Speaker 1: Who this word that God gave me to share with
Speaker 1: you today. I'm still recovering. Oh man, it spoke to us.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to share with you. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to share with you. Hey, welcome. Before we go to
Speaker 1: the word, I wanted to make sure you knew that
Speaker 1: the new Elevation worship album we've been working on this
Speaker 1: two years, Lion, is out March fourth, the whole album.
Speaker 1: What an awesome release date for an album, March fourth,
Speaker 1: so you can March fourth into the things God has
Speaker 1: planned for you. I might preach that next week, but
Speaker 1: also wanted to let you know about Elevation Nights. Have
Speaker 1: you heard about Elevation Nights. It's gonna be me preaching
Speaker 1: our whole Elevation Worship team, all the songs you love.
Speaker 1: Put the favorite elevation worship song in the chat. Put
Speaker 1: it in the chat right now. And if you're anywhere
Speaker 1: near these cities, let's see. I got them listed from
Speaker 1: April twenty sixth to May fifth. Chicago, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Columbus, Ohio, Washington,
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Speaker 1: Don't judge my handwriting. We're coming We're coming, We're coming.
Speaker 1: We want to see you their Elevation Nights dot com.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the word of God. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Put a Hallelujah in the chat and let
Speaker 1: me know where you're watching from and let me know
Speaker 1: what song is your favorite song off of our brand
Speaker 1: new album, Lion Roar. Y'all didn't think Katie Perry was
Speaker 1: the only one who could roar? Dude. I know my
Speaker 1: pop culture references are dated, but we're so excited everything
Speaker 1: that God is doing. God is really busy, and I
Speaker 1: know the devil is too, But God is busy and
Speaker 1: we have to look for him at work. And I
Speaker 1: believe that today He has given me the kind of
Speaker 1: word I was going to do a lot of announcements
Speaker 1: and all that He did all of them before I
Speaker 1: got here. So now all this left for me to do,
Speaker 1: just preached this word to you. Now, make sure you
Speaker 1: get the new Elevation Worship album, make sure that you
Speaker 1: go to Elevation Nights dot com. But right now, the
Speaker 1: presence of the Lord is in this place, and I
Speaker 1: want to share with you from the very first chapter
Speaker 1: of the very first book of the Bible, what a week.
Speaker 1: What a week it was? What a week it was.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Genesis one. I'm not talking about twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. I'm talking about when God made the whole
Speaker 1: world in seven excuse me, six days. The seventh day
Speaker 1: he chilled and you should chill too, right, you should
Speaker 1: chill too, and be still. And though that he is God, O, yell,
Speaker 1: are excited, right Genesis one, verse twenty And God said,
Speaker 1: you know, I could preach three weeks on those three
Speaker 1: words and means it's a continuation of something that he
Speaker 1: already started. And he's still speaking. So put that in
Speaker 1: the chat. Tell your neighbor. He's still speaking. And and
Speaker 1: somebody say, and and it's a continuation God. That's the creator.
Speaker 1: It's not the critics that count. It's what the Creator
Speaker 1: says that counts. And God said, it's a command, so
Speaker 1: it has to happen because he's spoken. And God said,
Speaker 1: somebody say it. And God said, let the water hold on,
Speaker 1: let me find it. Yeah, here it is. Let the
Speaker 1: water team with living creatures, and let birds fly above
Speaker 1: the earth across the vault of the sky. So God
Speaker 1: created the great creatures of the sea and every living
Speaker 1: thing with which the water teems and that moves about
Speaker 1: in it according to their kinds, and every winged bird
Speaker 1: according to its kind. And God saw ah, and God said,
Speaker 1: and God saw. So we live in the space in
Speaker 1: between where we can't see everything that God has spoken. Yet.
Speaker 1: We can't see the promises that He made us yet
Speaker 1: they're not in finished product form. Yet. We are in
Speaker 1: the process between the beginning of that verse. And God said,
Speaker 1: and God saw, And we don't see it yet, but
Speaker 1: we don't have to see it to believe it. That's
Speaker 1: what our faith is for. And God saw that it
Speaker 1: was good. It was good. God blessed them and said,
Speaker 1: be fruitful, and increase in number, and fill the water
Speaker 1: in the seas. Let the birds increase on the earth.
Speaker 1: And there was evening, and there was morning the fifth day,
Speaker 1: and God said, because he's not done yet on the
Speaker 1: fifth day, because you didn't get here yet, God saved
Speaker 1: the best to last. And that's you. Turn to your
Speaker 1: neighbor and say, that's you. That's you. God can't stop
Speaker 1: speaking because you're not here yet. God can't stop speaking
Speaker 1: because your destiny isn't fulfilled yet. God can't stop speaking
Speaker 1: yet because he hasn't made the apex crown jewel of
Speaker 1: his creation humans in his image. But before he created us,
Speaker 1: the Bible says, I think this is interesting. Let the
Speaker 1: land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the live stock,
Speaker 1: the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals,
Speaker 1: each according to its kind. And it was so. God
Speaker 1: made the wild animals according to their kinds, the live
Speaker 1: stock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move,
Speaker 1: somebody say, move, move along the ground according to their kinds.
Speaker 1: And God saw that it was good. Then God said,
Speaker 1: let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,
Speaker 1: so that they may rule over the fish in the
Speaker 1: sea and the birds in the sky, over the live stock,
Speaker 1: and the wild animals, and over all the creatures that
Speaker 1: move along the ground. Say amen for the word of God. Beautiful, beautiful. Now,
Speaker 1: what I want to do is take that verse verse
Speaker 1: twenty six, where God said, let us make man in
Speaker 1: our image. Right, that's the most famous one when God
Speaker 1: on the sixth day made you before he sat down.
Speaker 1: And I want to back up and see if there's
Speaker 1: a lesson we can learn from the fifth day about
Speaker 1: the sixth day. On the fifth day, it's not as
Speaker 1: famous as the sixth Day, because we're self centered and
Speaker 1: we're narcissistic, and we think we're the ones it's all about.
Speaker 1: But actually, there is something that the birds know that
Speaker 1: you don't know. And there's something that the fish have
Speaker 1: learned that we haven't learned yet. So we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to school with the fish better in my head, and
Speaker 1: we are going to learn from the birds this fifth
Speaker 1: Day principle. Okay, and here it is. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it to you at the top of the sermon and
Speaker 1: then we'll unpack it together. This is gonna be an
Speaker 1: amazing class. This is gonna be an amazing moment. And
Speaker 1: what God wants to teach you from this creation account
Speaker 1: is a principle from the fifth Day from the birds
Speaker 1: and the fish. Look at your neighbor and say, move
Speaker 1: in what you're made for. Look at your other neighbor
Speaker 1: and tell them. Listen to the fish and move in.
Speaker 1: Come on, tell them look them in the eyes. Wait
Speaker 1: scared of eye contact. You can't catch covid through the eyeballs.
Speaker 1: Don't look at them, and say move in what you
Speaker 1: were made for. Now, give him a little bump, just
Speaker 1: a little buff say move in. It move it, move in.
Speaker 1: Let's go to school. Class is in session. Be seated.
Speaker 1: The Lord told me that. He told me, move in
Speaker 1: what you're made for, and I needed it. Different sermons
Speaker 1: come from different places. All sermons are not created equal.
Speaker 1: Some of them you'll say, that was the best you
Speaker 1: ever preached. Now, that's the best you ever heard. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was, Maybe it wasn't. It's not really based on
Speaker 1: that is. It is based on what you need in
Speaker 1: that moment. And the Lord told me something really interesting
Speaker 1: that today he wanted to give you a word for
Speaker 1: your insecurities, a word that would speak directly to your insecurity,
Speaker 1: but that he doesn't want to deal with it on
Speaker 1: the surface level. See, the creation of mankind tells us
Speaker 1: something about the calling of mankind. The process by which
Speaker 1: God made everything that I see tells me a lo
Speaker 1: lot about what He's doing in my life now. So
Speaker 1: we're not going to study today whether God literally made
Speaker 1: the world in six twenty four hour periods or whether
Speaker 1: it's symbolic of a longer period of time. I'm not
Speaker 1: a scientist. We're not going to study today the different
Speaker 1: species and the genome of that. That's not going there.
Speaker 1: Because I sound so stupid, and you'll google me and
Speaker 1: you'll know that I'm wrong. Before the internet, preachers could
Speaker 1: say anything, but now y'all fact check me in real time.
Speaker 1: So I got to leave that alone. Instead, I want
Speaker 1: to look at this process by which God made us
Speaker 1: as a pattern. And the first thing you'll notice is
Speaker 1: that God doesn't speak to the surface. A real word
Speaker 1: from God will never speak to the surface of your situation.
Speaker 1: That's why advice can only help you so much, because
Speaker 1: when you ask a human being for advice, you only
Speaker 1: tell them the information that you deem relevant, and a
Speaker 1: lot of times they give you good advice based on
Speaker 1: bad data, but they don't know deeper down that the
Speaker 1: reason your relationship is in what do you call it
Speaker 1: when it's like shattered on the floor in pieces, And
Speaker 1: the reason you have no peace in your situation is
Speaker 1: because you are constantly critiquing and you are constantly correcting.
Speaker 1: So they give you advice, well, you should just leave them.
Speaker 1: But what they don't know is if you leave them,
Speaker 1: you take you with you. And sometimes the problem is
Speaker 1: something that you don't think to tell them. God doesn't
Speaker 1: give advice because he knows what's beneath the surface. So
Speaker 1: while you're praying about symptoms, God is prescribing a remedy
Speaker 1: and a cure for what is causing the sickness. That's
Speaker 1: what makes him the great physician. Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Or could we go home? And we already got our
Speaker 1: gas money worth out of that, because I want to
Speaker 1: know what and God said? And God said because when
Speaker 1: God spoke, remember he's been busy. We jumped right into
Speaker 1: the middle of the creation story. We didn't even talk
Speaker 1: about all that God did in the first four days.
Speaker 1: I feel kind of bad skipping it because it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 1: When he said let there be light and light was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. I thought that was amazing until I saw
Speaker 1: what he did on the second day. And on the
Speaker 1: second day when he actually like God just keeps like
Speaker 1: one up in it. Because after he created the light,
Speaker 1: he created the vault, and then he created the sky,
Speaker 1: and then he created the waters. And that looked pretty
Speaker 1: good until the third day. Then on the third day
Speaker 1: God gets busy calling forth life out of the land
Speaker 1: that he created and separating the water so could sit
Speaker 1: in their place, so he could create a setting for
Speaker 1: human life to begin. That's on the third day and
Speaker 1: on the fourth day. I know you know this already
Speaker 1: because you study the stuff all week, and you read
Speaker 1: your Bible and you never watch Netflix, and you've been
Speaker 1: reading Genesis chapter one two, and you even read it
Speaker 1: in Hebrew. But let me tell you what I learned
Speaker 1: this week. He gave the sun and the moon and
Speaker 1: the stars which he hung in the sky, that he
Speaker 1: created on the second day, and then on the fifth day.
Speaker 1: That's why I picked up on the fifth day, because
Speaker 1: the fifth day God did something different that he didn't
Speaker 1: do any other day. Leaning for this, he made it,
Speaker 1: and then he blessed it. Study it for yourself at
Speaker 1: your leisure. At your leisure, look and see that he
Speaker 1: didn't bless the light, he didn't bless the darkness, he
Speaker 1: didn't bless the moon. He started blessing on the fifth
Speaker 1: because on the fifth day God started to create the
Speaker 1: living things. The living things. Raise your hand. If you
Speaker 1: are a living thing, that means you're blessed. Touch somebody,
Speaker 1: say I'm blessed to be alive. Oh, I know you've
Speaker 1: been complaining all week, but it's in the past. Now
Speaker 1: look at him, against say I'm blessed to be alive.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have a breath. I'm blessed to still
Speaker 1: have the use of my body. I'm blessed to be here.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to be I've had some good days, I've
Speaker 1: had some hills to climb, but I'm blessed to be alive.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's rejoice in it. I'm blessed to be alive.
Speaker 1: He didn't bless the bean sprout, but he blessed the bird.
Speaker 1: I wonder why. To me, I'm thinking that a bird
Speaker 1: is much less impressive than a star. But there was
Speaker 1: something about the bird, and there was something about the
Speaker 1: bass fish, the bass and the bird. It's alliteration, people,
Speaker 1: that God bless and not only did he bless it,
Speaker 1: he directly created it. Now watch this Bible nerds wave
Speaker 1: at me, Bible nerds way, of at me Bible nerds way.
Speaker 1: You love this little stuff. You don't just need a
Speaker 1: cliche to rhyme, and you don't need to start with
Speaker 1: all the same letter. But you really love the word
Speaker 1: of God. This is for you. When God told the
Speaker 1: land to produce vegetation, the land brought it forth. When
Speaker 1: God told the waters to bring forth the fish, it
Speaker 1: said that God himself brought them forth. But now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna blow your mind even more. When he got ready
Speaker 1: to create you, you messed up you. When he got
Speaker 1: ready to make you, he did something he didn't do
Speaker 1: for the birds, the worms, the moon, the stars, the
Speaker 1: Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, the octopus, the crabs, the lobsters.
Speaker 1: None of them did he do this for he bent down,
Speaker 1: and up until this point, everything he made he made
Speaker 1: with his mouth, because he spoke it. When he made me,
Speaker 1: he got down in the dirt and made me by hand.
Speaker 1: Who are you? What is man? The Psalmist said that
Speaker 1: God is mindful of or the son of man, that
Speaker 1: you would visit him, that God would stoop down in
Speaker 1: the dirt, and that Divinity would touch dirt. And God
Speaker 1: didn't leave it up to the land to bring you
Speaker 1: for it, he got his hands dirty. God rolled up
Speaker 1: his Now, I need everybody who's got a messy situation
Speaker 1: in your life right now to know what your maker did.
Speaker 1: When this whole thing got started. He rolled up his
Speaker 1: sleeves and he said, I'll make the moon with my mouth.
Speaker 1: I can hang it with a syllable moon. And the
Speaker 1: moon said yes, And the Lord said hang, And the
Speaker 1: moon said yes, and the Lord says shine, and the
Speaker 1: Moon said all right. But when it got down to you, ah,
Speaker 1: So it seems to me, if we believe Genesis one
Speaker 1: twenty six that I was made from a mess in
Speaker 1: the image of my Maker, that there is no mess
Speaker 1: in my life right now that I cannot bring to
Speaker 1: my Maker and expect him to say, I'll bless it anyway,
Speaker 1: my God. All right, all right, all right, somebody shout
Speaker 1: I'm blessed. I'm blessed because God said I'm blessed. And hey,
Speaker 1: let me throw this in in case some of you
Speaker 1: got any haters. What God blessed. No man can curse
Speaker 1: what God blessed. Even your haters are the pr department.
Speaker 1: Because God is gonna use the people who don't like
Speaker 1: you to fulfill Genesis one twenty six, because not everybody
Speaker 1: liked Jesus. If everybody had liked him, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: crucified him. If they didn't crucify him, he couldn't have
Speaker 1: died for your sin. If he didn't die for your sin,
Speaker 1: he couldn't have fulfilled his mission. Is God using in
Speaker 1: your life the dirt to create and bring forth because
Speaker 1: that's what he did in Genesis one, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what he's been doing in me. Okay, some words
Speaker 1: God gives you as a preacher are not meant to
Speaker 1: be shared, and that's frustrating. When the Lord speaks to me,
Speaker 1: I get excited. You can ask my family, this isn't
Speaker 1: a show I put on. I'll grab the kids in
Speaker 1: the middle of video games. Come here, you gotta hear this,
Speaker 1: and I'll start preaching to the kids. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: And then sometimes the Lord will give me something that
Speaker 1: I think is just for me. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: to me with Genesis one. Okay, let me tell you
Speaker 1: something about the creative work, because I consider myself creative,
Speaker 1: A creative person, you know, and well, I mean in
Speaker 1: this area of life. I'm creative. Other things I would
Speaker 1: never do. I can't do arts and crafts. Arts and crafts.
Speaker 1: Like some people go through the supply section of the
Speaker 1: of Walmart and stuff and they just get all excited
Speaker 1: in the craft section. Ooh, glue sticks. Color I took.
Speaker 1: I was taking Abby through Barnzanoba the other day. She
Speaker 1: was getting excited about colored pencils. I never in my
Speaker 1: life got excited about a colored pencil. And all of
Speaker 1: my kids are different, you know, all good at different things.
Speaker 1: And it took me a while to realize that as
Speaker 1: God reveals your assignment in life, it will surface your insecurities.
Speaker 1: There's that word again, surface because remember when God started
Speaker 1: shrom Genesis one two. I pulled this last minute to
Speaker 1: show you. It said that in the beginning, before God
Speaker 1: spoke anything, the spirit of the Lord hovered over the waters.
Speaker 1: You have others too, you'll get it in there. I
Speaker 1: definitely gave it to him last minute, so it's not
Speaker 1: their fault. But look what it says that the earth
Speaker 1: was formless and empty. Now that just doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: there was nothing there. The connotation of these words in
Speaker 1: Hebrew is that it was chaotic. It was not just
Speaker 1: formless and void. It was chaotic, It was empty, and
Speaker 1: it was futile, frustrating like your life sometimes not all
Speaker 1: the time. I know right now you look amazing, but
Speaker 1: that's your surface self, that's your Sunday self. Uhha. I
Speaker 1: will put a next camera in your house this week,
Speaker 1: and then I'll come preach to you, not based on
Speaker 1: what you showed me on Sunday, but what you dealt
Speaker 1: with on Wednesday. Don't make me bring a Wednesday word
Speaker 1: in this church this week that I saw you on
Speaker 1: Wednesday in the spirit, the Lord was hovering over the surface,
Speaker 1: and he brought forth something out of that. So I
Speaker 1: was going to Genesis one because I'm trying to understand
Speaker 1: not only in my professional life, but as a parent,
Speaker 1: as a husband, as a man who wants to be
Speaker 1: like Christ. And some people say it's a midlife crisis,
Speaker 1: but I don't really look at it that way. I
Speaker 1: just think it's the process that we all go through
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out, like, how can I know
Speaker 1: that God is my father, know that he's my provider,
Speaker 1: see him do so much miracles, so many things, and
Speaker 1: still be insecure? How come it even seems like success
Speaker 1: creates extra insecurity because now I gotta sustain it. Naw,
Speaker 1: I gotta throw the dart another time and hope I
Speaker 1: didn't just randomly hit the bull's eye. How do I
Speaker 1: keep this going? How he did that? As my assignment
Speaker 1: is revealed my insecurity surface. By the time you get
Speaker 1: good at changing your child's diapers, you will need to
Speaker 1: teach them to drive. The skills needed to teach your
Speaker 1: kid to drive are not the same skills needed to
Speaker 1: change the diaper. When you change the diaper, the worst
Speaker 1: they can do is pee on you in the process,
Speaker 1: and you can clean that up. When you teach them
Speaker 1: to drive, they can send you to meet Jesus early.
Speaker 1: I need everybody who did it to clap those hands
Speaker 1: and give God praise. Then I'm blessed to be alive.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to be alive, Like Genesis one said, it's
Speaker 1: like that in every area of life. I was talking
Speaker 1: to a man who's sixty two the other day. He said,
Speaker 1: I never felt so insecure. I said, really, you, man,
Speaker 1: net Worth is crazy too, I mean crazy crazy Networth.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, man, is this and it's that, and
Speaker 1: it's the other, and it's the third, and it's that.
Speaker 1: And I said, you're still insecure after all the success
Speaker 1: that you have. Now. On the surface he looks very confident.
Speaker 1: But beneath the surface is an insecurity. What insecurity is
Speaker 1: beneath the surface in your life right now? That God
Speaker 1: wants to speak a word too, because you don't experience insecurity.
Speaker 1: As insecurity, nobody runs around just pray for me for
Speaker 1: my insecurity. We ask people to pray, We say like
Speaker 1: I'm worrying a lot lately. But why are you worrying
Speaker 1: because you're insecure? No no, no, no, no, now, pastor Steven,
Speaker 1: that's quite a jump. I'm worried because life is crazy,
Speaker 1: and I'm worried because I've got these things. But if
Speaker 1: you believed that, you are so blessed, if you believe,
Speaker 1: like deep down, if I believe that, then I would
Speaker 1: look at the birds who neither store nor reap, yet
Speaker 1: my father feeds them. There is something in me that
Speaker 1: does not believe I have what I need for where
Speaker 1: I am. I do not fundamentally now, I do not
Speaker 1: believe that I have what I need for where I am.
Speaker 1: Or maybe in one area of my life I know
Speaker 1: I have what I need for where I am, But
Speaker 1: then I get in another area of my life, and
Speaker 1: then I get in another area of my life that
Speaker 1: this is the kids that are really good at school,
Speaker 1: but watch them on the watch them on the soccer field,
Speaker 1: or they suck at school, but they can kill you
Speaker 1: on the soccer field. But everybody, this is one thing.
Speaker 1: I know this isn't a Bible verse, but I want
Speaker 1: to say it. Everybody in here sucks at something. I
Speaker 1: say it's not in the Bible. How many think I'm right.
Speaker 1: Everybody in here has an area of your life. Don't
Speaker 1: make me come through that camera. But God told the birds,
Speaker 1: let me show you this. This is nothing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is getting through. Hang on a second.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like God for a minut I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back in the dark and I'm gonna bring something
Speaker 1: out in the light and show you I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. This is like the beginning, without
Speaker 1: form and void. The earth is without form and voy
Speaker 1: And then God said, let there be light, Let there
Speaker 1: be vaut, Let there be sky, Let there be ocean,
Speaker 1: Let there be moon, Let there be stars, Let there
Speaker 1: be plants. Let there be ground dry around up here.
Speaker 1: And then on the fifth day, if you come out
Speaker 1: to the principle the fifth day, God said, let there
Speaker 1: be birds, let there be fish. I know this is
Speaker 1: not the natural habitat This this a reproduction, just for
Speaker 1: a mental image, because you know you'll forget what I
Speaker 1: say if I don't show you something, because you're a
Speaker 1: visual learner. That's how God made you. And they told
Speaker 1: you you were slow, and they told you you were stupid.
Speaker 1: But they just didn't teach you right yet. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm gonna do it enough where every
Speaker 1: bird gets to eat today, all right. I got the
Speaker 1: deep stuff in this sermon for the deep Christians, the
Speaker 1: ones who just want to be confused so they don't
Speaker 1: have to apply it. And then I got the d'm kdding'midding'midding, gid,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I'm kidding. And the Lord said both are blessed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he blessed both. That confused me at first, because it's
Speaker 1: say he told the fill the waters and he told
Speaker 1: the birds fill the sky and it was good, which
Speaker 1: one both. It leads me to believe that I'm blessed
Speaker 1: when I'm doing what God called me to do where
Speaker 1: God called me to do it. The quote that I
Speaker 1: read was attributed to Albert Einstein, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he really said it upon further review, that if you
Speaker 1: judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
Speaker 1: it will spend the rest of its life believing that
Speaker 1: it is stupid. Some of you tell yourself you're stupid
Speaker 1: because you are trying to swim in somebody else's sky,
Speaker 1: and some of you are telling yourself that you are
Speaker 1: incompetent or nothing, or insignificant or ridiculous because you, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, are trying to flap. Look, here's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. We got a lot of little
Speaker 1: mermaid Christians. We got, did y'all see the movie? I
Speaker 1: used to have such a crush on Aeriel. I'm confessing
Speaker 1: it in front of Holly just so I could get
Speaker 1: get healed from it and delivered from it. She was
Speaker 1: my first crush. But Ariel had a problem. Remember I
Speaker 1: what did she say? I want to be part of that?
Speaker 1: And we got a lot of Christians that havn't read
Speaker 1: Romans twelve one. Do not conform to the pattern of this.
Speaker 1: Did y'all see the little Murray? And God is not
Speaker 1: king frightened? And God is not gonna give you legs
Speaker 1: if he made you for water, and God is not
Speaker 1: gonna help you flap if he gave you fins. You've
Speaker 1: got to move in operate according to and function by
Speaker 1: what you were made for. I didn't want to bring
Speaker 1: any animals out here because we live in a contentious
Speaker 1: time and I figured I would offend somebody and Peter
Speaker 1: might shut my church down. But just imagine now this
Speaker 1: would be really bad. Right. I would never do this.
Speaker 1: I'm not an animal person, but I would still never
Speaker 1: do this. If we put a bird in the bowl
Speaker 1: and I knew Hollywood like this sermon, beg, did you
Speaker 1: know there are six birds for every human? I thought
Speaker 1: about you this week. I was studying the birds. She's
Speaker 1: a bird person in theory. Let one fly up close
Speaker 1: to her, and she likes the information about the birds. Right,
Speaker 1: And a lot of Christians are confident in christ in theory.
Speaker 1: I'm a child of God, Yes I am. That's your
Speaker 1: surface self. But before God can bring forth what he
Speaker 1: really wants to bring forth in this season, he's got
Speaker 1: to move waters. He's got to start clearing out stuff
Speaker 1: that is covering up stuff to ask you, what is
Speaker 1: beneath the surface in your life? And are you moving
Speaker 1: in it? Are you moving in what you're made for?
Speaker 1: Take a picture if you want to, so you can
Speaker 1: put this on your screensaver this week. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm not saying you want to look at me,
Speaker 1: but maybe you just want a little reminder, like when
Speaker 1: you're comparing yourself, when you're sitting there looking at other
Speaker 1: people's life, comparing yourself because what we do go back
Speaker 1: to Genesis one, twenty six minute. Let us make man
Speaker 1: in our image, God said. But we don't go off
Speaker 1: of God's image. We go off of an image of
Speaker 1: what we think a good mom is supposed to look like,
Speaker 1: or a good dad, or a good man, or a
Speaker 1: successful person. That's what we think, right, that's what you
Speaker 1: have to be like that. But it's an image you
Speaker 1: imagined it. It's not the real image. It's a surface image.
Speaker 1: So now you try to make memories with your kids, right,
Speaker 1: and they backfire, and it's it doesn't go down like
Speaker 1: it was supposed to go down. That's because you are
Speaker 1: making memories compared to somebody else's for tend memory that
Speaker 1: they posted, they captured it. You're a burning a bowl.
Speaker 1: We have these amazing things God made called brains. Amazing.
Speaker 1: Your brain is amazing. Your mind is amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, even the ones of us in here who
Speaker 1: had to take algebra a few times, your brain is amazing.
Speaker 1: What it just enables you to do is just amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, the moon is jealous of you,
Speaker 1: the stars are jealous of you. God made you by hand.
Speaker 1: He made all of that stuff. Boom with his mouth.
Speaker 1: He made you by his hand. Your brain is amazing.
Speaker 1: Your brain was not made to look at everybody else's
Speaker 1: life all day. Your brain was not made I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make see younn and Fox newsman like they're watching. It
Speaker 1: was not made for you to process all the infra
Speaker 1: the world all the time. You're a burd in a
Speaker 1: bowl right now, and you are drowning in stuff that
Speaker 1: God did not intend for you to live in. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll read you all the quota. Listen how good this
Speaker 1: quote is. The lady said, this book is called Gift
Speaker 1: from the Sea. She said, we are asked today to
Speaker 1: feel compassionately for everyone in the world. Listen again, this
Speaker 1: is the demand that's being placed on us today in
Speaker 1: the day we live in, going back to the beginning,
Speaker 1: what God made you for versus what is being marketed
Speaker 1: to you today as normal. We are asked today to
Speaker 1: feel compassionately for everyone in the world, to digest intellectually
Speaker 1: all the information spread out in public print, all of it.
Speaker 1: You got to know everything all the time. What's happening
Speaker 1: on the other side of the world, what's happening you
Speaker 1: are watching people eat lunch on a screen, and they
Speaker 1: sit three cubicles down from you. That's how weird it
Speaker 1: is right now, and you are asked to digest on
Speaker 1: the same screen world events and also somebody's vacation that
Speaker 1: lifts three doors down from you. And it's all right there. Now.
Speaker 1: Listen to what she says. We are asked to implement
Speaker 1: in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and months.
Speaker 1: The inter relatedness of the world links us constantly with
Speaker 1: more people than our hearts can hold. She wrote that
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty five, what would she say today? What
Speaker 1: would she say about your week? Where you've been this week?
Speaker 1: You've been a bird in a bowl. Here's what I
Speaker 1: mean by a bird in a bowl. God told the fish,
Speaker 1: you are good in what I made for you. And
Speaker 1: I think the Lord wants to say that to somebody.
Speaker 1: You are good in what He made for you, and
Speaker 1: you going, don't you mean that he made me for? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: what he made for you? Ephesians two ten. For we
Speaker 1: are created in Christ Jesus. This is like the New
Speaker 1: Testament explanation of the illustration in Genesis one. We are
Speaker 1: God's handiwork. Remember he spoke the son with a word
Speaker 1: He made you with his hand. So the author here
Speaker 1: is simply saying, Paul is reminding you God made you
Speaker 1: by hand. And that's to know that He stitched me together.
Speaker 1: He made me by hand. I'm not mass produced. I
Speaker 1: didn't come off an assembly line. That means I don't
Speaker 1: have to fit in with something else because I was
Speaker 1: formed by someone who knew me before my frame was whoo.
Speaker 1: So then if that's good news, how much better is
Speaker 1: it to know what comes next? We are God's handiwork
Speaker 1: verse Please created in Christ Jesus to do good works
Speaker 1: which God prepared in advance for us to do. To
Speaker 1: understand the fifth day, you have to understand the second day.
Speaker 1: To understand your life, you have to understand the heart
Speaker 1: to mind and the order of God. See, because God
Speaker 1: wouldn't have made a bird before he made a sky.
Speaker 1: God wouldn't have made a fish before he made an ocean.
Speaker 1: You think God just dropped you down in your life
Speaker 1: and didn't put in you everything that you need to
Speaker 1: do everything he's called you to do. Break it down
Speaker 1: for Nick, All right, if God put me in it,
Speaker 1: he put it in me. But see, I have surface
Speaker 1: words that have been spoken over me that create insecurities
Speaker 1: that keep me from believing what God said and moving
Speaker 1: in what He made me for. Can I tell you
Speaker 1: how much I suck at most stuff? I mean, really
Speaker 1: really bad. I'll be right back. I got some other
Speaker 1: stuff back here. You're good, You're good. I've been excited
Speaker 1: to precis word. I really, I really want to give
Speaker 1: it to you. Okay, I be right back. I'll be
Speaker 1: right back some stuff. Now. When I say I'm bad
Speaker 1: at basketball, I'm I mean my kids started beating me
Speaker 1: at horse when they were four years old. I am
Speaker 1: so bad. I'm not saying like, oh, I'm not really
Speaker 1: good behind the line. No, I'm saying I'm not good
Speaker 1: against the backboard on a ladder. I can't shoot a basketball.
Speaker 1: And here's how bad it was when God called me
Speaker 1: to preach. Now we're talking about what you were made for.
Speaker 1: Don't get distracted like I'm giving you a history lesson
Speaker 1: on my life. I know you don't come to church
Speaker 1: for a memoir, but there's something like this for you, okay.
Speaker 1: And I remember when I first went around preaching. Me
Speaker 1: and Holly would go to these little churches and we
Speaker 1: would end up after I preached, the kids would all
Speaker 1: want to go in the gym and play basketball, and
Speaker 1: then it would undo the good impression that I made
Speaker 1: on the pulpit when they saw me play basketball. They're
Speaker 1: like that God can't know God. Look at it. Look
Speaker 1: at him out there, look at he moves. And so
Speaker 1: so I went to my friend. Now I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this, and this is a detail that you may
Speaker 1: not need. But I went to my friend. He was
Speaker 1: the captain of the Lady Stags, the Berkeley Stags, the
Speaker 1: high school team, and I said, I need help. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm out here preaching. Said don't know anything I preach.
Speaker 1: I don't need for you. I need you teach you
Speaker 1: by basketball. And I said, can I come over? And
Speaker 1: we went out in her driveway, and after an hour,
Speaker 1: she said, maybe you should just ref Okay, I'll be
Speaker 1: right back. I'll be right back. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Y'all hang out right there. Because I'm bad at that.
Speaker 1: I'm bad at that, I'm bad at that. Another thing
Speaker 1: I want to show you. This one's a little This
Speaker 1: one's a little bit more close to home. When I
Speaker 1: told him what to get me, y'all look at me.
Speaker 1: I said, get a pink hammer. Just to symbolize that
Speaker 1: Holly is a better handyman than I am. I see.
Speaker 1: I don't like to tell you stuff like this when
Speaker 1: I preach because I look kind of manly, I got
Speaker 1: a beard. But I need to show you this because
Speaker 1: it's gonna help you with something. It's gonna say you
Speaker 1: free from something. When we first got married, I felt
Speaker 1: so insecure and act incompetent and capable. It's efficient because
Speaker 1: I thought a good husband was a good handyman. That
Speaker 1: was the image I had. My dad could fix stuff.
Speaker 1: Her dad can fix stuff. What kind of husband can
Speaker 1: I be if I can't fix anything? Burning a bull?
Speaker 1: Put down on the camera. Put down on the camera.
Speaker 1: That burning a bull, that's you. Oh god, Well I'm
Speaker 1: not good at that. I'm not quick on my feet. Well,
Speaker 1: be slow on your feet, Be deliberate, be accurate, shop
Speaker 1: them right in the throat when you hit boom right there.
Speaker 1: Because I was a fishing a tree in second grade,
Speaker 1: the teacher said, nobody wants to just hear you talk
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, oh yeah, baby, I'm a bad burn.
Speaker 1: Let me fuck. I believe I can move in. What's
Speaker 1: you're made for? Let them say what they want. Let
Speaker 1: them count you out. You get for the tights you got.
Speaker 1: You were made for this baby a teleparents, back up,
Speaker 1: I'm fleshed. Tell a fish sway less. So let's make
Speaker 1: a trade. Let's make a trade. Bring me a mike,
Speaker 1: Bring me a mike, Bring me a mic. She didn't
Speaker 1: need a handyman, she needed a holy man. Give me
Speaker 1: my mic. I just had the wrong thing in my hand.
Speaker 1: And if you will focus with enough gratitude on what
Speaker 1: God gave you and how God made you, your little
Speaker 1: quirky bird, your little funky fish, you little weird you
Speaker 1: get focused enough on what He gave you. Beneath the
Speaker 1: surface of what you see that's not what you thought
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be. And you can knock down giants,
Speaker 1: and God can break down walls, and you can see
Speaker 1: great and mighty things. So I can't be her handy man.
Speaker 1: I'm her holy man. I like that. Make me a
Speaker 1: T shirt. I'm your holy man. It's good because God
Speaker 1: prepared us in advance. Don't get me started. Are spelling
Speaker 1: words wrong? Pre paired, pre paired, take it, take it,
Speaker 1: take it. I'm done with it. Pre paired. Somebody say
Speaker 1: pre pair. All right, let's ask Vana White, Can we
Speaker 1: buy a vow? I want to buy an eye pre
Speaker 1: p a I r ed paired. Come here, Holly, come here,
Speaker 1: come in, Come in pre paired, pre paired. She was
Speaker 1: pre paired. This is how I know God is God,
Speaker 1: because on the second day he made the water. On
Speaker 1: the fifth day, he made the fish to go in it.
Speaker 1: On the second day he made the sky. On the
Speaker 1: fifth day he made the bird to fly in it.
Speaker 1: And the birds are smarter than we were because we
Speaker 1: spent the first thirty years, forty years, fifty years. How
Speaker 1: long is it gonna take for us to go to
Speaker 1: fish school and learn what the fish and the birds
Speaker 1: knew from the moment god'spocome. You didn't see a fish
Speaker 1: flapping around in the sky. You see people all the
Speaker 1: time trying to dress like something there, talk like something.
Speaker 1: They're not walk like something. They're not quacking and waddling
Speaker 1: all around you, ugly duckling. I'm putting all the fairy
Speaker 1: tales of Disney characters into his own because I want
Speaker 1: you to get it. I want you to get it.
Speaker 1: I want you to get that your handmaid, that your handmaid.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about marriage. This is an illustration. We
Speaker 1: were prepared, and when you preach yesterday, I was so proud.
Speaker 1: My barber was cut my hair. He said, be still,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna gap you up, and you're gonna make me
Speaker 1: look bad on camera. I said, I'm sorry. She's just
Speaker 1: doing so good. She was out there in Austin, Texas
Speaker 1: preaching and he said, yeah, you from Austin, you are.
Speaker 1: She was bringing the Gospel to your homeland in fine style.
Speaker 1: And when it was done, fly Twy said, you are.
Speaker 1: You must be proud. I said, you have no idea
Speaker 1: how proud? Because I know the process. I know all
Speaker 1: the insecurity that she pushed through to preach like that.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a few you mind if I
Speaker 1: tell them it's better to ask for forgiveness information. She
Speaker 1: gotta forgive me for this, because this is what God
Speaker 1: told me to tell you. She is saying, all right,
Speaker 1: let the fish fill the water, let the birds fill
Speaker 1: the sky. You will feel what you are formed for
Speaker 1: when you stop complaining about where you don't fit, when
Speaker 1: you find your water, when you find your sky, when
Speaker 1: you stop asking, kin, can I be a part of
Speaker 1: that world? And Holly say, I wish I could preach
Speaker 1: and be more spirit filled. You know what she meantous
Speaker 1: because where we grew up scripted and structure men, it
Speaker 1: wasn't spirit filled. So she was a bird in a bowl.
Speaker 1: You love birds. Hold that bowl. She was in that bowl,
Speaker 1: the bowl of her belief about what God needed her
Speaker 1: to be for her to be effective. And now y'all
Speaker 1: make me mad because y'all see me in the store
Speaker 1: and you'll say we love when Holly preaches. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do with that? I love
Speaker 1: it when she preaches, too. She's not as available for
Speaker 1: romantic interludes when she's preaching on me. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let her preach too much. So spontaneous, that's my gifts.
Speaker 1: This is my water, this is my sky, this is
Speaker 1: me being me. Blame it on the birds, laming, on
Speaker 1: the birds leaming in the birth. I got excited because
Speaker 1: even that they'll put on YouTube, they'll say, this isn't preaching.
Speaker 1: This is a motivational seminar with a failed B rate
Speaker 1: comedy hour on it like that. Okay, you swim in
Speaker 1: your see, I'll swim in mind. We can both be blessed.
Speaker 1: We can both be blessed. I'll preach it how I
Speaker 1: preach it. You preach it how you preach it. They
Speaker 1: told Finny, I don't like your style of evangelism. He said,
Speaker 1: what's yours? Said, I don't have one yet. He said,
Speaker 1: I like mine better. I like mine better. I like
Speaker 1: mine better. I like my wife better. You know, because
Speaker 1: because I watched you, he said, you must be proud.
Speaker 1: I said, I am, because I know the process, not
Speaker 1: the product. People will see the product, but God knows
Speaker 1: all the mess that you're in right now by hand.
Speaker 1: He's crafting and designing you for it because he prepared
Speaker 1: it with you. So I watched her. I watched her
Speaker 1: go from I'm not spirit filled to realizing that the
Speaker 1: spirit of God can fill a script that you don't
Speaker 1: have to wing it bird reference. And yet the craziest
Speaker 1: thing is now when she speaks and I see the
Speaker 1: spirit of God, it reminds me of Genesis one too,
Speaker 1: that the spirit was hovering over the surface, trying to
Speaker 1: bring forth what was already there. You know how many
Speaker 1: birds are in bulls today because of the insecurity that
Speaker 1: imprisons you. And you can't move in it because you
Speaker 1: weren't made for it. Quit trying to fit in with
Speaker 1: those friends that aren't good for you. Huh. Let me
Speaker 1: be dad for a minute. Let me be dad for
Speaker 1: a minute. Let me move in what I made for
Speaker 1: for a minute. Okay, all right. God has given me
Speaker 1: a parental annoying just as well. And there are times
Speaker 1: in my kid's life where I'm like, you don't fit
Speaker 1: there because it's not for you. I'm not saying you're
Speaker 1: better than anybody, but you don't fit there because they're
Speaker 1: for you. So everybody who doesn't want to be your friend,
Speaker 1: the real you, is doing you a favor. Uh huh. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach somebody free today. You've been in this
Speaker 1: bowl going like, well, I can't. Some of you are
Speaker 1: trying to be sinners and you suck at it because
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be a sinner. You're a saint,
Speaker 1: You're the righteousness of God. You're a child of the light.
Speaker 1: You're a child of the light, and that's why darkness
Speaker 1: doesn't be a right to you. Make the confession, say
Speaker 1: I'm a child of the light. Now, let there be
Speaker 1: light over your life. Let there be light over your life.
Speaker 1: Let there be light over over your life. Because I'm
Speaker 1: a child of the light and if it doesn't fit,
Speaker 1: it's not for you. Give me that blazer. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you how silly you look trying to fit
Speaker 1: into the customs of this world. Some of y'all are encouragers,
Speaker 1: and you are trying your best to be negative because
Speaker 1: negative is so normal now and you're not even good
Speaker 1: at it. Tell me I'll need to stop cussing because
Speaker 1: y'all don't even know how to cuss correctly. You sound silly.
Speaker 1: Give me that now. I could put this on. I
Speaker 1: told her I was gonna do this. I said, what
Speaker 1: if I rip it? She said, then rip it. If
Speaker 1: you gotta rip it. I want you to notice something.
Speaker 1: It wasn't made for me, so I can't move in it.
Speaker 1: That's the mindset you've been in this insecure. You can't
Speaker 1: take me seriously, you gotta get it off me. I's
Speaker 1: just that turn around so we could see how you
Speaker 1: look from the back. This is you. Oh I can't
Speaker 1: be free. Oh I can't fly. Oh oh he's doing nobody.
Speaker 1: Get it off you, I get back. Take this jacket on.
Speaker 1: I know daieve it's God. Oh bless, I'm bless my
Speaker 1: highly paper. Watch this ferks I can't fly too. Whoa, oh,
Speaker 1: you were made to praise. Do what you were made
Speaker 1: to do. You were made to glorifib. I believe I
Speaker 1: can fly. I know I can make it. I was
Speaker 1: made for this. Here is the potter. I am the clay.
Speaker 1: I'm staying on the wheel. I got wings like a dove.
Speaker 1: I can make it over this situation. Now, scrunch up
Speaker 1: your eyebrows like you mean business and tell somebody I
Speaker 1: was made for this. I was made for this. I
Speaker 1: was made for this. I was made for this like
Speaker 1: a fish in water, like a burning and sky, like
Speaker 1: something sprouting forth out of the ground. I was made
Speaker 1: in the image of God. So why in the world
Speaker 1: would I move in the condemnation of my enemy. I'm
Speaker 1: coming out of insecurity today because I wasn't made for insecurity.
Speaker 1: I was made in the image of God. And how
Speaker 1: do I know what I'm made for? I spend time
Speaker 1: with my maker. I gotta deal with him now. And
Speaker 1: God said, and God said, y'all better stand up and
Speaker 1: put pressure on me to close, because I feel a
Speaker 1: part two coming on early. I feel a part two
Speaker 1: coming on early. Stand up, stand up. You're never gonna
Speaker 1: find out what his hand can do because you are
Speaker 1: so distracted by way your hands are holding that wasn't
Speaker 1: made for you. Now, God did not make the sky
Speaker 1: for the birds to hover in and hang out, and
Speaker 1: God did not make the sea for the lobsters to
Speaker 1: get some son. You got to move in. You've got
Speaker 1: to move in what you were made for. That's how
Speaker 1: life happens. Did you ever have a baby? I didn't.
Speaker 1: But when it moved and it got uncomfortable, best when
Speaker 1: we knew she was closer than ever to bring in
Speaker 1: forth life. The same is true in the spirit. And
Speaker 1: God said, don't you want to know what he spoke?
Speaker 1: Don't you don't you play gyro? Don't you want to
Speaker 1: know what he spoke? Don't you want to know what
Speaker 1: he who chose you before the foundations of the earth,
Speaker 1: before all this surface stuff got on you. Don't you
Speaker 1: want to know what you were created in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 1: for that was prepared in advance for you to do.
Speaker 1: This is your season to begin to move in your water,
Speaker 1: to begin to fly in your sky, to begin to
Speaker 1: control the atmosphere that you allow in your art. Your
Speaker 1: mind was not made to worry about the future. Sufficient
Speaker 1: is the day and if you move in what God
Speaker 1: gave you this day, our daily breath. I feel annoyted
Speaker 1: to help somebody because he said this was a word
Speaker 1: for your insecurity. And when you bring that to your maker,
Speaker 1: remember what you were made for. Oh I'm a reflection
Speaker 1: of God. I told my buddy a while back. He
Speaker 1: was getting criticized, and I said, that's happened to me before.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I learned. I read a
Speaker 1: quote where the man said, never wrestle with a pig,
Speaker 1: and then he said, because you both get muddy and
Speaker 1: the pig likes it. And then God gave me something
Speaker 1: to say, You're a prince, not a pig. I wasn't
Speaker 1: made for the Mud. I was made from the mud.
Speaker 1: When I'm in the hands of my maker. Come on,
Speaker 1: release it to God right now. If you just start
Speaker 1: like getting ready to leave right now and you don't
Speaker 1: seal this word, the enemy's gonna snatch it. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get back in the same situation, the same people, the
Speaker 1: same stuff you've been staring at all week. But this
Speaker 1: is the principle of the Fifth Day that we could
Speaker 1: learn from the birds. But we don't know with our
Speaker 1: human mind that when I fly in what I'm formed for.
Speaker 1: God always has a worm for me that when I
Speaker 1: swim in where God set me. Now, don't go quit
Speaker 1: your job. Tell your boss you're a bird. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be a broke bird looking for a worm. That is
Speaker 1: not my message. Do not put a asterisk by my message.
Speaker 1: I say that I want to talk about your heart.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about what you believe. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the bull you put yourself in. And
Speaker 1: if the Lord helps me, I'm gonna continue the same
Speaker 1: lineitude next me. I am prodigal son said, I'm out
Speaker 1: here with the pigs, and my father has hired servants.
Speaker 1: I'm a prince, but I'm down here with the pigs.
Speaker 1: I wasn't made for this. I wasn't made for this addiction.
Speaker 1: My heart was made for God. I wasn't made for
Speaker 1: this bitterness. I'm not I'm not going to be down
Speaker 1: here with the pigs and forget that. I'm a prince.
Speaker 1: I was made in the image of God, created in
Speaker 1: Christ Jesus to do good works, and God made the
Speaker 1: work for me to do before he made me to
Speaker 1: do it. So whatever you're in right now, I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's for a job or for a challenge
Speaker 1: that can't be named in the room, because you know
Speaker 1: how we are. We can only talk like three things
Speaker 1: in church. Beneath the surface. That's what the spirit of
Speaker 1: God brought for. I believe he's bringing it forth right
Speaker 1: now in your life, just to get you to realize
Speaker 1: that when you move in what you were made for.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is yet, that's all right,
Speaker 1: Your Maker does. Yeah, but my life is a mess,
Speaker 1: do you not remember that's how the whole thing got
Speaker 1: started to begin with? And he remembers our frame Psalm
Speaker 1: one three fourteen says, And he knows that we are dust.
Speaker 1: So when it's messy, just remember your maker knew all
Speaker 1: of that. Now we don't. We only see the pieces.
Speaker 1: Remember he sees the picture. He knew what to make
Speaker 1: on the second day, so what was made on the
Speaker 1: fifth day would have somewhere to live. He knew who
Speaker 1: to allow to leave you, so that who came into
Speaker 1: your life later would have a place to be. He
Speaker 1: what disappointments to allow you, so that he could teach
Speaker 1: you the lessons you would need for the level that
Speaker 1: he wants to use you in the glory that shall
Speaker 1: be revealed. This is the principle of the fifth Day.
Speaker 1: And I wonder, can we who were made on the
Speaker 1: sixth day learn from the birds and the fish who
Speaker 1: were made on the fifth day? Just to move in
Speaker 1: what you were made for. You can have this. When
Speaker 1: your nee gets better, you can have this. God is
Speaker 1: calling me from glory to glory, from strength to strength.
Speaker 1: Is the insecurity keeping you from seeing the strength. The
Speaker 1: spirit of the Living God is hovering over your heart
Speaker 1: at this moment. Thank you, Lord, drawing some things forth.
Speaker 1: Some of us going to look ugly, some of us
Speaker 1: going to look unfamiliar. But you just trust that the
Speaker 1: one who is speaking knows what is beneath the surface.
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, lift your hands, everybody. We receive the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: the equipping, the divine enablement, and the grace of God.
Speaker 1: Not to think more highly of ourselves than we are,
Speaker 1: but the function and the gifts that we've been given up.
Speaker 1: Shall the thing made say to the thing that made it,
Speaker 1: why have you formed me this way? No, God, you're
Speaker 1: the potter, we're the clay. And as you shape and
Speaker 1: form and move our lives in conformity to your perfect
Speaker 1: will and purpose and your divine counsel. We offer ourselves
Speaker 1: to you. Jehovah, Jirah, the God who provides the sea
Speaker 1: before he ever speaks forth the fish, the God who
Speaker 1: provides the sky before he ever creates the birth, the
Speaker 1: God who gave us the grace before we ever encountered Goliath. Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: We receive your grace. Lord. We worship you, Lord. Come on, worship, Worship, Worship, Worship, worship, worship,
Speaker 1: Worship with your mouth. With your mouth. Now, don't just cheer.
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