Order – Wholeness Winning In Life From The Inside Out To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://tphla.org/giving/
[Music]
[Music]
Jim let’s just read the word of God
I’ll be reading from Genesis 11 verse 1
to 8 and it says now the whole earth had
one language and one speech let’s just
say that together one language and one
speech beautiful we’re gonna come back
and that there’s something about saying
a word that allows it to just stay and
just emphasize on it and it came to pass
as they journeyed from the east that
they found a plain in the land of scener
Shinar and they dwelt there they stayed
there then they said to one another come
let us make bricks and bake them
thoroughly they had made brick for stone
and they they had made asphalt for
mortar and they said come let us build
ourselves a city and the tower whose top
is in the heavens let us make a name for
ourselves lest we be scattered abroad
over the face of the whole earth but the
Lord came down to see the city and the
tower which the sons of men had built
and the Lord said indeed the people are
one and they all have one language and
this is what they begin to do now
nothing that they propose to do will be
withheld from them another translation
talks about that nothing that they per
day do would be impossible for them come
let us go down there come let us go down
they and there confuse their language
that they may not understand one another
speech so the Lord scattered them abroad
and there over the face of all the earth
and they seized building the city family
may be seated
amen
my message for those that might be
taking notes is when God intervenes
hallelujah I just love that phrase it
took me a while to get to that title but
we found it you see what I’m learning in
life family that there is a way of life
that we can live where we don’t have to
pray for favor or pray for the right
relationships or pray for the you know
the right opportunities we don’t have to
ask God for any of that and and that way
of life is in his word that when God
reveals a word to you when God reveals
that which is planned for you when God
puts a vision in your heart when God
gives you this idea that you cannot
shake off that there is there is a way
of life found in the Word of God that is
self sufficient because God is His Word
and so when he gives you a word it has
everything needed for the job when God
gives you a word it’s able to hold its
own ground and that it’s why it never
it’s not wisdom when we think that a
vision that God has put in our hearts
that we’re not up to the task because
we’re looking at our circumstances
because the Word of God when the Word of
God is revealed to you it means that
everything needed would be attracted to
at the moment that you step into it and
that is the beauty of the Word of God
it’s like saying that imagine if someone
you know tells you like hey I’m gonna
get you an all paid expense you know
vacation and then you say you get amen
hallelujah she caught that in the spirit
and you say you know what I can’t go
because I can’t afford it it’s all paid
for what can’t you afford free everybody
can the for free okay it is the same
thing with the Word of God he knows how
to take care of his own bill all he
needs us to do is show up and
participate right so because of this
power that the Word of God has the power
that Lord I don’t even need to ask you
for anything additional because when you
speak a word to me that
it cannot fail so because of that we
always find ourselves at the feet of
Jesus saying God speak to me concern in
my life
speak to me concern in my business speak
to me concerning my family speak to me
concerning this dream give me a word
because family one word from God will
change your whole life so we find
ourselves right we find ourselves in
these places where were like God I need
a word from you that I find myself in
this place of confusion and I need you
to speak to me but the beautiful thing
about when we ask God to speak to us and
also the dangerous thing is that we are
also inviting God to intervene in our
affairs
now intervention one of the ways that
you can look at it is when something or
someone steps in as an obstacle or
barrier to stop something that was
already in motion from continuing and so
when we say God give me a word about my
life we’re basically saying God take a
look at my life and whatever is none of
you shut it down because I need capacity
for what is forming I need you the
closed door so that I can open I can
enter the right ones
right and this moment when we say things
like this we shout and we’re like God
you can do it but the timing the time
frame is always wet where it gets us
because when there’s a shut door we
don’t have a blueprint for when the next
door is gonna open up and so when
there’s a short though we find ourselves
in moments of complaining and moments of
frustration and moments of bitterness
when we find doors that were shut to
relationships doors that were shut to
opportunities and it felt like
everything was going well and then all
of a sudden the door shuts and we don’t
remember when we ask God God give me a
word about my marriage give me a word
about my finances and then you get fired
and you’re like the devil
because God is making room he think that
you have been on a path that I did not
ordain it so when you’re asking me to
give you a word I will first intervene
in what was never of me so that I may
make room for what is for you
you see it’s interesting in the text
that we read these people are basically
God has called them to spread across the
whole earth that was the potential that
they carried and yet they get to a
certain city and that city was later
known to be the city of Babylon they get
to that city and they said we’re gonna
stay here we don’t want to leave this
place this right here home and it’s
crazy because we have to realize that
when God intervenes
he’s intervening because we are pouring
out ourselves in themes in people in
places and positions that don’t have the
capacity for us because this people this
week we decided to stay in a city when
their potential was going to be able to
spread across the whole world
you see Babylon it’s interesting that I
find it interesting that this is the
city that happens because when I did a
little research it was known later at
that time that Babylon was known to be
at some point in time the largest city
in the world and that it was the first
city to have 200,000 residents at a time
but then when you fast forward to
today’s culture I mean you have cities
that have millions of people that reside
there and so what could have been the
best option in this time was still not
the best to serve the people because if
they had stayed that if God would have
allowed them with their plans because
sometimes we have this misconception
that you know maybe they were trying to
build a tower that went all the way to
heaven heaven and that was not really
the case because when it talks about
that they wanted to build a tower that
reached the heavens everything above
ground is the heavens but there’s
certain layers to it so they’re talking
about the visible heavens so basically
they wanted to build a
I scraper it wasn’t about what they were
doing that was bothering God but it was
about that they were going to contain
themselves in the place that never had
the capacity for them if God allowed
them to stay in Babylon at some point
there’s gonna be overpopulation at some
point the resources are going to be
depleted how do you then choose who
stays and who goes
war breaks out how chooses who decides
do you not put a limit on child on
childbearing you see these things
becomes interesting because the very
place that you thought should be a
blessing to you you have now become a
burden to it and this is often what
happens when we are pouring ourselves
into things that God never retained and
so you gave everything you gave all your
time you sacrifice everything for a
relationship that you became a burden to
you poured everything to a position that
you now became the burden in the place
so the place that you’re expecting God
I’m expecting you to bless me here now
you are the burden in the place that you
were once a builder and that was what
was gonna take place here if God allowed
them to go ahead with their plans you
see it was out of the love of God
because if God allows us to just go
ahead and and pour into places that is a
leaking vessel then our story ends there
our story ends with wasted energy wasted
creativity wasted wisdom and for these
reasons God intervenes and I want us to
look again at the first verse because
the first verse said now the whole earth
had one language and one speech I found
that interesting so I had to look deeper
into it because in my mind I’m like
language and speech isn’t that pretty
much the same thing but what I studied
was that language language the word the
root word that spokes a language
actually suggested the word binding that
there was
see it was the whole earth was bound by
something and so in the context of
language in the context of communication
it means that there was a word that
bound the earth together those a word
that connected everyone together and
when it talks about that they were one
language and one speech the speech word
actually means purpose and so because of
this one word that everyone agreed upon
that became their one cause now what is
interesting is that a word so powerful
to bring a whole I mean own nations of
people together I would think that this
is the kind of word that comes from God
because this is the power of his
revealed word that what you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven that you
have the ability to gather people you
have the ability to connect people
because the Word of God attracts and so
for this to have this power for a word
to bind them together for one purpose
and that word did not come from God it
made me understand that in life family
there are two creative forces and that
is love and fear now God being loved
every word that comes out of his mouth
has his personality every word that
comes out from the mouth of God serves
outside of self now when a word that
comes from the place of fear it has the
the need to protect it is this deception
that I need to protect myself now what
is interesting about fear is that
oftentimes we think of fear as a feeling
and so we don’t even recognize the
things that have taken that that we are
so confident in that is actually rooted
in fear because we think that if I’m if
I’m afraid of something I should feel
like I’m afraid of this but there are
things there believes that we are so
confident in but is actually rooted in
fear what is that thing in your life
that you have an obsessive and almost
compulsive need to control because what
fear does is that it needs control of
its environment
this obsessive need you have to protect
yourself to protect your heart to
protect your finances to protect your
kids to protect your family all of that
is good but when it becomes out of
control when it becomes this obsessive
and compulsion that when you lose the
slightest bit of control in in that in
any of those areas you lose it there is
a fear rooted in that and then we say
that no we’re just confident in what we
believe and that is because firmly what
I’m learning is that fear does not first
of all it’s not a feeling but fear
begins as a thought and when that
thought takes root in your mind then it
begins to shape your actions and your
decisions and so you feel confident
about this obsession to protect yourself
and you have reasons for them and they
could be valid but what if that is
rooted in the fear you see when I
thought about this people that we read
about in the text I wondered what were
they afraid of and it dawned on me that
this is a nation of people this is after
the flood happened
God has wiped out the whole earth with
water he raises Noah and his family to
heaven to for their offsprings to begin
to multiply and increase the earth now
this is a nation that came from that
generation and so if you look at the
headlines of the story of their
background oh you’re gonna read is God
killed everybody without understanding
this this trauma that was linked to
their lives I wondered could it be that
they they thought to themselves and
they’re like you know what if we depart
from one another we may not have
strength in numbers there was something
that they needed to stay together
because it was clear that they
understood that there was a word that
was supposed to have them separate and
spread across the earth but that there
was something that they needed they were
like no we have to stay together
they talked about let us make a name for
ourselves and I wondered was it the fear
that what if God tries to wipe us out
again
because the one thing that can overcome
your fears is the right perspective of
God and if we don’t seek God for
understanding and insight isaiah calls
him wonderful counselor that he has a
wisdom that would go beyond anything
that you could ever think of that God
could speak to the deepest pain of your
heart and heal it and all of a sudden
you’re praising him for one the very
thing that you once thought would kill
you if we don’t seek God for
understanding to say god I wonder why
why did this happen why did this happen
to me as a child and we all do we come
before him and we’re praising him in our
hearts were trying to find ways to
protect ourselves because you see when
we oftentimes we talk about love and for
many people is difficult for them to
comprehend that God fully loves them and
that is because I don’t even find it
far-fetched because the concept of love
love God being loved first of all means
that love is as big as God so the
understanding of love would not even be
enough in our lifetime and so what that
means to us is that we often we often
try to understand or comprehend or
perceive love according to what we’ve
been conditioned to and so in a society
and the way we’re raised we’re taught
that if someone loves me they should do
what feels good to me and so how could
God love me and this happened to me as a
child how could God love me and he
watched all of this happen in my life
god I understand you’re real I don’t
doubt that because I had an experience
with you but there are moments that I
question do you really love me if you
allow these things to happen and we have
those questions because we have been
conditioned to perceive love a certain
way but love is as big as God so no
matter how much we we begin to
comprehend love there is so much more it
goes so much deeper and so what I began
to understood is that first of all it’s
a it’s a willing heart to say God I want
to seek your wisdom I know this happens
to me and by all means I don’t think
this was right but is there a reason
beyond what I see that made you allow it
is there a reason beyond what I know
that made me experience the same
heartbreak over and over again you see
I’m learning the family that it’s not
what happens to us that has the ability
to destroy us it’s how we process what
happens to us because the very same
thing that someone now if anyone has a
family member anyone close to you that
has committed suicide my heart goes out
to your family but it’s interesting
family that the very same thing that
person a may commit suicide concerning
that person be experienced that and even
had lesser options to recover but all of
a sudden now they’re mentoring people
and then helping people overcome what
they once experienced and that made me
understand that it is not what happens
to us that destroys us that God is
faithful to his word when he says there
would always be a way out but it is how
we perceive what happens to us and if we
try to perceive what happens to us in
the context of what we’ve been
conditioned to we’re always gonna view
God in a flawed way because we have to
be honest with ourselves that the way I
think of love may not may not go
hand-in-hand with the things God allows
and so the two things I had to come to
mind I said God two things that I would
bind on my heart is the fact that you
are for me and that you are with me I
may not fully understand how you love
but if I can understand two things
because if you’re for me that means that
no matter what it is working out for my
good and if you are with me then really
really really what can stand a chance
against me you see I understood that
these people this was a nation of people
that were afraid and ultimately what
they needed to understand was the wise
to the things that they must have
question marks concerning you see I
found it interesting that in verse in
verse four let’s just go to that really
quick it says that
they said to themselves come let us
build ourselves a city let us establish
ourselves and the tower whose top is in
the heavens let us make a name for
ourselves let us make a name for
ourselves
this past Sunday our pastor our senior
pastor pastor – ray he spoken the
message what is in the name and what
that message revealed is that when we
begin – when we begin to understand God
when we begin to perceive who God is we
begin to actually perceive ourselves and
so when the people say let us make a
name for ourselves then they’re pushing
themselves a way that you know what God
I don’t trust you to give me my real
identity so we want to take this job for
ourselves we want to make a name for
ourselves and the crazy thing is that
when we do things like this we don’t
even we’re not consciously doing it that
we’re doing this against God this is
when fear steps in and the question I
want to ask you all is that what are the
things that you are obsessive about
having control over what are the things
that even you use the the idea of prayer
to control something that may not belong
to you because sometimes these things
are hidden even before us that God is
literally standing in the way of
something to happen and you keep going
back to it and you keep going back to it
and you even use spiritual terms to
fight for something that God is saying I
am intervening in this matter let it go
because at the end of the day family
before you ever spoke a word God heard
you and so if you feel like I need to do
more works in a spiritual context I need
to pray about this my needs so fast
about this more then could it be that
you’re using the ways of God to gain
control of something he’s saying to let
go because again fear begins as a
thought it’s not something that reveals
itself that I’m afraid of this it begins
as those thoughts so you have confidence
in it
but when God is involved in something
you are easily when we say Lord I
surrender all unto you it is easy for
you to say God you can have this but
when we are so like when letting it go
and where we start questioning ourselves
but what if God what if this is a test
what if God doesn’t want me to let it go
you have to look into that
what is the root of that whatever that
thing is if really you were are you
really able to let it go and if the
answer is no then these are the things
that we must come to God and say Lord
search my heart what is rooh that deep
down because you are a wonderful
counselor I know I can bring to you
everything that I might hide from people
but I can show you my pain I can show
you my brokenness and Lord all I’m
saying is that search my heart and
revealed to me what needs to be uprooted
from it you see one of the things I want
to read um from even verse 7 one of the
things that really stood out to me was
what God said in this verse when he said
come let us go down there let us go down
and there confuse their language that
they may not understand one another
speech I was always this this passage
was always very perplexing to me because
I’m like God the Word of God says you
are not the author of confusion so when
you’re saying that let us confuse their
language what is really happening here
you see then I began to study it and I’m
like ok God
me really revealed to me what this word
is the first thing that hit me was he
says let us go down there and I thought
about the first time I saw the word led
us and that is when God says let us make
man in our own image you see when God
stepped into this matter he had seen
that first of all there is a word that
has bound its people together that did
not come from me so when he says let us
go down there he it is interesting
because the word confuse does not even
mean confusion it means to mix oneself
in and so there are times that God can
give you a word and there are times that
God would send himself as the word and
in this passage family what happens is
that God sends himself and he mixed
himself in their communication because
what he was doing was that he was
revealing to them the word that was
truly their word because they had
gathered themselves on a word that was
rooted in fear and God says let us go
down there because it seems as though
they have forgotten the image that they
were created in and so when he’s going
down he’s going down to restore and so
sometimes we may look at this passage
and we’re thinking that God is confusing
them but God is saying no I am bringing
myself there to reveal to them this is
never who you were meant to be and so
when the word of God tells us that they
may not understand one another speech
that word understand actually speaks to
obedience so in other words that they
would not be obedient to another
person’s purpose
you see family when they had one
language and one speech there was one
word rooted in fear that gathered all of
them together and gave them a purpose
that was never their own when God is
calling them to be spread across the
whole earth the earth represented
territory everyone has a place as a
territory has a sphere our pastor
preached the word dominating your sphere
some weeks ago very powerful word you
should watch it it’s on our YouTube
channel plug but everyone in life has a
domain that God has called them to while
they were all in Babylon there was
untapped territory waiting for them and
God says it seems like you have
forgotten the image you are created in
he sends himself down as the word and
when he mixed himself in he could it was
not even the confusion he allowed him to
not perceive the purpose of another
person so when everyone had a new
language their language was connected to
their purpose and so family what am I
saying I’m saying that sometimes for
some of you you even need to get happy
when people don’t perceive what you’re
saying because it’s not it’s not that
they’re not for you it’s not that
they’re haters it’s not that they’re
against you there is simply not called
to what God called you to and so it
should actually give you joy because God
is revealing to you that this person is
not supposed to be a part of it but we
want to get bitter and we want to point
fingers and say you know what i’ma show
you one day you it’s not even about that
because if they cannot understand what
they were never called to because at the
end of the day not you are not called to
everyone on the earth
and the second thing family is that when
God is intervening in a matter he’s
saying that I need to shift you because
you will never have fulfilment in the
place you were never called to you will
never find true joy in the place that I
did not assign you to and you are
pouring yourself in a place that has
nothing connected to the reason that I
put you on the earth and so I’m sharing
this family because there’s some of us
and they’re closed doors that we have
experienced and they’re closed doors
that we will experience and it is not
for us to come in a place where we pout
and we’re bitter because when God
intervenes that means he’s actually
ordering your steps that God is saying
that let me show you where and what I
have ordained for you you see the moment
that God removed their ability to
perceive one another’s purpose it says
that the building it seized because they
were building that which was not even
connected to any of them now the painful
part family is that they did start
building that the building did start and
there are things that you have put your
energy in there are relationships that
you have given your heart to their
positions that you have given your sleep
to there are things that you did indeed
build but when God intervenes
he’s a restorer and he knows he knows he
knows how to perfect the time he knows
how that the beautiful thing in the Word
of God it says that they would always be
seedtime and harvest time and so even
though where you put your you you may
put your seed somewhere else and God
will give you the harvest elsewhere and
so even though you had laid foundations
that you became burdens to God said for
the work that you have done there is a
harvest waiting somewhere else for you
we have to be willing to forgive we have
to be willing to let go we have to be
willing to release the bitterness we
have to be willing to release the pain
because at the end of the day it is not
about people your life is never in the
of a man your life is in the hands of
God and it is a disservice to him for
you to think that something did not
happen in your life because a person
said no it is a disservice to God
because everything concerning your life
is in his hands not in the hands of
people and so although that yes a person
was used but the intention and the
purpose behind it was God I love what
Joseph said in the Bible when his
brothers had sold him into slavery and
if you read the story it really does
look like it was their plan but Joseph
when he got old enough he said what you
meant for evil God meant it for good he
actually sent me here and so family
whatever is taking place in your life in
this season things that you have to walk
away from and because because you see
it’s hard to walk away when you know
that you actually laid bricks it’s hard
to walk away when you know the time that
you spent and cutting those bricks and
laying them one by one
it is hard to walk away but would you
rather stay in a place that will destroy
you or would you rather go to the place
that you were ordained for even before
God puts you in your mother’s womb and
the greatness about God is that whatever
you have sown he knows how to make the
harvest show up stand with me family
you see there’s some of us even in this
house and the truth is is that it’s not
even it’s not that you’re afraid of what
may not happen but is that what actually
will happen you see because I also
wondered if the people in this text had
a fear that if they scattered amongst
themselves if they went abroad would
they have the ability to take care of
themselves would they have the ability
to individually cater and build the
cities that God had called them to would
they have the ability to build and
develop the territories that God had
called them to so maybe let us just
stick together
and what if the people that you keep
thinking you need and there is a fear
not that you would not do great that you
would actually that maybe you could be
great but what if you’re great and
lonely what if I need to say this right
see there are two parts to this one part
what if you you need what if you don’t
need what you think you need right what
are the very things that you’re like god
I feel like without these things I’m not
going to make it and then God is saying
that you never needed any of that to
start with but on the flip side what if
your issue is not that you may not be
great what if your issue is who would be
there when God elevates you and because
you love the comfort of your environment
because it caters to the old you and
because it caters to you that you’re
comfortable with and you don’t have to
be challenged it cannot show you that
you don’t have to look in the mirror and
say
know what I could do better it caters to
you that can be complacent it caters to
you that could be for the lack of better
words mediocre but without saying that
you are mediocre it caters to a version
of you that does not need to be
challenged and so your fear is not that
you will be great your fear is what
greatness would look like for you and
what greatness would look like for your
relationships and what greatness will
look like for your surroundings you see
when God spoke to Abraham he tells
Abraham all these things and he’s like
I’m gonna make your name great oh my
gosh it’s gonna be so beautiful
but Abraham here’s the catch you have to
leave your home you have to leave your
family you have to leave all the things
you have ever known and go to a place
that is foreign to you what if for some
of you in this room your fear is not
that God would not do great things in
your life but it’s what would it cost
you and you don’t know if you’re yet
willing to pay the price but you see
family two things if God is for you and
if God is with you then no word would
ever come out of the word of the mouth
of God that would be against your truth
and God is never in division God will
not give you a word to divide you from
something
but God is in separation because
separation does not mean that something
bad happened for us to walk away
division is normally rooted in
dissension and and and some intention
and fighting and bitterness but
separation just means that at this point
of our lives in order for us to be truly
who we are called to be I have to
consecrate myself away from you
and so if God is calling you to separate
yourself from people it’s not about
who’s better who’s not it has nothing to
do with that God that even the Bible
says those who compare themselves
amongst themselves are without wisdom
so if His Word says that God will never
tell you that oh you’re better than the
other person it would never be about
being better than somebody else
but it’s about what serves your truth
that in this season of your life what
serves your truth there was a moment in
the life of Jesus that the Word of God
tells us that he had to be obedient to
his family do you remember the time
Jesus was about twelve years old and he
did they were going they were going
somewhere
and they look and they’re like what was
Jesus said he was gone and they go back
to look for him he was in the temple and
he was saying don’t you guy must be
about my father’s business but then in
that time in that season of his life the
Word of God then says and then he was
obedient to his parents because he was
trying to go ahead of himself and God
was like the father said no no no you
must be about my business but not in
this manner there was a moment in the
life of Jesus that he had to be
submitted under those that were
recognized as his earthly parents and
there was another season of his life
that the same Jesus said who is my
mother and who is my brother it was not
a word of dissension or or it was not a
word to say it was not a word that came
with disrespect he was basically saying
in this time my focus is not about who I
must submit to an earthly version but
who I must submit to as my heavenly
father and so for some of us we have to
stop trying to submit to the old
versions of our relationships we have to
stop trying to submit to the old
expectations that people have of us and
that is our issue because we don’t know
how to really tell them that no I’m I’m
really about God I really love God I
really don’t like that anymore
I really don’t we don’t know how to tell
them that you know what I really I’m
really not pursuing that anymore
God God has spoken to me about my
purpose and it’s very different from
what I thought and what you thought and
I’m sorry if it disappoints you but it
doesn’t disappoint him and we’re finding
ourselves in a fight with our
surroundings because we have not chosen
to stand on the Word of God the Word of
God would never bring division that’s
not it if you find yourself you know
increasing your voice and doing all
kinds of things that you’re moving out
of the Spirit of God it’s not about the
vision it’s about healthy separation
thank you Jesus thank you lord thank you
lord
family if you’re in this house and you
know that there are things that you need
to walk away from and you have been
fighting it if you’re honest with
yourself you have been fighting it to
the point that you even fight it with
the ways of God and God is calling you
to walk away from something and yet you
come before him praying and fasting and
saying God make this happen if that is
you I want you to meet me at this altar
thank you Jesus thank you Jesus
thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you
[Music]
thank you
[Music]
thank you
[Music]
[Music]
there’s some of you in this house and
you need to forgive you need to forgive
because you have put the responsibility
of your life in the hands of people and
so because you have seen it as though
people are the ones that control your
destiny that might not be the wording
that you use but that is actually what
your actions reveal and so there is
bitterness hovering against people
because you feel as though their
decisions stopped you from receiving
something I want you to meet me at this
altar you see what I love about the
altar call for some of you in this house
you may be may be wondering why why are
why are people walking to the altar we
can pray right there but what I love
about the altar call is that in this
moment it is a it is a mark of an action
that says God this very word that you
have spoken then as I take this action
first of all to even walk out of my seat
that it would mirror the action that I
take in real life that I will not walk
away from here holding on to the same
thing that the way as I leave my seat as
I get uncomfortable and just walk out of
my seat to say god I am letting this go
it is it is a mark of my faith that God
the very same thing I’m doing at this
altar I’m gonna do it in my real life
and that is what I love about the altar
call because it is a mirror to the
decisions that were saying that we want
to take
it is it can be painful I get that it
can be painful to build something and
then to realize that what you were
building was never of God it can be
painful
it can be painful to believe in
something so wholeheartedly and for the
door to shut but the beautiful thing
families that you serve a God that is
for you
[Music]
[Applause]
just like we sang in worship there is
more to come there is more to come your
best days will never be behind you and
it’s crazy because because God knows how
to make all things work together for our
good yes you may have to walk away from
something but the beautiful thing is
that God can use that very thing to
instill wisdom in you God can use that
very thing to shape you so there is
never a waste
there is never a waste and so it’s not
wondering that if I didn’t make this if
I didn’t make this turn then you know
what I should have come maybe I would be
so much further in my life for some of
you you need to forgive yourself because
you are putting a burden on yourself
that it was never assigned to you
the moment when you say God have your
way in my life he owns that life and God
takes care of what he owns he directs he
he helps you he leads you it may not
make sense the ways that he uses
but it will lead you to the place that
he’s called you to and so it’s never too
late
it’s never that you don’t have what you
need because when God reveals the word
that you’re waiting for if you move on
it it would attract everything to your
life when God gives you a word he is
bound by his word the the Bible says
that even when we are unfaithful he
remains faithful for he cannot deny
himself that is powerful and so what are
we saying family this Sunday our pastor
will continue a message on what is in a
name and as we begin to seek God for
revelation concerning our lives let’s
move on it let’s not dwell on the past
and say but God what about this very
thing if God is shutting the door we get
excited about open doors but sometimes
closed doors leads to open doors thank
you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Lord
thank
Wow something beautiful happening in
this house
can we all just take a time just to
speak to God from the depths of our
heart
whatever he has put on your spirit right
now just speak to him about it
whatever has been a struggle
the VIN in your life that you need to
that that you’re like god I need your
counsel in this matter
the thing that you have questioned him
that if if you love me why did this
happen just speak to him about it
because there is a wisdom that God has
for every question you would ever ask
him he is the answer he’s not afraid of
questions thank you
thank you lord thank you thank you Jesus
unlock their heart slow
thank you Jesus
and whether you might be at the altar
you might not be you might be watching
us if you want to commit your life to
Jesus I want you to meet us here and if
you’re watching I just want you to raise
your hand you see because for some of us
we are searching for the meaning of life
and the reason why it seems so far from
us is because our concept of God is also
this this grand thing that we cannot get
ahold of but that is the beauty of Jesus
because through him we have relationship
and you’re fighting you’re fighting it
you’re fighting and you’re like is it
really this my family you can feel that
God is really tugging your heart in this
as you’re listening to this message it
almost feels like your heart is burning
that is the work of the holy spirit and
that is God knocking on your heart
saying just open the door and I would
reveal myself to you just open the door
and I’ll reveal myself
and there’s someone you came into this
house and you came in just you’ve been
you know almost like you know let me see
what’s happening on a Thursday night but
actually this is an appointment that God
has with you and all he’s saying is that
just open your heart to me and if you’re
not at this altar I want you to meet us
at this altar and you’re saying God I
want to give this a shot I want to know
who you really are
that has been the question of your heart
and your heart is burning and that is
the Holy Spirit knocking and all he’s
saying is that he’s not asking you of
anything all he’s saying is that be
willing to know me don’t assume about me
drop your assumptions and say God who
are you let’s have a talk it’s beautiful
what a willing heart would receive
sometimes it seems like you’re you’re at
a war with like God but you’re not
saying anything to me but that’s because
your heart is full of assumptions about
who he is and so the assumptions can
cloud judgment
but all he’s saying is that let go of
all that stuff let go of this concept of
me being you know crazy or control it
let go of that because every word that
would ever come out of the mouth of God
is not for him he is self-sufficient he
doesn’t need anything from anybody every
word that would ever come out of the
mouth of God is for you every single
commandment every single thing it is for
you it has nothing God doesn’t have an
ego that needs to be stroked because
before we were created before angels
bowed and worshiped him he is he existed
before any of this so when he speaks
it’s not for him it’s for us that is a
God of love and in this moment he’s
knocking at your heart and saying just
let me in and to those especially that
I’m talking to I just want you to raise
your hand God is gonna do something so
beautiful in your life right now thank
you Jesus thank you Jesus
Heavenly Father we thank you we thank
you for what you’re doing in your house
we thank you Lord God for that which you
have empowered your children to let go
of
we thank you for the guy that every
ruler thought that was rooted in fear
Lord God we thank you that it is exposed
it is weakened because your light has
come upon it and we thank you Lord that
they will not be left with the pain of
what they once built but you will fill
them with the joy of what is to come
Lord you’re a god that you are faithful
you are a restorer of time and resources
Lord God we thank you for the lessons
that we learn in the wilderness we thank
you that with you it all works together
for our good
we thank you Lord God that this is a
house full of people these are people
listening larga that are saying that God
have your way in my life and wherever
you choose to intervene father God have
your way I would trust you when I don’t
know I will trust you through the nose I
will trust you and I will not look the
man for my help does not come from man
my help comes from the Lord and so lord
I thank you for the hearts that are
filled with your joy and the release of
bitterness and the release of anxiety
and I thank you for the great count so
you will have with your people for the
questions that they have of you Lord you
are the wonderful counselor and I thank
you Jesus that they would know you
intimately as their wonderful counselor
continue to move in Our Lives Lord Jesus
we trust you we trust you we trust you
lord
we trust you Lord we trust you lord we
trust you Jesus
we trust you with our lives we trust you
with our hearts we trust you with our
families we trust you with our children
we trust you with our finances we trust
you lord and so as we say that God I’m
releasing this obsessive need to control
I’m saying father God that I trust you
and I recognize that I am in your hands
and everything that concerns my life is
in your hands and so lord I would love
freely I would not I would not love with
an agenda in mind I would give freely
because this is who you created me to be
and I thank you Lord that you would
increase our knowledge of love because
it is as big as you and so as we grow
when you Father God may we grow in love
in Jesus name father God I thank you for
those who say they’re committing their
lives to you I thank you that they would
experience you in a way so unique to
them that their desire and their hunger
for you would only multiply and we thank
you Lord God that those who hunger and
thirst for you Lord God you would feed
them you would meet them at their place
of need you would come into their lives
like a Russian wind father God
and you will fill them with your love
have your way Lord God in Jesus name we
pray amen
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
you