1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, evening, afternoon, wherever you're at, whatever time of 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: the day it is, it is me che girl adelas 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: woo woo woo woom. Okay, I'm just telling because I'm 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: still trying to find a scripture here. But today I 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: don't know what this is going to be called. But 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: I did have a specific like tug in my spirit 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: to talk about what I'm about to talk to you about. 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: So at the end we are going to see what 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: the title of this is going to be. But for now, 10 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: I want you to turn with me to Romans twelfth, 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: verse one, and it says, therefore, I urge you, brothers 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies, 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: dedicating all of yourself set apart, as a living sacrifice, 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: holy and well pleasing to God, which is your rational 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: and birational. There's like parentheses there that says logical and 16 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: intelligent act of worship. So you know what, let me 17 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: read that in a less crowded manner. Okay, Romans twelve one, 18 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: and we'll read it in the new King James version MKJV. Okay, 19 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: it's getting there, okay, but let me I'll continue on 20 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: to verse two and do not be conformed to this 21 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: world any longer with its superficial values and customs, but 22 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: be transformed and progressively changed. This is sticking good. I'm 23 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: just whoo as you mature spiritually by the renewing of 24 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: your mind, focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes, so 25 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: that you may prove for yourself what the will of 26 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 1: God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect 27 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: in His plan and purpose for you. Man. One of 28 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: the things that we get asked a lot is like, 29 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: what is God's will for my life? And it's a 30 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: loaded question and it's one that I don't know the 31 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: answer to, to be quite honest, for you personally, because 32 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: these are things that we have to find out for ourselves. Okay. 33 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: Romans twelve, verse one in the New King James version 34 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: says I beseech you there, for brethren, by the mercies 35 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, 36 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: holy and accele to God, which is your rea reasonable service. 37 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: Reasonable Okay. So we just we we we we took 38 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: it just we made it a little bit more simple, 39 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: okay than the amplified and it's worthy, uh you know, tendencies, 40 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: but it's it's a it's a rational thing to give 41 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: yourself wholeheartedly to God. That is, that's just like the 42 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: intelligent way to process what Christ has done for you. 43 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: I'll read it again in the amplified because it challenged me, 44 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: and it says, this is your rational, your logical and 45 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: intelligent act of worship. What to give yourself as a 46 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: living sacrifice to God. That's it. And you're saying that's it, 47 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: like that's everything, And that's the point. It's everything. It's 48 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: it's it's not just little bits and pieces of your 49 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: life that you're okay with. I've worked on that and 50 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna present this part of my life, but this 51 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: this other stuff, it's just I'm not okay with this stuff. 52 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if I fully believe that God can through, 53 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: can come through with me in these certain areas of 54 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: my life because I've experienced so much and I have 55 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: so much doubt in these areas. So so you know, 56 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: I just I have to kind of like keep that 57 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: to myself and I'll figure it out, you know, I'll 58 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: just figure this out without the help of God. And 59 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: what a dumb way of living your life. Listen, we 60 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: don't have much time on the planet Jesus Christ really 61 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: is coming back. And I need you to see this 62 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: with me. Okay, if we were all given ten years, 63 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're sixty, it doesn't matter if 64 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: you're fifty, forty, twenty ten. We all have the same 65 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: amount of time. What we do with it is is 66 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: one hundred percent our responsibility. We are responsible to act 67 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: according to the word of God. And when we act 68 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: according to the word of God, then we begin to 69 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: reap the benefits of adhering to obeying the word of God. 70 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: And so when the Word of God says, this is 71 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: your reasonable service, like it's you want to talk about reasonable, 72 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: You want to talk about rational and logical. The act 73 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: of worship that you have to play on a daily 74 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: basis is the fact that you have to present yourself 75 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: as a living sacrifice. And this is what the amplified says, 76 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: dedicating all of yourself, not just some of yourself, all 77 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: of yourself. Well, I I you know, I really love 78 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: to drink. I really I'm addicted to to weed. I 79 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: don't care how you're gonna fill in whatever that is. 80 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: The excuse it is that you're not fully engaging, fully 81 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: living for the Lord. This scripture says, you have to 82 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: dedicate hat all of your being, every part of it. 83 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 1: And then you understand that I can't be doing what 84 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: everybody else is doing if I live a life that 85 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: is dedicated to God. Look at Samson. He was dedicated 86 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: to God at a very young age, and there was 87 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: a certain criteria he had to fulfill in his life 88 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: because he was set apart. He was dedicated. They did it, say, oh, 89 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: you could just live however the heck he wants. No. 90 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: He was to abstain from alcohol, he was to abstain 91 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: from certain things, certain individuals, certain women. You know what 92 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And if he opened himself to that, then 93 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: that and which he did, that began. That began his 94 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: slow demise, because you can't say that you are a 95 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: Christian and not be fully fully giving yourself over to 96 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: to the Lord and to his word. Because if you are, 97 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: you're you're half in. You're you're you're half in. Who 98 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: wants anybody that's gonna be half in? It drives me 99 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: crazy when people are coming in and then they're going 100 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,119 Speaker 1: and make up your mind. You know, pick a church, 101 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: what do you do in floating around? Be be at 102 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: a place and be like be loyal to that one place. 103 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: Don't come and go. We don't know when they're gonna 104 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: be here. That's such a flaky mindset. And and and 105 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: so many people in America carry it. And please don't 106 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: be one of those people. Stay with it and give 107 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: yourself fully to the Lord. And it says here and 108 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: don't be conformed. I'm gonna read it in the new 109 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: King James version here, and don't be conformed to this world. See, 110 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: because in order for you to present your body as 111 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: a living sacrifice, there is something that is required of 112 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: you and I that requirement is making sure that we 113 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: are not doing it the world's way. I was talking 114 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: about Daniel with the Mighty Kids because in July we're 115 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: launching out into the Book of Daniel, right, and so 116 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: one of the very first things that we know about 117 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: Daniel in chapter one is the fact that he said, 118 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna eat with y'all. Eat because I'm set apart. 119 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to identify. I don't want to blend 120 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: in with y'all. I want to look different, I want 121 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: to eat different. I'm gonna talk different. Everything about me 122 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: is gonna be different because I am not you. I 123 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 1: am not like you, and I'll never be like you. 124 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: And he identified that, and you know what, God looked 125 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: at him and said, Wow, that's somebody that I can use. 126 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: And then the windows of heaven opened up for Daniel. 127 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: And it was like favor after favor, miracle after miracle. 128 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: And so God did an incredible work in the life 129 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: of Daniel. And why is that? Because he was set apart. 130 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: And when we set ourselves apart as a holy living sacrifice, 131 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: there are things that we have to do. Change is required. 132 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: Change is required verse two. And don't be conformed to 133 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, 134 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: that you may prove what is good and acceptable and 135 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: the perfect will of God. We can decipher, we can 136 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: walk in the good and perfect and acceptable will of God. 137 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: We just have to identify. I'm not of my own 138 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: I don't this is not my home. I'm not gonna, 139 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: you know, find my purpose in a house, a car, 140 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: anything financial. I'm not. That's not how I identify my 141 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 1: I don't identify myself as Puerto Rican. I don't identify 142 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: myself as Shuttlesworth or or Tease. I identify myself as 143 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: a child of the most High God, and I take 144 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: it from there, and I'm obedient to make sure whatever 145 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: God requires me to do that I do it. And 146 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: that change has to come on the inside of every individual. 147 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: I can't make that change for you. That's a decision 148 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: that has to take place for you if you want 149 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: to live a supernatural life, if you want favor and 150 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: blessing to overflow in your life. Because this is the 151 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: thing what's transpired in our lives these past, Like a 152 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, people are like, let's be nice. Though 153 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: it just magically happens. That didn't magically happens. There were 154 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: sacrifices that were made for the windows of heaven to 155 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: open up to us. It's interesting everybody talks about Jehovah Jirah, 156 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: God providing, but they don't want to talk about the 157 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: sacrifice that Abraham did to get to know Jehovah Jirah. 158 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: He had to obey the voice of God to say, yeah, 159 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: I'll kill my son for you. Of course I will. 160 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: I'll do anything you ask of me. And he even 161 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: told the people he was traveling with me and my 162 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: son were gonna come back because he knew this is 163 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: the only heir to the blessing to my inheritance. Of course, 164 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: God's not gonna let him die there. He'll bring him 165 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: back to life. He knew in his mind, he already 166 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: conceded the fact that this was all. This is how 167 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: it was gonna happen. And he wasn't scared. He wasn't 168 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: afraid of what was about to transpire. He knew if 169 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: God could give me a son at a ripe old 170 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: age of a hundred, of course he's not gonna have 171 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: him die, of course not. But he had to believe it. 172 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: That's why he's a man of is the father of 173 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: our faith. He had to believe it. And then when 174 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 1: he went and he lifted up that knife to sacrifice 175 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 1: his son, all of a sudden the Angel of the 176 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: Lord said, don't do it. We know where your heart 177 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: is right. And so that was a sacrifice. Whether he 178 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: actually killed his son, which he didn't, but in his 179 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: heart he might as well have done it. There are 180 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: certain things that we have to sacrifice on a day today. 181 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: Basis sacrifice so much, so much you want to cuss 182 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: somebody out, you want to throw hands, No, we sacrifice 183 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: the desire to do these things, the desire to be angry, 184 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 1: desire to be upset, the desire to hold grudges. We 185 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: have to let go of those things in order to 186 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: see God provide every step of the way. And I'm 187 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: not just talking about finances, but it does also include finances. 188 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: You want to see God provide a restoration of your marriage, 189 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 1: there has to be sacrifices that you make. It can't 190 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: just be your way the only way. There are certain 191 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: things that we sacrifice, and we put ourselves on the 192 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: altar of sacrifice every day and say, Father, not my will, 193 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: but yours be done. Let me be led of your 194 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: spirit to know exactly how to walk this day. Let 195 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: me know when to go left, wanna go right, when 196 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: to say yes and want to say no. And when 197 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: you do that, then you can understand what the perfect 198 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: will of God for your life is. And all of 199 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: a sudden, you get clarity, you get direction, you get 200 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: understanding of what you're supposed to do and where you're 201 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: supposed to go because your life is surrendered to God. 202 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it, change is absolutely required. 203 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: And while we're here, let's camp out here for a second. 204 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: Change is required. And I'm gonna read it in the 205 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: amplified because that was such a powerful thing, it says, 206 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: and don't be conformed to this world any longer with 207 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: its superficial values and customs, but be transformed and progressively changed. 208 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: That's what's required for every boy. There's a progression. There's 209 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: a change that is continual in the life of Christ, 210 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: in the in the in the life of a Christian, 211 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: not in a life of Christ, in a life of 212 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: every believer, there's a progressive change. And as we mature spiritually, 213 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: these things have to happen in our lives. There has 214 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: to be change. You can't just be living for the 215 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: world and all of a sudden, no change is required 216 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: for you. From you. I'm gonna still booze it up 217 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: with my friends, I'm gonna still sleep around. I'm still 218 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: gonna be uh, cheating and lying and doing everything. But 219 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm a child of God. Most people, you know, they 220 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: have this weird mindset that somehow God is forgiven, it's 221 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: the grace and it doesn't matter what we do. No, 222 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: what we do really does matter, especially after getting saved, 223 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: because now we're responsible to understand God's way for our lives. 224 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: According to Romans twelve two and twelve to one, and 225 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. The Bible, the Will and Testament of 226 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: the Lord. This is, this is God's covenant. This is 227 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: the will of God for my life. This is the 228 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: will of God for your life. So he gave us 229 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: this book and he said, now I want you to 230 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: understand it with clarity so that you could live it out. 231 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: That's what's required from you. And and some people that 232 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: are just going based on some poem that's written on 233 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: their fridge that Grandma June came up with. No, No, 234 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: that's not Bible. Show me the Bible about Sometimes he answers, 235 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: sometimes he doesn't. And God works mysteriously. I don't I 236 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: don't even know. I don't even know. But we are 237 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: required to make these changes every single day of our lives, 238 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: renewing our minds with the word of God, allowing the 239 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: Word of God to empower us and to change us 240 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: every single day. You know what's required of that change. 241 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: That's what this is gonna be. This title is called 242 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: that Change will do You Good. I hate to say that, okay, 243 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: shell Crow, but that change will do you good. That 244 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: change is gonna do you good. And some people just 245 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: they they hate change so much that they try to 246 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: avoid it. At all costs, and it's really not great. 247 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: You know, however you started off your marriage, that's not 248 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: the way it has to be forever. You know, I 249 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: know you you maybe you were grown in a situation 250 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: where it was just completely dramatic. Everything about the life 251 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: at home was just chaos and drama. Everyone's like yelling, 252 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: throwing things. You're violent, you're vicious. You say things that 253 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: you know you're gonna regret later on, but you don't care. Well, 254 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: if you're a Christian, the Holy Ghost is gonna teach 255 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: you some things, and he's gonna say, hey, you gotta 256 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: be gentle Galatians five. Remember, you gotta be gentle, you 257 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: gotta be kind, you gotta be loving. And all of 258 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: a sudden, that way of thinking has to be thrown out. 259 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: You have to make that change, and it's ugly and 260 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 1: it's not easy, especially if you've been doing it for 261 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: several decades of treating people like garbage. All of a sudden, 262 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: you're twenty years in and you're like, I don't have 263 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: any friends. Well, it's because you were a jerk. It's 264 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: because you're not loyal. So all of these things the 265 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: Holy Ghost can teach you. He's our guide. He's a 266 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: great teacher. But what's required is us making that change. 267 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit cannot, you know, control every situation and 268 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden just overhaul your mouth and 269 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: your mind and your body and tell you, you know, 270 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just take him over to church on Sunday. No, 271 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: you have to set an alarm, you have to get 272 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: your clothes ready. You got to jump in a car 273 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: on an uber or walk your behind bike if you 274 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: have to, and get to church. Holy ghosts can't do that. 275 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: Holy ghosts can nudg you in that direction. But see, 276 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: lots of that mindset, a lot of that that mindset 277 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: that we have that we carry for Christianity in general, 278 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: tells us that somehow God's gonna come in and intervene 279 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: and do the work for us. But really he's not. 280 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: We are in control. God is in control. No, God, 281 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: you know to a certain degree, yes, But in my life, 282 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: I control the situation. I make the decisions every single 283 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: day of my life, whether to do good or whether 284 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: to do bad, whether to obey the truth, whether to 285 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: obey the truth or to do what I feel. Because 286 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm hurt, because I'm sad, because I'm lonely. I could 287 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: either live colonel or live in the spiritual. Those are 288 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: choices that have to be made. Everything is a choice 289 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: for us. And so why do we hate change so much? 290 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: Because the devil knows if you stay consistent to the 291 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: word of God, and you obey the word of God, 292 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: and you challenge yourself to fall into alignment, and whatever 293 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: change that might require, cutting off friends, breaking up with 294 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: your boyfriend, your girlfriend, you know, changing careers, whatever that might. 295 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: Whatever you tell me to do, I'm gonna do it. 296 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: And I don't care how that's gonna look like. I 297 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: don't care if I'm a single mom living in my 298 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: boyfriend's house because I don't have the support of my family. 299 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: If I leave, i have nothing. I don't care. I'll 300 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: live in my car because I would rather obey God 301 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: than be in sin. Whatever change that's going to require, 302 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: I am willing to make the sacrifice because I know 303 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: in the long run it's going to bring me what 304 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: I desire. See, we can't take the easy way out. 305 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: The life of Christ is not an easy thing. It's 306 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: a constant I won't say battle, but there is there's 307 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: a there's a constant fight between good and evil. And 308 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: we make that vote. We cast the deciding vote. God 309 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: is for us, the Devil's against us, and we have 310 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: the decision to either side with God or side with 311 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: the devil. And so that is something that we have 312 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: to walk out every single day. Am I gonna be upset? 313 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: Am I cranky today? Am I gonna treat people like garbage? 314 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: Or am I gonna walk in love? Am I gonna 315 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: walk in the understanding? Am I gonna walk in empathy 316 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: towards my brethren? Or am I gonna have a short 317 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: fuse and just pop off at the mouth. Because that's 318 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: how I do, That's how we do, and then that's 319 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: how we do all the way till nobody likes you 320 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: know more. You know what I'm saying, You gotta do 321 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: good in order to produce good. Change is required in 322 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: every stage of our lives. And that's crazy because I'm 323 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,719 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be forty soon, and you think, like, Okay, 324 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,199 Speaker 1: that's enough change, But it's like it's very cyclical, and 325 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: you should be open to constant changing because constant changing 326 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: is constant maturity, constant growth. I never wanna plateau. I 327 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: never want to go back the opposite way. I don't 328 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: want to digress, if that's even the correct word for it. 329 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to or regress. Maybe is that? Let 330 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: me look it up English regress. There's no internet connection here. 331 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: You guys get what I'm saying. I don't want to 332 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: go back. I don't want to go backwards. I want 333 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:26,959 Speaker 1: to go forwards. Yeah, Regress, not digress. To regress esl 334 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: students is to return to a previous and less advanced 335 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: or worse state, condition, or way of behaving. I think 336 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: I've used digress the wrong way for the last thirty 337 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: eight years of my life. AnyWho, So look at I'm learning. 338 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: I'm growing. Do you see that I changed? I made 339 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: a change in in vocabulary and I learned, and now 340 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: I'm growing. I'm becoming better at English every single day 341 00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: because I look at the situation and I'm like, wait 342 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: a minute, that didn't sound right, and then I looked 343 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 1: it up and then I saw, hmm, this is now 344 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: the word that I'm gonna use, and now it's it's 345 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: it's making me better. Do you know what I'm saying? 346 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: That's what we have to do every single day? Is Okay? 347 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: Where did I get it wrong? Did I talk to 348 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: my son in a way that is going to push 349 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: him away? Absolutely? Why because I was irritated? Okay, so 350 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? I'm actually going to go 351 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: to him and I'm going to say I'm sorry. I 352 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: haven't done that ever, but who cares. You're going to 353 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: humble yourself enough to say, this is me presenting myself 354 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: in a way that's very vulnerable, and I hate it 355 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: and I'm very uncomfortable, but this is what the change 356 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: needs to be in order for us to grow and 357 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: mature in our relationship, in your marriage. That you're gonna 358 00:23:52,880 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: get a lot of that, A lot is constant. I'm sorry, constant. 359 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: I see it your way now, and now I'm going 360 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 1: to to try to be a better person because of 361 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: this information that you just brought to my attention. And 362 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: you're not gonna get upset about it. Huh. Change is good. 363 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 1: Change is very very good. So don't ever allow yourself 364 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:24,479 Speaker 1: to not go and do something. Start that business, uh, 365 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: you know, go to that new place or change of career, 366 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: a move. Don't ever let that excuse well, I don't 367 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: really like change, and because ultimately that's what it is. 368 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: You don't want to move away from everything that you 369 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: know everything that's comfortable for you. What a boring life? 370 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: Don't live a boring life. Do what God tells you 371 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: to do. If he tells you to move to Alaska, 372 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: move to Alaska, do you know what I mean? Like, 373 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: don't don't ever allow yourself to live like that, because 374 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: at some point, when you stop listening to the voice 375 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: of God, it just starts going downhill. And he wants 376 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: you to continue to grow and increase and move to 377 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,479 Speaker 1: another level, to another dimension, and we stop ourselves from 378 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: doing that, And I don't want you to do that. 379 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: So today's lesson is that change will do you good. 380 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: Change bring about the change that is so required, especially 381 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: in our walk with Jesus Christ life. If there's not 382 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: going to be constant change on your behalf, you're losing. 383 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: You're losing. If the Word of God isn't constantly speaking 384 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: to you and teaching you things, new ways of thinking, 385 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: new mindset, it should challenge you. The Word of God 386 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: isn't like a poem that you read that's just like, Oh, 387 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 1: that's so cute. I'm going to cut it out and 388 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: put it on my wall. We'll put a nice frame 389 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: on it. The Word of God is alive and it's 390 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: there to bring those challenging things in your life. It's 391 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: there to challenge your mindset, to challenge the way you're living, 392 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: and to say there's more. Can you imagine if at fifteen, 393 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: I just quit learning from God and quit changing the 394 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: way that I lived to please him. Because this is 395 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: just the way that we always do it. This is 396 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: how we do it in the hood, this is how 397 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: we do it in the ghetto. You'll never grow. And 398 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: let me tell you, at forty years of age, that 399 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: there's still people living in the ghetto that refuse to 400 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: change and are still living lives like they're seventeen years 401 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 1: old and they're eighty two years old. Bro, they're old heads, okay, 402 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: and they're still living like they're bapi chulo. What why? 403 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: Because they never allowed the wisdom of God to come 404 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: into their lives and they never allowed themselves to change 405 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: accordingly to what they saw and what was required dedicating 406 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: yourself set apart. I'm not gonna do it the way 407 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: I've been taught. I'm not gonna do it the way 408 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: this world thinks. That is it's a normal thing or 409 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: it's okay to I can't do it that way because 410 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: according to the word of God. I have to live 411 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 1: a holy and blameless life before Him. So that's what 412 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I can't be at a hookah bar. 413 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: Is that a thing you don't know? Yeah, it's a 414 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: thing I can't. I can't be at a club. I 415 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: live holy, I have I carry different standards. And then 416 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're gonna see new people come about, 417 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: because when you change your mindset, all of a sudden, 418 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: everything changes. The people that are attracted to you, it change. 419 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: Everything changes when you decide to follow Christ fully. And 420 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you start seeing like, oh, oh, 421 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: you believe in prosperity, you believe in holiness, you believe 422 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: in the sanctity of marriage, you believe in X y Z, 423 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: you believe in this, And all of a sudden, your 424 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: life begins to change because you made that decision to 425 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: obey the voice of God, to obey the word of God, 426 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: and to not be conformed to this world, but allow 427 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: the word of God to change the way you think. 428 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: And if he changes the way you think, he's surely 429 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: gonna change the way you speak. And if he changes 430 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: the way you speak, he's surely gonna change the decisions 431 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: you make, he will alter them, and it's good. You 432 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: shouldn't be afraid of change. Change is required for the 433 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: next step. I want to change levels. I want to 434 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: do the next thing. It's a new season, it's a 435 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: new day. Okay, but if it's a new season, it's 436 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: a new day. We gotta it new, right, it knew, 437 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: So that's something new. So essentially, we've never been in 438 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: this space before. We've never we're not familiar with the 439 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: things that are in this new season of our lives. 440 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: So what do we do? We go back? Lots of 441 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: people do. They're like, I don't think I can do. 442 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: You know how many people have come and gone to 443 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: this church. They felt the Lord speak to them to 444 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: come to Revival Today church, and then something dumb pulled 445 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: them away, And now a year later they're like, what 446 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: have I done? I've missed it? And then all hell 447 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: breaks loose, of course, because you're no longer in the 448 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: will of God. But because when you went in to 449 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: that new season where change was required, you didn't like it. 450 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: It was uncomfortable, and you didn't want to do what 451 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: was required to establish that change in your life. You 452 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: didn't do what was required to nurture the change and 453 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: to change with the change. I don't know how else 454 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: about it, you know what I'm saying. So what happens? 455 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: You got scared, Fine, let's just call it what it is. 456 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: You were scared. You were scared of the change. You 457 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: were scared of committing to that individual. You were scared 458 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: of this because there's people here. You're in your fifties 459 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: and you know that was the person for you. But 460 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: you were so afraid that he was going to cheat 461 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: on you. And he never did anything to even remotely 462 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: you know, have you doubt him in any way or 463 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: her that they would be, you know, cheaters. But it's 464 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: because of what you know. You always fall back to 465 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: what you know my mom and dad and this happened, 466 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: and that happened, and nobody in my family's been faithful. 467 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: So your preconceived notion affected your future because you're like, oh, 468 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: now because of this, how I believe in what I've experienced? 469 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: Now this is my reality. Instead of allowing the the 470 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: Lord to change me and to be full of faith 471 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: in every area of my life, I've allowed this fear 472 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: to come into the relationship, and I missed out on 473 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: a beautiful opportunity. Do you know what I'm saying, Like, 474 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: it's just it could could It could affect everything if 475 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: you have like a fear about change. So and that's 476 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: what happens. The Lord tells you, directs you. Some people 477 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: don't even go. So bravo for you to even making 478 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: an attempt, a valiant attempt of going in the direction 479 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: that you should go, even though a lot of change 480 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: was required. But then when you're there, don't be afraid 481 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: and stick with it and then allow that change to 482 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: take place. It's like going to the gym. It always 483 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: goes back to going to the gym. You go to 484 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: the gym and you lift weights, and at first you're like, 485 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: this hurts, this sucks, I hate this. But then after 486 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: three weeks you're like, I'm starting to see a cut here. Okay, 487 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: now I'm understanding why this is so important. And so 488 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: you continue to lift, and you continue to and then 489 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: you pick up your kid with bags of grocery and 490 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: you're like, this is so easy. I'm not even out 491 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: of breath, And all of a sudden, you start seeing 492 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 1: the relationship between the change that was necessary and the 493 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: discipline that was required to the benefit that it has 494 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: on your life. That's the whole point. But something is 495 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: required of you and I in order to see the 496 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: benefits from the Word of God. Right, it's not just 497 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: gonna happen automatically. These things have to be activated, and 498 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: they're activated by how we think. It's activated by what 499 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: we say. It's activated by what we do. And a 500 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: lot of us never had anybody to like help us 501 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: along the way. Do you know? We didn't have Judy 502 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: and Tiff to be like the Bible says, we didn't 503 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: have that. But we do have the Word of God. 504 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: And the Word of God is God, and he the Word. 505 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: The Word of God will help us and it'll take 506 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: us through. And whenever we're afraid or sad or angry, 507 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: what should I do the word of God. I'll get 508 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: into the Word of God and see how he would 509 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: want it done, and I'm going to adhere to it. 510 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to make that my reality, even though it 511 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: hasn't been. Huh. Even though i want to blow somebody's 512 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: head off verbally, chew them up and spit them out, 513 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that because I've got the 514 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: Holy Ghost living inside of me. So I'll just say 515 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Hmmm. That's so hard sometimes, but you do 516 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: it anyway because you know on the other side of 517 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: that sacrifice, on the other side of you being obedient 518 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: is a reward. There's a tangible reward for you doing 519 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: what is right. Change is required for momentum, Change is 520 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: required for growth, Change is required for maturity. And we 521 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: have to be okay with change. And you got to 522 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: set yourself up to change. Don't just sit there and 523 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: take it and against. This is not gonna work for me. 524 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: It works for a DALYs because she's Puerto Rican and 525 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: people like her. Nope, it works for me because I 526 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: believe it, because I read it, I study it, and 527 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,240 Speaker 1: I make this a reality for me. That's my decision, 528 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: am i ad this is it. I want to make 529 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: it to heaven. That's my number one priority. I want 530 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 1: to be in heaven with Jesus. I want to see 531 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: some people up there. Okay, that's my motivator. I want 532 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: to see my son in heaven. I want to see 533 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: what he looks like. That's a great motivator. So I 534 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: gotta live according to the word of God. Right, enough 535 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 1: with the excuses and just get to it. Change. Change. 536 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: If you don't lie, if you are miserable about the 537 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,240 Speaker 1: outcome in your life. It's a you problem, not anybody 538 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: else's problem. It's not because you have, you know, problems 539 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: with your marriage, with your children. You don't have a home. 540 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: I wish I had a home, I wish I had 541 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,399 Speaker 1: a car, I wish I had a better paying job. 542 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: But then when you have a better home, when you 543 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: have more kids, when you have a loving spouse, it 544 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: doesn't matter because it's something that you have to deal 545 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 1: with it yourself to understand. If I'm miserable right now, 546 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: change has to has to come about. If I feel ugly, 547 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: what do I have to do? Nothing? Just eat myself 548 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: into a scooter. No, I'll start walking, I'll start eating better. Change. 549 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: I'm just irritated sometimes, you know, it irritates me because 550 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 1: it's so easy, do you know what I'm saying, Like 551 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 1: it's really that easy to live a life of faith, 552 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: to live a life of blessing. It doesn't it's not 553 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 1: like like this, this this big to do. There's subtle 554 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 1: changes that have to take place, and I'm gonna do that. 555 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna live Holy I'm gonna live like God wants 556 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,359 Speaker 1: me to live. I've got faith I've got joy, I've 557 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: got I've got everything of life and Godliness are already 558 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 1: on the inside of me. I can do all things 559 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: through Christ, who gives me strength. There's nothing that I 560 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: can't do. There's nothing I can accomplish again ten years. 561 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: If I only have ten years, I'm gonna go after 562 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 1: it like never before. And whatever's required, the change that's required, 563 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 1: I'll do it. Whatever the sacrifice it'll that that comes 564 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 1: along with it, I'll I'll do I'll do it. Whatever 565 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 1: the discipline is that comes along with it, I'm gonna 566 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: do that as well. However, cringey, it might make me 567 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,759 Speaker 1: feel to have to tell somebody that I love them 568 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: like my mom or my dad, even though that's not 569 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,720 Speaker 1: the relationship that we carry. You're gonna do it because 570 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: that's what God wants you to do. There's just the 571 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: subtle changes. It's just a nice encouraging word instead of 572 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: something that's just nagging, complaining, whining. No, we're going to 573 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: change this structure as to how we speak. And then 574 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: you start, you start tweaking, and then all of a 575 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: sudden you see major gains and you're like, dang, look 576 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: at that. And that's the point we got to do 577 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: something different. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, I 578 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: pray that somebody got something out of us, because I 579 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: don't want to see anybody regress. I don't want to 580 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,800 Speaker 1: see anybody go backwards. I don't want to see anybody plateau. Father, 581 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,879 Speaker 1: in these last days, I thank you, Father, that you're 582 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,840 Speaker 1: coming back to a church that's victorious, a church that 583 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: is blooming and blossoming, a church that is going after it. Father, 584 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,399 Speaker 1: So I thank you for people that would rise up 585 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:05,959 Speaker 1: that when change is required, change is something that they're 586 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 1: not gonna be afraid of. They'll do what's required. They'll 587 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: say what you want them to say, They'll do what 588 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: you want them to do. In the mighty name of Jesus, 589 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,280 Speaker 1: I curse all kinds of fear that would come upon 590 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,240 Speaker 1: you from making these changes, whether it's a move, whether 591 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: it's changing schools or changing careers, whatever that might be. 592 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: I curse the fear that would be attached to that, Father, 593 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 1: and I pray for overwhelming faith to come upon every 594 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: individual in Jesus's name to do what is required. As 595 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: crazy of a change that it might be, we understand 596 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: that if you're behind it, you're going to see to 597 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 1: it that we would have that blessing, that we would 598 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 1: have that gain in our lives. In Jesus's name, help 599 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: us to understand that today in Jesus' name, and all 600 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 1: got people said, Uh, amen, no, I has seen is 601 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: coming right around the corner. So if you've not yet registered, 602 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 1: I want you to register for that event at rtcregister 603 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: dot com. And we've got an incredible lineup that is 604 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 1: in the beginning of June and into the first week 605 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: of July. And uh, it is gonna be absolutely amazing. Matthew, Asha, Maloa, Daddy, Dag, 606 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:36,799 Speaker 1: my husband, Uh, doctor Paulinichi, who else is that it? 607 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:49,440 Speaker 1: That's it, Papa Matthew, Oh no, oh, Pastor Robert Kyanja, 608 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: thank you, whoever's back there working this Oh and brother 609 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: Ted Sorry, I thought there was only going to be 610 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: four speakers, but look at that. We are loaded up. 611 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: This is going to be a game changer. This is 612 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: going to be it's like another level. Huh to chum chum, 613 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,680 Speaker 1: chum to jum chum. If you want to go a 614 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 1: see increase and change levels, then you got to be 615 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,879 Speaker 1: there at that conference because it's going to be absolutely phenomenal. 616 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,680 Speaker 1: And guess what it's going to be at our new building. 617 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,400 Speaker 1: So I want you to be a part of that. 618 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: Make plans you. The kids are out of school now, 619 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,399 Speaker 1: so you can make a road trip a couple of days. 620 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,360 Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be all all week, although you should 621 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: be here all week, but if you only have two 622 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: days in between, in the middle or the end, you 623 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: know wherever. Just go in Jesus' name and register. ILL 624 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,280 Speaker 1: see you guys next week. Bye.