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hey family i’m pt pastor toray roberts
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bless you i’ll see you soon
i feel like the older i’m getting right
like i feel like an old church
grandmother sometimes but the older i
get the more i realize just how
important it is to make space for
worship in my life in the thick of some
of my toughest moments it can be hard to
open up my heart for worship and yet
then there are reminders that remind us
of the beauty of being in the presence
of god and who we become as we begin to
see him clearly
my prayer is that this will be a
continuation of what you already have
experienced with worship that as we
continue to go deeper and deeper in the
word that your heart has already been
cultivated and opened
ready to receive this word
i’ve been praying
and i’ve been studying
i believe that god has a word just for
you this is a prophetic word as i was
praying and i was trying to wrap my mind
around exactly what it is god wanted to
activate in us tonight he gave me a
declaration that was just so clear it
hit my spirit and my responsibility is
to share it with you and so let’s dive
into the word i’m so excited
i’m going to be in john 13 the new king
james version
and i’m going to start with verse 2.
just to set the stage a bit
jesus is having what we know now as the
last supper
and he’s here with the disciples
can you imagine
what this moment feels like
can i set the stage for you
the disciples are there eating as usual
thinking that they are going to continue
the work that they have been doing
for almost three years going from city
to city bringing deliverance and
miracles and yet
jesus recognizes that it is time for him
to go to the cross
on one hand
the disciples think everything’s moving
as normal
but yet jesus has a revelation that
there’s been a shift
there’s been a shift nothing has changed
on the outside but the change is coming
and sometimes before our outside changes
our inside must change so that we can
understand how to move in the midst of
the shift that’s somebody’s word already
you recognize that you’re standing in a
shift and you’re waiting for things to
shift before you change but i hear god
saying that you’ve got a shift before
the change happens so that when the
change occurs you’re already in place
so jesus has shifted
but the circle around him has not
and my text begins in verse 2 and it
says and supper
being ended
the devil having already put it into the
heart of judas iscariot simon’s son to
betray him
jesus knowing that the father had given
all things into his hands and that he
had come from god and was going to god
rose from supper and laid aside his
garments
took a towel
and girded himself
after that
he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples feet
and to wipe them with the towel
with which he was girded
then he came to simon peter
and peter said to him
lord
are you washing
my feet
jesus answered and said to him
what i am doing you do not understand
now
but you will know
after this
i’d like to call this time together this
message the point of no return
the point of no return
because
something takes place in this text
that changes everyone who we see here
and us
as a matter of fact
and this was a point of no return and i
believe we’re standing in a moment very
similar to that
god you gave me this word
and if i’m honest i have no clue how
you’re going to bring it forth
and yet here i am standing in faith
that you will meet me here
not just so that the words come clearly
but that the words can bring change
transformation power breakthrough
anointing
to every person who’s watching
father i pray that you would open our
hearts to receive this word
that we would recognize the beauty of
being able to be seen
and to hear a word from you
let it get down deep in our soul
let it invade our territory the
territory where fear was the territory
where insecurity was and may it
establish your kingdom
your kingdom come
your will be done
in this word and forevermore
in jesus name i pray
amen amen amen you gotta type amen in
the comments or the whole prayer didn’t
happen like you gotta type amen
if you can’t type it at least say it say
it in your heart say with your chest
okay listen
i
know throughout history that there are
several moments
that we can consider the point of no
return
it’s interesting when we really process
these moments because
there is something about what is taking
place
that helps us to understand that things
will never be the same again
it’s crazy though because you can be in
the same car the same house have on
clothes that you have worn time after
time again and yet there is a shift that
has taken place that is not visible on
the outside but you know for sure on the
inside that something
has changed
i remember where i was on september 11
2001
i was in a bedroom that i’d woken up in
every morning in a house that i had
lived in for several years and yet even
at 13 years old there was something
about that moment that helped me to
realize
nothing will ever be
the same again when my five-year-old saw
kamala harris get sworn in and she said
mommy maybe one day i can be president
not even recognizing the difference
between president and vice president i
recognize that i wasn’t just viewing
history that she would never know a
world in which a woman could not ascend
to the greatest heights the greatest
office in our nation
that was a point
of no return
you remember your own point of no return
when you got the phone call
that changed everything
the car accident that shifted everything
the news that what you would thought was
true about your life was actually no
longer true i’m talking about the point
of no return that moment when you
realize nothing will ever be the same
even when i recover i will never go back
to what was
there is a point of no return that we
all
experience
i believe prophetically that we are
standing in another point just like that
spiritually
spiritually we’re standing in a point of
no return after all isn’t that what the
point of no returns are that i listed
just moments ago
moments when my spirit is expanded or
shifted or wounded so deeply
that i know things will never go back to
being the way they once were
a new love
a heartbreak the point of no
return jesus
jesus and his disciples are standing in
a point of no return right now and yet
the disciples don’t realize it
i wanted to study this text
because as i was reading and studying
i realized
that this sudden change of this moment
could only happen if we stay tuned and
locked into what jesus says
to peter
it seemed rather simple
for him to say you don’t know what i’m
doing now but you will soon understand
after this
but we have to understand who is saying
it and why it is important
because when we look at what is taking
place with the foot washing ceremony
and what jesus will soon do on the cross
it makes more sense to us
who we must become when we are standing
in the moments of our own shifts and
transitions
you see because i realize that for us to
be standing in a spiritual point of no
return right now this prophetic moment
in our lives that there are some things
that we will never go back to doing
there are some ways of being that will
no longer be accessible to us and if we
are not careful we will grieve or miss
those moments instead of recognizing
when we need to take inventory and take
clues and take notes so that we can be
prepared for whatever next is going to
be i wish i could say this the way that
i hear it but i feel like god is saying
that this is a moment in which you have
to take notice of what you are
witnessing take notice of the strange
things that are happening in your life
take notice of the things that don’t add
up because it god is working in the
things that don’t add up if it adds up
then god is not in it but if it doesn’t
add up and you’re wondering what in the
world is going in i need you to lean
into those moments because those are the
moments where god is laying the
foundation for what he’s going to do
next that just set somebody free who’s
watching right now because you’re trying
to understand god what’s going on in
this marriage god what’s going on in
this business god what’s going on with
my purpose and my destiny nothing is
adding up and everything once added up
it all made sense and now it’s no longer
making sense and i hear god saying lean
into that
lean into that because when you lean
into that moment you’re going to
discover me when it was adding up it was
comfortable when it was adding up it
made you feel good and confident and i
hear god saying that i had to disarm you
so that you could become sensitive to
what i’m doing next had jesus not
assumed this posture of washing the feet
of the disciples then peter would not
have realized the seriousness of what’s
about to take place
i don’t know who you are
but i hear god saying i’m serious about
you
i hear god saying that all of those
things that we were doing from city to
city all of those things that we were
doing when you were growing up where you
felt my strength and you felt my power
and you felt empowered to do any and all
things i hear god saying that that part
was true but this part is true too this
is the part in which i disarm you this
is the part in which i pull the rug from
up underneath you so that you can become
the rock that other people can stand on
this is the moment in which i shift
things so that i could build upon you i
hear god saying pay attention in the
shift it’s shifting it’s shifting it’s
shifting it’s a god shift though this
isn’t sent by the enemy this is a
godship this isn’t strange and crazy and
unusual i hear god saying stop longing
for what used to be stop trying to
figure out how to do the math on your
own and instead put your pencil down and
put your hands up because this is going
to require worship i hear god saying
that you’re not going to be able to
think yourself out of this one and thank
god you won’t be able to because when
god gets finished showing you his
thoughts when god gets finished showing
you his way you’re going to thank god
that it didn’t add up on your paper
because god was doing math that only
miracles could understand
he tells peter
it won’t make sense now
it’ll make sense after this
it’ll make sense after this i don’t know
what you’re after this moment is but i
want to prophesy right now in the name
of jesus that someone is watching this
right now and i hear god saying that you
are standing in an after this moment
that as long as you needed to add up
right now it’ll never make sense but i
hear god saying wait until you see what
happens after this wait until you see
the ministry after this wait until you
see that woman after this wait until you
see that relationship after this wait
until you see who you become after this
the question is can you stay connected
for the after this or are you going to
log off because this is too hard and
this is too strange and i’ve never done
this before or are you going to dare to
allow this strange thing to happen to
allow the awkward thing to happen to
allow the uncomfortable thing to happen
peter has to sit there and do what he
himself would not do
for a jew
to wash the feet of another jew of a
person in in general
was unheard of
this act that jesus is performing was
reserved for gentile slaves
and yet jesus says
with all the power in his hands
that i’m going to do what no one else
would do
because i’ve been called to do what only
i could do
you see you’ll know you’re stepping into
something different
when you don’t mind doing what no one
else would do
because you are so confident about who
you are called to be
when you only have certain limits and
restrictions on what you can and cannot
do you’re not really called yet you’re
not really confident in who you are yet
because you think doing something will
make you lower than who god has called
you to be but when you’re really
confident in who you are you don’t care
what you have to do along the way
because you recognize i will do whatever
it takes to bring the manifestation of
what god has said into my life there is
nothing too low for me there’s nothing
off limits for me i’ll take off what i
had on and put on something a little bit
more decent so that i can watch the feet
of the disciples because i recognize
that in order for me to ascend to the
highest heights that i’ve got to be
willing to go down to the lowest lows
recognizing that neither one of them
define me because i am defined by who
god who by who god has called me to be
not by what i do
to diminish my identity to what i do is
to miss god’s grace on my life
you’re more than what you do
you are who you are in your core
your character your integrity how you
show up in the world how you speak and
greet other people how you treat those
who can do nothing for you what you do
when you have power tells me everything
about who you are
we’ve heard it said before that money
only makes you more of who you are it
doesn’t change who you are
jesus has all power in his hands
and assumes
a lowly state
i want to talk a little bit
about how jesus handles that power
this is important because like i said
we are standing in the fulfillment of a
prophecy
oh god
there have been very few moments that i
can say a prophecy hit my spirit and
literally i felt fire on the inside of
me
you have to have had the experience for
it to even make sense but there are
moments where you know god has just
spoken a word to you about
who you are or what you’re called to do
about what’s going to happen and you
just know without a shadow of a doubt
that it hits you like there’s no way
this person could have known what you
were going through and yet they spoke a
word that shifted everything in you
we are standing in the fulfillment of
that moment
you’ve been waiting for it
you’ve been praying for it you’ve begun
to start thinking you were crazy for
holding on to it and yet i hear god
saying that it is in this strange moment
that i am creating the fulfillment of
what i place down on the inside of you
this is so important for us to recognize
because this is not a celebration for
jesus
standing in the fulfillment of the
prophecy was not a celebration for jesus
we think that when we finally walk into
the manifestation that we’re going to
celebrate that we have finally arrived
and yet the manifestation was so holy
that jesus found something to serve even
though he had power
if you’re taking notes i want you to
write this down
you’ve got to be willing to find
something to serve
in the manifestation
in the fulfillment
of the prophecy over your life
serving
serving keeps you humble
serving keeps you low enough to
understand what’s happening on the
ground level oh god i’ve got this vision
in my mind and i wish i could just make
it make sense i wish i could just like
transport it into your mind so that you
can see it but you’ve got to get humble
when you’ve been promoted because when
you get humble you’re low enough to have
your ears to the ground so that when god
gives you direction you’ve already got
your ears close enough to the ground
that you understand who the word is for
how it’s going to show up in their life
and who you need to become in order to
do it if you allow your pride to elevate
you then you’re going to miss the very
people you’ve been called to change but
if you stay low enough to say i got to
keep my ear to the ground i’ve got to be
teachable i’ve got to be willing to
listen i’ve got to be willing to do
things that i would never do otherwise
because i recognize that with this power
comes responsibility not just position
the problem with most of us is that we
want promotion that leads to position
but promotion is not about position
promotion is about service
and if i can’t reach who i’m called to
serve
then i missed it all together
so i have to stay low enough to make
sure that i understand what moves you so
that i can understand what’s hurting you
what’s breaking you what catches you off
guard when we see jesus washing the feet
of the disciples what he’s saying is
that i want to be closely connected to
the most intimate part of who you are
and i don’t mind getting low enough to
do it i wish that we had about 10
seconds and about two people in here
because we could turn the roof up off of
this place thanking god for a jesus who
doesn’t mind getting low enough to wipe
the dust off of our feet who doesn’t
mind getting low enough to say listen
for this next season for this next stage
for this next dimension of your identity
you cannot take the dirt from who you
used to be you can’t take the way you
used to walk you can’t take the memories
that you had before this you’ve got to
be willing to start off with a clean
slate oh god somebody’s feet need a
clean slate somebody needs to walk in
something different you’ve been walking
in the shackles of your past you’ve been
walking in the dirt of your history
you’ve been walking in the hope of other
people’s expectations for you but i hear
god saying that it’s foot washing time
that i’m ready to wash all of that off
of you because i’m going to do something
new and when i do something new i want
you to be able to receive it because if
you can’t receive it it’s going to skip
right over you but if you would dare put
yourself in a position where you would
allow god
to do the unthinkable
to do what doesn’t make sense
and to trust him in the middle of it all
god you’re going to
wash
my feet
god you’re going to serve me in this way
when is the last time
we had a moment of gratitude
to acknowledge that god is serving you
in a special way
don’t allow the fact that people may
have more
or the fact that people have so much
less
to make you forget what god is doing for
you
to stand in awe and honor
at how jesus sees you
god
me
you would allow me to experience your
love
you would come from the throne of heaven
and stoop down at my feet god
god my gratitude my worship is not based
on what i need you to do it’s what
you’ve already done it’s somebody’s
testimony
that if god never did another thing
that he’s already done more than words
could express
god i thank you so much that you didn’t
allow that to happen to me
god i thank you so much that even the
things that did happen to me you allowed
to work together for my favor
god i thank you so much that you haven’t
left me yet god i thank you so much that
when everyone else was losing their mind
or everyone else was getting arrested
that you preserved me in the middle of
it all god i thank you that when i lost
my mind that you helped me to find my
mind god i thank you that even though i
didn’t have the role model that you
still made me a person of integrity god
i thank you that you keep giving me
vision god i thank you that you keep
giving me strategy god i thank you that
every time i open my mouth that your
words are falling out of my mouth
instead of my own god i thank you that
you’re giving me wisdom on the spot god
i thank you that you’re giving me
patience on the spot god i thank you
that you’re teaching me while i’m in
position that you didn’t wait until i
got the knowledge before you promoted me
but you allowed me to be promoted and
gave me teaching on the spot what kind
of god is it that we serve that would
allow us to continue to take the
innovation that feels crazy to us and
apply it to our outside world and make
it look like magic only the god i serve
could breathe on something as unkempt
and untogether as i am and still say you
know what i’m going to make it beautiful
if we miss how god is continuing to show
up in service
then we’ll make him a genie
and we’ll start saying things like what
have you done for me lately
instead of living in the consciousness
that this is not some on-demand
subscription faith
where i keep paying and you keep showing
me something new
but i recognize you’ve already paid the
price
and because you’ve already paid the
price what i do is i remind myself
of how you’ve served me
you got on that cross
you carried my sin my shame
my failures
on that cross with you this joy that i
have the world didn’t give it to me
i know the source
jesus
wants the disciples to recognize
that i’m going low
to serve you
and when
this becomes evident
peter
and evidently john the evangelist john
who was the author of this text
takes note of it
what i found peculiar when studying this
text
is that when jesus does go to the cross
and is resurrected and walks the earth
and then ascends
he never once says
this is why
i washed your feet
he doesn’t bring it up again
but there was something memorable about
this moment because john writes it down
our bible tells us over and over again
that all the works that jesus did
couldn’t fit in any of the books of the
world and yet there were certain moments
that’s why the moments that we read in
the bible are so important because these
these moments indicate to us something
that we have to keep in our minds
john kept this in mind
because he recognized it as the point of
no return
and when jesus
ascends and never brings it back up
again
i think that is because
john realizes that jesus doesn’t have to
underscore or repeat what he’s already
said
that because it was going to make sense
after this
that he was counting on the disciples to
be taking the type of notes that would
allow them to remember the moments in
which the point of no return began i
wish i could say that the way i hear it
in my mind
but the point is that jesus didn’t have
to go back and connect the dots for them
that once things played out that they
realized that this was a pivotal moment
and what i am trying to tell you
activate is that this is precisely the
moment that you were standing in right
now that this is a moment that is going
to make sense later and i know you wish
it could make sense now and i know you
wish the math would start mathing now
but i hear god saying that you’ve got to
hold on so that you can see what happens
after this that you’ve got to hold on so
that you can see that all along the way
i was moving all along the way i was
building all along the way i was growing
you and i hear i don’t know who you are
but i hear god saying so clearly to you
and maybe to perhaps to me as well that
at the end of the day you’re standing in
the awakening that you’re standing in
the next dimension that you’re standing
in the fulfillment and i hear god saying
that everything that i promised you is
about to come to pass but i need you to
take note
i need you to remember
i need you to remember what’s happening
in this moment
because you’re going to have to pull
from it
and if you just breeze through this
trying to survive it
and get through it without any scars or
wounds
then you’re going to miss what you need
to pull from when the strength
to build makes a demand on you
you see it’s funny that peter is the one
who is highlighted in this moment
because peter is ultimately the one who
jesus would build his church on
peter’s going to have to pull from this
moment as a leader
to recognize that this servant
leadership this model of servant
leadership would need to be passed down
for thousands and thousands and
thousands of years but he would have to
demonstrate it
i hear god saying that right now you’re
taking notes
but one day you’re going to be the
teacher one day you’re going to be the
model right now you need a mentor but i
hear god saying that i’m creating you to
become someone who will have the mentees
that when the course of time gets
finished playing that you’re going to
see that every moment was connected and
that that after this
was the most important part
if i can tell you
i feel like i am standing in a moment
right now and it feels like the last few
months have been like this with little
breaks in between but i keep having
these
things that don’t make sense happen in
my life and happen in my world and this
has been an incredible season for me
like my bookworm and evolve came out and
we’ve been able to help and reach so
many women and are continuing to reach
so many women but on the other side it
also feels like god is throwing things
at me that shouldn’t happen in seasons
of harvest how is it that i am in
harvest and sowing at the same time and
i hear god saying that just because you
are in harvest in one area doesn’t mean
that you don’t have sowing to do in
another area that this that the cycle of
sowing and reaping is all different
based on the different areas of your
life professionally you may be in
harvest but personally you may be sowing
and we have to be okay with the ebbs and
flows of the way that god works
recognizing that the promise is true
that there is glory after this
and i feel like we have become so
short-sighted
that we miss out on these moments
because we wanted to breeze past them
instead of recognizing the glory
connected to this moment
when i was praying
i was asking god about you and about me
i’d be asking god about you but i’d be
asking god about me too like send them
word but also if he could help me too
that would be amazing
and i just felt like god was telling me
over and over again
that we’ve stepped into
a new spiritual dimension
that we stepped into new spiritual
authority
and spiritual power
and with that authority that god’s going
to give us instructions and tools on how
to use it
but in order for us to get those
instructions and tools we cannot
celebrate
we have to be sensitive
and i believe that as you become
sensitive to what god is doing as you
become sensitive to the authority that
god has given you you see because jesus
promotion in this text also means that
peter was being promoted too but peter
didn’t know it oh
that’s like a whole word unto
itself when someone in your circle
is being promoted
by persecution
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promoted by persecution
can i just take a sidebar from the
sidebar
promotion by persecution is how it works
and you will know that you have been
promoted by persecution when you’ve got
more oil than you had before
there was something about the
persecution that i experienced just last
week that i realized this is how the oil
is created you see the enemy wants you
to think that it’s just about the
persecution but if you’ve been praying
for more faith and you’ve been praying
for more authority and you’ve been
praying for more anointing than what
you’ve actually been praying for is more
persecution you’ve been praying for more
crushing and jesus is standing in a
moment where he is about to be promoted
by persecution and if you are standing
next to someone and you’re thinking oh
my gosh they’re just going through
everything and anything and i don’t know
what to do or how to support them i want
you to understand that their promotion
is your promotion too that god is
allowing you to witness how they survive
persecution so that when the persecution
is on you you understand that if they
can survive it if god got them through
it then i can get through it too you
better take note to other people’s
testimonies because god’s trying to show
you that that testimony is going to be
in your neighborhood one day and you’ve
got all of the tools and exposure you
need to pass the test
peter’s being promoted and doesn’t even
know it
and i feel like that’s exactly where we
are
and i prayed
that god would make us aware to who we
need to become in the moments where we
are being promoted without being aware
of the promotion
so here it is
here’s the number one rule the number
one thing you have to remember about
this
that the promotion by persecution that
peter is experiencing
required that he ask jesus a question
i hear god saying
to bring your questions
not about the outcome
not about where this is headed not about
how he’s going to do it
but about what god is doing right now
when is the last time
you stopped praying about what the end
was going to be
and instead asked god
what are you doing right now
if you’ll never leave me nor forsake me
and i feel left and forsaken it doesn’t
mean that i’m actually left and forsaken
it just means that i cannot see you
so i need to understand what it is that
i am seeing and how you are connected to
it
personally
uh terrain pt pt and i were speaking
about some things that were happening in
ours in our lives
and in the process of trying to figure
out like we first of all like
the homie let’s be real about it okay
this is my homie and we sit down like we
are on the episode of chicago pd we take
the intel we put it on the whiteboard
and then we start playing out motives
and suspicions and outcomes and where we
need to have search warrants and who we
need to arrest and we start taking care
of things and we did this about three or
four times
and we did this about three or four
different ways
and then finally we came to this place
where we realized
the best thing that i can do in this
moment
the most honorable thing that i can do
right now
is to make sure
that i am the light
that this dark situation needs
i don’t have to figure out who did it or
how it’s going to turn out
the only thing i need to focus on is how
i can bring my light into this moment
jesus what are you doing right now
so that i can understand what i need to
do i only do what i see my father in
heaven do if jesus is doing something he
sees what god is doing on the earth and
that aligns me with what i need to be
doing that’s the beauty of jesus
jesus is only doing what god does we’re
made in the image of god if i’m made in
the image of god and i need to figure
out what that looks like then i look to
jesus
jesus who do i need to be in this moment
where are you and what are you doing and
how do i navigate this fracture
this separation
jesus pulled away from the disciples
let’s talk about what we have to do
in these moments of transition
and the moments where the fulfillment of
prophecy is taking place
jesus pulls away
but he’s still there
he pulls away mentally and spiritually
because he recognizes that i cannot
continue to be on the same wavelength as
you are and do what my father in heaven
has called me to do
there are some moments where you pull
away without even leaving the room
and in the process of pulling away you
pull them up
your family your friends your spouse
your co-workers
see you every day in the same household
but i’ve pulled away so i can pull you
up
i’ve pulled away because i’ve got to go
up
you see if jesus would have stayed down
he would have never been able to get
pulled up the way he needed to be pulled
up in this scenario and sometimes you
have to be willing to pull away so that
you can pull them up
so jesus he pulls away that’s what
you’re going to have to do
you’re going to have to come to a place
where you are no longer thinking like
those who are around you
so that you can hear clearly how god
wants you to pull away so that you can
pull up
clear the wavelength
clear the channel
so that you can receive a direct
download from heaven
jesus pulls away
he’s already thinking about what he’s
got ahead of him
what he’s got to do next
and then he finds something to serve
he gets low
i’m thinking
differently
i’m not thinking about what you’re
thinking about
i’m not talking about what you’re
talking about i’m not better than you i
just had to clear the channel so that i
could hear from god because i can’t miss
in this season i got to be holy in this
season i have to be consecrated in this
season i’ve got to make sure that
everything that god told me to do in
this season can be manifested and built
so i’ve got to pull away you got to be
in relationship with people who
understand that just because i pulled
away to god doesn’t mean i pulled away
from you i’ll be back i’m just going to
be different when i come back i’m never
going to leave you the way that you
think i’m going to leave you but i am
going to have moments where i need to
pull away so that i can hear from god so
that i can pull you up
i believe i’m talking to some world
changers
i believe i’m talking to some
generational curse breakers and i’m
telling you that if you are one of those
world changers if you are one of those
people who are going to change things
for people who look like you and grew up
the place that you grew up and had the
experiences and past that you’ve had
then you are going to have to become
comfortable with the idea of pulling
away to pull up i’m not pulling away to
build my own kingdom i’m not pulling
away to make my name great i’m not
pulling away because i forgot where i’ve
come from i’m pulling away because i’m
trying to figure out the strategy that i
need in order to pull you up because if
i pull you up right now i may drop you
but if i get consecrated the way that
i’m supposed to be consecrated and i get
low enough to serve you the way that i’m
supposed to serve you then when i come
back i’ll have enough strength to pull
you up
he pulled away
he found something to serve
and he trusted
that he didn’t have to explain himself
in order to be effective
if jesus was like
someone you knew not you
he would have thought that in order for
me to be effective i need to explain
myself
but jesus was comfortable saying what
i’m doing right now you won’t understand
until later
and he had people who were wise enough
to recognize that i am going to stick
around for the after this
as long as you need to explain it before
you move
then you’re going to always be
campaigning for your destiny
but when you recognize that my
destiny is not up for debate
i’m not being elected into this next
position it’s already secured my only
responsibility is to show up as the
person who can receive the oil
and to allow that person to connect with
those around me
and then from that space
from that space i don’t have to explain
myself
and i can still be effective
god’s doing something in your life
god’s doing something in my life
and right now it cannot be explained
but it will be effective
at producing the glory and the purpose
and the vision connected to who you are
we know that as scripture plays out that
peter came to a place where all of this
made sense
you’re coming to that place too
delayed
denied plans changed and altered
worried
concerned
feeling inadequate
wondering if the joy will last
if the peace will maintain
i’m telling you that every season
makes sense
but sometimes it doesn’t make sense in
the moment
it makes sense after this
this moment that we’re standing in
spiritually and prophetically
is going to forever change us
and it’s going to be for the better
can i just tell you that for a minute
can i talk to your fears
can i talk to your worries and your
concern
the beauty of the point of no return
is that things never go back to being
the way they were
and that sounds scary and sometimes ugly
for some people
but i’m telling you no matter what that
point of no return is for you
that there’s glory after this
what does it mean for there to be glory
after this
it means that the manifestation of god’s
presence is going to be so clear
that you’re going to realize that that
manifestation could not have happened
without you standing in this moment
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so take heart
and allow this moment to happen
allow it to be strange and awkward
because it’s producing
the ultimate plan and vision that god
has i want to pray
for us for you with us with me all of
the above
because i too am standing in and
after this moment
a point of no return moment
where i realized everything has shifted
and changed
and all i can do is trust god in the
unknown
and if you’re like me this is not your
first one
and you tired of them
guess what
me too
but that’s okay
because tired doesn’t disqualify us
we can be tired and still trust god
we can be worried and still trust god
i know we grew up some of us grew up in
church around religious people who act
like if you trust god you shouldn’t be
worried and if you trust god you
shouldn’t be depressed and if you trust
god you shouldn’t have anxiety what i’ve
come to tell you is that they can all
live in the same place
and if you just hang on to the god that
you know if you hang on to the jesus
that you have in the midst of it all
that eventually you’ll look up and
anxiety gives up
eventually you look up and depression
had to give up
because you just kept holding on to the
promises of god
that it’ll make sense after this
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i want to pray for us
god we’re holding on to you
holding on to your promises in the midst
of change
sudden change strange change
and yet we believe that you are still in
control
father i pray
for my brothers and my sisters watching
this message
as i was speaking god that your holy
spirit began to fall on their hearts
and that it began to comfort them
that it began to reveal to them that
they don’t have to have all of the
answers to trust that it’ll make sense
after this
god no more than we can understand all
of the complexities of mathematics
can we understand your ways
and yet we know that there is a path
that leads to truth
god lead us to that path
allow us to recognize it when it’s
standing in front of us
and to dare to ask the question what are
you doing now so that we can model what
you would be doing in any given
circumstance
help us to leave the way that you would
leave
to stand up to it the way that you would
stand up to it
and to make sure that at the end of the
day when all is said and done that even
when we had to make tough decisions
that we represented you well in the
midst of it all
god we have no strategy outside of your
plan for our lives
we gave that up we sacrifice it we
surrender it we lay it down
and we say build us
lead us
guide us
even if we have to close our eyes and be
led by faith
we’ll do it because we trust that it’ll
all make sense after this
in jesus name i pray
amen
amen i told you it doesn’t count unless
you type amen at the end of the comments
amen amen amen
family i love you
i am so honored that i get to do life
with you
i thank god each and every single day
that he allows me to be in the classroom
with you and to share my notes about
what i’m learning along the way i hope
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