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well family listen i’ve got a word from

god today and

and i’ve been praying about this word

i’ve been sitting on this word for

several days and

and i really believe that that if you

tune in and you really hear what the

spirit is saying to you

i believe that god’s gonna draw you near

to him in such a way

that things are going to open up for you

unlike ever before i believe that this

is going to be

the solution and the answer to something

that you have been

wrestling with you’ve been trying to to

get to the next level you’ve been trying

to

experience a dimension of breakthrough

and you’ve tried

everything except this and i believe

it’s going to bless you

and so i want to draw your attention to

a passage of scripture

it’s not an unfamiliar passage of

scripture we’ve heard this before we’ve

preached

before but there are some truths that

we’re going to unpack

and uh and so let’s go right now to

judges uh the 16th chapter

and we’re going to read verse 28 through

30.

of course you’d have to read the whole

16th chapter to get it in its context

but um but we’re going to start here and

we’re going to have a conversation

god’s going to move in your life you’re

going to be blessed and edified

so let’s get right into it judges 16

verse 28 it says then samson

called to the lord saying o lord god

remember me i pray strengthen me i pray

just this once oh god that i may with

one blow take vengeance upon the

philistines

for my two eyes they had taken his eyes

out

and samson took hold of the two middle

pillars

which supported the temple and he braced

himself against them one on his right

and the other on his left then samson

said let me

die with the philistines and he pushed

with all his might

and the temple fell on the lords and all

the people

who were in it so that the dead he

killed at his death

were more than he had killed

in his life hallelujah

today i want to talk about the beauty of

brokenness the beauty of brokenness

let’s pray father thank you so much

for your word it is food for us

it edifies us and god here in this

moment

i want you to prepare a table with all

sorts of bread

and and refreshing water and everything

that

your sons and daughters need to be

strengthened

to be made new to be

renewed and to have their their minds

transformed in such a way

that it would create breakthrough in

their life father i thank you

for the spirit of wisdom revelation

insight and knowledge and i thank you

god that through these

lips i will connect with heaven

and living water will flow and it will

bless your sons and daughters as they

engage

we love you we thank you we consider it

done

in jesus name amen

amen in in 2014

i wrote my sophomore book it was my

second book

and it was called wholeness and the book

wholeness

was all about discovering

identifying and uncovering brokenness

that often hides in our blind spots

and i talked about how brokenness limits

us

and how if we don’t address brokenness

then we won’t have the life that god has

called us to have

and it was a great book a bestseller you

know god did his thing with it

but there’s another type of brokenness

that i want to talk about and this

brokenness is actually

extremely profitable to you and me

that’s right you’ve got two types of

brokenness

i’m gonna break down what those two

types are the first type of brokenness

is self-induced brokenness

let me back up let me qualify this i’m

talking when i say brokenness

that’s being profitable i’m not talking

about

when something has happened to you in

life that has broken you down

and now all of a sudden instead of

getting that area of brokenness healed

uh you allow other things to feel that

area that’s bad brokenness

this type of brokenness that i’m talking

about is actually good brokenness

and it’s a brokenness that that and i’ll

get into the two types in a second but

it is a brokenness that if we

we yield ourselves properly and if we do

these things

it will bless us it will be profitable

so you’ve got bad brokenness

that’s when something happens and you’re

broken and you live from this broken

place

and then we have this good brokenness

that actually

is profitable and will produce god’s

best in your life

if you’re tracking for me put it right

there in the feed i want to break this

thing all the way down i

am teaching today by the way and so

as it relates to good brokenness there

are two types

of good brokenness this time it’s almost

like cholesterol you know cholesterol

you got good cholesterol you got bad

cholesterol you got ldl

and you got hdl it’s similar to that

right the bad broken this is what i

described earlier this is the good

brokenness and there are two types of

good brokenness

here we go let’s get into it the first

one is self-induced brokenness

and this self-induced brokenness

is what disciplines the mind

the spirit and the heart so that

space for god is created in our lives

and that’s accompanied by truth power

and blessing stay with me

this is self-induced brokenness this is

when we

take it upon ourselves to break

ourselves before the lord

because it creates space for god and we

temper ourselves so that god can move in

our lives

i’m going to unpack it in just a second

but the first type is a

self-induced brokenness the second type

of

this type of good brokenness is a

god-induced brokenness

there is a difference because this

god-induced brokenness

first of all is extremely uncomfortable

this this is the type of brokenness that

god

knowing that we need to to get to a

certain point

him loving us so much and because we

don’t have

the discipline or the sensitivity or we

don’t have the

unction or the wherewithal or even the

knowledge that we need to be broken

god then steps in and it brings about

his brokenness this god-induced

brokenness

and let me tell you something that don’t

always feel good

this this brokenness it crushes this

thing that all of us have

and all of us are susceptible to called

the pride of life

it crushes it you know how the scripture

talks about how we shouldn’t love the

world or the things that are in the

world and he breaks down the three

things that are in the world

the lust of the flesh the lust of the

eyes and the pride of life the pride of

life is that that thing where

we don’t believe that we really need god

we need god but we don’t need need god

all we need is our money

all we need is our looks all we need is

our relationships

all we need is our platform all we need

is our followers you know what i’m

trying to say

like like it’s it’s you can even be a

believer

and walk with the spirit of the pride of

life on you and not even know it

because it ultimately comes down to who

or what you’re putting your trust in

so there are two types of brokenness

again the self-induced brokenness

and then the god-induced brokenness now

let’s touch let’s talk about let’s go

further

the easiest way to be broken quite

frankly is when god does it

god induced brokenness is actually easy

for you

now i didn’t say it wasn’t pain-free

it’s easy but it’s extremely painful

it’s easy watch this because you don’t

have to do any work

but it’s not fun at all so so so

so in other words we can sit around and

do nothing and allow god because he

loves us to break us

and to get us to where we need to be or

we can do it the hard way the hardest

way

but the best way is not when god has to

break us

but it’s when we learn to break

ourselves

there’s a passage of scripture in

matthew chapter 21 and verse 44 out of

the

niv and it says watch this is very

powerful it says anyone

who falls on this stone will be broken

to pieces

anyone on whom it falls will be crushed

did you see it it’s basically saying

that that that if you

fall on the stone yet it is hard it’s

it’s difficult

to bring yourself down it’s difficult to

break yourself it’s difficult

to to acknowledge the things that you

need to acknowledge in order to break

yourself so that room for god is

created but it’s good

it’s good for you and in other words and

not only is it good for you

it’s better to have you fall on the

stone you know

jesus is called the rock it’s better for

you to be

to fall on the stone than to have the

stone fall on you

because if the stone falls on you you’ll

be crushed

and that’s what that passage says and as

we will see

such was the case with samson

so today i’m going to talk about

brokenness i’m going to talk about why

it’s important

i’m going to talk about how we you and i

can get there and very importantly i’m

going to talk about how

we need to stay there because i believe

with all of my heart

the the doorway to your next dimension

is in your brokenness i don’t believe

it’s in more money

i don’t believe it’s in more quote

unquote success i believe it’s in

your ability watch this to break

yourself

to be broken there are things that god

wants to do in your life

there are things that that his power

watch this

your destiny needs god’s power

and when you’re not broken before the

lord you are limited to your own power

and you’re limited to your own strength

i feel the spirit

of the rising savior talking to you

right now

when you’re not broken before the lord i

don’t care how good your life is

when you’re broken before the lord and

you create space for god to move

in your life it opens up the floodgates

of heaven

you go from things being impossible to

possible

i feel like god’s getting ready to show

you how to break yourself so that you

don’t have to wreck yourself

and not only that i believe that mighty

things are going to come through your

life because we’re going to learn

how to break ourselves it is called

being beautifully broken

this type of brokenness is beautiful

hallelujah

because it allows god

to be god in our lives we got a lot of

ground to cover

and so so i want to talk about four

things that

that brokenness does four things that

brokenness does

the first thing that brokenness does and

we’ve touched on a little bit

is that it makes room for god in your

life

my god some of you your life is so

packed that god has no place

and you you can even be religious and

you can

say all the right things and you can

even attend church and you can even say

your prayers but at the end of the day

god is not in your religious routine god

takes up space

inside of you in your life

and and there’s some of you i i feel

this you know there’s a passage i quote

it often

it says that god stands at the door and

knocks if anyone opens up

and here’s my voice i will come in see

for some of you even right now

you’ve been asking you’ve been praying

for god and god’s been knocking on the

door of your life if he’s knocking that

means that he’s outside

because there’s not enough space i

haven’t created a habitat for god in my

life

i haven’t created a habitat for god in

my thinking i haven’t created a habitat

for god

in my decision making i’m making

decisions watch this and then asking god

to clean up the mess when it doesn’t go

is

the way that i intend it i feel the holy

spirit

there’s an old school passage of

scripture in proverbs 3 5 and 6 i love

it it says trust in the lord with all

your heart

lean not into your own understanding in

all your ways watch this

acknowledge him and he will direct your

path see you’ve got to have a broken

spirit to do that

it takes a person to say i don’t have it

all figured out and

and god before i make this move i’m

going to acknowledge you i i’m going to

trust in you with all my heart

i’m not going to trust in riches i’m not

going to trust in relationships and i’m

sure not going to trust my heart

because my heart oftentimes gets me in

trouble anybody’s heart ever

gotten him in trouble come on somebody

you it felt right

he was all tender and then that tender

turned to tears

because you didn’t acknowledge god come

on and so and so brokenness this type of

brokenness

this beautiful brokenness one of the

things that it does is it makes room for

god

and so listen we see god

we see samuel rather we find samuel in

verse 28

actually having been broken now listen

he didn’t get broken

through his own efforts god had to break

him but listen it’s almost like that

song

i don’t care how you get there just get

here and look at this place of

brokenness verse 28 it says

then samson called to the lord saying oh

lord god remember me i pray

now let me say something right now this

is the first time you ever hear of

samson praying from this place of

surrender so in case you’re not familiar

with the story here’s what’s going on

samson was strong than a mug come on

somebody he was strong little mug

can i say that i just did samson was

super strong

and the reason why he was strong the the

i’m going to give you the quick version

back story

he was what is called a nazarite his

parents had dedicated him to the lord

and because he was set apart to the lord

the lord had blessed him

with unusual strength he had endowed him

with unusual

strength and samson was known for this

strength he’s just tearing up people i

mean all kind of stories

of him just conquest and and victory and

all that kind of stuff

uh and and the situation that he finds

himself in now

is he is watching you talk about the

heart he had trusted his heart got him

in trouble he had trusted someone named

delilah

who he loved but she was actually on

assignment

to find out where his strength lied and

ultimately cut him off and that’s what

happens right

but but if you but if you study samson’s

life you don’t

see him with a rich prayer life he

in fact he’s kind of proud and he even

because he knows that he is strong

he often goes and he puts himself in

tricky situations

because he’s relying upon god to

strengthen him

so so this is the first time in the

whole

account of his life that you see him

praying

from this deep surrendered pray deep

surrendered place

and and the only time watch this and the

only other time you see him praying

in his history is watch this it was more

of a

whiny entitlement prayer it was after a

great victory

when he should have been grateful for

the great victory that god had just

brought i mean it was a miraculous

victory that god had given him against

his enemies and he got a little thirsty

and started whining and complaining to

god saying give me some water

if you’re taking notes write this

thought down the

absence of gratitude is a sure

sign of your need for a healthy

self-induced brokenness i know i said a

mouthful

the absence of gratitude i’m telling you

see see when you’re broken one of the

first emotions that comes up

when you have truly broken yourself it’s

gratitude to god

i don’t care where you’ve been and i

don’t care what what you’re believing

god for

when you’re truly broken you realize

like jeremiah said in lamentations

chapter 3

it is by the mercies of god that we are

not consumed

it is by his grace and his mercy that we

exist

sometimes we have been saved for so long

that we forget

how crazy our life was before we come on

somebody let’s just keep it 100. how

crazy our life was before we gave it to

god

sometimes it’s not good to to

remove yourself entirely from the

consciousness of who you were when god

found you

man i was the other day i took some time

away

and uh and who that was just an

experience

but i took some time away and somehow

the lord

let me to retrace

my journey with him from the moment that

i got saved when i was nine years old

up to current and i was blown away as i

looked back over my life

and i saw all the mercy oh man

times that not you know they say you you

you you could have been dead or whatever

i’m talking about should have been

should have been you know strung out on

drugs

should have been you know gotten some

some

incurable disease like like should have

been

killed i mean just all these sort of

things and i went back over my life and

so and it was a trip because i took time

my place of meditation

and i went from nine and i was like wow

the things were crazy then and then i

went into 12 and i’m like oh my god

and i just looked up back over my life

and i saw the abundance watch this

the abundance of mercy

see when you’re not broken you have a

sense of watch this

christian or spiritual entitlement

i’m not grateful i’m not thankful to god

for all he’s done in my life

and no matter how bad i’ve got it

somebody’s got a thousand times worse

than me

you i i and in fact in my whole

relationship with god watch this i

become almost like

a spoiled child where my whole

relationship with god is

god i need you to take me to the next

level somebody ought to stop

right now and give god a shout

of praise and a hallelujah

for where he brought you from i feel god

god i don’t have to thank you for the

next level i’m thanking you for this

level

i’m thanking you god that i’ve got

breath in my body

i’m thanking you god that you didn’t do

what what perhaps the enemy wanted to

see happen to me

i’m thankful that you have been faithful

to me down through the years

if that’s your testimony and you’re just

taking a trip down memory lane

do me a favor and take about 27 seconds

and give god i thank you that you didn’t

do

or allow to happen to me

what my actions watch this purchase for

me

there’s a passage of scripture that says

the wages of sin is death

that means that we earned it wages have

to do with what you earn

what did you earn that god made sure

didn’t come into your life come on

somebody

where are my real believers in here i’m

not talking about the goody two shoes

i’m not talking about the people who

have been all you know saved all their

life

never did this never did that you may

not have done this but you did that and

if nothing else it is the pride thinking

that you don’t need god

if you are a lover of god and you’re

thankful for his mercy i just want you

to put it

right there in the comments right now

thank you jesus come on

just take a minute and worship him just

say god if you don’t do

anything else you have done enough

where are my worshipers at where are my

praisers at

god i thank you for your mercy i thank

you for your grace come on somebody

praise him with me right now hallelujah

man i got that list out check this out

i couldn’t even get to 30. i was so

overwhelmed with gratitude 9 years old

god was moving in my life

12 years old god was faithful in my life

16 years old he didn’t allow me to die

18 years old i didn’t get strong out on

drugs in college things were crazy i

didn’t get a disease

all these sort of things are taking

place are you hearing the words that are

coming out of my mouth

there are people who did not make it

they would be grateful to have the life

of you i feel the spirit

of praise coming over me right now come

on just take a minute

and say god i’m grateful

i’m grateful if you don’t do another

miracle

me standing here right now is one

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yeah yeah

see brokenness brokenness

makes room for god

look at how he prays he he never he went

to

from essentially not praying at all to

praying

oh lord god

you when you think of samson you don’t

even think of him being an old lord god

type of guy

when you think of samson you think of

this strong i got everything worked out

and i got everything you know

and i’m beating up thousands of people

with the jawbone and of an ass

trust me you got to study it just study

the whole thing you’ll see it he just

beat literally he took the bone

of of of an animal the the hit the

jawbone

and beat down it was just crazy just

beat down just thousands of philistines

is crazy but you don’t even see him

but see brokenness and it wasn’t

self-induced brokenness and i’m telling

you we’re going to learn

how to get to this place of self-induced

brokenness unfortunately this was god

induced brokenness but it was brokenness

no matter what and it got him

to the place where he is saying oh lord

god from a deep

place this prayer came it’s almost like

jabez you remember jabez oh that you

would bless me indeed and that you would

enlarge my territory there’s

something about brokenness that brings

out

the type of cry unto god that gets god

to move on your

behalf just just say break me lord break

me lord break me lord

break me lord break me lord break me

lord i’m coming to a place family where

i don’t watch this i don’t want to be

unbroken

i’m not talking about that that that

brokenness where you do stuff

out of your broken this is what i’m

talking about i’m talking about being

broken for the lord i don’t want to be

i’m telling you i i get word i tell

this tell the story i’m speaking in

tongues i i tell this story all the time

how i get nervous when god starts

blessing me

when doors start opening when deals

begin to come through

when when you know and all these things

are happening when i start prospering

i listen let me tell you something i am

just as nervous as i am

excited because i realize that too much

to whom much is given much is required

what does that mean

that also means that that it is required

of me

to bring myself to my knees more often

god the more you bless me the lord i

need to get

the higher you lift me up the lower i

need to get

because it is in the place of brokenness

where i am truly safe

are you tracking with me say break me

lord

break me lord yeah it makes room for god

it makes room for god the second thing

that brokenness does is brokenness watch

this

connects us to god at the

deepest level at the deepest level

i feel the spirit at the deepest level

most of us watch this are not

deeply acquainted with ourselves oh

fellow holy ghost

some of us don’t even know ourselves

deeply

some of us are more familiar with the

facade of us

and what we are portraying than we are

the real version of us the real

and the deepest version of us is our

soul

it’s our soul so brokenness

and learning how to to go deeper and

and in layers and levels of ourselves

brokenness

connects us to god

in the deepest place and that’s the

place of our soul so the soul

your soul watch this is the deepest part

of you

but many don’t even know how to tap into

their soul

oh i got to pay attention now if you

would sleep earlier wake up now

this is critical

your soul is the realest part of you

and watch this if you’re taking notes

write this down your

soul watch this is the most honest

part of you yeah

your soul is the most honest part of you

your soul is the most authentic

part of you and here is something that

you have to understand

there’s a difference between the highest

version of you

and the authentic version of you not

they’re not the same the authentic

version of you is where you’re at

it’s truth it’s honest the highest

version of you

is where you’re going you should catch

what i just said

the the authentic version of you is you

it’s where you are the highest version

of you

is where god wants to take you and

oftentimes him

taking you to being the highest version

of you

is when the authentic version of you

gets real

and starts connecting at a

soul level to the god who made you are

you tracking me you’re tracking me just

put it right there in the comments and

say

i’m tracking with you i’m tracking with

you the authentic version of you is

where you are it’s the real you the

highest version

those are two different things it’s

where you’re going because oftentimes

watch this is so important this is an

important thought

because we live in our thoughts and our

feelings but we never

rarely we rarely live from our souls i’m

going to say that again

we live in and from our

thoughts and our feelings

but rarely watch this from our authentic

selves

rarely from ourselves we treat our mind

right which is wonderful and we comfort

our hearts

in one way or another but rarely do we

tap into

and if necessary heal the wounds of our

soul

see there are things that have happened

to you at a soul level

and you are trying to counsel your way

through it and you’re wondering why you

have to keep

going to the therapist and yes you get

some breakthrough but the next thing you

know you are

back in the office over and over again i

love therapy i’m for

therapy but therapy is for the mind

brokenness is for the soul because

sometimes what’s taking place

is has happened to you what you’re

wrestling with is a problem that is in a

deeper part of you than your mind

but in your soul when god made you he

made you a

living soul so

i can’t live from my mind i can’t

live from my heart i have to learn how

to

acknowledge the fact that i have a soul

that i can’t give anything

in exchange for my soul that’s why it

says what shall it profit a man

if he gains the whole world and loses

his soul oh god i feel it because what

you will do is

you will be trying you’ll be trying

when you don’t have have a consciousness

of your soul

and you’re not dealing with your soul

and you’re not living with

with the place if you’re not living from

a soulish place

then you will be trying to watch this

gang the world

to try to heal something that can only

be healed

by god’s connection with your soul are

you hearing what i’m saying if you’re

trapped with me put it right there in

the comments say i get what you’re

saying pt i get what you’re saying i

feel this for somebody and i want to

break something off of you

it’s a soul issue i feel god it’s not a

mental issue

it’s not a heartbreak it’s a soul issue

and if you don’t get

the healing that your soul needs you’re

going to be going round

and round and round but i’m here to tell

you that god

specializes in soul deliverance that’s

why he came

he said i came to set the captives free

from the soul level i feel

god if you’re thankful for god go ahead

put it in the feed say i’m thankful for

god

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that’s why david said in psalm 23 when

he says the lord is my shepherd i shall

not want he leads me beside the still

waters and then what does he say he says

he restores

my soul

the shepherd does that which only the

shepherd

can do oh hallelujah i thank god for

for counseling my god i do i thank god

for it and i think that everybody ought

to ought to do it but

there are levels to this thing there are

levels to this thing and oftentimes what

you’re dealing with psychologically

is the byproduct of what has happened to

you at the soul level

hallelujah are you tracking with me and

brokenness

if you’re taking notes write this down

brokenness

is the passport to your soul

brokenness is how you get there see we

got to go from being self-aware to soul

aware

i’m talking about that in my upcoming

book balance shameless plug hallelujah

many are somewhat self-aware but they’re

not soul aware soul aware is deeper than

being self-aware

i have to be aware of my soul brokenness

is your passport to your soul i got to

get to my soul

because that’s where i really live

that’s who i am and so brokenness

this type of god ordained self-induced

brokenness what it does is it is it

breaks through the layers of pride

and things watch this we wrap around

our soul attempting to keep warm from

the cold of life’s issues

not realizing that the soul was designed

to be warmed

from the inside out are you tracking

with me

we put things around our soul i love

that song set a

fire down in my soul that i can’t

contain

that i can’t control i want more of you

god yeah that’s what we do we we put

things around our soul

our soul is cold our soul has a need

but instead of addressing it we we put

on a jacket here

put on a t-shirt that t-shirt is

is money and we put on a sweater over

the t-shirt

and that t-shirt and that sweater is sex

and if that’s not enough we we put over

that t-shirt and that sweater a jacket

and that jacket is drugs

because we haven’t dealt

with our lives at the level of the soul

oh my god

ah there’s so much so many places we can

go there

samson he wasn’t living from the soul

level

he was living from from the fact that he

had physical strength

right he was living from his from his

strength that’s what he boasts and he

boasted in his

physical strength perhaps even in his

looks right right

his physique i mean if he was strong

he’s probably cut up rip six-pack boom

pow chisel and hey

the brother had long hair he had long

locks come on somebody gorgeous

built long locks hey i got it going on

in fact i know that he trusted in those

things because when delilah asked him

where his strength lies

he didn’t say in god what did he say

he said in my hair and she cut it

are you tracking with me so so let’s

recap real quick

brokenness creates makes room for god

number two

brokenness connects us to god at the

deepest level at the soul level

number three watch this brokenness

keeps us a breath abreast

of our true condition now

something interesting happens if we go

if we look at judges chapter 16 verse 20

it says so he awoke from his sleep and

said

i will go out as before

at other times and shake myself free

watch this but he did not know that the

lord

had departed from him so the glory

had left him his strength had left him

god’s presence

had departed from him and he didn’t even

know

it he was in grave danger

and had no clue

see that’s what brokenness brokenness

reveals our true condition

watch this because brokenness doesn’t

pump us up

in fact the pursuit of brokenness

necessitates us

bringing ourselves down i’m not talking

about devaluing yourself i’m not talking

about

putting yourself down but acknowledging

true brokenness says

god without you i am nothing

this man is so full of himself

that god leaves him and he doesn’t even

know

see i gotta let me tell you something

family i recognize

that all that i am is because of god yes

i might be smart i’ve always been smart

yes thank god i think i’m a nice-looking

fellow okay whatever

right yes you know i’ve got some other

things going for me god has blessed me

in a lot of ways but at the end of the

day let me tell you

something it is my absolute belief

that if it were not for god not just in

the past but if it were not for god in

my life right now

i would be nothing jesus says i am the

vine you are the branches without me

you can do nothing and you got to say

that in mean it god like for real

not that thing that fake thing that you

give when you get an award you know at

an award show you know what i mean and

i’m not judging anybody for doing

anything but you know

not that fake thing old glory to god no

i mean a

deep deep belief that it wasn’t your

talents

that it wasn’t because you made all the

right decisions that it wasn’t because

you had the right relationships that it

wasn’t even that you worked so hard that

it was the goodness of god

and the faithfulness of god who is the

sole reason

that i am what i am and you are what you

are hallelujah

paul said it’s by the grace of god that

i

am what i am he did not deny who he was

he just gave the credit to the right

source it’s by the grace

of god and so

so brokenness reveals my my true

condition

you know see see if you aren’t broken

watch this if you’re not

committed to self-induced brokenness you

can be

out of alignment and out of your place

of grace and not know it

oh i don’t want that oh god i don’t want

to be a preaching

you know what i mean and telling people

the way of god but not broken enough to

realize when i need to make a shift

no no brokenness reveals

your true condition

i’m gonna move to number four so number

one brokenness makes room for god number

two

brokenness connects us to god at the

deepest level number three

brokenness keeps us abreast of our true

condition

and number four and i think i really

might love this one the most

brokenness heightens

your senses it height it heightens

your sensitive your senses and so

if we go with the text we look at the

text

if we study the entire story

when the philistines grabbed him

when they grabbed a hold of him because

the power of god had left him and he

didn’t know it

they grabbed him they arrested him

his enemies triumphed over him and they

put out his eyes

they put out his eyes and

and and the truth is they thought that

they were hurting him by putting out his

eyes but they were actually helping him

because the truth is his eyes

were his problem what do you mean

well if you study him not only did he

have a less problem right he had less

problem

but he walked or lived or governed his

life

by sight by sight yeah less problem

but not only that what was worse than

the lust problem is

he walked by sight and what i mean by

walking by sight is

walking by sight is trusting only

in what you can see physically and

accomplish in your own strength

oh come on you’re about to get this he’s

walking my side

and now watch this once his eyes were

removed

he could see he could perceive

oh god i feel it see his eyes being gone

forced him to have to trust in god and

to utilize

new senses i feel god that there are

divine

senses that are available to you

if if you would stop trusting

entirely in your own strength

and what you can figure out on your own

let me show you something real quickly

real quick this amazing story in verse

26

it says then samson said to the lad who

held him by the hand

let me fill the pillars which support

the temple so that i can lean on them so

what’s happening is

his eyes now are out he’s bound he’s

weak

all of the strength that he had he had

learned and had come to trust in

all that strength is gone so he can’t

trust in his eyes

he can’t trust in his strength he has to

now

because of brokenness now he has to

access different senses now it is this

he says let me he i love this let let me

feel i love the word let me feel

let me feel let me sense he tells the

lad

then samson said to the lad who held him

by the hand let me

feel let me sense let me fill

the pillars which support the temple so

that i can lean

on them he had to sense

his way to victory i feel there’s

something on this there’s something on

this

there’s some honest you’re trying to see

your way to victory and i hear god’s

saying

you’re going to sense your way to

victory you’re

you’re going to sense but but in order

to

sense your way to victory you’re going

to have to let go

of what you have relied on you’re not

going to buy your way to victory

you’re not going to manipulate your way

to victory you’re not going to lie your

way to victory

you’re not going to to to you know

you’re not going to compromise your way

to victory you’re not going to do any of

those things to victory

god is saying he sent me to tell you

right now you are going to

sense your way oh i feel god

see that’s what brokenness does

brokenness says

god i’ve got money but i’m not trusting

in it or god i’ve got looks but i’m not

trusting any god

i’m so gorgeous that that if i just walk

by

a man or walk by anybody they’re going

to turn but but i’ve got that but i’m

not

who am i talking to today i can get

whoever i want i can get any woman i

want i can get any man i want

i can get both i can do whatever i got

the power to do that but but i’m not

trusting

in that i’m going to sense my i

feel the lord i almost want to stop

right here

i hear god saying you’re trying to see

it and i’m trying to get you to sense it

and you’re going to have to come to this

place of brokenness

where you no longer try to manipulate

the system in your own strength

but you trust me i feel god see i don’t

want to have to put your eyes out

i need you to put your own eyes out and

start sensing for me

who am i talking to if i’m preaching to

you or teaching you

teaching to you today put it in the feed

say i’m tracking with you pt

you’re gonna sense your way into it oh i

feel god

you’re gonna set your way into it you’re

gonna sense your way into it

you’re gonna feel your way into it god’s

gonna lead you the steps

of a good man are ordered by the lord

you’re going to sense the right moves

you’re going to sense the right timing

you’re going to sense the right

relationship you’re going to sense the

right business

you’re going to sense the right

investment you’re going to sense your

way

into what god has for you

and i think family there is

symbolism in the lad which means the

child leading him

there there’s symbolism there the

symbolism why

samson he’s a conqueror why do i why do

we have a child leading him

around unless there’s a lesson

and i think that there is a lesson i

think that we have to be

willing to be children in life

not so-called masters but students

you know what’s interesting the children

of

israel never outgrew their title

of children it doesn’t say

they became the adults of israel the

adults of israel is nowhere in there

all their lives and some of these people

were over 100 years old they were still

called children why

because it is about childlike humility

that brings out our best and makes room

for god to do

his best work in our lives are you

tracking with me

just put it in the comments god make me

like a child again

put it in the feed make me like a child

again

and the amazing thing we’re landing here

the amazing thing is that

samson’s victory in brokenness

was far greater than all

of his victories in his own strength

did you catch that it says at the end of

it

it says and and the philistines that he

conquered in his death

in that one moment where he was broken

and completely surrendered to god not

trusting in his sight because he

couldn’t

but he’s sensing now from the place of

brokenness

he conquered more in one moment

than he had the entirety of his life

that’s the power of brokenness

i feel god allah

there’s strength coming to you i got

some more few more things to say but i i

just sense that there’s

the strength coming to you and i don’t

know who you are but but there’s

strength coming to you

and you thought it was like i’m gonna

break through no you’re gonna break down

you’re going to break yourself you

you’re going to get broken and when you

get broken

god is going to visit you see here’s

awesome thing

with samson yeah he died and quite

frankly

because of the god induced brokenness

his life was cut short it says he

reigned in israel for 20 years most of

the righteous kings reigned for 40.

so his life was cut half short but

that’s okay there was still victory

but i think what’s interesting is that

the moment that brokenness comes

upon him and he embraces it his hair

started growing back

and that’s what i believe is getting

ready to happen to you

i don’t know who you are and and maybe

you feel like you’re out of strength and

maybe you feel like you don’t have the

strength you don’t have the

what it takes to to get to where you

need to go but

but but but i hear god saying the answer

is brokenness and i’m going to cause

your hair to uh

i’m going to cause your hair to grow

back and you’re going to be stronger

you’re going to be stronger and i don’t

believe you have to die

but you’re going to be stronger in this

next act of your life

that you have ever been are you tracking

with me

i want to pray for you i want to pray

for you

because brokenness is everything i i got

to tell you

i went away to to spend some time with

god of course i’m writing

and i got there and i i laid out before

the lord and

the moment that i got there i just fell

down to give myself to god

and just something just begin to break

and there was a there was a

a a the best way to describe it is a cry

that came

out of a part of me that i was not

familiar with it wasn’t me

it was my soul it was me but it was a

deeper part of me it was my

soul crying

because that’s where brokenness happens

when you decide to be broken before the

lord to lay yourself down before the

lord in absolute humility

you will hear the cry of your soul

because here is the thing your soul

wants you to be broken your soul is like

please break yourself

please so that i could get

what i need and i can tell you right now

i’m determined to never be unbroken

bless hallelujah thank you lord but we

need brokenness brokenness is not for

god

god is is not on some ego trip

where he needs you to like just humble

yourself before me bout to kiss the ring

it’s not that

you need brokenness we need brokenness

so that we create space and i believe

that

that broken people i believe that people

who who regularly

break themselves before the lord pursue

brokenness before the lord

i believe in fact the bible says that

god draws near

but when god draws near the revelation

the innovation the favor the

opportunities

the blessing all those things that take

place

are significantly multiplies

as we compare that with otherwise here’s

the last pass of scripture i’m going to

leave with you it’s in

psalm 51 and 17 it says the sacrifices

of god

are a broken spirit what does it mean by

the sacrifice

the worship it says that the father

seeks worshipers so the sacrifice is

worship

the worship that god is looking for the

sacrifices of god

the sacrifices that god respects and

honors that god wants

us to offer to him it says our broken

spirit

it says a broken and a contrite heart

these o god you will not despise a

broken

and a contrite heart again doesn’t mean

god wants you to walk around sad

it’s actually the exact opposite

true brokenness is beautiful

and it produces joy and it produces

produces faith and

contentment and confident watch this

true brokenness is liberating watch this

because you get to not be the god of

your life

let me tell you something family is

stressful

being the god of your life it is

stressful

needing to be the one who ensures that

everything in your life

goes well it’s you

you’re you were not wired to be your own

god

and so brokenness is liberating oh i

forgot

i’ve got a father oh i forgot i’ve got a

god who loves me

who’s full of mercy and compassion and

who has all power

and so family i want to pray for you

and what i want to pray for you is that

you would i feel this

that you will pursue brokenness

every single day watch this that you

will not find yourself

too busy for brokenness

see when you’re busy you’re living out

of your thoughts and your heart

and your work and all that kind of stuff

watch this it takes

it takes time and space for brokenness

you need to create space

for you to have space to be broken

and solitude

is the atmosphere for the soul

so i want to pray for you father i thank

you so much

for your children who are watching right

now

and god they’re watching this or

listening to this podcast

because you ordained it they needed to

hear this word

they needed to understand the beauty of

brokenness

and the power of brokenness and father i

realize that it is

not uncommon at all that we build walls

around our lives

that we are out of touch with soul and

oftentimes even out of touch with self i

recognize that

and i also recognize that sometimes it

takes a breakthrough to even be broken

and so father i’m praying that whatever

the heart of your son and your daughter

needs

to access this self-induced

place of brokenness god give them

permission to not be okay

give them permission to be naked and

unashamed before you

lord remove every lie that would say

that that because

uh watch this take out of their mouth

the lie of i’m okay

i’m good no we’re not good without you

because as the last couple of years have

shown

in just one moment everything can change

god break us break us god

break us beautifully

and keep us broken

that we might create space for you that

you might abide

powerfully in our lives in jesus name

now family if you’ve never opened up

your heart to the lord

because one of the things that i’m

realizing is that sometimes you need the

holy spirit to break you

and so if you’re watching this and

you’re like i just can’t find it within

me let me tell you something

the holy spirit is broken it’s the

spirit of christ the holy spirit is

humble

and when you open up your heart to the

holy spirit the holy spirit will lead

you into all truth

and will empower you to do all things

that god desires

and so if you’re watching right now and

you say i want to give my life

to god i i don’t want to be the god of

my life anymore

if that’s you and you’re feeling this

strongly in this moment

and you feel god perhaps knocking on the

door of your heart

and you say i want god to come in and

give me strength to not

be living from anything other than

the sensing of the lord then i just want

you to say i receive you lord

i receive you just put it right there in

the feed it’s but i receive you lord

i receive you i receive you lord i

receive you

i receive you see see

god christ was broken

so that we can come to be whole but we

can’t be whole

without our own brokenness does that

make sense

us saying god i’m broken without you

already

see it’s just being honest i need you

and then god says okay i was broken

so that you might be whole and when you

acknowledge your brokenness and you are

broken before me

creating space for me i will come in and

watch this

and deal with the issues of your soul

that torment you i’ll do that

i know your soul i formed you i was

there

when god breathed the breath of life

into your nostrils

and you became a living soul whether or

not

you want to be a soul you are a soul

and i know how to heal the soul shape

the soul

empower the soul and so if that’s you

when you say

pt i’m opening up my heart to the lord

right now

just putting this just just say i

receive we’ve got leaders

that are there to pray for you there’s a

link that you can click

and and get connected but but in this

moment right now

just say i receive and father those who

responded

i thank you that your everlasting

ever loving spirit has entered into them

and the beginning of a beautiful

blessed journey of brokenness and

breakthrough

has ensued in jesus name

amen amen

you