Rethinking Rest (Jonathan Josephs)

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.480 gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.720 Enjoy the message. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.279 Certainly a privilege for me to be able to share 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.360 God's word with you, to name my name is Jonathan, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.800 out of the privilege of serving here as our Balentine 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.119 campus pastor, and. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:30.000 Thanks for the love. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.920 And I say kind of feel the same way every 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.120 time I get to stand up here. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.200 On one hand, I'm. 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.919 So grateful to share God's word, but I just always say, 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.040 for me, the greatest privilege is to be able to 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.720 sit under the teaching of this house, under the leadership 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.040 of our pastors, Pastor Stephen and Pastor Holly. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.920 And he asked me the other day, are you going 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.240 to continue in this series? 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.800 That's what I thought series, And I said that would 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.880 be dangerous for me to attempt to follow that up. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.840 Is that not a masterful series that we just went 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.080 through as a church. And I'm still trying to quantify 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.360 and qualify what God's done in my heart through that 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.319 through that series, it was so powerful and so profound, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.839 And so I'm so grateful for a pastor who gets 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.360 alone with God in the secret place to bring us 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.000 fresh revelation, fresh insight week after week. Can we thank 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:30.720 God for our pastors together? And before I read our 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.920 scriptures for today, I want to give a special welcome 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.440 to our uptown campus, my old stomping grounds over there. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.119 Josh and Vic, we love you guys. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.080 Come on, let's thank God for our brand new facility in. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.679 Uptown and amazing. Okay, feel good to stand for a 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:47.800 few more moments when. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.480 We read these scriptures. I've got a few, all right. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.520 I want to read an instruction. I want to read 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.200 you a promise, and then I want to look at 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.280 a story in the life of the disciples that I 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.320 think is going to illustraight these principles for us today 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.960 that I believe God wants to do something in our 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:05.480 hearts through. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.320 So let's start with an instruction from. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:14.720 Scripture Galatians six'. Nine galatians six,' nine this is a 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:20.480 familiar one. For you let us not become weary in. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.440 Doing good who's he? 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:24.120 Talking to not? 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.200 ME weary i know what it's LIKE to i know 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.000 what it's like to be Weary when i've been trying 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.440 to row through the storms. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.200 Of life but weary in. Doing good not us. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.640 Tired of, Doing good, he says let us not grow 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.640 weary in, doing good for at the proper time we 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.919 will reap a harvest if we do not. Give up 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.079 touch your, neighbors said don't. Give up, all right that's 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.320 an instruction. For, us now do not. Grow weary but 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.600 if you find yourself in that, place today here's the. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.400 GOOD news i want to give you a promise from 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.880 the very words Of our Savior in matthew. Chapter eleven it's, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.280 So beautiful and this one one Sentence that. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:08.760 Jesus says, he says. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:13.440 Come, to me all you who are weary, and BURDENED 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.919 and i will give. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.600 You rest. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.960 Come, to me all who are weary, and BURDENED and 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.480 i will give. YOU rest I see jesus just coming 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.920 into the room bringing rest to sons and daughters who have. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:31.080 Been. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.040 Tired today touch, your neighbor tell him rest is on. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.920 The way rest is on. The way rest is on. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:41.800 The way, all right wiggle your legs for. A minute 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.120 here's the. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.360 Long. One those that was just, Two verses mark. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.720 Chapter six this really interesting moment in the life of, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:55.360 the disciples The, Twelve apostles mark, Chapter six, verse seven 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.880 calling the twelve, to him calling the twelve, to him 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.080 calling the twelve. To him he began to send, them 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.160 out two, by two and he gave them authority over. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.080 Impure Spirits so jesus, calls them and he, sends them calls. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:08.520 Sends them. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.280 That's important there's a rhythm to Walking. With god he, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.560 calls us he, Sends us he, calls us he. Sends 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.320 us he gave them authority over. Impure spirits and these were. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.080 His instructions take nothing for the journey except, the staff, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.480 no bread, no bag no money in. Your belts in, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.120 Other words jesus is teaching them what our pastor told 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:25.400 us a. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.400 Couple of, weeks ago. That obedience details. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.960 Follow obedience, he's saying don't try to get it all 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.080 figured out, Right now i'm. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.920 Sending you and while you may not have all the details, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.280 figured out what did he. Give him he gave. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.200 Him authority as long as the Hand of god is on, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.279 your life it's all that you need for whatever situation 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:44.200 he sends. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.960 You, into says. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.080 Don't worry about, all that take nothing for. The journey 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.320 he's teaching them to live. By faith and whenever you enter, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.800 a house stay there until you leave. That town and 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.919 if any place will not welcome you or listen, to 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.360 you leave that place and shake off the dust from 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:58.760 your feet as a testimony. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.800 Against them. Verse twelve look. At this it's so amazing 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:02.039 what the. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.600 Apostles did then they went out and preached that people. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.680 Should repent they drove out many demons and anointed many 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.440 sick people with oil and. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:11.920 Healed them. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.160 Incredible ministry we're gonna skip ahead a little bit after 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.159 this is the Beheading. Of john the skip ahead the 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:19.480 Beheading of John the baptist. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.599 Right here, it's important but let's go to. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.880 Verse thirty so after, All this ministry says in verse 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.880 thirty that the apostles Gathered around jesus and reported to 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.960 him all that they had done. And, taught then because 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.880 so many people were coming and going that they did 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.960 not even have a chance, to eat he said, to 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.120 them come away with me by yourselves to a quiet 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.280 place and get. Some rest so they went away by 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:46.400 themselves in a boat to a. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.720 Solitary place but here's. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.920 The problem but many who saw, them leaving they, recognized 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.000 them and they ran on foot from all, the towns 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:53.960 and they got there ahead. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.279 Of Them when. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:00.000 Jesus landed and he saw the large crowd he had compounded, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.880 on them he had compassion on them because they were 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.520 like sheep without. A shepherd so he began teaching them. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.880 Many things he starts feeding them. Right there but, the 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.000 apostles they have a little bit of a. Different response jesus, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.160 Had Compassion but verse thirty, five says by this time 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.120 it was late in. The day so his disciples came 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.520 to him, and said this is a, remote place and 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.800 it's already. Very late send the people away so that 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.479 they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.840 buy themselves something. To eat but he, answered them you 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.360 give them something? To eat, they said. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.200 That would take more than happy. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.880 Year's wages are we to go and spend that much 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.640 on bread and give. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.080 It to them? To eat these, same apostles. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 Who just a few verses earlier were reporting all that 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.440 they had Done, for jesus all they had done, And taught, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.719 now say are we to go and? Feed them interesting 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.800 a right back to our key verse in verse, thirty 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.599 one this Key phrase jesus said, to them come, with 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.359 me by yourselves to a quiet place and get. SOME 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.640 rest i want to talk to you today about, rethinking rest. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:14.560 Rethinking rest go ahead and. Be seated, you know. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 When you're One Thing pastor stevens taught is he's like when, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.160 you're preaching it's always important to think of a. Felt need, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.120 you know just what are the things that people are 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.360 going through in real life that we experience on a 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.000 human Level that god's word can connect to and. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.760 Speak to AND so i figure in a room, this. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.400 SIZE if i had a message, on hope there'd be 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.640 a number of people who needed to hear a message. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.400 On hope or a message, on peace there'd be a 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.240 number of people who would need to. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.320 Hear a message. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.960 On PEACE but i love that this Passage of scripture 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.360 talks to those of us who find, ourselves TIRED because 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.760 i think that hits ninety nine point nine percent of. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.000 The room HOW do i, know that because when you 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.160 ask somebody how, they're doing what do they normally say? 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.000 To you they just say they don't answer with a feeling, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.440 to say we've just, been. Busy busy anybody busy in 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.800 the room, right now and we all got different levels, 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.360 of busy and yet we all give this say what 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.160 you've been? Up tough howthing has? Been, Going oh we've, been, busy, busy, busy. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.640 BUSY busy I was i've, mentioned Before but i've got, three, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.520 kids ten eight. And three and one of the things 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.280 Me and anna we like to do is just go 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.120 through our photo photo app and just look at. Old pictures, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.480 you know you like you see, These things, you're, like 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.040 wow we thought they were, cute then and they kind 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.880 of look a little funny at that stage. Of development 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.040 but we love going through all these photos and old 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.200 memories and, so LIKE once i, start going It's like 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.160 i'm just going all the. Way BACK but i love 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.400 seeing pictures of. MY family i love seeing other moments. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.760 IN life i came across this photo just the other 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.880 day that kind of, reminded me as us preparing, this 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.160 sermon look at this picture of a that's that's me 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.280 and my pastor. RIGHT there, i know, it's crazy TWELVE 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.520 years i haven't changed, a, bit unbelievable and that. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.640 That popped UP and, i go oh. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.200 My goodness and that was twenty thirteen and it's to 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.719 bring him back all the memories of. THAT season i 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.720 just showed Up At. Elevation church I'd Finished bible school 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.320 And felt god out of calling on my life to 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.720 build his church and to serve people and help them 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.040 grow Closer. To CHRIST and i could not BELIEVE that 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.520 i was getting to do ministry at A Churchlight. ELEVATION 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.360 church i grew up in a real small Town, in 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.080 Canada and i'd never seen anything, Like this so the 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.720 fact that they would let me on the team was 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.360 like unbelievable. To me AND so i remember us coming 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.240 here with so much enthusiasm and so. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:29.800 Much excitement you can take. THAT down i don't have 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:30.280 to leave that up the. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:35.000 Whole time i'm already feeling weird, about, It OKAY and 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.320 i remember. That seat you remember that season. So vividly 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.360 we Get To. Elevation Church it's january, Twenty Thirteen pastor 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.120 stevens preaching a Series Called The new Rules. Of Resolution 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.880 and january is always such a busy time in the 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.120 life of. The church y'all are getting your, act together 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.880 trying to get back in the rhythm of. Being here, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.400 every week people are coming to. The church it's always 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.840 CRAZY and i remember in that first month turning to someone, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:58.599 and saying, it's, LIKE oh i. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.400 Was exhausted we were working. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:02.880 SO hard i know some of y'all think we Only, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.480 work sundays but there's more that goes on the making. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.400 Church HAPPEN and i remember, going like oh, my goodness 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.120 this is, a lot and, they said, don't worry it's 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.679 it's just a. BUSY season, i, said, okay cool it's 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.520 just a. Busy season and then we get Through That 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.719 january february season and we're gearing Up for Easter. At, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.960 elevation now, back then we didn't have all these permanent, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.000 facilities everywhere so we would run like, one thousand six 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.240 hundred and fifty two worship experiences just to have space 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.400 for everyone to bring, their friends bring their family to 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:31.679 come here. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:32.400 The Gospel. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.160 Over easter we are running, like hard we are. Running 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.920 CRAZY and i remember getting to the end of that 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.880 turn into someone being that was, a lot and, they said, 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.920 don't worry it's just a. Busy season you See where 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.440 i'm Going with it didn't take me long to realize 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.520 that in ministry it's always a. Busy season not only, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:57.720 in ministry, in life it's always a. Busy season whatever, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.959 we're facing whether it's getting the kids back in the river, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.760 of school whatever situation we're. Going through, we THINK when 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.880 i can just get through, this season what then it's 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.439 going to be all calm. And collected then everything's gonna. Get, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.280 settled no you leave one busy season just to enter 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.360 into another. Busy season touch your, neighbors say it's always a. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.600 Busy season it's always a. BUSY season i was the 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.360 IDIOT because i grew up in a place where seasons 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.880 meant a temporary duration. Of time there was, Four seasons 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:27.880 but it turns. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.880 Out it was just a. Busy season would. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.880 Go on and on, and on and twelve, years in, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.120 guess what it's been a. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.160 Busy season it's always a. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.040 Busy season and when we think about this idea of, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.400 getting rest spiritual rest for, our souls we fall into 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.480 this trap of thinking sometimes THAT if i can. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.520 Just get through, this season or. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.080 Like, the disciples if we can just get to the, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.720 other side then we'll get a chance. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.719 To rest so what struck me in. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.719 This passage of scripture with the with The twelve disciples 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.520 Is That jesus is says he calls. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.880 Them, to himself and he sends. Them out two. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.120 By two, they leave and they're doing incredible things For. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:11.320 The lord they're healing, the sick they're, preaching repentance they're casting. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.600 Out demons they're being Used by god. IN them i. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.679 FEEL fulfilled i Feel like god. Used ME if i 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.000 can just pray for someone and. Encourage them these guys 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.960 are casting, out demons and they come Back to jesus 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.160 and you can hear the enthusiasm in. Their voices they 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.200 reported to him all they had done And. Taught jesus 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.319 we took that sermon you gave up on that mount 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.080 about how blessed are the poor and spirit blessed are 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.959 the pure, and heart and we were teaching it, to 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.280 people and they were repenting coming Into the Kingdom. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:37.360 Of. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.320 God jesus we were anointing sick people and seeing. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:41.400 Them healed they come. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.160 Back to jesus and The, reporting jesus look what we've done, For, 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.679 you jesus look at all the things that we did in. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.200 Your name and yet. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.600 As exciting as, It was i've got to imagine that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.400 it must have also. Been exhausting do not grow weary in. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.200 DOING good i didn't know you could grow weary in. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.040 Doing GOOD but i found out that some of the 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.200 Things that god has for us in, our life even 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.160 though they're, good things can also leave us in a 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.440 place of exhaustion when you're, pouring out, pouring out, pouring 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.880 out and some of us are tired of the very 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.880 things that we prayed And asked. God for things that 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.840 once came into our life as a blessing now feel like. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.400 A burden why. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.040 Because we go from busy season to busy season to, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.120 busy season and wonder why. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.640 We're tired so. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.520 The disciples They're telling jesus what, they've done and it 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.400 must have sounded like music to their ears when, he says, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.280 all right, great work, Great, work. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:32.840 Matthew, Great. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.720 Work peter now come away with me by yourselves to 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.280 a quiet place and get. Some rest, oh great we're 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.679 going to go to the. Other side is it going 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.559 to Be? An airbnb is it going to Be? A 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.040 hilton maybe it's the. FOUR seasons i don't Know how jesus, 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.920 is rolling but they're excited to get some Rest. With 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.839 jesus and yet when they get to the other side 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.400 Of the Sea, of galilee what's waiting? For Them more 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:01.040 ministry more, hungry people crowds of people who needs something 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.520 from them after they just spent how long. Pouring out 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.840 not ONLY that i mentioned that in, That time John 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.920 the baptist, Is beheaded so not only could they possibly 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.760 be weary of, doing good but they're also carrying the 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.080 hard thing of having someone that they knew, get beheaded. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.120 And, they're wondering is this going to happen? 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.560 To us and so we go through life not only 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.880 carrying the good things that, are happening but the hard 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.840 things that. Are happening and so often we find ourselves 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.480 just out. Of breath come away, with me, by yourselves 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.280 to a quiet place and get. Some rest and they 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.800 get to the other side and there are crowds of 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:34.320 people waiting To. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.320 See jesus jesus. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.480 Had compassion, on them But the apostles had a. Different 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.240 RESPONSE and i wondered how they could go so Quickly, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.160 from jesus look at all we've done and taught in 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.520 your name to send the. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.120 People away how. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.960 Did they go from look what we've done For, you 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.640 god to get these people out. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.360 Of here we're tired and. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.080 We're HUNGRY now i know that's unique to, the apostles 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:02.520 you've never been in, that PLACE but i was. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.040 Imagining for, a moment imagining for. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.960 A moment imagine you moved your family all the Way, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.880 To Charlotte north carolina to be a part of a 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.480 church where you could See what god could do. Through 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.880 you and, it's LIKE am i really going to go 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.760 spend three hours On a? Sunday serving how do we 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.320 quickly shift from one place to? The next how did 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.760 that guy in that photo so quickly go FROM from 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.840 i CAN'T believe i get to be here to a, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.480 DECADE later i found myself in a Place. Going GOD 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:37.080 can i even do this? Any more it's possible today 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.760 that some of us who feel like, we are that 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.960 we are weak in, our faith may not. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.240 Be weak we might just. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.320 Be weary we might just. Be weary and look what 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.080 happens with. The, apostles well these crowds of people, show 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:55.680 up Says that jesus, Has compassion but, the disciples they're 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:56.400 trying to send the. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.240 People AWAY and i want to. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.320 GIVE you i wrote these down five signs that you 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:10.040 might be. Spiritually spent five signs that your soul might be. Exhausted, today, evasion, isolation, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:17.400 projection exaggeration. And preservation let me break. It down they're 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.040 all on the text. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:18.400 Right here. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.720 Real quick evasion it's when they said it's already. Very 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:26.160 late evasion is when you start looking for excuses to 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.880 get out of responsibilities before anything's even asked. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.880 Of you when you are at a place where your soul. 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.040 Is tired i'm not talking about physically tired because you 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.240 didn't get a good sleep. Last night i'm talking about 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.600 being spiritually weary on. The inside you start avoiding the 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.160 very god given responsibilities that he's brought into your life 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.600 because he wants to, use you because he wants to 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.240 do something. Through you he, starts saying it's already. Very 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.520 late isolation is when they say send the. People away 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.360 when you are, spiritually tired you become quickly disinterested in 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.720 the concerns of others because it's very difficult to feed 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.000 hungry people when you yourself. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:05.480 Are. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:11.120 Hungry, yeah projection it's when they said send them away 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.840 so that they can get something. To eat projection is 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.280 when you start forecasting your own deficiencies on other people as. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.679 An Excuse the bible never actually says that the people. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.720 Were hungry it says earlier that the disciples. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:26.919 Didn't get something, to eat so? 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.080 Who's hungry the apostles send them away so they can 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.160 get something. To eat that's when you start saying THINGS 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.720 like i don't want to reach out. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.800 To them i'd hate to be. An, inconvenience no you 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.360 don't want to. Be inconvenienced. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.560 Projection exaggeration it's when they said it would take more 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:44.119 than half a. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.119 Year's wages how are they so good? 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.719 At math they just added it up like, that, one, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:53.080 two three four five exaggeration when you start exaggerating what 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.040 it's going to take to do the Things that god 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.320 is asking you. To do and, with that the last one. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.399 Is preservation when they said are we to go? And 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.800 spend when you are, spiritually tired when you, are exhausted 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.479 when you are, missing rest the rest that Comes from 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.520 jesus in, your life you start holding on to the 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.399 Things that god has given you in order to be 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.760 a blessing? To other are we to go and spend 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.200 whether it's, your time, your energy or. Your talents the 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.919 Opportunities that god brings into, your life you begin to 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.359 see them as an expense rather than an opportunity to 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:32.679 do Something for. His, kingdom, exaggeration, evasion, isolation projection. And 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.439 PRESERVATION when i read this passage, of scripture it hit me. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.000 So deeply i'm TRYING to i want to tell You 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.560 the lord gave me this message two years ago at 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.600 a TIME when i needed it, so desperately and, IN 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.280 fact i would not be here ministering this word to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.160 you today If the lord didn't give me this word. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.120 For me because all those THINGS that i just read 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.920 to you in the response of the disciples out there 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.640 about a decade of ministry, FOR me i found myself 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.320 in that. SAME place i vividly remember ONE meeting i 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.640 was in with one of our other campus pastors who 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.960 was helping to lead our campuses with me at, the 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.560 time and we were just brainstorming how we could do, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:14.080 more ministry impact. More people and with every single idea he, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.840 THREW out i had a reason for why we shouldn't 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.240 do it or why it. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.080 Wouldn't work he's. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.200 All enthusiastic we could, do this we could, Do that 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.000 and with everything, HE said i kept shooting down every idea. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.960 BECAUSE all i could think about is what it was 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.680 going to. COST me i. Was empty we. 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.399 Were coming off like it was that coming OUT, of 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.800 covid all the residual frustration of that, let alone all 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.600 THE things i was. Carrying MYSELF and i remember in, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:39.800 that meeting he looked, At me, he's like are, you? 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.800 OKAY bro, I said. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.120 I think i just need, a vacation because we get 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.480 like the, disciples do. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.560 Where we think that rest is somewhere. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.960 Out THERE when i can just get to the, other 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.320 SIDE when i can just get to that, long WEEKEND 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.960 when i can just get to, that VACATION then i 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:56.400 can Just. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.360 Get i'll get a chance. To rest we go from. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.240 Season to SEE when i can get the kids out, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.840 of DIAPERS when i can get the kids out of, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.639 elementary SCHOOL when i can get, Them GRADUATED when i 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.200 can get, this PROMOTION when i can sell, the BUSINESS 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.520 when i can we, keep PROJECTING if i can just 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.080 get to the, other Side then i'll get a chance. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:13.760 To rest And so i'm in THAT me, I go 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.399 I think i just need. A vacation but it pointed 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.600 out SOMETHING that i was carrying in my, own HEART 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.160 that i had spent TEN years i was working Working, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.920 for god but was not Working. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:24.879 With god. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.000 And in all my doing, For, him remember because he 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:29.840 calls you and he. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.280 Sends you he, calls you and he. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.760 Sends you and it was illuminating to ME because, i 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.080 realized in my Busyness, FOR god i was rejecting that, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.159 first calling which was to Be with him and to 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:41.720 receive rest for. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.840 MY soul i needed. This WORD and i want to. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.760 Show you What the lord taught me through this passage, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.480 of scripture because it's so Beautiful what jesus says to 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:51.320 them in that. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.720 One phrase it gives us a formula. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.359 For REST now i know faith isn't, a formula but 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.240 let me give you a formula. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.040 For rest. Jesus says i'm verse. Thirty one, he says come. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.920 Away with me by yourself to a quiet place and get. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.080 Some rest now look at this for. A minute come. 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.479 Away with me by yourselves to a quiet place and 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:16.919 get some rest by yourselves is solitude to a. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:29.960 Quiet, place silence silence plus solitude. Equal rest silence and solitude. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.880 Equal rest silence and solitude are two. 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.240 Spiritual disciplines have you heard of the spiritual? Disciplines before 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.120 spiritual disciplines are means by which we Connect with god 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.760 and so coming to church, corporate worship this is a 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:48.440 spiritual discipline you coming here On a, sunday morning worshiping 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:49.800 with brothers and sisters in. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:50.560 The faith this is a. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.639 Spiritual discipline give yourself a round. Of applause you've done one. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.360 Already today Studying the Word of god is a spiritual 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.600 discipline opening up his words so he can speak. To 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.640 us or two, for two give yourself a round. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.080 Of, applause, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.560 YEAH yeah i grew up in an amazing church where 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.160 we learned, about worship we learned, about prayer we learned about. 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.080 READING scripture i don't ever remember being taught about the spiritual. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.399 Disciplines of silence. 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.719 And solitude but silence and solitude are the way that 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.479 we experience the holy Rest. 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.320 Of god not. Physical rest you can take a nap. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:30.639 For that but spiritual rest Or what jesus calls rest for. Our, 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:36.320 souls now there is a difference between isolation. And solitude 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:41.040 isolation Is when. I'm alone solitude Is when i'm Alone. 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.639 With god it's what our pastor taught us a couple of. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.840 Weeks ago he Said that jesus would get Alone with 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.880 god so that he could Align. 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:50.600 With god solitude IS. 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.399 When i get Alone with HIM so i can align. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:23:02.159 With him isolation leads, To loneliness solitude leads, To intimacy silence. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:06.600 And solitude in his book on, Spiritual Disciplines, richard foster, 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:11.400 he said in silence we create an open empty space. 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.920 Where we are free to Receive what god wants. 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:19.400 To give, in solitude we come to know the Gentleness 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.520 of god's presence and the strength of. 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.520 His LOVE can i read it one more time? For 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:25.160 you is? That good? 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:30.000 Or what in silence we create an open empty space 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.320 where we are free to Receive what god wants. To 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:38.439 give in solitude we come to know the Gentleness of 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:43.359 his presence and the Strength of. His love silence and 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:48.600 solitude is the place that we Receive. From god see 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.119 this Life with god. We live it's as it, should 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:55.840 be as natural. As breathing you, breathe in you. Breathe 0:23:55.880 --> 0:24:01.520 out he, Calls you he, Sends you he, calls you he. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.920 Sends you because everything you Do for god was never 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.120 meant to come from your. Own strength but it's an 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:08.640 exhale of the Strength that he's. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:12.720 Given you, We inhale. We EXHALE but i. 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:15.360 Wonder if some of us are, tired today if some 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:17.199 of us are weary if some of us feel like 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:25.040 we have nothing left to give because we're we're, breathing 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.240 out we're, breathing out we're showing up for every. Other 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:30.600 person and Yet when jesus gives us that call to 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.000 come and be, with him we. Neglect It why because 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:40.199 silence and solitude is. Incredibly uncomfortable i'm the type of 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.680 person That if i'm driving three minutes to the, Grocery 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:44.720 store i'm making a phone call JUST so i don't 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.000 have to sit alone with my own thoughts for those. 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.560 Three minutes silence and solitude is the key. 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:53.280 To REST and I remember i was telling you about. 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:55.960 THAT season i remember after that, This realization god speak, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:58.480 TO you i got to get Alone. With GOD and 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.959 i remember taking a half day to just go and 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.800 read my word. And PRAY and i know this sounds so, 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:10.160 incredibly simple but it's so incredibly powerful when we can 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:12.520 just get Alone with god for a. Little bit The 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.880 things god can do in a. Moment unbelievable, He started 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:20.280 he started convicting me because there ARE things i was 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.720 blaming other people for FOR why i felt THE way, 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:24.520 I did but it was THINGS that i was carrying on. 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:26.120 The inside he started. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.359 Comforting me he started speaking, to ME and i, just 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:31.879 remember in the stillness of, that moment be still and 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:33.840 KNOW that I. Am god in the stillness of, That 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:36.800 moment god speaking. To ME after i was just listing 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.320 out all my complaint we started the worship experience. 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:40.159 That they saying, thank you. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:42.800 Thank you think sometimes my prayer life looks, like, complaint, 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.760 complaint COMPLAINT and I but god can handle. Those THINGS 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:50.919 and i remember listing all my frustrations and just unloading 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.240 my burdens on him and him just SAYING and i, 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.439 love YOU and i Love you. Henry now and he 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:58.920 calls silence and solitude the furnace, of transformation because, he 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:01.240 says in, that place we can't hold on to, the 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.120 scaffolding the things, we put the things. 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:06.440 We guard our lives with to make us feel. 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:09.399 Like something but, in silence, in solitude you're not, a 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.159 mom you're not, a dad you're not, a boss you're not. 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:15.439 An employee you are simply a son or. A daughter 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.399 and it's in that place of being Alone with god 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:21.560 that you can receive. What matters what's when he calls you, 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.480 his son when he calls you his daughter and pours 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:29.439 out his strength and love into, your life silence. And 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:32.760 SOLITUDE and i think for some, of us Even, as 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:36.760 christians we're doing all the right activities. 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:37.840 And wondering why something is. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:40.359 Still missing it's because he, sends us but he also. 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:42.800 Calls us he, sends us and he. Calls us, in 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:45.760 fact it's actually the other way where he calls us 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:49.600 and then. Sends Us in genesis, one Four when god 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:51.840 is creating, the earth, that says this is so interesting. 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:52.680 To me it says that. 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:58.200 He created evening, and morning and he called it day evening, 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.280 and morning and called. A day we would think morning, 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.560 an evening that's how we think of. A day But, 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:09.800 for god the day begins. With rest before you get 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:13.600 up to, do anything the day starts. With rest so 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.840 my work is an overflow of the REST that i Have. 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:19.439 In him and at the beginning of, This passage jesus 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:21.360 models it. For us it says that he calls them, 0:27:21.359 --> 0:27:23.640 to himself and he, sends them, calls them. Sends THEM 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:26.400 now i know what, you're THINKING. Pastor jj it would 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:26.800 be so. 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:29.360 NICE if i could just take half a day to. 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:32.359 Go pray and Read the bible and spend Time. With 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.199 jesus but you don't know. The life we're not pastors. 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:37.600 Like you we got real life. To do i've got 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:39.760 Three kids i'm trying to take. CARE of i got 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:42.200 a demanding job. Right now this IS what i wanted 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:44.280 to show you from, the scriptures because if you find 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:46.400 yourself in a place where, you're, life well what does 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.320 it really look like for me to find these Moments 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.399 with god in the middle of our? Crowded, lives remember 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:55.159 crowds of people are waiting For. The apostle in the 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:59.000 middle of our crowded calendars and crowded lives and. Crowded 0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:02.680 minds HOW do i find time to be Alone? 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:03.680 With jesus and. 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:05.320 This IS what i wanted to show you because look 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:08.199 at This when jesus says, to them come away with 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:11.080 me by yourselves to a quiet place and get, some 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:12.960 rest and they get in the boat to go. 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:14.680 To the other side Of the Sea. Of galilee the 0:28:14.800 --> 0:28:15.400 QUESTION is. 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:18.320 I know that the disciples they didn't know what was 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:20.800 waiting for them on the. Other side they, didn't know 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:23.480 just like you don't know what's waiting for you on 0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:24.199 the other side of. 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:26.320 This season just like, you're. 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:28.080 Thinking MAN if i can just get but you don't 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:31.040 know what diagnosis your mom might get on the other side. 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:33.159 Of it you don't know what's waiting for you on. 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:35.520 This side the disciples. Didn't know but the question Is 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:39.280 did jesus know what was waiting for them on the, 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.480 Other side and of course the answer, Is yes. 0:28:43.080 --> 0:28:43.840 Jesus knows. 0:28:43.920 --> 0:28:47.400 Jesus knows so was he tricking them when he said, 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:49.440 to them come away with me by yourselves to a 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:52.360 quiet place and get Some Red if jesus knew what 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:54.640 was waiting for them on the other side Of the Sea? 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.280 Of galilee was he tricking them when he gave them 0:28:57.280 --> 0:29:00.600 this invitation to come away and be with him for. 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:02.520 A moment and this is What the lord showed me from. 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:07.200 This Passage after jesus gives them, that invitation it says 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:11.760 in verse. Thirty two so they went away by themselves in. 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:13.960 A boat. 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:19.719 I thought rest was. A place i found out that 0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:20.880 rest is in. 0:29:20.960 --> 0:29:25.640 A person i thought rest was a DESTINATION if i 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.320 can just get. Over THERE but i found out rest 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:35.080 is on. The way rest Is what jesus wants to 0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:38.280 give you as you are heading from one place to, 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:41.600 the next from one season of life to. 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:44.440 The next it says that they got in a. 0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:48.520 Boat together so the moment for the disciples to get 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:51.200 rest wasn't when they would get to the, other side 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:53.880 wasn't when they would get, a sabbatical wasn't when they'd 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:54.360 finally get. 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:57.040 A vacation the Rest that jesus. 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:59.440 Wanted to give him was when he invited them into 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.240 the boat so that they could rest on, the Way 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:05.920 because jesus knew what was waiting for them on the. 0:30:05.960 --> 0:30:09.360 Other side jesus knew that there would be hungry people 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:12.600 that he needed the apostles, to feed so he invites 0:30:12.640 --> 0:30:15.440 them into the boat so that they could receive from 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:18.240 him all that, they need so that they could breathe 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:23.680 in before they needed to. Breathe out rest happens on. 0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:26.200 The way HOW do i know this because look what 0:30:26.240 --> 0:30:28.080 it says in. The scripture it says that the people 0:30:28.080 --> 0:30:31.400 who were, standing there they, watched them and they followed them. 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:35.080 On foot that Means that jesus and the disciples could 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:38.440 have walked to where they. Were going jesus and the 0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:41.479 disciples could have ran along with all the other crowds. 0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:43.800 Of people And yet, jesus says come. 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:45.800 With me in this boat for just a little while 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:48.520 it says that they actually got to the other side 0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:49.640 Faster than jesus and. 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:50.840 The apostles they were waiting. 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:53.360 For Them so, jesus says let's take the slow way, 0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:55.600 over there just so you can. Take them get a 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:58.560 moment to really catch, your breath because he wants to 0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:03.280 give you rest On the pay attention to the transitions in, 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:07.920 your life the, transition moments because they are windows to Connect. 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:11.520 With jesus jesus will show up in your life with. 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:13.360 Little Boats richard foster. 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:17.480 Calls this he calls them, little solitudes, little boats little 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:20.760 Moments where god wants to breathe into you and give. 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:23.320 You rest touch your, neighbors say don't miss, the boat 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:24.480 don't miss. 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:26.040 THE boat. 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:30.520 I think we so often miss what the disciples miss 0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:33.560 because we think rest is somewhere. Out there but when 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:36.160 we come to the Realization that jesus wants to give 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.960 us rest on, the way we start looking for the. 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:42.000 Little boats the, little boats the. 0:31:42.000 --> 0:31:44.240 Little moments throughout our day where we can Connect, with 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.640 him those moments. Of transition That's why, david said in 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:50.080 the morning and, the evening those are. Transition times, the 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:55.840 morning it's not quite night it's not quite day transition times. 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:56.000 For us to Connect. 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:58.800 With GOD and i want to encourage you brothers and 0:31:58.840 --> 0:32:02.920 sisters that in your Rhythm, with god don't grow weary in, 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:05.880 doing good but look for the little moments throughout your 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:10.680 day to simply Breathe in his, holy rest to breathe in, 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:12.680 his faithfulness to Breathe in. 0:32:13.120 --> 0:32:14.440 His goodness this can. 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:16.560 Look like, for me it looked like pulling in the 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:19.600 driveway and taking three MINUTES before i walked in the 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:22.959 house just to unload the burdens of my day SO 0:32:23.000 --> 0:32:25.640 that i could move from one moment of ministry to 0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:28.240 the ministry that happens in my home and FEEL like 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.040 i actually had something to give. 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:31.800 Little moments. Little moments. 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:35.480 And for those of us who, feel, Like ah i'm just, 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:37.840 So busy i'm just, so busy how is It, that 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:41.320 jesus who was perfect and only had three years to, 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:44.840 do ministry knew how to prioritize Time. With god, in 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.640 fact right after he feeds the, five thousand you know what. 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:49.760 He does he goes up onto a mountainside. To Pray 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:53.960 because jesus knew the importance of getting Alone with god 0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.800 so that he could Align with god and Receive. From 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.640 god and what makes us so arrogant to think That 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:02.200 it jesus needed to get Alone, with god that we 0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:05.200 can somehow make it through, this life that we can 0:33:05.280 --> 0:33:08.040 somehow fulfill the Purposes that he has, for us that 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:10.760 we can somehow do all the Things that he has 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:12.720 in his heart without us taking. 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:16.240 Time to really Receive. From him so. 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:18.440 THE way i, pictured it THE way i pictured it 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:22.400 is like we're sometimes going through life on, one foot, 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:24.600 just SAYING if i can just get to the other 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:27.800 side Of the Sea, of Galilee then i'll get a chance. 0:33:27.840 --> 0:33:28.680 To rest and. 0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:32.960 We're doing everything that we Can for god, like this 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:37.120 and we're wondering sometimes why we're. So tired we're wondering 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:40.160 sometimes why. We're shaky we wonder sometimes why it feels 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:42.800 like we're out. Of BREATH and i think it's because 0:33:42.800 --> 0:33:47.800 we haven't learned how to rest on, The way rest on, 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:49.560 the way rest on. 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:52.480 The WAY so. 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.360 I pictured you getting your stability back and your strength Back, 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:59.240 because jesus it says that he, called them and he. 0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:03.720 Sent them, he calls He sends galatians five. Twenty five 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:04.320 so since. 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:06.160 We live by, the spirit let us keep in step With. 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:09.000 The spirit there's a cadence to Walking. With god and 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:12.160 it looks like, breathing in, breathing out, breathing in. Breathing 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:15.359 out it looks like not hopping on one foot from 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:18.279 one place to, the next from one season to, the 0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:21.360 next from good news to, bad news from response with 0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:23.920 one season to. The next it looks like finding the 0:34:24.000 --> 0:34:27.880 Rhythm of. God's Grace and he calls you and he. 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:31.319 Sends you he calls you and he. Sends You so 0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:34.120 i'm gonna heal The, Sick lord BUT sometimes i need 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:36.160 to come to you because there's places in my LIFE 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.280 where i. Need Healing and i'm gonna feed The. Hungry 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:41.200 GOD but i need you to be my bread. Of 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:43.200 LIFE so i need you to speak. TO me i 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:45.640 need your word in. MY life i need. Your Strength 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.160 and i'm gonna. Comfort, Others god i'm gonna. Do it 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:50.080 i'm gonna show up. For them i'm gonna sit with 0:34:50.120 --> 0:34:52.240 them in the hard places of. Their Life But, holy 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:55.400 spirit would you comfort me in my? Life too and 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:59.400 suddenly it doesn't feel like. We're straining suddenly it doesn't 0:34:59.440 --> 0:35:02.920 feel like we're limping around, as believers but it feels 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:06.880 like we're going from strength, to strength glory, to glory 0:35:06.960 --> 0:35:10.080 Because when god sends a little boat into, your life 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:13.200 don't miss the opportunity to get alone. With him he 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:16.880 knows what, you, need disciples and he knows that if 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:18.880 you're hungry because you haven't a chance. 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:20.879 To eat he can make food out. Of nothing he can. 0:35:20.960 --> 0:35:21.440 Feed you. 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:28.440 It's the place to receive silence, and solitude and as 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:31.319 uncomfortable as it, can be because often it's in that 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:34.080 Place where god strips away the layers of our life 0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:39.120 that we used to keep some fabricated version, of ourselves 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:42.520 it's actually the furnace of transformation because it's the place 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:45.359 where we receive our strength as we are reminded of 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:49.600 who we really Are. In christ we got to learn 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:53.560 how to rest along. The way if you've been coming 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:55.400 to this church for, A while i love the message 0:35:55.440 --> 0:35:57.560 that you'll hear over and. Over again it's actually our, 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:00.200 mission statements See what god can do. Through you it's 0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:04.120 this underlying belief that we carry that no matter what you've, 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:07.320 been through no matter what your, past Is that god 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.719 wants to. Use you god wants to. Use YOU and 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:11.600 i believe that with my. 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:16.040 Whole heart. 0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:18.360 And Yet what I've found i've needed in my life 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:21.680 the most is the reminder of not Only does god 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:25.400 want to, use me but to Know that god also 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:26.440 wants to be. 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:31.640 With me did you, know that Child, of god that 0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.680 he wants to be. With you some of. 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:37.560 Us think that he he just wants to use us for, 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:41.400 His Glory but god wants to be, with you and in, 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:43.840 that place he wants to give you everything that you 0:36:43.960 --> 0:36:46.040 need to walk out the Purposes that he's called, for 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:48.759 You because he. Loves you the first ministry is To, 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:51.400 the LORD and i don't want to go through LIFE 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.000 saying i did all these things in. Your name and, 0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:56.680 he SAID but i never knew you because you never 0:36:56.760 --> 0:36:59.600 got in the boat and sat still enough long enough 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:00.440 for me to get to. 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:13.360 Know you be still and KNOW that I. AM god. 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:13.400 I want to just as we close this, service today 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:16.719 take a moment to just pray for those of you 0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:19.160 who maybe find yourself in a place where you're, facing 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:22.920 burnout you're facing, spiritual exhaustion where you almost feel like 0:37:23.239 --> 0:37:25.440 you wonder if you're losing. Your faith you're not losing. 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:29.320 Your faith you're not losing. Your faith you're not walking Away. 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:33.319 From him you've just, Grown tired and if you find 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:36.000 yourself in that place today where, YOU'RE like i don't 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:38.560 KNOW if i have bread to. FEED anybody i need. 0:37:38.600 --> 0:37:42.160 BREAD myself i. NEED rest i need rest for. MY 0:37:42.200 --> 0:37:44.680 soul i remind you of the Words, of jesus, who 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:48.640 says come to me all who are weary, and BURDEN 0:37:49.200 --> 0:37:53.279 and i will give. You rest rest is not found in. 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:57.759 A place rest is found in. A person would you 0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:11.719 take a moment. AND stand i love IT when i 0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:13.880 look around, THIS room i see so many PEOPLE that 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:17.359 I know god is using in an, amazing way and 0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:18.000 you're carrying. 0:38:18.040 --> 0:38:18.439 So much. 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:21.000 IT'S amazing i think it's because you've learned how to 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:23.480 catch your breath along, the way to, breathe in to, 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:26.640 breathe out learn how. To rest for some of, us 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:29.400 today maybe we're in a place where we've, been neglecting 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:30.960 the secret Place where god. 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:34.200 Wants to fill us in this. SIMPLE message i know, it's. 0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:36.000 Simple but it was powerful for me at a TIME 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:38.759 where i, needed IT because i don't KNOW where i 0:38:38.760 --> 0:38:41.359 would be right Now if god didn't speak this to 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:45.000 me and remind me that the first calling is that calling. 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:48.279 To Himself and i've learned to embrace what it means to, 0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:50.960 take time even if it's just for a few moments at, 0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:53.759 a time to connect, with him to be alone with 0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:57.120 HIM so i can align. With him and for someone 0:38:57.120 --> 0:39:00.120 who feels like they're holding so much right now and 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:02.200 you feel shaky and you feel weak and you don't 0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:03.960 know if you can GO another i want to pray 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:07.359 For The holy spirit to strengthen you. Right now but more, 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.040 THAN that i want to Pray that god would stir 0:39:10.160 --> 0:39:13.239 up a hunger in your heart for, His Presence that 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:15.440 god would stir up a desire in his heart to 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:17.640 come back to your, first love to be with him 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:21.080 in that place so that he can, fill you so 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:23.399 that he can, strengthen you so that he can. 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:24.359 Feed you. 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:28.000 If that's, you TODAY and i really want to Know 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.200 who i'm specifically. Praying FOR and i know we've got 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:33.040 people joining us at other campuses and people joining, us. 0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:34.960 Online but even in the room where you are in, the. 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:37.719 Chat let us know if that's, you today you find 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:39.800 yourself where, YOU'RE like i don't Know if i'm. GIVING 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:42.279 up i don't Know if i'm quite, there YET but 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:45.839 i feel myself. Growing weary no one, Walks away no one. 0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:48.000 Gives up just in a moment, like that you. Grow 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:52.400 weary you grow weary because, you're doing, you're doing, you're doing, 0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:56.400 you're doing but you're neglecting that the little Boats. 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:58.520 That he's sending you so that you can be, with 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:00.399 him be. With him if you. 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:02.759 Find yourself in, THAT place i want to pray specifically 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:05.120 for you. Right now just raise your hand up in, 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:07.200 the AIR and i want to Pray that god would 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:17.960 stir up a hunger for. His, presence yeah, Thank, You 0:40:18.040 --> 0:40:19.719 lord Thank. 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:19.840 You. 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:23.840 Lord yeah someone, over here you're on the verge of. 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:25.839 Giving up, come on put your hand in. THE air 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:26.359 i want to pray. 0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:31.919 For, you, yeah. Yeah YEAH so. 0:40:31.840 --> 0:40:34.720 I declare the Promise of matthew eleven, over you the Words. 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:36.960 Of jesus come to me all who are weary, and 0:40:37.000 --> 0:40:39.919 BURDENED and i will give. You, rest jesus your yoke, 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:44.719 Is easy your yoke. IS easy i pray for, MY 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:47.640 brother i pray for. MY sister i pray for everyone 0:40:47.680 --> 0:40:48.880 who's in that place right. 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:50.839 Now where they've been going, through it going. 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:53.200 Through it they've been carrying all the things that you've 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:55.360 called them, To, carry lord but it feels sometimes like 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:57.960 they can't take, another step that they can't take, another 0:40:58.040 --> 0:41:01.239 breath like they're. COMPLETELY underwater i want to pray for them, Right, 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.440 now GOD and I Ask holy spirit that you would fill, 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:07.239 their breath that you would fill their lungs with the 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:08.080 strength of. 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:08.560 Your Wind. 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:12.160 Holy spirit, right now, Come Quickly, holy spirit and. Strengthen 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.799 them strengthen them in their. Feeble, needs god that they 0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:18.040 would not give up or. Grow, weary God, AND lord 0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:21.400 i pray that you would open up. Their ears open 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.920 up their ears to hear your voice calling them into the. 0:41:25.000 --> 0:41:27.880 SECRET place I hear, god saying, over you come away. 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.000 With me come get in the boat. With me let's 0:41:30.040 --> 0:41:32.360 take a. LITTLE while i want to, FEED you i 0:41:32.400 --> 0:41:34.520 want to speak. TO you i want to. COMFORT you 0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:36.840 i want to. Strengthen you there's THINGS that i have 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:38.960 in my heart for YOU that i still want to, 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:41.120 show you and there's things you're going INTO that. 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:43.759 I want to equip. You For, so god open up 0:41:43.800 --> 0:41:44.879 their ears to hear your. 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:47.720 Voice, and god as, you Say, come lord our, Response, 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:49.880 is lord we want to step into that boat. 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:53.000 With you and be. With, you god be. WITH you i. 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:57.200 Speak against every scheme of the enemy that would come to. Discourage, 0:41:57.200 --> 0:42:00.440 THEM god i declare over them that they're, not wicked they're. Just. 0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:03.000 Weary GOD but i thank you that the Strength Of 0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:05.640 almighty god is coming into their life. Right, Now god, 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:10.640 so brothers, so sister do not, grow weary don't. GIVE 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:14.000 up i Pray that god would give you rest for. 0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:15.880 Your, soul. 0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:20.120 Hallelujah hallelujah thank you for. 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:22.759 Joining us special thanks to those of you who give 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:26.320 generously to. This ministry is because of you that this ministry. 0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:29.160 Is possible you can click the link in the description 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:33.640 to give now Or visit elevationchurch dot org slash podcast 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:36.799 for more information and if you enjoyed, the podcast you. 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:39.799 Can subscribe you can share it with. Your friends you 0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:42.239 can click the, share button take a screenshot and share 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.640 it on your social stories and tag Us At. Elevation 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:51.719 church thanks again. For listening god. Bless you