Move In What You’re Made For

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.960 Who this word that God gave me to share with 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:11.840 you today. I'm still recovering. Oh man, it spoke to us. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:13.480 I can't wait to share with you. I can't wait 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.720 to share with you. Hey, welcome. Before we go to 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.599 the word, I wanted to make sure you knew that 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.119 the new Elevation worship album we've been working on this 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.520 two years, Lion, is out March fourth, the whole album. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.440 What an awesome release date for an album, March fourth, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.880 so you can March fourth into the things God has 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.720 planned for you. I might preach that next week, but 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.320 also wanted to let you know about Elevation Nights. Have 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.559 you heard about Elevation Nights. It's gonna be me preaching 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.879 our whole Elevation Worship team, all the songs you love. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.760 Put the favorite elevation worship song in the chat. Put 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.040 it in the chat right now. And if you're anywhere 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.200 near these cities, let's see. I got them listed from 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:02.960 April twenty sixth to May fifth. Chicago, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, Washington, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.920 d c Reading, Pennsylvania, Newark, New Jersey, Boston. There they are. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.440 Don't judge my handwriting. We're coming We're coming, We're coming. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.000 We want to see you their Elevation Nights dot com. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.080 Now it's time for the word of God. Let's go. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.120 Let's go. Put a Hallelujah in the chat and let 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.200 me know where you're watching from and let me know 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.760 what song is your favorite song off of our brand 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:37.760 new album, Lion Roar. Y'all didn't think Katie Perry was 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.319 the only one who could roar? Dude. I know my 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.320 pop culture references are dated, but we're so excited everything 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.720 that God is doing. God is really busy, and I 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.960 know the devil is too, But God is busy and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.840 we have to look for him at work. And I 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.440 believe that today He has given me the kind of 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.120 word I was going to do a lot of announcements 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.000 and all that He did all of them before I 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.800 got here. So now all this left for me to do, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:10.120 just preached this word to you. Now, make sure you 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.160 get the new Elevation Worship album, make sure that you 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.680 go to Elevation Nights dot com. But right now, the 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.720 presence of the Lord is in this place, and I 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.840 want to share with you from the very first chapter 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:31.200 of the very first book of the Bible, what a week. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.760 What a week it was? What a week it was. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.360 I'm talking about Genesis one. I'm not talking about twenty 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.880 twenty two. I'm talking about when God made the whole 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:54.600 world in seven excuse me, six days. The seventh day 0:02:55.120 --> 0:03:00.720 he chilled and you should chill too, right, you should 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:12.360 chill too, and be still. And though that he is God, O, yell, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:22.799 are excited, right Genesis one, verse twenty And God said, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.679 you know, I could preach three weeks on those three 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.880 words and means it's a continuation of something that he 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.440 already started. And he's still speaking. So put that in 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.760 the chat. Tell your neighbor. He's still speaking. And and 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:46.119 somebody say, and and it's a continuation God. That's the creator. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.200 It's not the critics that count. It's what the Creator 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:58.640 says that counts. And God said, it's a command, so 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:04.600 it has to happen because he's spoken. And God said, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:11.240 somebody say it. And God said, let the water hold on, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.280 let me find it. Yeah, here it is. Let the 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:19.040 water team with living creatures, and let birds fly above 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.960 the earth across the vault of the sky. So God 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:29.160 created the great creatures of the sea and every living 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.040 thing with which the water teems and that moves about 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.839 in it according to their kinds, and every winged bird 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:44.440 according to its kind. And God saw ah, and God said, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.120 and God saw. So we live in the space in 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.080 between where we can't see everything that God has spoken. Yet. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.039 We can't see the promises that He made us yet 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.680 they're not in finished product form. Yet. We are in 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.479 the process between the beginning of that verse. And God said, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.640 and God saw, And we don't see it yet, but 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.359 we don't have to see it to believe it. That's 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:16.640 what our faith is for. And God saw that it 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.960 was good. It was good. God blessed them and said, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.679 be fruitful, and increase in number, and fill the water 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.400 in the seas. Let the birds increase on the earth. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.320 And there was evening, and there was morning the fifth day, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.919 and God said, because he's not done yet on the 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.800 fifth day, because you didn't get here yet, God saved 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:46.200 the best to last. And that's you. Turn to your 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.800 neighbor and say, that's you. That's you. God can't stop 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.800 speaking because you're not here yet. God can't stop speaking 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.159 because your destiny isn't fulfilled yet. God can't stop speaking 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.400 yet because he hasn't made the apex crown jewel of 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.640 his creation humans in his image. But before he created us, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.560 the Bible says, I think this is interesting. Let the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.880 land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the live stock, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.280 the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.880 each according to its kind. And it was so. God 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.239 made the wild animals according to their kinds, the live 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.480 stock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move, 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:34.320 somebody say, move, move along the ground according to their kinds. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:42.040 And God saw that it was good. Then God said, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:50.000 let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.400 so that they may rule over the fish in the 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.560 sea and the birds in the sky, over the live stock, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.520 and the wild animals, and over all the creatures that 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:09.960 move along the ground. Say amen for the word of God. Beautiful, beautiful. Now, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.240 what I want to do is take that verse verse 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.520 twenty six, where God said, let us make man in 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.760 our image. Right, that's the most famous one when God 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.720 on the sixth day made you before he sat down. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.680 And I want to back up and see if there's 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.720 a lesson we can learn from the fifth day about 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.480 the sixth day. On the fifth day, it's not as 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.440 famous as the sixth Day, because we're self centered and 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.760 we're narcissistic, and we think we're the ones it's all about. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.480 But actually, there is something that the birds know that 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.800 you don't know. And there's something that the fish have 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.400 learned that we haven't learned yet. So we're gonna go 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:54.920 to school with the fish better in my head, and 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.880 we are going to learn from the birds this fifth 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.200 Day principle. Okay, and here it is. I'm gonna give 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:00.680 it to you at the top of the sermon and 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.920 then we'll unpack it together. This is gonna be an 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.320 amazing class. This is gonna be an amazing moment. And 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.000 what God wants to teach you from this creation account 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.280 is a principle from the fifth Day from the birds 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.840 and the fish. Look at your neighbor and say, move 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:24.040 in what you're made for. Look at your other neighbor 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.720 and tell them. Listen to the fish and move in. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.600 Come on, tell them look them in the eyes. Wait 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.600 scared of eye contact. You can't catch covid through the eyeballs. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.960 Don't look at them, and say move in what you 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.959 were made for. Now, give him a little bump, just 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.080 a little buff say move in. It move it, move in. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:59.600 Let's go to school. Class is in session. Be seated. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.840 The Lord told me that. He told me, move in 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.720 what you're made for, and I needed it. Different sermons 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.280 come from different places. All sermons are not created equal. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:17.920 Some of them you'll say, that was the best you 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:22.520 ever preached. Now, that's the best you ever heard. Maybe 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.360 it was, Maybe it wasn't. It's not really based on 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.840 that is. It is based on what you need in 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.000 that moment. And the Lord told me something really interesting 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.680 that today he wanted to give you a word for 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:43.440 your insecurities, a word that would speak directly to your insecurity, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.000 but that he doesn't want to deal with it on 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:52.880 the surface level. See, the creation of mankind tells us 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.640 something about the calling of mankind. The process by which 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.880 God made everything that I see tells me a lo 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.520 lot about what He's doing in my life now. So 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.960 we're not going to study today whether God literally made 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.200 the world in six twenty four hour periods or whether 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.520 it's symbolic of a longer period of time. I'm not 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.480 a scientist. We're not going to study today the different 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.800 species and the genome of that. That's not going there. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.760 Because I sound so stupid, and you'll google me and 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.280 you'll know that I'm wrong. Before the internet, preachers could 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.520 say anything, but now y'all fact check me in real time. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:34.000 So I got to leave that alone. Instead, I want 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.400 to look at this process by which God made us 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.280 as a pattern. And the first thing you'll notice is 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:47.079 that God doesn't speak to the surface. A real word 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.280 from God will never speak to the surface of your situation. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.240 That's why advice can only help you so much, because 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.240 when you ask a human being for advice, you only 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.280 tell them the information that you deem relevant, and a 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.679 lot of times they give you good advice based on 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.320 bad data, but they don't know deeper down that the 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.080 reason your relationship is in what do you call it 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.720 when it's like shattered on the floor in pieces, And 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.280 the reason you have no peace in your situation is 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.559 because you are constantly critiquing and you are constantly correcting. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.559 So they give you advice, well, you should just leave them. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.800 But what they don't know is if you leave them, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.760 you take you with you. And sometimes the problem is 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.920 something that you don't think to tell them. God doesn't 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:48.400 give advice because he knows what's beneath the surface. So 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.920 while you're praying about symptoms, God is prescribing a remedy 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.080 and a cure for what is causing the sickness. That's 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:03.080 what makes him the great physician. Is it just me? 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.280 Or could we go home? And we already got our 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.640 gas money worth out of that, because I want to 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.480 know what and God said? And God said because when 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.000 God spoke, remember he's been busy. We jumped right into 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.760 the middle of the creation story. We didn't even talk 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.520 about all that God did in the first four days. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.199 I feel kind of bad skipping it because it's amazing stuff. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.520 When he said let there be light and light was like, Okay, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:37.320 that's crazy. I thought that was amazing until I saw 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.960 what he did on the second day. And on the 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.760 second day when he actually like God just keeps like 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.440 one up in it. Because after he created the light, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.240 he created the vault, and then he created the sky, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.199 and then he created the waters. And that looked pretty 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.240 good until the third day. Then on the third day 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.400 God gets busy calling forth life out of the land 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.520 that he created and separating the water so could sit 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.320 in their place, so he could create a setting for 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.480 human life to begin. That's on the third day and 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.480 on the fourth day. I know you know this already 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.760 because you study the stuff all week, and you read 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.880 your Bible and you never watch Netflix, and you've been 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.520 reading Genesis chapter one two, and you even read it 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.400 in Hebrew. But let me tell you what I learned 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.280 this week. He gave the sun and the moon and 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.480 the stars which he hung in the sky, that he 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.320 created on the second day, and then on the fifth day. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.640 That's why I picked up on the fifth day, because 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.000 the fifth day God did something different that he didn't 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.880 do any other day. Leaning for this, he made it, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:44.400 and then he blessed it. Study it for yourself at 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.480 your leisure. At your leisure, look and see that he 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:55.000 didn't bless the light, he didn't bless the darkness, he 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.920 didn't bless the moon. He started blessing on the fifth 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.280 because on the fifth day God started to create the 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:11.080 living things. The living things. Raise your hand. If you 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:17.320 are a living thing, that means you're blessed. Touch somebody, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.120 say I'm blessed to be alive. Oh, I know you've 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.560 been complaining all week, but it's in the past. Now 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.120 look at him, against say I'm blessed to be alive. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.440 I'm blessed to have a breath. I'm blessed to still 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.520 have the use of my body. I'm blessed to be here. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.680 I'm blessed to be I've had some good days, I've 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:45.440 had some hills to climb, but I'm blessed to be alive. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.120 Come on, let's rejoice in it. I'm blessed to be alive. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.120 He didn't bless the bean sprout, but he blessed the bird. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.400 I wonder why. To me, I'm thinking that a bird 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.840 is much less impressive than a star. But there was 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.960 something about the bird, and there was something about the 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.800 bass fish, the bass and the bird. It's alliteration, people, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.840 that God bless and not only did he bless it, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.040 he directly created it. Now watch this Bible nerds wave 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.960 at me, Bible nerds way, of at me Bible nerds way. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:24.840 You love this little stuff. You don't just need a 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.280 cliche to rhyme, and you don't need to start with 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.640 all the same letter. But you really love the word 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.680 of God. This is for you. When God told the 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.240 land to produce vegetation, the land brought it forth. When 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.320 God told the waters to bring forth the fish, it 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:45.080 said that God himself brought them forth. But now I'm 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.560 gonna blow your mind even more. When he got ready 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:58.200 to create you, you messed up you. When he got 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.920 ready to make you, he did something he didn't do 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.640 for the birds, the worms, the moon, the stars, the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.880 Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, the octopus, the crabs, the lobsters. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.640 None of them did he do this for he bent down, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.880 and up until this point, everything he made he made 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.600 with his mouth, because he spoke it. When he made me, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:31.560 he got down in the dirt and made me by hand. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:39.440 Who are you? What is man? The Psalmist said that 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.600 God is mindful of or the son of man, that 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.480 you would visit him, that God would stoop down in 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:53.080 the dirt, and that Divinity would touch dirt. And God 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.080 didn't leave it up to the land to bring you 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.760 for it, he got his hands dirty. God rolled up 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.160 his Now, I need everybody who's got a messy situation 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.000 in your life right now to know what your maker did. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.240 When this whole thing got started. He rolled up his 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.200 sleeves and he said, I'll make the moon with my mouth. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.520 I can hang it with a syllable moon. And the 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.679 moon said yes, And the Lord said hang, And the 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.359 moon said yes, and the Lord says shine, and the 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:34.080 Moon said all right. But when it got down to you, ah, 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.080 So it seems to me, if we believe Genesis one 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.000 twenty six that I was made from a mess in 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.439 the image of my Maker, that there is no mess 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.840 in my life right now that I cannot bring to 0:17:52.960 --> 0:18:00.880 my Maker and expect him to say, I'll bless it anyway, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:07.879 my God. All right, all right, all right, somebody shout 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:12.520 I'm blessed. I'm blessed because God said I'm blessed. And hey, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.439 let me throw this in in case some of you 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.960 got any haters. What God blessed. No man can curse 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:29.040 what God blessed. Even your haters are the pr department. 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.480 Because God is gonna use the people who don't like 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.600 you to fulfill Genesis one twenty six, because not everybody 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.720 liked Jesus. If everybody had liked him, they wouldn't have 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.040 crucified him. If they didn't crucify him, he couldn't have 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.480 died for your sin. If he didn't die for your sin, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:56.600 he couldn't have fulfilled his mission. Is God using in 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:03.160 your life the dirt to create and bring forth because 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.520 that's what he did in Genesis one, and I think 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.960 that's what he's been doing in me. Okay, some words 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.639 God gives you as a preacher are not meant to 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:22.040 be shared, and that's frustrating. When the Lord speaks to me, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.160 I get excited. You can ask my family, this isn't 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.520 a show I put on. I'll grab the kids in 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.439 the middle of video games. Come here, you gotta hear this, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.600 and I'll start preaching to the kids. All right, all right, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.320 And then sometimes the Lord will give me something that 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.200 I think is just for me. And that's what happened 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.040 to me with Genesis one. Okay, let me tell you 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:51.159 something about the creative work, because I consider myself creative, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.560 A creative person, you know, and well, I mean in 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.200 this area of life. I'm creative. Other things I would 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.880 never do. I can't do arts and crafts. Arts and crafts. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.520 Like some people go through the supply section of the 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.280 of Walmart and stuff and they just get all excited 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.240 in the craft section. Ooh, glue sticks. Color I took. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.679 I was taking Abby through Barnzanoba the other day. She 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.320 was getting excited about colored pencils. I never in my 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.960 life got excited about a colored pencil. And all of 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.080 my kids are different, you know, all good at different things. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:28.760 And it took me a while to realize that as 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:35.760 God reveals your assignment in life, it will surface your insecurities. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:41.000 There's that word again, surface because remember when God started 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.359 shrom Genesis one two. I pulled this last minute to 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.760 show you. It said that in the beginning, before God 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:50.480 spoke anything, the spirit of the Lord hovered over the waters. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.439 You have others too, you'll get it in there. I 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.480 definitely gave it to him last minute, so it's not 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.240 their fault. But look what it says that the earth 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.239 was formless and empty. Now that just doesn't mean that 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.399 there was nothing there. The connotation of these words in 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:12.080 Hebrew is that it was chaotic. It was not just 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:18.320 formless and void. It was chaotic, It was empty, and 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:26.760 it was futile, frustrating like your life sometimes not all 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.359 the time. I know right now you look amazing, but 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:37.080 that's your surface self, that's your Sunday self. Uhha. I 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.439 will put a next camera in your house this week, 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.600 and then I'll come preach to you, not based on 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:47.639 what you showed me on Sunday, but what you dealt 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.879 with on Wednesday. Don't make me bring a Wednesday word 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.280 in this church this week that I saw you on 0:21:54.320 --> 0:22:01.080 Wednesday in the spirit, the Lord was hovering over the surface, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.879 and he brought forth something out of that. So I 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.680 was going to Genesis one because I'm trying to understand 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.399 not only in my professional life, but as a parent, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.840 as a husband, as a man who wants to be 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.200 like Christ. And some people say it's a midlife crisis, 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:20.080 but I don't really look at it that way. I 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.200 just think it's the process that we all go through 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.399 of trying to figure out, like, how can I know 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.320 that God is my father, know that he's my provider, 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:39.239 see him do so much miracles, so many things, and 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:50.399 still be insecure? How come it even seems like success 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:56.920 creates extra insecurity because now I gotta sustain it. Naw, 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:59.439 I gotta throw the dart another time and hope I 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:03.000 didn't just randomly hit the bull's eye. How do I 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:09.120 keep this going? How he did that? As my assignment 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:18.040 is revealed my insecurity surface. By the time you get 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:22.639 good at changing your child's diapers, you will need to 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:28.720 teach them to drive. The skills needed to teach your 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:33.040 kid to drive are not the same skills needed to 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:37.479 change the diaper. When you change the diaper, the worst 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.520 they can do is pee on you in the process, 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.320 and you can clean that up. When you teach them 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.399 to drive, they can send you to meet Jesus early. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.959 I need everybody who did it to clap those hands 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.280 and give God praise. Then I'm blessed to be alive. 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.879 I'm blessed to be alive, Like Genesis one said, it's 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:04.760 like that in every area of life. I was talking 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:06.960 to a man who's sixty two the other day. He said, 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:10.119 I never felt so insecure. I said, really, you, man, 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:16.320 net Worth is crazy too, I mean crazy crazy Networth. 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.040 He said, yeah, man, is this and it's that, and 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:21.040 it's the other, and it's the third, and it's that. 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.760 And I said, you're still insecure after all the success 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:29.840 that you have. Now. On the surface he looks very confident. 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:37.399 But beneath the surface is an insecurity. What insecurity is 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:41.880 beneath the surface in your life right now? That God 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:46.360 wants to speak a word too, because you don't experience insecurity. 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:48.520 As insecurity, nobody runs around just pray for me for 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:53.840 my insecurity. We ask people to pray, We say like 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.680 I'm worrying a lot lately. But why are you worrying 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:03.879 because you're insecure? No no, no, no, no, now, pastor Steven, 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:08.439 that's quite a jump. I'm worried because life is crazy, 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:11.600 and I'm worried because I've got these things. But if 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:16.000 you believed that, you are so blessed, if you believe, 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:19.520 like deep down, if I believe that, then I would 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:24.280 look at the birds who neither store nor reap, yet 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:28.480 my father feeds them. There is something in me that 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.280 does not believe I have what I need for where 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.639 I am. I do not fundamentally now, I do not 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:39.399 believe that I have what I need for where I am. 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:41.800 Or maybe in one area of my life I know 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:45.080 I have what I need for where I am, But 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:48.119 then I get in another area of my life, and 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:50.880 then I get in another area of my life that 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.440 this is the kids that are really good at school, 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:56.000 but watch them on the watch them on the soccer field, 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:00.720 or they suck at school, but they can kill you 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.359 on the soccer field. But everybody, this is one thing. 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:05.880 I know this isn't a Bible verse, but I want 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:12.040 to say it. Everybody in here sucks at something. I 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:16.920 say it's not in the Bible. How many think I'm right. 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:20.880 Everybody in here has an area of your life. Don't 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:30.080 make me come through that camera. But God told the birds, 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:32.520 let me show you this. This is nothing. I don't 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:34.280 know if this is getting through. Hang on a second. 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:36.040 I'm gonna be like God for a minut I'm gonna 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:37.600 go back in the dark and I'm gonna bring something 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:38.920 out in the light and show you I'm talking about. 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:44.200 I'll be right back. This is like the beginning, without 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:46.920 form and void. The earth is without form and voy 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:50.840 And then God said, let there be light, Let there 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:52.560 be vaut, Let there be sky, Let there be ocean, 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:54.719 Let there be moon, Let there be stars, Let there 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:56.440 be plants. Let there be ground dry around up here. 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:58.119 And then on the fifth day, if you come out 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:00.200 to the principle the fifth day, God said, let there 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:08.080 be birds, let there be fish. I know this is 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:14.600 not the natural habitat This this a reproduction, just for 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:16.359 a mental image, because you know you'll forget what I 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:18.040 say if I don't show you something, because you're a 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.200 visual learner. That's how God made you. And they told 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.320 you you were slow, and they told you you were stupid. 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:27.400 But they just didn't teach you right yet. So I'm 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:30.359 gonna do it. I'm gonna do it enough where every 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:34.199 bird gets to eat today, all right. I got the 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:37.520 deep stuff in this sermon for the deep Christians, the 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:39.200 ones who just want to be confused so they don't 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:44.239 have to apply it. And then I got the d'm kdding'midding'midding, gid, 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:53.320 I'm kidding, I'm kidding. And the Lord said both are blessed. Yeah, 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:58.000 he blessed both. That confused me at first, because it's 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:04.040 say he told the fill the waters and he told 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:08.920 the birds fill the sky and it was good, which 0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:17.040 one both. It leads me to believe that I'm blessed 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:24.639 when I'm doing what God called me to do where 0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:32.919 God called me to do it. The quote that I 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.639 read was attributed to Albert Einstein, but I don't think 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:38.680 he really said it upon further review, that if you 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:43.440 judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:46.160 it will spend the rest of its life believing that 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:52.880 it is stupid. Some of you tell yourself you're stupid 0:28:54.680 --> 0:29:04.080 because you are trying to swim in somebody else's sky, 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.520 and some of you are telling yourself that you are 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:15.840 incompetent or nothing, or insignificant or ridiculous because you, on 0:29:15.920 --> 0:29:20.360 the other hand, are trying to flap. Look, here's what 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:24.560 I'm trying to say. We got a lot of little 0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:29.880 mermaid Christians. We got, did y'all see the movie? I 0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:32.480 used to have such a crush on Aeriel. I'm confessing 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.080 it in front of Holly just so I could get 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:36.560 get healed from it and delivered from it. She was 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:41.120 my first crush. But Ariel had a problem. Remember I 0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:44.800 what did she say? I want to be part of that? 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:54.960 And we got a lot of Christians that havn't read 0:29:55.080 --> 0:30:02.920 Romans twelve one. Do not conform to the pattern of this. 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:12.600 Did y'all see the little Murray? And God is not 0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:16.840 king frightened? And God is not gonna give you legs 0:30:16.880 --> 0:30:21.280 if he made you for water, and God is not 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:26.520 gonna help you flap if he gave you fins. You've 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:32.800 got to move in operate according to and function by 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:42.520 what you were made for. I didn't want to bring 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:44.680 any animals out here because we live in a contentious 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:46.680 time and I figured I would offend somebody and Peter 0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:50.920 might shut my church down. But just imagine now this 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:52.840 would be really bad. Right. I would never do this. 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:54.600 I'm not an animal person, but I would still never 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:56.640 do this. If we put a bird in the bowl 0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:04.840 and I knew Hollywood like this sermon, beg, did you 0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:07.520 know there are six birds for every human? I thought 0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:10.160 about you this week. I was studying the birds. She's 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:15.040 a bird person in theory. Let one fly up close 0:31:15.080 --> 0:31:22.880 to her, and she likes the information about the birds. Right, 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:30.280 And a lot of Christians are confident in christ in theory. 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:37.160 I'm a child of God, Yes I am. That's your 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:40.640 surface self. But before God can bring forth what he 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:43.480 really wants to bring forth in this season, he's got 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:47.240 to move waters. He's got to start clearing out stuff 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:50.440 that is covering up stuff to ask you, what is 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:55.440 beneath the surface in your life? And are you moving 0:31:55.480 --> 0:31:59.560 in it? Are you moving in what you're made for? 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:02.760 Take a picture if you want to, so you can 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:05.280 put this on your screensaver this week. You know what 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:06.600 I'm saying. I'm not saying you want to look at me, 0:32:06.640 --> 0:32:08.920 but maybe you just want a little reminder, like when 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:13.360 you're comparing yourself, when you're sitting there looking at other 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:17.000 people's life, comparing yourself because what we do go back 0:32:17.000 --> 0:32:20.080 to Genesis one, twenty six minute. Let us make man 0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:24.400 in our image, God said. But we don't go off 0:32:24.440 --> 0:32:28.480 of God's image. We go off of an image of 0:32:28.520 --> 0:32:31.960 what we think a good mom is supposed to look like, 0:32:32.760 --> 0:32:34.640 or a good dad, or a good man, or a 0:32:34.640 --> 0:32:37.600 successful person. That's what we think, right, that's what you 0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:41.520 have to be like that. But it's an image you 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:46.360 imagined it. It's not the real image. It's a surface image. 0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:49.600 So now you try to make memories with your kids, right, 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:54.200 and they backfire, and it's it doesn't go down like 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:57.040 it was supposed to go down. That's because you are 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:01.480 making memories compared to somebody else's for tend memory that 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:04.760 they posted, they captured it. You're a burning a bowl. 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:16.720 We have these amazing things God made called brains. Amazing. 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:20.400 Your brain is amazing. Your mind is amazing, absolutely amazing. 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:23.000 I mean, even the ones of us in here who 0:33:23.040 --> 0:33:25.800 had to take algebra a few times, your brain is amazing. 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:28.600 What it just enables you to do is just amazing. 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:30.560 I mean, come on, the moon is jealous of you, 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:33.600 the stars are jealous of you. God made you by hand. 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:35.680 He made all of that stuff. Boom with his mouth. 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:38.840 He made you by his hand. Your brain is amazing. 0:33:40.400 --> 0:33:44.800 Your brain was not made to look at everybody else's 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:50.880 life all day. Your brain was not made I'm gonna 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:56.920 make see younn and Fox newsman like they're watching. It 0:33:57.040 --> 0:33:59.920 was not made for you to process all the infra 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:03.560 the world all the time. You're a burd in a 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:08.680 bowl right now, and you are drowning in stuff that 0:34:08.719 --> 0:34:15.359 God did not intend for you to live in. Okay, 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:19.799 I'll read you all the quota. Listen how good this 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:22.560 quote is. The lady said, this book is called Gift 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:26.840 from the Sea. She said, we are asked today to 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:32.319 feel compassionately for everyone in the world. Listen again, this 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:34.920 is the demand that's being placed on us today in 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:37.520 the day we live in, going back to the beginning, 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.840 what God made you for versus what is being marketed 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:44.520 to you today as normal. We are asked today to 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:52.160 feel compassionately for everyone in the world, to digest intellectually 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:57.480 all the information spread out in public print, all of it. 0:34:58.360 --> 0:35:01.880 You got to know everything all the time. What's happening 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:04.520 on the other side of the world, what's happening you 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:07.719 are watching people eat lunch on a screen, and they 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:10.840 sit three cubicles down from you. That's how weird it 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:13.560 is right now, and you are asked to digest on 0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:20.960 the same screen world events and also somebody's vacation that 0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:23.440 lifts three doors down from you. And it's all right there. Now. 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.920 Listen to what she says. We are asked to implement 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:32.440 in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and months. 0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:39.480 The inter relatedness of the world links us constantly with 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:45.359 more people than our hearts can hold. She wrote that 0:35:46.320 --> 0:35:55.120 in nineteen fifty five, what would she say today? What 0:35:55.120 --> 0:36:00.120 would she say about your week? Where you've been this week? 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:04.680 You've been a bird in a bowl. Here's what I 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:08.200 mean by a bird in a bowl. God told the fish, 0:36:08.600 --> 0:36:12.560 you are good in what I made for you. And 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:14.480 I think the Lord wants to say that to somebody. 0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:19.320 You are good in what He made for you, and 0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:21.600 you going, don't you mean that he made me for? No? No, no, 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:27.600 what he made for you? Ephesians two ten. For we 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:33.759 are created in Christ Jesus. This is like the New 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:39.759 Testament explanation of the illustration in Genesis one. We are 0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:48.560 God's handiwork. Remember he spoke the son with a word 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:53.239 He made you with his hand. So the author here 0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:57.960 is simply saying, Paul is reminding you God made you 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:02.760 by hand. And that's to know that He stitched me together. 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:05.880 He made me by hand. I'm not mass produced. I 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:08.399 didn't come off an assembly line. That means I don't 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:10.400 have to fit in with something else because I was 0:37:10.440 --> 0:37:14.880 formed by someone who knew me before my frame was whoo. 0:37:16.520 --> 0:37:19.880 So then if that's good news, how much better is 0:37:19.920 --> 0:37:23.920 it to know what comes next? We are God's handiwork 0:37:24.080 --> 0:37:28.600 verse Please created in Christ Jesus to do good works 0:37:29.520 --> 0:37:38.239 which God prepared in advance for us to do. To 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:40.799 understand the fifth day, you have to understand the second day. 0:37:42.320 --> 0:37:44.560 To understand your life, you have to understand the heart 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.600 to mind and the order of God. See, because God 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:49.439 wouldn't have made a bird before he made a sky. 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:54.000 God wouldn't have made a fish before he made an ocean. 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:57.560 You think God just dropped you down in your life 0:37:57.560 --> 0:37:59.719 and didn't put in you everything that you need to 0:37:59.760 --> 0:38:05.959 do everything he's called you to do. Break it down 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:10.399 for Nick, All right, if God put me in it, 0:38:10.600 --> 0:38:19.120 he put it in me. But see, I have surface 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:23.520 words that have been spoken over me that create insecurities 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:27.920 that keep me from believing what God said and moving 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:32.839 in what He made me for. Can I tell you 0:38:33.440 --> 0:38:38.400 how much I suck at most stuff? I mean, really 0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:42.160 really bad. I'll be right back. I got some other 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:46.000 stuff back here. You're good, You're good. I've been excited 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:48.120 to precis word. I really, I really want to give 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:49.640 it to you. Okay, I be right back. I'll be 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:56.839 right back some stuff. Now. When I say I'm bad 0:38:56.880 --> 0:39:03.799 at basketball, I'm I mean my kids started beating me 0:39:04.239 --> 0:39:07.080 at horse when they were four years old. I am 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:09.359 so bad. I'm not saying like, oh, I'm not really 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:11.959 good behind the line. No, I'm saying I'm not good 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:15.960 against the backboard on a ladder. I can't shoot a basketball. 0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:18.359 And here's how bad it was when God called me 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:20.880 to preach. Now we're talking about what you were made for. 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.520 Don't get distracted like I'm giving you a history lesson 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:25.040 on my life. I know you don't come to church 0:39:25.080 --> 0:39:28.800 for a memoir, but there's something like this for you, okay. 0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:32.440 And I remember when I first went around preaching. Me 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:34.840 and Holly would go to these little churches and we 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:38.239 would end up after I preached, the kids would all 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:40.799 want to go in the gym and play basketball, and 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:44.200 then it would undo the good impression that I made 0:39:45.440 --> 0:39:48.479 on the pulpit when they saw me play basketball. They're 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:50.560 like that God can't know God. Look at it. Look 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:53.680 at him out there, look at he moves. And so 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:55.680 so I went to my friend. Now I'm gonna tell 0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:57.719 you this, and this is a detail that you may 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:00.440 not need. But I went to my friend. He was 0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:04.960 the captain of the Lady Stags, the Berkeley Stags, the 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.319 high school team, and I said, I need help. I said, 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:09.920 I'm out here preaching. Said don't know anything I preach. 0:40:09.920 --> 0:40:11.239 I don't need for you. I need you teach you 0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:14.360 by basketball. And I said, can I come over? And 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:17.959 we went out in her driveway, and after an hour, 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:27.200 she said, maybe you should just ref Okay, I'll be 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:28.640 right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back. 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:30.840 Y'all hang out right there. Because I'm bad at that. 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:33.640 I'm bad at that, I'm bad at that. Another thing 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:35.520 I want to show you. This one's a little This 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:41.839 one's a little bit more close to home. When I 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:43.680 told him what to get me, y'all look at me. 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:49.160 I said, get a pink hammer. Just to symbolize that 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:54.000 Holly is a better handyman than I am. I see. 0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:55.960 I don't like to tell you stuff like this when 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:59.359 I preach because I look kind of manly, I got 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:05.280 a beard. But I need to show you this because 0:41:05.320 --> 0:41:07.880 it's gonna help you with something. It's gonna say you 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:10.840 free from something. When we first got married, I felt 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:16.280 so insecure and act incompetent and capable. It's efficient because 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:19.799 I thought a good husband was a good handyman. That 0:41:19.960 --> 0:41:22.080 was the image I had. My dad could fix stuff. 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:27.440 Her dad can fix stuff. What kind of husband can 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:34.719 I be if I can't fix anything? Burning a bull? 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.480 Put down on the camera. Put down on the camera. 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:44.319 That burning a bull, that's you. Oh god, Well I'm 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:46.600 not good at that. I'm not quick on my feet. Well, 0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:52.480 be slow on your feet, Be deliberate, be accurate, shop 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.439 them right in the throat when you hit boom right there. 0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:00.239 Because I was a fishing a tree in second grade, 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:02.480 the teacher said, nobody wants to just hear you talk 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:14.319 all the time. Yeah, oh yeah, baby, I'm a bad burn. 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:22.520 Let me fuck. I believe I can move in. What's 0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:25.960 you're made for? Let them say what they want. Let 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:30.480 them count you out. You get for the tights you got. 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:36.279 You were made for this baby a teleparents, back up, 0:42:36.320 --> 0:42:44.640 I'm fleshed. Tell a fish sway less. So let's make 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:46.759 a trade. Let's make a trade. Bring me a mike, 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:48.840 Bring me a mike, Bring me a mic. She didn't 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:53.799 need a handyman, she needed a holy man. Give me 0:42:53.840 --> 0:43:03.560 my mic. I just had the wrong thing in my hand. 0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:09.840 And if you will focus with enough gratitude on what 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:15.160 God gave you and how God made you, your little 0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:19.560 quirky bird, your little funky fish, you little weird you 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:23.640 get focused enough on what He gave you. Beneath the 0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:26.959 surface of what you see that's not what you thought 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:30.440 it was supposed to be. And you can knock down giants, 0:43:30.719 --> 0:43:34.320 and God can break down walls, and you can see 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:44.319 great and mighty things. So I can't be her handy man. 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:49.440 I'm her holy man. I like that. Make me a 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:54.440 T shirt. I'm your holy man. It's good because God 0:43:54.840 --> 0:44:00.640 prepared us in advance. Don't get me started. Are spelling 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:04.799 words wrong? Pre paired, pre paired, take it, take it, 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:08.319 take it. I'm done with it. Pre paired. Somebody say 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:11.840 pre pair. All right, let's ask Vana White, Can we 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:14.080 buy a vow? I want to buy an eye pre 0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:18.640 p a I r ed paired. Come here, Holly, come here, 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:23.560 come in, Come in pre paired, pre paired. She was 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:26.600 pre paired. This is how I know God is God, 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:29.239 because on the second day he made the water. On 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:31.480 the fifth day, he made the fish to go in it. 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:34.160 On the second day he made the sky. On the 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:36.200 fifth day he made the bird to fly in it. 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:39.759 And the birds are smarter than we were because we 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:44.080 spent the first thirty years, forty years, fifty years. How 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:46.640 long is it gonna take for us to go to 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:50.200 fish school and learn what the fish and the birds 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:53.640 knew from the moment god'spocome. You didn't see a fish 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:57.319 flapping around in the sky. You see people all the 0:44:57.400 --> 0:45:02.759 time trying to dress like something there, talk like something. 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:07.520 They're not walk like something. They're not quacking and waddling 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:10.400 all around you, ugly duckling. I'm putting all the fairy 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.040 tales of Disney characters into his own because I want 0:45:13.080 --> 0:45:14.239 you to get it. I want you to get it. 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:19.440 I want you to get that your handmaid, that your handmaid. 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:22.560 I'm not talking about marriage. This is an illustration. We 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:29.880 were prepared, and when you preach yesterday, I was so proud. 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:33.000 My barber was cut my hair. He said, be still, 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:34.600 I'm gonna gap you up, and you're gonna make me 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:37.480 look bad on camera. I said, I'm sorry. She's just 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:41.040 doing so good. She was out there in Austin, Texas 0:45:41.040 --> 0:45:46.040 preaching and he said, yeah, you from Austin, you are. 0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:51.280 She was bringing the Gospel to your homeland in fine style. 0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:55.480 And when it was done, fly Twy said, you are. 0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:59.520 You must be proud. I said, you have no idea 0:45:59.520 --> 0:46:05.120 how proud? Because I know the process. I know all 0:46:05.160 --> 0:46:09.480 the insecurity that she pushed through to preach like that. 0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:12.400 Let me tell you a few you mind if I 0:46:12.400 --> 0:46:22.160 tell them it's better to ask for forgiveness information. She 0:46:22.280 --> 0:46:24.359 gotta forgive me for this, because this is what God 0:46:24.400 --> 0:46:29.120 told me to tell you. She is saying, all right, 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:31.520 let the fish fill the water, let the birds fill 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:34.680 the sky. You will feel what you are formed for 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:44.359 when you stop complaining about where you don't fit, when 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:48.399 you find your water, when you find your sky, when 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.799 you stop asking, kin, can I be a part of 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:55.400 that world? And Holly say, I wish I could preach 0:46:56.200 --> 0:47:00.920 and be more spirit filled. You know what she meantous 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:06.960 because where we grew up scripted and structure men, it 0:47:07.000 --> 0:47:11.720 wasn't spirit filled. So she was a bird in a bowl. 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:16.680 You love birds. Hold that bowl. She was in that bowl, 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:21.040 the bowl of her belief about what God needed her 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:24.000 to be for her to be effective. And now y'all 0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:26.080 make me mad because y'all see me in the store 0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:29.080 and you'll say we love when Holly preaches. I'm like, 0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:31.960 what am I supposed to do with that? I love 0:47:32.000 --> 0:47:35.200 it when she preaches, too. She's not as available for 0:47:35.280 --> 0:47:37.480 romantic interludes when she's preaching on me. So I'm not 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:44.880 gonna let her preach too much. So spontaneous, that's my gifts. 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:48.080 This is my water, this is my sky, this is 0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:51.400 me being me. Blame it on the birds, laming, on 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:56.640 the birds leaming in the birth. I got excited because 0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:59.920 even that they'll put on YouTube, they'll say, this isn't preaching. 0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:03.040 This is a motivational seminar with a failed B rate 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:09.279 comedy hour on it like that. Okay, you swim in 0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:14.720 your see, I'll swim in mind. We can both be blessed. 0:48:15.680 --> 0:48:18.920 We can both be blessed. I'll preach it how I 0:48:19.040 --> 0:48:23.640 preach it. You preach it how you preach it. They 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:26.000 told Finny, I don't like your style of evangelism. He said, 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:27.640 what's yours? Said, I don't have one yet. He said, 0:48:27.640 --> 0:48:32.840 I like mine better. I like mine better. I like 0:48:32.920 --> 0:48:37.560 mine better. I like my wife better. You know, because 0:48:38.120 --> 0:48:40.720 because I watched you, he said, you must be proud. 0:48:40.760 --> 0:48:43.239 I said, I am, because I know the process, not 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:47.520 the product. People will see the product, but God knows 0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:52.920 all the mess that you're in right now by hand. 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:58.839 He's crafting and designing you for it because he prepared 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:05.640 it with you. So I watched her. I watched her 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:09.160 go from I'm not spirit filled to realizing that the 0:49:09.200 --> 0:49:14.319 spirit of God can fill a script that you don't 0:49:14.320 --> 0:49:23.280 have to wing it bird reference. And yet the craziest 0:49:23.280 --> 0:49:27.480 thing is now when she speaks and I see the 0:49:27.520 --> 0:49:30.520 spirit of God, it reminds me of Genesis one too, 0:49:31.719 --> 0:49:36.920 that the spirit was hovering over the surface, trying to 0:49:36.920 --> 0:49:41.319 bring forth what was already there. You know how many 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:47.279 birds are in bulls today because of the insecurity that 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:52.279 imprisons you. And you can't move in it because you 0:49:52.280 --> 0:49:57.359 weren't made for it. Quit trying to fit in with 0:49:57.400 --> 0:50:04.520 those friends that aren't good for you. Huh. Let me 0:50:04.560 --> 0:50:07.200 be dad for a minute. Let me be dad for 0:50:07.200 --> 0:50:08.839 a minute. Let me move in what I made for 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:11.320 for a minute. Okay, all right. God has given me 0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:14.360 a parental annoying just as well. And there are times 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:16.919 in my kid's life where I'm like, you don't fit 0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:20.920 there because it's not for you. I'm not saying you're 0:50:20.960 --> 0:50:23.520 better than anybody, but you don't fit there because they're 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:26.200 for you. So everybody who doesn't want to be your friend, 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:33.239 the real you, is doing you a favor. Uh huh. Oh, 0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:36.719 I'm gonna preach somebody free today. You've been in this 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:39.439 bowl going like, well, I can't. Some of you are 0:50:39.520 --> 0:50:43.560 trying to be sinners and you suck at it because 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:46.280 you're not supposed to be a sinner. You're a saint, 0:50:46.560 --> 0:50:50.399 You're the righteousness of God. You're a child of the light. 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:54.400 You're a child of the light, and that's why darkness 0:50:54.800 --> 0:51:01.319 doesn't be a right to you. Make the confession, say 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:04.960 I'm a child of the light. Now, let there be 0:51:05.120 --> 0:51:08.120 light over your life. Let there be light over your life. 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:11.200 Let there be light over over your life. Because I'm 0:51:11.200 --> 0:51:14.359 a child of the light and if it doesn't fit, 0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:23.120 it's not for you. Give me that blazer. Now, I'm 0:51:23.120 --> 0:51:26.520 gonna show you how silly you look trying to fit 0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:29.680 into the customs of this world. Some of y'all are encouragers, 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:31.879 and you are trying your best to be negative because 0:51:31.920 --> 0:51:34.160 negative is so normal now and you're not even good 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:37.879 at it. Tell me I'll need to stop cussing because 0:51:37.920 --> 0:51:41.880 y'all don't even know how to cuss correctly. You sound silly. 0:51:41.920 --> 0:51:52.960 Give me that now. I could put this on. I 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:55.279 told her I was gonna do this. I said, what 0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:57.160 if I rip it? She said, then rip it. If 0:51:57.160 --> 0:52:01.840 you gotta rip it. I want you to notice something. 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:06.279 It wasn't made for me, so I can't move in it. 0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:11.239 That's the mindset you've been in this insecure. You can't 0:52:11.239 --> 0:52:13.799 take me seriously, you gotta get it off me. I's 0:52:13.880 --> 0:52:16.680 just that turn around so we could see how you 0:52:16.760 --> 0:52:21.640 look from the back. This is you. Oh I can't 0:52:21.680 --> 0:52:27.280 be free. Oh I can't fly. Oh oh he's doing nobody. 0:52:27.719 --> 0:52:31.120 Get it off you, I get back. Take this jacket on. 0:52:31.800 --> 0:52:39.239 I know daieve it's God. Oh bless, I'm bless my 0:52:39.880 --> 0:52:48.960 highly paper. Watch this ferks I can't fly too. Whoa, oh, 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:52.280 you were made to praise. Do what you were made 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:59.880 to do. You were made to glorifib. I believe I 0:53:00.080 --> 0:53:04.480 can fly. I know I can make it. I was 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:08.840 made for this. Here is the potter. I am the clay. 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:13.040 I'm staying on the wheel. I got wings like a dove. 0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:21.040 I can make it over this situation. Now, scrunch up 0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:24.520 your eyebrows like you mean business and tell somebody I 0:53:24.680 --> 0:53:27.759 was made for this. I was made for this. I 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:31.160 was made for this. I was made for this like 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:34.759 a fish in water, like a burning and sky, like 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:38.320 something sprouting forth out of the ground. I was made 0:53:38.360 --> 0:53:43.040 in the image of God. So why in the world 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:50.040 would I move in the condemnation of my enemy. I'm 0:53:50.040 --> 0:53:54.440 coming out of insecurity today because I wasn't made for insecurity. 0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:58.719 I was made in the image of God. And how 0:53:58.719 --> 0:54:02.120 do I know what I'm made for? I spend time 0:54:02.200 --> 0:54:08.640 with my maker. I gotta deal with him now. And 0:54:08.719 --> 0:54:12.840 God said, and God said, y'all better stand up and 0:54:12.880 --> 0:54:15.040 put pressure on me to close, because I feel a 0:54:15.040 --> 0:54:17.600 part two coming on early. I feel a part two 0:54:17.840 --> 0:54:29.440 coming on early. Stand up, stand up. You're never gonna 0:54:29.480 --> 0:54:33.080 find out what his hand can do because you are 0:54:33.160 --> 0:54:37.240 so distracted by way your hands are holding that wasn't 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:43.200 made for you. Now, God did not make the sky 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:48.319 for the birds to hover in and hang out, and 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:52.160 God did not make the sea for the lobsters to 0:54:52.200 --> 0:54:57.000 get some son. You got to move in. You've got 0:54:57.000 --> 0:55:01.040 to move in what you were made for. That's how 0:55:01.080 --> 0:55:05.200 life happens. Did you ever have a baby? I didn't. 0:55:06.520 --> 0:55:11.160 But when it moved and it got uncomfortable, best when 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:14.560 we knew she was closer than ever to bring in 0:55:14.640 --> 0:55:22.239 forth life. The same is true in the spirit. And 0:55:22.360 --> 0:55:26.560 God said, don't you want to know what he spoke? 0:55:27.880 --> 0:55:31.279 Don't you don't you play gyro? Don't you want to 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:34.759 know what he spoke? Don't you want to know what 0:55:34.880 --> 0:55:37.960 he who chose you before the foundations of the earth, 0:55:38.040 --> 0:55:40.680 before all this surface stuff got on you. Don't you 0:55:40.719 --> 0:55:43.280 want to know what you were created in Christ Jesus, 0:55:43.320 --> 0:55:48.600 for that was prepared in advance for you to do. 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:52.640 This is your season to begin to move in your water, 0:55:53.880 --> 0:55:57.759 to begin to fly in your sky, to begin to 0:55:57.800 --> 0:56:00.960 control the atmosphere that you allow in your art. Your 0:56:01.000 --> 0:56:04.080 mind was not made to worry about the future. Sufficient 0:56:04.160 --> 0:56:07.319 is the day and if you move in what God 0:56:07.360 --> 0:56:10.080 gave you this day, our daily breath. I feel annoyted 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:12.600 to help somebody because he said this was a word 0:56:12.680 --> 0:56:17.400 for your insecurity. And when you bring that to your maker, 0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:20.680 remember what you were made for. Oh I'm a reflection 0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:24.759 of God. I told my buddy a while back. He 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.880 was getting criticized, and I said, that's happened to me before. 0:56:28.280 --> 0:56:30.400 Let me tell you what I learned. I read a 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:33.840 quote where the man said, never wrestle with a pig, 0:56:36.560 --> 0:56:39.160 and then he said, because you both get muddy and 0:56:39.200 --> 0:56:47.120 the pig likes it. And then God gave me something 0:56:47.120 --> 0:56:53.560 to say, You're a prince, not a pig. I wasn't 0:56:53.560 --> 0:56:55.080 made for the Mud. I was made from the mud. 0:56:56.560 --> 0:57:00.400 When I'm in the hands of my maker. Come on, 0:57:00.520 --> 0:57:03.080 release it to God right now. If you just start 0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:05.160 like getting ready to leave right now and you don't 0:57:05.200 --> 0:57:09.759 seal this word, the enemy's gonna snatch it. You're gonna 0:57:09.760 --> 0:57:12.640 get back in the same situation, the same people, the 0:57:12.680 --> 0:57:15.960 same stuff you've been staring at all week. But this 0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:20.480 is the principle of the Fifth Day that we could 0:57:20.560 --> 0:57:23.080 learn from the birds. But we don't know with our 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:26.680 human mind that when I fly in what I'm formed for. 0:57:28.200 --> 0:57:32.160 God always has a worm for me that when I 0:57:32.360 --> 0:57:35.560 swim in where God set me. Now, don't go quit 0:57:35.600 --> 0:57:39.080 your job. Tell your boss you're a bird. You're gonna 0:57:39.080 --> 0:57:42.360 be a broke bird looking for a worm. That is 0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:47.360 not my message. Do not put a asterisk by my message. 0:57:47.520 --> 0:57:51.520 I say that I want to talk about your heart. 0:57:52.960 --> 0:57:54.760 You want to talk about what you believe. I want 0:57:54.760 --> 0:57:56.840 to talk about the bull you put yourself in. And 0:57:56.840 --> 0:57:59.520 if the Lord helps me, I'm gonna continue the same 0:57:59.560 --> 0:58:13.040 lineitude next me. I am prodigal son said, I'm out 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:19.200 here with the pigs, and my father has hired servants. 0:58:19.920 --> 0:58:24.920 I'm a prince, but I'm down here with the pigs. 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:30.200 I wasn't made for this. I wasn't made for this addiction. 0:58:30.800 --> 0:58:33.600 My heart was made for God. I wasn't made for 0:58:33.680 --> 0:58:39.800 this bitterness. I'm not I'm not going to be down 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:41.720 here with the pigs and forget that. I'm a prince. 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:44.840 I was made in the image of God, created in 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:48.280 Christ Jesus to do good works, and God made the 0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:51.280 work for me to do before he made me to 0:58:51.320 --> 0:58:54.280 do it. So whatever you're in right now, I don't 0:58:54.280 --> 0:58:56.800 care if it's for a job or for a challenge 0:58:56.840 --> 0:58:58.600 that can't be named in the room, because you know 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:00.800 how we are. We can only talk like three things 0:59:00.800 --> 0:59:04.680 in church. Beneath the surface. That's what the spirit of 0:59:04.720 --> 0:59:07.760 God brought for. I believe he's bringing it forth right 0:59:07.760 --> 0:59:11.240 now in your life, just to get you to realize 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:14.840 that when you move in what you were made for. 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:18.240 I don't know what that is yet, that's all right, 0:59:19.600 --> 0:59:23.680 Your Maker does. Yeah, but my life is a mess, 0:59:24.760 --> 0:59:26.680 do you not remember that's how the whole thing got 0:59:26.680 --> 0:59:30.800 started to begin with? And he remembers our frame Psalm 0:59:30.840 --> 0:59:36.080 one three fourteen says, And he knows that we are dust. 0:59:37.000 --> 0:59:41.920 So when it's messy, just remember your maker knew all 0:59:41.960 --> 0:59:44.480 of that. Now we don't. We only see the pieces. 0:59:44.560 --> 0:59:49.280 Remember he sees the picture. He knew what to make 0:59:49.320 --> 0:59:51.000 on the second day, so what was made on the 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:54.120 fifth day would have somewhere to live. He knew who 0:59:54.160 --> 0:59:56.600 to allow to leave you, so that who came into 0:59:56.640 --> 0:59:59.800 your life later would have a place to be. He 1:00:00.240 --> 1:00:02.760 what disappointments to allow you, so that he could teach 1:00:02.800 --> 1:00:04.880 you the lessons you would need for the level that 1:00:04.920 --> 1:00:07.480 he wants to use you in the glory that shall 1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:10.920 be revealed. This is the principle of the fifth Day. 1:00:13.200 --> 1:00:15.040 And I wonder, can we who were made on the 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:20.680 sixth day learn from the birds and the fish who 1:00:20.680 --> 1:00:23.560 were made on the fifth day? Just to move in 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:29.760 what you were made for. You can have this. When 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:40.680 your nee gets better, you can have this. God is 1:00:40.680 --> 1:00:44.640 calling me from glory to glory, from strength to strength. 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:53.520 Is the insecurity keeping you from seeing the strength. The 1:00:53.640 --> 1:00:56.959 spirit of the Living God is hovering over your heart 1:00:56.960 --> 1:01:01.240 at this moment. Thank you, Lord, drawing some things forth. 1:01:02.880 --> 1:01:06.040 Some of us going to look ugly, some of us 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:10.840 going to look unfamiliar. But you just trust that the 1:01:10.880 --> 1:01:15.480 one who is speaking knows what is beneath the surface. 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:23.080 Heavenly Father, lift your hands, everybody. We receive the Holy Spirit, 1:01:25.000 --> 1:01:29.320 the equipping, the divine enablement, and the grace of God. 1:01:29.400 --> 1:01:31.160 Not to think more highly of ourselves than we are, 1:01:31.280 --> 1:01:33.000 but the function and the gifts that we've been given up. 1:01:34.640 --> 1:01:36.480 Shall the thing made say to the thing that made it, 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:39.360 why have you formed me this way? No, God, you're 1:01:39.400 --> 1:01:43.360 the potter, we're the clay. And as you shape and 1:01:43.400 --> 1:01:45.840 form and move our lives in conformity to your perfect 1:01:45.840 --> 1:01:49.480 will and purpose and your divine counsel. We offer ourselves 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:54.640 to you. Jehovah, Jirah, the God who provides the sea 1:01:55.600 --> 1:02:00.680 before he ever speaks forth the fish, the God who 1:02:00.720 --> 1:02:05.400 provides the sky before he ever creates the birth, the 1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:12.560 God who gave us the grace before we ever encountered Goliath. Hallelujah, 1:02:12.720 --> 1:02:19.120 We receive your grace. Lord. We worship you, Lord. Come on, worship, Worship, Worship, Worship, worship, worship, 1:02:19.120 --> 1:02:22.760 Worship with your mouth. With your mouth. Now, don't just cheer. 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:28.360 Worship him, Worship him. Worship him. You were made for worship. 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:34.320 You were made for worship. 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