Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 2: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it
Speaker 2: gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Blessings upon you today. Grace and mercy
Speaker 2: to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places.
Speaker 2: May the God of all Comfort comfort you today. May
Speaker 2: the God of all Peace guard your heart and your mind.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 2: If you're watching online, I'm glad you chose.
Speaker 1: To watch this video.
Speaker 2: God knows, there's a lot of other stuff you could
Speaker 2: have watched on the internet. Here you are listening to
Speaker 2: a holy ghost preacher. Today, God might just speak to you.
Speaker 2: This word might just make you chump.
Speaker 1: Your phone might heat up with this word today.
Speaker 2: The presence of the Lord is in this place. I
Speaker 2: got five people that agree with me at Valentine. How
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Speaker 1: Y'all up here in the top section.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that con can does something amazing today.
Speaker 1: Glory to God. I'm fired up.
Speaker 2: I got the Holy ghosts. I'm burning up. Tell your
Speaker 2: neighbor if you brought cold water, don't pour your water
Speaker 2: on me. Tell him I got the Holy ghosts and
Speaker 2: I'm burning up. Anybody burning up today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't need a son of the burn up.
Speaker 2: I got the spirit of the Lord. I feel it
Speaker 2: heating up right now. This is an amazing day in
Speaker 2: your life. And I need you to know that if
Speaker 2: you need to get a record of who you were
Speaker 2: before this series, you need to take a selfie right now,
Speaker 2: because you will be.
Speaker 1: Unrecognizable seven weeks from now.
Speaker 2: What God is about to do in your life. No,
Speaker 2: I declare it, I decree it, and I choose to
Speaker 2: believe that. Today I'm releasing to my church my first
Speaker 2: new book in eight years, Do the New You.
Speaker 1: Can you get it first? That's right. This is written
Speaker 1: so I can come home with you. Sound kind of weird.
Speaker 1: This is where I get to coach you.
Speaker 2: This is where I get to be a voice in
Speaker 2: your life that reminds you that you are the righteousness
Speaker 2: of God in Jesus Christ, the voice in your life
Speaker 2: that helps you realize that you are more than the
Speaker 2: math of what is against you, that you are more
Speaker 2: than the mistakes that you have made, that the great
Speaker 2: I am lives in you, and whatever he is, you
Speaker 2: are too who. I feel a flow coming, Give me
Speaker 2: an acoustic guitar ready for when I finished reaching. I
Speaker 2: feel fresh oil, I feel fresh songs. I feel a
Speaker 2: fresh word. Come into your house today. I'm excited and
Speaker 2: we've been going absolutely crazy. I'm gonna read you the
Speaker 2: scripture in a moment. So stay standing if you are standing,
Speaker 2: and stand up if you're not, because I want you ready.
Speaker 1: We've been really overdoing it.
Speaker 2: I think I told Holly, we've got so much content
Speaker 2: coming your way. Next week you'll get to hear about
Speaker 2: our e group study your very own Holly Ferdic has created.
Speaker 1: For you with our team.
Speaker 2: Let's thank God for her. Yeah, to walk you through
Speaker 2: each week what we're doing. Take it further so you
Speaker 2: can get the book, you can get the audiobook. The
Speaker 2: audiobook is that's the one. Yeah, that's the one. And
Speaker 2: then I've also put together a masterclass for you with
Speaker 2: a friend of mine who is a personal development and
Speaker 2: also performance coach, and we get into it from the
Speaker 2: Biblical side. But then how many know if you have
Speaker 2: the truth but you don't have the tools to put
Speaker 2: the truth into practice. Sometimes it's like a seed that
Speaker 2: doesn't take root and bear fruit in your life.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be available.
Speaker 2: I sat down with my oldest son, Elijah and JT
Speaker 2: and recorded for the Youth Nation podcast a special conversation
Speaker 2: that's been eighteen years in the making, ever since Elijah
Speaker 2: was born, and that will be dropping later this week,
Speaker 2: and the book is available. But today I want to
Speaker 2: put this thing in three D for you, and I
Speaker 2: want to go to the scripture that started it all,
Speaker 2: for Jeremiah and for me as this concept do the
Speaker 2: new You comes to life.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm excited. Jeremiah Chapter one. Jeremiah Chapter one.
Speaker 2: I got some surprises for you over the next seven weeks,
Speaker 2: and this will be a foundation today for us to
Speaker 2: build on. One more page, Okay, Jeremiah chapter one, Verse four,
Speaker 2: let's go. The word of the Lord came to me saying,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it, y'all. But I could
Speaker 2: preach the entire message off of that verse. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to do it.
Speaker 1: I got more verses, but I could stop right there
Speaker 1: and preach.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came to me, saying, First
Speaker 2: of all, the word is perpetual. It came to me,
Speaker 2: doesn't just come once. When God said let there be light,
Speaker 2: there can still be light because he's still speaking.
Speaker 1: Not only is it perpetual, but it is personal.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came to me.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, speak to me.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: Now turn to your neighbor and say you need it,
Speaker 1: And I hope he does speak to you.
Speaker 2: It's perpetual, it's personal. But watch this, it is also predestined.
Speaker 2: And this is where we want to get today. Verse five.
Speaker 2: Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you
Speaker 2: before you were born. I set you apart, I appointed
Speaker 2: you as a prophet to the nations. All that sounds good,
Speaker 2: Sovereign Lord, I said, I don't know how to speak.
Speaker 1: I am too young.
Speaker 2: But the Lord, this sounds like an interruption of your insecurities.
Speaker 2: Would you let God interrupt your security in your insecurities
Speaker 2: if he wanted to?
Speaker 1: Today?
Speaker 2: But the Lord, somebody say, but the Lord said to me,
Speaker 2: do not say I am too young. Y'all, whatever you
Speaker 2: put behind the world words I am is a direct
Speaker 2: reflection on your maker.
Speaker 1: Because that's his name.
Speaker 2: So the Lord said to me, do not say I
Speaker 2: am too young. You must go to everyone I send you.
Speaker 2: Say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them,
Speaker 2: for I am with you, and we'll rescue you, declares
Speaker 2: the Lord.
Speaker 1: And let's camp on verse nine today.
Speaker 2: Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my
Speaker 2: mouth and said to me, I have put my words
Speaker 2: in your mouth. The title of our first message for
Speaker 2: our brand new series, Do the New You.
Speaker 1: Is God chose you. Will you.
Speaker 2: Put that in the comments right now? God shows you now,
Speaker 2: will you? That's what we're going to decide and speared
Speaker 2: of God, I declare over each and every life who
Speaker 2: connected with this message that you have already decided and
Speaker 2: destined who they will become.
Speaker 1: Now, God, I come into.
Speaker 2: Partnership with you to speak your words over your people,
Speaker 2: and I expect a great success from it because.
Speaker 1: You're with me in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, you may
Speaker 1: be seated. Wow.
Speaker 2: You feel like we could go home on that, but
Speaker 2: we won't. It's good to go over this material. I've
Speaker 2: spent a year writing this book. Do the New You
Speaker 2: do thenew you dot Com. That's do thenew you dot
Speaker 2: com Yeah, I'm promoting it because I believe in it,
Speaker 2: and I believe in it because I need it. And
Speaker 2: from what I see as a pastor, you do too.
Speaker 2: You do too, seeing all the people that we get
Speaker 2: to meet and all of the precious people that we
Speaker 2: get to partner with in ministry who are silently asking
Speaker 2: the same question but may be afraid to say it because.
Speaker 1: It makes them sound like rookies or complainers.
Speaker 2: And the question is how do I change?
Speaker 1: How do I make changes to stay? How do I change?
Speaker 2: And the first step to this, I would contend, does
Speaker 2: not start with you at all. It starts with the
Speaker 2: God who changes you. And the God that changes you
Speaker 2: is the God that created you. Start taking notes at
Speaker 2: any time. None of this is in the book. I'm
Speaker 2: flowing in the Holy Ghost right now. It reminded me
Speaker 2: go ahead and bring that screen out. I got a
Speaker 2: bunch of toys coming to day because I think I
Speaker 2: want this message to be special. So I got all
Speaker 2: the stuff that I'm planning to bring up here on stage, but.
Speaker 1: That screen out. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm not the most technological person, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: bring up my scriptures, some of my scriptures on the
Speaker 2: screen and draw on the screen just for visual learners.
Speaker 1: How many of you are visual learners? Uh huh?
Speaker 2: And how many of you are what's the other auditory learners?
Speaker 2: And how many of you are still trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what style you are because you're fifty and you
Speaker 2: still haven't learned everything that you think you need to know.
Speaker 2: Good Anyway, it just reminded me from when they were
Speaker 2: bringing this out, when the iPad first came out, before
Speaker 2: you were born, when the iPad was was just an
Speaker 2: arrow in the quiver of Steve Jobs. I remember how
Speaker 2: excited I was to have my first iPad. I was
Speaker 2: flying somewhere to preach and I had the iPad out
Speaker 2: because I wanted to preach for my iPad for the
Speaker 2: first time, and I was excited. And this's got next
Speaker 2: to me on the plane. I'm not judging him, but
Speaker 2: he looked kind of nerdy. He looked like a guy
Speaker 2: who knew a lot about technology. Is that a better
Speaker 2: way to say it. He looked very techy. He looked
Speaker 2: like a nerd. And he looked at my iPad and
Speaker 2: he started the lust and he was like, how do
Speaker 2: you like it? Because at that time it was relatively
Speaker 2: new technology. And I said, I love it. I just
Speaker 2: got it as great, and he goes, what do you
Speaker 2: do on it? I said, well, like I said, I
Speaker 2: just got it, but I mean so far. I'm a preacher,
Speaker 2: so I'm putting my Bible notes on here for my sermon,
Speaker 2: and play Angry Birds on it with my five year
Speaker 2: old fruit and ninja. So all of a sudden his
Speaker 2: facial expression changed.
Speaker 1: I watched it.
Speaker 2: He went from excited to disgust. It shook his head
Speaker 2: and he looks back at me. I'll never forget what
Speaker 2: he said. This has been over a decade ago, and
Speaker 2: I remember exactly.
Speaker 1: What he said.
Speaker 2: You are using that device far beneath its full potential.
Speaker 2: And he didn't want to talk the rest of the flight.
Speaker 2: It was absolutely anathema to him, the curse of Lucifer himself,
Speaker 2: to be sitting next to somebody on a plane who
Speaker 2: had something so powerful, who had something with so much potential,
Speaker 2: And here I am putting a slingshot.
Speaker 1: At some birds and a sword on some watermelons.
Speaker 2: And he looked at it and said, I wish I
Speaker 2: could get my hands on that iPad. You got more
Speaker 2: money than you do. Good sense, If that's all you're
Speaker 2: doing with that iPad? Do you know what I could
Speaker 2: do with that iPad? I could sure cancer with that iPad,
Speaker 2: and I guess he could. We didn't speak the rest
Speaker 2: of the time. I should have asked him, I should
Speaker 2: ask him what will it do?
Speaker 1: I should have.
Speaker 2: Asked him, But I felt kind of embarrassed at that
Speaker 2: point to be sitting with something that was so amazing,
Speaker 2: and I knew it was amazing, but to be so
Speaker 2: limited in my ability to access the potential of something
Speaker 2: that was so powerful, and to not know how I
Speaker 2: should ask him. He said, you are using He lectured
Speaker 2: me the class I didn't ask for.
Speaker 1: You are using that device. I wonder if God ever
Speaker 1: looks at.
Speaker 2: What he made YU can help me preach anytime. Don't
Speaker 2: go Episcopalian on me. My first Sunday of my new
Speaker 2: book series. I wonder if God ever looks at what
Speaker 2: is in your spirit, if God ever looks at the
Speaker 2: gifts that are in seed.
Speaker 1: Form in the soil of you.
Speaker 2: I wonder if God ever looks at the hand you've
Speaker 2: been dealt, and the skillful hands you've been given, and
Speaker 2: the opportunities and the open doors and the amazing ways
Speaker 2: that he has made for you, and the amazing personality
Speaker 2: that He has endowed you on that you apologize for
Speaker 2: because it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Just like your brother's growing up.
Speaker 2: I wonder if God ever looks at what he gave
Speaker 2: you and says you are using what you're holding far
Speaker 2: beneath its full potential. Now, of course, the phrase you
Speaker 2: do you.
Speaker 1: Is a controversial phrase, and.
Speaker 2: That's obviously I don't want to assume that you know
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: Here's when people usually they're.
Speaker 2: Trying to say, I would never in my lifetime wear those, but.
Speaker 1: You do you? Like I think you look ridiculous. They
Speaker 1: don't say that part. They go, hey, you do you?
Speaker 1: Or in a more positive sense.
Speaker 2: It's what I told Holly when she was first trying
Speaker 2: to figure out how to preach. She was like, but
Speaker 2: I'm not preachy. I'm like, you don't need to scream.
Speaker 2: We got microphones. I just screamed because I got issues.
Speaker 2: Be calm, do you? People will actually be thankful that
Speaker 2: they don't have to listen to me scream that week
Speaker 2: when you get up and sell them very softly and
Speaker 2: you can their butts in a whisper. Do you do
Speaker 2: you look? At somebody say do you? And it's good,
Speaker 2: And I know it's a little bit old, it's a
Speaker 2: little cliche.
Speaker 1: Do you.
Speaker 2: The only problem I have with the advice do you
Speaker 2: is that would be good advice if you knew you.
Speaker 1: But do you?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have fun all by myself this week. Come on,
Speaker 2: I turn for forty four next Monday. I'm too old
Speaker 2: and not enjoy this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you?
Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's a wonderful piece of
Speaker 2: advice that you're talking to somebody who's going to do
Speaker 2: a new hairstyle.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: If you ever watch an anniversary sermon from the church,
Speaker 2: you will notice the number of hair expressions that I
Speaker 2: have gone through in the years, and I apologize for
Speaker 2: none of them, every single one of them.
Speaker 1: I did. Every hairdo that I did at the time
Speaker 1: was good.
Speaker 2: And then a woman got online the other week and said,
Speaker 2: I'm very disappointed that you're dying your beard. I thought
Speaker 2: you were going to grow gray gracefully and show that
Speaker 2: the age of the Lord is a blessing. And I'm
Speaker 2: very disappointed to see that you begin to color your beard.
Speaker 2: So now you can't even die you and do you
Speaker 2: without somebody telling you come on, I'm a diet for
Speaker 2: a little while. The Bible says die to the old,
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you.
Speaker 2: And if it goes gray, you'll know I'm ready to
Speaker 2: try new me. Very helpful advice if you're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: don't feel the pressure to perform like you saw somebody
Speaker 2: else perform.
Speaker 1: Do you singing your range.
Speaker 2: Use your gift, say it how you say it, that's great,
Speaker 2: or you know, get it. Get the mohawk. Everybody should
Speaker 2: do it once in their life. Get a mullet. I'm
Speaker 2: halfway there right now thinking about it. And if that's
Speaker 2: what I want to do, I should do it. But listen,
Speaker 2: I don't really come here to talk to you about
Speaker 2: mohawks and mullets, did I. I came to talk about mindsets.
Speaker 2: I came to talk about your mindset. What I am
Speaker 2: concerned about for the people that I pastor, And this
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be every pastor's burden, but I am
Speaker 2: concerned that the way we read Jeremiah chapter one, verse
Speaker 2: four through nine is different than how it happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to read it again, and I'm going.
Speaker 2: To read it as if it were written with our
Speaker 2: just do you mentality that we bring to a lot
Speaker 2: of the situations in our life. Here's how it goes,
Speaker 2: Jeremiah one, verse four, Please put it on the screen.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord came to me, saying, before
Speaker 2: I formed you in the womb, I knew you before
Speaker 2: you were born. I set you apart. I appointed you
Speaker 2: as a prophet to the nations, a last sovereign Lord.
Speaker 2: I said, I do not know how to speak. I
Speaker 2: am too young. And the Lord said to me, just
Speaker 2: do you. You'll know how to speak. Don't speak now,
Speaker 2: that's cool. I thought I made you, but no, you
Speaker 2: do you. I thought I was the sovereign god who
Speaker 2: put you together. I thought I was the one who
Speaker 2: spoke you out of nothing before you were formed in
Speaker 2: your mother's room. That doesn't tell Jeremiah, upon his excuse,
Speaker 2: just do you look what he says.
Speaker 1: Verse seven.
Speaker 2: Read it how it actually says. But the Lord said
Speaker 2: to me, do not say I am too young. You
Speaker 2: must go to everyone I send you to and say
Speaker 2: whatever I command you.
Speaker 1: So this verse tells me, do you.
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 1: Let me show you on the screen.
Speaker 2: I think this is very powerful, because here we are.
Speaker 2: I got the whole Bible on the screen.
Speaker 1: Y'all.
Speaker 2: That guy on the plane would be so proud of
Speaker 2: me if he could see me today.
Speaker 1: Come on, some people.
Speaker 2: Are just watching this looking for Taylor at the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and I'm preaching the whole prophecy of God on a
Speaker 2: flip sideways TV screen. I'mu do me. Hey, hey, y'all
Speaker 2: think she's gonna make it back from Japan in time.
Speaker 2: I'm praying for Taylor. I like seeing her out there.
Speaker 2: I think she's great. Now, look at this when we
Speaker 2: get to Jeremiah. Here we go Jeremiah chapter one all
Speaker 2: the way to the verse, and I thought the little pin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: where'd I put it back?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: This is gonna take a second for me to get
Speaker 2: used to this. At the hunt at the top is
Speaker 2: by the book, the other book. I only got one book. Graham,
Speaker 2: come get it for me, y'all, give Graham a hand
Speaker 2: as he comes.
Speaker 1: Where'd it go? Oh?
Speaker 2: Hey, it was hidden underneath the word of God. No, no,
Speaker 2: you didn't hear me. It was hidden beneath the Word
Speaker 2: of God. That means that I thought it wasn't there,
Speaker 2: And it wasn't that it was gone, but it was
Speaker 2: hidden underneath the word of God.
Speaker 1: I wonder what word.
Speaker 2: God has spoken over you that is hiding something that
Speaker 2: you need in this season.
Speaker 1: Now, y'all give it up for Graham one more time here.
Speaker 2: I love how the Lord corrected Jeremiah's very brilliant how
Speaker 2: God does it?
Speaker 1: The Lord said, do not say I am too young.
Speaker 2: You must go to everyone I send you to and
Speaker 2: say whatever I command you.
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you.
Speaker 2: Do you takes on a little different significance when I
Speaker 2: am it's with me, stylus drop.
Speaker 1: Now, why I really called him up here wasn't to
Speaker 1: help me with the stylus.
Speaker 2: We had an agreement before he came up here that
Speaker 2: he would help me with this sermon. You may recognize
Speaker 2: Graham from such sermons as God's Got your Back Part one.
Speaker 1: And don't Fight your future.
Speaker 2: Last time we were on the stage together, I let
Speaker 2: him get down on top of me and hold me
Speaker 2: down to represent all the things that hold us down
Speaker 2: in our life, and he enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Today. I'm gonna do a different illustration.
Speaker 2: Turn the tables a little bit today because what we
Speaker 2: talked about is, you know this idea that you just
Speaker 2: do you assuming that you've met you, factors out what
Speaker 2: God knows that you don't, and so I want to
Speaker 2: share with you something that he did when he was
Speaker 2: real little. I was telling them the story of Jacob
Speaker 2: and Esau, and I was telling them how Esau was
Speaker 2: grabbing Jacob's heel trying to get the birth or Jacob
Speaker 2: was grabbing Esau's heel rather trying to get the birthright
Speaker 2: and the blessing. Y'all know this story. Okay, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you the whole story one time, but I can't tell
Speaker 2: you the whole thing right now. I was telling him
Speaker 2: about the part where Esau was coming in from hunting
Speaker 2: and he was very hungry, and Jacob, his brother, was
Speaker 2: a good cook, and so Esau came in hungry from
Speaker 2: hunting because apparently wasn't very good hunter because he didn't
Speaker 2: kill anything, or if he did kill something, he still
Speaker 2: wasn't cooked yet. So he's hungry, and Jacob's like, hey,
Speaker 2: I got a bowl of beans. Bring me the bowl.
Speaker 2: I got a bowl of beans that you can have.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is sell me your birthright.
Speaker 2: So they're bringing me a bowl right now. Y'all got it?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, let's give it up for the
Speaker 2: brother with the bull. Yeah, so I brought this from home.
Speaker 2: Many Ramen noodles have been cooked in this very bowl.
Speaker 2: If you only knew. One time we destroyed a microwave
Speaker 2: cooking Ramen noodles.
Speaker 1: In a bowl. I don't know how Elijah did that,
Speaker 1: but in exchange for a bowl of.
Speaker 2: Beans, Esau, who was the firstborn, sold his birthright to
Speaker 2: his brother and forfeited a blessing that God intended.
Speaker 1: For him to have, all for a bowl of beings.
Speaker 2: My contention with a lot of us, not just young people,
Speaker 2: but a lot of us who have been Christians for
Speaker 2: a long time, is that we sell birthrights for bolls.
Speaker 2: Now we call it things that sound really good. You
Speaker 2: might have heard this called living your truth. I personally
Speaker 2: do not say that phrase. Although I have nothing against
Speaker 2: the phrase. I just want to qualify it. Where do
Speaker 2: you get your truth from? Because if living your truth
Speaker 2: means repeating your experience, you are not a candidate for wisdom.
Speaker 2: Wisdom will always interrupt your experience to show you that
Speaker 2: what you always thought you were you actually were not.
Speaker 1: But God had put a put a seed.
Speaker 2: Inside of you that had not reached maturity yet your life,
Speaker 2: and Esau, out of his immaturity as a grown man,
Speaker 2: sold what he.
Speaker 1: Could have been for a bowl. Now by the time you.
Speaker 2: Get into the New Testament, Paul calls it something different
Speaker 2: in Ephesians chapter four, verse I believe about number twenty two,
Speaker 2: give me that on the lower thirds police.
Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter four twenty.
Speaker 2: Two says you were taught, with regard to your former
Speaker 2: way of life, to put off.
Speaker 1: Your old self.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean don't go down memory lane. That doesn't
Speaker 2: mean don't be who you were uniquely created to be.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean don't enjoy the things that make you
Speaker 2: uniquely you. Here's what it means, that part of you
Speaker 2: that is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. And the
Speaker 2: problem with you being you is that sometimes what you
Speaker 2: think you want is in conflict with who you really are.
Speaker 2: You will find yourself in many different states throughout any
Speaker 2: given day. And I'm not calling you schizophrenic. I am saying,
Speaker 2: by nature of the fact that you are a spirit
Speaker 2: that lives in a body, sometimes your body will try
Speaker 2: to get you to sell your birthright for a bowl.
Speaker 2: Help me preach, would you please? Graham heard the story
Speaker 2: about Jacob and Esault.
Speaker 1: I shared with him.
Speaker 2: How Jacob all of his life was trying to get
Speaker 2: a blessing that wasn't his by pretending to be something
Speaker 2: that he was not. And he didn't have to because
Speaker 2: God wanted to bless Jacob. But I even shared the
Speaker 2: part where Jacob was blessing and he grabbed his father's
Speaker 2: right hand and put it on his head because the
Speaker 2: right hand was the right hand of blessing.
Speaker 1: And he crossed his father's right hand and received the.
Speaker 2: Blessing that was reserved for the firstborn. And I stole
Speaker 2: it from Esau and I told him that story. And
Speaker 2: that night I was praying with Graham and Elijah before
Speaker 2: they went to bed, and I thought Graham's hand grabbed
Speaker 2: my right hand and he put it on his head
Speaker 2: and he said, just call me Jacob Sucker. And he
Speaker 2: was five, and I started praying for him. And he's
Speaker 2: an amazing boy, and I see good things in his life,
Speaker 2: and I believe he has a birthright. And I coach
Speaker 2: my boys, and I coach my daughter, and I have
Speaker 2: to coach myself. And I coach you this way that
Speaker 2: when you give up what you want most for what
Speaker 2: you want. Now you're not doing you You're being deceived.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you're being deceived. When people say like, well,
Speaker 2: that's just how I am, I just go off, that's
Speaker 2: just how I am. I just say what I think.
Speaker 2: That is a bad strategy. Have you ever cataloged your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Not all of them are FDA approved. And I believe
Speaker 2: this message is important to a generation that is running
Speaker 2: around saying things like live your truth, because if he
Speaker 2: lives his truth, he's gonna find himself in moments where
Speaker 2: it will feel true to him that this temptation.
Speaker 1: Is stronger than my faith, but it's not. There will
Speaker 1: be moments where.
Speaker 2: It'll feel to him like popularity is more important than calling,
Speaker 2: but it's not. There will be moments where he will
Speaker 2: feel that something is true.
Speaker 1: But what if what you feel.
Speaker 2: Is true is actually a trap. Warn your neighbor real quick,
Speaker 2: touch him and say it's a trap. It's a trap
Speaker 2: to act outside of the character that God has placed
Speaker 2: inside of you and call that you. It's a trap.
Speaker 2: The enemy has some of you trapped and you don't
Speaker 2: know it. He has you trapped in the prison of
Speaker 2: what you call your personality. So now you run around
Speaker 2: saying things like, well, that's just the kind of person
Speaker 2: that I am. Well, if the kind of person that
Speaker 2: I am doesn't match the kind of God that he is,
Speaker 2: I've got to change some things and.
Speaker 1: Choose some things.
Speaker 2: Come on, God didn't tell Jeremiah, do you? God said,
Speaker 2: I knew you. Steve Jobs has nothing on God. Steve
Speaker 2: Jobs made an iPad. God made watch this a resurrection.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says that the same power that raised
Speaker 2: Christ from the.
Speaker 1: Dead lives in you.
Speaker 2: Touch your neighbors say he's talking about you. And so
Speaker 2: one time I remember being in high school. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I told you this story before. Maybe I
Speaker 2: told you ten times. And everybody was getting high and
Speaker 2: I had never been high in my life, and I
Speaker 2: was that night planning to get high. And I remember
Speaker 2: feeling like, I'm sick of being a good kid. I'm
Speaker 2: sick of being alone on Saturday nights.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of this. I'm going to actually do it tonight.
Speaker 2: And I remember when I grabbed it and I went
Speaker 2: to smoke it, and my friend slapped it out of
Speaker 2: my hand and he looked at me and said.
Speaker 1: This isn't you. And I came.
Speaker 2: I came to Valentine, North Carolina today to tell you.
Speaker 1: That's not you.
Speaker 2: Everything that's sabotaging you.
Speaker 3: I slap it out hand and I declare, that's not you.
Speaker 3: Henry Habit, that's not you.
Speaker 2: Look at your neighbors, say that's not you.
Speaker 1: Go slap them.
Speaker 2: I don't want to start anything, but when I feel
Speaker 2: it rising up in me to take me down, I
Speaker 2: slap it.
Speaker 1: I demolish strongholds. The weapons of my warfare are not carnal,
Speaker 1: but they're mighty through God.
Speaker 3: Because this isn't you.
Speaker 1: Nothing new you.
Speaker 2: But see we're confused because we think that if it's automatic,
Speaker 2: that makes it authentic. I am not what I feel.
Speaker 1: I am not what I do. I am what God's
Speaker 1: word says.
Speaker 2: I am, and he is the great I am. This
Speaker 2: changed my life because I wrote down the phrase do you,
Speaker 2: and then I said, no, the new you. Jeremiah one
Speaker 2: to five, give it to me the you that God
Speaker 2: says he knew.
Speaker 1: So maybe we should spell it different. Maybe doing the
Speaker 1: new you man's doing the new you.
Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus, you make all things new. Because let's
Speaker 2: say I preach this to him and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: so don't just do what you want to do, do
Speaker 2: what God.
Speaker 1: Tells you to do. So then you get out of
Speaker 1: the trap.
Speaker 2: Right, everybody say trap, because I really think it's a
Speaker 2: trap to have an experience, form it into a belief
Speaker 2: and then call it your truth. That's a trap. That's
Speaker 2: a trap. That's the track. But then let's say you
Speaker 2: get out of the do you trap? Only to not
Speaker 2: bring my next illustration out? And this if the bull
Speaker 2: took a while, so this might really take a while.
Speaker 2: Bring it on out. And now you're about to find
Speaker 2: out why I brought Graham up for the illustration. Because
Speaker 2: let's say you get out of the do you trap?
Speaker 1: I'm just doing me. I'm just being me. That's just
Speaker 1: how I am. Then you get out of the trap,
Speaker 1: the do you trap? Just do you? Boo boo? Do you?
Speaker 1: Just do you? You get out of that trap, You're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna change. And now that the devil
Speaker 1: sees you're out of the trap.
Speaker 2: And you want to change and you want to get
Speaker 2: better and you're not happy with it exactly what like
Speaker 2: it is? You get out of the do you trap
Speaker 2: and you get onto the future? You treadmill? How many
Speaker 2: didn't know this was a treadmill. You thought it was
Speaker 2: a code rap. That's all how you use And this
Speaker 2: is why I brought Graham on the stage. Now he's
Speaker 2: out of the trap. But now let's say that self
Speaker 2: discipline and religion puts them on a treadmill where he
Speaker 2: starts looking at Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the new me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wake up at five am. My friend wakes
Speaker 2: up at six am. I'm gonna get up at five am.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read five books of the Bible today, five alive.
Speaker 2: How many of y'all started with a real new year's
Speaker 2: energy going into a new twenty four and we realize
Speaker 2: we just take it a day at a time. I
Speaker 2: think the crazy thing is and I would do this
Speaker 2: illustration myself.
Speaker 1: But I'm wearing these boots. They're new.
Speaker 2: I can't increase these. These are my new book boots.
Speaker 2: I'm not messing these up. They're heavy, and I'm not
Speaker 2: called to the cardio man anyway.
Speaker 1: I've told you all that before. So now here we go,
Speaker 1: do the new you and go.
Speaker 2: And so now the devil's got some of us out there,
Speaker 2: not settling.
Speaker 1: But striving, because to do you.
Speaker 2: Just do? You? And not let God have his say,
Speaker 2: and to commit and put yourself in concrete for what
Speaker 2: you've been up to this point is a trap. I
Speaker 2: know it looks like a bull is a trap, and
Speaker 2: I know this looks like walking, but.
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: To just do you is to live your life cheated.
Speaker 2: Everybody say cheated, But to get this idea in your
Speaker 2: mind that there is a future you that God would
Speaker 2: love more, or there is a future you that God
Speaker 2: could use, or that there is a future you that
Speaker 2: would be worthy of love in a relationship, or there
Speaker 2: is a future you that could feel good about yourself
Speaker 2: and your life.
Speaker 1: And is just one accomplishment away.
Speaker 2: Is to get out of the trap and onto the treadmill.
Speaker 2: And as good as long as it's good, and it works,
Speaker 2: as long as it works.
Speaker 1: And I wonder are there some people here who.
Speaker 2: Have been cheated because you've settled for what you thought
Speaker 2: you were? But I also wonder are there some people
Speaker 2: here who are chasing chasing something that you think you
Speaker 2: need to be because you saw somebody else be it,
Speaker 2: chasing something that you scrolled past and thought it was
Speaker 2: the full story of what a happy family looked like.
Speaker 1: Chasing after future you so goes like this, like, yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be great one day.
Speaker 2: All you gotta do is get through high school and
Speaker 2: then you go to college. Now all you got to
Speaker 2: do is get this degree. Now all you got to
Speaker 2: do is find somebody who's actually hiring with that expensive
Speaker 2: degree that you're going to be paying off for the
Speaker 2: next fifty years. Come on, and so now I'm chasing,
Speaker 2: and I'm coughing and I'm running, and I'm so glad
Speaker 2: I had kids so they could do this part of
Speaker 2: my illustrations. Now that my beard needs to be dyed.
Speaker 2: Come on, and so now I'm chasing, and it's great.
Speaker 2: But not only is it getting faster and faster and harder,
Speaker 2: but I look around and I realize I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm ever going to be anything but me. And here
Speaker 2: I am thinking.
Speaker 1: That somehow.
Speaker 2: This collage watch, because here's what we do. We get
Speaker 2: a collage, right, and then we get the person with
Speaker 2: all the money, We get the person with all the girls,
Speaker 2: We get the person with all the success, with all
Speaker 2: the followers.
Speaker 1: Oh, if I had a thousand followers, now you need
Speaker 1: ten thousand. Just went up, just went up. Here comes
Speaker 1: to incline. Now we got social media.
Speaker 2: I didn't even have Twitter when I was a teenager, and.
Speaker 1: It's not even called Twitter anymore. And my beard is
Speaker 1: gray and I'm still chasing going.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe if I turn fifty, I'll have wisdom, and
Speaker 2: maybe if I get through this, I'll be happy and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wrest win and I'm gonna feel good about
Speaker 2: myself when and before you know it.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going up. I'm going up. I'm going up.
Speaker 1: I'm going up. I'm going up. You're holding on.
Speaker 3: But the bindeple says, give me Jeremiah one to five.
Speaker 3: The word of the Lord came to me and said,
Speaker 3: before you were farmed.
Speaker 1: I noon.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: The word of the Lord came to me. The word
Speaker 1: of the Lord came to me.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord is coming to you right now.
Speaker 3: Out of the trap, off of the treadmill, and into
Speaker 3: the truth.
Speaker 1: Until the truth.
Speaker 3: Gets it to you and you recognize, I've been running
Speaker 3: after something that's already mine. I've just been living when
Speaker 3: me that potential. I'm already clean bias flood. I'm already
Speaker 3: saved by his grace. I'm already redeemed by his liberty.
Speaker 2: I'm already to the praise of His glorious grace. Why
Speaker 2: because I refuse to live cheated and I refuse to
Speaker 2: live chasing.
Speaker 1: Because I'm chosen, chosen. Say it. Get that word in
Speaker 1: your mouth. Chosen, chosen, chosen, chosen.
Speaker 2: I love you, Holly, but I didn't pick you for
Speaker 2: that illustration. I didn't pick you for that illustration because
Speaker 2: I didn't know if you could last long enough on
Speaker 2: twelve for me to get the scripture of And I'm
Speaker 2: not pick on you. You do a lot of amazing things.
Speaker 2: I didn't pick you for it. I picked somebody. I
Speaker 2: chose him.
Speaker 1: Because I knew that if he had to, he could
Speaker 1: beat me up. He's in wrestling shape.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, God shows you. I'm telling you God
Speaker 2: shows you, and I'm saying he knew you. See.
Speaker 1: I want you to see the difference. Close your eyes.
Speaker 2: You know you've been chasing after something that you think
Speaker 2: when you get it, when you get there, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do the new me, new year, new me, No new year,
Speaker 2: same nose. Yeah, But what if you've been running after
Speaker 2: something that is already yours. Perhaps perhaps the addiction is
Speaker 2: something that the enemy planted in your life because there
Speaker 2: is something so amazing inside of you that he wants
Speaker 2: your birthright and you gave it away for a bowl.
Speaker 2: Perhaps God really is Now I'm a minister this because
Speaker 2: this is me.
Speaker 1: This is me right here, watch it, because I sit
Speaker 1: there and.
Speaker 2: Go, well, I'm somebody who goes for it.
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who doesn't settle.
Speaker 2: I'm somebody who really demands the best out of myself.
Speaker 2: I'm somebody who wants to improve. That's fine, It's called
Speaker 2: self righteousness. Because when I talk like that and I
Speaker 2: don't receive by grace, I end up like grandmamost was
Speaker 2: he still breathing heavy up here.
Speaker 1: Don't let him fool you with this close mouth. I
Speaker 1: hear him breathe in running.
Speaker 2: After something that How long can I keep this up?
Speaker 2: And I'm chasing, but I'm chosen. You don't have to
Speaker 2: chase it. When you're chosen, you can walk in it.
Speaker 2: And I mean really walk, not on a treadmill of
Speaker 2: boy God. You can walk with God, walk through your day,
Speaker 2: walk through your life. Your father will speak to you,
Speaker 2: your father will slap stuff out of your hands. Your
Speaker 2: father will look at you going so hard because oh,
Speaker 2: and I wrote this book.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 2: I don't want people to just see the title go
Speaker 2: another one of those do the new me? What's so
Speaker 2: wrong with the O me? No, no, no, you're just
Speaker 2: not going back far enough. God told Jeremiah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call you to do a new thing. How many cents?
Speaker 2: God is calling you to stretch your faith in new
Speaker 2: and unique ways that are nuanced to you.
Speaker 1: And this message just put in the chat a new thing,
Speaker 1: A new thing, all right? But but see, but see,
Speaker 1: God says, before I called you to do the new thing.
Speaker 2: Before you were bull, I knew you, which takes the
Speaker 2: pressure off of me because it lets me know that
Speaker 2: God is very, very comfortable with my process.
Speaker 1: And that he is partnering with me in the process.
Speaker 2: And I am not chasing after a God who might
Speaker 2: love me when I kick this habit. And I am
Speaker 2: not chasing after an achievement that might make me feel
Speaker 2: like my life is worthy. And I am not listen
Speaker 2: to me everybody who's not married right now. I am
Speaker 2: not chasing another person thinking they will make me whole
Speaker 2: and fulfilled. I am not chasing an opportunity to collaborate
Speaker 2: in my business thinking that that will somehow then set
Speaker 2: me free. I'm already free, and I'm choosing. I'm choosing
Speaker 2: to walk away from the ball. I'm choosing because God.
Speaker 1: Chose you. I believe God chose me to do this.
Speaker 1: I struggle with it.
Speaker 2: I doubt it sometimes, y'all. I was reading Jeremia last
Speaker 2: night for our Bible Club. Shout out Elijen Kelsey. We're
Speaker 2: there in Lynchburg watching right now, and we're in Jeremiah
Speaker 2: right now over about the fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you read.
Speaker 2: Jeremiah, chapter one, verse six is about the high point,
Speaker 2: it gets really dark for the next ten chapters. And
Speaker 2: that crazy God was calling him to do something hard.
Speaker 2: He said, I know it's gonna be hard. I know
Speaker 2: you're gonna get up to speak sometimes and we're not
Speaker 2: all called to speak.
Speaker 1: But watch this, we're all chosen. You need proof. Ephesians
Speaker 1: one four.
Speaker 2: Put it on the screen, for He chose us in
Speaker 2: him before the creation of the world. Whoa He told Jeremiah,
Speaker 2: you were chosen before you were born. Paul takes it
Speaker 2: from he said, you were chosen before the world was born,
Speaker 2: before God made what I see, He had a plan
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: Go to verse eleven. They don't believe me. Yet takes
Speaker 1: a lot of scripture to convince these people. They're kind
Speaker 1: of stubborn. Gram In Him, we also were chosen. That's
Speaker 1: fine for Jeremiah, I'm not called to speak in him.
Speaker 2: In Jesus, we were also chosen, having been predestined according
Speaker 2: to the plan of Him who works out everything in
Speaker 2: conformity to the purpose.
Speaker 1: Of his will.
Speaker 2: I'm worried that some of you are walking and running
Speaker 2: on a treadmill after things that aren't even in.
Speaker 1: God's will for you. Wow, so say I'm chosen. God
Speaker 1: chose you. Now comes to question, will you which you?
Speaker 1: Will you choose?
Speaker 2: Because I have to decide this every day I wake
Speaker 2: up in my life. Am I going to choose to
Speaker 2: me that I've seen so far? Am I going to
Speaker 2: be open to the surprise of the Holy Spirit of God?
Speaker 1: You can probably sit down now. Didn't he do a
Speaker 1: great job? I don't want to make him say all day,
Speaker 1: come on, he did a great job.
Speaker 2: A sixteen year old helping his dad preach.
Speaker 1: I was sixteen when I really got serious about my faith.
Speaker 2: That my mom raised me and made my commitment to
Speaker 2: cry sixteen years old. So when I look at him,
Speaker 2: I think about that makes me want to cry. All
Speaker 2: the things God could do through them. But don't ever
Speaker 2: chase what they say you can be. If we did,
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't be standing here today. Because when I
Speaker 2: was sixteen, Chris Dixon invited me to join the Voices
Speaker 2: of Unity Choir at Berkeley High School, where his mom,
Speaker 2: Martha Dixon, was the director and his cousin Arturo, was
Speaker 2: the lead soprano. And Arturo was a boy had the
Speaker 2: highest voice of any boy that I've ever heard in
Speaker 2: my life. But here's the interesting thing about being invited
Speaker 2: to join the Voices of Unity Choir is that when
Speaker 2: I went to join the Voices of Unity Choir, y'all
Speaker 2: might remember the old show that said one of these
Speaker 2: things is not like the other. One of these things
Speaker 2: just doesn't belong. The only white guy in the Voices
Speaker 2: of Unity Choir was me, And I turned to Chris
Speaker 2: and said, you sure you want me in the choir?
Speaker 2: Because I noticed when everybody would start to rock one way,
Speaker 2: I would naturally rock the wrong way, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: I loved it, but I wanted to do it, but
Speaker 2: a few of my white friends were like, hey, what
Speaker 2: are you doing over there with them.
Speaker 1: See this is the problem with live in your truth.
Speaker 1: Racists think they're right.
Speaker 2: And the people were telling me you don't belong in
Speaker 2: the choir thought they were right. The white people, the
Speaker 2: black people were glad to have me in the choir.
Speaker 2: They actually simplified the march into the spring concert so
Speaker 2: that I could be a part.
Speaker 1: They were very happy to have me.
Speaker 2: Now when they asked me, how do you have a
Speaker 2: multi cultural church?
Speaker 4: I'm glad. Chris said, we want you. We want you
Speaker 4: to sing with us. Calm, sing with us. No, not
Speaker 4: the one in the three, the two in the four.
Speaker 4: Calm clap within us. And if you would ever.
Speaker 2: Get with God and get in agreement with God and
Speaker 2: stop listening to what everybody else thinks can be, you
Speaker 2: might find.
Speaker 3: Out that God put something in you that eyes have
Speaker 3: not seen, that ears have not heard, that has not
Speaker 3: it and into the heart of a man.
Speaker 1: I wonder what's in you? You? You?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: And the white people mess up the clap. We couldn't
Speaker 1: even keep it going five seconds.
Speaker 2: But I love how this church is filled with uniqueness.
Speaker 2: And some of us praise loud, and.
Speaker 1: Some of us prays quiet.
Speaker 2: And some of us pray in tongues, and some of
Speaker 2: us pray in a journal, and some of us sing
Speaker 2: fast songs, and some of us worship the Lord to
Speaker 2: contut us, and some of us are fluid in the scriptures,
Speaker 2: and some of us are new.
Speaker 1: To the scriptures. But I know one thing about this church.
Speaker 1: You are a chosen people. You are a royal priesthood.
Speaker 2: You are a holy nation, a people belonging to God.
Speaker 1: To declare the praises. Come on to declare the praises.
Speaker 1: Let's take ten seconds and declare the praises. My God
Speaker 1: is awesome.
Speaker 4: He rules in power.
Speaker 1: He makes the seas fall, he makes.
Speaker 2: The wave rules, he makes.
Speaker 5: The breakers nash, he makes the storm cease.
Speaker 2: He's making my enemies like a footstool.
Speaker 5: It makes me like now in great pastures.
Speaker 1: Look at you acting crazy. I thought I knew you.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's more in you than you knew. So now
Speaker 1: we got work today.
Speaker 2: We gotta do Jeremiah one, Chapter one, Chapter one, verse nine.
Speaker 2: Put it on the screen because after Jeremiah got done
Speaker 2: doing his excuses, and I'm gonna give a preview of
Speaker 2: next week's message, you better be back here next week
Speaker 2: because I'm not even into it yet I'm not even
Speaker 2: into you are shouting over the syllabus right now. Imagine
Speaker 2: what the class is gonna be when we really get
Speaker 2: into this and get your mindset on things above. Y'all,
Speaker 2: remember how I was up here with the guitar two
Speaker 2: weeks ago talking about tuning to truth.
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get practical. I
Speaker 1: took six mindsets.
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize God was setting this up, but
Speaker 2: he knew. And there are six strings on an acoustic guitar.
Speaker 2: And there are six mindsets that I will be sharing
Speaker 2: with you over.
Speaker 1: The next six weeks.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna give them to you, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: preach them to you.
Speaker 1: And next week I'm gonna talk to you about.
Speaker 2: How to agree with God, how to agree with him
Speaker 2: about who he says you are, how to agree with
Speaker 2: Him about what He says is still possible for you
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: In your life.
Speaker 2: How to agree with God about his priorities, how to
Speaker 2: agree with God about his values, stop agreeing with your limitations,
Speaker 2: and stop arguing for your past. And to do it,
Speaker 2: we got to get these six mindsets not only in
Speaker 2: your heart, but watch this verse nine, the Lord said.
Speaker 1: I am putting my words in your mouth.
Speaker 2: I sat down last year as I was teaching Do
Speaker 2: the New You Beta version to the church, and I
Speaker 2: realized God was doing something and I'm closing. So y'all
Speaker 2: don't have to sit down. And if you stand it
Speaker 2: and make me close quicker. So you decide, And everybody's
Speaker 2: doing it because I begin to write what are the
Speaker 2: things that God says are true? And I was basing it.
Speaker 2: Ye stand up. That's enough for one way, But over
Speaker 2: the next six I want to take these six sayings
Speaker 2: Jeremy one four again. Please, the word of the Lord
Speaker 2: came to me saying, what are you saying? Better question?
Speaker 2: Are you saying what God sees when you look in
Speaker 2: the mirror or what you see? What? Don't want to
Speaker 2: walk you through in this message as we gather together
Speaker 2: as an online community.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got resources, but I want to give you.
Speaker 2: The six declarations to make over your life so that
Speaker 2: not only do we get your mind right, but we
Speaker 2: get your mouth right, so that you begin to say
Speaker 2: what God sees until you see it too, the New You.
Speaker 1: I'm bursting to share this with you. Do you feel like.
Speaker 2: I'm about to blow up and be on little pieces
Speaker 2: all over the fourth row.
Speaker 1: Of the church.
Speaker 2: I am because this is in me, because I need this,
Speaker 2: because I hold bulls sometimes, and I'm cheated, cheated out
Speaker 2: of what I could be, cheated out of what I
Speaker 2: could see, cheated at the example I could set, cheated
Speaker 2: of the freedom I could experience, cheat them of the chain.
Speaker 1: That could break.
Speaker 2: But then I put that ball down and boy, and
Speaker 2: then I start Jason until I fall out and realized
Speaker 2: that it is by the grace of.
Speaker 1: God that I am what I am. Did you know
Speaker 1: Paul said that by the grace of God, I am
Speaker 1: what I am. So I'm choosing to live chosen God
Speaker 1: chose you, will you will you will? You choose you
Speaker 1: even though you know you. I'll be honest.
Speaker 2: If I was picking somebody to make a difference in
Speaker 2: the world, I probably wouldn't pick me.
Speaker 1: But God did.
Speaker 2: I wonder what he knows about my brokenness that he
Speaker 2: can use to bring a ball. And I'm looking at
Speaker 2: lives today that looked like iPads brand new out the box,
Speaker 2: and I'm wondering what could it be if it got
Speaker 2: in the right hands. The six mindsets go like this
Speaker 2: and shout out to my man Dave Ulrich, who've got
Speaker 2: an early copy of the book, and he put them
Speaker 2: on his mirror, and he sent me a picture and said,
Speaker 2: this book is gonna change lives. Pastor, let's go put
Speaker 2: that picture up that Dave sent me. He wrote each
Speaker 2: of them out on a post It note. He didn't
Speaker 2: even know. We have a stack of post it notes
Speaker 2: for all of you today with these six mindsets on them.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get it. If you're here, if.
Speaker 2: You're online, you better write them down right now and
Speaker 2: make your own post It note.
Speaker 1: Repeat after me. Mindset one. I'm not stuck unless I stop.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that next week.
Speaker 2: What's blocked you from becoming, what's blocked you from believing?
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that from the scriptures, and
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit will minister it to you. The second
Speaker 2: one says, oh you've heard this if you've been around
Speaker 2: my church for a while.
Speaker 1: Christ is in me.
Speaker 2: I am enough. I hope you're repeating these in the
Speaker 2: comments right now. I want you to say it out loud.
Speaker 2: I want you to type it. I want you to
Speaker 2: write it. I want you to receive it. Christ is
Speaker 2: in me. I am enough. Here's one you've heard before.
Speaker 1: With God.
Speaker 2: Come on, with God, there's always a way, and by faith,
Speaker 2: I will find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 2: find it. You're gonna find it. You think there is
Speaker 2: no way, you just have seen it. Yet the word
Speaker 2: of the Lord is coming to you. This is what
Speaker 2: I tell myself before I preach to you. Number four.
Speaker 2: God is not against me, but he's in it with me,
Speaker 2: working through me, fighting for me.
Speaker 1: We might write a song about that already. Dude.
Speaker 2: Number five say my joy is my job.
Speaker 1: You might not like that week, you might want to
Speaker 1: skip that week. Put the responsibility on you next week,
Speaker 1: that week and then this is really.
Speaker 2: Really important to believe that God has given me everything
Speaker 2: I need for the season I'm in.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If we get you tuned to this.
Speaker 1: This truth, you will never be the same.
Speaker 2: I want to pray for you right now. The word
Speaker 2: of the Lord came to you today, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Came to me too?
Speaker 2: Saying before I formed you, I knew you. I feel
Speaker 2: like we need to connect. Would you just either grab
Speaker 2: the hand or put your hand on the shoulder of
Speaker 2: the person next to you. First of all, Lord, we
Speaker 2: thank you that we're not chasing your love, acceptance, or grace.
Speaker 2: It has been given to us by your son, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: We thank you, Lord that this is the last day
Speaker 2: that we will believe the deceitful desires. We may still
Speaker 2: struggle with them, but from this day forward we are
Speaker 2: oriented toward truth. Your truth will make us free and God. Today,
Speaker 2: we thank you that we are chosen by you, and
Speaker 2: now we chose. We chose to put ourselves in the
Speaker 2: path of your power.
Speaker 1: Today. Because we did, you spoke a word, and this
Speaker 1: word is now received in our hearts.
Speaker 2: I declare rain for the seed that was sowed today
Speaker 2: for the words that were spoken.
Speaker 1: I decree and declare.
Speaker 2: An increase of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2: And I thank you that our eyes have not seen,
Speaker 2: nor have our ears heard, nor has it entered into
Speaker 2: the heart of a man what you have prepared for
Speaker 2: those who love you, but you have revealed it by
Speaker 2: your spirit. I thank you for revelation, and I thank
Speaker 2: you for grace to change. And I thank you that
Speaker 2: you are making all things.
Speaker 1: New in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Amen, would you clap your hands at every location.
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