Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 1: gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 3: If you're grateful for Jesus Old Pentecost Sunday, why don't
Speaker 3: you take about five seconds and give Jesus, not me,
Speaker 3: not the worship leader. I'm talking about Jesus of Nazareth,
Speaker 3: the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Jehovah, Shirah,
Speaker 3: the provider. Come on, the one that saw you when
Speaker 3: nobody else saw you, the one that pulls you up
Speaker 3: when nobody else can.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 3: Well, good morning, Hello, nice to meet you. My name
Speaker 3: is Charles, and I'm just grateful this morning. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to be honest with you. I'm trying not to act
Speaker 3: the fool up here, Donna let the jacket fool you.
Speaker 3: I grew up Bowling Green, Kentucky. My dad was the
Speaker 3: pastor ten people and somebody start playing see zeke. When
Speaker 3: I grew up, they would start singing about the blood
Speaker 3: of Jesus. Now I can't. I don't know where you at,
Speaker 3: but where when I grew up they start talking about
Speaker 3: the blood of Jesus that Zeke, now can you This
Speaker 3: might just be for me, But there was a song
Speaker 3: that my dad used to play on the way to
Speaker 3: church every single morning that would talk that the blood
Speaker 3: of Jesus would never lose its power?
Speaker 1: Does Zeke you know this?
Speaker 3: It reads check now this is the part right here
Speaker 3: to theish ches.
Speaker 4: Come on, somebody indeed, floosh to theh come on singing church.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, come on God, blood that gives me?
Speaker 1: Come on to God. Will Here's.
Speaker 3: All right, one last time, Come on, give Jesus a
Speaker 3: shot of praise. You can grab your seat this morning,
Speaker 3: Grab a seat. I want to take a moment to
Speaker 3: welcome everybody watching online, all the campuses around the world. Ephan,
Speaker 3: we love you so much. I am grateful to be
Speaker 3: here this morning. I said it earlier, but my name
Speaker 3: is Charles Henry Metcalf the third, just so my mama
Speaker 3: would be grateful that I share that with you. And
Speaker 3: I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma, part of an amazing church out
Speaker 3: there called Transformation church with the one of the best
Speaker 3: lead pastors in the world, my friend, Pastor Michael Todd,
Speaker 3: And I am grateful to be here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can give it up.
Speaker 3: He's an amazing I'm grateful to be here this morning.
Speaker 3: Before we jump into the world, I have to take
Speaker 3: a moment just to say how grateful and honored I
Speaker 3: am to be here. How grateful I am for your
Speaker 3: pastor's Pastor Steven and Pastor Holly. Can we take a
Speaker 3: moment and honor them? Thank you so much for this moment.
Speaker 3: I'm very grateful. I don't take it lightly, and I
Speaker 3: am excited to share this moment. I said that earlier.
Speaker 3: But I am a church kid. I grew up in
Speaker 3: church my whole life. Every Sunday, every day the doors
Speaker 3: were open, we was up in there shouting, yelling, and screaming.
Speaker 3: And by we, I mean my dad and the other
Speaker 3: eight people who were related to us, and the two
Speaker 3: first time guests we had every single week. But I
Speaker 3: just I love the church. I don't think there's anywhere
Speaker 3: else you should be on a Sunday morning, anything else
Speaker 3: worth giving your life to, anything else worth raising your
Speaker 3: family in. It's near and dear to my heart. Speaking
Speaker 3: of family, I do have one of those greatest things
Speaker 3: in my life. I got to start off with the
Speaker 3: most amazing woman in the world.
Speaker 1: Oh, there go my babies.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I'll introduce you to my mixed family here.
Speaker 3: So I have Arlow Phoenix, my son sitting on the
Speaker 3: ground there, and then the white girl picking.
Speaker 1: Her nose that is Luna Rose.
Speaker 3: And then we go back light skin again, so you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. We went back and forth. We
Speaker 3: got tan white, tan white. But so we me all
Speaker 3: try to figure out. I'm Puerto Rican, I'm half black,
Speaker 3: half white. I can't speak Spanish.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get that out the way.
Speaker 3: But Jade October and then blonde hair, blue eyes in
Speaker 3: my wife's arm is Blue Sunday.
Speaker 1: We call her Sonny.
Speaker 3: And then the amazing queen in the middle is the
Speaker 3: queen of our home, Abbey Rose. That's the love of
Speaker 3: my life last ten years. So that's my amazing family.
Speaker 3: I love you, kiddos. If you're watching, listen.
Speaker 1: To La la.
Speaker 3: Okay, we gotta hand out instructions. Okay, we're gonna jump
Speaker 3: into the word today. I am grateful for this moment.
Speaker 3: If you got your bibles, go ahead and grab them,
Speaker 3: pull them out. We're gonna be in the Book of Galatians.
Speaker 3: In the Book of Galatians is where we're gonna be.
Speaker 3: Favorite book of the Bible I can't even lie to
Speaker 3: you is Galatians. If you're looking to jump into reading scripture,
Speaker 3: a good place to start. I think this is amazing
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, this is just a beautiful moment. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna read five verses and then we're gonna share for
Speaker 3: just a moment.
Speaker 1: If you got to say I got it.
Speaker 3: If you don't say hold up, okay, if you of
Speaker 3: y'all little slow s, all right, shout out, who got
Speaker 3: a real Bible? Put a punch your real Bibles in
Speaker 3: the air wave. I'm like, you just don't care. That's
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Come on, if you had to
Speaker 3: charge your Bible, I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I just hope it don't die when you need it most. Okay,
Speaker 3: here we go. Gas chapter number one, starting in verse ten,
Speaker 3: says this, Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval
Speaker 3: of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal,
Speaker 3: I would not be Christ's servants. I gotta stop right there,
Speaker 3: but I gotta keep going. Okay, Okay, dear brothers and
Speaker 3: sisters want to I want you to understand that the
Speaker 3: gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning.
Speaker 3: I received my message from no human source, and no
Speaker 3: one taught me.
Speaker 1: Instead, I received it by direct revelation of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: You know what I was like when I followed the
Speaker 3: Jewish religion, how violently I persecuted God's Church.
Speaker 1: I did my best to destroy it.
Speaker 3: I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my
Speaker 3: zeal for the tradition of my ends, Verse number fifteen,
Speaker 3: the most dangerous piece of literature you will hear today.
Speaker 3: But even before I was born, God chose me, and
Speaker 3: he called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased
Speaker 3: him to reveal his son to me, so I would
Speaker 3: proclaim the good news about Jesus to the gentiles. You're
Speaker 3: taking notes. Write down the title of my sermon at
Speaker 3: the top. You definitely should take notes. It's like a
Speaker 3: fast pass. When you get to Heaven, you show them
Speaker 3: your notes. They put you in the short line. Can
Speaker 3: wave everybody as you go by top of your notes,
Speaker 3: title of my sermon three words. God chose me. God
Speaker 3: chose me. Let's pray together. Dear Lord, we thank you
Speaker 3: for choosing us. You didn't have to. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, you had reasons to look over us. But
Speaker 3: in your grace and your kindness and in your mercy, Lord,
Speaker 3: you chose us. And so I pray this morning, and
Speaker 3: we will be reminded of that truth. It's in the
Speaker 3: beautiful name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, a men, you.
Speaker 1: Got to see the picture. I have four beautiful children.
Speaker 3: And you know, there's a lot of things people don't
Speaker 3: warn you about when you have kids.
Speaker 1: You know, they they just they see you doing it,
Speaker 1: and it's just they just let you do it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Some of y'all you be seeing
Speaker 1: young people. They're like, we're gonna have some kids. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so sweet, go ahead do it. You don't give
Speaker 1: them any prep, no warning.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stuff you got to just figure
Speaker 3: out as you go.
Speaker 1: And all our kids are close together.
Speaker 3: We have a six year old, a four year old,
Speaker 3: a three year old, and a two year old, so we.
Speaker 1: Had to waste no time.
Speaker 3: So but a beautiful thing about raising children is one
Speaker 3: of the responsibilities I felt is as their dad, there
Speaker 3: was some things about them that I wanted them to
Speaker 3: know that are true about the Metcalf family before they
Speaker 3: went out into the world trying to discover some things
Speaker 3: about who they were, or who they should be, or
Speaker 3: who they should be trying to please or impress. I,
Speaker 3: as their father, wanted to decide some things for them
Speaker 3: so they wouldn't have to wait to discover them.
Speaker 1: So what we did as a.
Speaker 3: Family is we created our Metcalf Confessions. We say these
Speaker 3: every single morning, and my son Arlo, who loves to
Speaker 3: tell his sisters what to do, particularly likes to take.
Speaker 1: Charge in the morning.
Speaker 3: But the Metcalfs, every single day we wake up and
Speaker 3: say this. Metcalfs carry peace and purpose, kindness and compassion,
Speaker 3: boldness and bravery and loving lights.
Speaker 1: We added at the end of it.
Speaker 3: My kids would all scream because God chose me at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: But what I did with these confessions is I realized
Speaker 3: that there was something they need to hear every single
Speaker 3: day to not be informed by their situation, but so
Speaker 3: they could inform their situation who they were. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to raise kids who are going out into the
Speaker 3: world looking for the world to tell them who they
Speaker 3: were looking for, their friends, to tell them who they
Speaker 3: were looking for the situation. I wanted them to show
Speaker 3: up into a chaotic situation and say, I carry peace.
Speaker 1: So in the name of Jesus, I don't.
Speaker 3: Know what's going on in here, but Metcals carry peace.
Speaker 3: That's who we are, it's what we do. I am
Speaker 3: not subject to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is subject to
Speaker 3: the God on the inside of me. So when we
Speaker 3: walk up in the room, purpose is in the room,
Speaker 3: because Jesus is in the room. I decided it for them. Now,
Speaker 3: it's easy to acknowledge the importance of a confession to
Speaker 3: a six' five four and two year, old and the
Speaker 3: importance of those.
Speaker 1: Things BUT i want to.
Speaker 3: Submit to you this morning that whether you recognize it or,
Speaker 3: not there are some confessions that you believe and you
Speaker 3: confess every single. Day and here's the tension with a.
Speaker 3: Confession whether or not it is, true, right or the
Speaker 3: most powerful, thing you will always reap the effects of your.
Speaker 1: Confession this is you.
Speaker 3: Ever seen those documentaries On netflix where the police be
Speaker 3: pressuring people and they didn't even do, nothing and they
Speaker 3: just lock them in the room for ten days and they're,
Speaker 3: like you, Know sammy's over there talking and they're, Like,
Speaker 3: sammy what you?
Speaker 1: SAY i don't, know, man you got anything you need
Speaker 1: to tell?
Speaker 3: Me and they won't confess to something they know they didn't.
Speaker 1: Do just because the pressure of the.
Speaker 3: Situation the confession seems like it'll get them out of the.
Speaker 1: Moment and what, happens they reap.
Speaker 3: The effects of that, confession whether or.
Speaker 1: Not it is. True the same is true in your.
Speaker 3: Life there are confessions that we, say that we believe
Speaker 3: that we, say maybe not out loud to, everybody but
Speaker 3: really the most powerful confessions happen up. Here psychologists will
Speaker 3: tell you that the voice in your, head you know that,
Speaker 3: VOICE i know you don't some of y'all may talk to.
Speaker 1: Yourself you look, Crazy it's all, Right we glad you.
Speaker 1: Here also call at the end for everybody who talks to.
Speaker 3: Themselves but psychologists will tell us that the voice in your,
Speaker 3: head no matter positive or, negative it originates either from your,
Speaker 3: father your, mother or the lack. Thereof so there's confessions
Speaker 3: that start in your, mind that voice that tells you
Speaker 3: you're not good. Enough you heard that, somewhere you saw that,
Speaker 3: Somewhere you had an experience somewhere that told you that
Speaker 3: that was, true and so at first you didn't know
Speaker 3: what to do with. It but then life situation started
Speaker 3: to inform that, belief and you started to believe it
Speaker 3: so much that now every time you go to try something,
Speaker 3: new there's only one confession that comes. Up you're not good.
Speaker 1: Enough nobody cares about.
Speaker 3: YOU a life experience happened when you were a child
Speaker 3: where you felt overlooked or.
Speaker 1: Undervalued and so now anytime you.
Speaker 3: Go to risk the take the risk of, relationship every
Speaker 3: time you go to step, out there's a belief in
Speaker 3: your heart and there's a confession that comes out that
Speaker 3: nobody cares about, you nobody sees. You you have to
Speaker 3: work to be. Seen you're only as valuable as what
Speaker 3: you can. Do all things you may not articulate out,
Speaker 3: loud but we know it's true by the way we live.
Speaker 3: Now the power of confession is not Something i'm making up.
Speaker 3: Today in, fact The bible would tell you In romans chapter,
Speaker 3: ten verse nine that the most insane, miracle the most
Speaker 3: powerful transformative moment In the life of a believer happens
Speaker 3: because of a belief and a. Confession The bible says
Speaker 3: In romans ten to, nine if you believe in your
Speaker 3: heart and confess with your Mouth Jesus's, lord.
Speaker 1: You shall be.
Speaker 3: Saved so if a belief and confession is sealing your,
Speaker 3: eternity what are you think is.
Speaker 1: Doing to you every single?
Speaker 3: Day what do you think those thoughts that live in
Speaker 3: your mind unchecked are doing to your?
Speaker 1: Confidence what do you think though thoughts.
Speaker 3: That just Ravage you've tried, before and now time and time,
Speaker 3: again you failed so much that you believe it's better.
Speaker 1: To not try than to try and.
Speaker 3: Fail when you slowly start to believe stuff about, yourself
Speaker 3: and maybe it didn't or originate with a family, member
Speaker 3: maybe it wasn't a parent or a. Coach you, see
Speaker 3: there's a moment in all of our lives where we
Speaker 3: can't remember who the voice, is but now it sounds
Speaker 3: like our own and it's all you, know it's all you,
Speaker 3: think it's all you, see it's how you.
Speaker 1: Operate and no matter how old you, are we all have.
Speaker 3: Some beliefs about ourselves that keep us from being Who
Speaker 3: god wanted us to. Be what do you believe about?
Speaker 3: YOURSELF a better, question how do you talk to? You
Speaker 3: IF i was to put your daily dialogue up on
Speaker 3: this screen and the thoughts that you, say would it
Speaker 3: be something you would want somebody saying to your? Kids
Speaker 3: would it be something that you wanted to? Replicate for
Speaker 3: many of, us the truth is it's not the, case
Speaker 3: because we're hard on ourselves and we don't give ourselves,
Speaker 3: grace and we feel, like, dangy you should be further by,
Speaker 3: now or you should know better by, now or you
Speaker 3: should have more money by, now or, see you're not like,
Speaker 3: them and see you're never going to be, That and,
Speaker 3: slowly but, surely we talk ourselves out of the same
Speaker 3: power that Raised christ from the, dead that lives on
Speaker 3: the inside of, us and we slowly shrink, back and
Speaker 3: we slowly, settle and we settle for a version of
Speaker 3: our self that is accepted by other, people but they
Speaker 3: don't know What god put on the inside of. You
Speaker 3: so you can pretend like everything is, Fine you can
Speaker 3: settle for a level that everybody else applause, for but
Speaker 3: you are the only one who knows what you had
Speaker 3: to give up to be that version of. Yourself and
Speaker 3: there's things That god wants you to. Do there's things
Speaker 3: that you know you're supposed to. Do there's differences you're
Speaker 3: supposed to make in your. Family there's things that you
Speaker 3: Know he's put on the inside of, you but somewhere deep,
Speaker 3: down you don't.
Speaker 1: Believe you don't know if you can do. IT i.
Speaker 1: Relate there's a moment in scripture THAT i.
Speaker 3: Love there's this father and he comes To jesus and
Speaker 3: he's Asking jesus to heal his. Daughter and he says
Speaker 3: the most powerfully honest. Thing he, says you, Know, god
Speaker 3: can you please help? Me And jesus, says anything is
Speaker 3: possible if you, believe and he responds in tears and.
Speaker 3: Agony he, SAYS i do, believe but help me with my.
Speaker 3: Unbelief many of, you there's a part of you that
Speaker 3: Believes god could use. You there's a part of you
Speaker 3: that believes that you're. Important there's a part of you
Speaker 3: that believes That god shows. You there's a part of
Speaker 3: you that believes you're the.
Speaker 1: Parent for those.
Speaker 3: Kids but at the exact same, time there's another part
Speaker 3: of you that doesn't know if you have what it
Speaker 3: takes to be the Father you didn't. Have there's a
Speaker 3: part of you that doesn't know if you can continue
Speaker 3: with the pressure of raising those. Kids there's a part
Speaker 3: of you that doesn't know if you deserve the. Promotion
Speaker 3: there's a part of you that doesn't know because you know.
Speaker 3: YOU i was standing back there on the side as
Speaker 3: they sang that SONG i can't. ZEEK i was, Like,
Speaker 3: yo the tag at the, end you gotta sing that
Speaker 3: last little. Tag i've come a long, way because that's
Speaker 3: the whole, song, man.
Speaker 1: If you don't say that. Part and SO i was
Speaker 1: going back and. Forth he was, like, yes let's do.
Speaker 1: It So i'm standing.
Speaker 3: THERE i was about to walk, out AND i went
Speaker 3: to take one step and it Said i've come a long,
Speaker 3: way AND i broke down into tears BECAUSE i know.
Speaker 1: Me you may not know, me BUT i know.
Speaker 3: Me and the worst thing we could do as believers
Speaker 3: is get spiritual amnesia on where he brought you. FROM
Speaker 3: i know we's sitting up in here On Pentecost, sunday
Speaker 3: and you got your good makeup, on and you got
Speaker 3: some nice clothes. On but do not get twisted where
Speaker 3: he had to go to find. YOU i don't need
Speaker 3: everybody but my Friend shaye. Nowhere he had to come
Speaker 3: to find. Me he came and found me WHEN i
Speaker 3: was broken and. Depressed and IF i forget, That i'll
Speaker 3: stop believing some stuff about. Myself some of y'all you
Speaker 3: don't struggle with belief in this. Way some of y'all, Think,
Speaker 3: MAN i pulled myself up by my. BOOTSTRAPS i got me.
Speaker 3: Here it was hard work and commitment and. Dedication, okay,
Speaker 3: okay yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah you. Good but you ain't that. GOOD i hate
Speaker 1: to break it to.
Speaker 3: YOU i know your mama told you you could do,
Speaker 3: anything And.
Speaker 1: God has has done something for. YOU i want to.
Speaker 3: Give you today a belief and a confession THAT i
Speaker 3: know for a fact has the power to radically transform
Speaker 3: your everyday. Life it comes from this Scripture glatians one point.
Speaker 3: FIFTEEN i love this scripture Because, paul he's talking very
Speaker 3: disrespectfully in the.
Speaker 1: Scripture to be honest with. You he starts off in verse,
Speaker 1: Ten he's, like, uh, OBVIOUSLY i don't care what you.
Speaker 3: Think it kind of starts off as like a disc,
Speaker 3: track you, Know LIKE i, say he's getting on the
Speaker 3: beef Of kendrick And.
Speaker 1: Drake he's Like, hey, YO i want some of. This.
Speaker 3: Hey, now the context why he comes in so strong
Speaker 3: is Because paul's kind of. Random he's kind of off the,
Speaker 3: scene like they already had their, crew they agreed upon
Speaker 3: people who was, there we Saw jesus were doing the.
Speaker 3: Thing then this guy who used to Kill christians comes.
Speaker 1: In it's, like, HEY i got something.
Speaker 3: Saying they're like hey, brother uh real, quick somebody pat him.
Speaker 1: Down, hey bartholow me where you at? Go just? Check come,
Speaker 1: on you, guys Sacrifice. Bartholomew if it's all gonna do,
Speaker 1: Something you're, Like, bartholome you get in, there, man you got.
Speaker 1: It he's, like, WELL i don't even. Know paul's, like,
Speaker 1: yeah go.
Speaker 3: Ahead but the truth is there suspect about the origins
Speaker 3: of his. Message their suspect if he's qualified. Enough and
Speaker 3: at the, time the way you acknowledge someone's authority and
Speaker 3: power is you asked who taught them what they. Know
Speaker 3: so if you were connected to a disciple who walked With,
Speaker 3: jesus then you were, Affirmed then you were, approved then
Speaker 3: you were allowed to do and be a part of the.
Speaker 3: Way paul comes in on some different energy and he's, like,
Speaker 3: hey just so you, know ain't nobody give me, this
Speaker 3: didn't no human come and teach. Me didn't nobody walk
Speaker 3: me through their classes and their master. Class didn't nobody
Speaker 3: come check on. Me god found me in the middle
Speaker 3: of the. Road And i'm not worried about what you
Speaker 3: think about, me And i'm not trying to impress. You he.
Speaker 3: Says this message isn't of human. ORIGIN i got it
Speaker 3: directly From jesus. HIMSELF i can just imagine the. Reader they're, like, dang, okay,
Speaker 3: Okay i'm SAYING i ain't mad at, You. Paul most
Speaker 3: powerful words he says at the end is he, says
Speaker 3: BEFORE i was, Born.
Speaker 1: God chose. Me now this confession is. DANGEROUS i have
Speaker 1: to warn.
Speaker 3: You if you want your life to say the, same
Speaker 3: and you want to just stay and live a very,
Speaker 3: comfortable safe, life do not mess.
Speaker 1: With these three.
Speaker 3: Words but if you want to find yourself connected to
Speaker 3: the origins of this, movement the movement that they tried
Speaker 3: to stop when the boy was two years, old but
Speaker 3: they couldn't stop the. Movement they tried to stop when
Speaker 3: they tried to kill him at thirty, three but they
Speaker 3: couldn't stop the. Movement they tried to stop when they
Speaker 3: tried to kill all his, friends.
Speaker 1: And they couldn't stop the.
Speaker 3: Movement they tried to stop when they hung on as
Speaker 3: friends upside, down and they couldn't stop the. Movement they
Speaker 3: tried to stop when they start Feeding christians to, lions
Speaker 3: and they couldn't. Stop if you want to be part
Speaker 3: of the origin of your, faith that, says even if
Speaker 3: you throw us in the, fire we will not bow.
Speaker 3: Down if you want to find yourself walking like the
Speaker 3: early origins of The christian, faith you can start to
Speaker 3: believe in your heart and confess with your. Mouth god chose.
Speaker 3: Me didn't nobody else put me in this. Moment didn't
Speaker 3: nobody else get me? Here it was the grace and
Speaker 3: mercy Of Jesus. Christ god put me in this. Moment
Speaker 3: didn't nobody else give me these? Kids wasn't nobody else
Speaker 3: gonna be able to let me get that? Job god
Speaker 3: put me here for a. Reason some of you need
Speaker 3: to find a source of confidence that is not rooted
Speaker 3: in what you can, do how much money you, have
Speaker 3: what you can't. Achieve i'm not mad at you at
Speaker 3: being confident in those.
Speaker 1: Things as a matter of, fact you need some of those.
Speaker 3: Things as a, kid you get some of your confidence
Speaker 3: from your. Family you get it from your. Parents All
Speaker 3: i'm saying, is at some point they run. Out at some,
Speaker 3: point somebody got more money than. You at some point
Speaker 3: there's a human that lets you. Down but if you
Speaker 3: can find your confidence in the fact That god shows,
Speaker 3: you That god puts you, there that he used, everybody
Speaker 3: but ultimately he's getting the, glory there's something that happens
Speaker 3: in your. Spirit there's a confidence that starts to rise.
Speaker 3: Up there's a boldness that starts to rise.
Speaker 1: Up there is an.
Speaker 3: Answer to every single question you find yourself. In how
Speaker 3: AM i gonna make? IT i don't, know But god chose.
Speaker 3: Me how AM i gonna raise these? KIDS i don't,
Speaker 3: know But god shose. Me How i'm gonna start this?
Speaker 3: BUSINESS i don't. Know god chose. Me How i'm gonna
Speaker 3: be who he called me to, be even THOUGH i
Speaker 3: didn't have an.
Speaker 1: EXAMPLE i don't.
Speaker 3: Know But he placed me, here So he might have
Speaker 3: put something on the inside of.
Speaker 1: Me everybody, Say god chose. Me look at your.
Speaker 3: Neighbor say, NEIGHBOR i don't know about.
Speaker 1: You But god chose. Me look at your other.
Speaker 3: Neighbor find your second, choice that other neighbor that you
Speaker 3: didn't choose for some. Reason we don't got to talk about,
Speaker 3: it but, say, Neighbor.
Speaker 1: I'm SORRY i didn't pick you.
Speaker 3: FIRST i was just Reminded god chose.
Speaker 1: Me, hey, friend listen more.
Speaker 3: On some of y'all starting to feel that thing because
Speaker 3: you have lived your life questioning who you, were wondering
Speaker 3: if you had the permission to be Who god called
Speaker 3: you to, be waiting on someone in your family to
Speaker 3: let you be who you know you're supposed to. Be
Speaker 3: it's time to stop waiting on everybody. Else no one
Speaker 3: else is. Coming you are here right, now And god
Speaker 3: puts something on the inside of you that the world.
Speaker 3: Needs everybody, Say god chose. Me i'm telling, you. Friend
Speaker 3: people are waiting on you to remember. This they're waiting
Speaker 3: on you to believe. This they're waiting on you to show.
Speaker 3: Up how you would show up if you truly believed
Speaker 3: every single thing in your. Life he placed you there
Speaker 3: for a. Reason your family is not an. Accident god
Speaker 3: shows you to be in that. Family you didn't just
Speaker 3: happen to end up In. Charlotte some of you are, like,
Speaker 3: NO i did actually happen TO i don't even live.
Speaker 1: Here All i'm submitting this morning is what if.
Speaker 3: You adjusted how you look at all the stuff you're
Speaker 3: praying to get out, of all the stuff you spent time,
Speaker 3: singing and you were thinking, Of, yeah he's not, done
Speaker 3: because he's gonna get me out like. That MAYBE i
Speaker 3: hope he does that for. You you don't be doing that
Speaker 3: for me and my wife on the.
Speaker 1: Regular but what he often. Does here's What i've.
Speaker 3: Discovered if you don't allow him to be with you
Speaker 3: and keep you in, it you never find out what's
Speaker 3: truly on the inside of. You some of you don't
Speaker 3: know how brave you are, yet because every time you
Speaker 3: are faced with a situation that did not go your
Speaker 3: way and you feel overwhelmed by you start praying to get,
Speaker 3: out or you just leave or move around or quit
Speaker 3: on the. Relationship but there's something you could find out
Speaker 3: on the inside of you if you decided to stay and.
Speaker 3: BELIEVE i know this is, HARD i know this is.
Speaker 3: Difficult this is not at all HOW i would have
Speaker 3: planned it to. Go But god chose me to be,
Speaker 3: here SO i Believe he's gonna make me in. It
Speaker 3: he's gonna strengthen. Me he's gonna show me SOMETHING i
Speaker 3: didn't know about. Myself you have no, idea some of
Speaker 3: you have no idea how faithful you can.
Speaker 1: Be you've made, mistakes you've, fallen.
Speaker 3: You've, cheated and you think that one moment sums up
Speaker 3: the entirety of Who god made you to.
Speaker 1: Be but what if.
Speaker 3: The fact that you've made a mistake does not disqualify
Speaker 3: the fact That he did choose. You the enemy will
Speaker 3: work so hard for you to Fin this is all he's.
Speaker 3: After you, know this right for you to feel like
Speaker 3: you were. OVERLOOKED i, mean what's the most awkward moment
Speaker 3: in a sixth grader.
Speaker 1: Life let's let's talk about. It where your true trauma?
Speaker 3: Started Heart ever by, lineup we're playing kickball Billion, sam
Speaker 3: y'all are, captains.
Speaker 1: And what do you?
Speaker 3: Start you, Say Dear, god if you do anything in my,
Speaker 3: life do not let me get picked.
Speaker 1: Last.
Speaker 3: LORD i will kick this. KID i, WILL i, WILL
Speaker 3: i will serve for on a. Team i'll go into
Speaker 3: your old. Room, God i'll do whatever.
Speaker 1: You need me to.
Speaker 3: Do Why because the idea that you weren't, chosen the
Speaker 3: idea of being overlooked in front of. Everybody it's just
Speaker 3: too it's too. Much and this is why you you
Speaker 3: may relate to, me this is why you start creating
Speaker 3: different versions of.
Speaker 1: Yourself, oh come, on let's talk about. It you got to.
Speaker 1: Work you how y'all?
Speaker 3: Doing? Hey?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah how you? Doing? Bill you got a weird
Speaker 1: laugh and. Everything it's, like it's, like what was?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: Bro that? Was it's. Crazy you got to.
Speaker 3: Work you got when you're out with your, Friends you
Speaker 3: got the person that you are when you're with your.
Speaker 3: Spouse now some of y'all be, like oh, No i'm
Speaker 3: all myself with the. Spouse are you really? Though because
Speaker 3: there's still some. Thoughts you're worried if you told them
Speaker 3: what you were really, thinking if you told them how
Speaker 3: you really. Felt here's your, question would anyone choose all of?
Speaker 3: Me it's not you don't believe someone would choose some of.
Speaker 3: You you got friends that know parts of, You you
Speaker 3: got business partners.
Speaker 1: That chose part of.
Speaker 3: You but you're worried IF i show you all of,
Speaker 3: me IF i ADMIT i don't really know What i'm
Speaker 3: doing And i've been in this field for twenty, years
Speaker 3: if i Admit i'm not really. Competent if you admit
Speaker 3: to your teenager you don't really know what you're. Doing
Speaker 3: some of y'all got a whole. Testimony your kids don't.
Speaker 3: Know now you're up in church saying you're, LIKE i,
Speaker 3: know but for about forty, years you're just lucky we
Speaker 3: didn't Have instagram and TikTok back. Then that's a something
Speaker 3: you are, like the world's so. Bad no you we
Speaker 3: just see what they. Doing we couldn't see you out
Speaker 3: there on them. Streets but do not get it. Twisted
Speaker 3: you was out. There, okay the music was a little,
Speaker 3: different but you was still you know What i'm.
Speaker 1: Saying so, anyways but we're gonna have to talk about.
Speaker 1: It i'm gonna give you three quick things that. Happened
Speaker 1: if you would dare to believe That god chose, YOU.
Speaker 3: I say dare to, believe because in order to believe,
Speaker 3: this you're gonna have to wage war and some other.
Speaker 3: Beliefs you're gonna have to actively fight against the version
Speaker 3: of you that shrinks. Back the people, Pleasing, oh come,
Speaker 3: on some of. Us the people pleasing is. Hereditary you were, raised,
Speaker 3: well don't do.
Speaker 1: That we don't want to make them feel. Weird we
Speaker 1: don't want them to feel.
Speaker 3: Like AND i understand the sentiment and how you feel
Speaker 3: about What god gave me is not my. Issue i'm
Speaker 3: not gonna go there. Yet some of y'all don't even
Speaker 3: know what to do with. That, Okay three things you
Speaker 3: Believe god shows. You the first thing if you Believe
Speaker 3: god shows you is.
Speaker 1: It keeps you. Ready keeps you ready when.
Speaker 3: You find yourself in a space where you Know god chose.
Speaker 3: ME i am ready for anything at any. TIME a
Speaker 3: funny story me and my wife in our first year of.
Speaker 3: Marriage i've been obsessed with clothes SINCE i was a
Speaker 3: little kid, like AND i mean in a way THAT
Speaker 3: i would pick my outfits out every single day the night,
Speaker 3: before starting at like seven or eight years, old And
Speaker 3: i've been doing this for a whole. Life it's wild
Speaker 3: to See, jade the third little, girl the little light skinned,
Speaker 3: girl she do that to this, day four years, old
Speaker 3: and she wake.
Speaker 1: Up she's, like all, right let me see.
Speaker 3: What she only wears her brother's baggy pants and her
Speaker 3: younger sister's crop.
Speaker 1: Top i'm like crop top at four con, man just
Speaker 1: give me some.
Speaker 3: Time there was a moment with my wife where one
Speaker 3: time we were getting, ready AND i already had my
Speaker 3: fit picked, out so it was, like, bo when we gotta.
Speaker 3: GO i got, Ready i'm sitting on the. Couch then
Speaker 3: my wife's gonna take an extra, hour.
Speaker 1: You, know just doing our.
Speaker 3: Thing then she gonna come out and say This ready
Speaker 3: when you? Are, hey, YO i don't know who you
Speaker 3: are talking. To ready WHEN I i, ooh, okay some
Speaker 3: of y'a ain't never been that mad where you just
Speaker 3: start LIKE i have Who, okay let me.
Speaker 1: Let me real quick before YOU i have been. Ready
Speaker 1: you're not.
Speaker 3: Ready Now i'm ready when you, are CAUSE i have Been,
Speaker 3: okay we can go. Now the truth is many of
Speaker 3: us in our life we pray prayers that If god
Speaker 3: came right now and, said all, right let's, Go, god
Speaker 3: if you could just use, me if you could make a,
Speaker 3: difference for all, right pack up you, stuff quit that.
Speaker 1: Job let's.
Speaker 3: Go we're gonna move across the. Country i've been planning something.
Speaker 3: There your whole life has led to this, moment and you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna start that.
Speaker 3: Nonprofit come, on but you gotta. Go you got five
Speaker 3: months to get, ready SO i need you to work
Speaker 3: it all. Out let's. Go you'd be, like, uh, well
Speaker 3: the way my bank account is set, UP i need three.
Speaker 3: Days are you ready for the prayer you're praying right?
Speaker 3: Now are you ready for him To, actually there's, prayers
Speaker 3: there's habits you, have there's things you've been doing that
Speaker 3: you've been Begging. God, god if you could please do
Speaker 3: this and, me if you could help me break that,
Speaker 3: addiction if you could mend this, relationship if.
Speaker 1: You could help me. Forgive Then god come to.
Speaker 3: You and you're at the family event And god's, like go.
Speaker 3: Forgiven right, Now you're, like, hey, yo that's not exactly the.
Speaker 3: Timing but when you Know god chose, you when you
Speaker 3: know the grace he's extended to, you when he Knows
Speaker 3: he's empowers you for every single, moment you can stand
Speaker 3: in any, situations things you saw and you didn't see,
Speaker 3: coming and you can, say you know, WHAT i didn't
Speaker 3: see this, coming But god chose. Me So i'm. Ready
Speaker 3: i'm ready for where he wants to take. Me i'm
Speaker 3: ready for him where he wants me to. Go Because
Speaker 3: god chose me for this. Moment life isn't just happening at.
Speaker 3: Me this isn't some random thing THAT i just have
Speaker 3: to suffer and survive. Through what If god wants you
Speaker 3: to thrive through that? Moment what if you're. READY i
Speaker 3: know you don't feel, ready but what if you. Are
Speaker 3: what if it builds something on the inside of you
Speaker 3: haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Yet what if you're stronger than you think you. Are what, if.
Speaker 3: As joseph, says he, says you, know my, brothers they
Speaker 3: had a plan and they meant it for, Evil But
Speaker 3: god he meant it for my. Goods he's working something in. Me,
Speaker 3: FRIEND i want to tell. YOU i know you didn't
Speaker 3: have your family, there But god chose. YOU i know
Speaker 3: you feel like you're trying to do something you've never seen,
Speaker 3: before But god shows. YOU i know like you feel
Speaker 3: like this is your home and you don't know where
Speaker 3: you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Go BUT i promise you.
Speaker 3: Come.
Speaker 1: On that made me feel at.
Speaker 3: HOME i don't know who that was that, Y'ah, god
Speaker 3: thank you for.
Speaker 1: THAT i don't know who that. Was i've out hit
Speaker 1: a my leg went. Up, okay give me the. Organ.
Speaker 1: Okay keeps you, ready.
Speaker 3: A ready, spirit ready to step into What god Has
Speaker 3: because here's the, Thing because what keeps us honestly from
Speaker 3: being ready to go Where god wants to take us
Speaker 3: is thinking that we've worked too hard to get. Here
Speaker 3: you've put in too much, Effort you've done so. MUCH
Speaker 3: i Got but when you start to Realize god put me.
Speaker 3: HERE i worked, HARD i did my, THING i was.
Speaker 3: Faithful but the truth Is he put me. Here and
Speaker 3: my trust is not in how HARD i can. Work
Speaker 3: it's not in my good, plan it's Not my trust
Speaker 3: is in the king who can move. Mountains my trust
Speaker 3: is in the one who can make a way through the.
Speaker 3: Sea so if he's telling me it's time to, GO
Speaker 3: i don't know everything, else BUT i KNOW i cannot stay.
Speaker 1: Here i'm.
Speaker 3: Ready the next thing that happens when you Believe god
Speaker 3: shows you is it keeps you. Ridiculous now let me
Speaker 3: just so before you before you, GO i know some
Speaker 3: of us are a little more inclined to being. RIDICULOUS
Speaker 3: i would follow in that. Category she said me. Too
Speaker 3: you can always tell us to. Hour we just have
Speaker 3: more trauma the. People so we be showing up a
Speaker 3: little bit loud or just like y'all didn't see me
Speaker 3: as a, kid but you gonna see me. Now it's, Like,
Speaker 3: okay that's why we're, loud don't worry about, it.
Speaker 1: But it keeps you.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous here's here's here's WHAT i want to submit to,
Speaker 3: you the origins of our, faith the faith that we
Speaker 3: follow as somehow made this transition from its original. Message
Speaker 3: and here's WHAT i mean by, that the origins.
Speaker 1: Of why we are in this. Room the person.
Speaker 3: We, follow the king that we, serve is a man
Speaker 3: who was murdered at thirty three years old for the
Speaker 3: words he. Said he was not just a good, teacher
Speaker 3: he was not just a kind. Man he was murdered
Speaker 3: as a. Radical he was murdered as someone came attacking
Speaker 3: the current belief system and. Structure and then his friends
Speaker 3: believed him so much that they, SAID i will not
Speaker 3: deny who he is in my. LIFE i saw him
Speaker 3: go in that grave AND i saw him come. Out
Speaker 3: there was a, boldness there was a, Courage there was
Speaker 3: a faith THAT i am.
Speaker 1: Afraid somehow along the, way.
Speaker 3: In BETWEEN covid and being, canceled we have somehow gotten
Speaker 3: afraid of the message That god put on the inside of.
Speaker 3: Us but, FRIEND i need to tell you. Something this
Speaker 3: message only works if you commit all the. Way there
Speaker 3: are a lot of believers who are just worried about you,
Speaker 3: KNOW i just need to Just god just to help
Speaker 3: me make it. Through and IF i could just, survive
Speaker 3: and if the kids just cond of meet someone, nice
Speaker 3: and if they just AND i don't know about, you
Speaker 3: But i'm not here to settle with my. Savior i'm
Speaker 3: not here to barter with the. World IF i can
Speaker 3: make it, through If god Raised christ from the, dead
Speaker 3: and that power lives on the inside of, me how
Speaker 3: come you don't show up like it at? Work how
Speaker 3: what is it in you that keeps you from stepping? Out,
Speaker 3: WELL i don't want to look. Weird let me tell, you,
Speaker 3: baby you already look. Weird so we passed that. Point
Speaker 3: you ain't gotta we pass. THAT i mean we're talking
Speaker 3: about somebody you ain't never seen.
Speaker 1: Before you, say here lifting your.
Speaker 3: Hands so just we just in a, room singing up
Speaker 3: into the.
Speaker 1: Sky we passed. WEIRD i, mean if.
Speaker 3: You want to go down that, Argument i'll go with.
Speaker 3: You but we passed that. Point there reaches a point
Speaker 3: in your life where you've got to decide Either jesus
Speaker 3: was real or he. Wasn't either he came about that
Speaker 3: grave or he. Didn't AND i don't know about, you
Speaker 3: But i'm up in this room today BECAUSE i Believe
Speaker 3: jesus Of. Nazareth he is a real. Man he was
Speaker 3: not just a.
Speaker 1: Man he Is.
Speaker 3: God and one, day, friend he's coming back.
Speaker 1: From me and you some don't live Like god chose.
Speaker 3: Me i'm raising kids that aren't here to settle with.
Speaker 3: Culture i'm raising kids that are gonna be a terror
Speaker 3: on the. Enemy i'm raising kids that's gonna know who they.
Speaker 3: Are i'm not playing. Games i'm not backing up from.
Speaker 3: Nothing why Because god brought me. Here some of us
Speaker 3: has settled so, much and then we blame the, church commit,
Speaker 3: halfway walk in a, gym look at the, weights and
Speaker 3: then talk about.
Speaker 1: It that's WHY i don't do, gyms because they just.
Speaker 3: DON'T i had one trainer and they REALLY i feel, you, Okay.
Speaker 1: But this belief overthrew the Entire roman government without one
Speaker 1: class or.
Speaker 3: Course it was a group of people who really Believed
Speaker 3: jesus was a real. MAN i saw him with my own,
Speaker 3: eyes AND i can't start denying what he did in my.
Speaker 3: Life one of my favorite scripts of all. Time it's
Speaker 3: In acts chapter. Five the believers are being persecuted and
Speaker 3: there's this committee of, people and they're, like what are
Speaker 3: we gonna do with?
Speaker 1: Them because we're trying to.
Speaker 3: Kill, them but we know the people are kind of
Speaker 3: with their, message and what are we going to? Do
Speaker 3: and there's this man who stands, up respected by all
Speaker 3: in the, room and he, says, hey, listen, guys if
Speaker 3: the message they carry is of human, origin it'll.
Speaker 1: Fizzle out like every single.
Speaker 3: One we've seen this happen. Before but then he says these,
Speaker 3: words but if it is From, god.
Speaker 1: You will not be able to stop these.
Speaker 3: Men in, fact you might find yourself fighting Against god.
Speaker 3: Himself let me tell you. Something you don't have to
Speaker 3: be afraid of the. World you don't have to be
Speaker 3: afraid of the. Situation there's something in you that's greater than.
Speaker 3: That you have a source of. Strength everybody else don't.
Speaker 3: Have you have a source of peace everybody else don't.
Speaker 3: Have god chose, You he brought you. Here you didn't
Speaker 3: get yourself. Here come, on hoo wee, Kid.
Speaker 1: And let's be. Honest we Didn't we didn't do. This
Speaker 1: you didn't work this. Out you couldn't Have you couldn't
Speaker 1: have found you couldn't have wrote it any. Better god did.
Speaker 1: This and if it's, True let's live like it's.
Speaker 3: True if it's, real let's take it outside of this.
Speaker 3: Room if it's gonna do, something let's actually share it
Speaker 3: with our.
Speaker 1: FRIENDS i, mean why do we do?
Speaker 3: It when you Believe god shows, You it keeps you,
Speaker 3: Ready it keeps you.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous the last one is it keeps You REVEREND.
Speaker 3: I i was talking to my dad on the way, here.
Speaker 1: And he told me something.
Speaker 3: About two or three months ago THAT i didn't, know
Speaker 3: and it was that five generations, back The metcalf men
Speaker 3: have been. Preachers AND i was standing up here AND
Speaker 3: i was about to walk, out AND i was thinking
Speaker 3: of a man Named Jack. Alonzo you don't Know Jack
Speaker 3: alonzo Because Jack alonzo was born in like eighteen, forty
Speaker 3: but he was a. Preacher and THEN i was thinking
Speaker 3: of a man Named Luther. Alonzo you don't Know, luther
Speaker 3: But luther was a. Preacher AND i was thinking, that you,
Speaker 3: know it's not just me standing up. Here there was Some,
Speaker 3: metcalfs AND i got to just say, it to be
Speaker 3: honest with, you that we're out in a field somewhere
Speaker 3: as life did not look good and did not look,
Speaker 3: hopeful and they stood there, Saying, HEY i know it
Speaker 3: looks hard right. NOW i know it doesn't look like
Speaker 3: things can turn, around BUT i promise you we have
Speaker 3: a greater hope than what we see in front of us.
Speaker 3: Friends and you know this message Of god chose, me
Speaker 3: there's part of it that is super just confident and,
Speaker 3: bold and you Know god chose. You so you show
Speaker 3: up in the room and you're ready to kick the door, down.
Speaker 1: And you're ready to just be, like let's.
Speaker 3: Go and at the same, time there's a part of
Speaker 3: me that stands right here and it's Just reverend BECAUSE
Speaker 3: i Know he didn't have to put me up, here
Speaker 3: Right And i'm not talking about up, Here i'm just
Speaker 3: talking about WHAT i woke up this morning AND i,
Speaker 3: went he didn't have to do, that or, like owing
Speaker 3: to me and my wife's, marriage we WOULD i say this,
Speaker 3: JOKE i, said for our, marriage we've only had one.
Speaker 3: Argument and WHAT i mean by that is we've had
Speaker 3: the same argument a thousand, times of, course but at
Speaker 3: some point early on in our. Marriage we've worked through this,
Speaker 3: now but at some point earlier in our, marriage we
Speaker 3: would beat your point AND i would just be, like, okay.
Speaker 1: Sorry she'd be like, WELL i don't believe. You i'm, like, okay, Sorry.
Speaker 3: And at some point she would, Say, charles that's not
Speaker 3: what you're, saying.
Speaker 1: Is how you're saying. It and there's a part of
Speaker 1: you that sometimes you need to wake up and Scream
Speaker 1: god chose. You but there's other times where you're just,
Speaker 1: LIKE i know Everything i've been, THROUGH i know a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been praying for this.
Speaker 3: MOMENT i know HE'S i didn't always have the ANSWERS i,
Speaker 3: remember But god chose. Me and So, GOD i thank
Speaker 3: you for this. MOMENT i thank you that you're gonna
Speaker 3: help me raise these. KIDS i thank you that you're
Speaker 3: gonna guide me to WHERE i need to. Go, GOD
Speaker 3: i thank you that you're gonna be with me this guy.
Speaker 1: And. FRIEND i DON'T.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sell you on some idea that
Speaker 3: if you just start walking around your house Yelling.
Speaker 1: God chose, you that everything's gonna.
Speaker 3: Change BUT i can promise you you start to find
Speaker 3: yourself relating To there's a scripture where it lists all
Speaker 3: the heroes of our faith and it says they looked.
Speaker 1: Onward to a heavenly. Homeland you Believe god chose.
Speaker 3: You it produces something inside of you that is not
Speaker 3: so connected to this. Moment but you find yourself finding
Speaker 3: a courage and a bravery to live a life that's,
Speaker 3: ready that's a little, ridiculous, ridiculous and one that's reverent
Speaker 3: almost everybody in the.
Speaker 1: Room the balrier has enclosed your. EYES i want to pray.
Speaker 3: For you if you're in this, room and maybe there
Speaker 3: are some, beliefs some, thoughts some, questions some, insecurities and
Speaker 3: you've been fighting for a long.
Speaker 1: Time maybe you don't say them out. Loud maybe you know,
Speaker 1: them maybe you're.
Speaker 3: Not maybe there's just something in you you know you
Speaker 3: haven't stepped in fully. YET i want to take a
Speaker 3: moment AND i want to pray for. You i'm not
Speaker 3: just gonna pray for, you, Though i'm gonna ask something of.
Speaker 1: You i'm gonna ask you to.
Speaker 3: Be bold enough to not let those thoughts run up
Speaker 3: in your house. Unchecked if someone walked up to your
Speaker 3: house right now and just walked in without asking, you
Speaker 3: you would have a problem with. It the same is
Speaker 3: true for your. Mind do not let anything run up in.
Speaker 3: There it is too, valuable it is too. Important you
Speaker 3: stand guard at The bible says guard your heart above all,
Speaker 3: Else i'm gonna ask you to. Fight you're gonna need some.
Speaker 3: Compy you don't need some friends to help you do.
Speaker 3: This you're gonna need. Something but if you want to
Speaker 3: step into a life today believing That god chose you
Speaker 3: for this, day chose you for this, hour chose you
Speaker 3: for them, kids chose you for that, business chose you
Speaker 3: to be a, husband chose you to be a, wife
Speaker 3: chose you to be single in this, season chose you
Speaker 3: to move to this a whatever it. Is if you
Speaker 3: need the, courage the, strength and the bravery to believe that,
Speaker 3: Today i'm gonna pray for, you Your god right, now every single,
Speaker 3: person we are all here asking you to do something
Speaker 3: deep in our soul that is greater than just a,
Speaker 3: Moment Lord. Jesus but we need you to transform some.
Speaker 3: Things there's some beliefs and insecurities that we've believed about.
Speaker 3: Ourselves there's some ideas that were passed down to us
Speaker 3: that we are divorcing. Today, LORD i speak against, Insecurity Lord,
Speaker 3: god and comparison and doubt and.
Speaker 1: Fear right, now in the name Of, JESUS.
Speaker 3: I pray by the power of Your Holy spirit that
Speaker 3: same spirit that met them on the day Of. Pentecost
Speaker 3: i'm believing right now is happening in this room and
Speaker 3: in every room that is under the sound of my. Voice,
Speaker 3: GOD i pray right now that your spirit would intervene
Speaker 3: and there would be a holy confidence that ris us
Speaker 3: up on the inside of every believer that knows That
Speaker 3: god has placed something inside of, them regardless of what
Speaker 3: they've been, through regardless of what they look, like regardless
Speaker 3: of where they come.
Speaker 1: From But, god there is a boldness you are stirring
Speaker 1: up on the.
Speaker 3: Inside of your, Church Lord, jesus and we decide we
Speaker 3: are here to rage war against every life of the,
Speaker 3: enemy against every doubt that's held us, back against every
Speaker 3: fear that.
Speaker 1: Has kept us.
Speaker 3: Down and today we decide we will believe that you
Speaker 3: have chosen, us every hip, bow every eye. Closed there
Speaker 3: are some of you in the room that you need
Speaker 3: to surrender to this. Choice the beautiful thing about the
Speaker 3: grace of Our god is he has chosen, you but
Speaker 3: you still have a moment where you surrender to. That
Speaker 3: he loves you so much that he, SAYS i choose,
Speaker 3: you but you just you just gotta let.
Speaker 1: Me you gotta let. Me god your. Life you gotta
Speaker 1: let me.
Speaker 3: Surrender and if you were honest with yourself this, morning everyone,
Speaker 3: watching you've tried doing it your own. Way you tried
Speaker 3: going your own. Path and the truth is you're standing
Speaker 3: in the fruit of that. Moment and if you don't like,
Speaker 3: that if you can't stand the, anxiety if you can't
Speaker 3: stand the, peace if you can't stand not having, PURPOSE
Speaker 3: i want to invite you into a.
Speaker 1: Life it's not a safe.
Speaker 3: Life it's not a life where everything goes, away but
Speaker 3: it's a life that you could only. Live surrender to
Speaker 3: The king of kings And lord of. Lords if you
Speaker 3: want to Accept Jesus christ as Your lord and.
Speaker 1: Savior here's What i'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Do i'm gonna count to, three and on the count of,
Speaker 3: three you're gonna raise your hand. Boldly you're not. Ashamed
Speaker 3: this isn't between anybody. Else but this is the moment
Speaker 3: where you give up control of your. Life it's exhausted.
Speaker 3: You let's be, honest don't play. Nobody it's exhausted. You
Speaker 3: it's taking your, peace it's taking your. Heart it's changed
Speaker 3: parts of you that you don't like. Anymore but in this,
Speaker 3: moment you're gonna surrender your life To, jesus and it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a brand new. Start and when your hand
Speaker 3: goes up in the, air this whole room and around the,
Speaker 3: world we're gonna start cheering for you because this is
Speaker 3: the greatest choice you could ever.
Speaker 1: Make. One he loves.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 1: Two today is that.
Speaker 3: Day.
Speaker 1: Three raise your hand.
Speaker 3: Right, now all over this room and, online every single,
Speaker 3: room raise that. Hand, oh come on, CHURCH a whole
Speaker 3: row right, HERE a couple right. HERE i see, you
Speaker 3: so keep your hand. HOT i see, you, brother so
Speaker 3: proud of. You, oh come, on. Church can we celebrate
Speaker 3: people giving their life To?
Speaker 1: Jesus real?
Speaker 3: Quick everybody's standing all over this. ROOM i want to
Speaker 3: pray this prayer to. Everybody repeat out loud after. Me
Speaker 3: everybody Say Dear, god thank you for loving. Me Dear,
Speaker 3: JESUS i give you, Everything change, me transform.
Speaker 1: Me i'm yours In jesus.
Speaker 3: NAME i Pray. Amen can we celebrate that? Decision, oh come, On, Church.
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