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when I was studying for this message I
was asking
God how is it that we started off made
in your
image but then we ended up on the spirit
level we’re made in your image but then
we ended up having to navigate the
spirit of fear the spirit of lust the
spirit of
depression Spirits I’m not talking about
fleeting emotions fear is an
emotion until it becomes a
spirit oh God help me
okay
oh the serpent distorts our image of
God and it opens up our spirit it cracks
our spirit and the enemy exploits the
cracks in our
spirit if you’ve ever had something
happen in your life that made you
question God or question what God can do
to you or through you or for you then
you you did not just arrive to that
place on your own you arrived to that
place as a result of the enemy
distorting your image of God and
sometimes our Distortion happens through
family
circles sometimes that Distortion
happens when we come into church and we
leave with church hurt because we come
into it thinking that we can have an
open spirit and then when we recognize
that the spirit that we had that was
open has actually resulted in us EXP
experiencing a wound now we have a
broken
Spirit the reason why I took the time to
separate the emotion of Fear And the
emotions of anxiety versus versus a
spirit is because you can have an
emotion without an emotion changing what
you
believe when God disrupted my message
this morning and none of it made sense
or allowed the enemy to do it and he’s
going to use it for good I don’t know
what’s going to happen we’ll see in
about 20 minutes I had to get to a place
where I said even though I have fear and
I have nerves and I have anxiety right
now I still believe that the spirit of
God has sent me into this room and so
there are some moments where I have to
trust the spirit because my emotions
could invade my spirit and now I have a
spirit of fear instead of letting the
fear just pass on by me sometimes you
got to stand in the truth and the weight
of the spirit regardless of what you
feel because say if I let my feelings
take over and drive me then I’m now
being governed by the my fear I’m
governed by my emotions instead of being
governed by the spirit and I am all for
therapy I have a therapist you do have
to work through your feelings and your
emotions but you have to make sure that
what was supposed to be a feeling does
not become the place where you reside or
you will have a spirit of Shame you’ll
have a spirit of lust you’ll have a
spirit of pornography there are spirits
out here and if your spirit is is
open the image that you’re supposed to
reflect will be
distorted for God is not giving you the
spirit of fear why does Paul tell
Timothy this because he’s about to
transition into a space of leadership
and Timothy is nervous and timid and and
what should have just been a feeling and
emotion has the potential to actually
become his Spirit but Paul reminds him
that God did not give you the spirit of
fear but he gave you the spirit of power
love and a sound mind and sometimes you
got to rebuke those spirits that are
trying to get into the cracks of the
image that you have been created in I
know it’s a little old school and I know
we don’t always rebuke things the way
that we should but when the devil starts
rolling up on you if you give him space
instead of rebuking him you will allow
the power of God to be diluted but there
is something to be said about somebody
who doesn’t mind saying Satan I rebuke
you in the name of Jesus I rebuke you
you cannot have my house you cannot have
my family I’m going to the therapist
because depression shall not be my
portion I rebuke you in the name of
Jesus cuz you don’t have to just rebuke
you can start getting active with that
thing too not only do I rebuke you but
faith without works is De I’ve got faith
that when I rebuke you I put you under
my feet so I’m going to start moving
like the rebuking has positioned me to
have my steps ordered
again get out of my spirit i d you to
yell yell it get out of my spirit get
out of my spirit get out of my spirit
fear you got to go get out of my spirit
anxiety you got to go get out of my
spirit lust you got to go get out of my
spirit shame you got to go get out of my
spirit if I was doing it in my own power
I have a problem but I rebuke you in the
name of Jesus I serve you notice in the
name of
Jesus out of my spirit out of my spirit
I may have been cracked but it won’t be
the end I may have been wounded but it
won’t be the end he makes all things new
I wish a devil would try and get through
the crack when I get
finished being in the presence of God
wherever there was a crack his presence
is going to
feel somebody’s getting ready get their
Spirit back somebody’s getting ready to
get their reflection back somebody’s
going to leave this place looking like
the image of God that you were created
to
be something God in your
spirit
oh
intruder alert intruder alert I got
what’s wrong with you you’ve been trying
to figure out what’s wrong with you I
hear God saying there’s an intruder in
your spirit it started off heartbreak
but now you don’t know what your life is
worth anymore that’s because what should
have just been a heartbreak has become
the state that you live
in and Intruder Intruder Intruder
there’s an intruder in your spirit
there’s an intruder that’s why you can’t
sleep at night there’s an intruder in
your spirit that’s why you don’t know
what to do with your life anymore
there’s an intruder in your spirit
that’s why suicidal ideation is taking
over there’s an intruder in your
spirit oh
God but you can’t stay
here you can’t stay here you got to come
into agreement about what your spirit is
supposed to look like because when you
know what your spirit is supposed to
look like you will not settle for
anything less than what your spirit is
supposed to look like I don’t want to
forgive you but I got to forgive you cuz
I know what my spirit is supposed to
look like I’m mad at you but I can’t be
mad any longer cuz I got to maintain
what my spirit is supposed to look like
I can’t be who I’m supposed to be in the
earth without the right spirit
it’s in your
spirit it’s in your
spirit the power and the
problem living in the same
spirit so the
mirror you can’t even see yourself
anymore you had these
Visions you had these
hopes you wanted to break generational
curses you wanted to write a book that
would help someone who had gone through
what you’d been through you wanted to
introduce wholeness into your family you
wanted to take care of your body but we
can’t just keep taking blow after blow
after blow until it starts to affect our
spirit and you’ll know that it broke
your spirit when it changes what you
believe I can’t believe on that level no
more cuz my spirit got
broken it wasn’t just a heartbreaking
change what I believe it wasn’t just
grief it changed what I
believe it’s not just a disease it
changed what I believe I’m not just
going through with a kid now I don’t
believe that I’m the right parent for
the job I’m questioning myself this
thing broke my
spirit oh
God
God God says to
Sarah you going to Bear Child your old
age and she
laughs because I can’t even believe on
that
level cuz being Barren for so
long has made it impossible for me to
believe that I can produce after this
much
emptiness so much so that God can send a
word for you and you reject the very
word God sends for you because you don’t
see yourself the way God sees
you
have you ever had
God send a word for
you that if you’re honest you don’t have
the spirit to
match come on
man if we were to be honest and we got
to be honest cuz that’s the only way we
really experience transformation this
isn’t just playing church we got to be
real about this thing
I don’t
know if I have the
spirit for where you’ve called
me because I already feel
lonely and I already feel
afraid and it looks like if I continue
going down this journey that there’s
only more loneliness more betrayal more
isolation and I don’t think I’m strong
enough to be who you’ve called me to
be but you you keep calling me to be it
anyway I wish one of us could just give
up but he’s too faithful to give up so
you got to grow
up you have to grow
up you’re going to have to grow into the
person who can be who God says you can
be and I don’t mean growing by
pretending I mean growing by in the
spirit realm you say God I don’t have
the spirit for it but I heard that if
you dwell inside of me that you can
increase the capacity of my spirit so
God when I say fill me up to I overflow
I mean let me overflow until I have
enough capacity for the Overflow and
then let me grow some more so I have
capacity for that overflow
flow when
Jesus Calls the
disciples he says to the
disciples follow me and I will make you
Fishers of Men oh
God I
almost called this message made for
this there’s so much I was so I was just
in my own world and this
text I thought maybe this is the text
maybe I need to leave with this one
because there was so much about this
when I hear follow me and I will make
you fishes and men for some reason I’ve
always heard that as a
question like he gave them an option but
it was a
command he commanded them to move in a
lane that they were unfamiliar
with and when he commanded them to move
into that lane he doesn’t say follow me
me and you will be a fisher of men he
says follow me and I will make
you I’m going to make you into what I’m
calling you
for I’m going to make you into you’re
not you’re right you’re not there you’re
right you may not have the spirit for it
you’re right you may not have the
technique you may not have the skills
but when I get finished making you
you’ll be everything that you need to be
when I get finished making you you’re
going to know how to cast out the Devils
when I get finished making you you’re
going to know how to balance the books
when I get finished you got to make a
marriage we get married but then you got
to build a marriage you don’t just raise
kids you got to make these children you
don’t just start the business you got to
make a business and guess
what when God makes you into
something sometimes he uses failure to
make
you
the disciples he told them to cast out a
devil it wouldn’t come out he said why
couldn’t it come out he says this time
kind only comes out by fasting and
praying and it seemed like they failed
but in reality he was making them by
allowing them to
fail is it failure or are they the tools
that God is using to make
you into who God has called you to be
and if you give up when you fail then
you’ll never be made into who God has
called you to be so you got to have
enough humility to stay in the making
even when it looks like you’re failing
to stay in the making even when it means
you got to apologize you got to stay in
the making even when it feels like I
don’t know what I’m doing I got to stay
in the making cuz he called me to this
and I believe that he’s calling me to
make me not to make me look good not to
build my ego not to make other people
jealous of me you see you can’t have the
culture of the world and the culture of
the kingdom when God is made making you
into something because you want to be
made into an ego you want to be made
into an idol and God’s trying to make
you into a disciple and when God makes
you into a disciple you got to humble
yourself and you got to be willing to
look a little crazy and you got to be
willing to look like you don’t have it
all together and you got to be willing
to look like your kids are crazy and how
could I be saving everyone else and my
kids aren’t together you got to be
willing to look like a fool because he
uses the foolish things of the world so
you can look good or you can mess around
and get foolish with this thing and
allow that failure to make
you into a better
husband and a better
parent give me the
spirit the spirit for this
thing