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Speaker 4: And one day Adam was feeling very lonely. God said
Speaker 4: Adam I'm going to make you a companion. It's going
Speaker 4: to be called a woman. This person will cook for
Speaker 4: you and wash your clothes. She will bear you children
Speaker 4: and never ask you to get up in the middle
Speaker 4: of the night. She will always agree with you, and
Speaker 4: if you have a disagreement, she'll be the first to
Speaker 4: admit she was wrong. Adam said, Wile, God, what will
Speaker 4: a woman like this cost? God said an arm and
Speaker 4: a leg. Adam said, what can I get for a rib?
Speaker 4: And the rest is history? Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.
Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, bless you. I want to
Speaker 4: talk to you today about sleep on. It's easy to
Speaker 4: live frustrated because somebody's not doing what we want, or
Speaker 4: discouraged because of a disappointment, upset because a dream hasn't
Speaker 4: come to pass. But I've learned God doesn't remove every frustration.
Speaker 4: He doesn't change every person we don't like and take
Speaker 4: away everything that's bothering us. The scripture says be still
Speaker 4: and know that He is God. This implies if we're
Speaker 4: not still, if we're upset, worried, frustrated, we're not going
Speaker 4: to know that he is God. Most of the times
Speaker 4: I'm frustrated, I'm trying to change things that only God
Speaker 4: can change. I'm trying to be God and fix things
Speaker 4: that I can't control. You can't make people do what's right.
Speaker 4: You can't make yourself do well. If you're trying to
Speaker 4: control everything, you're going to be frustrated. You have to
Speaker 4: turn it over to God. Do what you can, then
Speaker 4: let him take care of the rest. Life is too
Speaker 4: short to live frustrated because we're not getting our ways,
Speaker 4: frustrated because something unfair has happened. God wouldn't have allowed
Speaker 4: it if it was going to keep you from your purpose.
Speaker 4: It's a test. Are you going to let it steal
Speaker 4: your joy, live stressed out? Or are you going to
Speaker 4: be still and know that He is God? If God
Speaker 4: is not changing it, you have to be mature enough
Speaker 4: to say, God, I don't like it, but I know
Speaker 4: you've allowed it, and until you change it, I'm going
Speaker 4: to stay in peace. And enjoy my life. The real
Speaker 4: victory when God does everything you want, removes all your frustrations.
Speaker 4: The real victory is when those things happen, but it
Speaker 4: doesn't bother you anymore. You're at peace. You know God
Speaker 4: is still in control. Matthew twenty six. Jesus was about
Speaker 4: to be betrayed and go to the cross. He went
Speaker 4: with his disciples to a place called Gasimone. He was
Speaker 4: so troubled and so overwhelmed. He asked his disciples to
Speaker 4: stay there and pray for him. He went away by himself,
Speaker 4: fell on the ground, said, Father, if it's possible, take
Speaker 4: this cup from me and a little while. He went
Speaker 4: back to check on his disciples, hoping to gain some strength,
Speaker 4: some encouragement from them. But when he showed up, he
Speaker 4: found that they were all sound asleep. He couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: He woke them up and said, guys, couldn't you stay
Speaker 4: up and pray for me? This is the biggest challenge
Speaker 4: I've ever faced. He was kind of frustrated. He asked
Speaker 4: them again, even more emphatically, please stay awake. The spirit
Speaker 4: is willing, but the flesh is weak. Pray. Jesus went
Speaker 4: again by himself, to pray. He thought, for sure, this
Speaker 4: time they got the man. He came back a little later,
Speaker 4: same thing, still sleeping. You can imagine how disappointed he was.
Speaker 4: He turned around, went back to pray some more. Then
Speaker 4: he thought, I'll go check on them one last time.
Speaker 4: This third time, I know they'll be praying. After all
Speaker 4: I've done for them. I know they'll be standing in
Speaker 4: faith with me. He went back the third time, but
Speaker 4: they were still sleeping. This time, he didn't try to
Speaker 4: wake them up. He didn't try to get them to
Speaker 4: before him. He looked at them and said sleep on.
Speaker 4: He came to the point where he didn't let it
Speaker 4: bother him anymore. He could have kept waking them up,
Speaker 4: trying to make it happen, being frustrated. Instead, he accepted
Speaker 4: he wasn't going to have their support. He accepted it
Speaker 4: wasn't going to work out his way. He didn't fight it.
Speaker 4: He didn't let it frustrate him anymore. He said sleep
Speaker 4: on and moved forward. There are times in life when
Speaker 4: things don't work out the way we want it. The
Speaker 4: people we were counting on weren't there for us. The
Speaker 4: medical report wasn't good, the dream isn't happening on our timetable.
Speaker 4: We could be frustrated. We did the right thing, we
Speaker 4: stayed in faith, but it's not working out. You have
Speaker 4: to do what Jesus did. Tell the disappointment, tell the delay,
Speaker 4: tell the frustration. Sleep on. You're not going to bother
Speaker 4: me anymore. I know God is still on the throne.
Speaker 4: I know he's fighting my battles and he will get
Speaker 4: me to where I'm supposed to be. Are there some
Speaker 4: things you need to tell? Sleep on? That person you've
Speaker 4: been trying to change, No matter how hard you try,
Speaker 4: they won't do what you want. It's time to say
Speaker 4: sleep on. You can't control people. You can't make them
Speaker 4: do what's right. Pray for them, be respectful, but don't
Speaker 4: go the next thirty years letting them frustrate you. Two
Speaker 4: simple words can change your life. Sleep on. Jesus wanted
Speaker 4: his disciples support. He deserved it, he had been good
Speaker 4: to them. But sometimes God will pull back people's support.
Speaker 4: He knows if they're there all the time, then you
Speaker 4: would become dependent on them. You would think they were
Speaker 4: your source, they were your savior. You don't need everyone
Speaker 4: you think you need. God has already lined up the
Speaker 4: right people to come into your life to help you
Speaker 4: reach your destiny. The right people. You don't have to
Speaker 4: play up to. You don't have to try to manipulate,
Speaker 4: convince them to be for you, convince them to stay away.
Speaker 4: They'll be for you through thick and thin. They'll show
Speaker 4: up when you didn't ask. They'll encourage you when nobody
Speaker 4: else is around. But sometimes we're being frustrated by people
Speaker 4: that are going to be for us. We're spending all
Speaker 4: this energy trying to win them over, no matter how
Speaker 4: good we are to them. Every time we need them,
Speaker 4: they're asleep, they're busy, they're not interested. I've heard it
Speaker 4: said quit swimming across an ocean to be good to
Speaker 4: someone that won't walk across a puddle to be good
Speaker 4: to you. And I'm all for overcoming evil with good,
Speaker 4: blessing our enemies, But the scripture says, don't cast your
Speaker 4: pearl among swine. Your pearl is your gift, your personality,
Speaker 4: your annoying, it's who God made you to be. Some
Speaker 4: people won't value your pearl. They won't respect your gift,
Speaker 4: they won't recognize what you have to offer. The calling,
Speaker 4: the favor on your life and your time is too
Speaker 4: valuable to waste it with people that discount your pearl.
Speaker 4: Don't hang around people that try to lessen you, or
Speaker 4: you feel like you have to p Prove to them
Speaker 4: who you are. Prove to them why they should be
Speaker 4: your friend. You don't need their approval. You have Almighty
Speaker 4: God's approval. He breeds his life into you. He crowned
Speaker 4: you with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins.
Speaker 4: Hang around people that celebrate your pearl, people that polish
Speaker 4: your pearl, people that respect your pearl. Too often we're
Speaker 4: trying to drag someone along. Convince them to like us,
Speaker 4: Convince them to stay awake. Do yourself a favor, tell
Speaker 4: them sleep on. If you'll let go of the wrong people,
Speaker 4: God will bring the right people. He'll send you divine connections,
Speaker 4: people that will love you for who you are and
Speaker 4: not for what you can do for them. People that
Speaker 4: will inspire you to go further. People that will bring
Speaker 4: out the best in you. People that will cause your
Speaker 4: pearl to shine. But Jesus was wise enough to recognize
Speaker 4: the disciples couldn't stop the plant God for his life.
Speaker 4: Their lack of support couldn't keep him from doing what
Speaker 4: his father called him to do, and they were good people.
Speaker 4: They loved him. But sometimes good people won't be there
Speaker 4: for you. It's a test. Are you going to get
Speaker 4: frustrated and keep trying to wake them up or are
Speaker 4: you going to recognize it's a new season and say
Speaker 4: sleep on. Here's the key. If they didn't wake up,
Speaker 4: you don't need them for this season. If they're not
Speaker 4: giving you what they used to give you, that means
Speaker 4: God has taken you to a higher level. He's winning
Speaker 4: you off the support, the encouragement. It's like a little baby.
Speaker 4: They love to have their bottle, makes them comfortable, makes
Speaker 4: them feel secure, and that's fine as long as they're
Speaker 4: a year or too old. But if they're forty seven
Speaker 4: walking around with that bottle, that's a problem. But as parents,
Speaker 4: when we take the bottle away from our children, they
Speaker 4: don't like it, they're uncomfortable, but we do it so
Speaker 4: it won't limit their growth. Sometimes God will make you uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: He'll take something away that you were used to. A
Speaker 4: friend that always called and encouraged you, a coworker that
Speaker 4: always helped you with the report, a neighbor you could
Speaker 4: always count on to go somewhere together. It's because God
Speaker 4: is winning you off that bottle, so to speak. As
Speaker 4: long as you're dependent on people, it will limit how
Speaker 4: high you can go when God removes the support. When
Speaker 4: he takes away someone that you were used to, don't
Speaker 4: get mad at them. Don't keep trying to wake them up.
Speaker 4: God put them to sleep. You can't open a door
Speaker 4: that God is closed. That friend that's not there anymore.
Speaker 4: The disappointment, you may not like it. It may be painful,
Speaker 4: but it's ordained by God. You have to recognize that's
Speaker 4: a sign you'll come in up higher. That discomfort means
Speaker 4: you'll go into a new level. Everyone that's with you
Speaker 4: now may not be able to go where you're going.
Speaker 4: Some people are like scaffolding. They come into your life
Speaker 4: for a season to help you reach a certain level.
Speaker 4: But at some point God is going to remove the
Speaker 4: scaffolding so you can shine. It's not that they're not
Speaker 4: good people, but their part in your story is over.
Speaker 4: God's taken you to a higher level. Quit being frustrated
Speaker 4: by somebody that's not supporting you like they used to.
Speaker 4: Why don't they call me anymore? Joel? Why don't they
Speaker 4: compliment me? The right attitude is I love you, I
Speaker 4: respect you, but I don't have to have your support,
Speaker 4: your compliment, your encouragement. Sleep on. We spend too much
Speaker 4: time trying to get people's approval, trying to get them
Speaker 4: to validate us. Then we'll feel good about ourselves. The
Speaker 4: problem with get your validation from people is people can
Speaker 4: change their mind. One moment, people were cheering for Jesus,
Speaker 4: shouting Hosanna, waving palm branches. A few days later, those
Speaker 4: same people were shouting crucifying. People can have a short memory,
Speaker 4: people can go to sleep. And if you're getting your
Speaker 4: value based on what people give you, how much they
Speaker 4: compliment you, then if for some reason they stop doing that,
Speaker 4: you'll forget who you are. Your self worth is coming
Speaker 4: from them. Quit relying on people and go to God.
Speaker 4: You don't need their approval. You have God's approval. But
Speaker 4: in life we all go through gasmone. We all have
Speaker 4: disappointments and things we don't understand. But I've learned God
Speaker 4: gives us grace for every gosmone grace for every unfair situation.
Speaker 4: It's very freeing when you can look at the people
Speaker 4: that have left, you can look at the disappointment and
Speaker 4: say sleep on. Amazing things are up ahead if you
Speaker 4: don't give up in Gossemone. Yes, there will be crosses
Speaker 4: to bear, betrayals, setbacks, but can I encourage you? If
Speaker 4: you keep moving forward, there will be resurrections, There will
Speaker 4: be new beginnings, times where God pays you back for
Speaker 4: what was unfair, Times were God catapult you years ahead.
Speaker 4: Don't get stuck in Gasemone. Don't let the sickness cause
Speaker 4: you to become bitter. You don't understand it, it's not fair.
Speaker 4: You could say God, why this doesn't make sense? Or
Speaker 4: you can look at the frustration, the discouragement, the fear
Speaker 4: and say sleep on. I'm not going to drag through
Speaker 4: this day defeated. I may be in Gosemite, but I
Speaker 4: know a resurrection is coming. Gasemone doesn't have to stop you.
Speaker 4: God wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't going to
Speaker 4: somehow move you towards your The next time that coworker
Speaker 4: is rude to you, instead of being upset, just smile
Speaker 4: and say sleep on. When that car cuts you off
Speaker 4: in traffic, instead of saying what you normally say, try
Speaker 4: a new approach. Sleep on. You're not approving their behavior.
Speaker 4: You're not enabling them. You're simply saying your actions are
Speaker 4: not going to control my life. This traffic is not
Speaker 4: going to ruin my morning, This setback is not going
Speaker 4: to sour the rest of my future. Maybe you need
Speaker 4: to tell your past, sleep on. You had a tough childhood,
Speaker 4: you went through a rough divorce, you lost a loved one.
Speaker 4: Tell the hurts, tell the questions, tell the failures. Sleep On.
Speaker 4: I've learned you're either feeding your history or you're feeding
Speaker 4: your destiny. But you can't feed both. You're either looking back,
Speaker 4: living in regrets, thinking of everything that went wrong, or
Speaker 4: you're looking ahead saying, God, I know what was meant
Speaker 4: for harm. You're turning to my advantage. I know you
Speaker 4: have beauty for these ashes. I know weeping indoors for
Speaker 4: a night, but joy's coming in the morning. If you're
Speaker 4: always feeding your history, you're going to be frustrated, guilty,
Speaker 4: angry in self pity. Do yourself a favor. Tell your history,
Speaker 4: sleep On. You can't go forward if you're always looking backwards.
Speaker 4: You can't see the new things on the horizon. If
Speaker 4: you're focused on what's behind, Start feeding your destiny. Father,
Speaker 4: thank you that your plans for me are for good.
Speaker 4: Thank you that the path of the righteous gets brighter
Speaker 4: and brighter. Thank you that you hold victory in store
Speaker 4: for the upright. If you'll get your mind going in
Speaker 4: the right direction, your life will go in the right direction.
Speaker 4: I talked to a gentleman last week. He'd gone through
Speaker 4: a lot of disappointments. His marriage of many years had ended,
Speaker 4: a very successful career went downhill, everything fell apart. He
Speaker 4: was so discouraged he was going to end his life.
Speaker 4: He got in his car and was driving to a
Speaker 4: remote place. He turned the radio on and just so
Speaker 4: happened to tune into our serious exem station. I was
Speaker 4: talking about not looking back, not reliving the hurts and failures,
Speaker 4: and how God has good things up ahead. He said,
Speaker 4: when he heard that, it was like somebody breathed new
Speaker 4: life into his spirit. Strongholds in his mind were broken.
Speaker 4: He turned around, went back home. Today he's back on track,
Speaker 4: living a life of victory. What happened He quit feeding
Speaker 4: his history and he started feeding his destiny. If you
Speaker 4: feed your history long enough, it will pull you into depression.
Speaker 4: The enemy would love to keep you so focused on
Speaker 4: your hurts and what didn't work out that you're too
Speaker 4: discouraged to move forward, fall into that trap. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: be alive unless God had something amazing in front of you.
Speaker 4: You may be in Yosemite, a place of discouragement frustration,
Speaker 4: but if you'll say sleep on and start thinking some
Speaker 4: new thoughts, then you're headed for a resurrection. You're headed
Speaker 4: for a new beginning, a place of restoration. A few
Speaker 4: years ago, I was flying to an event with some
Speaker 4: of our staff, and we were on a smaller plane
Speaker 4: that held a couple dozen people. After it took off,
Speaker 4: I wanted to open up my tray table so I
Speaker 4: could write some notes. The table was in the side
Speaker 4: of the plane, right underneath the window. I pulled and pulled,
Speaker 4: but I couldn't get it open. My friend was sitting
Speaker 4: across the aisle. His looked exactly the same, and he
Speaker 4: pulled his straight out no problem. I went back to
Speaker 4: mine and I pulled, I yanked, I struggled. I thought,
Speaker 4: I'm going to get this table open if it's the
Speaker 4: last thing I do. It was stuck. My friend came over.
Speaker 4: He started pulling and pulling up other staff member. They
Speaker 4: pulled and pulled. It wouldn't budge. I sat across the aisle.
Speaker 4: Kind of frustrated about that time, I looked up and
Speaker 4: over the window where we had been pulling, there was
Speaker 4: a sign with big bold letters. It read not a
Speaker 4: trade table, emergency exit only. Sometimes what we're frustrated about
Speaker 4: is God keeping us from real frustration. In my case,
Speaker 4: God keeping me alive. If God answered all of our prayers,
Speaker 4: opened every door we asked him to open, brought every
Speaker 4: person we begged him to bring, we wouldn't reach our destiny.
Speaker 4: The longer I live, the easier it is for me
Speaker 4: to say sleep on. I may not understand it, it
Speaker 4: may not make sense, but I've learned God is smarter
Speaker 4: than I am. He can see things I cannot see.
Speaker 4: He knows what he's doing. I wonder if what's frustrating
Speaker 4: you has an emergency exit only sign on it, and
Speaker 4: you can't see it. You don't understand why God won't
Speaker 4: answer the prayer, why the dream is taking so long,
Speaker 4: and why that guy at work you like so much
Speaker 4: hasn't even noticed you. You've worn your best clothes, your
Speaker 4: best perfume, given him your best move. He acts like
Speaker 4: he's dead. Maybe it's because God can see something you
Speaker 4: can't see. Maybe under his shirt is an emergency exit
Speaker 4: only sign that's hidden from you. God has your best
Speaker 4: interests at heart. If he's not giving you what you want,
Speaker 4: that means he has something better. He loves you too
Speaker 4: much to let you miss your destiny. A couple of
Speaker 4: years after I took over from my father, the church
Speaker 4: started to grow and we needed a larger auditorium. We
Speaker 4: found one hundred acre tract of land right by the
Speaker 4: other location, a few miles away on the freeway. It
Speaker 4: seemed perfect. The owner told us the property had been
Speaker 4: on the market for twenty years. We knew God had
Speaker 4: saved that property for us. He said we didn't need
Speaker 4: to sign the contract right then. We could do some
Speaker 4: preliminary drawings and do some soil samples while the paperwork
Speaker 4: was getting taken care of. Several months later, we went
Speaker 4: to close on the property. We had an eight o'clock
Speaker 4: in the morning appointment. We showed up at seven point
Speaker 4: forty five. The secretary walked out said, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 4: owner sold the property last night. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: He didn't keep his word. I went home so disappointed.
Speaker 4: I told Victoria what happened and how there was no
Speaker 4: more property, and how now we were stuck. She looked
Speaker 4: at me and said, Joel, this means God has something better.
Speaker 4: He closed this door for a reason. She started preaching
Speaker 4: to me one of my own sermons. I didn't want
Speaker 4: to hear that. She was saying, sleep on. I said, no, no,
Speaker 4: wake up, this is bad. I had to do what
Speaker 4: I'm asking you to do. I said, God, I don't
Speaker 4: understand it. It doesn't seem fair. But God, I trust you.
Speaker 4: I believe you know what's best. Several months later, we
Speaker 4: found another piece of property. It seemed better than the
Speaker 4: first one. We went to close on it. The same
Speaker 4: thing happened. They sold it out from under us. If
Speaker 4: you don't pass the test the first time, you get
Speaker 4: to take it again this time. I said, God, I'm
Speaker 4: glad they sold the property. I didn't want it in
Speaker 4: the first place. God knew I was lying, but it
Speaker 4: felt good. But six months later, a friend called said, Joel,
Speaker 4: the Houston Rockets basketball team is moving out of the
Speaker 4: Compact Center. That would be a perfect place for Lakewood.
Speaker 4: When he said that, something came alive on the inside.
Speaker 4: I knew that's why God had closed those doors. He
Speaker 4: had something bigger. I never dreamed we could have the
Speaker 4: compact center. Things fell into place. Here we are today.
Speaker 4: What am I saying the things you're tempted to be
Speaker 4: frustrated about today? If you will stay in faith, one
Speaker 4: day you'll look back and say, like me, while God,
Speaker 4: you outdid yourself. I never dreamed i'd meet somebody this great.
Speaker 4: I never dreamed i'd feel this healthy. I never dreamed
Speaker 4: you'd take me this far. God's plan for your life
Speaker 4: is so much bigger than your own. The real question
Speaker 4: is what will you do in Gasemone when it's not
Speaker 4: working out your way, When your friends aren't there for you,
Speaker 4: when the contract doesn't go through, when the medical report
Speaker 4: is not good. Too many people don't see their resurrection
Speaker 4: because they get bitter in Gasemone, God, why did they
Speaker 4: fall asleep? Why did they sell it out from under us?
Speaker 4: Gasemone is the real test. We like when everything's going right,
Speaker 4: but that's not when we grow the most. Gausimone is
Speaker 4: where you can be promoted. God is seeing what you're
Speaker 4: made of. He's seeing if you're ready, if you'll stay
Speaker 4: in peace, if you'll be still and know that he
Speaker 4: is God, then he'll take you into your resurrection. The
Speaker 4: way you know you're ready to be promoted is not
Speaker 4: that God has removed all your difficulties, but you don't
Speaker 4: let them frustrate you anymore. You've learned this principle. Two
Speaker 4: simple words sleep on. Maybe these two words could help
Speaker 4: you get your joy back. Two words could help you
Speaker 4: sleep through the night. Two words could bring you peace.
Speaker 5: Sleep on.
Speaker 4: I read about a lady that was complaining about everything
Speaker 4: that went wrong that day. She said, God, why did
Speaker 4: you let so many bad things happen? My alarm didn't
Speaker 4: go off and I was late to work. At lunch,
Speaker 4: they made the wrong sandwich and I had to send
Speaker 4: it back. Driving home, my cell phone drop the call
Speaker 4: in the middle of the conversation. To top it off.
Speaker 4: When I got home, I wanted to put my feet
Speaker 4: in the foot massager, but it wouldn't turn on. God said,
Speaker 4: all right, let me go down the list. Your alarm
Speaker 4: didn't go off because there was a drunk driver on
Speaker 4: the road. I delayed you on purpose so you wouldn't
Speaker 4: be harmed. You had to send your sandwich back because
Speaker 4: the first person that made it wasn't feeling well. I
Speaker 4: didn't want you to catch what they had, so I
Speaker 4: had somebody else make you a new one. The cell
Speaker 4: phone dropped the call because that person was about to
Speaker 4: fill you with gossip and I didn't want you to
Speaker 4: be contaminated. And the foot massager, it had a short
Speaker 4: in it. If you would have turned it on, it
Speaker 4: would have knocked out the power. And I didn't think
Speaker 4: you wanted to sit around in the dark all night.
Speaker 4: Could it be what's frustrating you is really the hand
Speaker 4: of God. Could it be He's behind the scenes doing
Speaker 4: things you can't see, But it's for your good, protecting you,
Speaker 4: guiding you, positioning you. Nothing happens without God's permission. We're
Speaker 4: not always going to understand it. This is when we
Speaker 4: have to trust him. You may be in gsemone today.
Speaker 4: You have a good reason to be upset, frustrated. I'm
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