WEBVTT - AR Bernard - Oct 28 - 3:30 am 0:00:01.950 --> 0:00:05.010 Really? The real A.R. Bernard is on Instagram? 0:00:05.210 --> 0:00:06.460 Did you say the real A.R. 0:00:06.470 --> 0:00:07.880 Bernard is on Instagram? 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:14.560 You mean every other Thursday at 3 p.m. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.120 Eastern Time, we can catch the real A.R. 0:00:17.140 --> 0:00:19.880 Bernard live on Instagram? Yes. 0:00:20.300 --> 0:00:21.050 Join A.R. 0:00:21.090 --> 0:00:25.330 Bernard on Instagram Live every other Thursday at 3 p.m. 0:00:25.430 --> 0:00:32.940 Eastern. Where there is no revelation of God, the people 0:00:33.100 --> 0:00:38.360 cast off restraints. The people become unrestrained. So remove God 0:00:38.420 --> 0:00:41.320 from the society and we remove moral boundaries. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.260 Welcome to A.R. 0:00:42.300 --> 0:00:45.300 Bernard Ministries. You are about to hear from A.R. Bernard, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.650 one of today's most influential voices in ministry, a best-selling 0:00:48.700 --> 0:00:53.269 author and charismatic teacher of spirit-led truth. Today's thought-provoking message 0:00:53.330 --> 0:00:57.310 and captivating word will empower you spiritually, inform you intellectually, 0:00:57.610 --> 0:01:00.390 and motivate you with renewed strength to stand boldly in 0:01:00.410 --> 0:01:03.670 your purpose and live out your faith in today's ever-changing culture. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.860 Tune in and join us now for A.R. 0:01:05.900 --> 0:01:06.320 Bernard. 0:01:08.500 --> 0:01:09.580 Today joining Dr. 0:01:09.620 --> 0:01:12.160 Bernard is his son, Pastor Jamal Bernard. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.660 Whether you look at Paul's outline in 2 Timothy 3... 0:01:18.660 --> 0:01:21.660 or 1 Timothy chapter 4, or in all of the 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:26.139 other references to the character of this age, this world 0:01:26.180 --> 0:01:28.600 in which we live right now, it's summed up in 0:01:28.660 --> 0:01:33.280 two words, godlessness and narcissism. And what I mean by 0:01:33.340 --> 0:01:41.170 godlessness is Proverbs 29, 18. You're used to that verse 0:01:41.850 --> 0:01:45.370 in terms of using it about vision. And that's fear, 0:01:45.430 --> 0:01:50.090 but the text really means where there's no revelation of God, 0:01:50.790 --> 0:01:54.880 where there's no prophetic vision in the ESV, where there's 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.780 no revelation of God in the Amplified, where there is 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.620 no revelation of God or prophetic vision. Because remember, the 0:02:00.660 --> 0:02:03.720 prophet is predictive to the future but analytical to the present. 0:02:03.740 --> 0:02:06.660 So the prophet analyzes the culture, the character of the culture, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.000 and then speaks a word from God into that culture. 0:02:10.180 --> 0:02:13.650 So Proverbs 29, 18 is actually saying where there is 0:02:13.750 --> 0:02:19.290 no revelation of God, The people cast off restraints. The 0:02:19.350 --> 0:02:24.370 people become unrestrained. So remove God from the society and 0:02:24.410 --> 0:02:29.620 we remove moral boundaries. So the absence of God creates 0:02:31.090 --> 0:02:35.320 an absence of moral accountability. So what I mean by godless, 0:02:35.380 --> 0:02:37.680 it doesn't mean that God is no longer worship in 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.480 our society. Yeah. But the boundaries, the moral boundaries that 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.750 come with God, all right, People want to break away 0:02:46.790 --> 0:02:51.490 from that. Beautiful passage in the second Psalm where he says, 0:02:51.790 --> 0:02:54.889 let's cast off their chains. We don't want God controlling 0:02:54.990 --> 0:02:55.709 us anymore. 0:02:56.389 --> 0:02:56.769 Powerful. 0:02:57.090 --> 0:03:01.149 But that's where we are. Godlessness in terms of the 0:03:01.570 --> 0:03:08.200 removal of moral accountability. We don't want to be morally accountable. 0:03:09.460 --> 0:03:12.900 And we're seeing in my generation, the song was, it's 0:03:12.940 --> 0:03:19.140 your thing. Woo! Look at y'all. All these boomers out there. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:19.230 Hey! 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:26.720 See that? Those are my peeps. Those are my peeps. 0:03:32.389 --> 0:03:36.290 You know, to today, where the songs are still expressing 0:03:36.410 --> 0:03:39.550 the attitude of the culture, which are saying, leave me 0:03:39.610 --> 0:03:42.890 alone to do what I want to do with my life. 0:03:43.730 --> 0:03:47.700 You know, and so they... They're casting off normal boundaries. Anyway, 0:03:47.980 --> 0:03:48.380 praise the Lord. 0:03:49.100 --> 0:03:54.360 Hallelujah. So going back to housekeeping, we have Lent. 0:03:56.900 --> 0:03:58.280 I can't help myself. 0:03:58.370 --> 0:04:01.790 Please register for the Lent. Be a part of the 0:04:01.830 --> 0:04:07.010 Lent experience. You'll receive the weekly letter, prayers, things like that. 0:04:07.030 --> 0:04:11.070 And we're actually using my book as one of the resources. 0:04:11.470 --> 0:04:13.730 Resources. For the Lent experience. 0:04:13.790 --> 0:04:16.690 Which is the next topic of discussion. He's got a 0:04:16.730 --> 0:04:22.490 new book out called Battle Rhythm. You need to get 0:04:22.510 --> 0:04:29.070 your copy. So it is a devotional book. How many days? 0:04:29.089 --> 0:04:30.390 90-day devotional book. 0:04:30.410 --> 0:04:35.520 90-day devotional. We're using it for Lent. So tell us 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:36.979 about the genesis of this book. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.550 So it started Sheldon Wilson, one of the ministers down 0:04:41.589 --> 0:04:42.469 in Orlando campus. 0:04:42.490 --> 0:04:49.630 Sheldon Wilson. Orlando. And he, during time of COVID, things slowed. 0:04:49.370 --> 0:04:51.990 Down, you know, because he just wasn't having service. And 0:04:52.270 --> 0:04:55.570 he said this is something he lives by called battle rhythm. 0:04:56.130 --> 0:04:58.430 And he said, we got to stay on our battle rhythm. 0:04:58.450 --> 0:04:59.370 We got to stay on our battle rhythm. 0:04:59.810 --> 0:05:02.070 And it caused me to go look up and research 0:05:02.110 --> 0:05:03.010 what he was talking about. 0:05:03.390 --> 0:05:05.150 He said, look, here, take this and. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.779 I want you to understand what this is about. And 0:05:08.820 --> 0:05:11.580 so he would just always say battle rhythm. I'm like, okay, 0:05:11.900 --> 0:05:13.500 I get you. You know, you got to continue rhythm. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.060 But when I started researching it, understood the significance about 0:05:17.100 --> 0:05:19.800 battle rhythm, I said, wow, this is an amazing concept. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.609 And battle rhythm just talks about, and you've heard me 0:05:23.620 --> 0:05:28.490 many times before, but just talks about the systems and 0:05:28.570 --> 0:05:34.589 structures that are put in place in the military regiment 0:05:34.750 --> 0:05:41.960 or branch of the military, army, navy. And what they 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.250 do is they create certain meetings and checkpoints and all 0:05:46.410 --> 0:05:50.070 these different things that if crisis enters, it comes up, 0:05:50.190 --> 0:05:55.660 or at wartime, they just increase these services. meetings, they 0:05:55.700 --> 0:05:58.810 increase all the things that they do in order to 0:05:58.890 --> 0:06:02.650 secure a successful outcome. So it's not something they started 0:06:02.690 --> 0:06:06.230 because they have it going on. Like I said, they 0:06:06.290 --> 0:06:08.570 have meetings and then the meetings trickle down to the 0:06:08.610 --> 0:06:12.600 subordinates and the different chains and they have conversations about if. 0:06:12.580 --> 0:06:14.000 This happened then this is what we'll do. 0:06:14.060 --> 0:06:17.440 And they try to predict some of the things that 0:06:17.460 --> 0:06:21.200 would happen within a system or a situation. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.540 So if I apply that to my personal life as 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.960 a believer. I have certain systems in place. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:32.659 Prayer. 0:06:33.700 --> 0:06:36.570 Study of the Word. Fasting. 0:06:37.770 --> 0:06:38.150 Giving. 0:06:39.630 --> 0:06:40.610 Fellowship and worship. 0:06:41.670 --> 0:06:41.890 Right? 0:06:43.050 --> 0:06:47.989 Solitude with God. I have all of these spiritual disciplines 0:06:48.690 --> 0:06:54.140 that are a system. So when crisis comes, those things 0:06:54.180 --> 0:07:00.330 shouldn't No. We simply up the prayer. Up the fasting. 0:07:00.770 --> 0:07:03.590 Up the study of scripture. Up the worship. Up the fellowship. 0:07:03.770 --> 0:07:05.010 Up the solitude with God. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.660 Right? Yep. Okay. 0:07:08.380 --> 0:07:09.000 Are y'all hearing that? 0:07:09.020 --> 0:07:10.380 Yes. All right. 0:07:10.500 --> 0:07:14.960 So, because you have a lot of Christians that don't 0:07:15.020 --> 0:07:20.820 have a well-organized spiritual discipline system. And because of that, 0:07:20.870 --> 0:07:24.410 when crisis hits, they try to start something. But when 0:07:24.470 --> 0:07:26.750 crisis hits, you should just increase. 0:07:26.590 --> 0:07:29.250 What you're already doing. Come on, come on. 0:07:29.490 --> 0:07:33.870 So you look at Daniel, in chapter 5 or 6, 0:07:33.870 --> 0:07:38.090 after Osiris signed the decree, it said Daniel went to 0:07:38.130 --> 0:07:40.710 do what he normally did every day, which was pray. 0:07:41.860 --> 0:07:44.000 And the subtitle for the book is Praying in Sync 0:07:44.020 --> 0:07:45.020 with God's Heart, because. 0:07:44.860 --> 0:07:46.790 I believe all revival, all of the.... 0:07:48.470 --> 0:07:50.790 Studying I have done on revival, renewal, and stuff like that, 0:07:51.190 --> 0:07:54.370 is prayer is the springboard for renewal and revival. 0:07:54.790 --> 0:07:55.230 Say it again. 0:07:55.570 --> 0:07:58.480 Prayer is the springboard for all renewal and revival. 0:07:58.980 --> 0:08:06.080 So every movement of revival was preceded by prayer. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:06.360 Yes. 0:08:06.860 --> 0:08:08.580 Was founded on prayer. 0:08:08.660 --> 0:08:08.940 Why? 0:08:09.020 --> 0:08:09.560 Why prayer? 0:08:09.790 --> 0:08:11.650 Because one of the reasons why. 0:08:11.670 --> 0:08:14.670 Can I interview him about the book? Why prayer? Why prayer? 0:08:15.070 --> 0:08:17.750 One of the reasons why I believe is because it 0:08:17.850 --> 0:08:22.970 just sensitized our spirit to come into connection with what. 0:08:22.910 --> 0:08:26.310 God is doing. Right? Because God is always working. He's 0:08:26.350 --> 0:08:27.150 always doing something. 0:08:27.230 --> 0:08:31.460 But at a point of revival, there's a specific divine 0:08:31.980 --> 0:08:33.940 providential assertion that he's about to do. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.620 And it allows us in. 0:08:35.620 --> 0:08:39.359 Our prayer life to start becoming sensitive and increase our discernment. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.640 To see what he's doing, one. And two, what is 0:08:41.660 --> 0:08:42.760 your role in what he is doing? 0:08:43.540 --> 0:08:43.820 Wait, wait. 0:08:44.870 --> 0:08:46.090 What we're doing wrong? 0:08:46.190 --> 0:08:48.330 No, what he's doing. What is God doing? What is 0:08:48.350 --> 0:08:49.930 God doing? And then what is your role? 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:50.620 What is our role? 0:08:50.650 --> 0:08:50.880 Yes. 0:08:51.510 --> 0:08:57.760 To co-labor. Yes, to co-labor. Okay. And what is it 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.020 about prayer that does something to us? 0:09:02.820 --> 0:09:03.980 I say, I put it this way, and it came 0:09:04.020 --> 0:09:05.880 out of a book called Prayers That Reveal Much. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.840 I say prayer reveals much. So it reveals. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.560 Information that either you're lacking or information that's necessary for 0:09:13.580 --> 0:09:18.450 your next step. Because remember, if renewal is about reawakening, 0:09:19.250 --> 0:09:19.920 something went to sleep. 0:09:22.030 --> 0:09:24.590 Right? So it's reawakening. 0:09:25.210 --> 0:09:29.089 It's bringing something new to the table. So prayer reveals much. 0:09:29.150 --> 0:09:31.429 Prayer avails much. It takes you to the next level. 0:09:31.710 --> 0:09:35.150 And then prayer prevails much. 0:09:36.130 --> 0:09:36.370 Right? 0:09:36.429 --> 0:09:39.100 And this comes out of that book, Our Prayer That 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.080 Avails Much, by Dick O'Stormy. 0:09:41.140 --> 0:09:42.380 Pray That Avails Much. 0:09:42.980 --> 0:09:43.140 Right? 0:09:43.179 --> 0:09:44.160 Was it Joyce Myers? 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.780 No, it wasn't Joyce Myers. It is a book. Google it. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.390 You'll see it. Wallace? No, I don't think it was Wallace. Oh, 0:09:52.470 --> 0:09:54.010 Stormy O'Martin. That's right. 0:09:54.330 --> 0:09:56.890 Pray That Avails Much. Okay. Pray in the Spirit. 0:09:57.100 --> 0:09:57.320 Yes. 0:09:57.340 --> 0:09:58.320 I was thinking about praying. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.420 In the spirit. Okay. Go ahead. Prayer. Yeah. So prayer. 0:10:01.700 --> 0:10:04.480 It just takes you through a process. And I think 0:10:04.700 --> 0:10:07.100 one of the things that it reveals to you is 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:07.860 who you really are. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.520 Is prayer getting God to do what you want him 0:10:11.570 --> 0:10:11.780 to do? 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:12.990 No. No. 0:10:13.650 --> 0:10:13.770 No. 0:10:13.850 --> 0:10:15.670 It's the elevation of your heart, your will, and your mind. 0:10:16.730 --> 0:10:18.010 Say that again. You taught this. 0:10:18.030 --> 0:10:19.540 That's why I. 0:10:19.500 --> 0:10:20.400 Want you to say it again. 0:10:20.420 --> 0:10:22.179 It's the elevation of your heart, will, and mind. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.559 So prayer seeks to elevate the heart, which is your 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.140 central motivating factor of your life, your will, your motivations, right? 0:10:32.190 --> 0:10:36.910 Your mind, your emotions, your intellect, everything. Elevate it to God. 0:10:37.130 --> 0:10:37.350 Yes. 0:10:38.030 --> 0:10:43.790 And that's to get God's perspective on your situations. because 0:10:43.850 --> 0:10:47.050 if you don't elevate your mind in prayer, you're only 0:10:47.090 --> 0:10:50.550 going to see your situation from your perspective, from your 0:10:50.650 --> 0:10:52.620 point of view. And how many know that's limited? 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.300 Yeah. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:55.140 Yeah. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.740 When you act on your own without prayer, you are 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.260 limited to the knowledge in your own mind. And no offense, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.900 that may not be enough. How many know what I'm 0:11:05.940 --> 0:11:11.340 talking about? That's why it's always about seeking counsel. Counsel 0:11:11.380 --> 0:11:16.010 determines destiny. Counsel determines how you approach or address a situation. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.780 So prayer is elevating your mind to the mind of 0:11:19.900 --> 0:11:22.720 God so that he can give you his perspective on 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.680 your situation, on your circumstance. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:25.579 It's good stuff. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.319 Are you getting anything out of this today? 0:11:28.300 --> 0:11:30.740 Not only your situation or circumstance, but maybe on somebody 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.569 else's because as you pray for other individuals, you might 0:11:33.590 --> 0:11:36.969 be a beacon or a tool that God will use 0:11:37.270 --> 0:11:39.630 to speak into their situation because they might. 0:11:39.490 --> 0:11:40.230 Be going through something. 0:11:41.450 --> 0:11:42.870 Give me one more highlight from the book. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.699 All right, one more highlight because I have like four, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.410 but he's limiting me to one highlight. 0:11:49.410 --> 0:11:52.190 I don't limit anybody. It's that clock. 0:11:54.110 --> 0:11:55.250 You don't listen to that clock. 0:11:56.850 --> 0:11:59.130 That's because I'm unlimited. 0:12:03.190 --> 0:12:06.080 If I may read an excerpt from the book, one 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.540 of the devotions, and the devotion is don't blame the shovel. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:15.930 Don't blame the shovel. Don't blame the shovel. Don't blame 0:12:16.230 --> 0:12:21.610 the shovel. The shovel, yes. If after years of unhealthy 0:12:21.670 --> 0:12:27.890 choices and dangerous digging, you are shocked every time a 0:12:27.950 --> 0:12:34.050 trench appears. If you blame your background or circumstances or others, 0:12:34.630 --> 0:12:38.550 whenever you're lying at the bottom of the consequences, and 0:12:38.570 --> 0:12:44.250 the significant thing about consequences is consequences of sequence following 0:12:44.490 --> 0:12:53.070 your decision. The consequences you called out for yourself, do 0:12:53.150 --> 0:12:56.550 not expect much to change. But if you want to 0:12:56.570 --> 0:13:00.849 start seeing progress and experience, the peace of maturity, acknowledge 0:13:00.910 --> 0:13:03.190 where you went wrong and what you can do to 0:13:03.450 --> 0:13:05.530 add and eliminate whatever brings. 0:13:05.290 --> 0:13:07.590 You closer to the character of Christ. 0:13:08.510 --> 0:13:09.390 Amen. 0:13:12.340 --> 0:13:12.940 Author Craig D. 0:13:12.980 --> 0:13:15.580 Lunsberg said, when I am at the bottom looking up, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.720 the main question may not be, how do I get 0:13:18.820 --> 0:13:21.870 out of this hole? But in reality, the main question 0:13:22.260 --> 0:13:24.570 might be, how do I get rid of the shovel 0:13:24.690 --> 0:13:30.829 that I use to dig it? I challenge you today 0:13:31.309 --> 0:13:35.510 to eliminate and illuminate whatever you have used to dig 0:13:35.570 --> 0:13:41.410 ditches of disappointment for yourself. Identify your thoughts, your words, beliefs, 0:13:41.470 --> 0:13:44.670 and choices that chipped away at your solid ground until 0:13:44.750 --> 0:13:48.640 it fell away beneath you. You are responsible for picking 0:13:48.740 --> 0:13:52.020 up the shovel of habits, relationships, and negative thinking that 0:13:52.059 --> 0:13:57.100 creates your pit of destruction, depression, and depletion. Your success 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.100 and happiness may be more within your control than you realize. 0:14:01.900 --> 0:14:03.060 Basically, it's up to you. 0:14:09.010 --> 0:14:16.589 Sounds like we've identified the enemy. It's you. But it 0:14:16.670 --> 0:14:21.150 is true, right? For the most part, the devil can 0:14:21.410 --> 0:14:31.980 only devastate our lives when we cooperate with him. When 0:14:32.020 --> 0:14:35.060 we cooperate with him. And that's why the word of 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.750 God is designed to get right down to the bone, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:44.110 the marrow, all right, dividing spirit, soul, and body. We 0:14:44.170 --> 0:14:47.770 lie naked before the Word. The Word of God is 0:14:47.830 --> 0:14:50.310 designed to get to the heart of who we are 0:14:50.410 --> 0:14:53.310 as individuals and why we keep making the choices that 0:14:53.330 --> 0:14:55.930 we make that are destructive. So are you doing a 0:14:55.950 --> 0:14:56.450 book signing? 0:14:56.670 --> 0:14:56.890 Yes. 0:14:57.430 --> 0:14:57.750 Right here? 0:14:58.070 --> 0:15:03.550 Yes. When? After service. Today? Yes. But we got to 0:15:03.570 --> 0:15:10.580 hurry up because it's Super Bowl. My chicken wings are 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.140 getting cold. 0:15:16.810 --> 0:15:21.850 How do we go from spiritual to temporal in seconds? 0:15:23.430 --> 0:15:24.890 So where are you going to be? 0:15:24.930 --> 0:15:29.560 I'll be in the lobby. In the vision hall or mezzanine? 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.960 The gallery area. In the vision hall, yes. In the 0:15:32.980 --> 0:15:33.460 vision hall. 0:15:33.700 --> 0:15:35.979 Okay, in the vision hall. And you need to get 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:37.460 your copy of this book. 0:15:38.060 --> 0:15:38.420 Amen? Amen. 0:15:38.860 --> 0:15:43.600 It's a devotional. It's simple. I wrote the foreword. 0:15:46.990 --> 0:15:50.270 And some of this, a lot of it comes out 0:15:50.290 --> 0:15:54.570 of my journaling after I lost my brother. Because it 0:15:54.730 --> 0:15:56.810 was the battle rhythm that I created that helped me get. 0:15:56.710 --> 0:15:58.979 Through the tragedy of the loss. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.480 And I was just journaling and looking at just different 0:16:02.500 --> 0:16:04.700 things in my life. Because one of the things I 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.920 always try to do is make sure I look at. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:07.660 What I can change. 0:16:08.470 --> 0:16:12.010 If anything I got control over is what Jamal Bernard 0:16:12.070 --> 0:16:14.550 is doing. If anything I got control over is how 0:16:14.590 --> 0:16:17.120 Jamal Bernard thinks. If anything I got control over is 0:16:17.130 --> 0:16:20.020 how Jamal Bernard acts. And so last year was a 0:16:20.580 --> 0:16:25.160 real tough time dealing with the death. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.320 But also the pruning. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.660 To deal with tragedy and pruning at the same time 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.400 is not a fun process but it's a necessary process 0:16:34.420 --> 0:16:39.870 for me. And I believe that at the starting point 0:16:39.910 --> 0:16:43.010 of all renewal is looking at the mirror. 0:16:43.910 --> 0:16:45.530 Personal. Personal renewal, yeah. 0:16:45.630 --> 0:16:47.530 But looking at the mirror and looking at the stuff 0:16:47.550 --> 0:16:50.170 that you don't want to let go of. The stuff 0:16:50.190 --> 0:16:53.110 that you hold on to because you're comfortable. So I'm 0:16:53.150 --> 0:16:55.270 comfortable being angry all the time because I don't know 0:16:55.310 --> 0:17:01.770 how to be uncomfortable and happy, right? It's comfortable being 0:17:01.790 --> 0:17:06.000 bitterness because I don't know how to be free from 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.060 the tensions. 0:17:08.380 --> 0:17:09.000 Of being bitter. 0:17:12.660 --> 0:17:17.740 It's comfortable for being in a place of negativity because 0:17:17.810 --> 0:17:19.550 it's uncomfortable to be positive. 0:17:20.730 --> 0:17:21.649 See, negative puts me in a. 0:17:21.630 --> 0:17:23.510 Certainty that something bad is going to happen that's good. 0:17:24.230 --> 0:17:26.469 But positivity puts me in a place where I'm not 0:17:26.550 --> 0:17:28.169 sure if something good is going to happen because most 0:17:28.230 --> 0:17:30.870 of the time something bad happens. The news is just 0:17:30.910 --> 0:17:33.130 a running of all the bad things that you deal with. 0:17:33.330 --> 0:17:39.270 So positivity becomes uncomfortable for people. Or the uncomfortability of 0:17:39.310 --> 0:17:45.390 praying because not praying is comfortable. The comfortability of lack 0:17:45.430 --> 0:17:49.830 of discipline because discipline is uncomfortable. The uncomfortability of focus 0:17:49.850 --> 0:17:51.109 because being unfocused is. 0:17:52.630 --> 0:17:52.910 Easy. 0:17:54.970 --> 0:17:57.090 And so what I saw is that as we move 0:17:57.109 --> 0:18:00.970 towards this place of renewal, get prepared to be uncomfortable. 0:18:02.540 --> 0:18:05.480 Get prepared to grow, to be stretched, to be moved 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.859 from places that are hindering you, to be able to 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:16.189 articulate your faith in a community that needs it. One 0:18:16.210 --> 0:18:19.070 of my, one of my, one of the other devotion 0:18:19.090 --> 0:18:20.090 I put, I talk about. 0:18:21.490 --> 0:18:27.409 Jonah. And a lot of us are running from God. 0:18:28.780 --> 0:18:31.710 Not because we made a decision, but to run from God, 0:18:31.750 --> 0:18:34.149 but because we have made a decision to live a 0:18:34.210 --> 0:18:36.590 life contrary to what God has asked us to do. 0:18:37.890 --> 0:18:43.780 And because you're running, you're putting people around you in danger. 0:18:45.619 --> 0:18:46.260 Because they're in. 0:18:46.260 --> 0:18:49.719 Need of the God that you serve. They're in need 0:18:49.740 --> 0:18:53.540 of the liberation power of this gospel. And look what 0:18:53.580 --> 0:18:57.970 happened when Jonah made a decision to follow God, he 0:18:58.030 --> 0:18:58.949 changed a nation. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.560 So for you to make a decision. 0:19:02.220 --> 0:19:05.080 To follow God wholeheartedly, unapologetically, you. 0:19:04.980 --> 0:19:06.919 Can change a nation. You can change a community. You 0:19:06.940 --> 0:19:10.400 can change your household. You can change your job area. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.520 You can change your area of influence. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.770 All you need to do is make a decision to 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.110 unapologetically walk with God. 0:19:29.970 --> 0:19:54.040 Come on, let's all stand. you can learn a lot 0:19:54.080 --> 0:20:05.490 about yourself by observing your judgment of others. Because usually 0:20:06.690 --> 0:20:12.609 those judgments come from the internal strifes that you're experiencing. 0:20:15.369 --> 0:20:17.470 You need to pray, man, after a word like that. 0:20:17.490 --> 0:20:21.640 You need to pray for people who may be right 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:28.150 there And they need to experience the liberation that you 0:20:28.210 --> 0:20:31.590 experienced and where God brought you to. That's a word. 0:20:31.609 --> 0:20:32.210 That's a word. 0:20:40.190 --> 0:20:40.830 Thank you, Lord. 0:20:41.090 --> 0:20:47.650 The emotion that I'm feeling is not because of the bondage. 0:20:48.830 --> 0:20:52.070 The emotion I'm feeling is because of the feeling of freedom. 0:20:53.869 --> 0:20:59.950 From the bondage. So I'm going to try to get 0:20:59.970 --> 0:21:05.990 through this. So let's bow our heads. 0:21:08.820 --> 0:21:22.889 Father God, you're such an awesome God. Thank you for 0:21:22.910 --> 0:21:29.200 the process. Because the process is meant to make us better. 0:21:31.310 --> 0:21:33.290 But that desire to make us better is based on 0:21:33.310 --> 0:21:35.449 the love and the value you have for us. 0:21:38.290 --> 0:21:40.169 So I pray for the individuals who are here dealing 0:21:40.230 --> 0:21:44.169 with an anger issue. Always anger, not even being able 0:21:44.190 --> 0:21:46.189 to answer why they are angry, Lord, that means they 0:21:46.230 --> 0:21:51.359 are in bondage. Lord, I pray for those who are 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:55.840 dealing with negativity. Always seeing that the glass is half empty, 0:21:55.859 --> 0:22:01.540 and Lord, I say, just fill it up. I pray, though, 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.370 for those who are attached to the root of bitterness. 0:22:08.350 --> 0:22:10.270 Always upset and angry. 0:22:10.290 --> 0:22:17.430 Instead of just letting go and letting God. 0:22:18.290 --> 0:22:19.149 Hmm, hmm. 0:22:21.140 --> 0:22:23.220 Lord, pray for anybody else who's dealing with the weight 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:25.540 of a burden that they. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:26.740 Were not designed to carry. 0:22:26.770 --> 0:22:27.920 Yes, yes, Lord. 0:22:28.590 --> 0:22:39.090 Whether it's unforgiveness, frustration, cynicism, hurt, pain. Lord, we let 0:22:39.150 --> 0:22:42.090 it go right now and put it in your hands. 0:22:44.030 --> 0:22:47.770 Make us whole, Lord, so that we can represent you 0:22:47.810 --> 0:22:49.310 in this world. Make us whole, Lord. 0:22:50.850 --> 0:22:55.350 So that our actions will not be antagonistic to. 0:22:55.230 --> 0:22:58.290 The words of the gospel that we preach. Lord, make us. 0:22:58.290 --> 0:23:04.230 Whole so that we can love from a different place. Lord, 0:23:04.270 --> 0:23:08.369 make us whole so we can relate to individuals on 0:23:08.410 --> 0:23:12.030 a higher level. Lord, make us whole right now so 0:23:13.010 --> 0:23:17.429 that our perspective of life changes and see things. 0:23:17.290 --> 0:23:18.670 From your point of view. Yes, Lord. 0:23:19.619 --> 0:23:22.300 So Lord, we surrender our lives to you as we 0:23:22.340 --> 0:23:23.760 approach you naked and unashamed. 0:23:25.619 --> 0:23:26.320 Do what it is. 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:31.120 Be the master surgeon in this situation right now. Be 0:23:31.140 --> 0:23:36.560 the master carpenter in this situation right now. So Lord, 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:43.650 from a mental perspective all the way to a physical, spiritual, emotional, Lord, 0:23:43.710 --> 0:23:45.570 minister to our whole. 0:23:45.190 --> 0:23:51.050 Person right here, right now. In Jesus' precious name, amen 0:23:51.290 --> 0:23:51.810 and amen. 0:23:52.350 --> 0:23:56.300 Let's offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving in praise. 0:23:57.280 --> 0:23:58.720 Come on. Come on. 0:24:00.460 --> 0:24:03.560 Offer that sacrifice of praise in thanksgiving. 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:06.730 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 0:24:06.770 --> 0:24:07.629 Hallelujah. 0:24:09.210 --> 0:24:10.109 Thank you, Lord. 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:15.020 In appreciation, we'd like to offer you the special opportunity 0:24:15.100 --> 0:24:18.360 to receive A.R. Bernard's best-selling book, Four Things Women Want 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:20.920 from a Man. This practical guide is organized in a 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:23.619