having a gander at jesus
no this this word has the idea of
fixation
it has the idea of of staring god
staring
which is what brings that second passage
of scripture
into into light because it says i love
it david says in psalm 16 8 he says
i set the lord oh i love this i set the
lord before me always
because he is at my right hand i shall
not be moved i set the lord this is an
intentional thing
oh god
in other words i i view my life through
the filter of jesus if if jesus is not
my light filter then i am susceptible to
the whims
and the worries that are watch this
natural to natural people
but god did not save me
to be natural thinking the bible says
that i am a partaker of the divine
nature that’s in peter right read your
whole bible you’ll find it
it says
god
try not to speak in tongues some of you
may not understand that but he says
when we get saved we’re made partakers
of the divine nature and we spend the
rest of our days post-meeting jesus
trying to adapt and be transformed to
this new nature this nature that doesn’t
get shaken when things are crazy doesn’t
get shaky when obstacles come it is a
divine nature based on an identity of
one who knew that the cross was coming
who knew that betrayal was coming who
knew that all these negative hurtful
painful things were coming yet was fixed
because there was a joy set before him i
feel that for some of you there are some
things that god has placed in your life
and you are going to have to get focused
you are going to have to get disciplined
you are going to have to get serious
about staring at jesus if you start
staring at people if you start staring
at circumstances you’re going to miss
what god has for you but i hear god
saying that when you look at me i’m
going to elevate you i’m going to raise
you up above your obstacles above your
mountains you’re going to walk on high
places if that’s you holler at your boy
this morning
up
eyes up
don’t look down here
it’s too low
your destiny is not down there your
destiny is there there is a joy that has
been set before you and jesus is that
joy
through the filter of jesus that’s where
the power is
you can’t see see that that’s why the
bible says that with god all things are
possible
and none of us get to the possible
consciousness because we don’t filter
our life with jesus
oh god help me
so so when the promise comes it’s
difficult to even receive the promise
without the filter
i need the filter
david says i set
the lord always before me
because he is at my right hand
i shall not be moved that’s what happens
i was being moved on that plane
[Applause]
that wasn’t even me
i trust god
ella come here baby come here i trust
god
come here
i trust god
we have memorized
our favorite scripture
it’s psalm 27 right
let’s say it together
the lord is my light and my salvation
whom shall i fear the lord is the
strength of my life of whom shall i be
afraid when the wicked even my enemies
and my foes came upon me to eat up my
flesh they stumbled and fell though a
host shouldn’t camp against me my heart
will not fear the war should rise
against me and this i will be confident
one thing have i desired of the lord
that will i seek after that i might
dwell in the house of the lord all the
days of my life to behold the beauty of
the lord and to inquire in his temple
so so when i didn’t make god my filter
i was being moved i wasn’t even being to
ray i know this is true
come on somebody ought to praise god
and then it goes on to say for in the
time of trouble he shall hide me
[Applause]
i’m talking about
eyes up
for some of you i like to talk about but
let’s just do this stay in this thing
right here
for some of you i’m telling you
the antidote to your season is eyes up
[Applause]
[Music]
what you stare at creates your existence
[Applause]
[Music]
some of you are living in a reality
that is unnecessary
[Applause]
[Music]
because your eyes aren’t up
eyes up
two words
eyes up
letting jesus filter your life
but what does that look like practically
come on let’s go i’d like to go
practically
from a practical perspective
what is how is this achieved
when i think about
eyes up and and looking at jesus this
this
this discipline creates
unshakeable optimism
unshakable optimism
i thank god for
for all of the the teaching about
positive thinking and and all that
that’s wonderful you know
it’s it’s fine
good for you
helpful all that kind of stuff most of
the time
because you shouldn’t be positive about
something that’s stupid
so it does have its limitations
if i might i’m sorry i guess i shouldn’t
have said that but
but there is this
this unshakeable
optimism
that our lives can have full time
especially in difficult times
when we allow our lives to be
filtered by jesus so how is this
achieved what does this really mean what
does the the filter of jesus really mean
like what okay pastor he laid it sounds
amazing
and i want that okay but
but like
what what what is that what does that
really really mean
i think that you know when you start
talking about the eyes
and you know there’s a connection
between the eyes and the mind and the
mind and the eyes in fact the mind has
eyes
can i talk about that just for a second
before i get into the practicalities
so so in other words the your eyes what
you see influences the mind
right so i was looking at the water and
oh my god my mind started bugging out
right
okay but then your mind also has eyes
that that’s why and paul put it this way
he said that the eyes of your
understanding might be enlightened the
eyes so you’re understanding your mind
has eyes too there they are perception
you have physical eyes and then you have
the eyes of your understanding
and so we know that we don’t see jesus
with our
physical eyes because we didn’t walk
with him in that way
hey
[Applause]
but we can perceive jesus paul’s prayer
that the eyes of your understanding is
in ephesians 2 just read the whole bible
ephesians 1 rather or two
that the eyes of your understanding will
be enlightened that you might understand
what the hope of your calling is that
you might perceive my my mind has eyes
my mind has eyes
and my eyes affect my mind so i have to
protect myself
in two dimensions
in the physical dimension as well as the
spiritual or the mental dimension
so so i protect since i understand that
my eyes create my existence
are you tracking with me
the poor pilot
probably healthy as all outdoors was
getting ready to have a heart attack
because what i was seeing was creating
something in my mind so my sight is
connected to my mind
that’s one dimension so i have to
protect what i see there’s some things
that i don’t want to look at
oh how far can i digress
there’s some things that i watch this
make the conscious decision not to see
because i’m afraid of what it will do to
my mind
and if it gets a hold of my as a man
thinks so is he if it gets a hold of my
mind i’m in trouble so so see a wise an
unwise person the average person doesn’t
regulate their intake
they don’t regulate what they they see
and they don’t regulate their mentality
which is something we can talk about but
they don’t regulate what they see a
smart person a wise person understanding
the power of sight
and understanding the power what they
focus the power of what you look at what
you gaze at that person is very
intentional and very regulated about
what their eyes see
i’m not doing porn
can we talk about just one second
i don’t i don’t do porn
because i’m protecting my mind
i’m not even protecting my eyes
necessarily
what i am protecting is my mind because
i don’t want those images to be in my
head
who is quiet
yeah
it’s harmless no it’s not
it affects your mind
and and then you get into a relationship
that you you want to be nice and pure
and you freaking iggy you
[Applause]
now when appropriate
everything has its place but you don’t
want to be thinking about
then then
be and see because you couldn’t wait
for the right thing you engage in the
wrong thing and now when you get the
right thing you got the wrong thing in
the right thing
and now they’re problems
yo i’m way out there man i’m way
[Music]
way out there this is this is not
judgment this is understanding
it’s not me trying to come down here i’m
telling you there’s a cost your mind
doesn’t go free
there doesn’t mean
yeah you walk by some
oh god here we go there are some really
uh creative shapes out there
[Applause]
i don’t want to see your booty
now you your booty’s fine it’s that’s f
it’s you and enjoy it appreciate it love
it respect it just know when you walk by
me i’ma do this
[Applause]
i don’t want to see it
[Applause]
i wish i had two or three people that
say something
check this out
job said i made a covenant with my eyes
that i might not offend i made it me and
my eyes
are in covenant
a covenant is a mutually beneficial
relationship
so okay okay so so i’m saying hey i
i’m gonna take care of you
and i is gonna take care of me so i’m
making covenant with my okay and me and
you i look look look we to protect each
other dawg
because if i if i protect you you’ll
protect me
so it’s a covenant it’s a covenant that
says no i’m gonna let my eyes work for
me
and not against me oh i’m way out there
but somebody needed it i’m very
uncomfortable by the way too but that’s
okay
somebody somebody needed it
so your eyes are connected to your mind
watch this and your mind also is
connected to your spiritual eyes your
eyes
of perception
so as it relates to jesus and as it
relates to to experiencing jesus and
jesus being the filter of our life
what we have to do
to
to access the identity and image of
jesus
we do so through perception
perception
that’s how we engage jesus we engage him
with the eyes of our understanding so
let’s talk about let’s get into it so
how how is this
achieved what do you mean what do you
mean by setting jesus jesus specifically
in front of you
there’s just four things for for
attributes or four parts of
of setting jesus and and what that looks
like and unpacking that that i just want
to talk about it really quickly and the
four things as it relates to setting
jesus in front of you as the filter of
your life so that you will not be moved
is first of all his person
the person of jesus right i’ve never
seen him before
but
spiritually with the eyes of my
understanding
i experience the person of jesus
the the identity of jesus
um
the the rel i met jesus when i was nine
years old
and from nine to now 49
i’ve had this relationship with jesus
that has made
him a person
beyond him being my lord and my savior
he’s a person so i set the person of
jesus in front this necessitates
relationship right
i need to be in relationship with you
and this is
possible
and i’ll i’ll just say this and i’m
going to move on because we only got
about about two more hours for this
message but
if you’re hearing you don’t know him
personally if you don’t know jesus
personally i have deduced that there are
only two reasons why a person would not
embrace jesus
either they don’t have enough
information about jesus
or some way they got some misinformation
about jesus
because he is absolutely too beautiful
he is too attractive
to the heart mind soul body and life
everything that makes you up jesus is
too appealing to
to be discarded
i mean he
he he is adorable
he’s called in one place yeah and
somebody said he’s sexy and i don’t know
that’s not that might be too too far
[Applause]
but
oh jesus
i’m sorry i’m sorry
oh somebody help me
no but
but jesus
is absolutely wonderful
conscientious caring
into you
like like like really really into you
and having the ability to be into you
even when you ain’t into
you like like you know the bible talks
about goodness goodness and mercy
following us all the days of man that’s
attractive
like like like
there’s so much i can say but he’s just
wonderful
and merciful
and kind his person number two his power
it’s one thing to have
somebody who don’t have nothing pursuing
you
i’m just being too real today
i’ll be trying to push up and you’d be
like whatever
you have flowers he’s just trying to do
the whole thing no
[Applause]
but he’s powerful
can’t you see him moving about
even let’s just go biblical time he’s
still doing it now but can’t you see him
moving about healing and blessing and
providing and protecting and moving
jesus was like a major vip
like major people from flying it were
not flying in i guess they were riding
in
[Applause]
walking miles
and miles to seeing people leaving watch
this businesses to follow him
leaving their
power and influence people laying down
their lives being willing to do anything
for him
his
raising the dead lazarus come out
casting out devils and healing blind
people and all this kind of stuff no i’m
not talking about some wimpy jesus i’m
talking about seeing when you set him
before you when he is your filter you
see his person but you also see his
power
and when i see his power i’m not afraid
no weapon formed against me shall
prosper
with god all things are possible his fa
so when i see life when my life is
filtered through
the power of jesus now things that seem
hard don’t seem hard no more
now it’s easier to accept the promises
right his person his power his
priorities
so when i set jesus in front of me
i see his priorities and guess what his
priorities are me
this is you know this is kind of hard
for church people i’m almost done this
is kind of hard for church people
church people forget that jesus is into
people
i’m serving jesus so you’re going to
hell and you’re going to hell then
you’re going to hell and you are
especially going to hell
[Applause]
you getting fail you you get a fail and
you
dude
you don’t even know jesus
[Applause]
because literally his priority
his people
[Applause]
it’s not even the church as the
institution
the institution
it’s the church as the organism
to bless people but it’s not even the
institution
i’m on my soapbox today god somebody
help me
but but this you know it’s it’s so funny
i’m on my soulbox i’m just gonna i’ll
step back down just a second
but here he here is a phrase
that bothers me
and we hear at all times
i’m just taking a stand for god
so god needs you
to stand up for him
god is some weak
being in a corner
sending out
christians
to his front go get him please
you’re not taking a stand for god you
can take a stand for yourself
you can take a stand for your values
your beliefs that’s all fine but don’t
blame it on god
[Applause]
you’re not taking a stand for god
to stand for god is to love people
radically
creatively
innovatively
that’s what it means to stand for god
because god’s priority is and will
always be people not some institution
it’s going to be people
i will leave the 99 you know what the 99
represents the institution i will leave
the 99 those who have already been
gathered
oh i’m on my soapbox now for fishery
i’ll leave the 99 to go after the one
because i’m
in to people
but what we do is we say hey you won
come over here and join the 9-9
nah doc
all of the grace
all of the focus
all of the creativity
all of the innovation
all of the resources should be channeled
watch this not towards the 99
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but the one
the filter of jesus
his person
his power
his priorities
and his promises
when i said when i set jesus
in front of me
i’m seeing all of that
i’m seeing
how beautiful he is
i’m seeing
how powerful he is
i’m seeing
how into me
and others
he really is
and i’m seeing the fact that i’ve got
promises over my life
i’ve got promises over my life
this plane can’t go down because i got
stuff to do
that promises
[Music]
over my life
this weapon form cannot prosper because
there are promises
over my life that i have
not seen yet
got to find a way to land this plane fun
intended
i’ve got
i’ve got to be intentional i’m i’mma
land it i’m gonna land it i’ve i’ve got
i’ve got i’ve got to be intentional
about setting
god before me
and then it says because he is at my
right hand
i shall not be moved what does that mean
your right hand represents strength
strength i know some people left
analysis i’m just
telling you what it
means the right hand
represents the place of strength
so when i set
god before me i set him before me i see
life through the lens
of god god this the god factor changes
everything
i take this away and the plane is going
down
fast
i bring this up
and my whole consciousness
is different
i set him up my whole perspective
oh god this is going to change
somebody’s life
just changing just eyes up
somebody right now
right now
i don’t want you to look at your problem
anymore
you have been eye level with your
problem and that is a problem
you’ve been looking at it like this
you’ve been meditating you know that you
you you talk about mindfulness some of
us are mindful of our problems so it’s
negative mindfulness
because we are eye level
with our problem
and anything that you are eye level with
you’re on the level of
so what you’re going to do is you’re
going to just
just slowly but surely
look up
and that thing is going to get smaller
and smaller and smaller so that you can
run your race but you also have to make
god your strength what are you trusting
in one last passage i want to show you
real quick it’s in psalm 27 8.
you’ve seen this before you’ve heard it
before it says some trust in chariots
and some in horses
so of course this is ancient texts we’re
talking about physical things and things
that represent physical strength and
ability right chariots some trusts and
chariots and some in horses it says but
we will remember the name
of the lord our god
what are you trusting in
what does it take to make you feel safe
because that’s what you trust in
oh god help me
it says
but we will remember the name of the
lord our god then watch this it’s
balanced then it says they have bowed
down and fallen
who who was they those who trusted in
choices and horses and chariots and
chariots and horses
it says they have bowed down to these
things watch this and have fallen man
wait a minute that doesn’t sound like a
good deal
i bow down to you i put my trust in you
and you betrayed me because i fail
it says they
have bowed down
and fallen but we have risen
and stand upright
i got to stop
hear me out
eyes up
there’s a lot
that’s happening in our world right now
and i get it
there’s a lot of stuff that’s going on
but a lot of things a lot of the
breakthroughs and the victories that we
want to see are going to happen
through this
the solutions
the strategies
the type of ideas
that create change over conflict
are not going to happen if you’re just
looking at the problem
eyes up
i feel like
transparent moment we’re going home in a
little while
four or five hours we’ll be out of here
promise not a second longer than four
hours
but when the lord was dealing with me
about
this
this message to you i was afraid
because i felt like
the average person lives life in a
trance
and our whole culture and our whole
world
is
almost and i want to say it’s
intentional but i won’t do it but it’s
almost like designed to keep us in a
trance
because if i can distract you i can own
you
[Applause]
and i can make
an economy of you
oh god okay okay can i just
let me just
i can
you look i talk about this often but you
look at
for the last 10 years some of the most
best-selling books are all about
manipulating people
and they have cute titles and everything
how to win friends and influence people
that’s all cute i’m sure it’s a great
book but think about what people are
talking about people are learning and
getting well versed on how to distract
you
eyes up
eyeballs eyeballs eyeballs eyeballs is
everything i’m a business guy eyeballs
eyeballs how do i get eyeballs how do i
get eyeballs look at that how do i get
your eyes
because if i can get your eyes i will
control what you see if i control what
you see i will control your reality i
will control what you need
and i just so happen
to supply the need that i created
within you
i think one of the greatest deliverances
that the world the church the body will
experience in this season
is their eyes
getting their eyes back
eyes up
i want to pray for you my heart is like
really really uh filled
with god’s passion about this moment for
you
god wants to give you your eyes back
things have been snatching your eyes
there’s a war for your eyes every single
day i promise you there’s a word for
your eyes i remember my phone is not up
here but i remember
i was doing business with a guy 15 years
ago
or maybe even longer but about 15 years
ago
and he was saying uh ty can you bring me
my phone please and he was saying
thank you my friend he was saying
that everything
was coming to this
and i laughed at him get out of here man
and he meant he’s like no and i should
have invested but
he said everything was coming here
pull out your phone real quick just pull
pull out your phone i’m sorry just plug
your phone
raise your hand if you’ve got alerts on
it right now
eyes
eyes i’m after your eyes
put it back away because i want to keep
you in the flow of this thing
pookie on there or leroy
what time you’re getting out of church
[Applause]
[Music]
the eyes
in jewish culture
and jewish culture and we’re in a jewish
community right now and you you’ve seen
our jewish brothers and sisters
walking down and you’ll see
these
uh and i’m going to mispronounce it but
the intention is right but they’re
called zz i believe t-z-i-t-z-i c-z or
z-zeismanns
anyway
and those tassels there they’re threaded
in a particular way and they have a
certain amount of threads to remind them
of the commandments
and it’s about their eyes
that even though they have to use their
physical eyes to move around these
tassels hang down and they grab them
every once in a while and it’s a
reminder to them of what to focus on
i’m concerned
about your eyes
i i i want you and i’m going to pray and
you’re going to get this
but i want to pray about
the discipline of setting
jesus
always
before you
as you move about as you see life
as you make decisions
don’t do it without this
david said i set the lord
always before me
because he’s at my right hand i’ve made
him my strength
oh god watch this i have made seeing
jesus my strength
i’ve made see and since i’ve done that
i won’t be moved in a lot of things
that are trying to move you from your
place i won’t be moved move from where
move from my race
you’re on a race you’re in a race
you’re in the race the race has been set
since we are compassed about what this
great cloud of witnesses let us run with
endurance
the race
that is set before us
let us lay aside
the weights and the sin all these things
that would ensnare us
all these things that will trap us we
got to lay that aside
literally greek word cast off get it out
of the way it’s a distraction
and let us run with endurance
the race that set before us looking unto
jesus you know what that do i thought
the endurance was just for the trials no
the endurance also is in you having the
ability to stay focused on jesus when
real life happens to you
because the first thing that goes
when a blow comes is your focus
stop seeing jesus
overwhelmed with the issue
i want to pray for some people today
does that make sense is it this clear
eyes up
eyes up
eyes up
eyes up
eyes up and i also hear get up
because there’s a connection between
your eyes up
and you getting up
eyes up
how many times in the bible you see and
he lifted his eyes and saw and he lifted
his eye filled the holy spirit you are
going to see something see you’ve been
looking too low and there’s some things
that are going to inspire you if you
look up
if you lift your eyes up eyes
up
eyes
up
eyes
up
eyes
up from here on out eyes
up when you want to look low no eyes
up
cause your future
is up
i want to pray for some people
if you’re here and you know what
we haven’t done this before since we’ve
done a meet-up
my family if you’re here
if you’re watching
and you’re like man
p.t you’re talking to me
[Music]
because i haven’t been looking at jesus
and i haven’t i’ve been overwhelmed by
stuff but i almost forgot that i have a
god
and i’ve been trying to do it in my own
strength
and i’ve been trying to get free in my
own strength
but god is calling me to look at him
if that’s you
i’m just gonna mess this whole thing up
but i just want you to get as close to
the stage as you can i want to pray for
you honey can you come up here please
eyes up
if you like god’s talking to me
and i
i just
it’s gonna shift family
i was going crazy on that airplane
how did that happen
i was being moved
like who you know what i mean
like
i had all these thoughts in my head
and mirror it was like
like and here’s the crazy thing
i felt like there was power
in what i was thinking
you might say that pt no i mean who
knows what could happen if i would have
allowed what i was looking at to
overtake me god only knows i could have
freaked out panicked and made the guy
crash
[Music]
it was a major
battle
and i’ve never experienced that before
but i think i went through it
not just for me but for some of you
eyes up
if you’re here and you’ve never opened
up your heart to
to jesus listen
family
i can’t even imagine and i am a
practical man
you know i’m not some like weird
religious person anything like that
uh i’ve seen a lot of things i i had a
life
i’m just not that guy’s what i’m saying
i didn’t i didn’t like
i wasn’t like down and and god found me
when i was down and that’s however you
find you that’s fine it wasn’t like that
you know i’ve always
had some good stuff going for me in life
i’ve always been by the grace of god
intelligent and resourced
and i’m telling you right now i can’t
imagine
it is a dreadful and fearful thought
to be in this life without jesus for
real
i can’t even
you know sometimes i was talking to my
my wife
and i was just thinking like
we are so distracted a lot of the time
and it’s okay i love you
and just gather around wherever that
pain is somebody just just gather around
and love it and just love it
you love it you’re not by yourself
and i
we’re just driving i was like
like it almost feels like the majority
of culture is in a trance
and we’re not really rooted and grounded
in nothing
you know what i mean and we have we’re
good people and we have good ideas and
we we we want you know we we demand
justice and then let me tell you
something the kingdom is the kingdom of
justice
and and we you know and we’re after this
and we’re seeking and we’re reading
books and that’s wonderful you know
we’re trying to gain knowledge and we’re
you know we’re moving from one trend to
the next and you know now is all this
stuff what ayahuaka what is it called
knowledge
ayahuasa whatever
and again
i’m not knocking because people were
looking for something
i get it
but we were talking the other day and
there’s like there’s no grounding
and so you got to keep going from thing
the thing the thing the thing the thing
if there’s nothing that grounds you and
settles you you got to keep moving i get
it no judgment
but
it hurt me
because jesus is not one of many
he’s it baby
and not even it in the sense that i mean
and everything else no that’s because
that’s like religious stuff
no he’s saying i’m it because i’m it.
this is it wasn’t an egotistical
statement when he said i am the way the
truth and the life
that wasn’t ego
that was love
in other words what you’re searching for
i promise you i’m it
healing
victory
protection
breakthrough
salvation
blessing
purpose
power
i got you
and you don’t have to come to me perfect
in fact
my strength
is made perfect
by your weakness
by your cray-cray
[Applause]
[Music]
so if you hear and you say and listen i
can’t like make anybody
do jesus
i just talk as i as i’m led as as the
unction moves me and then what he does
is he touches hearts
he touches hearts
he touches and he says i know you i
formed you before i formed you in your
mother’s womb i knew you
and he says i’m into you and i’ve got
you and i love you and i want you and i
don’t want to just be this religious
figure in a book but i want to show up
in your life and and talk to you at
night and and be there with you in your
darkest moment
and show you the door out
if that’s you
and you’re here
and you do feel that tug
that draw
to open up to jesus and just to say yes
i want you to come here and if that’s
you
i want you to come all the way here
and just just press through and find a
way and press through my staff will help
you get here
if that’s you i want you to come or lift
your hand or something i want to see if
that should put your hand up come on
don’t
come come come closer just get as close
as you can
come on come on come on come on wherever
you are our pastors are here
come on yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes yes
yes
yes
totally
absolutely yes
i’ve been walking with the lord
for
21 years
and i have never regretted it
every single day i am more grateful and
more thankful
i have never
i have never you will never you will
never regret it you will never
not not jesus
not jesus
not jesus come here not jesus you will
never ever ever ever ever ever
ever
ever
ever regret
ever
ever
ever
ever
you will never ever regret
i promise you
i promise you not him
not him
not him nope
not jesus
no no not him
people maybe but not him
not him
not him not him
not him
[Music]
yes
[Applause]
[Music]
this is breakthrough mode
this is a breakthrough moment this is a
new moment
yeah
you’re getting ready to meet
to meet
that little boy
that little boy
that little boy
yeah
that’s it
that’s it i got you
more importantly he got you
he will never let you go
he will never let you go
he will never forsake you
never reject you he will never ever let
you go ever
ever
ever yeah yeah
yeah
hello
[Applause]
[Music]
come on let’s worship
[Music]
just in your own way
i want you to repeat after me
heavenly father
[Applause]
i thank you for your word
i receive it
[Music]
i thank you for jesus
thank you for making him
who had no sin
[Applause]
all of mine
all of my weakness
all of my shortcomings
all of my limitations
all of my brokenness
you put in his body
nailed it to the cross
and put it to death
[Applause]
and when he was raised up
free and victorious
[Music]
because i’m in him
i’m raised up to
and therefore
i will lift mine eyes
unto the heels
for which cometh my
help my help
comes from god
so from this moment forward
my eyes will be up
and not down
in jesus name
amen come on
eyes up
i see your eyes they’re up oh god i feel
there’s victory in this i see it
i see it
i see it oh i see it
oh you just got a secret weapon
you just got a secret weapon when the
enemy comes at you you just don’t do
this
i see it
when the enemy throws something at you
you’re gonna do this
i see it
i see it eyes up
it’s gonna be amazing
and you will behold
amazing things hear me
it’s not down here
what you’re after
what you’re looking for
it’s not down here
what’s up
good to see you my friend
it’s up
ah it’s up
up
it’s up
it’s up
come on only up from here baby only up
from here
only up from here
only up only up hold it up
oh god
oh god
[Music]
this is called glory
this is called glory
this is what we came for
i know we got to go in a few minutes but
this is this is what we came for
we didn’t come in god’s house
just to have a little no no no
we came for glory he said i want to
dwell
among you
glory
we’re gonna take this glory in the
streets
if it is possible i don’t know if it is
i i want us to seal this in communion
is not
a religious exercise
it is an opportunity for a moment of
transformation
jesus said do this often
do this in remembrance of me
in remembrance
he says as often as you do this you will
show forth or proclaim the lord’s death
now i gotta be honest with you
i i didn’t know why we want to remember
when i was you know
younger less mature in the faith still a
baby you know but i’m like why do we
want to remember his death i didn’t
you know i used to kind of freak out
with you know people wear the crucifix
like why you want to remember the
suffering but now i get it i was wrong i
get it
when we look to the cross
it is important to see beyond jesus
dying but seeing your sin dying
a condition that causes us to miss the
mark
sin is not an act it’s a condition that
brings about a limitation that’s why it
says for god made him who had no sin to
become sin so that we might become the
righteousness of god right so when you
see jesus on the cross you have to see
you have to understand what happened in
the garden on the way to the cross
you remember when he was saying i want
this cup to pass from me
what happened in the garden was he
became sin
and then he went to the cross and so sin
yes jesus died but sin died that’s what
was that’s what when he said it is
finished
he was saying i i have broken in my body
my body was broken for you i’ve broken
in my body that which keeps you broken
so my journey to wholeness has a lot to
do with
regularly reminding myself of what god
did i said it early on in the message
the biggest issue that we have is
amnesia we forget who we are and what we
have
and so we take stuff we don’t have to
take
are you tracking with him so communion
is powerful because we get to remember
and anytime we remember it creates a
mind renewal and we are transformed
according to paul roman’s 12. we are
transformed by the
renewing of our mind so communion is
about mind renewal
my life changes when my mind is
renovated
and so his body
the wafer represents his body
which was broken thank you my precious
queen
my body
which was broken he said take eat this
is my body which is broken now i just
believe
that there may be some things that need
to be broken
off of your life so that you can be
whole
right brokenness leads to wholeness
isn’t that something his body was broken
so that we might be whole
so what has god broken
that is still active in your life
and i want you to think about what needs
to be broken and once you get that thing
or those nine things or those two things
once you get that in your mind
in this moment as you break the wafer
between your fingers i want you to
envision that thing breaking
so take a minute
what does the lord want to be broken off
of my life so that i can be whole and
once you gather it i want you to just
just break the way for it whenever
you’re ready
body was broken
we might be whole by
the chastisement that brought us shalom
that’s wholeness that’s peace
was upon him and by his stripes we are
healed if there is a sickness that needs
to be broken if there is some sort of
addiction or something that you can’t
say no to that needs to be broken if
there is a soul tie an ungodly soul tie
created through an intimate relationship
that you have with someone that was not
ordained for you that can be broken
whatever miracle this is a house of
miracles
there is an alliance some sort of
allegiance that needs to be broken if
you
if you’ve dabbled in something
hallelujah
and you want that to be broken see some
of you are coming back home
and i love the fact that home always
exists so once you break it
i want you to take of his body
thank you
and now his his blood
seals it
hallelujah gives us access
to the promises of god hallelujah we
speak the blood anytime the enemy wants
to con to condemn you or to judge you
and say you’re not enough just say the
blood
but the blood
oh you’ve been too wrong you’ve done too
many things you’ll never know yeah but
the blood the blood the powerful blood
let’s seal it with that which represents
the blood
jesus we remember you
and we thank you for this reminder this
fresh reminder
of what happens when we have the
opportunity to look at you
god we thank you that not only can we
look at you but you took the time today
to look at us
father as we leave this place may our
eyes only be locked on you
and may we experience you in everything
that we do
what a sight you are to behold father
and i thank you that this is just a
fresh start a new beginning for so many
of us may we carry this reminder with us
when those old voices start speaking
father may we be reminded that all we
need to do is look to jesus thank you
god for this time together and for this
word and for the opportunity to be in
relationship with you
lead us guide us talk to us we’re open
and we’re ready in jesus name i pray
amen amen amen
you