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i’m pt pastor toray roberts i’m the lead

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beautiful you see family this past

sunday we just celebrated easter

and i’m still on the easter high because

you can never get enough

of celebrating the resurrection of our

lord jesus christ

when i think about the lord i think

about what the book of ephesians tells

us that when he ascended that he took

captivity captive and he gave gifts unto

men

that is so affirming to me because it’s

a reminder that lord when i think about

the cross

i think about the fact that whatever

could hold me bound

whatever had the power to keep me

captive that

i no longer have to worry about that

because

your resurrection was the guarantee that

i would also rise up too

that anything that had the power to be a

hindrance to my ability

to walk in the fullness of who you know

me to be that you took it captive

and you gave gifts unto men did you know

that you are the gift

that the gifts unto men is that the lord

gave you

you he gave you the ability to be

unhindered

by fear and doubt and insecurities and

to tap into the fullness of your faith

because of jesus and so just right now i

want you to put in the chat just say

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the hashtag if you want to feel more

cultural right it’s a beautiful thing

but before we go into the word today i

want us to pray

heavenly father we just thank you for

your goodness we thank you for your love

we thank you for the word that you have

purpose to go forth

lord only you can do with it what i

can’t only you can cause a word to bring

conviction into our hearts

only you can cause the word to bring

transformation and healing

in our lives and so move lord in jesus

name

amen amen family today if you’re taking

notes my message is

start building and i’m gonna be reading

from

genesis chapter seven from verse seven

to nine

and it says so noah with his sons

his wife and his son’s wives went into

the ark because

of the waters of the flood of clean

animals of animals that are unclean

of birds and of everything that creeps

on the earth two by two they went into

the ark to noah male and female

as god had commanded noah

now this is so this first of all this

scripture just has so much that

is so intriguing to me i mean imagine

right all the animals of the world

coming to you

and before we dig into it you know i

don’t want to assume that everyone knows

about the story of noah

you know noah was a man who really in a

time that god had purpose to

send a flood to wipe out all of humanity

and it was just because of the deep

level of corruption and violence

that was taken place on the earth that

god found

favor in noah the bible tells us that

noah found favor in the eyes of god

rather

and so noah was this man who really

intrigued me because i was like god

in all of the earth noah was the only

one that you could see

would carry this out you know sometimes

when you read the bible you want to

really

get a full context of it like lord you

know wasn’t there any other person any

other families

with the animals that were worth saving

but then the lord began to show me that

it was not about who was being who was

worth saving because the lord would not

turn anyone away

but the key thing about noah is that the

bible tells us

that noah walked with god you see there

is such a difference right

between between knowing god and walking

with god

many of us we know the lord right you

had an encounter with god or

you know there are things that happen in

your life that really makes you

understand that

jesus is real i have that on my shirt

jesus is real

but there are things that happen in our

lives and we’re like you know what lord

i know that you’re real

but there’s a difference between saying

i know that you’re real

and i’m walking with you because to walk

with god is to say that god i’m in

agreement

with your will over my life that

whatever you

you desire of me whatever you say i am

that i am

walking this thing out with you there’s

a scripture in the bible and it tells us

that can

two walk together unless they agree that

in order for us to walk together we have

to be

in agreement how many times have we

found ourselves

that when god gives you a word you start

arguing with him

even when we have this false humility

that lord it can be me

who am i to do this it’s a disagreement

in those moments we’re not walking with

the lord

you see the difference with noah in this

times is that he had the stamp of

obedience

a lifestyle of obedience that separated

him from

everyone else on earth because god knew

that if i was going to find someone

and instruct them to do what no eye has

ever seen

that i can count on noah this was about

god looking for who can i

trust on the earth with this assignment

and noah was that person you have to

understand that in that time

the whole idea of a flood by the way of

rain

is something that literally no eye has

seen

because it never rained up until the

time of the flood

and so when god meets noah and he’s

telling noah hey

this is what you’re going to do and this

is what i require of you

we see this obedience that just oozed

out of noah’s life

even when it was something that he had

never ever seen in his

in his world he there was no reference

for it

noah said yes lord you see you might be

that person

perhaps maybe there is a dream there is

a vision that god has put in your heart

and there is no reference for it there

is nothing that would really

inspire you to know that this is

possible but i want you to recognize

that when we look at the stories

of these men and women in the bible it

tells us that that’s not an excuse

that it is possible with god and it is

time

to start building i want you to be the

type of person that

you would have the confidence to say i

am one who walks with god

you see i believe that you know noah had

a a great grandfather

and his name was enoch right enoch was

in the bible it tells us that

enoch walked with the lord and then he

was not

just all of a sudden god just took him

away and a fun fact about enoch is that

he

lived 365 years 365 that’s the number of

days that make up

each year but you see what i love about

this story is that god shows us this

picture

that what life is about is about walking

with him

is about being in agreement with his

word over your life

i believe that enoch god just took him

because

enoch figured it out that as long as i

am in sync with god

i don’t even have to see death he was

such a great example to us

that this is what life is about

and so when i’m telling you start

building it’s not just about

you know what let me just get this

vision going is to say

don’t miss a step with god don’t miss a

beat with god

when the lord gives you an instruction

when the lord puts something on your

heart

when you start taking time to argue and

question if you’re not the one

that you are you’re moving behind him

when god says

walk with me let us move in agreement

don’t be in disagreement with me

because this is what causes men and

women to stand out in the world

and so let’s look at this scripture

right the scripture tells us

you know it introduces noah so noah

builds the ark noah is obedient to the

lord

and then it says something that is so

fascinating to me

it says two by two now referring to the

animals that they went

into the ark to noah male and female

as god commanded noah

now the animals are responding

not because god commanded the animals

but because noah did what god commanded

him to do

i find this fascinating because when i

read a story like this i’m thinking it’s

the bible is going to say something like

you know the animals came two by two as

god commanded them

but then it says no as god commanded

noah then in you know even previous to

this scripture in genesis 6

20 it gives us another picture it says

of the birds after their kind of

animals after their kind and of every

creeping thing

of the earth after its kind two of every

kind will come to you

to keep them alive this is when the lord

was telling noah look

when you do what i’ve said the animals

will find you

this is so beautiful to me because a lot

of times

one of the arguments we find with

between ourselves when the lord commands

us to do something

is that lord how is this going to be how

is this going to happen

that there are so many elements to this

there’s so many layers to this

you start we start thinking like okay

god tells you to build the ark

now you’re panicked because you’re like

okay if i build the ark

now am i supposed to go find the animals

i am not the person that will go on an

animal hunt first of all

because by the time i see a spider i

don’t know who’s going to be more scared

me or the spider it’s probably me

so i don’t know how i’m going to lead

something that terrifies me

but you see it was never about that

because the place of your calling that

is the place of

partnership with god there is a role

that you play

and there’s a road that god plays all

noah had to do

was play his part noah build the ark

stop going seven steps ahead how many

times do we find ourselves in that

that when it’s time to build the vision

we’re thinking about

okay in month three you know how am i

gonna keep up with this how is this

gonna work out

and all god gave you was the first

instruction

you see the instructions of the lord are

not given to you for you to add your

vision to it

the instructions of the lord are given

to you so that you would be dependent

on him that lord okay what are you

telling me to do right now

let us walk together it’s not a race

it’s a walk with the lord that step by

step

okay lord i’ll build the ark and it’s

beautiful

because as noah built the ark the

animals responded to the sound of his

obedience

he said i want you to write this down

for those taking notes that obedience

has a sound when you are obedient to the

things that the lord has spoken to you

it has a sound it releases a sound on

the earth to

everything that is connected to your

next step to find you

you might feel like but god i don’t see

the next step well we don’t walk by

sight

we walk by faith we walk by knowing lord

that you are

in this thing with me you see recently

my mother

she started this new real estate project

now this project

it’s it’s has so much value to the

family because

for 20 years my mom used to tell me

about this dream that she would have

and she would say stephanie there’s this

dream that god keeps showing me

literally maybe even over 20 years but

i can track as far as 20 years and she

will talk about

this land that is close to like a bed of

water

and she’s just like i don’t understand

this i keep seeing this land over and

over again

and i don’t know what it means and every

time i have this dream it’s different

right

you know at some points there’s

construction that starts at other points

the building is finished

at other points there’s something else

being added to the building

and literally year after year there was

not one year

that my mother did not have this

reoccurring dream

just recently we discovered that there

was a land that my father my father was

murdered when i was a baby

we just discovered that there was a land

that he left behind that we had

no knowledge about so my mom had sent

some people to check this land out

and when they sent some photos to her

she called me and she called me

just with tears of joy and she said

stephanie this is the thing i’ve been

seeing in my dream all these years that

when she looked at the photos and looked

at the videos it was

literally next to a body of water and

she said this is what god has been

showing me

and she knew just instinctively

that if god has finally brought it to me

it’s time to build on it

and we started praying we’re like god

what is the purpose of this

and through just clarity from the lord

we begin to understand

this is the this is what god actually

wants to do with this property

and the truth of the matter is that you

know as a family we come together we

talk about things

and there’s so many other things that

we’re working on so at first my brothers

are like hey you know why don’t we do

this why don’t we wait till next year

and my mom reminded us because my mom

does a lot of different real estate

projects

but every time she starts she says the

same thing

she says i don’t need to know how we’re

going to finish it

i just need to start it because when i

started i know that god will make the

way for me to complete it

and so with this very property my mom

just said look

i know we may not have all that it takes

if we are trying to

think about how we’re going to finish it

from the from the beginning from the

conception of this

i don’t know if we’re going to do it but

my mom said but as long as i

started god is going to make a way that

he is going to make the provision

for what needs to happen and just like

my mother

i believe that we all have to embrace

this understanding

that i don’t have to have it all figured

out in order to start

you see it’s so interesting in life

that we find ourselves crippled by this

idea of how is it going to happen

it’s happened in my life before you know

it not too long ago actually

there was something that the lord had

put on my heart and i really found this

it’s almost like you know how you you

may find yourself settled in this idea

of discouragement because you’re like

god this feels too big

but then the holy spirit reminds you

don’t fall for this idea of false

humility

when the lord speaks to you it’s a

mirror he already sees it in you

he already knows what you have the

ability to do and he’s telling you would

you come into agreement with what i know

about you

don’t be crippled by the how no i wasn’t

crippled about

how are the animals gonna come to me he

just believed that god

as long as i do my part i know that

you’re going to make a way

as long as i do my part whatever else

needs to be settled

you’re going to send that to me you see

whatever the lord has said to you

the how is not your issue and many times

we’ve heard about that

but what i want you to be more focused

on is not the how

but the why why is god telling you

to do what he said what is the why

behind your assignment

you see just recently our pastor and

first lady pastor sarah jacks roberts

she released a book called woman evolve

when you read the book

even just when you look at the book

immediately you understand her why

you understand that there is a why

behind this that this is for women

everywhere around the world to break up

with their fears

and revolutionize their life that this

is a book it is a

calling to every woman that wherever you

are

that it is possible for you to walk in

the fullness of who god has called you

to be

what i love about that is the is just

the the reality

that you see the why right in front of

you

you need to get back to the why of what

god called you to do

there is a why behind your assignment

and when you begin to embrace that why

the deeper you are in the embrace of the

why the more connected you are to the

heart of god

because the heart of god is in the why

god doesn’t just tell you to do things

because he’s

bored and he wants to see let’s play the

game of obedience

right who is going to be the most

obedient on the earth

god is not born he doesn’t need to play

games when the lord gives you an

assignment

he recognizes that there is darkness on

the earth

and i’ve called you to be light in this

area by walking this thing out with me

when the lord gives you an assignment he

says i can trust you

to represent me i can trust you to be

light

you see one of the things i’m so

fascinated by this i

this idea of embracing the identity that

we are light

because the bible tells us something so

beautiful right it says that

jesus is the light of the world but

jesus also

calls us the light of the world and so

when we find ourselves in this place of

wrestling with

god where are you look at all the evil

that is happening the lord says i

sent you you represent me as well

that you are the light of the world just

as i am

and so when i give you an instruction we

are walking this thing out both as light

to invade darkness and to show the rain

and rulership of our lord jesus

it’s not just about this game that god

wants to play with you

there are lives on the line connected to

the very thing that god has called you

to do

and so when you begin to embrace the why

behind

it you understand the heart of god

and when you embrace the why you can

trust god

with the how now to be honest when i say

start building

i recognize that you know as creative

beings

we we have a lot that in our minds we

want to build right

if you give me 10 minutes with a pen and

a paper

i’ll probably give you 10 ideas of

amazing things i can do

so when i talk about start building i’m

not just talking about the random ideas

that we can come up with

because that is our nature we can come

up with all kinds of things

i’m talking about the god things i’m

talking about the things that the lord

has placed on your heart

the vision that is bigger than you the

vision that is not just about you

and yours but the vision that is

connected to the people of god

that is connected to communities that’s

connected to seeing people set free

that is connected to seeing the kingdom

of god being established

what of the kingdom of god being

established looks like

it looks like freedom it looks like

justice

it looks like love it looks like healing

it is beautiful it looks like

transformation

i’m talking about that thing that will

keep you up at night the thing that you

know that without god it’s not possible

you see when you have a dream when you

have a vision that if you just take

enough time you can plan your way to the

finish line

then you need to rethink where did this

come from did this come from me

or did they come from god because

whatever comes from god it requires him

what comes from you you can figure out

with your with your connections your

relationships

and your finances but what comes from

god it has a sense of dependency on god

and i’m not so i’m not talking about

that i’m talking about the very thing

that comes from him

i’m talking about that place where god

becomes your partner

and without him being your partner

there’s no way forward

this is the kind of vision i’m talking

about this is what i’m calling you

to start building you see there’s one of

my favorite scriptures in the bible and

it’s in psalms

127 verse 1 and it says

that unless the lord builds the house

they labor in vain

who build it now some of you might be

wondering well if the lord is building

child

i’m going to chill but when you listen

to that scripture

it says unless the lord builds a house

they labor in vain who builds it now

when the lord is the one building the

house if you flip it

then they don’t labor in vain so there

is the lord building but there is also

labor happening this also mirrors again

this idea and understanding of

co-working co-laboring with the lord

the lord is building and you are

building because you’re both

building the same vision and it gives us

this sense of balance right that look i

can

trust in god i can trust that god you

are the one who will be the waymaker

i can trust that god you are the one

that would open doors for me

but while i trust in god that i’m still

gonna move

with actions because the bible tells us

it says

faith without works is dead i love this

scripture because it shows

us the balance it says yes have find

rest in knowing that god has you but

also be responsible to do the work

don’t just rest and lose the idea of

responsibility because

it is a co-partnership with the lord

don’t just say that god i have faith in

you but then where you are right now

with what you can do you do nothing

there’s a parable there’s this scripture

when it talks about

you know the parable of the talents and

it talks about how

jesus gave you know i mean it’s not

jesus of the parable but he’s the one

he’s really speaking about himself

but it’s about this man who gave

different talents to his servants

but then there was one servant that he

gave a talent to and the servant said

well

you know what i just buried it because

when you whenever you came back i’m like

hey here is what you gave me here’s the

one talent you gave me i buried it

didn’t do nothing with it

and when that when that servant spoke up

the lord said look

you know what i’m gonna take what i’ve

given you and give to those who

understood how to

multiply that there were those that he

gave talents to and

there was one he gave to and he brought

him back four i believe

right and the lord looks at him and he’s

like yes well done

good and faithful servant and then

rewarded them with more

so wherever you are in life you have

something

to start whatever god has put in your

heart don’t be so crippled by

this idea of okay what is going to

happen in year two

that you don’t do what needs to be done

on day one

there’s something that day one requires

of you have you committed to it

and again don’t look at this as just let

me do this for the lord no this is how

we

walk with god this is how we step in

agreement our

everyday lives is in tune is in step

with god

this is a beautiful thing family you see

and i recognize that perhaps

for some of you it might not be about

you know building the vision it might

not be about building this

you know grand thing or whatever the

case might be

you may feel like well this sounds

amazing but god hasn’t really put

anything in my heart

then it could be about building you you

see there’s a scripture that the bible

tells us about

in first corinthians chapter three verse

nine it says that

we are god’s fellow workers you are

god’s

field you are god’s building

there are moments in life when we are

taking the role of

being in partnership with god to execute

a vision

to execute a word because when god gives

you a word it is his will revealed for

humanity is his will

revealed to touch the earth right it’s

heaven touching

earth so there are times that that is

the case but there are times that we

take on

the identity that we are god’s building

that we are god’s vessel

and in order for god to use his vessel

the vessel has to be healthy

the vessel has to be equipped and so

when i say building you i’m talking

about building yourself into the

likeness of

jesus that you begin to guard your heart

from anything that could be contaminants

you see sometimes you may feel like god

i’m i’m praying for clarity about this

you know who am i what have you called

me to do but when you search your heart

there’s unforgiveness

there’s bitterness these are things that

clog us

it clogs our channel from receiving from

the lord

and so there are moments where the lord

says right now i want you to focus

on becoming everything in my image

becoming taking on my likeness

that right now there are things you’re

dealing with issues of the heart

and you need to get that stuff cleaned

up because it clogs you

it contaminates even how you perceive

things it even contaminates

the word that flows through you because

when the lord begins to speak

all of a sudden the way you might

receive it might not be the way he

intended for it

you see there’s a scripture that tells

us that blessed are the pure in heart

for they shall see god and it’s not

really talking about these are they’re

not saying when they go to heaven they

will see god

they’re saying their lifestyle the

lifestyle of the pure in heart is that

they shall

see god what is beautiful about that is

that when you have a pure heart

you s you have the perspective of god

over everything

that it’s not just an argument when

you’re looking at it you’re not looking

to pick up

you’re not looking to pick a fight

you’re looking to be the peacemaker

that you have his perspective over every

area of your life

this is the beauty of a pure heart and

so when things start to contaminate your

heart

the lord says pause now let’s focus on

you

as my building because if i’m going to

use you

you have to be clear you have you can be

clogged up

so it could be that in some for some

people

that what god is focusing on right now

is be my building

represent me and you’re going to be

tested in those areas

your love is going to be tested your

patience is going to be tested

your faithfulness is going to be tested

don’t look at it like

woe is me look at it and recognize wow

this is an

opportunity for me to see myself for me

to recognize what is in my heart

that in this place i stand my ground

that i’m not that person

who was moving in bitterness anymore

that i’ve chosen

love i’ve chosen forgiveness and so even

this week some of you are going to get

tested

because the test is not working against

you the test is to reveal you

because many times we don’t even know

what’s in our heart

and many times we are taking on the

narrative that we are still holding on

to so much pain not even recognizing

that you are healed

you know one of the assignments of jesus

was to proclaim

liberty to the captives that hey

i know you’re living like you’re bound

but you’re actually free

could it be that you may think you’re

bound by what broke you

not recognizing how much you’ve grown

and how much

you’ve developed and you are so far from

that person

and god uses situations to show you

i am not who i thought i was i’ve

matured i’ve developed

i am not who they say i am but actually

i’m embracing them who god says i am

this is the beauty of when you recognize

that you are god’s building

you see family i do believe that this is

a message

that the lord wanted me to share with

you because

you have to recognize that there is

always an appointed time for everything

in life

and we honor god by being in position

for his appointed time

there’s an appointed time for the things

that god wants to work in your life

and how we honor him is to say god i’m

going to prepare myself

i’m going to position myself for the

appointed time i don’t know when it is

right the bible tells us that times and

seasons belong to the to the lord

they don’t belong to us and god has a

track record

of doing things when it’s not convenient

for us

you see as i began to pray over this

message i began to hear this phrase

that make room for now and i was

wondering god what do you mean by this

make room for now because now is this

present moment

but now it’s also recognizing now is a

moment that comes upon you

and it cannot be delayed so when the

lord says make room for now he’s saying

that you’re not going to recognize when

i just sneak up on you

with the appointed time that you’re not

going to recognize when a destiny

not that you’re not going to recognize

rather but you’re not going to know the

timing

you’re not gonna you’re not gonna have

the awareness of it’s not gonna be on

your calendar

when god has scheduled something to take

place in your life so he says make room

for now

and how do you make room for now you

position yourself and you prepare

you just don’t you when you yes yes

you’re in prayer and yes you say you’re

one who believes god is going to make a

way

but have you prepared the very things

that the

provision is supposed to serve

and so make room for now god is going to

interrupt your normal

but when he does would you know it

that’s why the scripture says

behold i do a new thing and

now that it now that it rises up do you

not know it now that it springs forth

don’t you see it that the lord is doing

a new thing he

interrupts your normal but you cannot

see it because you did not make room for

now

you did not make room for that moment

that inconvenient destiny moment

because all along the lord has been

speaking to you about moments that would

lead up to this

and true faith has actions connected to

it

what are the actions that you have been

sitting on

that the lord is saying look i didn’t

tell you step a

for you to try to figure out step d e

f whatever you can do that with your own

vision

but with my own with what i give you you

walk with me you don’t go ahead of me

you walk with me so make room for now

there’s an appointed time by the lord

see i was talking about noah to you

earlier

but i recognize that even noah even the

flood

i do believe that the flood even had an

appointed time

because there’s something that intrigues

me about the story of noah

you see his grandfather enoch

when the bible tells us that enoch

walked with the lord there’s not that

much we learned about enoch in the

scriptures

but there are few things that the bible

you know believes was important to

highlight

it’s important to highlight his age what

happened when he started walking with

the lord you see there’s a scripture

where the bible says

that when he fathered he had a prieta

son named methuselah

and it says that when he fathered

methuselah that

enoch walked with the lord and when i

saw that i’m like god

you’re a god you know you you play with

puzzles sometimes

i said there must be an insight about

this man methuselah

so i began to study him i said what was

it about methuselah that caused

enoch to walk with the lord what the

bible shows

us about him was how old he was when he

passed away

how old he was when he had a son how old

his son was when he had a son

and it shows us the lineage all the way

to noah

and what i discovered when i began to

study their ages

and what happened when ina and when

methuselah died

you see in the year methuselah died

that’s when the flood happened

that was when the flood began methuselah

is the i mean he’s known to be the

oldest living person in

in the whole bible and what shook me

was the fact that could it be that when

metsuzella was

born there was a revelation that came to

enoch

that enoch in the year this child would

die there would be a flood

that will wipe out all of humanity but i

will preserve humanity

through your seed could that be one of

the reasons that influenced enoch to

recognize

i need to walk with the lord because the

bible clearly tells us

in the after he fathered this boy he

began to walk with the lord

so there must be a connection there

nothing ever happens randomly

no story you know one of the most boring

things to read in the bible is to read

about people how old people were

right the book of numbers sometimes

you’re like why maybe you’re just a

number

in the bible right but these stories are

so key for us to understand what god

it’s it’s almost like these little

puzzles that god is trying to say

nothing happens randomly and so when i

saw this i said could it be

that even the flood had an appointed

time by the lord

but what would have happened if the lord

encountered noah

and noah said no because at the end of

the day we have free will

what would that have i don’t even want

to know i mean i wouldn’t even have the

ability to think of what would have

happened because i would not be here

and so when the lord gives you a dream

he puts a dream in your heart

he puts a vision in your heart he gives

you a word he reveals his will to you

you honor him by being positioned and

prepared

for the appointed time we don’t know

when that time would be

but the lord does but the question i

have for you

if what you have been waiting for for so

many years

if what you have been praying for

happened tomorrow

it happened right now if while i’m

talking to you had a phone call you

received an email

would you be ready would you be prepared

you see so many times we walk away from

opportunities not because

it’s not supposed to serve us but we

realize that we are not as prepared as

we once thought

and so if all the things that you’ve

been saying god if you just

do this what would you do if he did it

right now

and we have to be honest with ourselves

you see the person that deserves

100 of your honesty god already knows it

but the person in the mirror when you

look in the mirror that person deserves

your truth

don’t lie don’t don’t eat your own hype

right

don’t do that people might hype you up

but don’t eat that up when you look in

the mirror

be real with yourself have i done what i

can

have i given it my best am i putting the

best effort

i’m saying this to myself as well

they’re things that i had to also assess

in my own life

to say god am i actually ready

if you did this right now am i actually

ready

so family let’s start building

maybe you’re building the vision with

god or maybe you’re in the place of

letting god build you maybe you’re in

the place of just saying lord

i surrender i’m dealing with some heart

issues right now

i’m dealing with some stuff my heart is

contaminated

and i cannot move from this place i

give my heart to you help me to heal

if you need to go for therapy hey get in

therapy

but even while you’re in therapy submit

yourself to the counsel of the holy

spirit

he is the greatest counselor submit

yourself to the

to his leading what he tells you to do

submit yourself to that

get a professional and get the counselor

right and so in this time i want to pray

with you

you see i recognize that there are times

that god would just draw you to

something and you don’t even know why

you’re being drawn to it

and i recognize that there are some of

you right now you’re watching this

but maybe you have not given your life

to jesus

and so you’ve been building things even

when i talk about start building you

just feel like

you almost felt irritated because you’ve

been building

things and you’ve watched it crumble

you’ve been building things and it came

to nothing

you see that scripture says one of the

scriptures i read it says

unless the lord builds a house those who

labor

labor in vain you want to invite god

to build with you you need jesus in your

life if you don’t know him

and the beautiful thing he’s always

ready to get in

he’s always ready he’s like look i’ve

been here all along

i’ve been with you all along i just

needed you to recognize my presence

i just needed you to submit to my

leading

you see you may feel like submission

means you know relinquishing control of

your life

but submission actually submission to

jesus

is gaining your life that is what

happened with the resurrection

he rose up he took captivity captive

and he gave you you in jesus we know our

truth

in jesus we are revealed and so maybe

you’ve been wrestling with i don’t know

about this god and i don’t know

you know it just seems too controlling

it’s not at all that’s religion that

makes it seem controlling

your truth truth by definition has

restrictions

so you cannot be everything you can’t be

this and that no

the lord jesus begins to show you the

reality of who you

are and you want to know what he calls

you and you want to know the things that

he’s called you to build

and the things that he will partner with

you on and so if that is you

you’re saying lord i need you in my life

because even before we we get that we

start to remember you know

from uh romance this idea that okay i

just want to build this thing no

i need you i need to be built up first

i need you i don’t need the things i’m

supposed to do

i need you because the reality of life

anything we do from the lord

it flows from the place of relationship

with god

we don’t do things to just have a status

or whatever

it flows from love and that comes from

him it flows from compassion and that

comes from him

it flows from kindness and that comes

from him

and so the first thing you need is to

have a relationship with the lord

and if that is you i just want you to

put in the comments right now

that’s me that’s me i really want to

accept jesus i want to make him lord and

savior

and what does that look like we’re going

to pray

and we’re going to declare that lord you

died on the cross

and you were raised up when you were

raised up i was raised up to you

died for my sins and because of you i

now have access to the father

but it doesn’t end there that’s just the

beginning that’s your declaration of

saying

look lord this this is who i am i want

to be submitted under your leading

and then you begin to surround yourself

with

like-minded people in the faith i would

encourage you to sign up and join one of

our small groups

get connected to people that can nurture

your faith

that can fend the fire of your yes to

the lord

you need that so you’re going to see a

qr code and

it’s going to link you to a form i want

you to fill that up

because we’re going to get your

information so we can get you connected

and get you plugged in with

groups that would really build your

faith and so right before we pray i also

want to just

you know recognize those who are saying

look lord i have not been building with

you

i’ve been building my own thing but i

want to build with you

i want to walk with you i’ve known you

my all my life maybe

right all my life i’ve known the lord

i’ve known you but i haven’t walked with

you

when you talk to me about who i am i

begin to argue with you i’m saying

lord that’s not me that’s for someone

else i’ve been playing this whole false

humility game

and i want to say lord jesus i

say yes to what you see in me i want to

walk with you

i want you to put in the chat too here i

am

here i am i want to walk this thing out

with god

this is what life is about family it’s

about walking

with the lord and to let us pray

heavenly father we thank you we thank

you for your love and we thank you for

your goodness

we thank you for the presence of your

holy spirit that is ministering to each

and every one of us right now

lord god have your way i thank you for

those that have said

you lord jesus those that say lord i

declare with my mouth

that you are lord and savior that you

died on the cross for my sins

and when you were raised up i was raised

up to in you

those that are saying that lord i don’t

want to follow this past life i don’t

want to follow the way of brokenness

anymore i want to follow you

i want to follow what you know about me

i want to get in relationship with you

i thank you lord jesus that you would be

the one who protects their process

that lord you would increase them and

just heighten their discernment

to know what are the relationships that

i have the ability to entertain and what

do i need to let go of

recognizing that this is a sacred space

and this is a sacred time

that i want to be built up in you lord

god and i don’t want to be lukewarm i

don’t want to be dancing around

you know one moment i’m with the lord

and the next moment i’m back to the

thing that broke me

lord i thank you that you would give

them the strength right now

to say no to the things that they need

to turn away from

in order to follow you fully and to lord

have your way

i thank you lord jesus for those that

have acknowledged and saying lord

i haven’t really walked with you i’ve

known you but i haven’t walked with you

i thank you for the grace that will come

upon their lives lord god

the grace to recognize that lord i am

who you say i

am lord i thank you that they would also

walk in a discernment

of knowing what does not please you

knowing that false humility is not

pleasing to you

that what you say about us actually

echoes who we truly

are and so lord i thank you that they

will begin to receive that

i thank you that they would receive your

love because when they know that they

are loved by the father they would know

that everything he says about them is

true and they are worthy of it

and so lord god have your way thank you

for your goodness and thank you for your

love in jesus name

amen family we love you