Is There Anything I Can Do For You? (Chad Veach)

0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.880 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.800 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.720 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.160 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:19.720 In your life. Enjoy the message. Anybody happy to be 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.240 in church today? 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.840 When I was growing up, my parents used to always 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.800 quote that scripture. I was glad when they said, unto me, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.839 let us go to the wood, to the house of 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.559 the Lord. And I'm just so thankful to be an Elevation. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:43.760 Do you love your church today? Do you love your 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:50.239 pastors today? I'm a preacher just the moment. But and 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.560 again I want to just say I reiterate Pastor JJ 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.000 did such a great job. Thank it everybody forgiving. But 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.720 just in the aftermath of the hurricane, can we just 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.240 own everyone that's being generous and given. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.600 Let's pray, Let's come. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.880 On, let's really stir off faith to help those that 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:14.000 are in need right now. The devastations overwhelming, and what 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.440 an opportunity. I see it as an opportunity for the 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.440 church to step up and be what we're called to be. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.840 A men and so I love your church and I 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.399 love your pastors, and I got to. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:25.760 Be with them. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.160 I live in Los Angeles and the tour Elevation Worship 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.000 Nights came through Los Angeles, California. I gotta tell you, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.039 LA wasn't ready for Pastor Steven. They weren't ready for him. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.120 And I have never been to a concert where every 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.800 single song that they sang when they started it, I 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:42.000 was like. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:42.880 Oh, this is my favorite one. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.360 This is my favorite one, This is my favorite Then 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.160 they sing another one. I'm like, Oh, put this one 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.840 right here, because I got memories with these songs. I've 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.160 been through some things with these songs. I cried in 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.720 my part of these songs. Come on, clap and give honor. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:58.320 We're honoring to. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.720 Do if you're grateful for the cycle bye of Elevation 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.240 Church and Pastor Stephen. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.920 And Holly. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.000 And we're we're we're called. We're called to give honor 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.919 where honor is due. You know how sometimes the rent 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.480 is due. Today I feel like the honor is due, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.480 and Pastor Stephen is a gift not just to Charlotte 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.600 and the Elevation but to the world. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.320 To the Body of Christ. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.800 And I say, right, now just as he's resting today, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.000 I say we pray for him right now, just as 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.239 a church, you know, just a hedge of protection over 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.959 his family, that the blessing of God would be all 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.440 over his home and his life. And Pastor Hawley the same. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.280 Come on, church, let's just pray for Pastor Stephen right now. Father, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.080 we declare in the name of Jesus, your goodness and 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.720 your mercy will follow them all the days of their life. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.959 We think you that as they've refreshed Poise and Salt 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.679 Lake City and Los Angeles, God, you said that those 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.200 the refreshed others, will they themselves be refreshed. So God, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.960 Philip is cup. We thank you God for the pastor 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.080 that he is the leader that he is. And we 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.040 just thank you for a blessing today in Jesus name. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.600 And everybody said together, come on clap one more time. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.919 Anybody loved the Bible today. We're gonna jump right in 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.959 in just a moment. But before you do, turn and 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.280 sayhi to somebody. As you take a seat, turn and 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.240 say hi to somebody. Go in your bible to Romans 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.520 chapter twelve. Romans chapter twelve. It is good to be 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.680 in church today. Any married people in church today. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:33.920 Yay. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.680 My wife and I just celebrated sixteen years of marriage. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:48.880 She is blessed. Come on, we have four children. We're 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.800 about to be in the odds. I'm about to have thirteen, eleven, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.960 nine and seven. We like a rock band. We put 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.680 them out every two years. But I stopped that years ago. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.240 I said, oh no more. I told my wife we 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.440 would have been good with two. We would have dominated 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.880 two kids, but we had two too many. They're dominating 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.360 us now. But God has been so good to us. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.800 My wife and I we planted a church in Los Angeles. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.120 We just celebrated nine years of our church in LA. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.159 And in nine years, in nine years, we've seen thirteen 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.960 thousand people say yes to Jesus in LA. Come on, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:32.000 clap if you believe God is good. But it's an 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.440 honor to be here. And I want to jump right 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.080 in because Romans chapter twelve, we're gonna go to verse four. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.120 What I love about Jesus is that he has offered 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.840 us the invitation of a lifetime. And the invitation of 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.640 a lifetime to me is not just believing in Jesus. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.240 But I think it gets fun when you start following Jesus. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.119 But just to believe is not that fun. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.440 But the adventure of a lifetime to me is when 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.480 you say yes to following Jesus. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.039 You never know where He's going to take your life. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.640 You never know what God's going to do in you, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.680 and you never know what God's going to do through you. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.720 And so I want to talk today as you discover, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.560 as you walk with God, you discover what has He 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.599 gifted you to do on this earth? 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.560 What is He placed in your life. The more I 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:23.680 follow Jesus, the. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:29.560 More I discover my gifting, my talents, my unique makeup 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.240 to go make a difference in the world. Look here Romans, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.679 Chapter twelve, verse four. I love these scriptures as Paul 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.760 He's writing for by the grace given to me. I 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.760 say to every one of you, do not think of 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.640 yourself more highly than you ought to. That's a word 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.280 for cowboy fans. Come on, somebody, helle lojah. I felt 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:54.479 the Holy Ghost when I said it too. I felt 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.279 the Holy Ghost when I said it. I was like, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:05:59.800 who is it for? 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:06.760 Bam? Cowboy fans. Cowboy fans are so cute. Y'all are cute. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.200 Y'all are cute because every year. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.960 I let me preest a word, okay, but rather think 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.280 of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.240 God has distributed to each of you. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.280 For just as each of. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.160 Us has one body with many members, as these members 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.400 do not all have the same function. So in Christ, we, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:35.200 though many, form one body, and each member belongs to 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.520 all the others. You know what I love about seeing 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.840 that video about what we're doing to help, is that 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.320 we need Samaritans, purse, we need convoy of hope, we 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:44.640 need elevation church. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.400 Come on, anybody, thankful. We're just playing our part in 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.720 a really big thing. Verse six. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:56.000 We have different gifts according to the grace given to. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:56.640 Each of us. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.120 If your gift is prophesigned, then prophesie in accordance with 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.359 your faith. If it is serving, then serve. If it 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.360 is teaching, then teach. If it is to encourage, then 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.080 give encouragement. If it is giving, then give generously. If 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.040 it is to lead, do it diligently. If it is 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.800 to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Love must be sincere 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.880 hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.320 devoted to one another in love, Honor one another above yourselves, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.920 never be lacking in zeal but keep your spiritual fervor 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.480 serving the Lord. Oh, come on, clap today. That's just 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.720 good reading right there. That's not even preaching, that's reading. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.880 I want to preach a message today right down the title. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.560 Is there anything I can do for you? Is there 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.200 anything that I can do for you? 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:48.760 See? 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.840 I know how much God has done for me. I 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.440 know what God has done in my life. God pulled 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.760 me out of a pit, set my feet upon a rock, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.960 put a new song in my mouth. I don't know 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.880 about you, but I was dead, but now I'm alive. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.120 I was blind, but now I see. Come on, anybody 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.360 thankful today for what Jesus has done? Has God been 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.280 good to anybody here today? Come on, give him a 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:18.880 better praise than that. If you believe God is good, God, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.480 God like to say this way. God has been better 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.440 than I deserve. And He has been greater than I 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.720 could imagine. He has been better than I could ever deserve. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.640 But I'll tell you he has been better than I 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.160 have ever imagined. God has been so good to me. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.320 God gave me his spirit. God gave me salvation. God 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.720 gave me my health today. God gave me a beautiful family. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:42.559 God hooked me up so much and gave me two 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:48.520 extra kids. But when I think about all that God 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.760 has done for me, how could I not in return 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.640 say Lord, is there anything. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.400 That I could do for you? 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.720 Because I know your faith fulness, I know you're healing power, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.040 I know what you've. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.000 Done for me. But I just want to just pause 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.040 for a second and say, Lord, is there anything that this? 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.120 Is there anything that. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:16.880 I could potentially possibly do for you? When we moved 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.040 to LA we left Seattle, Washington to move to Los Angeles. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.120 We got we got out of Egypt, y'all, and so 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.080 it rained too much up there. So when we moved down, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.600 we had two kids in those days, just two of them, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.640 and we were driving down. We didn't we didn't have 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.760 a staff, we didn't have an office, we didn't have 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:34.160 we didn't have a house. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.360 We found our house. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.240 We were on I five in Sacramento and my wife 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.240 was looking on Craigelist for a place to live, and 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.080 so we found it. But we were in Sacramento, so 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.520 we still had a long drive. So we sent a 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.520 friend to go check out the house the neighborhood. She 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.600 couldn't get in, but she could check out the house. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.120 She said, the neighborhood's fine, So we said yes to 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.880 the house. We got the home on Craigslist. We rented 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.319 a house to go plant the church while we were there. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.000 While we were driving, my wife mentioned to me that 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.600 she has a family friend from New Zealand that was 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.360 also moving to LA for a job. And she said, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.480 this home that we just rented has an extra house, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.120 extra room, and she's looking for a place to live. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.800 What do you think about renting out a room to 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.760 this to my childhood friend from New Zealand, I was say, well, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:18.560 we're church planners. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.880 We need the money. Holley lujah. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.680 Yes. And what I remember about this girl from New 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.200 Zealand when we planned a church and she helped us, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.360 there was eleven people that started in our living room. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.720 Started this church is O Way Church in LA. And 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.600 what I remember about this girl the most is that 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.120 she would go to everybody in the church and she'd 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.480 always ask if she could help, like, may. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.920 Yeah, can I help you? Mat see anything I could do? Mate? Yeah? 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:51.960 Shock mock blue yeah, Mike, good on you. But I 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.480 remember that's what I remember. Is there anything that I 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.080 could do to help? This is like me and my 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.280 house with my wife. My wife runs our home, she 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.760 runs our house. She is the boss at our house. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.840 I don't have a clue what's going on. So I 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.720 just every day breakfast, lest your dinner. I'm like, can 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.520 I do Can I help? Is there any do you need? 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.959 Can I do anything to help? She said the other day, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.080 I finally figured out what your gift is. Your gift 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.120 in this home what you do is you're good at 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.760 dropping off the kids. And I was like, yeah, I'm 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.120 really good at dropping I can get rid of them kids. Yes, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.800 I know how to do that. That's about all I 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:29.000 know how to do. But I wonder today if we 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.240 could get to the place where we could come to 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.760 God and say, Lord, I don't know what I'm exactly 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:40.320 gifted in, but whatever I have, is there anything that 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.000 I could do for you? I'm I'm see you got 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.360 to get a life with a view, in view of 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.120 your mercy, in view of the cross, in view of 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.160 your faithfulness. I can survey and see what you've done 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.280 for me, and so God, in response of gratitude, I 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.160 just want to ask, is there anything that I can 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.319 do for you? See the problem is is that a 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.360 lot of us we we we we find out our 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.199 gift or our talent, and we fall in love with 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:13.000 our gift more than our God. We we are mesmerized 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.440 with our talents and our capabilities. And I want to 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.400 just give you four things to write down today. Write 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.880 down number one. Don't fall in love with your gift. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.120 Fall in love with the gift giver. Don't fall in 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.520 love with your talent. Don't fall in love with how 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.360 gifted you are and how amazing you are. If you 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.440 got the gift to teach, don't fall in love with 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.960 your teaching gift. If you got the gift to sing, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.240 don't fall in love with your singing gift. If you 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.080 got whatever your gift is, don't fall in love with 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.720 your gift. We live in a culture that is obsessed 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:43.480 with their gift. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.360 They are. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.520 They are mesmerized by their talent. They are mesmerized by 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.880 their ability. Vanity of vanities. Look at how awesome I am. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.760 Look at how great I am, Look at the business 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.599 I can build, Look at the songs I can write. No, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.839 I want to encourage you today. Don't fall in love 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:06.840 with your gift, fall in love with your God, says 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.480 Romans Chapter one. Romans Chapter one says they started to 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:17.080 worship creation rather than worshiping the Creator. And we got 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.480 to be careful in this culture to not discover our 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.719 gift and fall in love with it, to monetize it, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.199 to just make it about us and our kingdom. Know, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.360 as we follow God, he shows us what He's put 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.080 inside of us. When you were born, God didn't kind 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.000 of come up with a plan like, Wow, what are 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.480 we gonna do with this one? No, when you were 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.960 in your mother's womb, the Bible says you were fearfully 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.240 and wonderfully made. God was stuff in your life with 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:56.800 potential and capability and calling and anointing and future. Jeremiah 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.720 said in Jeremiah One, before I was born, you appointed 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.040 be a prophet to the nations. God has a plan 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.800 for your life. God knows what he wants to do 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 with your life. God has something for you to do 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.720 on this earth. You gotta discover your gift so you 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.440 can make a difference in the world. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.280 Don't fall in love with your gift, fall in love 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:18.080 with your God. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.400 Where are the loud people at Let me just hear 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:25.880 you if you're loud. Hey, they were waiting, weren't they loud? 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.400 People can't wait to be loud. They just excited, like 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.840 they just wake up loud. I'm half Mexican. Any Latins 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:38.200 in the house, I'm underlies. Hey guess now that's end 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:43.240 the Hons. God does not make quiet Latins. This is impossible. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.040 We come out the womb loud like Labama, Mama. We 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:53.360 just bought us. Look us forever, Hans. That's the way 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.840 God made you. Where are the quiet people? 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:57.080 At? 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:11.000 Quiet people don't even like to raise their hand. That's 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.040 the way God made you, and we need you. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:15.840 To be you. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:22.040 Walk confident in your calling, walk confident in your grace. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.840 But don't fall in love with your grace. Don't fall 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.280 in love with your gift. Fall in love with your maker. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.440 Fall in love with your creator. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.680 Fall in love with your savior, fall in love with 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.120 his presence. Oh, come on clap today if you want 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:44.560 to love God more than you love yourself. There's a 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.360 story in Daniel, chapter four of King nebuk nez King 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.800 nebuk Nezzer. One day he walks out on his roof 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.720 and he's out on the on the on the rooftop 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:52.640 and he's walking around. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.720 He's like, dang, you look at me, am I not amazing? 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.800 Look at look at what I've look at what I've created. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.280 Around somebody that's so impressed with himself. You ever be 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.000 around somebody that's just like, Wow, you're still talking about you. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.440 That's crazy. Wow. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.320 Hold on, let me just you drop that name. Let 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.320 me give it back to you. Just real, sorry, you 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:18.280 just there's another one. King Nabucanza's walking on the palace, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.160 so he's like, wow, look at me, look at what 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:22.720 I've done. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.080 Is Danis chapter four. Well, you can't make this up. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.960 This's in the Bible Dange four, verse twenty nine. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.920 Twelve months later, he was taking a walk on the 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.600 flat roof of the World Palace in Babylon. As he 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.360 looked out across the city, he said, look at this 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:40.320 great city of Babylon. By my own mighty power, I 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.120 have built this beautiful city as my row residence to 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:49.480 display my majestic splendor. So you gotta be careful, because 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.040 if you don't give glory to God, You're gonna give 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.160 glory to you. I always tell you, But I look 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.200 at what I've built, look at what I've accomplished, look 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.520 at how much money I've made, look at how great 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:06.760 I am. He's walking In fact, God humbles King Nebukaneza' 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.280 so much that he drives him out to the wilderness 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:14.040 and makes him grow feathers and nails. And finally he 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:18.239 gets so humble that he acknowledges who God is, and 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.440 God restored his sanity. In other words, if you become 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.240 a me monster, you're gonna go crazy. But the way 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.679 to stay in your right place is to give glory 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.440 and honor and worship and praise to an almighty God. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.000 Come on, clap if you're thankful today. I don't need 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.600 the glory all. Come on, not to us, not to 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:42.359 us be the glory, but to your name. See this 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.919 is the problem. This is what happened with the adversary 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.280 of your life. That Satan he wants was a worship leader. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.199 He wants, was the leader of the worship in heaven. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.080 But he got so enamored with his gift, he got 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.639 so intoxicated with his own ability that he stopped leading 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.680 praise to God, and he wanted praise to him. This 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.600 is if it could happen to him, it could happen 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.040 to us. And watch what it says in Ezekiel about 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.560 the enemy. It says in Ezekiel it says, you were 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.000 the model of perfection. You were full of wisdom and 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.879 exquisite and beauty. You were in the Eden, in the 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.760 garden of God. Your clothing was adorned with every precious stone. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:23.120 You were beautiful. What happened? See, don't fall in love 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.439 with your gift. Fall in love with your God. And 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.600 if you today are fall in love with your gift. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.200 What I love about God that if you're prideful today, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.680 God loves you enough like he did with Neba Canezar, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.159 he will humble you. And God says, if you exalt yourself, 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.439 he will humble you. But if you humble yourself, he 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.159 will exalt you. The reason why elevation is used around 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.520 the world is because this church and our pastors walk 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.600 humbly before the Lord, not wanting the praise to us 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.160 or to a church. Come on, clap if you believe 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.080 it today, Come on, this is our prayer. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.160 See what God can do through you. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.600 And and the thing about pride is the moment you 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.280 stopped thinking that you have pride is when you're really 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.119 gonna mess up. A couple of years ago, I was 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.800 in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was preaching that passion City 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.399 church for Pastor Louis Giglio, and I love Pastor Louis. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.440 He is like he is the Steve Jobs of Christianity. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.679 And so we had this great night at church, and 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.280 we went out to dinner afterwards, and and we were 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.359 at the valet waiting for the cars to pull up, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.840 and as we're about to leave each other, he passed. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.960 Louis got really close to me, like like up in 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.800 my face, and he and he and he says to me, hey, 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.199 I want you to and he's like right here, and 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.600 I was like, I want you to. And he starts 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.800 telling me about going low. I want you to go low. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.919 I want you to be a man of humility, a 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.200 man of character. Let's for us, me and you. And 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.080 he was so close to me. He could have been 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.600 like he could have said, let's go rob a bank. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:02.080 It didn't matter. I would have been. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:07.560 Like, like, he's looking into my soul. So he's in 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.800 my face and he's like, let's go low, let's let's 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.679 be humble. And I'm like, you know Christians where they 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:23.960 put on the Christian face. I'm just thinking, like, buddy, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.720 you better back up. So he's up in my face. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:29.280 He's a go lo. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.080 So he gave you know, he five ten minutes and 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.720 then you know, and we part our ways. And about 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.280 two three months later, I was in Atlanta and I 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.600 text Pastor Louis, hey, let's get breakfast tomorrow. So we 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.760 met up and we had two three hour long breakfast. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:43.640 We had the best time. And we're leaving and we're 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.919 waiting for our ubers outside and he gets up in 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:47.720 my grill and he goes, hey, I want to say 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.760 something to you, and he goes, I want us And 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.840 I almost said, let me guess, go low, but I 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.240 did it. I'm respectful. You guys get it. And so 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.880 and he gets me. He gets in my face again. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.119 He gives me the same speech, like word for word, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.840 verbade him. And I thought at first maybe he's older 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.879 and he's forgetting. He's forgetting conversations these days, isn't there. 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.199 So he's like, I want us to go low. I 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.200 want us to be humble men I wanted. And he 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:17.240 get in and I was like, yeah, thank you, one 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:23.560 hundred percent. And when I left, I got on the 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.240 airplane to fly home and the Lord, the Lord spoke 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.520 to me and said, I send him to you a 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:33.080 second time because you didn't hear it the first Now 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.880 the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.000 and I said, Lord, I don't deal with pride, and 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.320 he said, you needed this, And the Lord began to 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:49.720 deal with ego. The Lord began to deal with agenda, motives, pride, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.560 living on talent, and. 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:54.880 That one messed up. Samson. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.440 Samson just just like, oh, man, long hair, don't care. 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.440 You know, I'm good. Come on, man. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:17.520 Delilah's like, Sammy, sam. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:17.280 They're here again. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:23.360 He's like, oh, sugar, you know how I roll, man, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.800 I'll take care of it again. He didn't know what 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.520 cost him his life this time. See, my problem is 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:31.840 we fall so much in love with talent, so much 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.240 in love with gifts. We're gonna live off gifting, live 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.879 off talent, and we're gonna stop being dependent upon the 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:39.800 grace and the provision. And come on, I don't know 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.840 about you, but I'm not too powered to beg for 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.440 the mercy and the goodness and the grace of my God. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.639 I need him. I need his daily bread today. I 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.960 need his provision today. I need his power today. I 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.080 need his joy today, I need his peace today. Come on, 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.000 anybody thankful today I'm. 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.800 Not falling in love and living on my gif I'm 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:04.359 living for the glory of the living God, the one 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:06.800 that died for me, the one that rose from me, 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:08.560 the one that called my name. 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:11.120 Give them a praise today. If you want to live 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:18.080 for God and now yourself, you be careful with that 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.719 prideful spirit. You be careful with that worldly spirit. In 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:26.680 a narcissistic society, narcissism wins, but not in kingdom culture. 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.240 Jesus said, the first are gonna be last, and the 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:31.520 last are. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:32.439 Gonna be first. 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.560 He said, the greatest of all of them is the 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.360 servant of all of them. You want to know who 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:41.360 I use. I don't use rock stars. I don't use 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.680 people that puff themselves up. I use people that go low. 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:48.040 I use people that humble themselves and said, I ain't 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:51.880 nothing without your grace and less you bless me unless 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.359 you touch me, unless you raise me. 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:56.320 Give them a praise today. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:00.960 If you're thankful for the love of Jesus in your life, 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.600 you be careful. You be careful about pride. Watch this, 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.760 put it on the screen. Watch what pride does. Pride 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:12.560 is a sinful, arrogant, haughty, self reliant attitude. Or spirit 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.720 that causes a person to have an inflated. 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.400 Or puffed up view of themselves. 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.399 Those who are proud think of themselves as better than 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:22.960 others and look down on others with contempt. 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:28.080 See the problem with pride is pride is. 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:31.560 The only disease that makes everybody else sick besides the 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:36.840 person that has it. Pride can be recognized in others 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:38.760 and cannot be seen in yourself. 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:41.480 I got on that plant, Say who are you talking to? 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:45.720 Going low? Who are you talking to? 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:52.040 Going low? Lord said, I'm talking to you, Homi. It's 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:58.320 a sinful, arrogant, conceited, puffed up Am I not awesome? 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.560 Am I not amazing? I don't know how to tell 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:07.040 you this. Yeah, man, we saw you. But we're not 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.800 impressed with gifting. We're impressed with the one that told 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:14.439 the sun to get up this morning. I'm impressed with 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:17.080 the one that owns a cattle on a thousand hills. 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:19.800 I'm impressed with the one that the earth is the 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:21.400 Lord's and the fullness thereof. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.240 Don't you fall in love with gift? Look at the contrast. 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:27.360 Watch humility. Humility is so beautiful. 0:25:27.640 --> 0:25:31.199 Humility is seeing ourselves as we truly are fallen in 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:35.800 sin and helpless without God. Humility is often characterized as 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:40.920 genuine gratitude, a lack of arrogance, and a modest view 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:44.000 of oneself. I like to think of it as an 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:48.640 accurate view of self. Humility is not thinking less of myself. 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.520 It's thinking less about myself. Humility has that see pride. 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:57.240 Pride walks into a room and goes here, I am. 0:25:57.520 --> 0:25:59.440 Humility walks into the room and goes there, you are. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:02.879 Humility walks in the room and says, I got something 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:05.840 to give. I've got something to bless, I've got love, 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:09.240 I've got encouragement. I'm not looking to take. Don't I'm 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.800 not using you as my agenda for my ego. No. 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:14.560 I came as the servant of the Most High God 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:18.040 to help somebody find freedom and help somebody find salvation. 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:20.000 And I just want to tell you, God, because you 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:22.720 have done so much for me, is there anything I can. 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:27.159 Do for you? Don't fall in love with your gift. 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.879 I'd rather fall in love with God, the one that 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:32.360 gave me these gifts. 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:34.439 Right down number two. I love this. 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:39.679 Your gift and God's mission go hand in hand. Your gift, 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.920 whatever God has gifted you to do whatever, whatever it is, 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:45.840 whatever God has gifted you to do. And by the way, 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.440 I'm not concerned whether you have one, two, or five, 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:50.960 because all of us are trying to turn our two 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:54.520 into four and our five into ten, or are one 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.480 into two. It doesn't matter how many gifts you God 0:26:57.520 --> 0:27:00.560 are your talents. None are better than each other. I'm 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:03.719 just telling you, though, When you take your gift and 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:06.159 you put it into God's mission, they go. It's like 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:10.680 peanut butter and jelly. It goes hand in hand. When 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:14.679 you put your gifting your grace, you partner it with 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:18.120 God's mission and God's work. One of my favorite scriptures 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:21.240 Ephesians chapter two, verse ten, put it on the screen 0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:26.280 for we are Christ workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:30.160 good works, which He prepared beforehand. 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:33.760 God has something for you to do on this earth. 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:34.800 I think this is right. 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.240 Why Pastor Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life did 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:40.439 so well because all of us want to wake up 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:43.560 with meaning. We want to wake up with purpose. We 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:46.520 want to discover God. Why do I exist on this earth? 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:50.639 You were created in Christ Jesus for good works. God 0:27:50.680 --> 0:27:53.359 prepared something for you to do to help the Body 0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:55.960 of Christ to help the Church of the Living God. 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:58.760 You want created to sit on the sideline. God has 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:00.760 called you to get into the game. You got to 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:03.240 fight the good fight. You got to finish the race. 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:03.840 You got to. 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.640 Become who God has called you to become. And when 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:12.520 you put your gift back in God's hands. It's an old, 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:16.159 cheesy saying. I found this one because I heard it 0:28:16.200 --> 0:28:19.200 when I was a kid. This this one is called 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:21.400 it depends on whose hands it's in. 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:24.640 I love this one. It depends on whose hands it's in. 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:29.800 A basketball in my hands is worth about twenty five dollars. 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.040 When I read that, I thought, you don't shop at 0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:34.320 Dick Sporting good and you don't know inflation. Let's go 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:39.640 forty five dollars. But a basketball in Lebron James hands 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.600 is worth about seventy five million dollars. It depends on 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:46.040 whose hands it's in. A baseball in my hands is 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:48.560 worth about eight dollars. Again, let's go back to Dick 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:53.200 Sporting good inflation twenty five dollars. A baseball and show 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:56.360 hey o Tani's hands is worth about two hundred million dollars. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:59.120 If his bookie doesn't touch it, it depends on whose 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:03.200 hands it's in. A tennis racket in my hands is 0:29:03.240 --> 0:29:06.120 worth about seventy five dollars, but a tennis racket in 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:09.240 Serena Williams hands is worth about fifty million dollars. 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:10.920 It depends on whose hands it is in. 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:14.280 A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal, 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:16.760 but a rod in Moses's hands will part of a 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:17.560 mighty red sea. 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:19.400 It depends on whose hands is in. 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:24.280 A slingshot in my hands is a kid's toy, but 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:27.200 a sling shot in David's hands is a mighty weapon. 0:29:27.840 --> 0:29:30.920 It depends on whose hands it's in. A two fish 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:33.080 and five loaves of bread in my hands is a 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:35.920 couple of fish sandwiches, But two fish and five loaves 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:39.280 of bread in Jesus' hands will feed five thousand people. 0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:43.680 It depends on whose hands is in. Come on, clap elevation. 0:29:44.080 --> 0:29:48.200 I'm putting my life back into his hands. Whoever wants 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:53.280 to save his life must lose his life, totain your soul. 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.280 You gotta lose the world. Come on, give your gift. 0:29:56.600 --> 0:30:00.120 GIF, you're calling, GIF, you're anointing, Give your talent and 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:04.920 put it back into his hands. So many of us 0:30:04.920 --> 0:30:07.720 are frustrated because it's in our hands. It's in our hands. 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:10.719 My Bible says, it's not by power, and it's not 0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:14.240 by might, but it's by my spirit, says the Lord. 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:17.400 I'm not living off my talent or my gifting or 0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:19.880 my own intellect. I'm telling you, in your own strength, 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:22.040 you can build a business, but you put your talent 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:22.720 in God's hand. 0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:26.000 You could build the Kingdom of God. In your own hands. 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:27.960 You might be able to build a family, but you 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.200 put your life into God's hands, and you can build 0:30:30.200 --> 0:30:33.680 a legacy for a thousand generations. And your own strength, 0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:35.719 you might be able to make some money. But in 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.240 God's strength you depend on him. He'll be able to 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:40.920 bless people in North Carolina. He'll be able to bless 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:43.760 people all over America and all over the world. It 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:51.640 depends on whose hands it's in. Some of us are like, uh, well, 0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:55.120 you know, I don't know. I don't know if I 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.479 have that much. And I just you know, I'm not 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:02.480 like Pastor steven Man. Pastor Stephen was in la at 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:06.280 the Intuit Arena and he was preaching and teaching, and 0:31:06.400 --> 0:31:09.840 I'm telling you his forearms were so big on that screen. 0:31:11.440 --> 0:31:24.200 Help me God, I said, Man, that's wild. I'm considering 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:28.560 working out after seeing that people would make fun of me, 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.000 like you skip leg day. I'm like, fam, I skip 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:34.720 leg life. Okay, you just you chill out, you chill out, 0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:46.600 you chill out. But I'm I'm just encouraged today because 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.920 I know that in my own power, I can only 0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:55.800 be and do so much. But when I surrender and 0:31:55.880 --> 0:32:00.959 I live for something bigger than myself, stop living for 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:06.960 your name and start living for His name. So many 0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:10.040 of us are secretly in our heart we're praying my 0:32:10.240 --> 0:32:14.280 kingdom come and my will be done. But when you 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:17.160 partner with God and you say yes to his mission, 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.880 you say your kingdom come and your will be done 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:22.800 on this earth, even as. 0:32:22.680 --> 0:32:25.440 It is in heaven. Do you understand the difference. 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:31.840 It's pivoting, and instead of asking what God can do 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:35.680 for me today, I start to ask, Lord, is there 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:37.160 anything I can do for you today? 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:40.960 Hey? Write that down number three? Is that? Ask not 0:32:41.080 --> 0:32:42.240 what God can do for you? 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:47.800 Ask what you can do for God? Anybody today? Come on, 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.360 be honest, anybody today. You need a miracle today. Let 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:51.960 me just see your hand. You need a miracle? I 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.080 got both my hands up. But you know the Bible 0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:59.880 says that before you ever say a prayer, God already knows. 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:01.120 What you need. 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:04.760 And if he could take care of grass and he 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:08.760 can take care of birds, how much more can he 0:33:08.840 --> 0:33:09.560 take care of you? 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:11.920 So one thing about God, we know. 0:33:12.000 --> 0:33:16.080 He's gonna be faithful, he's gonna be consistent, he's gonna 0:33:16.080 --> 0:33:18.680 be true. And so instead of I don't need to 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:21.560 ask God for anything today because I know He's gonna 0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:24.480 take care of me my whole life. You ever sing 0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:26.840 that song I love the C. C. Wins version? You 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:30.480 ever sing that song? All my life? You have been faithful? 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:33.040 Don't you love that one? 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:33.680 I love you? 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:41.640 Never see anybody sing that song deadpan? All my life? 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:46.720 You have been faithful all my life. You have been 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.360 so so good. 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:54.960 You see people sing this song. Oh they sing this 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.920 song because you're like this. 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:10.719 If I could sing right now like pastor Steven, I 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:12.359 will be hitting those notes right now. 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:14.520 But he didn't give me that talent. 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:21.040 When you think about all my life, you have been 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:22.640 so so. 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:23.239 Good to me. 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:30.040 Your goodness is running after it's running after me, and 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.880 I know you're going to continue to be faithful. So 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:36.400 I don't even need to ask today what Because my 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:39.200 whole life you've shocked me and surprised me with your blessing. 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:42.040 Come on, let's be honest. 0:34:42.080 --> 0:34:46.600 You didn't even get this far in your prayers, did you. 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:49.440 You didn't even get this far in your dreams because 0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:52.640 God had a better plan. So I don't need to 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:55.200 ask God what he could do for me today. I'm 0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:57.080 asking God, is there anything I could do for you? 0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:01.080 Is there anything I could for you? Is there anything? 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.520 Lord? I just want to say, Lord, is there? It 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:05.120 reminds me of this lady. 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:09.200 She sneaks up on Jesus at a dinner party, and 0:35:09.239 --> 0:35:11.960 she is so grateful for her sins to be forgiven 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.439 that she sneaks up and she starts to pour out 0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:15.080 her worship. 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:16.800 Look here at Luke seven. 0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:19.000 I love this scripture right here put on the screen 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.040 verse thirty seven. A woman in that town who lived 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:23.719 a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the 0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:24.560 Pharisees house. 0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:27.680 So she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 0:35:28.200 --> 0:35:30.840 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:33.719 began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:37.240 wiped them with her hair and kissed them and poured 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:38.600 perfume on them. 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:41.680 She's not asking Jesus for anything. 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:46.120 Jesus, Lord, is there anything I could do for you? 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:49.560 You've blessed me, You forgave me my debt, you healed 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:52.960 my body, You've been good to my family. She's pouring 0:35:53.040 --> 0:35:55.960 out her worship. I'd rather be in that place than 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:57.520 the one that's saying I need you to hook me 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:01.440 up today. We should just turned the tables. God has 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:03.000 been so good. Why don't we just say? 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:06.360 Lord? Is there anything? God? Is there? Is there anything 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:07.600 I can do for you? 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.920 One of my favorite stories about Jesus is he sends 0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:14.720 these two guys into the town right before he dies 0:36:14.719 --> 0:36:17.719 on the cross. He says, go into the town and 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.200 there's gonna be a guy in town that has a donkey, 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:23.640 and just tell the man the Lord has need of 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:27.479 it and he'll know and and and bring it back. 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:29.640 And so two of the disciples going to town. 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:32.360 Could you imagine having the job of these two disciples 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:35.160 they go, they're just going in town. They're just knocking 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:37.440 on doors, you know, they finally see the God and 0:36:37.480 --> 0:36:40.880 they're like, hey, yeah. 0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:44.839 We're team Jesus, and uh, hey, bro, don't get mad 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:46.760 at us. We just you know, we just messengers. 0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:55.520 Uh yeah, the the Lord needs your donkey, bro, don't 0:36:55.560 --> 0:37:02.080 be mad at us. The Lord needs your donkey. And 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:04.000 and sure enough the guy has a donkey and he 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:06.440 gladly offers it up. Whenever I read that story, my 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:09.319 imagination goes, I wonder if that morning that man got 0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:11.600 up this morning and that morning I just said, Lord, 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:13.719 is there anything in my stable? Is there anything in 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.000 my home? Is there anything in my life that you 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:17.160 could you could use? 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.000 See? The Lord knew go to that guy. 0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:26.120 Maybe maybe other people will say no, Maybe other people 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:29.200 will turn your way. May maybe other people are too selfish, 0:37:29.400 --> 0:37:31.759 maybe other people are too self centered. But this guy, 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:34.319 I know, he'll give it up. Let's just get some 0:37:34.320 --> 0:37:36.960 cultural context. That was not a donkey in his day. 0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:42.280 That was like asking for a cybertruck. This was his best. 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:45.920 And they said, the Lord has need of it. The 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.799 Lord hath needed need of your donkey, And he said, oh, 0:37:48.840 --> 0:37:49.320 it's yours. 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:49.600 See. 0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:51.960 I wonder today what God could tap into in your 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:55.160 life because he needs it. Here's somebody in your neighborhood, 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:57.640 there's somebody in your family, there's somebody in your life. 0:37:57.680 --> 0:37:58.680 They need your gift. 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:02.040 They need your talent, they need your anointing, they need 0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:05.400 your grace, they need your voice, they need your testimony. 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:07.520 They need what you've gone through, and it will. The 0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:09.440 Lord has need of it. The Lord has need of 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:11.680 your time. The Lord has need of your treasure. The 0:38:11.719 --> 0:38:13.680 Lord has need of your talent. And what can we 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:15.560 do for the glory of the Living God? Have we 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:16.720 just asked the Lord today? 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:20.080 Lord? Is there anything that I can do for you? Hey? 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:23.040 Man, last thing today, Worship team, you can come join me. 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:28.880 Number four write is down. Free yourself from comparison and jealousy. 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:34.319 Free yourself, Give free today. What do they say about comparison? 0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:41.239 Comparison is the thief of joy. By the way, when 0:38:41.239 --> 0:38:44.319 you get to heaven, you will not be held accountable 0:38:44.600 --> 0:38:48.000 for what other people do. You'll be held accountable for you. 0:38:49.200 --> 0:38:52.120 And when I stand before my Maker, That's why I 0:38:52.120 --> 0:38:54.520 love proverbs for proverbs for says, do not look to 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:57.240 the right or to the left. Keep your eyelids straight 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.959 before you, because when I get to heaven, God's gonna 0:39:00.000 --> 0:39:02.840 hold me accountable for the gifts and the talents and 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:05.360 the anointing and the calling that He gave my life 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:07.000 and when I show up in heaven, I don't know 0:39:07.000 --> 0:39:09.680 about you, I want to hear those words, well done, 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:13.520 my good and my faithful servant, with whom I am 0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:14.880 well pleased. 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:17.160 Enter into the joy, and enter into the rest of 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:17.760 your Master. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:20.600 You did fight the good fight, and you did finish 0:39:20.600 --> 0:39:23.600 your race. And you were faithful, and you were humble. 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:25.880 And we're thankful for what we put in you. You 0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:29.120 have the gift of prophesie, and you prophesied with faithfulness. 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:31.919 You had the gift to give, and you gave with faithfulness. 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:34.160 You have the gift of serving, and you serve with 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:36.840 all humility. I don't know about you, but this world 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.960 is not my home. I'm a citizen of a greater place. 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:42.920 And when I die, I'm gonna die empty. I'm gonna 0:39:42.920 --> 0:39:45.160 die leaving it all out on the table. I'm gonna 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.760 die say Lord, I did not live for this world. 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:50.680 I did not live for the lust to the flesh. 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:52.760 And the pride of life and the lust of the eyes. 0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:58.000 I live for the glory of the Living God. Oh, 0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:04.680 come on, give them a place. Is there anything that. 0:40:04.800 --> 0:40:07.120 I can do for you? 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:10.160 Stay standing? Stay standing? Is there anything I can do 0:40:10.239 --> 0:40:12.440 for you? God? I know I'm not I know I'm 0:40:12.440 --> 0:40:14.640 not a Bible expert. I know i'm not the smartest. 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:16.839 I know i'm not the most talented, and they look 0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:19.880 more talented than me. But I'll tell you, God, I 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.480 came into this world with nothing. That I'm leaving with nothing. 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:24.640 As for me. In my house, we will serve the 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:27.120 Lord blessed to be the name of my God. I 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:29.839 got nothing without you, Jesus. You're all I've ever had. 0:40:29.880 --> 0:40:30.760 Come on, clap today. 0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:33.400 You're all I've ever had. You're all i've ever needed. 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:36.200 You're all I've ever wanted. As a deer paying it 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:38.640 for the water brooks, So my soul. 0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:39.080 Longs for you. 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:39.839 God. 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:41.319 I'm just telling you. 0:40:41.640 --> 0:40:44.840 I'm telling you you ain't living till you start giving. 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:48.359 You ain't living till you start dying. Come on, I'm dead. 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:53.239 I'm dead to this world. Baba, says Glatians too. I 0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:56.600 have been crucified with Christ. I have been crucified with Christ. 0:40:56.760 --> 0:40:59.319 It is no longer I that live, but it's Christ 0:40:59.400 --> 0:41:02.480 that lives through me and the life that I come on, 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:06.520 somebody now live. I live by faith in the Son 0:41:06.560 --> 0:41:08.840 of God, who gave his life as a ransom for 0:41:08.960 --> 0:41:11.719 me and I can't believe. I can't believe he called 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:13.160 my name. Do you remember where you were when he 0:41:13.200 --> 0:41:16.360 called your name? Do you remember? Do you remember the 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:18.520 metallic taste of sin in your mouth? Do you remember 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:20.640 what he pulled you out of? Do you remember? Do 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.279 you remember what he when he set your feet on 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:25.560 that rock and put a new song. 0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:25.960 In your mouth? 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:29.319 He didn't give you all that grace and all that 0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:33.879 talent so you can make money, so you can make 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:40.160 a platform, so you could live for the glory of you. 0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:46.839 See what God could do through you? Ask not what 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:49.839 God can do for you today? Why don't you just say, Lord, 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:51.320 is there anything I could do for you today? 0:41:52.360 --> 0:41:55.719 Because you've done so much? Has God done a lot 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:57.800 for you? Are you thankful today? 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:10.719 Come on? Anybody got the attitude of gratitude today? All 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:14.000 my life? You have been faithful my whole life, You've 0:42:14.000 --> 0:42:17.080 been so good? And can you believe that He uses 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:23.680 broke desperate, not all the way putting together people like 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:27.120 us to tell people about the glory of the living God. 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:29.480 I like to say this way. 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:33.640 We're just nobody's trying to tell the world about somebody. 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:37.200 Come on, clap if you believe that today I'm a nobody. 0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:42.440 I'm a servant. Come on, clap, I'm a servant today. 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:45.839 I'm a servant. I'm gonna die to myself. I'm gonna 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:47.439 make much of his name, not my name. 0:42:50.880 --> 0:42:53.160 We don't live for something bigger than ourselves. You know, 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:57.080 everybody that God used in the Bible had problems. Everybody 0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:00.480 that God used in the scriptures had issues. Use no 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:03.759 perfect people, because there are no perfect people. So if 0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:05.839 you're already coming up with excuses all past you yet 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:07.840 I can't be used. You know, I gotta I gotta pass, 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:08.839 I got I got, I. 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:11.080 Got pain, I got you know, issues in my life. 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:13.120 You know I used to be by the way. Can 0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:13.960 we just stop. 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:16.359 Making more much of our past and make a lot 0:43:16.480 --> 0:43:23.520 more about our future. We got so many believers today 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:25.840 that can tell me more about what you're coming from 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:27.920 and can't hardly tell me what you're going for. 0:43:29.880 --> 0:43:33.120 Come on, your future as greater than your past. Come on, 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:34.240 what's in front of you. 0:43:34.360 --> 0:43:36.200 And what God's got in store for you is greater 0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:41.959 than what you came out of. Everybody that God used 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:45.400 in the Bible was just like us, not perfect people 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:48.319 that had problems, people that had stories, people that were 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:52.000 in process, under construction, everybody that God used, but He 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:52.680 still used them. 0:43:52.680 --> 0:43:54.759 Amen, And so God can use you. It's an old, 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:56.360 cheesy list, but put on the screen. 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.200 I love this just to just to kind of teach 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:00.279 you today that God can use people like us. 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:00.640 Look at this. 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:06.120 Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, Isaac was 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:13.319 a daydreamer. Jacob was a liar. Leah was ugly. How 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:15.640 ugly you got to be? Did the Bible call you ugly? 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.719 You forever ugly? You asked an eternity? 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:24.839 Ugly? Joseph was abused. 0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:29.759 Moses had a stuttering problem. Gideon was afraid, Samson had 0:44:29.800 --> 0:44:33.200 long hair and was a womanizer. Rayhab was a prostitute. 0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:36.400 Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. David was an adulter 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:40.839 and a murderer. Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached nicked. May 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:42.960 that never happen in this church in the name of Jesus. 0:44:43.760 --> 0:44:46.200 That's a word for pastor tim today. 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:51.200 Jonah ran from God. Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt. 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:54.240 John the Baptist Ate, Bugs, and Peter did not Christ. 0:44:54.400 --> 0:44:57.600 But they were all used for the glory of the 0:44:57.680 --> 0:44:58.440 Living God. 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.560 Come on, let's just ask him today, Lord, is there 0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:03.479 anything that I. 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:06.239 Can do for you? Come on, Elevation lift the hand 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:06.879 of heaven. Father. 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:09.920 We thank you today that you are good and greatly 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:12.839 to be praised. And so we just asked today Lord, 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:14.799 we humble ourselves. Lord, we go low. 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:18.840 Lord. Here's my gifting, here's my calling, here's my talent, 0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:22.319 here's my time. If you can use anything, Lord, you 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:23.200 can use me. 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:27.279 I live for your name and not my name, in Jesus' name. 0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:30.400 And everybody said, together, come on, let's clap and worship 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:31.000 God today. 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:35.719 Thank you for joining us. 0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:38.480 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:42.040 this ministry. 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