One Day Win (Sermon Discussion)

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.120 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.600 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.960 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.720 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.200 We are starting a brand news segment here today. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.640 I'm so excited. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.919 You are the only person on earth that knows the 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:25.640 name of this word. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:26.760 I know and I remember it. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:28.560 You remember it, yes. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.280 Because you had to tell it to me so many times. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.839 I felt that I kept asking him and so, but 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.959 I actually remember it. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.280 So let's set it up and then we'll do the reveal. Okay, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.920 I've always thought after I finished preaching, ah, I didn't 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.280 get to say this that I didn't you know, I 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.760 didn't get to go deep enough. Ah, I left this out. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.280 You know, I have all these notes that I didn't 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.640 get to and it would feel frustrating. Well, one day, 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.800 the Holy Spirit says to me, after I was, you know, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.560 done coddling myself on the couch for three hours of 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:02.880 how I didn't say everything. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.480 We're coddling yourself after I was cursing yourself Yeah, after. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.440 I was really beating myself up. I feel like I failed. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.520 I didn't get the job done. And you said, maybe 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.720 you didn't fail, maybe you just didn't finish. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.080 Did I actually say it like that? Like that yoda? 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.200 So that's the final draft of what you said, and 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.800 I've alliterated it and co written it. But the concept 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.240 just became real in my heart that we have all 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.920 of these amazing ways to minister to you now, and 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.960 so why not from time to time, not every week? 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.319 Just come on kind of like what you guys do 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.240 on coffee FIM. Just get in there and look at 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.840 the sermon, talk about the sermon, and apply it. I 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.800 love it. And so you, being the master of practical 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.880 application that you are, Holly, I want you to reveal 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.400 the title of this segment to the people. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.480 So the title of this segment is run it back, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:57.880 walk it out. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.120 A running back, walk it out. That's what we're going 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.920 to make. Run it back. Everybody say, run it back, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.520 run and walk it out and walk it out. All right. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.280 So the Word of God is like a seed, right, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:20.519 seeds need soil. What else put it in the comments? Lighter, matriance, water, 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.240 sometimes fertilizer, It doesn't smell the best helps. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.600 It out, but necessary helpful in the process. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.480 I actually think that when we just listen to a 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.960 sermon or read a Bible verse so fast, it's like 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.079 us throwing a seed on concrete and wondering why it 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.799 didn't produce anything. Yep, you know, like the parable of 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.680 the sower in Matthew thirteen, where Jesus said that the 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.720 birds will come and snatch it up, the thorns will 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.480 choke it out, the sunlight will just bake the seed. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.040 And so this is an effort for us to take 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.560 my sermon, my first sermon of twenty twenty four. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.720 Which was so good, thank you. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.919 Very much much. And she's not biased. The theme of 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.280 the sermon was this is that day, and I'll explain 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.240 what that meant in just a moment. If you want 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.920 to stop this and watch that on Elevation Church YouTube, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.880 please feel free to do so. I will not be 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.760 offended if you walk away and come back. I'll be 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.200 right here waiting for you whenever you're ready. But this 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.160 will work best if you heard that sermon. You can 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.960 still watch it. If you didn't hear that sermon, because 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.280 we're going to run it back, not necessarily show it 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.960 back or show clips here. But just Holly's got good notes. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.920 She's a great note taker. She was a great student 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.080 in college. I used to copy off her notes. That 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.280 was one of the benefits of via her boyfriend and 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.000 we would study together. And still her notes are better 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.760 than mine. Like, look at her notes. Look at my notes. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.200 What a disaster I am. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:47.920 But I don't do that drawing thing. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:49.160 Well. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.360 When I finish my sermon and I look at your notes, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.440 I'm like, oh, that's what I said. Good, that's good. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.360 That's good. I said that. Yeah, yeah, I said that. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.280 So I don't know if you're cleaning them up. But 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.960 I want you to start us off, Holly, because I 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.560 love the front row flashbacks that you post and each 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.080 week you send to our staff. And I promised the congregation, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.400 I said, I'm putting part two on YouTube this week. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.240 So the part two isn't going to be me just 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.640 teaching another sermon. I'll do that again next Sunday. I 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.240 already have a sequel in mind. This is more of 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.400 an opportunity for Holly and the great Chris Brown and 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:29.280 Brittany at Gonzola to say this is what I heard, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.880 and this is how I've been walking it out, and 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.960 we'll talk about that together. The Bible says he who 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.159 walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.040 fools suffers harm. No fools on this couch today. We're 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.960 just going to do this for as long as until 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.400 we get tired of talking about it. So thank you 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.880 for joining us, Holly. Why don't you kick it off 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.400 with a little run it back and then we'll walk 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.320 it out and I'll jump in and preach a little 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.040 more and you can ask me whatever you want. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:02.400 Okay, So I'm of all, when we were going home 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.800 from church, I well, okay, let me back it up. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.040 First of all, I cried in this message, and I 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.680 walked back and I gave you a hug, and I said, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.960 that was exactly what I needed to hear, and so 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.240 I want to thank you for that. And then I 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.880 think I said to you at some point, I just 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.360 feel like that sermon was classic Steven Ferdick. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.240 And what I mean by. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:34.240 That is you are the master of wordplay, and so 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.520 you start off and of course you're like so organic 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:45.600 and you write down one day when and you're talking 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.760 to us all about one day when, which is perfect 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.599 for the start of a new year, because we all 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.119 have our one day wins for the year, for our life, 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:54.520 for our future, whatever. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.920 And I'm just going. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.279 Right along with you, not even planning for you to 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.480 do anything. And you switch it up, give me the 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:08.120 next one, and you tell us becomes a one day win. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:13.520 And I'm telling you, like I think this will, this 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.440 will forever be in my head a one day win. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.200 And you've heard me preach seven thousand times since we 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.720 were boys, you know, out into yeah woods. And you 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.160 texted me, what did you say? 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.039 Well, I said, the message is goat status because of 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:27.760 the same thing. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:32.320 Yeah, it's like, come on, wow, but it's so sticky. Well, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.840 the stickiness of it for me really ministered. And here's why, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.760 because I could easily be this vision board guy. You 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.440 know this one day when I reached this certain status 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:50.120 in my anything, my preaching ability, my creative achievements, my 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:55.080 parenting patience, my net worth, anything you want to mention. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.719 That's a surface level accomplishment. One day when I feel 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.839 good about myself. Yeah, one day, when then I will 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.760 have arrived. One day when then I'll put the time 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.880 into this or develop this new thing, or I'll get 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.560 a hobby, but just thinking like even getting to that 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.400 one day when that God plants in us the dream 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.320 and the vision that he gives us starts with a 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.920 one day wi in when. So for me, it wasn't 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.600 just trying to be clever that's how I have to 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:24.320 live my life. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.120 No, And that's what I that is what I love 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.440 about your preaching. And I told you this, I said, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.760 you are so good at taking something that God gives 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.960 you and living it out. And to me, this is like, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.440 this is your sweet spot is having a vision, Like 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.280 you don't actually have a vision board, but I think 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.920 you have a vision board in your head and you 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.640 have this one day when with an E and you're 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.080 able to break it down into daily winds. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.160 And I have seen you do this like. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.559 You're just you're the best at it at just going Okay, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.600 what's a win for today, or what's a win for 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.240 this week? Or what's a habit or a routine that 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.480 I'm going to put into place? 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.240 So like, can you tell. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.040 Us a little bit more about going from when to win? 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.640 It was because I was thinking about the people I 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.640 was preaching to and I was studying this passage that 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.800 God spoke to me three years ago in Isaiah twenty seven. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.760 I mean, you've had this verse written on your nightstand, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.280 for it's. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.920 Sitting on a note card on my nightstand as we 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.360 speak up under some other books that I'm supposed to 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:43.840 be reading. But it's not a very practical scripture. It's 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.040 a prophetic scripture about the nation of Israel, and they 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.520 were in captivity, and they were oppressed, and God was 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.120 making them a promise. And I read it so many 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.360 times over the last few years, and I shared a 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.480 little bit about this scripture with our students at Youtheks 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.200 this summer. But something so granular stood out to me 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.559 this time, and I'm gonna share with you now. You 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.400 can follow along Isaiah twenty seven. Verse one, in that day, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.240 the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:16.920 and powerful sword, Leviathan, the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.080 He will slay the monster of the sea. I have 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.240 a whole sermon on that I hope to share one 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.480 day soon too. But then verse two, it picks up 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.240 the motif in that day, so it says it twice. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.960 If you're following along, you'll see it in that day 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.600 sing about a fruitful vineyard. So verse one is in 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.320 that day, the Lord will punish Leviathan. I think this 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.480 has to do with God dealing with the things in 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.360 our life that drag us down. For many of you, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.959 right now, you're fighting against a spirit of depression. You're 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:52.560 fighting against mental patterns of anxiety and everything you see 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.600 online that tells you take an ice bath and meditate 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.360 and break seven eggs over your head every morning at 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.480 seven am and say mantras that you got posted notes 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.000 up all around saying I am complete, and God's got 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.520 this and it doesn't break through. And the promise of 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.839 verse one is that God is fighting against everything that 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.160 brings his people down. And verse two gives us a 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.120 strategy that as God fights the battles that we can't 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.920 fight in our own strength, we are to watch this 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.840 verse two sing about a fruitful vineyard. And what first 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.120 opened my mind to the revelation of a day, Because 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.120 that's what I want you to get right now, is 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:39.360 the revelation of a day in that day. It's a 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.839 prophetic scripture. It's a term that's used to talk about 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.960 everything going from the second coming of Christ to the 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.120 judgment of God's people in certain context to the judgment 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.280 of God's enemies. But I started seeing a little differently. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.720 I said, wait a minute. It says in that day 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.520 God's going to fight against Leviathan the things that us down, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.840 and in that day we're supposed to be singing. So 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.240 when I saw that there's a song and a sword 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.600 in the same day, it sets my expectation. So I 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.240 called the message this is that day. All right, this 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.800 is going to be one of those days. You just 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.800 better wake up knowing it. There's going to be blessings. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.439 I didn't expect today. A little smile I catch, or 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.280 I'm able to give here there a little word of encouragement, 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.520 a little word of discouragement. So we accept it, all right. Well, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.120 then I start having fun with it. I started reading 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.520 verse six, where it said in days to come, Jacob 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.640 will take root, Israel will butt and blossom and fill 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.280 all the world with fruit. So now I'm thinking, okay, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.320 we got two actions happening in verse six. One is 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.480 going downward taking root, one is going upward bearing fruit. Yes, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.000 and it showed me that each day we'll have its 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:59.840 ups and downs, and both are a part of our destiny. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.000 Both are a part of God's purpose. So my first 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.920 step was getting you to see that not only do 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.640 you have a new year in front of you, twenty 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:16.360 twenty four, but that every day God's mercies are new, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.520 you get a new twenty four. Now that's a basketball term. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.280 I'm not a basketball fan, but I was watching a 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.960 basketball game a few years ago and the guy missed 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.080 a shot and he got an offensive rebound. And I 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.120 know that the rules have changed in the NBA because 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.440 I researched it before. I appreciate it. But back then, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.680 when you would get an offensive rebound off the glass 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.600 in the NBA, the shot clock would go back to 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.400 a full twenty four seconds. So you get a whole 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:48.040 new twenty four every day, no matter what shot you 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.640 missed last year, no matter what shot you missed today, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.120 no matter what YouTube video you were watching before this 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:59.120 one mine that you feel guilty about. Well, you're here now. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.839 The revelation of the day for me was so powerful 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.800 because I can get paralyzed by five years from now, 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.720 and I need everybody to be honest for a minute. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.320 Are you like me where you have so many one 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.439 day wins? Give me my card back with it. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.480 I was gonna I was going to keep them. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.240 Yeah, you can have them when I'm done. But I 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.480 just need to be clear because its kind of tricky. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.480 One day when all the all the things you're going 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.200 to accomplish for God, when you have more time to 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.720 do it, all the all the nice things you're going 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.880 to say to people, when the perfect opportunity comes up. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.800 I told somebody the other day, one day, when I 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.760 get a chance, I'm going to tell you how much 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.760 you meant to me at this stage of my life. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:44.600 And the Lord spoke to me. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.559 Tell now, do it now? 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, get a one day win, like get 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.960 get get the things said the best you can today 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.640 and revise it tomorrow. So it's very practical for me, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.880 but it also has a heaviness. That's why I didn't 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.720 want it to just be okay when when I get it, 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.680 you change the letters like I'm van a white on 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.400 wheel of fortune, change in letters or something. No, it 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.319 was more powerful to me. It was getting to realize 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.840 that the way that you're going to get to the 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.600 one day when you are a patient person, the one 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.840 day when you have financial security, the one day when 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.920 you're able to let the peace of Christ rest rule 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.040 and abide in your heart. The way you're going to 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.840 get to the one day when is through the power 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.760 of a one day when. So where does God want 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.040 me to win today? And just to take it one 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.760 silly step further and so you can see how demented 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.560 my brain is with wordplay. I even use wi in 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.440 as an acronym. What's important now? 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.880 Wow, I got to write that down. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.080 Yeah, what's important now? So good? And I want you 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.280 to start thinking that way this year because God has 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.120 given you this year, but he's given you this day. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.720 So it was in my heart to help people, you know, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.520 because I don't want to be up there talking about 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.640 a fruitful vineyard and Jacob taking rude and Israel and 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.760 you're going, that's great for the Bible. But and I'm 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.600 just trying today to like have one family meal with 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.680 my family this week, or I'm just trying this week 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.520 to have one day where I wake up and exercise right. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.760 And there's real power in the one day win and 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.880 it's changed my life and I just want to share 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.200 it with our entire church family and all those we 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:36.720 minister to. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.080 Do you feel like your winds change from day to day? 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.560 I do you have some that are like I have 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.600 to do this every day, and then there are some 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.640 where you're like, you know, today this is my win. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.520 That's a great question because it reminds me of a 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.280 conversation I had with a really wise man. I said, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.280 I feel like if I'm winning in one area, I'm 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.680 losing in another area. I feel like with my life, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.560 I can really be winning with what I'm producing creatively 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.840 or for the ministry, and then in an area at 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.400 home it needs my attention. And he said something so 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.640 powerful back to me. He said, You're not gonna win 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.520 everywhere every day. Just don't lose in the same area every. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.160 Day, right right, Okay? 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.040 And it is it is a balance. Well, that's where 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.040 you get with the Holy Spirit, and that's where you 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.880 pay attention to what he's speaking to you. I mean, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.640 what do you think about it? Because you listen to 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.920 the message, and this is called run it back, walk 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.080 it out. So for somebody who's not so much of 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.360 a win lost person, I don't know if this is 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.520 a male female thing or just a competitive thing. I 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.200 know that the term win isn't really your turn. I mean, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:47.760 you don't wake up in the morning late. I need 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.880 to be a winner. I need to crush it. I 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.320 need to smash it. You know that's not your vibe. Yeah, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.280 but how did you hear it about winning everyone? 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.640 I think that it sets me free to say a 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.000 one day win, because sometimes I get overwhelmed when I 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:07.280 think about people like you who have who are very 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.080 disciplined and so you have certain things that you do 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.760 every day. But for me, it really set me free 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.840 to realize, like, okay, wait, so for instance, today we're 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.720 here and we're having this conversation. We're also working on 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.439 shooting some videos for your new book release. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.000 There's a plug do the new you pre order it. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:29.760 It's amazing. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.439 And so this is not a winning mom day for me. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.879 This is a winning work day for me. And so 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.280 when I lay my head on my pillow at night 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.960 and somebody is frustrated because they couldn't find their their 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.040 you know, their wrestling single isn't clean, or there's no 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.160 Chewy bars in the house, I'm not going to bed 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:59.600 feeling defeated because that wasn't the win for today for me? 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:00.880 Does that? 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.639 But I want to expand your definition of what a 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:04.000 win is. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:05.320 Help. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.760 Did you not set an example for your kids today 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.160 of what it means to come in and work hard 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.840 at meaningful ministry? Do they not need to see that 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.879 mom got up today and the biggest thing wasn't me 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.520 cleaning that wrestling single that maybe the biggest thing was 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.280 them learning how to do their own laundry. Because the 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.280 world is bigger than just us. I think a lot 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.680 of times you don't give yourself credit for the win 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.800 because of how you defined it. So what's your definition 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:37.280 of a win? 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.040 Wow? 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.160 Do you think that a win is being able to 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:47.199 enable everybody else's laziness? Because sometimes it is through setting 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:52.720 an example of balancing a complicated life that you actually 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.800 give that kid a template that they can follow one 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.679 day if they find themselves as a mom or as 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.159 a dad. So I would challenge each of you to 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.359 expand your definition of what you call a win. I 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.639 like that movie Moneyball, and you can go back and 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.840 watch just the very last part of it. And this 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.800 guy hits a home run and it goes way over 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.639 I think, over centerfield wall, and he trips when he 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.639 gets to first base, and he's so discouraged because he 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.760 tripped on first base. But when they tap him and 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.920 they show him, wait a minute, that ball is over 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.680 the centerfield wall doesn't matter. You hit a home run 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.400 and you didn't even know it. Yeah, it's a great 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.840 picture of how the enemy discourages us because we trip 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.680 over this. Oh, I sounded so stupid when I said 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:47.440 that they weren't listening to you. They weren't even paying attention. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.400 Then you go back and apologize to somebody you'd ever 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.119 done this. I'm so sorry when I did this, it 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.560 sounded so stupid, And they go, what are you talking about? 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.320 So you are penalizing yourself for losses that actually didn't 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.520 even occur in reality. Yeah, and when we sync up 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.000 with God, he shows us what's really important to him. 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:06.960 So helpful. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.080 What do y'all think? And y'all are real quiet? I 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.280 want I want to hear what Brent thinks. I want 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:12.639 to hear what Chris thinks. I want to hear I 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.080 want to hear from the whole group. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.199 Well, I was I was thinking, you've showed up a 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.600 lot of times for songwriting session and you leave and 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.360 maybe it wasn't the greatest song or the most productive day, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.600 and we might text about it later that night or 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.800 the next day, and you're like, I showed up. I 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.800 see it as a win, and you know, I don't 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.879 know what'll come of that song, but I showed up, 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.600 and I've got to see me showing up as the 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.600 wind for yesterday. Yeah yeah, And so however that applies to, 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.760 you know, any facet of life, Like I may have 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.200 not felt like I had the deepest conversation with Joe 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.440 and my son at bedtime tonight, but I was by 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:56.920 his bed. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.960 You were there, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:00.359 Yeah, you know. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:05.040 I spent five minutes with him saying you day good, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.960 talk about a movie that's nothing deep. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.359 But I was there, and he probably didn't want more 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.760 than five minutes, ready to get back on anyway, exactly. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.720 And here's what I'm trying to say, Chris, like, I'm 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.719 so glad you brought it up, because it actually came 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.399 to my mind when I was studying. I even found 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:23.159 a way to label those days where we go in 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.200 to write music and it doesn't feel great. I call 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:30.080 it a creative leg day. Anybody who lives weights knows 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.640 like skipping leg day is the number one temptation, and 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.320 at least it is for me. And yet it's the 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.679 day that you go in and you don't expect it 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.320 to feel the best. You don't expect it to be 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.479 the most fun, but you do it. And there are 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:47.679 days like that in parenting, there are days like that 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.320 in friendship, there are days like that, certainly in ministry. 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:53.959 And there are days like that for you where you 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:58.880 don't judge the worth of that day. We're talking about days, right, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.000 You don't judge the value you of that day, the 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.360 success of that day. You don't even label that day 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.160 according to how good it felt in the moment. Back 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.520 to the workout illustration. I remember talking to this guy 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.240 who did CrossFit a few years ago, and he came 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.440 to see me, but he was like, you look kind 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.000 of rough. Honestly, he said, I'm sorry for the shape, 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.120 my man. I just had a really great workout. He 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.879 looked terrible. Yeah, he said, I threw up three times. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:30.720 Oh no, it was a great workout. So I realized 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.320 that his definition of a great workout was based on 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.679 the result that it produced, yeah, not the feeling that 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:38.280 it provided. 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:39.360 Yeah. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.680 A lot of times we're sitting there thinking it was 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.840 a horrible day. It might have been a tough day, 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:46.840 that doesn't make it a horrible day. And I think 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.280 we've got to stop labeling things because some of those 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.240 days where we went away from songwriting and I came 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:56.119 home and told Holly that was a wasted day. Became 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.320 the seed of some of our biggest songs. Yeah, or 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.200 they became the a sermon. So you never know what 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.120 you're sowing for in that day. Many times you'll think 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.080 you said something and it fell on deaf ears, or 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.440 many times you think you do something and nobody even noticed. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:18.680 And golly, g willakers. Three years later they go back 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:22.399 to that day and say, you remember when you and 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.680 you go, I kind of remember when I did that. Yeah, man, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:28.679 that changed everything for me. See, people aren't processing in 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.720 real time either, and so we can't be so quick, 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.199 I think, to judge the effects of the seed that 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.239 we sow in any given day. And that's what's in 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.080 the text that's really interesting, right, He says verse three, 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:42.760 I'm back in Isaiah twenty seven. Now follow along, keep 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:46.119 up this good stuff. Isaiah twenty seven, Verse three, I 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:50.800 the Lord watch over it. I water it continually. I 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.400 guard it day and night so that no one may 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.600 harm it. So this is the Lord's promise to his people, 0:23:56.119 --> 0:24:01.320 he says, I water it continually. That means there are 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:05.159 going to be days that you plant something and God's 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.360 going to come along and water it, and then there 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:11.600 will be harvests that you will receive later from something 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:13.560 that you forgot you even did, or you thought it 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:17.960 was so simple, so insignificant. But we have to live 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:20.679 our lives in a frame of faith that says, Okay, 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:26.560 God is watering what I do, not what I'm going 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:31.480 to get around to one day when God is watering 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.040 what I put in the ground today, the scripture I 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:36.800 put in my heart today, God will water that. The 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.520 relationship that I reach out, make an effort today. It 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.399 may not heal today, but God will come along and 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.119 water that. And that gives me a lot of confidence 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:49.280 for the days where I feel like I'm a complete loser. 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:51.400 I loved how you called it down days. 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.760 Because at first, I mean, it really didn't. 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.040 I wrote it down. I went back and looked at it. 0:24:57.040 --> 0:24:59.480 I was like, I don't like calling it a down day, 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:00.639 but noe. 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:04.800 But like it's reframing that a day that I thought 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:11.880 maybe wasn't full of winds actually was my roots going 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.520 down that day. It was it was training, It was 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:19.840 it was progress, even though you didn't see it, or 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:23.320 even though it wasn't perfect, and I. 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:23.879 Really loved it. 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:28.800 Might the down days or the dirty, dirty days. Dirty 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:34.600 the dirty days the root days that give us the 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:39.320 stability to appreciate the good days. Your roots determine your reach. 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.280 So if God is going to do something amazing in. 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:47.080 Your life, do you know that, like scientifically the tree 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:50.280 when you look at how wide a tree's branches are, 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:53.720 that their roots literally line up with their widest branch. 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:56.399 This is why I'll bring you to run it back, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:58.600 walk it out session because I didn't know that at all. 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:02.399 I didn't know that at all. So the indication of 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:04.240 the things that God is going to do in your 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:08.600 life through generations or even through let's say a business 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:10.879 that God has put in your heart, or or something 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:13.919 that God has called you to communicate to the world, 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:16.720 you feel like, okay, well this day I didn't even 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:18.719 I don't even have anybody in front of me. I'm 0:26:18.800 --> 0:26:23.280 very alone, I'm very isolated. Start seeing those days as 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:26.439 root days and value them the same as the fruit days. 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:28.480 You have some days where you'll go, oh, I'm seeing 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:30.840 that payoff of that. Oh okay, it's getting through. Oh 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:35.119 it's working. Okay, great. Let those encourage you for the 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.399 next down day. I don't mean down in a negative sense. Yeah, 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:41.960 I mean down in a sense that it feels negative, 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:50.399 but it is absolutely imperative and essential and necessary. Yeah, 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:55.159 it's not negative. It's necessary. Somebody put into comments it's necessary, beautiful, 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:59.320 it's necessary. And when we define days in such a 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.440 polar way, don't you think, britt when we say how 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:07.560 is your day and we start evaluating good or bad? Yeah, exactly, 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:08.520 that's too binary. 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:13.159 Yeah, I love this so much because I'm even just 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:15.320 going back through the catalog of my day to day 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:19.200 thinking about how many wins have I forfeited ooh, because 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:23.520 I'm categorizing them wrong or incorrectly. And I was thinking 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:26.720 about everybody that might be joining us. And I love 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.760 how you pointed out the two scriptures, like Scripture one 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.760 where it's like the sword, right, there's a fight in it, 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:36.240 and then verse two. 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.640 I'm singing and we talked. 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:41.560 You called it a strategy, and I was like, what 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:45.320 happens when we're not good at both of those strategies? 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:48.600 Like for me, I'm naturally a fighter, Like I don't 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:50.280 know why passed. I got it in me and I 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:53.240 know what sent me. I'm not always as quick to 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.920 celebrate or to sing, or to recognize the good. So 0:27:57.160 --> 0:28:00.280 I know I got wins that I'm not recognizing. But 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:03.560 the concept that you're talking about, I think works the opposite, right, Like, 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:07.080 if I can get like a one day win, like, 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.119 it's going to put me on a trajectory, and the 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:11.199 same way, if I can't do that, it puts me 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:16.000 on another trajectory. So I don't know, like what you 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:19.840 would say to some of us that are forfeiting certain 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:22.600 wins in our life because we can't grasp both of 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:25.359 these concepts or both of these strategies. We don't know 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:27.840 how to accept the good, you know, the person that 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:29.920 can't receive the compliment or can't see the win and 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:32.359 the fact that you're working hard today, Holly, like showing 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:36.359 your kids a great example. But then also like there's 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:38.560 some of us that aren't the fighter, and I don't 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:40.760 know how to like stand strong in the midst of ncy. 0:28:40.960 --> 0:28:42.920 Oh no, I'm still winning, and this is how I 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:44.000 identify my win today. 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:46.800 I love that. I love that. I love that. I 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:49.240 love that question. Now, I don't know if you're gonna 0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:52.880 love my answer, but I love the question because I'm 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:56.080 a fighter too, and what convicted me. We'll look at 0:28:56.080 --> 0:29:01.200 it together. Go to Isaiah twenty seven to one. Okay, 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:08.520 follow along with me in that day, I will punish 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:15.320 with my sword. No, the Lord will punish with his sword. 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:19.560 So who's doing the fighting? The lord? Okay? Keep going 0:29:20.000 --> 0:29:24.040 his fears great and powerful sword? Whose sword his sword? 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:27.880 Leviathan the gliding servant. I know I asked about mythological 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:31.000 creatures like Leviathan. You're like, can you describe Leviath? Then 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:33.360 a little bit more to me, No, you can describe 0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:37.200 him just fine. For yourself. You live with Leviathan. You 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:41.440 know your Leviath, then I know my Leviathan. For someone, 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:44.000 it's going to be an addiction that you're hoping God 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:47.080 will break in twenty twenty four. And the problem is, 0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:49.360 and I'm going to address this a little bit on Sunday, okay, 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:53.400 is that you thought it might be twenty three, you 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:56.080 thought it might be twenty two, you thought it might 0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:59.960 be twenty one. And with every year that it didn't 0:30:00.720 --> 0:30:05.440 with every year that he didn't deliver you, your hope 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:08.920 diminished a little bit. Yeah, and I really want to 0:30:08.920 --> 0:30:11.840 make sure that this teaching comes across with a strong 0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:17.280 emphasis of who's doing the fighting. God is fighting for you. 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:18.000 Wow. 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:21.360 Put it in the comments right now. God is fighting 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:26.680 for me. He will fight for me, and he's fighting Leviathan. 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:29.880 And let's just finish verse one, brit because we're both 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:34.040 fighters and we need it. We need this reminder who's 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:38.960 doing the slaying. In verse one he will slay, Yes, 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:43.680 he will slay. And then verse two says in that 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:49.400 day you will sing, So you do the singing and 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:53.040 he will do the slaying. What in the world does 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:56.800 that mean? Pastor stevens sonfes to walk around my house singing, Okay, 0:30:56.840 --> 0:31:01.800 I'll sing about a proof of vineyard cucumber melon and 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:05.880 come quts and like this isn't it? You know he's 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:11.640 loving James. You get sing all day long, it won't 0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:13.600 pay your bills and it won't raise your children, and 0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:15.800 it won't get you to work on time. So we're 0:31:15.840 --> 0:31:18.400 not going back here on the idea that Look, we've 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.840 got to devote ourselves to what God has put in 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.640 our hand. That's one of my core teachings is that 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:26.520 God will do for you what you cannot do for you. 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:28.640 He will not do for you what you can do 0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:33.240 for you. Yeah. What I mean about it is that 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:41.240 victory belongs to the Lord, okay, and we are instruments 0:31:41.400 --> 0:31:44.840 in his hand. And I'm trying to get you to 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:49.080 come from a place of victory rather than trying to 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:52.000 work to a place of victory, because I think that 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:54.720 will give you that momentum that you want to say. 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:57.680 If I feel like I'm losing everywhere, eventually, I don't 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:01.520 want to play this game anymore. Especially if you make 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:04.440 a man feel like the game is unwinnable. 0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:04.560 He's done. 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:08.600 We will walk away. And so when we make walking 0:32:08.680 --> 0:32:12.000 with God an unwinnable game for people, you know, now 0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:14.280 I got a fast two hours. Now I gotta give 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:17.360 up cigarettes. Now, well, you might need to fast from cigarettes. 0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:19.200 I remember a guy who told me one time he 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:24.600 was fast and from a chocolate porn pre marital sex. 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:26.800 And I was like, well, you probably should keep that 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.280 fast going a little bit past lent. Those are things 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:32.040 just good to eliminate, not to abstain from for a 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:35.200 little while. But it was really really interesting to me 0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:37.880 how he almost saught like, I'm white knuckling this thing 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:40.000 to live for God as long as I can, and 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:41.960 that's why I'm breaking it. Down into a day because 0:32:42.000 --> 0:32:44.200 if you think, well, this year, I'm not gonna fight, 0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:46.200 I'm not gonna nag, I'm not gonna get mad, I'm 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:47.760 not gonna get upset. I'm not going to do any 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:51.440 of those bad things. This year twenty four is my year. No, no, no, 0:32:52.280 --> 0:32:55.080 twenty four, one day at a time. Do you remember 0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:57.800 even when I broke it up and said that the 0:32:57.920 --> 0:33:00.240 average number of breadths a person takes his seven teen 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:05.000 to thirty thousand. Yeah, yeah, this is just from Google. 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:07.400 Do not fact check me. I don't know if it's true. 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:10.360 That part was crazy though, but I averaged it out 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:13.320 as I said, that's about on average seventeen to thirty 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:16.360 that's about twenty four thousand breadths. So even if you 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:20.320 just can take it to breathing in when I get 0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:25.120 when I get really spun up, breathing is advanced. Yeah, 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:27.400 when I get really out of control. And so what 0:33:27.480 --> 0:33:29.520 I'm trying to get the fighter in me to seat 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:34.280 and brit This is the strategy of it is that 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:38.240 this outcome is in God's hands and the process of 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:40.800 singing about a fruitful vineyard. I don't think it's about 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:44.720 musical notes. I don't think it has anything to do 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.160 with music. I think it has to do with mindset. 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:54.640 I don't think it has to do with the fact 0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:56.760 that we're denying our problems. I think it's that we're 0:33:56.800 --> 0:33:59.080 focusing on our blessings. Because if I'm singing about a 0:33:59.120 --> 0:34:02.480 fruitful vineyard, Wow, what do I not have time to 0:34:02.520 --> 0:34:03.040 focus on? 0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:03.560 Yeah? 0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:06.440 You're right, all the thorns and the weeds, and yes, 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:09.319 we deal with those things, but we do it from 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:11.759 a place of focusing on what God has given us. 0:34:11.760 --> 0:34:15.560 So maybe that's the challenge today. Maybe maybe when you 0:34:15.600 --> 0:34:19.000 hear one day that one. Maybe when you hear one 0:34:19.040 --> 0:34:22.640 day when what you need to hear is not hey, 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:24.839 get up and get make sure you run your three 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.840 miles today, get in your rower. Do you two thousand meters? 0:34:29.600 --> 0:34:32.640 Maybe you need to list one from yesterday, because I'm 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:35.319 gonna tell you what you won somewhere yesterday? Yes, so good? 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:39.680 You won somewhere yesterday, yes, and even getting that momentum 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:41.319 in your mind. And if you're not a win lost 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:43.440 kind of person, you're like, I'm not competitive. I like 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:48.120 to bask. I'm more of a basker. Okay, just let's 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:51.000 call it. Let's call it relishing. Let's call it savoring. 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:54.520 Are you a foodie, Let's call it savoring. How about that? 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:55.160 I love it. 0:34:55.320 --> 0:34:57.719 How about a one day savor. See it doesn't have 0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.880 the same feel to it. That's why I say one day. 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:02.640 But I don't want this to turn into a competition 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:05.040 for you where you start saying, all right, well, I 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:06.520 gotta wind to day, I gotta wind today. I got 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.600 a wind today. It's just about getting you to see 0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:13.560 that the out there somewhere that you hope to experience, 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:16.040 whatever that looks like, the internal state, the fruit of 0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:18.000 the spirit, the love, joy, piece of patience, kind is goodness, 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:20.120 faith on this, gentlemen, and self control that we all 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:23.640 want to produce in our lives is in this process 0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:29.279 of God watering his vineyard continually. And that's where I 0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:33.600 want to leave you on this inaugural episode of running 0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:36.320 back walk it out. I want to leave you thinking 0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:45.319 about whose garden you are. You are God's garden. He 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:50.680 will take responsibility for weeding out and for watering. That 0:35:50.800 --> 0:35:55.160 means you don't have to figure this out by yourself. 0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:58.279 And that's where my teaching deviates a little bit just 0:35:58.280 --> 0:36:02.960 from pure motivational teaching. I like motivational teaching or inspirational 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:07.360 personal development. I love that stuff. Where I'm called to 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:09.840 focus a little bit differently, though, is to get you 0:36:09.880 --> 0:36:13.560 to realize is that this victory isn't in your hands. 0:36:13.560 --> 0:36:17.120 It's in His hands, and He's given you victory all 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:18.600 around you, and I just want you to see a 0:36:18.600 --> 0:36:21.439 little bit of it so that you go into this year, 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:27.640 whatever vision you have of one day, when whatever vision 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:32.680 you have of one day, when I want you to 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:38.279 recognize your victories of the one day, when this is 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:40.840 the day the Lord has made and you got something 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:42.759 to rejoice about today. So I want you just to 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.759 light up my comments right now, Okay, I want you 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:48.800 to put what is the victory that God gave you today? 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:50.919 And if you got to go all the way down 0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:55.560 to I'm on breath twelve, six hundred and ninety three, 0:36:56.480 --> 0:37:00.360 ninety four, yeah, ninety five, I just want you to 0:37:00.400 --> 0:37:05.400 breathe that in and let it permeate your perspective today 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:08.200 and let the Lord fight the battles that are too 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:12.279 big for you. Let him deal with Leviathan. You just 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:16.040 get that leverage of the daily win, and I believe 0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:18.719 this revelation will continue to unfold in your heart, and 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:20.640 I'm going to be looking through the comments, and Holly's 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:22.360 going to be looking, and Chris is going to be looking, 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.480 and BRIT's going to be looking, and we're going to 0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:27.319 be praying. In fact, I'm going to pray right now 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:31.160 that God will enable you to walk this out, to 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:36.520 walk into your one day win, just step by step Father, 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:40.440 in the name of Jesus, I come into agreement with 0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:43.840 your desires for each person who was led by you 0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:48.400 to join with this experience. It was divinely timed that 0:37:48.440 --> 0:37:52.680 they came across this video. It was orchestrated by you 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:56.960 because they were discouraged, defeated, or spread thin. And now 0:37:57.000 --> 0:38:00.520 you've given us a focus and we even feel the 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:04.440 fruitfulness of your word going forth. Now, Lord, would you 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:09.680 water it. We've shared some thoughts today, some applications, some randomness, 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:12.840 some usings, but I believe there's been some revelation too, 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.759 And would you allow it to unfold as we each 0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:19.160 day have a new twenty four And may this year, 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:21.560 as it unfolds, be made up of the days that 0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:27.160 are committed to you in your hands in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:28.880 all right, you let me know if you liked our 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:33.160 new program, We'll do another one, all right. We ran 0:38:33.200 --> 0:38:36.239 it back. 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